European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

[winchester_royal]

Rangnick leaves Hoffenheim in protest at the sale of Luis Gustavo to Bayern

[handbags_harris]

Eredivisie update imminent...

What I can say for now is that Feyenoord have lost two:

Ajax 2-0 Feyenoord
Feyenoord 0-1 De Graafschap

Leo Beenhakker has left, Mario Been is likely to follow.

[prostak]

Poor Leo B, he deserves better than he's had of late.

Gylfi started last night alongside new team-mate Ryan Babel. Hoffenheim suffered for fielding a few second-teamers, losing 1-0 to the unstoppable cup shamble of Energie Cottbus. Sigurdsson nearly scored an equaliser with 5 minutes left, but the Energie keeper parried his shot onto the bar. His full participation in the game suggests that he's not yet seen as first-team, but Ralf Rangnick's departure won't lead to his rotting, forgotten, in the reserves.

No great shocks in the Pokal otherwise - wins for Bayern, Duisburg and Schalke seeing off Aachen, Kaiserslauten, and Nurnberg respectively.

[soggy biscuit]

Thomas Muller gets punched by Arjen Robben after throwing his arms up in despair at another wasted Robben free kick

[handbags_harris]

Arjen Robben really is a c*nt of the highest order. Attitude 20, supreme player but a cheat and temperamental bastard.

Eredivisie Round 20:

ADO Den Haag 3-1 sc Heerenveen
Heracles Almelo 0-0 AZ
Willem II 1-0 Vitesse (Willem II's first win of the season)
NEC 2-2 NAC Breda
Feyenoord 0-1 De Graafschap
FC Utrecht 3-0 Ajax
Roda JC Kerkrade 2-0 Excelsior
VVV-Venlo 0-3 PSV
FC Groningen 1-2 FC Twente

Eredivisie Round 21:

NEC 1-1 Heracles Almelo
Vitesse 5-2 Roda JC Kerkrade
AZ 6-1 VVV-Venlo
PSV 2-1 Willem II
Excelsior 1-5 ADO Den Haag
FC Twente 2-1 Feyenoord
sc Heerenveen 1-4 FC Groningen
NAC Breda 0-3 Ajax

Standings (P, W, D, L, Pts, F - A)

1 PSV 21 14 5 2 47 58 - 20
2 FC Twente 21 14 4 3 46 44 - 23
3 Ajax 21 12 5 4 41 42 - 20
4 FC Groningen 21 12 4 5 40 42 - 27
5 AZ 21 10 7 4 37 33 - 21
6 Roda JC Kerkrade 21 9 8 4 35 37 - 29
7 ADO Den Haag 21 10 5 6 35 39 - 32
8 FC Utrecht 20 10 2 8 32 35 - 27
9 sc Heerenveen 21 8 6 7 30 42 - 33
10 NAC Breda 21 9 4 8 30 31 - 33
11 NEC 21 6 8 7 26 36 - 38
12 De Graafschap 20 6 6 8 24 22 - 37
13 Heracles Almelo 21 5 6 10 21 31 - 40
14 Vitesse 21 5 6 10 21 26 - 36
15 Feyenoord 21 5 5 11 20 24 - 38
16 Excelsior 21 4 4 13 16 23 - 44
17 VVV-Venlo 21 3 1 17 10 19 - 51
18 Willem II 21 1 4 16 7 18 - 53

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Eredivisie Round 21:
PSV 2-1 Willem II

Painful, painful, painful watching that

But none the less inevitable of course

[sandman]

Real Madrid get what has been coming to them for the last few weeks and lose to a deserving Osasuna. Now effectively 8 points behind Barca.

[prostak]

That Werder - Bayern game was fairly violent all round. Germany international keeper Tim Wiese, who has form for kung-fu defending (note the punishment of a yellow card!), attacked Thomas Muller with some sort of flying scissor kick. At least he got sent off this time.

[papereyes]

to be fair to him, he's already walking off the moment Muller hits the deck.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Real Madrid get what has been coming to them for the last few weeks and lose to a deserving Osasuna. Now effectively 8 points behind Barca.

