International Soccer - General Discussion

Looking at the European results from last night, purely from a Scottish point of view I am delighted to see Celtic making it to the group stages after a 2 year absence. In Scotland there is a universal dislike to the old firm, we support anybody who plays them and beats them however when it comes to European competitions all differences are set to one side for the greater good of the game as its very important to have Scottish clubs still in Europe. It enhances our reputation and puts Scotland back on the map

With regards to AS Roma a lot of members are probably unaware of this but back in 1984 my Dundee United team were only 90 minutes away from what would have been at the time the biggest European game that was currently in place in the shape of the European Cup. Dundee United led 2-0 in from the first leg at Tannadice but then lost 3-0 away in the return leg at the Olympic Stadium which later turned out that the referee in charge of the game was subject to bribery and was paid 100million lire.

The Italian press at the time also accused the Dundee United team of being on drugs to which then manager Jim Mclean responded by saying that if we were I hoped we were still on them for the next game. This in turn created a very hostile atmosphere and in effect cheated us out of what would have been and still to this day would have been the biggest match ever in our history. A dream final against Liverpool would have been magnificent but sadly history put an end to any of these aspirations [hidden link - please register]





Dundee United manager Jim Mclean in 1984 being given an ear bashing by the Roma players after the European exit
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The Dundee United team in 2016 is very different to to the one back then, currently we are are in Scotland's second tier after being relegated last season at the home of our oldest rivals Dundee

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This season we aim to bounce straight back up at the first attempt after something of a dodgy start to life in the Championship where we recently lost away to Dumbarton but managed to get our first league win of the season last weekend with victory over Ayr United. Hopefully one day we'll be back to competing with Europe's finest and perhaps one day we'll meet Roma again and get our revenge

2016-17 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS :
Results Second Legs :

Hapoel Beer Sheva 2 - Celtic FC 0 - First Leg : (2-5)

Legia Warszawa 1 - Dundalk 1 - First Leg : (2-0)

AS ROMA 0 - FC Porto 3 - First Leg : (1-1)

Viktoria Plzen 2 - Ludogorets 2 - First Leg : (0-2)

AS Monaco FC 1 - Villarreal CF 0 - First Leg : (2-1)

Teams Qualified for Group Stage : CELTIC FC - LEGIA WARSZAWA - FC PORTO - LUDOGORETS - AS MONACO FC

2016-17 SERIE A :
Match day 1 Complete Results :

Roma 4 - Udinese 0 PLAYED SATURDAY
Juventus 2 - Fiorentina 1 PLAYED SATURDAY

Milan 3 - Torino 2
Goals : 38', 50', 62' (pen.) Bacca (M), 48' Belotti (T), 90' + 1' Baselli (T)
Red Card : 90' + 4' Paletta (M)
Penalty Failed : 90' + 6' Belotti (T), saved by Donnarumma (M)

Atalanta 3 - Lazio 4
Goals : 15' Immobile (L), 20' Hoedt (L), 33' Lombardi (L), 63', 68' Kessie (A), 89' Cataldi (L), 90' + 1' Petagna (A)

Bologna 1 - Crotone 0
Goal : 86' Destro

Chievo Verona 2 - Internazionale 0
Goals : 49', 81' Birsa

Empoli 0 - Sampdoria 1
Goal : 37' Muriel
Red Card : 84' Maccarone (E)

Genoa 3 - Cagliari 1
Goals : 66' Borriello ( C ), 78' Ntcham (G), 79' Laxalt (G), 88' Rigoni (G)

Palermo 0 - Sassuolo 1
Goal : 31' Berardi (pen.)
Red Card : 90' + 1' Rajkovic (P)

Pescara 2 - Napoli 2
Goals : 8' Benali (P), 35' Caprari (P), 60', 63' Mertens (N)

2016-17 PREMIER LEAGUE :
Match day 2 Complete Results :

Manchester United 2 - Southampton 0
Stoke City 1 - Manchester City 4
Burnley 2 - Liverpool 0
Swansea 0 - Hull City 2
Tottenham 1 - Crystal Palace 0
Watford 1 - Chelsea 2
West Bromwich Albion 1 - Everton 2
Leicester 0 - Arsenal 0
Sunderland 1 - Middlesbrough 2
West Ham United 1 - Bournemouth 0

