Pellegrini could get sacked tomorrow. lol
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zitothebrave
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United fans certainly think it will happen.
zitothebrave
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US national roster for Mexico match is basically all MLS and Liga MX players.
GK - Hamid, RImando, Yarbrough
DF - Alvarado, Besler, Evans, Garza, Gonzalez, Orozco, Shea, Yedlin (still wonder if he may not be left off because of Walker's injury)
MF - Beckerman, Bradley, Corona, Mix, Ibarra, Nguyen
FW - Agudelo, Green, Morris, WOndo, Zardes
Have to assume they're going to a 4-3-3. Especially with Klinsmann liking Zardes as a winger, and Wondo and Agudelo currently getting reps on the wings.
GK - Hamid, RImando, Yarbrough
DF - Alvarado, Besler, Evans, Garza, Gonzalez, Orozco, Shea, Yedlin (still wonder if he may not be left off because of Walker's injury)
MF - Beckerman, Bradley, Corona, Mix, Ibarra, Nguyen
FW - Agudelo, Green, Morris, WOndo, Zardes
Have to assume they're going to a 4-3-3. Especially with Klinsmann liking Zardes as a winger, and Wondo and Agudelo currently getting reps on the wings.
zitothebrave
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Real Madrid's advantage is really just unfair.
For their attackers and mids trhey have Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema, Kroos, Modric, James, and Khedira.
For their attackers and mids trhey have Ronaldo, Bale, Benzema, Kroos, Modric, James, and Khedira.
zitothebrave
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Zito's USWNT hottest XI
Talent doesn't matter, just being a chauvinist pig.
Formation is a 4-3-3
Goalkeeper
Hope Solo
Defense
Ali Krieger
Julie Johnston
Whitney Engen
Kelley O'Hara
Mids
Morgan Brian
Lauren Holiday
Carli Lloyd
Forwards
Alex Morgan
Sydney LeRoux
Christen Press
Talent doesn't matter, just being a chauvinist pig.
Formation is a 4-3-3
Goalkeeper
Hope Solo
Defense
Ali Krieger
Julie Johnston
Whitney Engen
Kelley O'Hara
Mids
Morgan Brian
Lauren Holiday
Carli Lloyd
Forwards
Alex Morgan
Sydney LeRoux
Christen Press
zitothebrave
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zitothebrave
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Man I hope Villa wins the FA cup. WOuld be funny for 2 reasons. First cause the Spurs spurned Sherwood, and second and more importantly, Brad Guzan would be the third American to have an FA Winner's medal, first was some guy a real long time ago, second was Timmy Howard.
For all the crap Arsene Wenger gets from his own "fans", I bet you Liverpool would have loved to have someone like Wenger manage their club the last 10 years.
What Wenger has done through the stadium debt and weathered the storm the last 10 years to keep Arsenal competitive for many years to come... a 2nd place and FA Cup will be great heading into the offseason where he'll have more money to spend. Hopefully we get Khedira.
What Wenger has done through the stadium debt and weathered the storm the last 10 years to keep Arsenal competitive for many years to come... a 2nd place and FA Cup will be great heading into the offseason where he'll have more money to spend. Hopefully we get Khedira.
zitothebrave
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Why Khedira? Better CDM? I fully admit I haven't watched a ton of Arsenal, but I thought Wilshere and Coquelin were supposed to be doing very well there. Though I guess they could be playing WIlshere more forward, I would assume with Ozil, Carzola, Sanchez, Ramsey all as more attacking minded mids, that Wilshere would be further back.
zitothebrave
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BTW if no one saw it yet. Giovinco took an ambitious but fantastic and undefendable free kick.
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zitothebrave
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I think it's more than safe to say that the demise of Tim Howard was greatly overstated.
And it's nice that the back line from september for Man U decided to show.
And it's nice that the back line from september for Man U decided to show.
zitothebrave
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One of the things I love about MLS is the parity. Sure there are better teams, but overall there isn't really the dominance like in the premier league. Basically you could pencil in Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, City (recently) and Tottenham into the top 6 slots. Of course you have surprises like last year Everton and this year Southampton, but it doesn't change the general point.
Right now, you have 5 teams in the east who coudl in theory be in first. Red Bulls are in the best overall shape, but the Fire could also with th eright results be right there. Out West everyone is pretty good. Worst ranked Rapids are at 7 points, which considering games played isn't terrible. It's not good mind you, but it's not terrible.
