Is De Silva playing up front again?

Not sure where his best position would be for the NT...

De Silva starting for Roda again

it's very interesting, Whoscored rate Huddersfield only 11th best team over the 8 games so far in the season,   seing as Huddersfield  has won 6 of those 8 games, and reading how Whoscored does give rating bonus to team that win the game, it interesting how low the Huddersfield is rated,,,,,there also only one Huddersfield player in top 50 with 
Rajiv van La Parra 36th (7.38),  Aaron Mooy is next best Huddersfield player at 90th (7.14)

going to be interesting, to see Huddersfield  this season

Huddersfield TownVerified account ‏@htafcdotcom  15m15 minutes agoHuddersfield, England
DW: "Aaron Mooy is the heart of our midfield. He nearly 100% makes the right decision; to speed the game up or slow it down" #htafc (DTS)

Coach of Huddersfield

What I love about Ange is the number of players he's exposed to the national team set up. If a massive number of injuries happen there are tonnes of players ready to fill the void ad understand exactly what's expected of them. 

Thanks for the write up!

Irvine 12th in the Championship on Whoscored's rankings, even though they have a Scottish flag for the capped Socceroo!

Luongo 43rd, Wright 45th, and Mooy 72nd, making all the Aussies I found in my skimming.

Kiwi Chris Wood doing well with four goals for Leeds already.

Wow, Preston shipped 3 goals in 3 minutes. Final score 5-0, ouch. Wright was an unused sub luckily. Burton lost 1-0 to an 88th minute penalty, full game for Irvine. Huddersfield beat QPR 2-1, full 90 for both Mooy and Luongo. Clean sheet for Jedinak in a 0-0 away draw at Ipswich. Smith and Fedders both unused subs as Bournemouth were belted 4-0 by City. De Bruyne ran riot.

AGF lost 1-0, full game for Amini, 83rd minute yellow for Ikonimidis then was subbed off in the 85th.

Mebrahtu scored again for Mlada Boleslav in a 3-0 win. Great to see him having success in Europe.

Meredith scores for Bradford City in League One against Bristol City, 1-1 and they've just added 8 minutes stoppage time!

We tried before but people complained because they were in the habit of looking for it in the unstickied threads as it usually gets bumped so often.

Mind you, that was with the old layout, could pan out differently if we tried it again now.

It's clearly the most popular and important permanent thread so it's pretty odd that it's not, I must say.

whoscored. has Mathew Leckie 14th best rated player in Bundesliga this season (3 rounds)

Actually, to totally be a pedant, he's still 17 years old. His birthday is on the 18th and it's still the 17th here in Europe. ;)

Brutal.

Huddersfield 2-0

I'm not arguing otherwise. We do pretty well in terms of population. Just saying we share a lot of similar traits with the USA, that's all.

Some similarities. Perhaps in terms of per capita and the fact that both countries have lots of athletes strong in multiple sports.

But, as has already been mentioned, the population of the US is so much greater. That helps them.

They also have a truckload of Hispanic support for the game which we'd kill for.

They have literally 15x our population, If anything i'd say we stack up pretty well 

Damn, Ingolstadt should've had a pen to make it 2-2 and now they go 3-1 down. They did waste a lot of good chances though to be fair.

Still 1-0 at Huddersfield, Aston Villa drawing 0-0 at Ipswich with an hour gone, and 0-0 in Denmark with 30 mins to play.

Just make him both, it's the truth after all.

Referee expert for sky just said it should have been a penalty for Ingolstadt. 

http://streamable.com/q7iw

Here's the chance you're referring to, was posted to reddit.

Leckie off on the 80 minute mark. Should have won a pen.

Just mentioned him as I was checking out the Dortmund game. There are plenty of young players like him from bigger nations playing for bigger clubs but I've always felt like the USA is somewhat analogous to Australia with the MLS being a similar model to the A-League, as well as the fact that football is not the most popular sport there due to NFL (like the AFL here), the influence of migrants on the sport, being a big fish in a smaller region (smaller by significance to football), etc.

A near full game and a goal for Armenekas for Udinese in the Primavera.

leckie get Rugby hit in Pen box...nothing

Leckie fouled in the box but no penalty. It's his game against Chile all over again. Very exciting but frustrating finishing. 

Why USA specifically ? there are many stronger football nations 

They're playing the Bundesliga simulcast here in the pub I'm watching at in Berlin, it's like football for people with ADD, I'm finding it very jarring, especially with the language barrier. Showing plenty of Leckie's game though at least.

Another Ingolstadt player with a point blank chance which goes wide. 

We have some good youngsters but man I wish we had a young talent like the USA have in Pulisic at Dortmund. Starting regularly for them, just scored another goal and only turned 18 today... we haven't had a player that young starting for such a big club since Kewell, I don't think.