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Paul Hemmings wrote:

Champions Cup - Group Stages - Round One of Six.

Charlton 4 Barcelona 1
InterMilan 2 Benfica 1

Plymouth 3 RealMadrid 3
Ajax 7 PSV 0

Chelsea 4 Schalke 4
Napoli 5 Porto 0

Watford 3 Bayern 0
Paris 6 ManCity 6

, this game.....

Europa Cup

Bohemians 2 Sevilla 2
Gornik 1 Rangers 1

Nantes 6 Mechelen 0
ManUnited 3 Celtic 2

Atletico 3 Arsenal 3
Etienne 2 Feyenoord 3

ACMilan 3 Liverpool 0
Monaco 2 Alkmaar 1

Copa Libertadores

Santos 8 Barselona 0
RiverPlate 3 Amexica 0

Fluminense 3 SaoPaulo 1
Argentinos 1 Estudiantes 4

Botafogo 4 Vasco 2
Corinthians 1 Cruzeiro 2

Independente 3 Flamengo 0
Boca 0 Penarol 1

Confederations Cup

Dallas 3 Tampa 0
Chiefs 0 Houston 0

Chicago 4 Mamelodi 2
Washington 0 Nashville 1

NewYork 1 Cosmos 1
CapeAjax 3 Sydney 2

Kansas 3 Wollongong 0
Harrisburg 8 Galaxy 1

European Cup

Villa 2 Frankfurt 0
Salzburg 0 RealBetis 3

Lazio 2 Cologne 3
Genk 3 Brondby 1

Wolfsburg 5 Hamburg 0
Inverness 0 CorkCity 1

Espanol 2 Vitesse 0
Viking 0 Leverkusen 1

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Champions Cup - Group Stages - Round One of Six.

Charlton 4 Barcelona 1
InterMilan 2 Benfica 1

Plymouth 3 RealMadrid 3
Ajax 7 PSV 0

Chelsea 4 Schalke 4
Napoli 5 Porto 0

Watford 3 Bayern 0
Paris 6 ManCity 6

3-3 isn't the worst result against arguably the in-inform team in CF atm. Need to see the impact of Odegaard starting the game and whether thats the correct switch for the CL. Though no doubt impacted by a change in tactic from the last cup game from last season!

Atletico play out a topsy turvey against Arsenal and pleased Independiente managed to get off to a winning start.

Need to see how Juventus got on though....

Just when you think all is lost, four big cup wins, as welcome as they are just add to the confusion! 

Absolutely delighted with Chelsea this week, had enough chances to bury Fulham last turn but this turn we turned it into goals, it’s unusual my CF scored goal so to get two this week I’m buzzing!
I’ll take a 4-4 draw at home to Schalke as I had that down for a defeat.

Braga seem to have a habit of going two goals up against the Portuguese big boys and then folding like a wet flannel

Bate win again

Premiership

Plymouth 6 +6
Spurs 6 +5
ManCity 6 +4
Chelsea 4 +2

A great start for the Pilgrims as they seem to have found a way forward that gives all their myriad of stars a chance to shine. Promoted Tottenham doing very well this week at Watford. ManCity in their usual top three slot and Chelsea looking to challenge following a fine win away from home this week. A very different looking early season table when compared the last season's, could be very interesting...

Tom@Charlton wrote:

Just when you think all is lost, four big cup wins, as welcome as they are just add to the confusion! 

Different negative impacts in the league vs the cups...

Bundesliga

Schalke 6 +5
Karlsruhe 6 +2
Gladbach 4 +4
Stuttgart 4 +2
Cologne 4 +1

Schalke off to a flying start is good news for their fans but for the bottom club Bayern their fans are livid...

La Liga

Atletico 6 +7
RealMadrid 4 +5
Barcelona 4 +1 Champions
Valencia 4 +1

Yet to concede a league goal as Atletico go top early doors must be pleasing for the boss as two of his teams sit top of their respective leagues. The new look Real Madrid looked fantastic this week with Mainoo in great form already. Only two goals for Barca so far probably not good enough ? But a very long way to go and time for things to improve...

bbiab...

Excellent win against champs Wolfsburg and a 4-4 draw v chelsea (probably went a bit too gung-ho in that one - lesson learnt, probably).

I suspect Wolfsburg are suffering from being 'champs' - although, I was quite happy with my tactics in this one - seem to have worked.

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Excellent win against champs Wolfsburg and a 4-4 draw v chelsea (probably went a bit too gung-ho in that one - lesson learnt, probably).

I suspect Wolfsburg are suffering from being 'champs' - although, I was quite happy with my tactics in this one - seem to have worked.

6 up front?

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Andy@Schalke wrote:

Excellent win against champs Wolfsburg and a 4-4 draw v chelsea (probably went a bit too gung-ho in that one - lesson learnt, probably).

