While that may have been the case on the turnover itself, hard to blame him for the Chelsea backline letting Rashford blow past them to receive a 50 yard chip in stride.wangus12 said:
He also has the turnover that led to United's 3rd goal.
The amount of hate he gets on the internet from non-Americans is crazy
Dre_00 said:
Sergino Dest came on at HT for Ajax in the CL qualifier against PAOK. Looked OK. Some bad sequences but some good ones too.
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In its present format, the Champions League begins in late June with a preliminary round, three qualifying rounds and a play-off round, all played over two legs. The six surviving teams enter the group stage, joining 26 teams qualified in advance. The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four teams and play each other in a double round-robin system. The eight group winners and eight runners-up proceed to the knockout phase that culminates with the final match in late May or early June.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League#cite_note-Matches-5][5][/url] The winner of the Champions League qualifies for the following year's Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League#cite_note-UEFA_Super_Cup-6][6][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League#cite_note-FIFA_Club_World_Cup-7][7][/url]
The number of teams that each association enters into the UEFA Champions League is based upon the UEFA coefficients of the member associations. These coefficients are generated by the results of clubs representing each association during the previous five Champions League and UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup seasons. The higher an association's coefficient, the more teams represent the association in the Champions League, and the fewer qualification rounds the association's teams must compete in.
Four of the remaining six qualifying places are granted to the winners of a six-round qualifying tournament between the remaining 43 or 44 national champions, within which those champions from associations with higher coefficients receive byes to later rounds. The other two are granted to the winners of a three-round qualifying tournament between the 11 clubs from the associations ranked 5 through 15, which have qualified based upon finishing second, or third in their respective national league.
The league coefficients are based on results in Europe. Last year's results performance by Ajax is maybe one step for them getting back to where you expect them to be, but other than that the Eredivisie has not really been represented in the Knockout Rounds at all (PSV made it once in the period I think)fig96 said:
I get the first several but the domestic leagues in Russia, Belgium, Turkey, the Ukraine, and Portugal are ranked ahead of the Eredivisie?
JJxvi said:
Since Salzburg is in the group stage, is that the first club with an American manager to appear there?
Not just the bottom half -- in many leagues it's everyone outside of a handful of "haves."PatAg said:
A lot of people don't understand how mediocre/bad the bottom half of most European leagues are. That's why it's important for our young americans to go to good situations.
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U.S. youth international and Hannover 96 forward Sebastian Soto has been contacted by Chile manager Reinaldo Rueda, with an eye towards the striker playing for La Roja, according to a source with knowledge of the approach.
Soto, 19, is eligible to represent three countries -- Chile through his father, Mexico through his mother, and the U.S. because it's the country of his birth. He has represented the U.S. at U19 and U20 level, and scored four goals for the Americans at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup last spring when his team reached the quarterfinals.
Username checks out.oh no said:Quote:
U.S. youth international and Hannover 96 forward Sebastian Soto has been contacted by Chile manager Reinaldo Rueda, with an eye towards the striker playing for La Roja, according to a source with knowledge of the approach.
Soto, 19, is eligible to represent three countries -- Chile through his father, Mexico through his mother, and the U.S. because it's the country of his birth. He has represented the U.S. at U19 and U20 level, and scored four goals for the Americans at the FIFA Under-20 World Cup last spring when his team reached the quarterfinals.
So does this mean that they will be pushing him up to the U23 squad in the near future?oh no said:
I Am Mine said:
I'm going to say this... If Berholter doesn't invite Dest to the Sr team he should be fired for cause.
Now if Dest declines and wants to play for the Dutch, then fine. But he needs to turn US down.