2022 Apertura Top 25: Early October
October turned out to be a month full of incredible games. Here’s the first four of them (taking us up to the halfway mark in this Top 25 of the […]
October turned out to be a month full of incredible games. Here’s the first four of them (taking us up to the halfway mark in this Top 25 of the […]
The season really got going in September, with surprising front-runners emerging in both the Premier League and Serie A. Then the month closed with the final international break before the […]
The South American notion of an apertura (or an opening half of the season, to be followed by a clausura) has never seemed more appropriate to the European season than […]
So I thought that, with the World Cup final taking place on Sunday, there would be a football-free week, at least amongst major leagues, until the Premier League kicked things […]
Morocco’s victory over Spain was the most engaging match of the Round of 16, and one of the best of the tournament. After a group stage that saw numerous upsets, […]
It seems a little crazy to link the weekends before and after the international break in a single post, but that’s how I’m rolling. Before the break, I was mostly […]
I missed a couple days, so the results are in for the teams in the last two entries of my best games of the June Nations League window. Even so, […]
By matchday 4 of the June Nations League window, things were starting to shake out in most groups. Not surprisingly, then, many of the best games of that window came […]
The final two rounds of the Nations League kicks off today with a match between Scotland and Ukraine that was rescheduled from June to make way for their World Cup […]
I took in the reunions for Lewandowski and Haaland in the Champions League, and wasn’t disappointed with the results (though I wouldn’t have minded seeing Spurs and Chelsea dropping points). […]