[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Zizu

How can they describe this as a competition featuring the world’s best teams ?


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it are the world's best teams honestly, based on the UEFA ranking, AFC ranking, CAF ranking, Conmebol ranking, Concacaf ranking, Oceania ranking


but tbh europe have the best teams obviously, but decent upset of Palmeiras keeping Porto at 0-0



and Botafogo a nice 2-1 win over Seattle Sounders, even though MLS is better competition than the brazilian league



but yeah Bayern's 10-0 was just against Auckland City, they got more difficult oppoents to come in Benfica and Boca Juniors so, this was more a ''friendly'' to them, and now the real competition can begin, never underestimate Boca Juniors tbh, especially now with Miguel Angel Russo as coach (he was a former teammate of Diego Maradona btw, also a former assistent coach of Maradona's)

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

it are the world's best teams honestly, based on the UEFA ranking, AFC ranking, CAF ranking, Conmebol ranking, Concacaf ranking, Oceania ranking


but tbh europe have the best teams obviously, but decent upset of Palmeiras keeping Porto at 0-0



and Botafogo a nice 2-1 win over Seattle Sounders, even though MLS is better competition than the brazilian league



but yeah Bayern's 10-0 was just against Auckland City, they got more difficult oppoents to come in Benfica and Boca Juniors so, this was more a ''friendly'' to them, and now the real competition can begin, never underestimate Boca Juniors tbh, especially now with Miguel Angel Russo as coach (he was a former teammate of Diego Maradona btw, also a former assistent coach of Maradona's)

Palmeiras were actually favourites to win that match with the bookies. And Botafogo should have thrashed Seattle from what i saw. The Brazilian league has some really solid teams.

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Swan

Palmeiras were actually favourites to win that match with the bookies. And Botafogo should have thrashed Seattle from what i saw. The Brazilian league has some really solid teams.

brazilian league is good for delivering new supertalented youngsters but i personally find the MLS, and now also Saudi league more competitive + with the latter, there also is the Asian Champions League they have teams competing in, Al Hilal for example won that one quite a few times

[Swan]

Originally Posted by arista

Yes 7PM Live 5HD tonight

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

8PM Kick off

will watch this one as its Chels

Yeah Chelsea vs Los Angeles. Should be quite interesting. Chelsea should win comfortably.

Originally Posted by Nicky91

brazilian league is good for delivering new supertalented youngsters but i personally find the MLS, and now also Saudi league more competitive + with the latter, there also is the Asian Champions League they have teams competing in, Al Hilal for example won that one quite a few times

The MLS league is certainly more attack minded, but the quality of attack is mid at best. They don't put much emphasis on defence however. Ironically, in the top Brazilian league Serie A, you don't get that many goals overall. Palmeries were solid, but a decent European team would have battered Seattle's defence last night, and had very little problem dealing with their attacks.

I would sooner play ANY US team over a Brazilian team though, the Brazilian's are more defence minded too, and have a way killing play from the opposition.

Chelsea have a Brazilian team and an American team in their group, and im calling it now that we'll have a much easier time against LA tonight than we will Flamengo later on

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Swan

Yeah Chelsea vs Los Angeles. Should be quite interesting. Chelsea should win comfortably.



The MLS league is certainly more attack minded, but the quality of attack is mid at best. They don't put much emphasis on defence however. Ironically, in the top Brazilian league Serie A, you don't get that many goals overall. Palmeries were solid, but a decent European team would have battered Seattle's defence last night, and had very little problem dealing with their attacks.

I would sooner play ANY US team over a Brazilian team though, the Brazilian's are more defence minded too, and have a way killing play from the opposition.

Chelsea have a Brazilian team and an American team in their group, and im calling it now that we'll have a much easier time against LA tonight than we will Flamengo later on

don't call LAFC weak please they are the better of the two LA teams nowadays, whereas Galaxy kinda faded into mid tier, below mid tier team sadly


Cherundolo is a great coach too


they have quite a decent bunch of players like Hugo Lloris, Olivier Giroud, Javairo Dilrosun, Marlon, the older of the two Tillman's: Timothy Tillman


btw Oka Nikolov is their goalkeeping coach, idk you remember him, from Bundesliga, where he played for Eintracht Frankfurt between 1995 and 2013