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Mignolet conceding 2 goals, with 7 saves against West Ham - pretty much sums up the state of Liverpool's defense...and Adrian with just a single save for West Ham

 
Soccer's got a ton of randomness built in, but it's hard to reconcile 4-1 at City, 3-1 at Chelsea and 6-1 at Soton with the crap these guys have been putting out lately. Just awful.

 
West Ham was criticized for mailing in their Europa League season early, going out weakly against a Romanian club, but they now sit 6th, having won away at Arsenal, City and Liverpool; double against Liverpool 5-0 agg.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
West Ham was criticized for mailing in their Europa League season early, going out weakly against a Romanian club, but they now sit 6th, having won away at Arsenal, City and Liverpool; double against Liverpool 5-0 agg.
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Totally. Now they're back in the hunt for a chance to mail in another season of European soccer.

 
After today's fairly pitiful game against Levante, Atlético sit two points up on Barça, although they have a game in hand. They've been squeaking out the wins though.

Overall, they are in a great place though and playing excellent team defence. This was the 15th clean sheet in 24 liga and CL games. Just gotta score some more goals...

 
Poke_4_Life said:
Chelski waking up. Interesting.
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Chelsea are a good club. Think they just needed a new voice to follow. They may have left it too late to grab 4th this season, but they are going to make for an uncomfortable opponent for many in the 2nd half.

ETA - Palace are missing a few key players too (Still think Chelsea were going to win today, but maybe not as comfortably as they have looked).

 
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Chamakh's hair consistently delivers as one of the great oddities in English football. Week in week out, year after year, this mans hair continues to amaze.

 
Does anyone understand the Drogba situation?

It sounds like he wants to go to Chelsea and become an assistant coach but can't move until a deal is reached between Chelsea and Montreal.

Why can't Drogba just retire and move freely? Why does Montreal have to get compensated? Is it something to do with a signing bonus that needs partial refunding?

 
Bonzai said:
Anyone have a clue which site is best for daily fantasy soccer?
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I have been playing on draft kings. I haven't been doing too well, but I'm not playing much at all, just something to help me follow other players. I do really like their scoring system though.

 
A number of things worked against Benitez. RM had a terrible record against the best teams in La Liga. Something like 5 out of a possible 18 points against teams that qualified for a European competition last year. I get the sense that you don't impress Fiorentino by beating Levante. Being four out is respectable, but its also a missed opportunity considering Messi missed so much time and Barca's transfer ban is now over.

Benitez's tendency to ask the team to shut up shop when they got a lead certainly wasn't popular. Benitez also apparently had a very strained relationship with both James and Isco. The brass doesn't see to care that much about Isco (he appears to be on his way to the EPL), but James is still a guy expected to be a new Galatico. Rafa's relationship with Ronaldo didn't appear toxic or anything, but Ronaldo didn't go out of his way to lobby for Rafa's job they way he did with Ancelloti.

Finally, my sense is that Rafa was never intended to be the long term solution. I think Perez has wanted Zizou in this position for a long time. He wants his own Pep. A Madrid guy who the team develops into a great manager from scratch. Carlo was too successful to replace with a neophyte, so while I don't think that Perez wanted Rafa to fail, I think he knew he could use that as leverage to get Zidane in if he did.

 
wdcrob said:
Over the back half of the season Liverpool's only away matches to teams currently in the top-11 are Leicester, Palace and WHU.

Arsenal, City, United, Tottenham, Chelsea, Watford, Stoke, Everton are all at Anfield.

Tied with United, ten clear of Chelsea and still nine off the pace. Not sure I'd have believed that was possible in August.
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This isn't La Liga. You can't really scope games out like that. The lower-level clubs still have a ton of money to build solid teams.

 
Fat Sam had some criticism of Klopp's methods.

Klopp reply: “I am glad for Sam, such an experienced manager, that he has time to think about Liverpool’s problems – I don’t have time to think about his."

 
Swansea announces that Curtis will manage the team through the rest of the season. In other words, they don't plan on spending much this month and they didn't want to pay someone new just to oversee them dropping to the Championship. Ugh.

 
MLS released the season schedule today which included some positive changes to the tv coverage.

1) The same structure is in place

Friday night on Unimas

Saturday night all local tv

Sunday double headers on ESPN and Fox (34 each)

2) ESPN is increasing their number of games from 8 to 29, where as last year most were on ESPN2

3) Fox will for the first time debut MLS games on the mothership, 4 games in total,while FS1 carries the rest

now all MLS needs is a way for the NFL to go away on Sundays in the fall :)

here is the full schedule:

http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/01/07/2016-national-tv-schedule

 
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CletiusMaximus said:
Alejandro Moreno of ESPN think Messi, Neymar and James will all sit out this summer, and that the big dogs will send "alternate teams." http://www.espnfc.us/copa-america/83/video/2782060/moreno-dont-think-messi-neymar-will-play
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That would be a real shame but I can understand it.

I am not sure what type of inside info Moreno has but I would be surprised if this deal was made via the sponsors and TV with out some assurances that the top players would be available.

 
Cole and possibly Nigel De Jong joining Gerrard and Keane with the Galaxy.

Thomas Floyd @thomasfloyd10

I'm starting to feel pretty good about the Galaxy's chances of winning the 2008-09 Premier League title.
 
roadkill1292 said:
How much of my Powerball winnings tomorrow night is it going to cost me to bribe MLS into implementing pro/rel?
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MLS as a business is worth roughly $2 billion give or take a few hundred million.

The owners, whether foreign or domestic, are united in thinking promotion relegation is never going to work for their wallets.

So unless Powerball is in the billions, I don't see you having much shot. :)

Even if you blow the entire load on buying a team, you would still be outvoted by the other owners.

The US will win back to back to back World Cups before we ever see a true promotion relegation IMO (and by true, I don't mean MLS just creating a second division that they control, I mean independent entities).

I think I might be alive though to see MLS create a second division that they control (they are already putting the pieces in place by adding teams through out the USL) and maybe, just maybe a promotion/relegation of 1 team out of the 32 that will likely be in MLS at that time. But that won't be for another 25-20 years if that IMO.

 
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