The Athletic’s been looking in this subreddit, it seems.

Survey was taken from August 13-14, 2026.

LIV 0 - 0 COM

Trey Nyoni wins man of the match! (28 ratings)

1. Nyoni (7.14)
2. Muñoz (6.93)
3. Koumas (6.64)

LIV 2 - 0 COM

Jérémy Jacquet wins man of the match! (54 ratings)

1. Jacquet (9.28)
2. Gakpo (8.31)
3. Frimpong (8.26)
4. Van Dijk (7.91)
5. Alisson (7.65)
6. Araújo (7.45)
7. Isak (6.72)
8. Kerkez (6.65)
9. Nyoni (6.52)

68.6% of people want the Day After thread to be renamed to Rate the Players, so I will go with that moving forward.

Also, someone submitted a rating giving most players 0s except for 4 players who received 10s. That rating has been removed. I'm no rigorous statistician, but please don't troll the form.

Your starting XI for Newcastle:
Alisson; Frimpong, Jacquet, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Szoboszlai, Gravenberch; Ngumoha, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak.

What do you think?

Thinking of changing the name of these threads to make it more obvious to people that this is where you're supposed to rate the players. In the form. Not in the comments. Feel free to still discuss about the game though.

Rate the players here.

Match Overview	LIV	COM
Possession	42%	58%
Total Shots (on Target)	10 (2)	14 (4)
Big Chances (Scored)	3 (2)	1 (0)
Corners	4	8
Saves	4	0

Sunday, August 16th
11:30 AM - Liverpool 0 - 0 Como FT
12:00 PM - Tottenham 2 - 2 Hoffenheim FT
^(Ben Davies 20', Luca Williams-Barnett 45+2'; Adam Hložek 16' (P), Valentin Gendrey 55')

FA Community Shield Final
^(Principality Stadium, Cardiff, England)
3:00 PM - Arsenal (LW) 3 - 0 Man City (CW) FT
^(Riccardo Calafiori 1', Kai Havertz 28', Martin Ødegaard 48')
Arsenal have won the FA Community Shield!

3:30 PM - Basel 2 - 5 Barcelona FT
^(Aaron Malouda 43', Kazeem Olaigbe 84' (P); Karim Adeyemi 34', Hamza Abdelkarim 49', Lamine Yamal 81' (P), Jesse Bisiwu 89', 90+1')
4:00 PM - Schalke 0 - 3 Real Madrid FT
^(Kylian Mbappé 6', Dean Huijsen 20', Carlos Espí 57')
6:00 PM - Liverpool 2 - 0 Como FT
^(Cody Gakpo 23', Jérémy Jacquet 44')

Trophée des Champions Final
^(Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens, France)
7:45 PM - RC Lens (CW) 1 - 0 PSG (LW) FT
^(Florian Thauvin 32', Matthieu Udol 88'; Fabián Ruiz 76')
^(Red Cards: Kyllian Antonio 39' (LENS), Nuno Mendes 86' (PSG))

RC Lens have won the Trophée des Champions!

Monday, August 17th
5:00 PM - Juventus vs Juventus Next Gen

Wednesday, August 12th
7:30 PM - Arsenal 1 (4) - 1 (3) Como FT AP
^(Myles Lewis-Skelly 33'; Martin Baturina 43')
^(PSO: Luis Milla (0 - 1*), Martin Ødegaard (1* - 1), Maxence Caqueret (1 - 2*), Kai Havertz (2* - 2), Ivan Smolčić (2 - 2*), Bruno Guimarães (3* - 2), Jesús Rodríguez (3 - 3*), Noni Madueke (3* - 3), Álvaro Morata (3 - 3*), Christos Tzolis (4* - 3))
7:30 PM - Man Utd 1 (5) - 1 (4) Leeds FT AP
^(Joshua Zirkzee 16'; Brenden Aaronson 29')
^(PSO: Dominic Calvert Lewin (0 - 1*), Luke Shaw (1* - 1), Harry Wilson (1 - 1*), Matheus Cunha (2* - 1), Anton Stach (2 - 2*), Jack Fletcher (3* - 2), Wilfried Gnonto (3 - 3*), Bruno Fernandes (3* - 3), Noah Okafor (3 - 4*), Youri Tielemans (4* - 4), James Justin (4 - 4*), Noussair Mazraoui (5* - 4))
7:45 PM - Nott'm Forest 2 - 1 Leverkusen FT
^(Dan Ndoye 4', Arnaud Kalimuendo 90'; Patrik Schick 33')
8:00 PM - Deportivo 0 - 1 Real Madrid FT
^(Brahim Díaz 45+1')
8:00 PM - Napoli 6 - 2 Aris T. FT
^(Amir Rrahmani 19', Scott McTominay 44', Kevin De Bruyne 58', 89', Lorenzo Lucca 65', 74'; Uroš Račić 31', 79')

