How Did We Do? Saturday Morning Footy Open Thread

Teh Hippo is off on a well-deserved break as the EPL wrapped things up last week with Man City getting their fourth Premiership in a row. Anyone that doesn’t think Pep Guardiola is the greatest coach of this generation is an idiot.

Anyhow, before we get into how we did with our predictions, I want to highlight some of the other European leagues this week:

Spain

Real Madrid has wrapped up the title and will probably win the Champions League next weekend. The big pleasant surprise has been Girona finishing in third place and getting a Champions League spot for next year.

The last games of the year are today and all at the same time. The only thing at stake is pride as all the spots (Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, and Relegation) have been decided.

Germany

The season wrapped up last week with Bayer Leverkusen winning the Bundesliga with no losses during the season. Today, they take on Kaiserslautern in the German Cup Final.

On Wednesday this week, they faced Atalanta in the Europa League Final. They got their asses handed to them 3-0, preventing them from a shot at finishing the entire season undefeated. Best believe me that they are going to DESTROY Kaiserslautern.

Italy

Serie A wraps up today with Inter having won the title weeks ago. The drama is at the bottom with Empoli and Udinese trying to not get relegated. Udinese plays 15th place Frosinone while Empoli plays Roma. Empoli is fucked.

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I like to check back at the end of the EPL season to see how well we did at predicting stuff. Call it an accountability thing or call it a competitive thing. Now, that the season is over, I thought I’d check how we did. Here is a handy dandy table showing the results:

BTW, yes, I screwed up and put two teams at 10th. The ironic thing is they finished 9th and 11th. I suck.

It looks like Litre is this year’s clear Litredamus. That’s a pretty solid showing with four teams picked in their exact finishing positions. That’s 20%! He also picked all three teams to get relegated even though they finished in different positions than what he predicted. That’s pretty impressive!

We will do this again next year and I will try not to pick two teams in the same position. No promises, though!