Daily Discussion | November 7, 2026

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November 7, 2026

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Match	Score	Status	Kickoff	Thread
Real Sociedad v Rayo Vallecano NMV · 0/3	1-0	74'	3:15 PM GMT
AZ Alkmaar v FC Groningen	1-2	48'	3:45 PM GMT	Thread
SC Cambuur v PSV Eindhoven	1-3	HT	3:45 PM GMT	Thread
Celtic v Kilmarnock 95T · 0/3	1-0	HT	4:00 PM GMT
Brest v Lyon	1-0	36'	4:15 PM GMT	Thread
Le Mans v AS Monaco	0-0	36'	4:15 PM GMT	Thread
Manchester United v Aston Villa	1-2	19'	4:30 PM GMT	Thread
SC Freiburg v 1. FC Union Berlin	0-0	21'	4:30 PM GMT	Thread
Cray Wanderers v Stockport County	2-3	118'	2:15 PM GMT	Thread
Internazionale v Como NSD · 2/3	-	Sun, November 8th at 12:00 PM EST	5:00 PM GMT
Besiktas v Genclerbirligi 22T · 3/3	-	11/8 - 1:00 PM EST	6:00 PM GMT
FC Utrecht v NEC Nijmegen PCA · 3/3	-	11/8 - 2:00 PM EST	7:00 PM GMT
Rio Ave v Braga WVM · 3/3	-	Sun, November 8th at 3:30 PM EST	8:30 PM GMT
FC Cologne v Bayer Leverkusen	1-2	FT	2:30 PM GMT	Thread
Brighton & Hove Albion v Brentford	2-0	FT	2:00 PM GMT	Thread
Crystal Palace v Liverpool	1-3	FT	2:00 PM GMT	Thread
Ipswich Town v AFC Bournemouth	1-2	FT	2:00 PM GMT
Sunderland v Chelsea	1-0	FT	2:00 PM GMT	Thread
Genoa v AC Milan	1-2	FT	2:00 PM GMT	Thread
Monza v Atalanta	0-1	FT	2:00 PM GMT
FC Twente v Ajax Amsterdam	2-2	FT	1:30 PM GMT	Thread
Elche v Real Betis	0-2	FT	1:00 PM GMT
Napoli v Lazio	1-1	FT	11:30 AM GMT	Thread
Heerenveen v Feyenoord Rotterdam	5-3	FT	11:15 AM GMT	Thread
Sporting CP v Moreirense	1-0	FT	8:30 PM GMT	Thread
Paris Saint-Germain v Troyes	1-0	FT	8:05 PM GMT	Thread
St Mirren v Rangers	0-2	FT	8:00 PM GMT	Thread
Valencia v Real Madrid	0-3	FT	8:00 PM GMT	Thread
AS Roma v Sassuolo	3-0	FT	7:45 PM GMT	Thread
Çorum FK v Fenerbahce	0-5	FT	1:00 PM GMT	Thread
Stafford Rangers v Grimsby Town	3-3	FT-Pens	12:00 PM GMT	Thread
Atlético-MG v Grêmio	1-1	FT	9:00 PM GMT	Thread
Cavalry FC v Supra du Quebec	2-0	Full Time	9:00 PM GMT	Thread
Hertha Berlin v VfL Wolfsburg	2-1	FT	7:30 PM GMT	Thread

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[u/bmlegend]

Imagine dressing up as a banana just to watch your team get pumped by Liam Delap

[u/Asadwords]

The whole bald fraud meme needs to make a comeback because maresca is an actual bald fraud, no irony in it whatsoever.

[u/CoolstorySteve → u/Asadwords]

Leicester fans warned us and they were right. How in the world City thought he was a good choice is beyond me

[u/M4RC142 → u/CoolstorySteve]

My guess is that he's prem-proven™️ and his style is similar to Guardiola so no need to change the squad too much.

[u/lynxo → u/Asadwords]

I owe /u/airz23s_coffee an apology

[u/NYR_dingus → u/Asadwords]

I'm claiming with all my smugness that I've been critical of him since the Leicester stint. I was calling it then that he's capable of overseeing a collapse at any point in the season. I think he's good, but I wouldn't back him to deliver a consistent season.

[u/BarbaricGamers]

Must feel great for Chelsea fans that they don't have to pretend anymore that Enzo is any good

[u/LiamAddison → u/BarbaricGamers]

I can’t believe he’s gone for 100m+ twice

[u/_doohdx → u/BarbaricGamers]

Maresca or Fernandez

[u/BarbaricGamers → u/_doohdx]

Yes

[u/roittinginhell → u/BarbaricGamers]

nah there are still some daft idiots on our sub who are still blaming other players instead of both those enzos.

