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@Haugstad1006
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3 years
This actually says a lot about Messi. Bruno Fernandes been out of this world for a year; Messi is enduring one of his worst spells, playing unhappily on for a broken team and a broken club. And yet the stats are even.
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Bruno Fernandes has been matching Lionel Messi's numbers since he joined Man United 🤯
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@Haugstad1006
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A little-known fact: Take out penalties and Son is the PL top scorer since summer 2020. Two seasons, 35 goals.
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@Haugstad1006
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The Norway team that beat Brazil at the 1998 World Cup has been auto-translated at Transfermarkt.
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I'd say Madrid's edge is institutional. It's not the players, not even the coach, but the badge, the place, the songs, the videos of the legendary goals on repeat. They're telling a story that everybody has ended up believing, and which turns reality again and again.
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@Haugstad1006
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1 year
Now that's a headline.
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@Haugstad1006
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6 years
Firmino's aggression is ridiculous. Tackles per 90mins in PL: – Firmino 2,2 – Kane 0,6 – Morata 0,6 – Agüero 0,4 – Lukaku 0,2
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Chelsea have now conceded 6 goals in 16 league games since switching to 3-4-3. One every four hours.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
2 years
The fact that @FCBfemeni can play in a 6,000-capacity stadium that doesn't even sell out regularly, and then draw a crowd of 91,000+ at the Camp Nou, just shows how much of it comes down to the stadium, the marketing, the hype. Sell it as a big occasion, and the game delivers.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
2 years
So PSG have now thrown away 2–0 aggregate leads (or bigger) in the CL knockouts under their last four coaches: Blanc, Emery, Tuchel, Poch. Amazing how it keeps happening.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
City completed 117 passes in final third in second half. United: 7.
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Thore Haugstad
3 years
For Solskjær's four wins against Guardiola, Pogba has not been in the squad a single time. Solskjær's record v Pep with Pogba starting is 0-1-2.
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@Haugstad1006
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6 years
Zero signings, stadium delays, 9 players in World Cup semi-finals; injuries to Lloris, Trippier, Sánchez, Vertonghen, Aurier, Wanyama, Alli, Eriksen etc. ... and yet Spurs through in CL and have 36 points in 16 games (3rd) in PL. Pochettino's greatest feat so far?
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@Haugstad1006
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1 year
Dette blir skandale uansett utfall. 1) Hvis City anker og vinner, vil de ha knust anklager fra både av PL og UEFA. Reglene verdt null og niks. 2) Hvis City finnes skyldige, betyr det at ni år med PL ble dominert av et lag som jukset. @NRK_Sport
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
5 years
First 24 games of first full PL season at current club: Guardiola: 49 pts Sarri: 47 pts Klopp: 46 pts Pochettino: 43 pts
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
2 years
Son xG over same period: 22.9.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
5 years
Arsenal have conceded 45 shots (!) in their last two home games – against Wolves and Southampton ( @StatsZone )
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
1 year
The Serie A table: 1) Top three not part of Super League plans. 2) When was the last time "the south" had the three best teams?
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@Haugstad1006
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2 years
Recruitment is one thing, another is how much players improve at Liverpool. Robertson needed months to get into the team, Fabinho looked lost. Salah wasn't at this level. None of them turned up there playing like this. United signings stay the same or get worse.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
2 years
We talk about Madrid nous and know-how, but they've staged this comeback after taking off Modric, Kroos and Casemiro. Playing with four midfielders aged 23 or younger.
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@Haugstad1006
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1 year
A disastrous interview, unhappy ending at United, benched for Portugal, replacement hits a hat trick, leave Qatar in tears, watch your rival win the World Cup to seal GOAT status, then effectively retire in Saudi Arabia. Quite a six weeks for Cristiano.
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@Haugstad1006
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6 years
"I got up early, at ten." Line from Antonio Cassano's autobiography.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
5 years
We like to talk about the best signings and appointments in football history. Zinédine Zidane surely behind one of the best resignations.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
This is funny, but can you imagine the reaction at Coca-Cola HQs? The world's most-followed athlete (538m on social media) disowning their product at a tournament second only to the World Cup. Disaster for UEFA too.
