Club World Cup

[soul24rage]

Inter Miami playing better in the 2nd half

 

[FinBarcelonafan]

Inter Miami playing better in the 2nd half

*Messi is playing better in the 2nd half

But yes they look better.

 

[soul24rage]

Messi almost scored a Puskas goal.

 

[Maradona37]

So many amazing chances saved. Could have been 4 4

 

[soul24rage]

One of the best 0-0 games this year.

What a start for this tournament.

 

[vegitot]

Messi almost scored a Puskas goal.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1934069691254964635

 

[Maradona37]

So today we have (I will try to do local times but apologies if they're wrong).

Bayern-Auckland City: 12pm Eastern Time (5pm UK/6pm central Europe). In Ohio. It will likely be hot and likely a destruction by Bayern.

PSG-Atletico: 12pm Pacific Time (8 pm UK/9pm central Europe). In the Rose Bowl in California. One of the most competitive games of the group stage, as both teams are strong European sides.

Palmeiras-Porto: 6pm Eastern Time (11pm UK/midnight central Europe). Played in the venue for the final (MetLife Stadium in New Jersey), and indeed next year's WC Final. Should be an interesting game between a pretty good South American side and a good but obviously not one of the not elite European side.

Botafogo-Seattle Sounders: 7pm Pacific Time (3 am UK/4am central Europe) Lumen Field. Very late kick off for us in Europe and many of us will be asleep by then. The Sounders are really the only team in the tournament with true home advantage as I believe they're playing all three group games in their own stadium. Apparently they are usually good defensively but have shipped a few more goals in recent games. Botafogo like Palmeiras a good Brazilian team and could cause problems.

PSG-Atletico obviously the pick of the bunch but wouldn't be surprising if the two later games played in the evening are better to watch because of the scorching heat in California at noon. PSG especially rely on pace and speed in their attacks so be interesting to see if the noon kick off sabotages their game a bit. Maybe not but we will see. Obviously that game has been optimised for European audiences, time-wise.

 

[MonteCuler]

Bayern’s opponents, Auckland City FC, do not have their full squad available as some players have declined to participate in the Club World Cup due to the majority of the team's players working part-time jobs from 9am-5pm.

They're a semi-professional club from New Zealand. It's not happening but imagine they actually pull off a result, what an embarrassment for Bayern it would be.

 

[Maradona37]

Bayern’s opponents, Auckland City FC, do not have their full squad available as some players have declined to participate in the Club World Cup due to the majority of the team's players working part-time jobs from 9am-5pm.

They're a semi-professional club from New Zealand. It's not happening but imagine they actually pull off a result, what an embarrassment for Bayern it would be.

Like I said yesterday, it could be another Spain Tahiti scenario.

I think Auckland are like 35/1 to win. Even that seems stingy lol.

 

[jamrock]

How is Chelsea here but not Liverpool? They've been to 2 finals recently?

No

Barca
Liverpool
Arsenal
Man Utd
AC Milan

That's half the big team in Europe, no one they'll expand it next time

 

[khaled_a_d]

How is Chelsea here but not Liverpool? They've been to 2 finals recently?

No

Barca
Liverpool
Arsenal
Man Utd
AC Milan

That's half the big team in Europe, no one they'll expand it next time

If I understand correctly (very possible I don't) the 4 winners of CL from each continent qualify regardless of any other thing.

From Europe, that is Real, along City and Chelsea.

Europe has additional seats, but no league can get more that 2 seats unless it is through winning CL. So, had Liverpool won in 2022, that was the only scenario they would have qualified.

 

[Maradona37]

If I understand correctly (very possible I don't) the 4 winners of CL from each continent qualify regardless of any other thing.

From Europe, that is Real, along City and Chelsea.

Europe has additional seats, but no league can get more that 2 seats unless it is through winning CL. So, had Liverpool won in 2022, that was the only scenario they would have qualified.

Yeah that's correct I think.

Here is more info

• CONMEBOL and UEFA (more than four slots): access for the winners of the confederation's top club competition between 2021 and 2024, with additional teams to be determined by a club ranking of the four-year period.[20]
• AFC, CAF, and CONCACAF (four slots each): access for the winners of the confederation's top club competition between 2021 and 2024.[20][note 1]
• OFC (one slot): access for the highest-ranked club among the winners of the confederation's top club competition between 2021 and 2024.[20][note 2]
• Host country (one slot): this was determined at a later stage.

 

[Maradona37]

How is Chelsea here but not Liverpool? They've been to 2 finals recently?

No

Barca
Liverpool
Arsenal
Man Utd
AC Milan

That's half the big team in Europe, no one they'll expand it next time

Chelsea are there by virtue of winning it in 2021.

 

[Maradona37]

Apparently Bayern to win by more than 9 goals and a Kane hat-trick is 35/1 or so. Might be worth a going.

Or maybe Auckland City can surprise us?

 

[serghei]

Only interesting thing in this competition is to see some big South American clubs like Boca Juniors, River, Flamengo, take over European teams in the knockout phase.