2016-17 LIGUE 1 :
Match day 2 Complete Results :

Olympique Lyonnais 2 - Caen 0
Nantes 0 - Monaco 1
Angers 0 - Nice 1
Lille 1 - Dijon 0
Lorient 0 - Bastia 3
Rennes 2 - Nancy 0
Toulouse 4 - Bordeaux 1
Guingamp 2 - Olympique de Marseille 1
Saint-Etienne 3 - Montpellier 1
Paris Saint-Germain 3 - Metz 0

2016-17 LA LIGA :
Match day 1 Complete Results :

Deportivo La Coruna 2 - Eibar 1
Malaga 1 - Osasuna 1
Barcelona 6 - Real Betis 2
Granada 1 - Villarreal 1
Sevilla 6 - Espanyol 4
Real Sociedad 0 - Real Madrid 3
Sporting Gijon 2 - Athletic Club 1
Atletico de Madrid 1 - Alavés 1
Celta de Vigo 0 - Leganes 1
Valencia 2 - Las Palmas 4

2016-17 SERIE A MATCH DAY 1 :
Results Saturday Matches :

Roma 4 - Udinese 0
Goals : 65', 75' Perotti (2 pen.), 82' Dzeko, 84' Salah

Juventus 2 - Fiorentina 1
Goals : 37' Khedira (J), 70' Kalinic (F), 75' Higuain (J)

2016-17 SUPERCOPA DE ESPANA (SPANISH SUPERCUP) SECOND LEG :
Barcelona, Camp Nou, 17 August :

FC Barcelona 3 - Sevilla FC 0
Goals : 10', 46' Arda Turan, 55' Messi
Penalty Failed : 33' Iborra (S)

FC BARCELONA win the 2016-17 Supercopa de Espana, the 12th in the history of the club

2016-17 UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS :
Results First Legs :

FC Astana 2 - BATE 0
Dinamo Tbilisi 0 - PAOK 3
Sonderjyske 0 - Sparta Praha 0
Krasnodar 4 - Partizani 0
Midtjylland 0 - Osmanlispor 1
AEK Larnaca 0 - Slovan Liberec 1
Austria Wien 2 - Rosenborg 1
Qabala 3 - Maribor 1
Goteborg 1 - Qarabag 0
Maccabi Tel Aviv 2 - Hajduk Split 1
Slavia Praha 0 - Anderlecht 3
Basakhseir 1 - Shakhtar 2
Fenerbahce 3 - Grasshoppers 0
Lokomotiv Zagreb 2 - Genk 2
Panathinaikos 3 - Brondby 0
Vojvodina 0 - AZ 3
Astra 1 - West Ham United 1
Gent 2 - Shkendija 1
SASSUOLO 3 - Crvena zvezda 0
Arouca 0 - Olympiakos 1
Trencin 0 - Rapid Wien 4

Second Legs : Thursday, August 25th

2016-17 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS :
Results Wednesday Matches First Legs :

Celtic FC 5 - Hapoel Beer Sheva 2

Dundalk 0 - Legia Warszawa 2

FC Porto 1 - AS ROMA 1

Ludogorets 2 - Viktoria Plzen 0

Villarreal CF 1 - AS Monaco FC 2

Second Legs : Tuesday, August 23rd

2016-17 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLAY-OFFS :
Results Tuesday Matches First Legs :

Kobenhavn 1 - APOEL 0

Dinamo Zagreb 1 - Red Bull Salzburg 1

Steaua Bucuresti 0 - Manchester City FC 5

Ajax 1 - Rostov 1

Young Boys 1 - VfL Borussia Moenchengladbach 3

Second Legs : Wednesday, August 24th

2016-17 PREMIER LEAGUE :
Match day 1 Complete Results :

Hull City 2 - Leicester 1
Burnley 0 - Swansea 1
Crystal Palace 0 - West Bromwich Albion 1
Everton 1 - Tottenham 1
Middlesbrough 1 - Stoke City 1
Southampton 1 - Watford 1
Manchester City 2 - Sunderland 1
Bournemouth 1 - Manchester United 3
Arsenal 3 - Liverpool 4
Chelsea 2 - West Ham United 1

