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  1. Birdy

    CL Round: Newcastle - Barca 1-2

    Fair-er than the previous for sure. Still not 100% fair. Why should any team that eliminates a higher-ranked one 'take over' its home advantage? Sounds super unfair, and inspired mainly by PSG last season who finished much lower in the league phase than where they should. It's only fair for...
  2. Birdy

    9 - Robert Lewandowski

    He can turn into a GREAT subersub this season, if he understand and accepts that role. We saw that already yesterday. He can be important versus tired legs, with less need to press, in the last 15' of a game
  3. Birdy

    14 - Marcus Rashford

    Agree in general. The thing he def. needs to learn is where and when to move, relative to the movements of his teammates. That bit is lacking, and is what makes all the difference. If he manages that, he will find himself in positions to score a lot
  4. Birdy

    La Liga 25/26

    Madrid are not like last season. Will not waste points here and there. We need to become serious and find ways to win all or almost all games against the mid and lower LL teams
  5. Birdy

    La Liga 25/26

    Miliato was in line the exact moment the foul takes place, and he is much faster than Oyarzabal, let alone he did not have to run with the ball. 0 chance Oyarzabal would have gotten 1v1 with the keeper after this. Remove your biases, and try to be impartial
  6. Birdy

    La Liga 25/26

    Manzano butchered Madrid there. Oyarzabal was NOT the last man If that was given against Barca, you will be screaming here. Try to be impartial in your life As for the game, Sociedad is not what they used to be under Imanol. we should also thrash them later in the month. But Madrid looks...
  7. Birdy

    Champions League 25/26

    It's about collective and how we/they play. Newcastle are tailor-made to create problems to better teams like Barca. Some months ago they won a final against Pool.
  8. Birdy

    Champions League 25/26

    Last season we had only 1 super difficult game on paper (Bayern H) and 3 tricky ones (Benfica A, BvB A, Atalanta H) This season, it's harder and reversed: 3 very difficult (Newcastle A, Chelsea A, PSG H), and 1 tricky (Brugges A) I see a defeat in the 1st game at St James Park (many reasons...
  9. Birdy

    Premier League 25/26

    Liverpool have actually lower net spent than Arsenal this summer, because they sold a lot. Plus, they spent close to 0 last summer, so there is nothing scandalous there. Actually, Arsenal have a quite HIGH net spent the last 5 years or so, where Liverpool is relatively low:
  10. Birdy

    Hans-Dieter Flick

    Say that again. First and foremost, Lamine tonight who was horrible.
  11. Birdy

    Barca kits (new 2025-2026)

    21/22 was special and unique, and I like the idea of having a dedicated 'European' kit. Although I want it to be more close in terms of design to the 'domestic' home kit. As for the rest, all of them were trash IMO. Even though 19/20, 23/24 (turqoise) and 25/26 (orange) use colors that are part...
  12. Birdy

    Premier League 25/26

    Have to say that Arteta up to 22/23 was building a fascinating attacking minded team on the footsteps of Pep. But since 2023, and up to now, he reverted to a 'safe-pass' machine that, even though effective, is boring as hell to watch... Let's see what the exciting teams will be this season in...
  13. Birdy

    Champions League 25/26

    Projected CL league phase draw pots are clear after the 1st legs Despite the coefficient system being not bad in determining relative strength of teams, it still messes up several pots. For instance, Arsenal should def. be in pot1 among the 9 strongest teams, and BvB has no business there...
  14. Birdy

    Barca kits (new 2025-2026)

    Return to orange, one classic and traditional Barca color for away kits, is potitive! But the 'total 90' design is awful: streamlined and simplistic, with really bad accent color and matchup with main color The home kit is super meh, with blue dominating as with the worst versions of home kits...
  15. Birdy

    Barca kits (new 2025-2026)

    official version is all orange the navy shorts are given as alternate
  16. Birdy

    Barca kits (new 2025-2026)

    Still struggling to comprehend the reason LL prohibited this kit against LEvante. There is no single clash in there in all shirt, shorts, socks...
  17. Birdy

    Premier League 25/26

    Yup. His problem is definitely NOT the big games... But last season the countless draws against midtable sides dropped them out of the title race early
  18. Birdy

    Premier League 25/26

    City have much more ground to cover to get the title this season. It will be between Pool and Arsenal IMO, and is still unclear who will get the advantage
  19. Birdy

    Premier League 25/26

    I am amazed at Mbeumo Knew he was good from what I have seen at Brendfort. Never imagined he would be THAT good when jumping to the next tier...
  20. Birdy

    Premier League 25/26

    Need both fullbacks/wingbacks Huge holes there

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