DrunkOffPunch

18 year old Indiana Vassilev made his EPL debut with Aston Villa today.

Gio Reyna also made his Dortmund debut becoming the youngest American to play in the Bundesliga.

On 12/8/2019 at 5:58 PM, DrunkOffPunch said:

Gio Reyna made his first bench for Dortmund’s first team. My guess is Dortmund sell Sancho in the January transfer window so Reyna will be training with the first team over winter and be on the first team rest of the season.

Pretty close. Doesn’t seem like Dortmund will sell Sancho until summer but Reyna has been training with the first team and was just announced to be called up to the first team. Still could play some u19 games though as Dortmund is pretty stacked up front.

FWIW LaTech had a crazy easy schedule. Only played 4 teams that ended with a winning record.

L Texas(7-5) 45-14 

W Southern Miss(7-5) 45-30

L Marshall(8-5) 31-10

L UAB(9-5) 20-14

Not really related to US national team but MLS just announced the addition of Charlotte, which means by 2022 the league will be up to 30 teams.

2020- Nashville/Miami

2021- Charlotte/Austin

2022- Sacramento/St. Louis

Hopefully MLS’ future plans include pro/rel.

Morally I’m against abortion. At the same time to me this is an issue where I think it needs to be completely legal/illegal. Voted 7. Rather not have people fall through the cracks.

26 minutes ago, Mavric said:

Class B seems to have fared better:

Starters/Contributors - Zimmerer, Rodriguez, Davie, Reeves, Stoltenberg, Stille, Allen, Jurgens, Nelson

Non-contributors - Evans

TDB - Snodgrass

 

Class C/D for comparison:

Starters/Contributors - Sterup

Non-contributors - none

TBD - Piper

Isn’t Ashland-Greenwood C1?

Gio Reyna made his first bench for Dortmund’s first team. My guess is Dortmund sell Sancho in the January transfer window so Reyna will be training with the first team over winter and be on the first team rest of the season.

Pulisic has scored in the previous two EPL games giving him 5 goals in the previous 3. Has been in excellent form after a very rocky start. 
 

Yedlin scored as mid table Newcastle took down Bournemouth. He’s been in pretty good form as well but still lacks on the defensive side. Could be used as a RM in the NT.
 

Emmanuel Sabbi has scored 3 goals in 3 games for Danish Superliga side Hobro.

Uly Llanez has 10 goals and 2 assists in 8 games for Wolfsburg’s u19. Probably needs to be called up to Wolfsburg II.

With the upcoming international break we will be playing Canada 11/15 and Cuba 11/19 for Nations League. We will need to beat both and have a higher score differential than Canada to advance. Both Timothy Weah and Tyler Adams are still out and expected to resume club play shortly after the break.

Finally some good news. Pulisic scored his first goal of the EPL. Followed by 2 more for a hat trick. Also Sergino Dest chose the USMNT over the Netherlands.

10 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Ha!  Definitely Kellogg.  The helmet toss was top-shelf.

 

That said, I'm glad McCallum didn't toss his.  He might have gotten a concussion at the bottom of the pile...

And the post game dip Kellogg had in would’ve made Frost proud.

1 hour ago, hskrfan4life said:

2018

scoring offense - 30

scoring defense - 31.3

total offense - 456.2

total defense - 433.5
turnover margin - -2

 

2019, through 5 games

scoring offense - 31.8

scoring defense - 29.8

total offense - 435

total defense - 401.4

turnover margin - -4

 

We are currently better at three stats that I listed than last year.

Turnovers IMO have been one of the biggest hindrances for us this year. Through 5 games last year we had 10. That’s not good. Through 5 games this year we’ve had 14! I don’t have the time but it feels like a good chunk of those have come on our side of the field. Throw in AM’s slump and no Pickering and that’s been the story of our team so far this year.

Defense has been much better outside of 4th quarter Colorado and osu. Offense put the D in bad positions late in the game against Colorado and couldn’t put the game out of reach when they had plenty of chances to.

Edit- 14 turnovers this year not 15. Tied for 2nd most turnovers lost.

4 minutes ago, CapoValley said:

 

Want to be a elite program? Go do the obvious.

Hire elite coordinators, position coaches, recruiters. The lack of emphasis on recruiting and not having a elite recruiting staff is never ever ever going to work in Lincoln.

Wisconsin begs to differ. Tennessee has had great recruiters in their past and look where they are.

Just now, BIG ERN said:

Pelini won 9+ games the whole time he was here. Good try though 

Give Frost Suh, Amukamara, Asante, Hagg, and Dillard on defense. That’s just the guys drafted. It’s leaving off guys that were 2nd team all big 12. Way to completely ignore my entire point.

8 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

Solich and Pelini weren't bad though. They just weren't great. Bill and Riley were garbage. Frost so far isn't looking a lot different. 

Solich inherited a team coming off a national championship and Pelini inherited a team that had 12 future NFL draftees in his first 3 years.

21 minutes ago, jaws said:

 

All black uniforms worked out well for purdue and iowa vs OSU the past two years. 

 

18 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Oh man...I just bet like 5 and 10 dollars.  

Brag much?

Just now, Moiraine said:

I learned I'm so used to losing the loses don't affect me as badly anymore.

Ya know, I was more nervous when we were up 10 than when we were down 3.

Martinez had a really poor game. A busted coverage early and a couple Washington catch and runs really made his stats look way better than his performance. He’s holding the ball way too long. First half the pass protection held good enough to mask his slow decision making. Second half they were able to add pressure.

Mexico-3

US-0

Same old crap from Berhalter. Starts Zardes/Trapp. Can’t handle a press and wants to play long ball out of the back even though that’s a weakness in his players. Midfield gets overmatched and we have pretty much zero good chances at goal. Don’t see Berhalter lasting another year.

CFB Week 1 Empires Map

15 minutes ago, Cy the Cyclone said:

What I learned last Saturday

 

We need to quit scheduling UNI....

If you’re UNI I have no idea why you don’t go for 2 in 2OT. Your offense just scored it’s first touchdown of the game and all you need is a couple yards to win it.

2 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

I give them credit by scheduling tough non-conference games, but Clemson also benefits from only having 8 conference games per season, and it’s a conference that is lacking other programs which can compete with Clemson right now. 

Again though they play South Carolina every year. Either way they play 9 P5 teams same as the B1G. Yeah the ACC is pretty mediocre but FSU and Miami are big enough schools that they’ll always have good teams on paper; they just need to find good coaches.

18 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Yep. See Clemson. As the long as the conference is P5, you have a better chance winning a championship when your conference sucks.

Since 2008 Clemson has played one of Alabama, TCU, Auburn, Georgia, Notre Dame, and Texas A&M in their non con every year. That’s on top of playing South Carolina yearly. They’re definitely not afraid of scheduling big name schools.