European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

[Winston Biscuit]

Galatasaray fans chanting against Erdogan during their match with Basaksehir

https://twitter.com/thevocaleurope/status/985805429350551552?s=21

[Winston Biscuit]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/guingamp-ligue-1-france-football-modest-budget-paris-saintgermain-neymar-transfer-a8308561.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

[Stranded]

First Coupe de France Semi final last night saw 2 3rd division teams in it. Les Herbiers winning 2-0 against Chambly for the right to get stuffed by PSG in the final (assuming they beat Caen).

[genome]

Here are some select Bayern Munich results since the turn of the year:

4-2, 5-2, 6-0, 5-0, 4-0, 6-0, 6-0, 4-1, 5-1, 6-2

In total

P19 W16 D2 L1
GS: 66
GA: 14

[Stranded]

Frankfurt make it through to the cup final, to lose to Bayern.

Will be interesting in that the Frankfurt manager takes over at Bayern this summer, so this will be his last game.

Was a terribly timed announcment, Eintracht had a chance of making the CL but following the announcement got stuffed at Leverkusen meaning gone from chasing a CL spot to trying to hang on to a EL spot. Them making the cup final may have helped that cause as if they lose 7th will qualify and they are currently 7th on GD.

[Winston Biscuit]

AC Milan 0-1 Benevento

Benevento were even down to 10 men from 80 minutes

[Winston Biscuit]

Napoli win 1-0 away at Juve with a 90th minute goal. Gap down to 1 point, title race back on!

Of the 4 remaining games they both have Juve have to go away to Roma and away to Inter while Napoli's hardest fixture is a trip to 8th placed Sampdoria

[Tony Le Mesmer]

This is the best season in Italy I can remember for a long time.

Inter v Juventus next weekend should be a cracker.

[Stranded]

Hamburg trying to pull off another miracle escape from relegation. 5 points adrift now and have Wolfsburg up next, who are one of the 3 teams on 30 points they are trying to catch up with, Freiburg (who they beat this weekend) and Mainz the others.

A win will see them close the gap to 2 with a game at a slightly collapsing Frankfurt to follow but a defeat could see them down this weeked. FC Köln 8 points adrift with only 9 to play for are essentially down but will be for certain if they lose at Freiburg this weekend.

[Brum Royal]

Napoli win 1-0 away at Juve with a 90th minute goal. Gap down to 1 point, title race back on!

Of the 4 remaining games they both have Juve have to go away to Roma and away to Inter while Napoli's hardest fixture is a trip to 8th placed Sampdoria

As mentioned previously, I've a keen interest in this as I'm on a stag do in Genoa hopefully getting tickets to Sampdoria v Napoli on the last day. Last night made that game potentially a lot more interesting!

[tmesis]

Napoli win 1-0 away at Juve with a 90th minute goal. Gap down to 1 point, title race back on!

Of the 4 remaining games they both have Juve have to go away to Roma and away to Inter while Napoli's hardest fixture is a trip to 8th placed Sampdoria

As mentioned previously, I've a keen interest in this as I'm on a stag do in Genoa hopefully getting tickets to Sampdoria v Napoli on the last day. Last night made that game potentially a lot more interesting!

Interesting choice for a stag do. It's not exactly the nightlife capital of Italy.

[double d]

Not European but American, the las vegas lights team in america seem pretty good (despite the utter ghey name). I love their smiley emoji kit and cannabis sponsership

Las Vegas Lights: Freddy Adu, llamas, and a partnership with a cannabis dispensary - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43830678

[Stranded]

Hamburg win at Wolfsburg, the great escape is on. Still 2 points adrift. Play away at Frankfurt next week.

Wolfsburg shocking today.

[Sanguine]

Parma win their first game in Serie B. 2 back to back promotions from division 4, impressive especially that they have come out of the notoriously hard Liga Pro (60 teams, 3 winners and 18 team playoff for the next lot to go up..... infact it seems to me that once you get out of the top 2/3 divisions in Spain, Germany, Italy etc it seems pretty much Hard to get back up to where you once where due to the amount of teams and regions you are competing with)

Their captain is a 40 year old Luccarelli..i remember their team of veron, crespo et al..... what a team!

Two games left and currently second on head-to-head points, Parma so close to a third consecutive promotion and a return to Serie A.

[Double d v2]

Parma win their first game in Serie B. 2 back to back promotions from division 4, impressive especially that they have come out of the notoriously hard Liga Pro (60 teams, 3 winners and 18 team playoff for the next lot to go up..... infact it seems to me that once you get out of the top 2/3 divisions in Spain, Germany, Italy etc it seems pretty much Hard to get back up to where you once where due to the amount of teams and regions you are competing with)

Their captain is a 40 year old Luccarelli..i remember their team of veron, crespo et al..... what a team!

Two games left and currently second on head-to-head points, Parma so close to a third consecutive promotion and a return to Serie A.

RIP Double D. He was a good, misunderstood poster.

[Double d v2]

Napoli may have screwed their chances up

[stealthpapes]

First Coupe de France Semi final last night saw 2 3rd division teams in it. Les Herbiers winning 2-0 against Chambly for the right to get stuffed by PSG in the final (assuming they beat Caen).

The Coupe de France has a wonderful little tic to it.

They invite all their overseas territories to take part. I think the French FA heavily subsidise the travel as well. They have about 8000 teams take part each year, with regional tournaments all feeding in.

So, this season, they had a special round, alongside what would be our first round proper, for their qualifiers to play French teams who wanted to play abroad. I have to resort to a well-known online database now but they had the following countries in

One team made it to the 8th round (December, so our second round proper), so a lower league French side (research says 4th tier Le Mans) got a jolly to Reunion. In the same round, another team, from Guiana, played a tier 8 side from pretty much central Paris. Lost, mind, but it just seems delightfully mental.

[Stranded]

First Coupe de France Semi final last night saw 2 3rd division teams in it. Les Herbiers winning 2-0 against Chambly for the right to get stuffed by PSG in the final (assuming they beat Caen).

The Coupe de France has a wonderful little tic to it.

They invite all their overseas territories to take part. I think the French FA heavily subsidise the travel as well. They have about 8000 teams take part each year, with regional tournaments all feeding in.

So, this season, they had a special round, alongside what would be our first round proper, for their qualifiers to play French teams who wanted to play abroad. I have to resort to a well-known online database now but they had the following countries in

One team made it to the 8th round (December, so our second round proper), so a lower league French side (research says 4th tier Le Mans) got a jolly to Reunion. In the same round, another team, from Guiana, played a tier 8 side from pretty much central Paris. Lost, mind, but it just seems delightfully mental.

Yeah, love that aspect. Also like that up to Round 9 (poss 10) rounds are played in groups. Where a mix of teams from different leagues are guaranteed making it more likely for lower league teams to make it to the round of 32, at which point it is a straight knock-out.

Can you imagine the FA doing something similar and inviting teams from British Overseas Territories to compete. Bracknell or Thatcham getting a plum away draw to Flanagan's Onions of Bermuda (real team name) or having to make the trek to Stanley to play the Falklands.

[Winston Biscuit]

proper rollercoaster weekend in Italy where Juve were 2-1 down to Inter and looked to be handing over control of the title to Napoli until they scored 2 goals in the last 4 minutes to win and then Napoli collapsed the following day to Fiorentina losing 3-0 and playing almost the whole game with 10 men

Juve now have a 4 point lead with 3 games left, although the top 2 are still to play themselves and Juve are away to Roma before the season is out too.

[Winston Biscuit]

Just 2 games left in the German 2nd division and everyone from 8th place downwards could still be relegated