I suspect Wolfsburg are suffering from being 'champs' - although, I was quite happy with my tactics in this one - seem to have worked.

6 up front?

2 at the back (ish)!

Ben@Plymouth wrote:

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Champions Cup - Group Stages - Round One of Six.

Charlton 4 Barcelona 1
InterMilan 2 Benfica 1

Plymouth 3 RealMadrid 3
Ajax 7 PSV 0

Chelsea 4 Schalke 4
Napoli 5 Porto 0

Watford 3 Bayern 0
Paris 6 ManCity 6

3-3 isn't the worst result against arguably the in-inform team in CF atm. Need to see the impact of Odegaard starting the game and whether thats the correct switch for the CL. Though no doubt impacted by a change in tactic from the last cup game from last season!

Atletico play out a topsy turvey against Arsenal and pleased Independiente managed to get off to a winning start.

Need to see how Juventus got on though....

Not gonna complain about a draw away considering I think I lost every pre season game against Plymouth, 9 changes to the league team too with a few debuts so happy days.

Transfers now...

Leeds United were the big movers this week...

Leeds spend £105millions on Bristol City's Gustavo Hamer.
Leeds spend £105million on Wolves' Morgan Gibbs-White.
Leeds but Mateus Tete from Benfica for £70millions.
Leeds sell Pierre Hojberg to Villa for £65millions.
Leeds sign Jeremiah Chilokoa from Liverpool for £25millions.
Leeds sell Crysencio Summerville to Watford for £65millions.

other deals saw...

Vitinha Ferreira move to Chelsea for £70millions from Coventry.
Ederson Da Silva left Atalanta and joined Botafogo for £65millions.
Villa also sign Antony Dos Santos from Ajax for £65millions.
Watford also sign Rayan Ait-Nouri from Villa for £60millions.
Villa then sold Ross Barkley to Westham for £38millions.
Stoke grabbed Marcos Alonso from Chelsea for £15millions.

Chelsea won the race to sign youngster Tyrique George from Crewe.

plus plenty of other deals all detailed on this week's TP special action report...

Coaching now...

Wonder if there’s any football on TV later? Hard being a Northern Ireland fan during the summer.

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Leeds United were the big movers this week...

Leeds spend £105millions on Bristol City's Gustavo Hamer.
Leeds spend £105million on Wolves' Morgan Gibbs-White.
Leeds but Mateus Tete from Benfica for £70millions.
Leeds sell Pierre Hojberg to Villa for £65millions.
Leeds sign Jeremiah Chilokoa from Liverpool for £25millions.
Leeds sell Crysencio Summerville to Watford for £65millions.

other deals saw...

Vitinha Ferreira move to Chelsea for £70millions from Coventry.
Ederson Da Silva left Atalanta and joined Botafogo for £65millions.
Villa also sign Antony Dos Santos from Ajax for £65millions.
Watford also sign Rayan Ait-Nouri from Villa for £60millions.
Villa then sold Ross Barkley to Westham for £38millions.
Stoke grabbed Marcos Alonso from Chelsea for £15millions.

Chelsea won the race to sign youngster Tyrique George from Crewe.

plus plenty of other deals all detailed on this week's TP special action report...

Watford continue to strengthen there squad. But can they figure there best XI out.... 

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Wonder if there’s any football on TV later? Hard being a Northern Ireland fan during the summer.

You’d think supporting England was fun…. It isn’t, but we do get to moan how we’d win any major tournament if we we were manager every two year to inevitably go out at the quarter final stage ( normally on penalties)

gary@chelsea wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Wonder if there’s any football on TV later? Hard being a Northern Ireland fan during the summer.

You’d think supporting England was fun…. It isn’t, but we do get to moan how we’d win any major tournament if we we were manager every two year to inevitably go out at the quarter final stage ( normally on penalties)

Looking forward to 5pm!!

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

gary@chelsea wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Wonder if there’s any football on TV later? Hard being a Northern Ireland fan during the summer.

You’d think supporting England was fun…. It isn’t, but we do get to moan how we’d win any major tournament if we we were manager every two year to inevitably go out at the quarter final stage ( normally on penalties)

Looking forward to 5pm!!

It was a tough watch

gary@chelsea wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

gary@chelsea wrote:

Rob@Barcelona wrote:

Wonder if there’s any football on TV later? Hard being a Northern Ireland fan during the summer.

You’d think supporting England was fun…. It isn’t, but we do get to moan how we’d win any major tournament if we we were manager every two year to inevitably go out at the quarter final stage ( normally on penalties)

Looking forward to 5pm!!

It was a tough watch

Van Gaal's Man Utd played more exciting football, that's how bad it was