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Cristiano Ronaldo is one of a kind 😂
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@Haugstad1006
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4 years
Herlig med @minafberg i studio. Kan mer enn de aller fleste. Burde brukes der oftere av @2sporten .
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Guardiola has now won more PL manager of the month awards in 2017 than Mourinho has in his whole career. I'm sure that'll please Mou.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
4 months
Fint kontekst for at Aursnes gir seg på landslaget.
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50 matches and counting 🥵 Which men's footballers have played the most matches so far this season? 📊 #FIFPRO PWM Tool #AtTheLimit | @Football_BM
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3 years
Just realised Haaland is yet to average below a goal per 90 in the league since he left Norway. 2019-20 (Salzburg)—1,47 2019/20 (Dortmund)—1,10 2020/21 (Dortmund)—1,01 2021/22 (Dortmund)—1,50
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
That's now 4 conceded in 18 home games for Atleti in Champions under Cholo. One every 7 hours.
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Thore Haugstad
6 years
'Madrid have an extraordinary competitive spirit,' Valdano said [in 2016]. 'Nobody plays bad football as well as Madrid.'
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
9 years
Xavi's career: Local kid, one-club man, captain, most caps, 25 titles, won everything, signs off with treble. Can you do it any better?
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
Vil du vite mer om eierne bak Superligaen? Jeg og @frodelia har laget en hel sesong om dem. Roman Abr: Glazers: Stan Kroenke: Mansour: John W. Henry:
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
5 years
Piece on Lionel Messi and the No10 role ( @FourFourTwo )
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
4 years
Kan ikke være mange pundits, verken på norsk TV eller andre steder, som er dyktigere enn Bojan Djordjic. Helt rå.
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@Haugstad1006
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The coaches of Bayern München, Chelsea, Barcelona and Manchester United were all at Barça from 1997-2000. Pretty special.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
4 months
Haaland now in Top 3 for scoring below open-play xG in PL 2023-24. 1. Calvert-Lewin (-6.2) 2. N. Jackson (-4.3) 3. Haaland (-2.6) … as for goals scored, he’s in the Top 1.
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@Haugstad1006
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6 years
A long profile of Mohamed Salah for new site Eleven New York
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Thore Haugstad
2 years
Marca and AS have been building up the Haaland-to-Madrid rumours for two years. On the day the saga ends, the news is essentially a footnote on Marca's front page; the AS one doesn't mention it at all.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 months
De 6 store kjøpene under Ten Hag: 3 — eks Ajax 1 — via Ten Hags agent 2 — Chelsea, Madrid United har 140 speidere over hele verden. Hvor er kreativiteten?
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@Haugstad1006
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6 years
Lionel Messi kom på femteplass i kampen om Gullballen. Det er nå tre år siden han ble kåret til verdens beste spiller. Er han undervurdert? ( @NRK_Sport )
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@Haugstad1006
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2 years
Back in 2003, Laporta's board had two options for addressing the debt and poor results. They chose the riskiest one. It paid off. But this time sums are way higher, Soriano is gone and as for CL knockouts, well... From today's piece:
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
6 years
Shots before Salah sub: Liverpool 9-2 Madrid Shots after Salah sub: Liverpool 0-5 Madrid
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Thore Haugstad
8 years
The 'Italian' 4-4-2 | Comparing the tactics of Atleti 2013/14 and Leicester 2015/16 (short piece, @TwentyMinReads ).
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Great interview with Diego Simeone at ESPN. This was quite a passage.
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Thore Haugstad
2 years
When was the last time a 36-year-old delivered what Modrić did tonight? Thiago Silva imperious at 37, but in the centre of a back three. Completely mental that Modrić is running the game like this, against PSG.
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Thore Haugstad
1 year
According to the match logs at @fbref , this hasn't happened in a competitive game that Haaland has started since Dortmund met Duisburg in the German cup on 14 September 2020.