Gripping stuff indeed

If there's such a thing as a perfect goal, Rossi's winner for Villarreal at Espanyol in the next match is worthy of a nomin8ion at least (MUTE your volume control before clicking --loud bad music)

[prostak]

HSV - Pauli called off - riots almost ensue in Hamburg according to Kicker.

Happily, I'm still buzzing off Koln beating Bayern yesterday evening.

[sandman]

Barca went 10 points clear at the top after a Messi hat-trick beats Atleti and take Madrid's record for consecutive La Liga wins. Now that's got to hurt Los Blancos.

[handbags_harris]

Eredivisie Round 22:

Ajax 2-0 De Graafschap (El Hamdaoui 43, De Jong 79)
sc Heerenveen 0-0 NEC
Excelsior 2-1 AZ (Vincken 65, Clasie 80; Sigthorsson 10. Moisander sent off for AZ on 91)
PSV 0-1 ADO Den Haag (Verhoek 92)
VVV-Venlo 3-0 NAC Breda (Musa 2, Chula 58, Ahahaoui 88. Boymans missed penalty for VVV on 38)
Vitesse 1-1 Feyenoord (Aissati 63; Castaignos 56)
FC Utrecht 1-1 FC Twente (De Kogel 37; Chadli 50)
FC Groningen 7-1 Willem II (Granqvist 26, Stenman 33, Matavz 45, 55, 71, Enevoldsen 73, Tadic 84; Lasnik 52. Granqvist sent off for Groningen on 51. Swinkels 54 and Pressel 68 sent off for Willem II)
Heracles 1-0 Roda JC (Overtoom 53. Breukers sent off for Heracles on 63)

Standings (P, W, D, L, Pts, F-A)


1 PSV 22 14 5 3 47 58 - 21
2 FC Twente 22 14 5 3 47 45 - 24
3 Ajax 22 13 5 4 44 44 - 20
4 FC Groningen 22 13 4 5 43 49 - 28
5 ADO Den Haag 22 11 5 6 38 40 - 32
6 AZ 22 10 7 5 37 34 - 23
7 Roda JC Kerkrade 22 9 8 5 35 37 - 30
8 FC Utrecht 22 10 4 8 34 36 - 28
9 sc Heerenveen 22 8 7 7 31 42 - 33
10 NAC Breda 22 9 4 9 30 31 - 36
11 NEC 22 6 9 7 27 36 - 38
12 De Graafschap 22 6 7 9 25 22 - 39
13 Heracles Almelo 22 6 6 10 24 32 - 40
14 Vitesse 22 5 7 10 22 27 - 37
15 Feyenoord 22 5 6 11 21 25 - 39
16 Excelsior 22 5 4 13 19 25 - 45
17 VVV-Venlo 22 4 1 17 13 22 - 51
18 Willem II 22 1 4 17 7 19 - 60

As ever, goals can be seen here: http://www.eredivisie.nl/statistieken/uitslagen

Click on "Bekijk Videos" next to each individual match.

[prostak]

Steve McLaren is sent on his way by Wolfsburg, with Pierre Littbarski taking over for now. Yesterday Steve declared his side's form as 'absolutely unacceptable' after a 1-0 loss to Hannover, and today Dieter Hoeness agreed - bemoaning the side's 'belief in the success of losing'.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Dieter Hoeness agreed - bemoaning the side's 'belief in the success of losing'.

There's, like, a one-word way of saying the same thing in German along lines of ausenmausmächenflizengefühlningschautzen, yes?

[prostak]

Damn my eyes. He actually bemoaned them having 'lost the belief in success'. I should have tried to read the thing rather than lazily following Chrome's translation...

