World Football(Soccer) Thread: UCL, EPL, La Liga, Italy, International

[Kimbo]

Really good games coming up in the English Premier League, La Liga, EUFA Champions League, Europa, Italy Serie A, MLS, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Concacaf Gold Cup and Copa Libertadoes, Concacaf Champions League.

World Cup Qualifiers !!!

Please post comments, games info and let's have some fun with the World's Sport!!


To find out which TV Channels the games will be on check this link:


http://www.livesoccertv.com/schedules/

[Kimbo]

Watching this on Fox Sports 1, should be a good game

3:45pm Chelsea vs Manchester United

[Kimbo]

Two BS yellow cards and now MU is down to 10 men, Mourinho and Conte fighting in the sidelines.

[Kimbo]

David Beckham in the stands, Chelsea scores.

[Kimbo]

Chelsea wins (barely) against a tired team and Mourinho got into to Conte's head. Too bad the referee played a roll in the outcome.

FA Semifinals

Chelsea vs Tottenham

Arsenal vs Manchester City

[Kimbo]

UEFA Champions Quaterfinals draw, it is going to be great :)

Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich

Leicester City vs Atletico Madrid

Borussia Dortmund vs Monaco

Juventus vs Barcelona

[Kimbo]

West Brom 3-1 Arsenal, Wenger should start packing his bags!!!

[theuduk]

Last hope for Wenger is the FA Cup semi against Man city then the final, if Arsenal can win cup it might keep Wenger safe for another season, but his time has been coming for a few years.

[Kimbo]

Welcome back Theuduk, and yes i agree his time is running out!!

[Kimbo]

Impressive win by Manchester U, given that they seem to be playing every 3 days or so. Watching now Liverpool vs Manchester City!! and later today Barcelona plays!!

[Kimbo]

Barcelona wins, Messi shows why he is the best in the world. Now next week World Cup Qualifiers......

[Kimbo]

World Cup qualifying today, very good games today:

4:30pm Colombia vs Bolivia
7:00pm Paraguay vs Ecuador
7:00pm Uruguay vs Brazil
7:30pm Argentina vs Chile
7:30pm Venezuela vs Peru

All eastern times, enjoy!!!

[ilan]

I haven't kept up. If you were going to choose one to watch, which match would it be?

[Kimbo]

I'm watching the Argentina vs Chile which is a rematch of the Copa America Centenario and the one the Messi retired (temporary) after the loss. But the Brazil vs Uruguay game will also be good!!

[ilan]

Thanks, man... I will keep them on the top of my mind.

[Kimbo]

Good games last night, Today's games:

7:00pm Trinidad and Tobago vs Panama
8:50pm Mexico vs Costa Rica
10:50pm USA vs Honduras

All Eastern US times!!

[ilan]

Thanks for the update, Laser. It's appreciated!

[Kimbo]

USA trashed Honduras last night it was a goalfest 6-0, here is today line up

1:00pm Sweden vs Belarus
1:00pm Andorra vs Faroe Islands
1:00pm Switzerland vs Latvia
1:00pm Cyprus vs Estonia
1:00pm Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Gibraltar
3:45pm Bulgaria vs Netherlands
3:45pm Luxembourg vs France
3:45pm Portugal vs Hungary
3:45pm Belgium vs Greece

All eastern US times!!

[dara]

Pulisic is the real deal!

[Kimbo]

Bruce Arena was not bad either!!

