Aberdeen versus Kilmarnock and the big face-off between Hoban and Bachmann has failed miserably. Hoban not named in the match day 18 while Bachmann is only on the bench.
Hoban's out with a long term injury... Saw another tweet that said he needed surgery but can't find it again. https://twitter.com/BenjyPalmer/status/1035886170125819904?s=19
I'm bored now my neighbours involvement with the local plod has ended for the afternoon. Loan Lads Friday 31st August France Ligue 2 - Paris FC 2-0 Troyes - Mamadou Mbaye not in Troyes match day squad. Spain La Liga - Getafe 0-0 Valladolid - Dimitri Foulquier not in Getafe match day squad. Spain La Liga 2 - Alcorcon 1-0 Mallorca - Pervis Estupinan unused sub for Mallorca. Exciting stuff, eh?
Loan Lads Saturday 1st September England League 1 - Shrewsbury Town 1-1 Bristol Rovers - Alex Jakubiak unused sub for Bristol Rovers. England League 1 - Sunderland 1-1 Oxford United - Jerome Sinclair not included in Sunderland match day squad. England League 1 - Wycombe Wanderers 1-1 Luton Town - Randell Williams subbed off on 79mins for Wycombe. Scotland Premiership - Aberdeen 0-2 Kilmarnock - Tommie Hoban not included in Aberdeen match day squad. Daniel Bachmann unused sub for Kilmarnock. Belgium Jupiler Pro League - KAS Eupen 2-1 Standard Liege - Suleyman Marreh (KAS Eupen) & Obbi Oulare (S.Liege) not included in match day squads. Spain Segunda Division B, Group 2 - Mirandes 1-1 Santander - Matheus Aias subbed off on 72mins for Mirandes. Spain Segunda Division B, Group 3 - Barcelona B 0-1 Ejea - Matheus Santana unused sub for Ejea. Spain Segunda Division B, Group 3 - Conquense 2-0 Sabadell - Williams Velasquez not included in Sabadell match day squad. (If a player isn't included in the match day squad, he may well be injured. I'm not checking for that though)
Think Sinclair and Hoban (as mentioned above) are injured. Oulare probably as well. Marreh only just joined Eupen so was unlikely to play. Not great for the others though
Williams Velasquez only joined Sabadell this week too so is in the same position as Marreh I guess. Still, on the up side there are another eight games on Sunday to see what happens. Even they haven't started well though with Eduardo Montenegro (19) not in the Envigado match squad either. I'll try and update in the evening if I've time.
Cucho Hernandez opened the scoring at the Nou Camp tonight! Didn't do Huesca much good mind, they ended up losing 8-2...
Loan Lads Sunday 2nd September Colombia Liga Aguila - Envigado FC 1-3 Deportes Tolima - Eduardo Montenegro not in Envigado match day squad. Germany Bundesliga - RB Liepzig 1-1 Fortuna Dusseldorf - Dodi Lukebakio unused sub for Dusseldorf. Spain La Liga - Barcelona 8-2 SD Huesca - Cucho Hernandez scored on 3mins for Huesca. Subbed off on 72mins. Spain La Liga 2 - Gymnastik de Tarragona 0-1 Rayo Majadahonda - Luis Javier Suarez unused sub for Gymnastik. Spain Segunda Division B, Group 3 - Villarreal B 1-2 Hercules CF - Jaime Alvarado Hoyos on as 87min sub for Hercules at 1-1. Not involved in winning goal. Spain Segunda Division B, Group 3 - CD Teruel 1-0 Valencia B - Juan Camilo Becerra on as 71min sub for Teruel. (Goal scored 66mins.) Spain Segunda Division B, Group 4 - UD Ibiza 0-1 Sanluqueno - Kingsley Fobi on as a 62min sub for Ibiza. (Goal conceded 70mins.) Two late games I'll update tomorrow. 21.30pm Chile Primera Division - Hauchipato FC v Curico Unido - Valber Huerta started the game at time of posting. 23.15pm Colombia Liga Aguila - DI Medellin v Once Caldas - Jorge Segura
I see Hernadez scores against Barca today as they were thrashed 8-2. Welcome to La Liga. Anyone think we will see him for at least 1 season in the Prem? Should be a no brainier for him but would we sell before putting him in the shop window that is the Prem?
He ll be playing at the Camp Nou next season....for every home game. And they ll send us one of their (exceptionally good ) rejects, back the other way + 50 mill
Loan Lads Sunday 2nd September - late games. Chile Primera Division - Hauchipato FC 1-0 Curico Unido - Valber Huerta played 90mins for Hauchipato. Not involved with goal. Colombia Liga Aguila - DI Medellin 2-2 Once Caldas - Jorge Segura played 90mins for Medellin. Booked 90+2mins.
Just read about him on wiki and transfermarkt. So far his career seems the "perfect typical Pozzo's signing". - Bought by Granada from an obscure second tier Colombian team for 270k£ when he was 17YO. - Sent immediately on loan to strongest first tier Columbian team for one year. Good: because he stays "at home" (being so young), yet begins to feel the atmosphere of top football. - When 18YO goes from Granada to WFC and on loan to mid-strenght second tier Spanish team. Good: no language problems, he begins to "learn" European football, he begins to accumulate the two years of residence in Spain that can give him the Spanish passport. Moreover he scores 16 goals and help in Huesca first promotion to first tier! - Left on loan to same club, for his first experience in EU first tier. His market value according to transfermarkt is already 4.5M£, 20 times the initial transfer fee. Next year he might have EU passport and ... "IF" he goes on well and has the right mindset he might grow on. Ideally, he could then spend 2 years on loan to Udinese, learning how to cope with the most shrewd and experienced defenders in Europe. (Believe me. I follow serie A and Premier. If a striker learns against serie A defenders, after that Premier's average defenders are a piece of cake) Then finally a couple of years at WFC in the best football shopping window in the world, before being sold for gazillions£ to a top club. So far, his career track is perfect. Let's hope it continues this way and he has more the mind like Alexis Sanchez (examplary Pro) than like many others of the past who "lost" themselves after the first glimpses of success.
