Sorry for the missed past week–Spring Break in Miami unfortunately prevented me from writing for you all! So, as some of you may have seen, my original “Soccer State of Mind” blog posts are now on SB Nation’s Aston Villa page, 7500 to Holte (those will still be consistently coming on that site every Monday late afternoon). I’m gonna change it up so I can still have this blog site active, so I will now use this site for which games to watch for in the upcoming week, instead of combining that into my SSOM posts, which will still recap the past week. My intentions for this is to give the average person, who is looking to get into the beautiful sport, some insight on which games you should avoid watching, and which games are absolute dimes to watch out for.
This week is a very special one again, mainly consisting of international games.
Tuesday
Starting early in the day, we’ll probably get a deeper look into the depth of France’s squad as they have an easier match this go-around as they face the the World Cup hosts, Russia.
2:45… 7-1… When these teams face, craziness is expected. Brazil takes on the Germans that embarrassed them at home 4 years ago, once again without Neymar. This is my early prediction for the finals of the World Cup, if the bracket works out that way after group stages. Along with France, Brazil and Germany are two of the deeper squads in terms of talent from top to bottom.
England-Italy will be decent as well, battle of two teams who are just above mediocre right now, not sure how England do in the World Cup, as Italy missed out, but we’ll see!
Argentina-Spain is also a battle of the beasts at 3:30, Spain still looks as dirty as ever in the midfield with this new generation too, and they might’ve actually figured out their striker situation so they don’t have to play Big Kicks F.C. up to Diego Costa again this WC. Messi and Argentina hope to not lose yet another heartbreak final this summer, so we’ll see how they match up against the Spanish giants.
PRIMETIME EVENT!!! Kidding, not really. The not-in-world-cup United States youngin’s step forward to face Paraguay, in a rematch of the Copa America game that I got to witness the US win 1-0 in Philly a few summer’s ago. Time to see what this new generation’s made of, there’s a lot of young players playing overseas that could be the future.
Wednesday and Thursday are filled with games to not watch, and honestly there’s probably no need to even look at the scores of these second-tier American games.
Friday
A solid MLS game with Toronto FC and Real Salt Lake, and then some English Championship games that aren’t Villa, so I don’t really care about those
Saturday
We have league games again! I’ll be waking up early to watch Liverpool have a shootout with Crystal Palace, and then no real good games until 12:30, I’ll be watching Villa take on Hull (hopefully an easy W), next to the German primetime rivalry: Dortmund-Bayern. Maybe Dortmund can withstand Bayern’s dominance and shock the Bundesliga.
Over to the MLS in the afternoon, the newly found LA rivalry between LAFC and the Zlatan-filled Galaxy team that I’m super pumped to see in action. DC United tries to turn things around against Sporting KC. That’s really it for the MLS and Saturday, now onto Sunday.
Sunday
I’ll probably wake up early to watch Arsenal and hope they continue their form against a really struggling Stoke team that cannot get anything going. Chelsea-Spurs should be a good battle immediately after that, to see who is going to lock in those Champions League spots for next season behind Man City.
And after that I’ll probably be playing Fortnite the rest of the day instead of trying to stream some of the games from other leagues, if we’re being honest.
That’s really the end of the preview for the upcoming week, comment if you think I missed anything, but everything I have on here is definitely worth watching! They will be very hype games, if you’re looking to watch some soccer this week(end), these games are where to start!
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