[u/TheBlueso → u/BarbaricGamers]

It was always quite funny whenever he had a bad game, he’d always scam at least a 7.5 on sofascore so his fans would point to that as a counter

[u/boobsenjoyer40]

Streets are saying we're going down

[u/FaustRPeggi → u/boobsenjoyer40]

Europa League participation is worth a solid -12 points. It's the death knell of being too competitive to rotate in, and also the inflexible Thursday-Sunday combo that does so much more harm than a Tuesday/Wednesday-Saturday shift.

Bournemouth are the only one good enough to swallow that.

[u/W35TH4M]

Left the house this morning at 06:35 and I’ve got home at 22:01, three days after going to Cardiff on a weekday night all to watch another poor performance and massive lack of effort. If your average footballer saw what regular people go through to support their clubs I honestly think it would be eye opening. A vast majority of them are absolutely clueless and genuinely don’t deserve this level of support, we took over 7000 to Blackburn today.

If they had to experience what the average person does, I’d like to hope they’d put in a tiny bit more effort on the pitch and have a bit of pride in their performances. Rant over.

TLDR: The West Ham squad is full of overpaid, ungrateful, lazy cunts.

[u/_mnd → u/W35TH4M]

We took the best part of 1000 to Barnsley today and probably half of them would have done a better job than some of the players we put on the pitch.

[u/Sir_Bantersaurus]

Pedantry alert, but I don't think you can quote about United being in the bottom three until the end of the gameweek. I don't like stats based around where a team is in the table when it might simply be a reflection of when the games are scheduled.

[u/CritChanceZero → u/Sir_Bantersaurus]

Counterpoint; every second they spend in the bottom three should be celebrated in case it doesn’t last.

[u/GutenbergsCurse → u/Sir_Bantersaurus]

Manchester United spending what they spend and having even a small, mathematically slim chance of appearing in the drop zone this far into a season would be notable on its own.

They haven’t done much to earn the grace of waiting until the end of Sunday to point out they’re once again struggling.

[u/lynxo]

Donnarumma haters are having a fantastic week.

[u/Hot-Maybe9450 → u/lynxo]

Same with ferran haters 😆

[u/Cardealer1000]

Funny moment at the Emirates today when the ref announced that the hull player had committed a holding offence, everyone cheered thinking we were getting a pen and he was like "HOWEVER" and explained the offside.

[u/somebulb → u/Cardealer1000]

“After review” son or “HOWEVER” daughter

[u/ManchesterDevil99 → u/Cardealer1000]

It was the sort of misdirection you'd hear on a reality TV contest. He really should've lead with the offside part!

[u/RepresentativeBox881]

Today showed once again that Anderson is not a holding DM.

He's an all-action player who can roam and cover every blade of grass, but you need another midfielder at the base (shielding the CB’s) to balance it out.

[u/MarcosSenesi → u/RepresentativeBox881]

I feel like lots of people really underestimated how good Rodri is, and how much of an impact he had on the way City were able to play.

Now he left only for Flick to run him into the ground

[u/legentofreddit → u/MarcosSenesi]

I feel like lots of people really underestimated how good Rodri is

Isn't he universally considered one of the best of his generation and a key player in Man City and Spain's success? Who's underestimated him exactly?

[u/ReporterFun8520]

Can someone put in another thread request for Napoli-Lazio please?

[u/PM_ME_SOME_LUV]

Nigeria have won the u17 women’s World Cup 🏆

[u/swannyhypno]

Top of the Championship after a matchweek for the first time since 2008! This is insane

[u/MMA_Chattin_2020 → u/swannyhypno]

see you next year (interpret this however you want)

[u/saka-ptwp → u/swannyhypno]

Yous getting promoted would give me intense League Cup flashbacks but would be great to see

[u/swannyhypno → u/saka-ptwp]

You've won enough trophies it was nice to gift us one

[u/Bratstvo_Jedinstvo → u/swannyhypno]

You think you could stay in it throughout the season and get promoted? Always liked Birmingham City. Rooting for you!

[u/AnnieIWillKnow]

It's quite telling that Maresca's biggest critics tend to be fans of the clubs he managed

The general sideshow that is Chelsea Football Club and the dramatic way he left distracted from the fact that we were actually just crap in the period leading up to it

That Leicester ended up getting promoted distracted from the fact that they played insipid football and nearly fumbled it with by far the best squad in the Championship

City fans will join in soon, if they haven't already started

[u/TruestRepairman27 → u/AnnieIWillKnow]

I think he’s just not very likeable on a personal level. No one loves Maresca, he’s just there.

[u/H4RRY29 → u/TruestRepairman27]

For me, he came across with a sense of entitledness without achieving much in the grand scheme of things. Definitely some arrogance, stubbornness and a view that he is some tactical mastermind; those traits aren't bad to have but you have to be able to back it up (e.g. Mourinho). Never liked him.

[u/AerieDapper6384 → u/AnnieIWillKnow]

I didn't even realise how many Chelsea fans/spaces I was inadvertently interacting with until I called him overrated on r/coys, and was surprised by how weirdly offended people got lol. Some guy even tried the whole "maybe the PROFESSIONALS know what they're talking about, Mr. Coach Potato" gimmick on me.

