⚽ General Football News - 2020-21 Season Open Thread

We had a great match in Ligue 1 yesterday between PSG & Monaco. Monaco trailed 2-0 till 52nd minute and then went on to score 3 goals and win the match, Kevin Volland leading the charge nullifying the earlier brace by Mbappe. Enjoy the highlights!

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Inter comes from behind to beat Torino
Italian sirieA

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Liverpool have now gone 64 Premier League home games unbeaten, breaking their club record. :fist:

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Top 6 players who never received a red card.

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Top scorers from Europe’s top five leagues this season :soccer:

Robert Lewandowski: 11
Dominic Calvert-Lewin: 10
Erling Haaland: 10
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: 10
Son Heung-min: 9
Kylian Mbappe: 9

Who is going to win this season’s European Golden Shoe? :trophy:

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Juventus are keeping an eye on Donny Van De beek situation at Manchester United with a loan move being consider…
Will this come to reality

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Everton are currently in the race to sign Sami Khedira as he is keen to move to the premier league…
The German player who is currently at juventus is being eye by Everton to invite him to the premier league club

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Antonio Conte has now lost has many Champions League games as he has won as a manger in the competition.

32 games
11 wins
10 draws
11 loses
34% win rate
Woeful performance

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Chelsea and Tottenham played out a goalless draw at Stamford Bridge.

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Edouard Mendy has kept the most clean sheet in the premier league this season :raised_hands:

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Ademola Lookman celebrated his goal for Fulham by lifting up the Senegal shirt of Papa Bouba Diop who died yesterday. Diop played for Fulham for 3 years.

Lovely to see from Lookman. :clap:t3:

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The FA Cup third round draw came up with one of the most interesting cup draws in FA Cup history, A team from eighth tier, Marine FC, will host current Premier League leaders Tottenham Hotspur.

Liverpool based Marine are only the second team in history from the eighth tier of English soccer to reach the third round, They’ve played seven games just to reach this stage.

In another good draws, sixth-tier Chorley Town host Derby County and fifth-tier Stockport County host West Ham United.

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Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea are among the clubs monitoring the development of Brighton’s Ben White.

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UEFA TEAM OF THE YEAR NOMIMEES.

*Messi, Ronaldo and Lewy leads UEFA Team of the Year nominees as 9 Bayern stars in.

FORWARDS.
Haaland,Di Maria,Joao Felix,Gnabry,Immobile,Harry Kane,Lewandowski,Lukaku,Mane,Mbappe,Messi,Neymar,Ronaldo,Salah,Sterling.

MIDFIELDERS.
Thiago Alcantara,Aouar,Banega,Barella,Coman,De Bruyne,Bruno Fernandes,Alejandro Gomes,Goretzka,Havertz,Henderson,Iliçiç,Marquinhos,Muller,Sabitzer.

DEFENDERS.
David Alaba,TAA,Angelino,Bernat,Alphonso Davies,De Ligt,De Vrij,Hateboer,Kimmich,Kimpembe,Ramos,Robertson,Thiago Silva,Upamecano,Van Djik.

GOALKEEPERS.
Allison,Anthony Lopes,Navas,Neuer,Oblak.

#Key Starts.
*Christiano Ronaldo is nominated for the 17th year running; he has featured in 14 teams including each of the last 13. All are Records.

*Messi is nominated for the 15th time and is looking to make the team for the 11th occasion.

*Sergio Ramos and Lewy(Lewandowski) are on the shortlist for the 9th time.

*21 players to make the 50-man shortlist for the 1st time;22 also featured 12 months ago(including ten of the final XI) while the remaining seven are returning to the reckoning.

*Romelu Lukaku is nominated for the 1st time since 2010 when he got the nod as an 18 yr old at Anderlecht.

*Alphonso Davies is the 1st Canadian to be nominated in the team’s 20 yr history.

*Atalanta and Leipzig figure among the nominee teams for the 1st time.

*Ciro Immobile is Lazio’s 1st nominee since Jap Stam in 2004.

*Anthony Lopes and Hounssem Aouar are Lyon’s 1st nominees since 2010.

*Erling Braut Haaland is Norway’s 1st nominee in a decade and the 3rd after Brede Hangeland(2010) and John Arne Riise(2002).

*It’s the first year that Slovenia has had two players shortlisted,Josip Iliçiç joining 5 time nominee Jan Oblak.

*The 50 nominated players have an average age of 27.28. At 20,Alphonso Davies and Haaland are the youngest. Thiago Silva,at 36,is the oldest.

TEAM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES BY CLUB.
10-Bayern
9-Liverpool,PSG
3-Atalanta,Inter,Leipzig
2-Atletico Madrid,Chelsea,Juventus,Lyon,Man City
1-Barcelona,Dortmund,Lazio,Leverkusen,Man United,Real Madrid,Sevilla,Sporting CP,Tottenham.

*Kai Havertz,Thiago Alcantara,Thiago Silva,Bruno Fernandes and Ever Banega all represented two clubs in 2020,both are counted here.

TEAM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES BY NATIONAL TEAMS.
6-Germany
5-France
4- Brazil,England,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain
3- Argentina,Italy
2- Austria,Belgium,Slovenia
1- Canada,Costa Rica,Egypt,Norway,Poland,Scotland,Senegal

TEAM OF THE YEAR NOMINEES BY DOMESTIC LEAGUE.
15- Bundesliga, Germany (4 clubs)
14- Premier League,England (5 clubs)
12- Ligue 1,France (2clubs)
9- Serie A,Italy (4 clubs)
5- La Liga,Spain (4 clubs)
1- Liga,Portugal(1 club)
1- Pro League,Saudi Arabia (1 Club ).

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:zero:-:zero: Man City have been involved in their first goalless draw in 92 games in all competitions since the Carabao Cup final against Chelsea in February 2019

:large_blue_circle: City had 18 attempts, the most in a match by an away team without scoring in the Champions League this season.

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:rotating_light: Liverpool will submit a planning application for further Anfield expansion within the next few weeks having been forced to delay the project by a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new plans will extend Anfield by 7,000 taking overall capacity to 61,000 seats. Liverpool estimate the 18-month schedule will need two summers for work to be completed. The project will cost around £60m.

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CRISTIANO RONALDO edged closer to becoming the highest goalscorer of all time last night.

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“I’ve never seen myself knocked out of the Champion’s League or playing the Europa League. It never went through my head and it won’t… I did not come here to play the Europa League.”

  • Neymar

(Eleven Sports)

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Maurizio Sarri could replace Mikel Arteta at Arsenal if they decide to part ways, according to StadioSport.

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Neymar is 28 years old with still many prime years ahead of him. CL nights shouldn’t be the only nights people see a player like him. Sad reality is that not many tune in for PSG in the French league.

Just get him back in La Liga or Premier League, no matter the club. :pray::pray:

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