Football 2024/25

[kaosmark2]

3 hours ago, charlierc said:

It's kinda of a weird throwback tbf that this tournament still has two legged semi finals. I think it also used to have a two legged final and two legs in the early rounds, and I also seem to recall it was single leg semis during covid, but it is still a little bit of a curious outlier.

 

But yeah, I think the second leg would've been in one of the weeks of the Champions League's new extra group stage games, and as Arsenal are in that, the game has to be arranged around that commitment.

QFs had them as 2-legs for quite a while, I think that was only ditched pretty recently.

 

I really like 2-legged football, particularly in later knockout stages.

[Punksnotdead]

2 hours ago, thetime said:

 

Should be a decent watch. 

First half was an absolute snooze fest!

[charlierc]

At least the update is that Bentancur is conscious after the unsettling looking sight that was requiring nearly ten minutes of on-pitch treatment.

[thetime]

13 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

First half was an absolute snooze fest!

 

Yeah switched it off and put on a film about utd. 🥰

[Ryan1984]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

At least the update is that Bentancur is conscious after the unsettling looking sight that was requiring nearly ten minutes of on-pitch treatment.

Only seen a 15-second clip but he didn’t look well before the corner was taken. Did they not stop playing straight away either?

[charlierc]

Everton sacking Sean Dyche less than 4 hours before tonight's FA Cup tie with Peterborough is one way to aggressively make the point that you no longer want him around.

[charlierc]

21 hours ago, Ryan1984 said:

Only seen a 15-second clip but he didn’t look well before the corner was taken. Did they not stop playing straight away either?

Alisson made a save and the ball was kicked behind for a corner. It was at that point that the ref and a Spurs team-mate made them aware of what happened, at which point the game stopped for ten minutes.

 

Bentancur himself has put a message online saying he's ok, so that's a start.

[Punksnotdead]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

Everton sacking Sean Dyche less than 4 hours before tonight's FA Cup tie with Peterborough is one way to aggressively make the point that you no longer want him around.

Didn't see that one coming - they had some half decent results against good teams recently. Moyes return?

[thetime]

20 minutes ago, Punksnotdead said:

Didn't see that one coming - they had some half decent results against good teams recently. Moyes return?

 

To many draws and only 3 wins all season (Palace, wolves, ipswich).

 

I thought they had been doing OK to be honest, expected them to be in bottom 3 around Christmas. That being said all the draws, leaves them 1 point from safety.