2016-17 LIGUE 1 :
Match day 1 Complete Results :

Bastia 0 - Paris Saint-Germain 1
Monaco 2 - Guingamp 2
Bordeaux 3 - Saint-Etienne 2
Caen 3 - Lorient 2
Dijon 0 - Nantes 1
Metz 3 - Lille 2
Montpellier 1 - Angers 0
Nancy 0 - Olympique Lyonnais 3
Nice 1 - Rennes 0
Olympique de Marseille 0 - Toulouse 0

2016-17 DFB-SUPER CUP :
Dortmund, Signal Iduna Park, 14 August :

BVB Borussia Dortmund 0 - FC Bayern Munchen 2
Goals : 58' Vidal, 79' Mueller

FC BAYERN MUNCHEN win the 2016-17 DFB-Super Cup, the fifth in the history of the club

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2016-17 SUPERCOPA DE ESPANA (SPANISH SUPER CUP) FIRST LEG :
Seville, Estadio Ramòn Sànchez Pizjuàn, 14 August :

Sevilla FC 0 - FC Barcelona 2
Goals : 55' Suarez, 81' El Haddadi

Second Leg : August 17th, Camp Nou (Barcelona)

2016 UEFA EUROPEAN SUPERCUP :
Trondheim (Norway), Lerkendal Stadion :

Real Madrid CF 3 - Sevilla FC 2 After Extra-Time
Goals : 21' Asensio (RM), 41' Vazquez (S), 72' Konoplyanka (S pen.), 90' + 3' S. Ramos (RM), 119' Carvajal (RM)
Red Card : 93' Kolodziejczak (S)

REAL MADRID CF win the 2016 UEFA European Supercup, the third in the history of the club

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2016 FA COMMUNITY SHIELD :
London, Wembley Stadium, 7 August :

Leicester City 1 - Manchester United 2
Goals : 32' Lingard (MU), 52' Vardy (L), 83' Ibrahimovic (MU)

MANCHESTER UNITED win the 2016 FA Community Shield, the 21st in the history of the club

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2016 FRENCH SUPERCUP :
Klagenfurt (Austria), Worthersee Stadion, 6 August :

Paris Saint-Germain 4 - Olympique Lyonnais 1
Goals : 9' Pastore (PSG), 19' Lucas (PSG), 34' Ben Arfa (PSG), 54' Kurzawa (PSG), 87' Tolisso (OL)

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN win the 2016 French Supercup, the 6th in the history of the club

CENTENNIAL COPA AMERICA :
Result Final :

Argentina 2 - Chile 4 After Penalties, 0-0 After 90'
Red Cards : 28' Diaz ( C ), 43' Rojo (A)

Penalties : 1. Vidal ( C ) FAILED
1. Messi (A) FAILED
2. Castillo ( C ) GOAL
2. Mascherano (A) GOAL
3. Aranguiz ( C ) GOAL
3. Aguero (A) GOAL
4. Beausejour ( C ) GOAL
4. Biglia (A) FAILED
5. Silva ( C ) GOAL

CHILE win the 2016 Copa America, the second (consecutive) in the history of the nation

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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS : Golden Ball Award : ALEXIS SANCHEZ (CHILE) with 3 Goals
Golden Boot Award : EDUARDO VARGAS (CHILE) with 6 Goals
Golden Glove Award : CLAUDIO BRAVO (CHILE)
Fair Play Award : ARGENTINA

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CENTENNIAL COPA AMERICA :
Result Third Place Play-off :

United States 0 - Colombia 1
Goal : 31' Bacca
Red Cards : 90' + 4' Orozco (USA) & Arias ( C )

CENTENNIAL COPA AMERICA :
Result Second Semifinal :

Colombia 0 - Chile 2 - Match suspended for 2 hours at the end of first half due to bad weather
Goals : 7' Aranguiz, 11' Fuenzalida
Red Card : 57' Sanchez ( C )

FINALS SCHEDULE :

Third Place : United States vs Colombia 26 June

First Place : Argentina vs Chile 27 June