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Nov 16 2017 04:59am
The thing is that ever since Bosman's ruling, the gap between the top clubs and the bottom clubs in every league has steadily grown, making it easier for the strikers playing in top clubs to score.

Away games were almost always a huge struggle for every top club, even if they were facing a relegation side, and averaging 66.67% of the points (winning the home games, drawing the away games) usually meant you were on the right track to winning the league title. And the bottom teams almost always needed around 42-43 points to avoid the drop.

And the same imbalances have appeared in the CL/EL, where back in the day nations like Romania, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, USSR, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, Scotland, etc have all produced champions and finalists in at least 1 of the 3 major UEFA competitions. Now these games are usually a walkover for the clubs playing in top leagues. And other countries like Portugal or Netherlands, almost always had world class teams, while nowadays they are lucky if the reach CL quarters (it's even worse for the dutch, which I'd say are lucky if they make it past the groups).

These imbalances don't apply to international games, so of course we're not going to see drastic improvement in the goal scoring ratios.
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Nov 16 2017 12:43pm
They're so bad that they qualified for the world cup.
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Nov 16 2017 12:46pm
Quote (Sibille @ Nov 16 2017 12:43pm)
They're so bad that they qualified for the world cup.



I guess I should have called the topic how bad was Belgium
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Nov 16 2017 06:58pm
Quote (Slanman @ 16 Nov 2017 06:37)
You don’t think so? In 2003-04 Henry scored 39 in 51. That was his best ever scoring season and it was almost unheard of. I think last season alone at least 6 people did that. Ronaldo’s record 47 in 49 at Barca stood for almost 15 years.
I know national level is different, but you can’t deny the last few years going forward there are a lot more high goal scorers than in previous times. So many more people are averaging at least a goal Every other game so it isn’t as special as it once was


la liga is a joke mate, only farmer teams..
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Nov 17 2017 07:13am
They're so bad that they qualified for the world cup.
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Nov 17 2017 09:21am
They're so bad they're only chelsea11's 12th favourite team
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Dec 22 2017 06:30pm
Belgium getting back on track! I hope the defense will hold on, no problem for the strikers
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