[Kimbo]

Here are today's games:

12:00pm Azerbaijan vs Germany
12:00pm San Marino vs Czech Republic
12:00pm Armenia vs Kazakhstan
12:00pm England vs Lithuania
2:45pm Montenegro vs Poland
2:45pm Romania vs Denmark
2:45pm Malta vs Slovakia
2:45pm Scotland vs Slovenia
2:45pm Northern Ireland vs Norway

[Kimbo]

Todays games -

Friendlies

2:45pm Austria vs Finland
2:45pm Netherlands vs Italy
2:45pm Ireland Republic vs Iceland
2:45pm Portugal vs Sweden
3:00pm France vs Spain

World Cup Qualifiers

4:00pm Bolivia vs Argentina
5:00pm Ecuador vs Colombia
5:00pm Honduras vs Costa Rica
6:00pm Chile vs Venezuela
7:00pm Trinidad and Tobago vs Mexico
8:45pm Brazil vs Paraguay
10:00pm Panama vs USA
10:15pm Peru vs Uruguay

All US Eastern Times, enjoy!!!

[300turboz]

Channels ? Disregard fox sports 1

[Kimbo]

FIFA bans Messi for 4 games verbally abusing a referee (sideline) and is reportedly not playing against Bolivia. WOW

[dara]

FIFA bans Messi for 4 games verbally abusing a referee (sideline) and is reportedly not playing against Bolivia. WOW

Really? At least there is no favoritism for the best player in the world.

[Kimbo]

The good news is that he will be rested :)

[dara]

USA v. Panama is on BeIn Sports, or Telemundo.

[Kimbo]

Even thought it was a tie it was a good game. Also Messi was used has an example, if every player got those sanctions there would not be enough players to play a game, he got more games that some players get from extreme fouls committed on the pitch.

[Kimbo]

Chelsea loses, Liverpool wins and Manchester U ties...some good games coming tomorrow!!

[Kimbo]

Games to watch today:

11:00am Arsenal vs Manchester City

2:45pm Napoli vs Juventus

10:15am Real Madrid vs Deportivo Alavés

12:30pm Valencia vs Deportivo La Coruña

2:45pm Granada vs Barcelona

[theuduk]

Today my old home team Crystal Palace beat Arsenal by a score of 3-0, it was a sad showing by the gunners despite having lolts of posession
they mainly passed sideways, back and occasionly forward but seldom looked like scoring, Palace on the other hand looked dangerous when they
managed to get the ball, what is next for A.Wenger?

[Kimbo]

The leadership of Arsenal is showing that they are either weak or unwilling to move on from Wenger, we all know that their best player Sanchez has no plans to resign!!

[Kimbo]

Right now

Europe - UEFA Champions League

2:45pm Borussia Dortmund vs Monaco
2:45pm Juventus vs Barcelona

[Kimbo]

What a save by Buffon!!

[Kimbo]

Luis Enrique and A. Wenger should book a vacation together and save money!!

[Kimbo]

UEFA Champions League

2:45pm Atlético Madrid vs Leicester City
2:45pm Bayern München vs Real Madrid

[Kimbo]

Manchester U 1-0 Chelsea, good game so far!!

[ilan]

Watching RSox...then to Celtics.

[Kimbo]

Can Barca come back from a 0-3 aggregate? we will see

2:45pm Barcelona vs Juventus
2:45pm Monaco vs Borussia Dortmund

Good games!!

[Kimbo]

Bye bye Barcelona!!

[dara]

Three goals is a lot to overcome, even at home.

Looks like out of the final 4, RM should repeat as the UEFA Champions Cup winner.

[Kimbo]

I'm rooting for Juventus, but Real Madrid are definitely the favorites.

[Kimbo]

El Clasico today

2:45pm Real Madrid vs Barcelona - beIN SPORTS, Sky Sports

Real Madrid is the favorite to win it all.

Watching Arsenal winning barely against Manchester City!!

[Kimbo]

What a goal by Messi, 1-1 so far. Bale is out hurt again!!

[dara]

Some great goal keeping in this game, but Ronaldo was very close.

[dara]

Perfect shot by Rakitic.

[Kimbo]

This is game World class soccer looks like

[Kimbo]

Ramos getting a red card......wow just wow

[Kimbo]

Navas has kept Real Madrid in the game!!

[dara]

james!!!!!!!

[Kimbo]

Great substitution by Zindane!!

