La Liga/Serie A season 2025-26

Been checking up on the Brasileirão, which is nearing its final stretch.

Still 8/9 games to go, but it's looking like a two-horse race between Palmeiras (62 pts from 29 games) and Flamengo (61 in 29).

From there it's clean air back to Cruzeiro in 3rd (57 in 30), but their recent form (just 1 win and 4 draws) includes away draws at both of the title contenders, whilst the top two have both shown signs of faltering over the past few weeks.

It doesn't look likely from here, but who knows, there might still be an upset on the cards.

Elsewhere in the division, Santos, even with Neymar back, are immersed in a relegation struggle which right now looks like it could involve up to nine teams.

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Perhaps the big story at this stage of of the season, however, is Mirassol FC, who, despite being founded in the 1920s, are playing their maiden Serie A season.

They currently sit fourth, just two points behind Cruzeiro, and right now are on course to qualify directly for the Libertadores group stage.

For context, Mirassol is a town of just 60,000 inhabitants more than 400km inland from São Paulo. Promotion to Serie A aside, the club's biggest achievement to date was lifting the Serie C title (the third flight, for those with extreme difficulty counting) in 2022.

Contrary to what one might think, this isn't a team of young starlets, but more of seasoned journeymen enjoying their time in the sun.

Nine of their 15 most used players are over thirty, and none is younger than 25. Their top scorer (12 goals) is 36-year-old left wingback Reinaldo, now playing for his tenth club.

Coincidentally, Mirassol's 100th anniversary is in 8 days' time, on November 9th. Their closest game is the following day, at home versus domestic and continental giants Palmeiras. Let's hope Mirassol can mark it with a win!

Btw, Mirassol host reigning champions Botafogo tonight - another memorable fixture for the club.

comment by Peks - 3I/ATLAS is an alien craft 👽 (U6618)
posted about 13 hours ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeaxnzNeQQo
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That breakdown failed to mention the major flaw in Cesc's system, which is having Morata on penalty-taking duties.

Upside is that the draw adds even more spice to the Milan-Roma game.

Morata has little bottle for a forward
I would never have him take a pen, unless he had to

Ooooh, peks, you're gonna love this:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/01/spain-expresses-regret-over-injustice-suffered-by-mexicos-indigenous-people-during-conquest

just stupid, ignorant wokies, like Pedro Sanchez

I'd stop reading the Guardian...it's for middle class Anglo Saxon woke priiicks with "luxury beliefs"

they forget to mention the main reasons so few Spaniards were able to conqueror Mexico was because:

1. The natives had little resistance to Old World diseases which wiped alot a big chunk of them
2. The Aztecs were hated by the people they subjugated ... who willingly allied with the Spaniards against them
3. Modern fay Mexicans are not "native" but a mixture of natives and Spaniards ... they're as much conquerors as conquered

After doing all that shiiit last week, he ran to pick up the ball as if he won the pen

The audacity and the entitlement this retaard has been filled with coz of carlo pampering his arrrse 24/7. Even straight up smiles after shiiitting from spot as if it was a great pen

comment by Peks - 3I/ATLAS is an alien craft 👽 (U6618)
posted 14 hours, 20 minutes ago
just stupid, ignorant wokies, like Pedro Sanchez

I'd stop reading the Guardian...it's for middle class Anglo Saxon woke priiicks with "luxury beliefs"
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comment by Peks - 3I/ATLAS is an alien craft 👽 (U6618)
posted about 14 hours ago
they forget to mention the main reasons so few Spaniards were able to conqueror Mexico was because:

1. The natives had little resistance to Old World diseases which wiped alot a big chunk of them
2. The Aztecs were hated by the people they subjugated ... who willingly allied with the Spaniards against them
3. Modern fay Mexicans are not "native" but a mixture of natives and Spaniards ... they're as much conquerors as conquered
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