What will be intersting is to see how Montreal comes back from Champions League. They have only 4 MLS matches, and no good results from them. They should be a solid squad, but I think they're resting their guys for the CL and with MLS, depth is pretty terrible. I won't watch it during the Gold Cup, Toronto without Jozy and Bradley will be GIovinco and who knows.
Being blunt, liekly MLS players to make the cut include the aforementioned Jozy and Bradley, with Rimando, Gonzalez, Shea, Besler, Mix, Zardes, and other potentials like Hamid or Johnson (US may use Yarbrough to cap tie though), Jones, Goodson, Wondo, Zusi, Evans, Agudelo, Nguyen, and Beckerman, Lots of potential for turnover that could shake up MLS. And that's jsut US players, not factoring in other countries as well who're well represented in MLS like Honduras, Costa Rica, etc.
Right now, you have 5 teams in the east who coudl in theory be in first. Red Bulls are in the best overall shape, but the Fire could also with th eright results be right there. Out West everyone is pretty good. Worst ranked Rapids are at 7 points, which considering games played isn't terrible. It's not good mind you, but it's not terrible.
What will be intersting is to see how Montreal comes back from Champions League. They have only 4 MLS matches, and no good results from them. They should be a solid squad, but I think they're resting their guys for the CL and with MLS, depth is pretty terrible. I won't watch it during the Gold Cup, Toronto without Jozy and Bradley will be GIovinco and who knows.
Being blunt, liekly MLS players to make the cut include the aforementioned Jozy and Bradley, with Rimando, Gonzalez, Shea, Besler, Mix, Zardes, and other potentials like Hamid or Johnson (US may use Yarbrough to cap tie though), Jones, Goodson, Wondo, Zusi, Evans, Agudelo, Nguyen, and Beckerman, Lots of potential for turnover that could shake up MLS. And that's jsut US players, not factoring in other countries as well who're well represented in MLS like Honduras, Costa Rica, etc.
zitothebrave
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BTW with most teams now down to just 4 games left to play, nothing is officially set in stone, Liverpool choking is epic. They're now knotted up with Spurs, 1 point over Southampton. Swans have an extremely outside shot at Europa but it's just that extremely outside.
UNited looks best to be in the 4th spot, only Arsenal left for great opponents with West Brom, Crystal Palace, and Hull. All middling teams. Sould get at least 6 points left in the season making it impossible for Liverpool or Spurs get to 4th.
City has Tottenham, Swans, and Saints, that will be pretty tough. Hopefully Tottenham and Southampton beat them, woudl be nice for City to fall.
UNited looks best to be in the 4th spot, only Arsenal left for great opponents with West Brom, Crystal Palace, and Hull. All middling teams. Sould get at least 6 points left in the season making it impossible for Liverpool or Spurs get to 4th.
City has Tottenham, Swans, and Saints, that will be pretty tough. Hopefully Tottenham and Southampton beat them, woudl be nice for City to fall.
zitothebrave
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After a lolworthy loss, United isn't sitting pretty. Only now 4 points clear of Liverpool, United are not as locked into 4th as I thought a week ago. Again, given they only need 5 points and not to give up a 13 GD advantage, which considering they have Hull and Crystal Palace who they should beat, I can see them getting the poitns they need, but a collapse from being up 7 points with 4 to go would be epic.
City just ended Spurs hope of UCL. 7 points back with 3 games to play, they would need a total miracle to get up to 4. Especially with trips to Stoke and Everton. Spurs lucked out that Sunderland upset Southampton. ANy points from that match would have Spurs on the outside. I think they'll wind up finishing 6th, Southampton has to go to Leicester and City, and host Villa. Leicester has been in great form as of late. Dropping 3 in a loss vs Spurs started a good run of form, Beat West Ham, beat West Brom, beat Swans, beat Burnley, lost to Chelsea, but came back from short rest to beat Newcastle badly. Villa has also been in pretty good form. Since March they've beaten West Brom, Sunderland, Tottenham, Everton and should have drawn with City. But they've also made a run into the FA Cup finals beating West Brom and Liverpool. Only really disappointing result was their 3-3 draw against QPR.