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Ah, ausenmausmächenschnitzengefühlningschautzen, not ausenmausmächenflizengefühlningschautzen --easy mistake to make, really

Hey, Barcelona just played to 1-all draw away to Hee Haw and needed David Villa to lob the Sporting 'keeper* from just outside of the area on 80' for their leveller and a point

So that's their record run of 16 consecutive wins in the league ended a week after they'd bettered Real Madrid's standard of 15 in a row established in 1960-1

All of Barcelona's points dropped this season have come in competition against sides in the bottom half of the table headed into this weekend's 23rd round of league matches (Mallorca in 11th, Sporting in 13th and Hercules in 15th)

RM'll look to close to within 5 points of the leaders when they face Espanyol away on Sunday

*Speaking of lobs, wait'll you see the matchwinner from Racing v. Sevilla

[bobbybottler]

Handbags - a welcome win for Feyenoord yesterday

[sandman]

Ah, ausenmausmächenschnitzengefühlningschautzen, not ausenmausmächenflizengefühlningschautzen --easy mistake to make, really

Hey, Barcelona just played to 1-all draw away to Hee Haw and needed David Villa to lob the Sporting 'keeper* from just outside of the area on 80' for their leveller and a point

So that's their record run of 16 consecutive wins in the league ended a week after they'd bettered Real Madrid's standard of 15 in a row established in 1960-1

All of Barcelona's points dropped this season have come in competition against sides in the bottom half of the table headed into this weekend's 23rd round of league matches (Mallorca in 11th, Sporting in 13th and Hercules in 15th)

RM'll look to close to within 5 points of the leaders when they face Espanyol away on Sunday

*Speaking of lobs, wait'll you see the matchwinner from Racing v. Sevilla

Iker Casillas sent off just over a minute into the Espanyol match.

Edit:
Marcelo puts Madrid 1 up.

[handbags_harris]

Handbags - a welcome win for Feyenoord yesterday

Absolutely. First win since the mid-season break, first win in five. One that takes a little pressure of Mario Been's shoulders, although there's some way to go yet to restore any pride for this season. Most fans I'd imagine will want to confine this season to the archives very very quickly!!

ADO Den Haag 3-0 VVV-Venlo (Toornstra 53, Bulykin pen 63 & 83)
Willem II 3-3 FC Utrecht (van der Heijden 25, Hakola 31, Rigters 89; Mertens 23 & 55, Vorstermans 92)
FC Twente 1-0 Vitesse (Chadli 39)
Feyenoord 2-1 Heracles Almelo (Miyaichi 18, Biseswar 33; Fledderus 46)
AZ 0-4 PSV (Berg 8 & 77, Dzsudzsak 30 & 66)
NAC Breda 0-2 sc Heerenveen (Narsingh 60, Assaidi 82. Schilder missed pen for NAC 47)
Roda JC 2-2 Ajax (Junker 41, Hadouir 81; Sulejmani 13, de Jong 34. El Hamdaoui missed pen for Ajax 88)
NEC 2-0 Excelsior (Zimling 66 & 80)
De Graafschap 1-1 FC Groningen (Poepon 51; Holla 32)

Standings (P, W, D, L, Pts, F - A)

1 PSV 23 15 5 3 50 62 - 21
2 FC Twente 23 15 5 3 50 46 - 24
3 Ajax 23 13 6 4 45 46 - 22
4 FC Groningen 23 13 5 5 44 50 - 29
5 ADO Den Haag 23 12 5 6 41 43 - 32
6 AZ 23 10 7 6 37 34 - 27
7 Roda JC Kerkrade 23 9 9 5 36 39 - 32
8 FC Utrecht 23 10 5 8 35 39 - 31
9 sc Heerenveen 23 9 7 7 34 44 - 33
10 NEC 23 7 9 7 30 38 - 38
11 NAC Breda 23 9 4 10 30 31 - 38
12 De Graafschap 23 6 8 9 26 23 - 40
13 Heracles Almelo 23 6 6 11 24 33 - 42
14 Feyenoord 23 6 6 11 24 27 - 40
15 Vitesse 23 5 7 11 22 27 - 38
16 Excelsior 23 5 4 14 19 25 - 47
17 VVV-Venlo 23 4 1 18 13 22 - 54
18 Willem II 23 1 5 17 8 22 - 63

Leading Scorers:

1 Björn Vleminckx (NEC) 17
2 Dmitri Bulykin (ADO Den Haag) 15
3 Tim Matavz (FC Groningen) 15
4 Marc Janko (FC Twente) 14
5 Mounir El Hamdaoui (Ajax) 12