⚽ General Football News 2022-23 Season- Open Thread

UEFA announce they will refund tickets to the 19,618 Liverpool fans ‘affected by the difficulties in accessing the stadium’ during the 2022 Champions League final last May.

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Tottenham have breached their stadium licence agreement after selling a fifth date for Beyonce’s upcoming tour at the north London stadium :man_facepalming:

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Asisat Oshoala has scored 18 goals in her last 11 matches in all competitions for Barça Femení :exploding_head:

She has 23 total goals in all competitions so far this season. What a year she’s having :clap:

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:rotating_light::rotating_light:Jack Grealish is leaving Nike for a record-breaking deal with PUMA that will pay $11.8 million per year.

This is now the highest-ever cleat deal for a British footballer.

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Al Nassr lose to Al Ittihad and lose control of first place in the Saudi Pro League :flushed:

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The 20+ goal club in 2022-23 :dart:

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One of the most legendary football selfies ever taken! :selfie:

:portugal: Luis Figo
:brazil: Roberto Carlos
:brazil: Cafu
:cote_divoire: Didier Drogba
:cameroon: Samuel Eto’o
:es: Xavi

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Mbappe and Haaland are the only players from Europe’s top five leagues with more goals than Rashford this season :fire:

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Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have both informed the BBC that they won’t appear on Match Of The Day tomorrow in ‘solidarity’ with Gary Lineker.

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Vincent Kompany’s Burnley are 13 points clear at the top of the Championship.

He’s leading them to the Premier League in style :muscle:

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10+ - Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain are the only teams in Europe’s top 10 leagues with three players on 10+ league goals this season:

12 - Martinelli
10 - Saka
10 - Ødegaard

19 - Mbappé
13 - Neymar
13 - Messi

Triumvirates.

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Xavi Simons for PSV Eindhoven so far:

:soccer:15 goals
:a:7 assists

he is just a19 years old

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:rotating_light: OFFICIAL: Former Nigeria Super Eagles goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama has been named the Greatest African Goalkeeper of all Time by the IFFHS! :gloves::eagle::nigeria:

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Arsenal and PSG are the only teams in Europe’s top 10 leagues with THREE players on 10+ goals this season :handshake::star_struck:

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Keepers with the most clean sheets in all comps from Europe’s top five leagues:

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰-𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲́ 𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗲𝗻: 21 (36 G)
David de Gea: 17 (40 G)
Ivan Provedel: 16 (32 G)
Álex Remiro: 16 (36 G)
Nick Pope: 15 (30 G)
Alex Meret: 15 (33 G)

:brick:

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:rotating_light::rotating_light: FIFA is set to confirm the new format for the 2026 World Cup:

:black_small_square: Increase from 64 to 104 games
:black_small_square: 12 groups of 4 teams
:black_small_square: Top 8 Third Qualifiers

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Nike has announced it will “stop making any product with kangaroo leather” by the end of 2023, the sportswear giant said in a statement sent to ESPN.

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Will STILL unbeaten. :lock:

The longest active unbeaten league runs in Europe’s top five divisions:

◉ 19 - Stade de Reims
◎ 10 - OGC Nice
◎ 9 - Dortmund

Will Still has overseen 17 out of those 19 games, becoming the youngest manager in Europe when he took charge on 15th October 2022. Since then, here are some Reims rankings compared to the other 97 teams in Europe’s top five leagues:

◉ No team has conceded fewer goals
◉ No other team has avoided defeat
◉ Only Barcelona have kept more clean sheets
◉ Only seven teams have won more points

In that time, only three players have scored more Ligue 1 goals than Folarin Balogun. When compared to U23 players, Erling Haaland is the only player in Europe’s top five divisions with more goals in this period

In the 21st century, the only other manager to avoid defeat in his first 17 games a top-five European league was Tito Vilanova. He did not lose any of his first 18 games in charge of Barcelona after succeeding Pep Guardiola in the 2012/13 season.

That is some serious company to be keeping.





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No player in Europe’s top five leagues created more chances this weekend than Lionel Messi.

Including a match-winning assist for Mbappé. :people_hugging:


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:soccer: Players to hit 50+ goals in both the Premier League and Serie A:

:white_check_mark: Gianfranco Zola
:white_check_mark: Edin Džeko
:white_check_mark: Cristiano Ronaldo
:new: Romelu Lukaku

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