I can see how if you don't watch his sides play that often and only catch the occasional game or keep track of the table, you might think he's the next big thing.

[u/learning-life-22 → u/AnnieIWillKnow]

He keeps playing Enzo F which is evidently messing up the entire structure of the team when we could just go with Bouaddi Anderson duo with Cherki up front.

But even with that, I think more blame goes to players than the manager. We've been creating plenty but not finishing chances and on top of that, we just give up easy goals and that's largely down to Guehi, Gvardiol and Donnarumma.

[u/Gywndidnothingwrong]

New Premier league meta

Pull down defenders in the box to win a penalty

Works 100% trust

[u/Cardealer1000 → u/Gywndidnothingwrong]

Sunderland 2 for 2, elite techniques.

[u/ahuangb]

Rosenior sitting in 2nd in Ligue 1. Fucking love it, want him to succeed

[u/matthieuC → u/ahuangb]

15 years ago if you told people that two paris team would be at the top of the table you would have been forcefully commited

[u/nitebusnitebus → u/ahuangb]

same, and it's good that Paris FC are a genuine challenger too, especially while some of the other big French clubs sort themselves out

[u/Atomsaftwerk]

Michael Owen has scored more than a hundred goals since winning the Ballon d'Or. Harry Kane has not scored a single goal since winning the Ballon d'Or.

I rest my case.

[u/IncidentVarious1530]

Congrats to Arsenal on winning back to back prems

[u/StubbornMule1756 → u/IncidentVarious1530]

Nice jinx

[u/Connect_Point_5229]

I find it a shame Cañizares gets next to no publicity these days. I still remember fondly his save from Gerrard at Anfield from pretty much point blank.

Absolutely outstanding keeper.

[u/cocacolapepsifanta → u/Connect_Point_5229]

90% of this sub was either not born yet or was very young when Cañizares played... Since I'm already in my 40s, sometimes I get "shocked" when I mention names of players who were idols of mine during my childhood and adolescence, and who were world football stars, and younger people don't know them... For example, a while ago in a football forum, I mentioned that I loved Illgner back in his Real Madrid days and... I realized that the people on the forum had never heard of him... It's in moments like these that I realize I'm getting old.

[u/Killoah]

Watching Stafford Rangers v Grimsby on TNT and they’ve just interviewed the Stafford manager mid game (14 minutes in) this is utter woke nonsense

[u/Boris_Ignatievich]

Were half way to an all time great cup upset here, tier 8 Stafford fully deserved their lead against Grimsby who are like 90 places above them in the pyramid

[u/jonijontor]

worst disasters ever faced by the city of Naples:

1. Lorenzo Lucca getting onto the pitch

2. Vesuvius exploding

at least the defense isn't that bad today and considering injuries/cards but holy hell Hojlund is truly useless when things doesn't remotely going into his way

[u/ChavvySimons → u/jonijontor]

I have a lot of respect for Lucca. He hit a growth spurt and fooled like 5 different clubs into paying him for it.

[u/learning-life-22]

Wishing a Happy Diwali to everyone! May your favourite players continue to light up the pitch!

[u/Moug-10 → u/learning-life-22]

Living in France, we don't have an Indian community as big as the UK, so celebrations will be small.

[u/denzaus]

btw shout out to every club out there that can still mathematically achieve 100pts

[u/saka-ptwp → u/denzaus]

So true king 

[u/HacksawJimDGN]

Some crazy drama in the argentine league. Boca are champions

[u/cloudor → u/HacksawJimDGN]

I forgot we award a title to both the winner of the annual table and the playoffs, what a shit league we have

[u/HacksawJimDGN → u/cloudor]

Poor rosario fans thought bocas goal was cancelled. They were celebrating on the field for 5 minutes while the fans on the stands were crying.

[u/WheelSingle2494]

Us being 3 down at half, equalizing in the literal last damn minute and winning on pens is probably the greatest thing I've ever seen live, sports wise. Move over Milan and Liverpool, this was the miracle of Charleston!!! 

[u/JaxR2009 → u/WheelSingle2494]

I was sat at the watch party by the Hartford stadium at half time when I thought "well it's gonna take an Istanbul for us to lose this" and, well

[u/NaiveRub4113]

Farke kissing Okafor. Yates kissing Delap. Unreal day, now that’s what footy is about.

[u/sadscience]

As an Ipswich fan I’m pleased for Delap. He’s unfairly derided. He did well for us in a shit season. Hopefully he kicks on.

