I was able to eliminate that possibility quickly, as I recall Arsenal defeating them away in the Europa League a handful of years ago.
I could post an additional photographic clue, as it seems I haven’t given the game away completely yet.
Fire 2-0 City at the 60 minute mark!
(This may also be a trivia question: “Who?”
PSG - Bayern is gonna be a good one.
Do people really refer to Orlando as City?
I have no idea. Also, 3-0!!
I imagine they do, at least where the meaning is clear from context, much the same as, say, Oxford United.
Well, it’s been a week, so let’s reveal the answer to the trivia question. Want to do the honours, @iamatractorboy ?
Heartbreak for Chicago in the first game of the playoff against Philadelphia. Came back from 0-2 in the 80th minute to tie it, then lost on penalties.
I’m not sure this photo alone will be enough so I’ll put the answer underneath too…
Ipswich Town
No,no, like this:
It’s the mighty Ipswich Town FC!
The 31 games were played between 1963 and 2003, and were mostly in the UEFA Cup over obscure opposition, but there have been some highlights. Their first appearance was in the European Cup, following their only First Division title, and featured a takedown of AC Milan. The 1974 UEFA Cup saw home wins over Real Madrid and Lazio. They beat Barcelona at home in both the 1978 UEFA Cup and the 1979 Cup Winner’s Cup. In 1981, they won the UEFA Cup, defeating AZ Alkmaar. In 1982, they beat AS Roma at home in the UEFA Cup. They then took twenty years off from European football before dispatching Inter Milan in the 2002 UEFA Cup. Despite being relegated in 2003, they qualified for the UEFA Cup for having the best disciplinary record (?!). Their most recent home match was a 1-0 win against Slovan Liberec. The streak doesn’t appear to be in danger of being broken any time soon.
And for anyone still interested, we lost at home to Port Vale (a fellow English side) in the now-defunct Anglo-Italian Cup back in the mid-90s.
What was that? Never heard about it.
If memory serves, it was a competition held annually for a few seasons in the 1990s between teams from the second tier of the two countries, but unsurprisingly it didn’t last too long because there wasn’t much interest and crowds were pretty poor.
A quick search on Wikipedia tells me it was around since the 1970s! Although the guise that I remember was more or less as I thought…
Luis Diaz, my man! Score two goals, get a red card, all in one half. Nonetheless, Bayern holds on for their 16th win in 16 matches, 2-1.
“Colombian players”, states Lucas Rodríguez Greater Colombian Player Theory, “play without context, for good and ill, they may attempt (and score) outrageous goals in the highest competition level, or commit unnecessary fouls and get red carded without thinking that their team is already winning.”
So Barça is finally moving into the new stadium this week-end! At less than half capacity, about a year too late, but still. Almost better than I dared to dream of. And this just one week after the Sagrada Familia became the tallest church in the world! That must be considered auspicous, I guess, as long as it does not mean that we fans will have to wait 143 years for the next Champions League. There, I jinx’d it. Article in Spanish, but there will be more in other languages soon, I guess:
Some highlights:
It will be 915 days since they last played at home. Two and a half years of waiting, a period of time that has been longer than expected and has sparked controversy due to the changing dates for the “back-home-match”.
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The capacity for the match against Athletic Club will now be 45,401 spectators.
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Barcelona has already opened ticket sales for the home game. Prices range from €199 for the cheapest tickets (Corner 2 and Goal 2 Upper) to €589 for the most expensive (Tribune 1 Central). VIP seats range from €750 to €1,000.
I hope they start with a victory to give the new stadium good vibes. They will need them. And the ticket prices are a bit on the steep side, don’t know whether they plan to keep them like that on the long term or whether it is just for the re-inauguration event.
Germany at last qualifies for the WC with a dominant and surprisingly high (for me, after the last few games) 6-0 over Slovakia. Still a lot of work to do for Nagelsmann, but we had a lot of injured players (Musiala, Rüdiger, Havertz, ter Stegen), some of them long time injuries, during the qualifiers. I hope they all come back before the tournament.
Die Mannschaft really wanted this one. Slovakia never put up much resistance, but I’ll certainly take it.
Sure, they wanted it, but why didn’t they play Luxembourg on Friday like they wanted it, too? There’s still too much inconsistency in the team.