Nice Vienna are in the CL!

Goal Vienna! 3-2 Zagreb lead. Vienna up 4-3 on aggregate.

Oh no 3-1 for Zagreb with 20min left! This going to go to the death.

Nice! Austria Wien up 1-0 after 4 mins. That's almost CL qualification for Holland.

No problems I just grab stuff from whoscored which is great for the leagues they do in detail and I am a stats nerd so I enjoy it. Will be interesting with Rogic + Holland getting their stats followed in Europe (they do the UCL and Europa but only starting at the group stages)

anyway in other non-really-news news Brugge's 3rd choice keeper is out for 4 months, doubt it will effect Ryan's year unless he punches the coach in the face he might still need to be put on the bench.

http://m.sporza.be/cm/sporza.mobile/m_voetbal_belgie/1.1713809

Thanks Moofa, good stuff.

Not true at all, it logically follows the stronger your grammar skills the better your comprehension. Logic Neanderthal, not your strong point.

How's Jade North going?? You still want him in the Socceroos?

yeah

So he's playing as a LB, is he?

He was put in the squad from another player being dropped and not an injury so should stay in if he stays in form.

In their first two games without him they conceded 3 both games vs Vitese (8th) and PEC Zwolle (1st) and lost both 3-1. Since he has come in they have won 4-2 vs Heerenveen and drew 1-1 vs PSV (2nd) which were the first points PSV have dropped. He could have done better for PSV's goal though.

So results have improved since he came in so I would say there is a good chance of him staying in for the time being but there is competition from Christian Dorda a 24 year old German.

Whoscored.com has averaged his rating (whoscored does ratings on stats only) at 6.97 compared to Dorda's 6.31. Davidson seems to be better going forward than Dorda and his best attribute for him staying in over Dorda is his 79.6 (39/49) pass accuracy compared to 65.2 (43/66).

Well surely it's best for him to move elsewhere then? What's he still doing at Utrecht?

m surprised zullo hasnt tried to move to another mid table eredivisie club?

Zullo can succeed in the Netherlands. He's just unlucky to be behind one of the best leftbacks in the league.

Anyone know what the odds of Davidson being a regular in Herecles starting XI for the rest of the season are? A couple of times he has pulled 3 or 4 full games together and then been out of the squad alltogether

Time for Zullo to come home

Just sang that in my head to "Bad to the bone".

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Edited by Voice ofReason: 27/8/2013 02:38:37 PM

The Monday OS Aussie action http://osaussies.com/monday-wrap-45/

Why have Setanta stopped showing the Dutch league?

you think ESPN will care about what game they are showing? they get what they are given by uefa thats it.

What is with ESPN showing the Basel game over the Austria one? 6:45 start would have been great for me and you would think Australia's Croatian footballing community is bigger than our Swiss or Bulgarian ones?

If they do get turned over I will be pissed as I want to watch how Holland plays for him club side, also if they do go through who was the last player to get close to a full 540 minutes in the CL group stages? Holamn in 09/10?

He was criticising your comprehension skills. Nothing to do with grammar. But predictably you failed to comprehend what he was saying...

Wow look everybody we have a grammarian among us ;)

Persoanlly I'm not a fan of the big fella...too slow for mine, but he did get game time so that was the reason he's on the subs bench. The choice was between him and Ollie Bozanic who is going through a purple patch at the moment but gave the nod to Portaloo because Bozanic has no previous NT form. Must admit however if Bozanic keeps up this run of form he will be hard to ignore.

Nice XI.

Interesting that all of them started their senior careers in the A-League, except for all of the back 4. :-k

How do Holland's stats compare to others in the league?

Holland poster some pretty good stats this weekend

source: http://www.laola1.at/de/fussball/bundesliga/saison-2014/6/rd-6-statcheck/page/63299-32-48-48-.html

Holland   
Ball contacts:47   
Challenges won:75.0% (12/4) - I think this is tackles + things like aerial duels (highest for his team
Pass completion: 84.6% (22/4)   
Rating: 7.4

It's not nearly as funny as your reading and comprehension though ;)

The Paartalu inclusion is a joke right :-s