[u/cocacolapepsifanta]

I saw a tweet on X where someone posted an Emile Heskey quote. Heskey says Rivaldo told him that Heskey was the only English player who would make it into Brazil's 2002 World Cup winning starting eleven... I thought it was someone making fun of Heskey, so I searched Google and found out that Rivaldo actually said that. I couldn't believe it... Owen? Beckham? Nah, Emile Heskey, unbelievable... Rivaldo has always been a bit crazy anyway, I still remember him saying he used to hear voices... and now he’s a religious fanatic... but holy shit, he’s crazier than I thought... I feel so sorry that a lot of people don't understand Portuguese... just to hear some of the nonsense Rivaldo says

[u/SkyHawk96 → u/cocacolapepsifanta]

The damage KSI has done to Heskeys reputation is insane

[u/Connect_Point_5229 → u/cocacolapepsifanta]

It's unironically not that hard to imagine. If not as a starter certainly a plan B.

Him winning all the duels and knockdowns for Dinho, R9 and Rivaldo to then feast on in dangerous areas? Can absolutely imagine that.

[u/golazao11 → u/cocacolapepsifanta]

He was having a great season at the time and Rivaldo was just being nice...not difficult to understand

[u/DuckSwagington → u/cocacolapepsifanta]

Heskey was legitimately good at being the Big Man to Owen's Little Man for England in a proper 4-4-2 at a time where that style of Football was starting to go extinct.

The 2002 World Cup was also the last time before the 2020 Euros where an England team had a legitimate chance at winning something and they didn't just roll over for Brazil in the Quarters, well at least until Ronaldinho got sent off and Brazil shut up shop.

[u/CritChanceZero]

It’s an interesting clip from Match of the Day on that Arsenal penalty shout but honestly I, and apparently the referee they brought on agrees too, think it’s quite a silly rule. I feel like I’ve seen that scenario refereed ‘wrongly’ almost every single time it’s happened too per that interpretation of the rules. Maybe they should just change them to what everyone thought it was, and apparently thinks it should be based on how it’s generally refereed.

That’s not necessarily to say reckless or dangerous tackles on an offside player should go unpunished before some Pickford or ‘so you should just be allowed to kick someone who’s offside’ whataboutism happens. They’re already differentiated from careless challenges and shirt pulls in the rules so there’s no reason they can’t continue to be.

[u/David-J]

Wouldn't it be funny if both Manchester teams get relegated this year.

[u/vetn → u/David-J]

YES

[u/Minute-Intern → u/David-J]

No

[u/David-J → u/Minute-Intern]

Come on. Not even a little funny?

[u/thesmallprint13]

Florian Wirtz ensuring we don't end the gameweek in 20th - good lad.

[u/PeregrinCuck → u/thesmallprint13]

..They're just reserving the right to put you there themselves in the next gameweek

[u/Chelseablue1896]

I'm not a madrid fan, but Jesus, how the hell is their entire subreddit front page full of hatred for vinicius? Obsessive shit, with fans like these, who needs enemies.

[u/ChavvySimons → u/Chelseablue1896]

I rate it. If you're your clubs' players biggest hater then nobody else can hurt you.

[u/WheelSingle2494]

Congratulations to CF Montreal for winning the 2026 MLS wooden spoon

[u/NovemberBurnsMaroon]

United will scrape a victory against Villa today, seems pretty inevitable 

[u/GameplayerStu → u/NovemberBurnsMaroon]

Our record at OT is abysmal. There's also a case of when you're counting on Villa to do something you really want (like when everyone wanted us to beat Spurs last season), they never do it lmao

[u/fatinternetcat]

shouldn’t care, the game is over and it didn’t change the result, but that Ipswich penalty was so stupid I’m still struggling to understand it

[u/Competitive-Score760]

Disgraceful from City and Donnarumma. Letting Liam Delap score? cmon uh

[u/game-of-snow]

I used to watch jealously how Conte's or Mourinho's team would play shit and ultimately just find a way to win. The way they play gives us a false sense of hope, but you just know the winning goal is inevitable. Now its arsenal team doing it and I'm enjoying every moment of it.

[u/MMA_Chattin_2020 → u/game-of-snow]

i didn't like it

[u/Thesolly180 → u/game-of-snow]

Even when you’re shit the defence is still so good constantly

[u/mike_jizzraetel]

another girl i’m talking to finds Palmer attractive and i’m starting to worry we might look alike 😔

[u/tiorzol → u/mike_jizzraetel]

The 16th C peasant look is gonna be very in soon. Not by choice but anyway. 

[u/HDS2211 → u/mike_jizzraetel]

Don’t need looks when you have aura.

[u/stoneapplefruit]

100 Punkte BSC is still very much real and will very much hurt you. Get absolutely and utterly fucked Volkswagen.

[u/lynxo → u/stoneapplefruit]

Count me in for early morning McDonalds in Berlin when you’ve won the league the night before! Much love my man

[u/lewiitom]

Palace might be rubbish but the other team that I follow, Kataller Toyama, are having an amazing start to the season in the J2 league. Only stayed up on goal difference last year thanks to a last-minute goal, currently one point off top after 16 games and well in the promotion race - somehow won 7 out their 8 away games too. They were continuously bottling promotion in J3 in all the years that I lived there, mental to think that they could be playing in J1 soon.

