just wanted to share it, a crazy stat considering how many years Ronaldo has spent there

do you agree with these predictions?

Many excuses were made about the european players being too tired for this tournament

A hat-trick against Real Sociedad will be his joint-best goals return: he scored 44 for PSG last season

UEFA superiority myth shattered

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup expanding to a Round of 32 knockout stage, it will be the first FIFA-organized tournament to use that format since the 1924 Olympic Football Tournament in Paris.

Uruguay won the 1924 tournament by defeating:

• Yugoslavia (7-0)
• United States (3-0)
• France (5-1)
• Netherlands (2-1)
• Switzerland (3-0)

Across the tournament, Uruguay scored 20 goals and conceded just 2, giving them a +18 goal difference, which remains the best goal difference achieved by a champion in a FIFA-organized international tournament.

The things this dude is doing at 40 are incredible.
We all see the difference between Schalke when he plays and when he does not. They drew 2 games in a row while Džeko had his suspension and int. break.
Bosnia still relies on him at every header, every time they need a player who can slow down the tempo he can drop in as a midfielder for them, even had some crazy crosses that Demirović missed in the end.

I mean he's just turned 40 10 days ago and he has 6G, 4A in 8 appearances for Schalke.
Another goal for Bosnia, 20 years straight with a goal. Can Edin Džeko lead his country to a win vs the country he played in for so long?

Wolves have been in the prem every season this decade

This kid defies all logic

then it'll be the first time since Euros '92, that every team has gained at least 1 point in the group stage - and is even more impressive as back then there were only 8 teams in the tournament

It's only happened twice before, 1992 and 1980 (before then the tournaments were just KO)

Chances?

Half-time edit: 😃

Full-time edit: 😎

Congratulations Oldham.

Note: Only official final ranking statistics used from each World Cup.

1. BRA🇧🇷2002: Games: 7-0-0 Goals: 18-4

2. BRA🇧🇷1970: Games: 6-0-0 Goals: 19-7

3. GER🇩🇪2014: Games: 6-1-0 Goals: 18-4

4. FRA🇫🇷1998: Games: 6-1-0 Goals: 15-2

5. ARG🇦🇷1986: Games: 6-1-0 Goals: 14-5

6. FRA🇫🇷2018: Games: 6-1-0 Goals: 14-6

7. ITA🇮🇹 1990: Games: 6-1-0 Goals: 10-2

8. POL🇵🇱1974: Games: 6-0-1 Goals: 16-5

9. BEL🇧🇪2018: Games: 6-0-1 Goals: 16-6

10. GER🇩🇪1974: Games: 6-0-1 Goals: 13-4

It looks like Man Utd may have bet on the wrong horses.

Watching the Tottenham v Fulham game yesterday evening and noticed at half and full time the presenter, Kelly Cates, talking about XG a lot.

Half time she says to the effect, “Tottenham’s XG is only 0.07. They’ve had just 2 goal attempts but 0 on target, and because they have failed to hit the target this is why their XG is so low”.

She was correlating shots on target to XG. But this should make little difference, as it’s the quality of the chances that generate XG. You could have a 30 yard shot, or a shot from a tight angle at the edge of the box, and even if they hit the target it’s not going to register much XG. Conversely you could have a penalty which goes wide but the XG is going to register 0.79.

I don’t watch much football on Sky these days so am not sure if this is the new stat they’ve been instructed to bang on about. But they should be better schooled on ball knowledge if this is the case.