⚽ General Football News - 2020-21 Season Open Thread

OFFICIAL: UEFA have confirmed both legs between Chelsea vs. Porto in the UCL quarter-final will be played in Sevilla’s Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium.

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:rotating_light: BREAKING: Robert Lewandowski has been ruled out for around four weeks after suffering sprained ligaments in his right knee :face_with_head_bandage:

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Lewandowski looks set to miss the following fixtures :point_down:

A | RB Leipzig
H | PSG
H | Union Berlin
A | PSG
A | Wolfsburg
H | Bayer Leverkusen
A | Mainz

He still needs five goals to equal Gerd Muller’s record of 40 in a Bundesliga season :worried:

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Lionel Messi is the best performing outfield player across Europe’s top five leagues in 2021, according to research from CIES Football Observatory :goat:

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:smirk: Most possession won in the attacking third per league in Europe’s top 5 leagues this season:

:black_flag:󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Kevin De Bruyne (Man City) - 26
:es: Kike Garcia (Eibar) - 37
:it: Lautaro Martinez (Inter) - 26
:de: Dani Olmo (RB Leipzig) - 36
:fr: Amine Gouiri (Nice) - 30
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39 - Since the start of the 2018-19 campaign, only Thomas Müller (45) and Lionel Messi (42) have more assists in Europe’s top five leagues than Jadon Sancho (39), who has 10 more than the closest Englishman (Trent Alexander-Arnold, 29).

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:grimacing: Teams in Europe’s top 5 leagues without a home league win in 2021:

:black_flag:󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool
:it: Benevento
:fr: Nantes
:fr: Dijon
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Here is the 𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝟭𝟬 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 of Europe’s most valuable squads according to 𝘾𝙄𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙗𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙊𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 :money_with_wings::star_struck::earth_americas:

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OFFICIAL: Italy have released their new away kit for EURO2020.

Thoughts?

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How things are looking around Europe :point_down:

:es: La Liga title going to the wire
:it: Inter set to end Juve’s run
:de: Bayern ready to claim another
:fr: PSG and Lille scrapping at the top

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Breaking: Roma confirm the appointment of Jose Mourinho as their new manager ahead of the 2021-22 season :exploding_head:

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La Liga has opened an investigation into whether Barcelona’s players breached coronavirus regulations by attending a lunch at Messi’s house, a league source confirmed to ESPN.

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:writing_hand: | Mourinho goes to Rome!

José Mourinho didn’t waste time after leaving Tottenham, with AS Roma announcing today he’ll be their new manager.

His numbers in the two Serie A seasons with Inter (2008/09 & 2009/10) are astonishing!

Do you think he’ll be successful with Roma? :thinking:

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OFFICIAL: Rangers have ended the 2020/21 Scottish Premiership season unbeaten.

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Rangers FC

:stadium: 38 games
:white_check_mark: 32 wins
:handshake: 6 draws
:x: 0 defeats

Undefeated Scottish Premiership Champions 2020/21.

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Only two teams have completed a Scottish Premiership season unbeaten:

Celtic
Rangers

An unbelievable campaign from Steven Gerrard’s Rangers.

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Only four teams in world football have gone a 38+ game top-flight season unbeaten this century:

:black_flag:󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal (2003-04)
:it: Juventus (2011-12)
:black_flag:󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Celtic (2016-17)
:black_flag:󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Rangers (2020-21)

Steven Gerrard’s side go into the record books.

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:white_check_mark: 3-0 vs St. Mirren
:white_check_mark: 3-0 vs St. Johnstone
:white_check_mark: 2-0 vs Kilmarnock
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs Dundee United
:white_check_mark: 2-0 vs Ross County
:white_check_mark: 2-0 vs Livingston
:white_check_mark: 8-0 vs Hamilton
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs Aberdeen
:white_check_mark: 3-1 vs Motherwell
:white_check_mark: 1-0 vs Hibs
:white_check_mark: 1-0 vs Celtic
:white_check_mark: 5-0 vs Ross County
:white_check_mark: 1-0 vs Kilmarnock
:white_check_mark: 4-1 vs Dundee United
:white_check_mark: 3-0 vs St. Mirren
:white_check_mark: 2-1 vs Hibs
:white_check_mark: 4-1 vs Celtic
:white_check_mark: 4-0 vs Aberdeen

Rangers won all 19 Scottish Premiership games at home this season. :exploding_head:

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Unbeaten for an entire season! Wow! :star_struck:

:tophat: Hats off to Steven Gerrard & Rangers’ Team! :raised_hands:

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I know you’re a big fan of Rangers :grinning::grinning:But they’ve done Remarkably well this season, no matter the league, its not always easy going the whole season without a single defeat, takes so much hardwork and commitment… The fact that they did it while still competing in Europe makes it more astonishing… Many Kudos to Steven Gerrard… He has done well for himself :heart_eyes:

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