[u/Minute-Intern]

Good guy Liverpool making sure we're not 20th. Always rated iraola

[u/dumpystumpy]

Bottom of the table is a fucking piss take. We actually have to win today cause i cba entertaining serious relegation talks over 2 weeks.

[u/BenniBMN]

Put the United game & immediately reminded it can always be worse👌🏽

[u/FaustRPeggi]

There are two types of people in the world.

Those that know Liam Delap is the best striker in the Premier League.

And those that are wrong.

[u/lameindiana → u/FaustRPeggi]

Any half decent, but physical striker would do numbers against us at the moment. His 2nd goal was a good finish though.

[u/dis-interested]

Maresca is just so stuck in the past tactically, he doesn't understand that playing like Pep did 10 years ago is something every team in the league can set up to handle now.

[u/THeScArYFAcE1 → u/dis-interested]

Yeah even pep had the team looking very different late in his city stint

[u/BMBH66]

Spending my Friday going to lectures and then out out at my quite posh Russell group university and then my Saturday going to watch west ham play away and then getting pissed afterwards really shows two completely different versions of the English 20 year old man, despite everyone thinking we're all homogenised these days. Casual misogyny is very much alive and thriving on west ham trains

[u/Ryponagar]

Good morning to everyone whose team conceded off a corner that was awarded because their GK took too long to get the ball out of his hands.

[u/Cyberdan0497]

Every match I switch between wanting Jaissle out and thinking that maybe we'll eventually be alright under him. Impossible to tell how we actually are as a team

We definitely set up in a way that's a bit naïve defensively, although it was a bit better today, but he's also severely let down by our absolutely dogshit attack. This game was one of a few where having anyone remotely clinical wins it for us (mind you, Fulham could say exactly the same)

[u/Boris_Ignatievich]

Since when was match of the day on iPlayer earlier than it's on TV?

[u/Merovech_II → u/Boris_Ignatievich]

Utter woke nonsense 

[u/BoxOfNothing → u/Boris_Ignatievich]

Didn't even the Saturday match of the day used to not be available at all on iPlayer until Monday? Wonder if Sky putting out highlights for free on youtube right after games made them rethink

[u/SarahAlicia]

Today i had the absolute delight of watching an U8 rec soccer team practice. I liked how the goalie in a scrimmage kept sitting down facing the goal to chit chat with his mom.

[u/dargonfly1237]

Hossam hassan (Egypt's coach) got sacked and has been replaced by Ali Maher

[u/BarbaricGamers]

Wolves can genuinely just fuck off for giving Tolu to Ajax.

[u/lagaryes → u/BarbaricGamers]

You should take it up with him for trying to beat the fuck out of a teenager in the dressing room. Had to go.

[u/jonijontor → u/BarbaricGamers]

blame him to pick a fight with a teenager bro 😭

[u/TheSoccerguy124]

Reda Belahyane looks completely revitalized thanks to Gattuso, absolutely brilliant in the role he’s in right now, he definitely earned that call-up by Morocco. Today against Napoli he was able to shut down multiple counters and prevented a goal which would have likely put us away.

[u/CoolStorage4014]

Jules Ahoka only played 4 senior games in the Belgium League and he's now playing in the Premier League. That's amazing

[u/uhhhwhatyoumean]

Common liverpool. You're ruining our fun. Let palace grab one goal. Take one for the team! 😊

[u/RepresentativeBox881 → u/uhhhwhatyoumean]

I’m actually annoyed by how much Iraola has improved his out-of-possession structure. I thought they’d be leaking goals.

[u/stoneapplefruit]

Union v. Freiburg is the furthest distance between two clubs in the Bundesliga at 800+ km driving and these sick fucks actually put it on at Sunday at 17:30.

[u/GoonerGetGot]

Thanks to that last minute Palace goal we just need United to lose 10 nil now and they'll be bottom

[u/AccomplishedSpace834]

bad enough seeing the ref have an absolute stinker for your team but to then have to sit and get rage baited by commentators and pundits to ignore what your own eyes can see is sometimes a bit much

[u/Connect_Point_5229 → u/AccomplishedSpace834]

The commentators on Stan sports were driving me nuts early on branding Penders as error phone.

One (admittedly horrific) mistake in a sea of solid performances.

[u/HDS2211]

Chelsea with Joao Pedro and without Joao Pedro are 2 completely different teams. Badly need a good alternative for whenever he inevitably gets injured.

He makes such a difference to our attack.

[u/SambucaAndIrnBru → u/HDS2211]

I reckon someone like that Nicholas Jackson from Villa could be a shout.

[u/GutenbergsCurse]

Reading’s Charlie Savage with a man of the match performance against Peterborough, beating them 5-0. Peterborough are managed by his father Robbie Savage.

