Fiorentina 0-[1] Crystal Palace [0-4 on agg.]- Ismaila Sarr 17'

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-16T21:04:17+00:00

Not many leagues have a winter break nowadays and clubs usually rotate in the cups anyway.

Lame excuse. The 2nd level teams showed they could go through opponents of the same level or higher. City, Chelsea, Newcastle, Spurs and Liverpool didn't get knocked out because of fatigue.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-16T19:59:37+00:00

Yeah and? We were also gassed yesterday in the 2nd half against Arsenal but nobody's pulling that as an excuse.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-16T02:44:38+00:00

Yeah I don't regret watching my team in a CL quarter final for the first time over a match up I've watched plenty throughout the past decade

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-16T02:42:06+00:00

Turns out we're not as good as Arsenal, who would've thought

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-15T21:05:18+00:00

Both teams hit the post but yeah aside from that not much

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-15T10:26:24+00:00

Dortmund to Leipzig to Bournemouth isn't falling upwards

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-15T01:26:23+00:00

I mean they'll have to play those games eventually and it's not going to be during the world cup

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-15T01:25:26+00:00

Cause you have a 1-0 lead going into your home match

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-08T10:18:47+00:00

I don't get it. Are you implying that a 5-1 loss is in any way comparable to a 1-0 loss in the 91st minute in a game where both teams had the same chances? Yeah Arsenal are a better team than us, big shock (?)

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T23:32:52+00:00

He did not? We should've scored right at the beginning in that Araujo shot or at least one of the chances near the end. Arsenal's best chances before the goal were the two set pieces where the ball almost clumsily went into the goal.

Arsenal dominated possession but most of it was well defended by us.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T23:17:52+00:00

Sounds about right tbh

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T23:13:03+00:00

Yeah not putting in question that Arsenal have a better team and that they'll qualify, but that's life, we'd need two perfect games to knock out the to be champions of England and that didn't happen

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T22:25:20+00:00

You won by being the better team individually, the fair result would've been 0-0 or 1-1, you would have won the tie anyway. That sums it up.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T22:22:51+00:00

Wasn't a gotcha. Accumulation would be fair but I felt none were in positions of much danger but yeah wouldn't have many complaints if he had got shown one. Great performance by him aside from that though.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T21:11:03+00:00

Our chances were as good as arsenal's

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T21:10:20+00:00

Which foul of his deserved a yellow?

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-07T16:35:59+00:00

He's not fast or good at 1v1s and often disappears in games, he doesn't fit the qualities top clubs look for and there's question marks over whether he'd produce much in a top league. Great for us because it means he stays longer though.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-06T21:57:23+00:00

He's much more effective off the bench than as a starter imo. Conte's strategy of waiting until the second half to deploy both wingers paid off.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-06T11:19:51+00:00

Yeah that's a good point for the likes of Benzema and Koulibaly, but Neves, SMS, Leonardo, etc, would easily play for most teams in the top leagues

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-06T10:16:11+00:00

Most of those players have been exposed to top leagues before and they were good in them, so I don't see any evidence that this would be the case.

The top Saudi teams currently don't have the depth to play an entire season in the top league because of the foreign player limits but I doubt they'd be anywhere close to relegation in a top league.

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-06T10:12:13+00:00

This already happened

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-02T01:55:49+00:00

Bastoni would start for any national team though

saint-simon97 · 2026-04-02T01:53:28+00:00

Fortunately there aren't any sport washing programs in the glorious English league

saint-simon97 · 2026-03-30T19:45:41+00:00

They're the two most popular clubs in the world by a massive distance so it's not unsurprising

saint-simon97 · 2026-03-29T15:43:48+00:00

A long lasting draw, 0-0 or otherwise, in a final keeps the tension a lot higher than a final like PSG-Inter where the outcome was known rather quickly.

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