On 2025-04-01 13:57, MH wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.

Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

92nd minute, but Leverkusen are notorious for late comebacks

France

Dunkerque 2-0  PSG

Luis Enrique's PSG is made of sterner stuff than previous iterations.
Now 2-3

Italy  (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna

0-3. Bologna have not won the cup since the 70s

Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad  (1-1 aggr.)

1-1 (aggregate 2-1) early second half


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On 2025-04-01 4:39 p.m., MH wrote:

On 2025-04-01 13:57, MH wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

The Pretenders are back. Good win for the 3rd div club.

92nd minute, but Leverkusen are notorious for late comebacks

France

Dunkerque 2-0  PSG

Luis Enrique's PSG is made of sterner stuff than previous iterations.
Now 2-3

Italy  (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna

0-3.  Bologna have not won the cup since the 70s

Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad  (1-1 aggr.)

1-1 (aggregate 2-1) early second half

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On 2025-04-01 4:47 p.m., Binder Dundat wrote:

On 2025-04-01 4:39 p.m., MH wrote:

On 2025-04-01 13:57, MH wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

The Pretenders are back.  Good win for the 3rd div club.

92nd minute, but Leverkusen are notorious for late comebacks

France

Dunkerque 2-0  PSG

Luis Enrique's PSG is made of sterner stuff than previous iterations.
Now 2-3

Italy  (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna

0-3.  Bologna have not won the cup since the 70s

Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad  (1-1 aggr.)

Crazy game from what i have seen. If ever you needed proof of how a
coach is of such little signifigance in the big pictutre of a team, just
watch this game. The Madrid coach has no idea where he is. He has to
ask his assistant which team scored after every goal. He doesnt know
what kinda subs to make.

1-1 (aggregate 2-1) early second half

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On 2025-04-01 14:47, Binder Dundat wrote:

On 2025-04-01 4:39 p.m., MH wrote:

On 2025-04-01 13:57, MH wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

The Pretenders are back.  Good win for the 3rd div club.

Can't see them winning without home advantage in the final. Neither
Stuttgart nor Leipzig will let that happen

92nd minute, but Leverkusen are notorious for late comebacks

France

Dunkerque 2-0  PSG

Luis Enrique's PSG is made of sterner stuff than previous iterations.
Now 2-3

Bah, no upset.

Italy  (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna

0-3.  Bologna have not won the cup since the 70s

Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad  (1-1 aggr.)

1-1 (aggregate 2-1) early second half

Ended 3-4, 4-4 on aggregate and now in extra time.

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On 2025-04-01 5:42 p.m., MH wrote:

On 2025-04-01 14:47, Binder Dundat wrote:

On 2025-04-01 4:39 p.m., MH wrote:

On 2025-04-01 13:57, MH wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

The Pretenders are back.  Good win for the 3rd div club.

Can't see them winning without home advantage in the final.  Neither Stuttgart nor Leipzig will let that happen

It could happen.

92nd minute, but Leverkusen are notorious for late comebacks

France

Dunkerque 2-0  PSG

Luis Enrique's PSG is made of sterner stuff than previous iterations.
Now 2-3

Bah, no upset.

Italy  (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna

0-3.  Bologna have not won the cup since the 70s

Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad  (1-1 aggr.)

1-1 (aggregate 2-1) early second half

Ended 3-4, 4-4 on aggregate and now in extra time.

Rudiger is now Real's best striker.

It doesnt matter what happens, they just cant lose. Bet the house on
them winning the UCL.

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All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

France

Dunkerque 2-0 PSG


Italy (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna


Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad (1-1 aggr.)

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MH <MHnospam@ucalgary.ca> wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.

Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

France

Dunkerque 2-0 PSG

Italy (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna

Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad (1-1 aggr.)

Austrian Cup Final

Wolfsberg (pop 25,000) v Hartberg (pop 6,700)

Ciao,
Werner

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 20:33:32 +0000, Werner Pichler wrote:

Austrian Cup Final

Wolfsberg (pop 25,000) v Hartberg (pop 6,700)

Burgs and Heims have got nothing on the Bergs.

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Lléo <llb.moura@gmail.com> wrote:

On 02/04/2025 17:33, Werner Pichler wrote:

MH <MHnospam@ucalgary.ca> wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

France

Dunkerque 2-0 PSG


Italy (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna


Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad (1-1 aggr.)

Austrian Cup Final

Wolfsberg (pop 25,000) v Hartberg (pop 6,700)

Ok, how did that happen?

Well it is a bit misleading, as both teams play in the
first tier. Austria does not have a lot of a big cities.

In the semifinals Wolfsberger AC eliminated LASK
from Linz on penalties (still no title for LASK since
1965, huge chance thrown away there), while
Hartberg beat current league leaders Austria Vienna
1-0 away.

But it would be a first national title for both WAC
(European pedigree reaching the Europa League
Round of 32 in 2020/21, and beating Gladbach 4-0
away the year before), and Hartberg (the 'sperm
boys' of UPT history, one game in Europe during
COVID restrictions under their belt).

That also sounds like an interesting bit of trivia - smallest (or
biggest) combined population "represented" in a Cup final? Let's make it
a "top level" cup too. Whatever the answer is for each country or competition, I find it hard to beat this Austrian Cup final.

I've tried to look up some Copa do Brasil finals and nothing remotely comparable shows up. On a cursory glance, the smallest cities to put a
team in the final are the likes of Taguatinga, Criciúma or Jundiaí, all
of these on 200k or above - and these three faced teams from some of the country's biggest cities, so a combined statistic would look huge anyway.

I suppose this RSSSF page would be a good starting
point (even though it doesn’t include teams from
small cities in top divisions, like Wolfsberg and
Hartberg)

https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/ruchii.html


Ciao,
Werner

Best regards,

Lléo

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On 4/21/2025 4:30 PM, Werner Pichler wrote:

On 01.04.2025 21:57, MH wrote:

All games still in progress - some about half time.


Germany

Bielefeld 2-1 Leverkusen

France

Dunkerque 2-0  PSG


Italy  (first leg)

Empoli 0-2 Bologna


Spain (second leg)

Real Madrid 0-1 Real Sociedad  (1-1 aggr.)

Cup final today in the Netherlands:

AZ v Go Ahead Eagles 1-1 aet

The Eagles from Deventer equalised thanks to a pretty hilarious 90+9th
minute handball penalty:
https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1k4k6ye/ az_alkmaar_1_1_go_ahead_eagles_mats_deijl_penalty/

Hasn't been the greatest of years for the Koopmeiners family.

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