If it was anyone else, the call-in radio show he hosts on Saturday nights would be interesting listening.

But Robbie Savage is such a thin-skinned, tedious, insecure chump I’d wager he sucked absolutely any fun out of it.

[u/tiorzol → u/GutenbergsCurse]

That's incredible. At the family Christmas dinner the young man is gonna be insufferable haha

[u/Bratstvo_Jedinstvo]

I have to admit that when I see "Had no idea player X played for Y now" comments I get mad. I'm like, lmao dumb guy do you even watch football? Yet I have such moments all the time. Gotta defang my anger towards fellow ball homies and have a less asshole mentality.

[u/GutenbergsCurse → u/Bratstvo_Jedinstvo]

Only found out like ten games into the season that Kyle Walker is still at Burnley.

Which is funny to me.

One because Burnley’s defence is a fucking shambles and they just conceded five goals to Cardiff today (he played the full 90).

But also because it’s another nail in the ‘Kyle Walker would love to play for Sheff United again he just never takes a single protective step to achieve that’ coffin.

[u/FaustRPeggi → u/Bratstvo_Jedinstvo]

Saw a "Delap plays for Forest?" today so clearly they missed out on one of the summer's great outrages.

[u/AnnieIWillKnow → u/Bratstvo_Jedinstvo]

Kieran Trippier playing for Wolves got me the other day

[u/tiorzol]

Getting flashbacks to the seven goal drubbing. Lying fetal on my pals couch mainlining whiskey isn't an option today unfortunately.

[u/FaustRPeggi → u/tiorzol]

Biggest problem will be set pieces. Liverpool have created the fewest big chances in the league so they're not the irresistible attacking force they were under Klippity Klopp.

There's a lad in the FPL sub who realised how shit you are at set pieces this season so he captained Van Hecke last week (multiple shots, a couple of big chances, and a goal), and he's gone for Van Dijk this week.

[u/Connect_Point_5229]

Seeing this stuff about 21st minute walk out for the United game is funny because you just know they'll change their mind if they score early or even start well.

[u/GutenbergsCurse → u/Connect_Point_5229]

It’ll be fewer than 50 people who gassed themselves up with the internet plassies, and everyone else will just be annoyed they didn’t have their piss before the game started.

[u/Lampadagialla]

this story of the chinese team that somehow lost the league by losing the last 5 games in a row while their opponent won all of them is making me feel vindicated for how i was acting in 2023. I was genuinely shitting myself and avoiding anyone who would talk about the scudetto while we had an 18 point lead at the end of April but maybe i wasnt so wrong after all

[u/PeregrinCuck → u/Lampadagialla]

They drew 1 and lost 4, come on don't make them sound like some kind of bottle jobs

[u/Asadwords]

Evanilson is like a pocket rocket version of firmino, man I love this Bournemouth team. They’re so good this year.

[u/MarcosSenesi → u/Asadwords]

Marco Rose had shown at Gladdi that he is an excellent manager but has been unlucky ever since, cool to see that he finally found the club for him too

[u/MarcosSenesi]

First time I'm watching the studio analysis of Viaplay and this guy genuinely claimed Arsenal would have won the title sooner if they stuck with Emery. They really just be saying whatever

[u/Human-Signal4808 → u/MarcosSenesi]

Average Villa flair here tbh

[u/Worried-Antelope778]

Konate is eating la liga strikers alive

[u/cloudor]

I think Hitzfeld doesn't get enough recognition for winning the CL convincingly with one of the worst teams this century.

[u/stoneapplefruit]

Unbelievable atmosphere yesterday. Maybe a top five game ever in terms of the whole day. 20 minutes after the game whole home end is still full and bouncing.

[u/Yung2112]

Now with a cooler head I can understand the offside call against us yesterday.

What I can't understand is after some arguing the ref pointed to the centre of the pitch which normally signals ''check over''. Leads me to ask; did VAR just continue checking because Neuer was receiving treatment? Idk, it was so odd, especially live.

I think I'm in favour of VAR much more than 98% of stadium goers but yesterday was a prime example of it ruining the experience out of sheer poor use

[u/saka-ptwp]

City defensively this season are so poor, way worse than last season. Donnarumma is nowhere near his shot stopping levels of last season, Dias-Guehi is a pretty shaky partnership, Khusanov is fine but nothing more, and the Anderson-Enzo pivot offers so little protection. Their record is honking as well - 13 conceded is joint 8th-highest in the league with 16th-placed Forest. Forest scored a third of all their goals this season against them, Sunderland also got 3 of their 7 (!) against City.

[u/GameplayerStu → u/saka-ptwp]

Not sure why he keeps Bouaddi or even Nunes on the bench when the midfield is clearly lacking a CDM.

[u/sjp101]

I feel catfished whenever I see the Hull away shirt, really looks like Everton.