[dara]

Messi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dara]

What a game. Messi pulls the heart out of RM.

[Kimbo]

you could not write this if you dreamed it, Messi the best ever!!!

[Kimbo]

Glad i PVR it, this gone for the history books!!

[dara]

I can't write in words what I thought of that game, other than fantasitic, especially after watching Barca vs. Juventis.

[Kimbo]

I can't write in words what I thought of that game, other than fantasitic, especially after watching Barca vs. Juventis.

I agree, people screaming and crying....and that's just in my house

[Kimbo]

UEFA Champions League

2:45pm Real Madrid vs Atlético Madrid Fox Sports 1, Fox Deportes, Fox SportsGO

Good game today!!

[Kimbo]

CR7 came to play yesterday and today:

UEFA Champions League
2:45pm Monaco vs Juventus ESPN Deportes, Fox Sports 1, Foxtogo

[Kimbo]

Liverpool game was good even thought it ended 0-0, watching ManU vs Arsenal so far a tight game.

[Kimbo]

Good games today:

England - FA Cup

12:30pm Arsenal vs Chelsea *FA Cup Final

Spain - Copa del Rey

3:30pm Barcelona vs Deportivo Alavés *Copa del Rey Final

[dara]

The Portugal-Chile semi match in the Confederations Cup is very entertaining... lots of close calls, but relatively clean play. 0-0 at 74'

[dara]

Wow... game went to Penalties, and Chile's Bravo stopped 3 in a row... never seen that.

[Kimbo]

Penalto never got to shoot on penalties!!

[dara]

Penalto never got to shoot on penalties!!

Yeah... he was getting raked on twitter about it. Just remember, Messi blew his penalty against Chile. But at least he had a chance. If you are the best in the world, you either lead off, or you end, but they didn't account for Bravo guessing right 3 times in a row.

I don't understand why there is any underestimation of Chile. They win big tournaments.

[dara]

Dos a cero, 9'

Could be a rout.

[dara]

Well not a complete rout. 4-1 Germany. Mexico gets its sole goal on a golazo by Marco Fabian, but at 89', then Germany returned the favor in stoppage. Mexico was close a number of times, but that only counts in horseshoes.

[dara]

USA-Ghana... Dom Dwyer, new American (ex-Brit), scores at 19' in his first game for the USMNT.

Kellyn Acosta adds another @ 52' off a free kick... right outside the box.

Ghana's Gyan answers with a golazo @60'

Ends that way, and first-timers looked good. Gold Cup starts 7 July.

[Kimbo]

Final is tomorrow

[Kimbo]

Arsenal vs Leicester City 1-1 with just 5 minutes,,,,,good game!!

[Kimbo]

Watching Barcelona vs Real Madrid 0-0 so far an exciting game!!

[dara]

Ronaldo. ...

But he gets a second yellow for a dive.

[Kimbo]

Ronaldo diving???? but he never dives :p and shoving the referee should get him a few game off too

[Kimbo]

6 games suspension to Ronaldo for sexually harrassing the referee!!

[dara]

Watched a perfect pass by Christian Pulisic setting up a score for Dortmund in the Bundesliga. He's going to be an international superstar... the one who was promised for the USA.

[dara]

USA-Costa Rica WC Qualifier tonight! ESPN at 6:30pm Eastern.

[Kimbo]

What a game, it looked like Costa Rica had a home game. Who picked New Jersey which has the largest Costa Rican comunity in the US to be the venue? serious

[dara]

This turns Tuesday's match @Honduras as a must win.

[ilan]

Sad they got blanked. Tough loss.

[Kimbo]

Good games this week coming up!!

[dara]

USA wins big against Panama, so they continue to control their destiny for the World Cup qual against @T&T (who has been horrendous). Meanwhile in CONMEBOL Argentina is currently out of the World Cup, basically needing a win against @Ecuador in altitude just to guarantee a playoff with New Zealand or get help from other teams to automatically qualify.

