FIFA Club World Cup

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Absolutely loving this expanded tournament with qualifying groups. Athletico Madrid and Porto already dumped out of the first 2 groups. Chelsea need a result against Tunis today

Mamelodi Sundowns are phenomenal entertainment to watch. Won the 1st game then lost 4-3 to Borussia Dortmund with Dortmund getting 2 extremely fortunate goals.

They seem to play a 0-4-6 formation. Lucas Ribiero Costa has got 10 times more tricks than magic daps. A top team is gonna snap him up. Check out Ribeiro opening the scoring, notice its 3 v 1 against the GK.

0-4-6 formation. Playing the Fluminese in the last game, its gonna be an awesome display of attacking football from both side

https://twitter.com/x/status/1936457509113327829

 

[Fbreath]

Do you think this introducing the players one by one as they come out onto the pitch will catch on.
I think it’s rather cringy myself

 

[Neath_Jack]

Do you think this introducing the players one by one as they come out onto the pitch will catch on.
I think it’s rather cringy myself

Hopefully it doesn’t, it’s a load of shite.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

They seem to have suspended the Boca Juniors game because despite blue skies over the stadium there’s a bit of rain a few miles away. What a load of woke nonsense.

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Uh, in southern east parts of the USA, thunderstorms are lethal. Storms back home are zero compared to the ones here. Further north, no problem. But in the band across from arkansas thru tennessee to North & South Carolina you stay the hell out of the way. Not juts thunderstorms its also known as Tornado alley.

I'm on the coast in SC and last week my router, modem, monitor and PC all got fried from a lightning strike that hit about a mile. And yes I had a top quality power surge.

The fork lightning that is in all the storms across that belt of land is top power.

Oh yeah and I have no time for all that woke nonsense either.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Uh, in southern east parts of the USA, thunderstorms are lethal. Storms back home are zero compared to the ones here. Further north, no problem. But in the band across from arkansas thru tennessee to North & South Carolina you stay the hell out of the way. Not juts thunderstorms its also known as Tornado alley.

I'm on the coast in SC and last week my router, modem, monitor and PC all got fried from a lightning strike that hit about a mile. And yes I had a top quality power surge.

The fork lightning that is in all the storms across that belt of land is top power.

Oh yeah and I have no time for all that woke nonsense either.

Uh yeah. I get that some of the storms can be a bit feisty. This game was stopped for an hour and not a drop of rain fell let alone any thunder or lightning. So yeah, woke nonsense in the land of the MAGA heroes. Elf n safety gorn mad.

 

[Curtis]

Juventus v Man City at 8 p.m. should be a decent watch to see who tops the group, both having already qualified to go through.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

That Juve goal was pure Martin/Fisher era

 

[Fbreath]

Lovely move for Man City first goal

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

seems the loser plays Real Madrid in the last 16 so both will want to finish top of group

 

[Fbreath]

Nice little downpour then
Few people got wet

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Nice little downpour then
Few people got wet

Did they call the game off for a bit? They’re a bit scared of weather out there.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

Did they call the game off for a bit? They’re a bit scared of weather out there.

At one point the players hair gel was running down in to thier eyes

 

[Longlostjack]

How on earth does this pseudo competition work? Interferes with pre-season training. Complete joke.

 

[Curtis]

How on earth does this pseudo competition work? Interferes with pre-season training. Complete joke.

I am enjoying the competition.
Great to see some global club teams I had never heard of let alone seen play before.
Overall good standard of football.
Winning team gets £92 million so a change to preseason planning won’t bother them too much if win and if they don’t, this is far better to get a team to gel ( lots of new team players involved Delap etc ) and have a look at quality of your squad than many of the tedious preseason friendlies, in my opinion.