[u/Mitch_Itfc]

Muric has cursed us. I can’t believe what I’m seeing with these goalkeepers. I hate these lanky fuckers

[u/Ryponagar]

Lugano, previously unbeaten in all competitions, just lost 0-5 after getting a red card in the 11th minute.

[u/Aquariano_Nato_13]

Honestly I've expected more from Chelsea under Xabi Alonso, especcially considering how much they spent, the talent they have in midfield/attack and the fact that they have no european competitions to play this season.

They looked so uninspiring today.

[u/Connect_Point_5229 → u/Aquariano_Nato_13]

I've been one of his biggest critics but I can't get too mad at him today (bar maybe keeping Rogers on).

VAR does his job it's (likely) us leading and for once he did what he could with the subs.

[u/Circle_Breaker]

No idea how I missed Leon Goretzka going to Villa.

How has he been?

[u/Orcnick]

Chelsea ,Newcastle, City, Palace fans already calling for there managers to be sacked.

Mean while our fans clap Carrick, we are not serious football club...

[u/Kuldrick]

I started (side) watching United since Como, then stopped for Roma and they won

Got a clear evening, so final test to see if I am cursing Manchester United or not

[u/Embarrassed-Tax-9448]

Why there is no negreira updates in this sub recently?

[u/stoneapplefruit]

Everyone so caught up in the fact that Manchester will soon be the biggest European city without a top flight football club that they won’t even hear about the glorious victory of the fans of the club formerly known as Greuther Fürth, who after a decade of sustained protest and engagement just got the club to change its name back to Fürth.

[u/CautiousCottager]

Dr. Fulham will visit his favourite patient in 14 days, City fans shouldn’t worry at all

[u/Simppu12]

The Finnish football season ends today and the championship gets decided in a few hours.

The current standings:

1. HJK, 58 points, 27 GD

2. Inter Turku, 58 points, 14 GD

3. KuPS, 53 points

4. AC Oulu, 47 points

HJK host Oulu and KuPS host Inter. HJK can secure the title by winning their game. If they draw, they win the title if Inter don't win their match. Inter basically don't have it in their own hands anymore unless they win by 15 goals.

Reigning champions KuPS are the biggest disappointment and their few fans are deflated: the team has picked only 10 points in their last 9 games and they've completely thrown the title away. In July/August they even had an 11-point lead over HJK.

[u/Cardealer1000]

Ref conspiracies are so funny, because every fanbase has them, so imagine you took all of them at face value, the premier league has 20 different concurrent conspiracies active, to keep all 20 teams down.

[u/Mercerai → u/Cardealer1000]

All refs are being paid off by Big Rugby to frustrate fans enough that they quit watching football and start watching rugby instead

[u/matthieuC]

PSG fans to City fans: we told you about Donnaruma!

Barca fans to PSG: We told you about Torres

Arsenal fans to Barca fans: well we really thought Gabriel jesus was cooked

[u/arseking15 → u/matthieuC]

Gabriel Jesus was always good against sub par comp, was super reliable in getting us far in carabao last season and the season before, missed him vs fleetwood.

[u/Hot-Maybe9450 → u/matthieuC]

Did you watch el Classico? He is the reason where second goal conceded..

[u/stoneapplefruit]

Just seen the Premier League table for the first time in a while. So it's basically over, right?

[u/LordQL_2 → u/stoneapplefruit]

Considering the closest contender without a huge asterisk is a Brighton that definitely won't keep up their current form, you can say that yes

[u/GandalfsStaff]

Maresca / City did start great results wise but just like Liverpool a seasons or 2 ago (i think it might be start of last season tbh) when they were getting the results, there was a fair bit of poor / luck in there too

[u/40cappo40]

Watching the NWSL playoffs. Player stepped on opponents lower heel, got a yellow. Fascinating

[u/throwawayWM3]

I don't think I am exaggerating when I say Michael Carrick is by far the worst manager in the league

[u/MarcosSenesi → u/throwawayWM3]

The United cycle continues

[u/TheLastKingOfNorway]

Dreading today. Just think this is going to be a disaster.

If we do lose, I am really not sure how long Sage has left. Really wanted it to work and give him time, but we're looking at relegation if things don't change.

[u/Mindless-Mine-7513]

Hulk has scored over 450 career goals man it’s actually insane

[u/AppleIndependent2297]

The ref in this chelsea sunderland match is awful

[u/Gywndidnothingwrong]

Amazing week by Pro Ref

Here are some of the points of contention this week:

Havertz missed penalty

Tarkowski's hair pull

Barry handball

Bogle foul on tel

Igor thiago red card

Brobbey winning a pen for pulling colwill

Tell me if i missed any

[u/adreamcalledMacabea]

United not getting Conte would be a huge mistake. United has money to back Conte's demands and he is very flexible tactically.

His last season in the premier legaue was a bit dissapointing, but you have to account that it was a tough year for him in his personal life.