[dara]

D'oh! USMNT out of the World Cup. Argentina gets in, but Chile is out! Peru is on to the playoff instead.

The USMNT is just embarrassing... I'm glad they aren't representing the country, but I did want to see Pulisic get some WC time.

[Kimbo]

Arsenal looked overwhelm by Manchester City, Wenger is the Teflon Don....Tight game between Chelsea vs MU!!!

[Kimbo]

The repechage is here:

World Cup Qualifying

14:45 Croatia vs Greece
14:45 Northern Ireland vs Switzerland

Both good games!!!

[Kimbo]

ITALY eliminated from the World Cup.....WOW!!! Congratulations Sweden....I feel so bad for Buffon!!!

[Kimbo]

Italy coach should be fired and the entire Italy team except buffon should never wear the National colors!!

[dara]

Wow... I thought the USMNT not making it was a shock, but Italy must be inconsolable. Mama Mia!

[Kimbo]

It has not sunk in, Italy will not be in a World Cup......eliminated by Sweden, hell ICELAND freaking ICELAND is going to the World Cup for crying out loud!!

[Kimbo]

Good game today!!!

12:30pm Arsenal vs Manchester United

[Kimbo]

What a game, back and forth......definetely a game of the year contender!!

[theuduk]

Was a cracking game Man utd goalkeeper made the difference, expect Real Madrid to come calling for him again.

[Kimbo]

How is it that Wenger still coaching Arsenal befuddles me

[theuduk]

Arsenal suffered one of the worst defeats of Arsene Wenger's time as manager
he will surely hope the team does better in the upcoming games.
He is currently serving a three match ban but must be held responsible for the team preparation.
Will be more calls for a change at Arsenal.

Notts Forest 4 Arsenal 2

[Kimbo]

Countinho to Barcelona and Sanchez to Manchester City....Maybe Dimaria to Barcelona!!

[theuduk]

How is it that Wenger still coaching Arsenal befuddles me

Well wenger resigned a few years late according to some

[Kimbo]

I agree a few years too late, was living on past success but definetely looking forward to see who they hire!!

[Kimbo]

Good game today:

14:45 Bayern München vs Real Madrid

EUFA Semi Final

[Kimbo]

Italy vs France right now on ESPN3 and ESPN Deportes!!!Good game to watch!!

[Kimbo]

Okay France might have a much better team, but it is hard to see that Italy's football talent has diminish so much!!!It will be a new experience for me to see Italy not to be in the World Cup this year but if they dont get their act together then I dont see them being the super power that it once was :(

[ilan]

I'm sitting outside. I should go inside and check this out. The planned afternoon, after cutting some limbs, some bushes and doing some weed whacking, was to suck down a couple of Coronas. The "suck down" process has gone better than anticipated: I'm 7 beers in and feel too relaxed to move my butt inside. I am surprised dara hasn't given us something to think about. You guys know waaaaay more about this stuff than yours truly.

[dara]

Moi? I don't even have a favorite for the World Cup yet. I guess its going to be Germany yet again to win, but it would be nice to see Messi get there.

[ilan]

It would be nice to see Argentina exercise some muscle, but I don't have anything against Germany. Germany is a well-polished macine.

[Kimbo]

I will probably do a poll right before the world cup, but i think Germany is the odds on favorite, all German teams are very discipline. physical and they have an unit that plays together more because most of their players play in the German League (Bundesliga) all year around which i always considered a huge advantage. After i would go Brazil and France with Argentina also having a chance if they can be more cohisive and find someone besides Messi and Dimaria to score goals because Huguain cant seem to score with the National Team on a consistent basis.

[dara]

Cristiano Ronaldo leaving Real Madrid, will transfer to Juventus. I don't know too much about his tax situation and sentencing, but that has to be part of the reason for leaving.

[Marley]

well were all wrong the best sucked azz now its not one player its a team that wins as you can see

[dara]

The bad thing about this is that "El Classico" won't be as hype as it has been.