@ESPNFC
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Erling Haaland had zero shots in a match for the first time in the Premier League 👀
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@Haugstad1006
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3 years
For those who might have thought 'all PR is good PR': Coca-Cola share price down 1.6%, a drop of $4bn.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
6 years
Been a rough 14 months on the road for Arsenal...
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Thore Haugstad
6 months
Darwin Núñez med 2 assists i kveld. Han har 0,89 målpoeng per 90 min i PL. Uten straffer er bare Mohamed Salah bedre på Liverpool – marginalt – med 0,93. Bør Darwin score mer? Ja. Men han spiller allerede bra.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
Jeg og @frodelia har laget en sesong om Qatar. Tre av syv episoder er ute: 1) Slik fikk Qatar VM 2) PSG 3) Aspire-akademiet Gøy å se at så mange har hørt på sesongen allerede :) Lytt her!
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Florentino surely sees this as another way to get closer to Bernabéu's legacy. First the CL titles, then the stadium renovation, and now at the head of a new groundbreaking European competition.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
It's been 3 hours and 16min since Chelsea last conceded a shot on target.
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@Haugstad1006
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8 months
Noen trenere «trenger tid». Andre—Ange, Emery, De Zerbi— snur laget på hodet innen noen måneder. Jeg har skrevet om ... • At Fergie-argumentet er utdatert • Smart klubb = lettere å bytte trener • De få som *faktisk* trenger tid
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
A 5,000-word profile of Antonio Conte (via @TwentyMinReads )
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@Haugstad1006
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9 years
A long read on Mauricio Pochettino
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
5 years
Piece for @StatsBomb on Christian Pulisic, who has the sixth-highest xG from open play in the league.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
Tenk Antonio Conte med dette laget. Vri til 3-5-2, pøs på med oppspill på Haaland/Sørloth (både feilvendt og i bakrom). Ødegaard som høyre indreløper eller sentral offensiv. Hadde vært gøy.
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@Haugstad1006
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4 years
Most surprising of all: Barça are 57th for shots per game (12.2), fewer than Villa, Brighton, Soton, etc. Barça take 1.9 shots more than they concede per game, which is shocking really.
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Thore Haugstad
2 years
Says something about how mental the whole Qatar story has become when this graf can be thrown in at the end of an AP piece as a kind of casual oh-by-the-way reminder.
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Thore Haugstad
3 years
A theory (and only that) after watching Ajax last night: Van de Beek is struggling because he used to have a specific role in a system that ran like clockwork, only to become lost in a team that relies on improvisation.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Best interview I've read in a while.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
6 years
Pep on course for a higher points total in PL this season than he ever managed in La Liga.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
2 years
Most impressive Ronaldo stat in PL 2021/22 is probably that his non-penalty goals per 90 is 0.59 – the same as Salah and Son. Only Jota and Vardy better.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Chelsea had a chaotic summer, but there's no better fix than Conte, the king of simplicity ( @FourFourTwo )
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
4 years
Says something about how quickly Erling Braut Haaland has developed that he still only has two caps for Norway.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
Imagine Pep actually winning 14 out of 19 titles at Barça, recording 80% win ratio at Bayern, then changing his style on basis of 6 games.
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That's how to handle a VAR incident. Authoritative, decisive, no nonsense.
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@Haugstad1006
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2 years
This is the peak of Qatari football investment so far then. Two of Qatar-owned PSG's biggest stars meet in final of Qatar World Cup, sponsored by Qatari state companies, with Al-Khelaifi on UEFA exec committee and as chairman of the CEA. (Just need PSG to win CL now.)
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
6 years
The goal of the tournament, a captain covered in blood, inexplicable subs, players crying, madness in the stands, Maradona to hospital, Messi magic; genius and mediocrity hand in hand... it could only be Argentina.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 months
Jeg har skrevet om Brightons hemmeligheter: – Hvordan de finner stjernene – Hvorfor stjernene sier ja – Pokerspilleren Bloom – Verdien av Union Saint-Gilloise Stor takk til @tkknamely , @Aukrust1 og @Brian__Owen .