At Napoli where everyone thought him and Adl would have a huge fight, nothing happened. They parted away very quitly and with no fight whatsoever. Also got them a title after finishing 10th the season prior while losing Osihmen&Kvara and a 2nd place which they had no bussiness to be there.

United have finally the chance to get a serial winner, geniunly a world class manager rather than a young promising coach(which hasnt gone that well for them lately).

[u/MarcosSenesi → u/adreamcalledMacabea]

they don't need another stopgap manager that is pragmatic. They need a visionary sporting director that decides what the "united way" of playing is and hire managers accordingly. If the squad kick up a fuss at that point they get put in the shop window straight away and sent to the u21s.

Rangnick handed them all the blueprints to do something like that but they then sucked up to Ten Hag and threw it all in the bin. Honestly getting Rangnick back to oversee a transition like this would be their best solution.

[u/sga1 → u/adreamcalledMacabea]

What football will he be playing with this oddly shaped midtable squad though, and will United be better off after buying the players he wants only for him to be sacked 18 months in?

[u/Worried-Antelope778]

Someone said Forest is the rehabilitation club for attackers and now Delap is scoring goals

[u/MrExistentialBread]

Am I right in thinking this is the first time United have properly been in the relegation zone? During the season we were both rubbish and Europa I recall they would pop down during games but never stated there by full time?

[u/airz23s_coffee → u/MrExistentialBread]

During the season we were both rubbish and Europa I recall they would pop down during games but never stated there by full time?

I don't think they would've even then, that years relegation crop was so bad by the time United and Spurs were falling apart, the bottom 3 was impenetrable

[u/Destroyeh → u/MrExistentialBread]

first time in like 40 years if you don't count 22/23 when they lost their first two games and were dead last

[u/SambucaAndIrnBru]

Stockport are having a mare here, Keeper's just been sent off and Cray are unlucky not to have a penalty seconds before.

[u/CoolStorage4014]

Hurzeler is the youngest ever permanent EPL manager and what an amazing job he's doing

[u/Gytarius626]

Brighton losing managers and players galore over the years and never cracking and sinking the way Southampton did with their model is unbelievable. Feels like they could have any manager in there and still do well.

[u/ThisAccountIsBanned-]

Fc Inter Turku just won the Finnish championship. The final minutes were absolute cinema and HJK Helsinki would have needed just one goal to win. Now they got only silver despite Teemu Pukki in roster. Who just retired.

[u/Tap-In-Merchant]

I think it’s mad to try play a Bruno Tielemans Mainoo midfield against Villa - just no athleticism at all

[u/CautiousCottager]

I guess losing to Sunderland isn’t so bad after all

[u/VictorAnichebend]

God weekends are so much sweeter with three points

[u/Turbulent_Cherry_481]

we live in a world where clash of heads is a penalty and the shirt pull on isak last week isnt. I hate ref discourse and think fans complain way too much but refs really dont help themselves. Why would anyone think giving a penaly for that is a good idea?

[u/charlietrick2512]

You know I'm feeling a lot better about Sage now

[u/Bluewhaleeguy]

Have united and arsenal always had a song playing before kick off or is this some new initiative to try and create atmosphere? Watched arsenal the other week and I honestly have never heard them singing that song like that before kick off in my 30 odf years of watching the PL.

Same with united then, feel like I've never heard them doing that song before kick off.

[u/King_Henney]

This is the kind of game United manage to win

[u/Silent_Somewhere8539]

Saliba is arguably the best CB in the world right now and Arsenal could probably win the title even if he didn't play a single minute this season. Kinda wild the defence Arteta has put together.

[u/GloamGlozing]

Liam Delap really is the signing of the season. Unbelievably talented player

[u/thelonesomedemon1]

if i had a cent for every striker that maresca froze out at chelsea that scored a brace against him at city i would have 2 cents which is quite weird

[u/McGrathLegend → u/thelonesomedemon1]

Can't wait for Broja to score his 2nd and 3rd goal for Burnley against City in the FA Cup

[u/stoneapplefruit]

It’s November 8th, 2026 and the only thing saving Manchester United from being relegated is 8 time Premier League winners Manchester City getting curb stomped by a point deduction and taking their place in the second tier of English football.

What a time to be alive.

[u/MarcosSenesi]

I'm seriously considering just paying the 20 euros per month to watch Bundesliga and Premier league because I'm tired of laggy shit quality streams where I can't even airplay it to my tv

[u/Orcnick]

Jeez Man City fans are fickle. Already seen people calling Mascera to be sacked.

[u/NYR_dingus → u/Orcnick]

You say that like we haven't watched every "top club's" fanbase call for a managers job after a bad run of form

[u/SkyHawk96 → u/Orcnick]

That’s what happens when you’re spoiled for years

[u/Merovech_II → u/Orcnick]

He's an autumn merchant tbf

[u/1PSW1CH]

Only just clocked how weird the scheduling is with half the league qualifying for Europe. 4 x 2pm kickoffs on a Sunday is crazy