[dara]

Watching International Champions Cup, essentially pre-season games... Tottenham blasting Roma without Harry Kane in the first half. Earlier Dortmund blew a 2-0 lead and lost to Benfica in penalties... Dortmund had a chance to wrap up the cup with that clean sheet, but now depart with 7 pts.

[ilan]

The ICC is interesting, but one wishes the World Cup players were involved...Harry Kane, for example, in this instance. It is understandable they need a rest before league season starts, though. I was surprised Dortmund blew that one. They had looked so strong in their last two ICC games. I thought for sure they'd walk away with the cup.

[vicpro26]

I can see that Bein Sports US, US HD, Espannol and Espannol HD Channels are out of the grid and I understand that it is because DirecTV refused to re-negotiate with Bein Sports and took it out of their available channels.

May I recommend to look for another provider (besides DirecTV) to get the Spanish La Liga Matches. I see that F1 Latinoamerica and F1 Latinoamerica HD feeds come from Movistar F1 Channel from Spain.

Please tell the administrators that they can also get the feed from Movistar La Liga Channel to offer the Spanish La Liga Matches.

Hope this helps to get back our beloved Spanish La Liga Matches.

[dara]

Two Major Tournament finals this Weekend

Copa America, Brazil v. Argentina (Saturday) at Maracana Stadium
8pm ET, Fox Sports 1 and Univision

Euro Cup, England v. Italy (Sunday) at Wembley Stadium
3pm ET, ESPN, Univision

[dara]

Argentina up 1-0 after a long pass to Di Maria from De Paul at '22. Maybe Messi can get that elusive major international championship

[dara]

Messi, er Argentina wins! Finally gets that international win, the only thing that he hadn't. Neymar in tears.

[dara]

Wow, that was fast, England ahead 1-0 on a score by Shaw '2.

[dara]

Italy evens at '67 (Bonucci), they have been dominating in the second half.

[dara]

Game goes to Penalty shootout.

[dara]

Italy wins it, on the shootout. Last 3 England misses, all three were subs. It's going Rome.

[dara]

Well, surprise, surprise (not really). USA vs. Mexico in the 2021 Gold Cup final. Actually, it could have easily been Qatar vs. Canada, both lost on very late scores, USA scores at '87, followed by the longest stoppage time I ever seen, of 9+ min, then Mexico wins in scoring within stoppage time (7 min)... they had to have a penalty to score the first at the end of the first half, and the game had to be paused because the Mexico fans were being racist... then the match turned into a hockey game with fights.

Game is Sunday, in the big hockey puck across from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

[dara]

Wow, USA with their euro league stars not playing beat Mexico's A Team in the Gold Cup Final. Winning score was a set piece in the '117 in extra time. by Miles Robinson.

I don't think I can watch the USA-Canada Womens game... its at 1am my time.

[crazed 9.6]

Wow, USA with their euro league stars not playing beat Mexico's A Team in the Gold Cup Final. Winning score was a set piece in the '117 in extra time. by Miles Robinson.

I don't think I can watch the USA-Canada Womens game... its at 1am my time.

I missed the live play and do not see the replay showing anywhere, nor did I hear who won the match between Canada and USA :(

[dara]

Well, the end of the 21 year association between FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi. He is expected to sign with Paris Saint-Germain, teaming up again with Neymar and fellow Argentine DiMaria. He had a agreed to a new contract with Barca, but they couldn't get below the La Liga limits, even with a huge pay cut.

[dara]

Canada "won" the CONCACAF World Cup qualification, over Mexico by Goal Differential, and USA was third, also qualifying for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in November. Congrats to Canada, having key wins over USA and MEX.

USA will be in Group B with England and Iran and another UEFA team, Canada in Group F with Belgium, Morocco and Croatia, and Mexico in Group C with Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Poland. I do like USA and Canada getting into the knockout stage (slightly more difficult for Canada), but Mexico might have it tough.