Is Seria A still rated as the best defensive league in football? Every game I have watched it looks very average. Drop a mid table side from the prem into most other top divisions in the world and I expect them to compete for a top 4 spot.
Not so sure, about your last statement. The serious top divisions in the world are just 5: Spanish Liga, English Premier, German Bundesliga, Italian serie A, French Ligue1. Pros and cons for all of them, but they are all good. Premier and Liga are on top, but the other 3 leagues are no piece of cake. I agree that serie A games look very average, they are certainly very far from the show that I appreciate watching in Premier. But the problem is that in serie A, ALL the defences are usually VERY strong. It's in our footballish DNA. A very famous football journalist (Gianni Brera) wrote, many years ago, that the perfect match is a 0-0, because it means that there were no defensive mistakes. So, even if serie A is certainly much less interesting to view than Premier, believe me: if a striker learns against serie A defenders, he'll probably learn a lot about his job.
I definitely don't agree that any midtable Prem side would compete for top 4 in most other top divisions, but I also believe that Ligue Un is a slight step down from the other 'big four'. Germany, Spain, Italy and England are definitely the strongest leagues, and France is slightly above the closest challengers like Portugal and Russia, but in its own netherworld nonetheless.
I think we will see him,perhaps for a year,maybe two,depending on how rapidly he develops. Then onto an elite club,he'll only be 22 or 23 then won't he?
Loan Lads Tuesday 4th September English Football League Trophy - Sunderland 0-0 Stoke City u21s (Sunderland won 4-2 on pens) - Jerome Sinclair on as 65min sub for Sunderland. Didn't take a penalty in shoot-out. English Football League Trophy - Northampton Town 0-1 Wycombe Wanderers - Randell Williamson on as 74min sub for Wycombe at 0-1.
Came on after 65 mins first game since injury obtained on the first day of the season, got a 6 out of 10 and reports are saying he did score a penalty and has put himself in contention for Saturday !
My mistake re. Sinclair and his penalty take. I followed it live on the Sporting Life site and I either mis-read/missed his penalty or they changed the text at some point. Most likely to be the former to be honest. Apologies Jerome and thanks for correcting my erroneous fact Teide1.
It’s always a better day when I read a Sherlock post. On another thread, we were debating whether Gino would sell a minority share of WFC. Any thoughts on whether that is in line with the Pozzo mentality?
The above post, it has to be said, is full of horse ****. As has been noted, Sinclair DID score a penalty in the Sunderland/Stoke shoot-out. The other mistake - who the hell is Randell Williamson?!? It should of course read Randell Williams. I'll never believe anything I ever post again. Time to take a break.
Loan Lads Wednesday 5th September Spain Copa del Rey - Lleida Esportiu 2-0 CD Teruel - Juan Camilo Becerra played 90mins for Teruel. Spain Copa del Rey - CD Mirandes 0-1 Racing de Santander - Matheus Aias subbed off on 84mins for Mirandes, at 0-1. Spain Final Copa Federacion* - SD Ejea 2-2 Real Zaragoza B (Ejea won 4-3 on penalties) - Matheus Santana on as ??min sub. Scored in penalty shoot-out. Spain 43rd Trofeo Puchero** - AD Alcorcon 0-1 Getafe CF - Dimitri Foulquier scored 37min goal for Getafe. Subbed off on 57mins. * Copa Real Federacion Española de Futbol (Copa Federacion) is for teams from the Segunda Division B, the Tercera Division and sometimes the Preferente Regional who have failed to qualify or have been knocked out in the 1st round of the Copa del Rey. General Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Royal_Federation_Cup 2018/19 Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–19_Copa_Federación_de_España ** Trofeo Puchero is a friendly/exhibition match held each year in Alcorcon with this years opposition being Getafe. I may be wrong, I often am, so if you know better please post the real meaning behind it.
In my mind’s eye, I see Alcorcon as Wycombe & Getafe as Palarse. Leganes? A good Brentford/poor Watford? Psycho geography & intuition are my lodestar here. Not the Sawyer algorithm & tracing paper.
Loan Lads Wednesday 5th September - late game. Colombia Liga Aguila - Santa Fe 3-1 Envigado FC - Eduardo Montenegro not in Envigado match day squad.
In my mind's eye I see oxhey67 as a Hornet Norris and Ross McWhirter (spelling ?) pouring endlessly over maps of the world whilst 27 tv screens show worldwide matches. A football version of 'Record Breakers' meets 'The Man Who Fell To Earth' but without Roy Castle or Bowie doing that horrible peeling off the false eyeball trick,obviously!
If the Pozzo scouting people are anything like the Colney mob, they will be losing 17 yo Colombians left, right & centre. Bravo to Oxhey for helping us all (Mr Pozzo) keep abreast of the talent.
