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 […]
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2022 Apertura Top 25: July – August
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 […]
Midweek 6 Notes
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). […]
Week 6 Notes
With the Premier League on hold, it was all Germans for me last weekend. I wanted to add some Argentines to the mix, given Sunday’s Superclásico between Boca Juniors and […]
Weekend 4 Notes
Though Liverpool scored nine on Saturday and Montpellier seven on Sunday, last weekend saw a batch of close games for me. I finally got some Serie A under my belt, […]
Week 3 Saturday Notes
I’m just covering the games I watched on Saturday to get these notes out. Friday I watched the Chicago Red Stars loss to Angel City FC from last Monday and […]
German Cup Magic
Two Saturdays ago, most eyes were (rightly) fixed on the Community Shield match between Manchester City and Liverpool, but the best game of the day almost certainly took place in […]
A Strange Summer
The summer soccer season starts tomorrow, but with the World Cup delayed until the winter, it’s likely to feel a bit different. It breaks fairly evenly into two halves: an […]
Top 100 of 20/21: late Sept
The last weekend of September 2020 was one a special one, containing a number of games in addition to the five here that almost made the Top 100 (including a […]
Bayer Leverkusen – Borussia Dortmund (11 Sept 21)
2021 European Apertura Top 25 (7 of 25) 2nd-place Leverkusen had scored 8 goals in their two previous games under new manager Gerardo Seoane, but Marco Rose’s 5th-place Borussia Dortmund […]
Stoopid American 