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Can't say anything about Rayo Vallecano vs Norwich, but on the basis of these 180 minutes Liverpool look to be quite a bit better than the 4th place team in Spain.  Villareal have shown absolutely nothing across the two matches.

 
wdcrob said:
Can't say anything about Rayo Vallecano vs Norwich, but on the basis of these 180 minutes Liverpool look to be quite a bit better than the 4th place team in Spain.  Villareal have shown absolutely nothing across the two matches.
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Well, they haven't been focusing on the league for a while now, so....

 
The Gator said:
Bob is an animal when he's not a #9 up top by himself...He needs to be that second striker
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Does seem to be his most useful position.

MIB just pointed out that there'll be a battle royale for 3rd if Liverpool win the final.  Would be funny if Arsenal finished 4th and it wasn't good enough.

 
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wdcrob said:
Does seem to be his most useful position.

MIB just pointed out that there'll be a battle royale for 3rd if Liverpool win the final.  Would be funny if Arsenal finished 4th and it wasn't good enough.
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I thought City had to win the Champions League as well for it to matter.

 
wdcrob said:
Does seem to be his most useful position.

MIB just pointed out that there'll be a battle royale for 3rd if Liverpool win the final.  Would be funny if Arsenal finished 4th and it wasn't good enough.
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I thought that only mattered if City won the CL?  

 
Top 2 + FA Cup winner + UEFA Cup winner?  Or do MIB have it wrong and 5 go to the CL?

ETA:  they do have it wrong, yes?  Think someone explained that a few weeks ago up thread.

 
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league parity, depth etc got me looking at goal differential in the various leagues. Spain's is pretty ####ed up- the obvious two huge ones, and then a top heavy vs bottom heavy grouping. Next is BPL- less extreme at the top, but still a bit odd not to have many/any near 0. Germany, Italy and France all seem about right IMHO (and given that there are a couple of teams in each with the advantage)- a couple leading the way, a couple way behind, and the rest duking it out in the middle with a nice spread. 

interested in hearing thoughts on this- could be meaningless info on my part, especially without any thought given to it.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
I don't know who this guy is, someone on Twitter. Amazing stat, and Spain could add two more tomorrow. 

Colin Millar–  ‏@Millar_Colin

UPDATE: Spanish clubs now won 14 of 14 knockout ties v non Spanish clubs this season. 45 of 48 in last three seasons.

1:39 PM - 4 May 2016
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Only 15 out of 16  and 46 out of 50 now.  What a letdown

 
Villarreal got taken out of the game with physicality...They get frustrated and mentally check out. Soldado and Suarez were non-existent

 
The Gator said:
Villarreal got taken out of the game with physicality...They get frustrated and mentally check out. Soldado and Suarez were non-existent
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Not sure why my fellow Barcelona supporters think Suarez needs to be bought back so much, he really hasn't been very impressive.

 
El Floppo said:
league parity, depth etc got me looking at goal differential in the various leagues. Spain's is pretty ####ed up- the obvious two huge ones, and then a top heavy vs bottom heavy grouping. Next is BPL- less extreme at the top, but still a bit odd not to have many/any near 0. Germany, Italy and France all seem about right IMHO (and given that there are a couple of teams in each with the advantage)- a couple leading the way, a couple way behind, and the rest duking it out in the middle with a nice spread. 

interested in hearing thoughts on this- could be meaningless info on my part, especially without any thought given to it.
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I don't know about the GD analysis, but I have noticed that the two Spanish giants routinely score 100+ goals, often 110+ and they've hit 120 in a couple recent seasons. Atletico of course is very much different, scoring little and conceding amazingly few goals. In England this season, Leicester will win the league scoring less than 70 goals, and its possible no English club will score 70 (City have 67, Spurs 68 with two games to play). A couple English clubs have scored 100+ goals in the past 10 years, but its rare. The PL champion typically scores about 80 goals.

 
Meh...goals are easy to come by in EPL.  I mean you can drop a 30-goal scorer and expect to score even more the next year...eh, Liverpool?

 
Sinn Fein said:
Meh...goals are easy to come by in EPL.  I mean you can drop a 30-goal scorer and expect to score even more the next year...eh, Liverpool?
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I remember the summer of 2014.  What a great time for Liverpool!

Suarez and Bale are both helping to elevate Spanish goal totals after doing the same for their clubs in England.  Will be interesting to see which club picks up Mahrez this summer.

 
I am an EPL snob - mostly because of Spurs, and because NBC makes it so easy to watch any game I want every weekend.

But there are some great teams, and great players who play outside of England.  If we drafted two teams of current players - how many players would we draft before someone took an EPL player?   Mahrez was player of the year - probably not drafted.  Vardy?  Not if we are only picking two teams, not even Kane.  If you were ranking the top-10 teams in the world, at least the first 6 - Barca, RM, Atletico, Bayern, Dortmund, Juventus are not English - might even throw PSG in at 7.  Certainly, in the next couple of years this could look different as the English teams begin to spend significantly more money than the other leagues - bar Real and Barca.

I think many people like EPL because of the familiarity with the clubs, the language and ease of following a club, and we generally just associate with England before we associate with Spain, Germany, Italy, or France.

 
Sinn Fein said:
I think many people like EPL because of the familiarity with the clubs, the language and ease of following a club, and we generally just associate with England before we associate with Spain, Germany, Italy, or France.
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All of this is completely fine with me

 
I try to stay out of all the partisanship but seeing Liverpool fans happy is ticking something very dark inside me. Somebody make a Scouser joke to break the spell.

 
Promotion to the Premier League will be worth at least £170m to the winner of Saturday's Championship decider between Middlesbrough and Brighton, according to financial analysts Deloitte. That figure could expand by around 41% to £290m if they avoid relegation in their first season in the top flight

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36214762

£290M = $419M

 
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