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
Rasisme og Qatar-VM neste nå. En superliga skal ikke kunne skape mer sinne enn moderne slaveri. Mange, meg selv inkludert, må gjøre mer for å aktivt motarbeide de virkelig store problemene. De siste to dagene har vist hva som er mulig.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
Wonder at what point, if at all, a player or coach will openly refuse to join a club because of its owners' human rights record.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Look at Solskjær...!
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
1 year
Vil bare si tusen takk til alle som hørte på Fotballfortellinger ( @ff__pod ) i 2022. Det var et år hvor vi firedoblet antallet avspillinger. Veldig moro 🙂 Lista legges høyere i 2023. Flere detaljer, flere intervjuer og bedre historier. Heng med. Vi gleder oss!
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
En liten nyhet. Jeg og godeste @frodelia har startet en ny podcast om Premier League. I ukens episode: ⚽️Ranieris spillestil ⚽️Pozzo-familien ⚽️Frode forsvarer Solskjær (og slakter Fred) ⚽️Bin Salmans ego ⚽️Dette kan Newcastle lære av City Lytt her!
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
6 years
Getting goosebumps watching the celebrations in Naples: 18,000 at airport at 2am, fireworks, people swimming in fountains... Imagine the scenes if they win the title.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
Manuel Neuer has completed more passes in the league this season than Griezmann, De Bruyne and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
@OptaJohan @OptaJose How many times has a goalkeeper won a foul in the opposition half in the Champions League?
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
By my calculations, Portugal have played 12 hours of football at this tournament and been in the lead for 73 minutes.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Morata and Mariano now have 16 league goals between them this season. Benz and CR7 still on 1 each.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
3 years
Ødegaard to Arsenal exciting, but Madrid haven't handled this well at all. First interrupt his stay at a club where he was settled/comfortable. Then unable to reach a new deal with La Real, leading him to go to a new club/country mid-season with minimal preparation. Not ideal.
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@Haugstad1006
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6 years
Moving back home to Norway (Oslo) tomorrow after 11 years abroad. All I'll say is, if you're a student and can go abroad, do it. You'll meet so many interesting people, you'll learn/see so much, you might learn a new language too. It can be immensely rewarding—and so much fun.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
7 years
Mourinho height XI (3-5-1-1): De Gea; Lindelöf, Smalling, Bailly; Fosu-M, Fellaini, Carrick, Matić, Rojo; Pogba; Lukaku. Average: 190cm.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
9 years
Remember Van Gaal saying "my philosophy is to attack, his [Mourinho's] is to win". That game was it.
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@Haugstad1006
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8 years
Analytical piece on Messi improving as a pure playmaker since moving into a deeper role ( @ESPNInsider ) ($)
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@Haugstad1006
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Graham Hansen update 2023-24. Games: 35 Goals: 28 Assists: 27 Other stats: Off the scale
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@Haugstad1006
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1 year
Net spend, all leagues, 2022-23. Bit of a trend here. (Table from @Transfermarkt )
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3 years
According to the Mail, Bruno Fernandes is on £100,000 a week, Paul Pogba on £290,000 and David de Gea on £375,000. That is some wage structure.
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@Haugstad1006
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10 years
Writing about how to stop Cristiano Ronaldo. Several options available, but if he manages to get to the stadium, you've lost.
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1 year
Casemiro ... Honestly wondered how motivated he'd be moving to a struggling club in rainy Manchester after winning five Champions Leagues with Madrid. Six months later he's transformed the team and is playing the League Cup final like his life depended on it. Campeón.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
8 years
Random stat: City have conceded more league goals at home (15) than Sunderland (13) and Aston Villa (14).
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@Haugstad1006
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7 years
Rumours valuing Ox near £30m. Seems a lot for a 24-year-old in last year of contract who's yet to score more than twice in a PL season.
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@Haugstad1006
Thore Haugstad
5 years
Shouldn't really be possible for Spurs, all their problems considered, to sit two points behind City after 24 games.
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