3-2 PSV! They´ve done it!

HOLY SHIT! 2-1 PSV without even looking at the net!

*chef kiss* What an assist and chip over the goalie! 2-0 Sevilla!

Half time, Sevilla 1-0 up at the moment. Even in spite of a rough start due to PSV´s speed, they have managed to adapt to their pace by leaving more people around the midfield than in the first 10 minutes or so where the midfield was more forward than now. If they keep this up, they might just be able to avoid PSV using their speed to create dangerous shots a lot even if they will still happen. So not bad from them.

As for PSV, even if it might sound odd, i feel they might just need to switch to passes through lines or just short passing it till they can do the line breaking passes, it´s that what they tried at first is just not being effective at the moment in a consistent manner that you could say “oh yes they will get the 2 goals needed from the speed tactic” imo. Meanwhile with shorter passes or passes between lines, they could exploit Sevilla having more players on the midfield by trying to move them just enough via short passes for the line breaker ones and from there increase the shot frequency, if that makes sense. Other than that, i don´t see them getting more than 1 goal with how Sevilla have been playing once they adapted to what PSV was trying.

uhhh what happened there? It looked like when you hold the shoot button on FIFA games and the ball just goes haywire over the bar with how out of context that shot ended after the good pass from Sevilla.

Yeah, looks a bit goofy due to the camera angle but thats 100% a foul considering the PSV player had the Sevilla one´s arm in a hold pretty much the whole way.

I know he tried to get a foul, but the Sevilla just deadass jumped like 5 meters in the air over a mere body block from the PSV player XD

Wait what was that goal lmao? Did Ramos even touch the ball or it just curved in XD

Nice save from the PSV goalie! That said, oh my god the Sevilla striker, why didnt he just chip it over the goalie? Literally that was the best choice yet he decided to shoot with a lot of the goal open.

i wonder if the second half will be played, like, before we could barely see who played for which team, but now it is even more foggy and like, idk if it is visible enough for the match to continue.

Half time, still 0-0. That was a fun sequence at the end with the number 8 of Sierra Leone just deciding “screw it, i will do it myself” and dodging 4 opponents, even leaving 1 in the floor. Jokes aside, yeah, Ethiopia probably need to rethink their defensive tactics because Sierra Leone are taking a lot of advantages of their mistakes there plus their own improvisation so yep, Ethiopia better find some way to not get put in so many problems, else it might end ugly for them. As for Sierra Leone, not bad from what i managed to see (entered in like minute 20 or so) in defense and progressing the ball for offense, specially the last 10 minutes with how Ethiopia didnt get that many shots. Just a bit more luck and they might find a goal.

So far it feels like while Ethiopia can do passes between lines well and just feel the better team quality wise in completing passes, due to how for the most part (of what i have seen) Sierra Leone have been able to get the ball clean, it doesn´t fully work until they do some trickery like with that free kick being taken fast almost resulting in a header goal off a center into the box, and on the other hand Sierra have honestly been doing well considering they could have scored a couple of minutes ago due to that miscomunication in the header between goalie and defender of the other team had their player shot at the net instead of trying a pass plus that might be me but it feels like Sierra Leone are good at improvising on the fly if a play on the attack doesnt work smoothly to keep the ball going in the attack no matter if a player from Ethiopia tries to stop them. Like, it feels pretty even so far imo.

hello, i just opened reddit checking here and found this match thread plus that Fifa+ are giving a match for free and tldr i decided to watch it since due to international break there aint much to watch plus that i am curious on how do the African WCQ work compared to the others haha.

They did it! Empoli have defeated Serie A´s last champions and are out of the relegation zone. Man, we really have a relegation scrap in our hands this season as far as Serie A goes huh? Considering how well all relegation scrap teams in Serie A out of the sudden decide to start balling.

what? How is that not a foul for Sassuolo bro got shoved to the floor there right?

And we keep at where we left off, dayum Salernitana almost scored from the get go or so there.

Half time. Salernitana win 2-1 in a honestly entertaining game. Like, i can see this turning full on into a goalfest on the second half. I will say that Salernitana need to be careful with the crosses of Sassuolo since that led to the Sassuolo goal moreso than the speed they use to do centers into the box. As for Sassuolo, they need (imo) to not go so forwards into the attack to not get offside tricked like in the first goal or just not risk a counterattack ending in a Salernitana goal due to lack of defenders in their half even if they are still quite cunning to find other ways (the 2-0 being off a clever assist through some defenders) to score. All in all, second half is gonna be quite fun if we keep this level of action.

Gotta give it to the Sassuolo defense there, that was a good way of closing the Salernitana player in so that he couldnt shoot properly due to the angle.

Uh, that is penalty for Sassuolo imo. Considering how their player fell down.

How did that not go in? Jesus! Sassuolo almost tied it there!