City just ended Spurs hope of UCL. 7 points back with 3 games to play, they would need a total miracle to get up to 4. Especially with trips to Stoke and Everton. Spurs lucked out that Sunderland upset Southampton. ANy points from that match would have Spurs on the outside. I think they'll wind up finishing 6th, Southampton has to go to Leicester and City, and host Villa. Leicester has been in great form as of late. Dropping 3 in a loss vs Spurs started a good run of form, Beat West Ham, beat West Brom, beat Swans, beat Burnley, lost to Chelsea, but came back from short rest to beat Newcastle badly. Villa has also been in pretty good form. Since March they've beaten West Brom, Sunderland, Tottenham, Everton and should have drawn with City. But they've also made a run into the FA Cup finals beating West Brom and Liverpool. Only really disappointing result was their 3-3 draw against QPR.
zitothebrave
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Man U has already made their first move snagging Memphis Depay. They're also interested in Lloris if De Gea leaves (De Gea and cash for Bale swap seems really likely) and they seem in on Hummels. Arsenal kicking tires on Cech, Chelsea wants 10M for a backup goalie in the last year of his deal. Chelsea is legit insane.
zitothebrave
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Matches still left to play of course, but at about 60 minutes at least in
Tottenham needs 3 goals to have a prayer at top 4. They were an extremely long shot after tanking lately. But now it's virtually locked into place. Their saving grace is Southampton is doing worse. They're also losing 2-0 as well. So it looks like they're gonna back into 6th.
Lots of teams are gonna be sniffing around Tim Sherwood, in his 12 matches so far he's 5-1-6. Not amazing but much better than his predecessors 5-7-12. Only 6 less points in half the games. Villa is winning at the moment as well.
Still a lot of clutter for the 3rd relegation spot. Seemingly Burnley and QPR are going down, Burnley is going down. QPR could in theory stay up if they win out and Newcastle loses out. There are 5 teams right now between 34-38 points. Sunderland has a game on hand Of course I'm dealing with live points, meaning if Villa gives up their lead, that will tighten up. But you have to assume with Hull still having to play Tottenham and United that they're screwed. Only hope they have with those games is SPurs keeps crapping the bed terribly and united craps the bed or has it wrapped up in 4th with no shot at 3rd or falling to 5th. And United just plays a risky linuep.
Tottenham needs 3 goals to have a prayer at top 4. They were an extremely long shot after tanking lately. But now it's virtually locked into place. Their saving grace is Southampton is doing worse. They're also losing 2-0 as well. So it looks like they're gonna back into 6th.
Lots of teams are gonna be sniffing around Tim Sherwood, in his 12 matches so far he's 5-1-6. Not amazing but much better than his predecessors 5-7-12. Only 6 less points in half the games. Villa is winning at the moment as well.
Still a lot of clutter for the 3rd relegation spot. Seemingly Burnley and QPR are going down, Burnley is going down. QPR could in theory stay up if they win out and Newcastle loses out. There are 5 teams right now between 34-38 points. Sunderland has a game on hand Of course I'm dealing with live points, meaning if Villa gives up their lead, that will tighten up. But you have to assume with Hull still having to play Tottenham and United that they're screwed. Only hope they have with those games is SPurs keeps crapping the bed terribly and united craps the bed or has it wrapped up in 4th with no shot at 3rd or falling to 5th. And United just plays a risky linuep.
zitothebrave
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Just wanted to bump this up. As Spurs are locked out of UCL. They got bounced from the first knockout round in EUropa. Lost the League Cup Final and were bounced in the first round of FA. With a max of 64 points, Their point totals have fallen every year. Imagine how ****ty they would have been without Harry Kane? They'd probably be hanging down around Stoke.
Spurs sold Bale and didn't capitalize on their return. After selling Bale, Dempsey, Parker, Huddlestone, and Caulker, they brought in with Bale's money Paulinho, Soldado, Lamela, and Eriksen. Eriksen the cheapest of that bunch is the only one of those who's really worked out. Lamela's been improving. Paulinho has sucked. Soldado has sucked. That's been their biggest issue. They squandered their big selling offseason.
zitothebrave
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Rumor that Pep may leave Bayern to move to Man City to battle his arch rival and his mentor. Would kind of make sense overall. Klopp would take over for Bayern, and you'd have 3 of the finest managers in the world all in the premier league.
Some Arsenal fans want Klopp to replace Wenger. Just don't see it (nor want it).
EPL could get 7 teams for Europe based on Fair Play rules. Right now 5th and 6th place are locks for Europa, could be 7th place as well if Arsenal win FA Cup.