UEFA Super Cup Final
^(Stadion Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria)
8:00 PM - Paris (CL) 2 - 1 Aston Villa (EL) FT
^(Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 20', Désiré Doué 61'; Brian Madjo 45')

Paris Saint-Germain have won the UEFA Super Cup!

Trey Nyoni has won man of the match again!

1. Nyoni (8.47)
2. Wirtz (7.41)
3. Szoboszlai (7.24)
4. Ngumoha (7.00)
5. Chambers (6.50)

34 people rated the players this time, the highest so far!

Something to note is that Iraola's lowest rating was the Wrexham game, though the overall team's rating has been decreasing with each game, so people aren't just rating the manager based on how the team did. Good on you lads!

How do you want Thursday European games to be covered this season?
46.9% - Do all of the notable teams (AC Milan, Juventus, etc.)
43.8% - Stick to the PL teams until later stages
9.4% - Don't cover them at all

That's an extremely narrow margin, so we'll have to do a revote next time.

Are you worried about our season?
44.1% - Yes
29.4% - Not yet
26.5% - No

A majority aren't worried... yet.

Ifeanyi Ndukwe wins man of the match!

1. Ndukwe (7.71)
2. Nyoni (7.57)
3. Szoboszlai (7.29)
   4-5. Mamardashvili and Tsimikas (7.00)
4. Chambers (6.71)

Only 33.3% want a thread covering the European playoffs.

Who is best fitted to be vice captain?

1. Szoboszlai (85.7%)
2. Alisson / Tsimikas (28.6%)
3. Gomez / Jones / Mac Allister / Endo (14.3%)

Keep in mind that these ratings become a more accurate reflection of the subreddit if more people fill it out, so look out for the day after thread for the next game's ratings! It may just be pre-season, but it's also good data.

Trey Nyoni wins man of the match!

1. Nyoni (8.33)
2. Szoboszlai (8.24)
3. Koumas (7.76)
4. Morrison (7.43)
5. Chiesa (7.30)
6. Ndukwe (7.10)
7. Ramsay (6.81)

90.9% watched the World Cup.
100.0% are excited for the new season.
31.8% are paying attention to the European qualifying rounds.
40.9% of people don't use the match threads.
Out of those who do, only 1 person said they would not always be respectful in there.

Hope you're just as happy as I am that the rating threads are back - remember that the form to rate the players will always be in the Day After thread, which is posted the day after the game is played.

Click here to rate the players.

Liverpool 4 - 2 Sunderland
^(Morrison 13', Szoboszlai 56', Chiesa 72', Koumas 85'; Le Fée 28', Tutierov 49')

Match Overview	LIV	SUN
Possession	64%	36%
Total Shots (on Target)	14 (6)	11 (5)
Big Chances	4	1
Corners	4	1
Saves	2	2

u/ASGT908 has won the whole knockout stage with 77 points, and won the group stage as well, and therefore has completely won the entire tournament with 121 points!

You can see the total points for the final round and the knockout stage as a whole in the following pictures, as well as the table for every single award given out during the whole tournament.

3502 correct predictions were made across 130 people. Thank you so much for participating!

u/ASGT908, u/dragon_stangler, and u/Wafflebreeder won the final round with 8 out of 21 points. Now, considering how there was 10 goals in the France vs England game, I don't really blame anyone for falling a bit short of the max.

ASGT908's predictions:
France win, no ET/PSO, FRA 3 - 1 ENG, Mbappe x2, Dembele; Bellingham
Spain win, no ET/PSO, ESP 2 - 1 ARG, Yamal, Merino; Messi

dragon_stangler's predictions:
England win, no ET/PSO, FRA 2 - 1 ENG, Mbappe x2; Kane
Spain win, yes ET/PSO, ESP 1 - 1 ARG, Olmo; Messi

Wafflebreeder's predictions:
France win, no ET/PSO, FRA 2 - 1 ENG, Mbappe x2; Bellingham
Spain win in ET, no PSO, ESP 3 - 2 ARG, Oyarzabal, Ruiz, Yamal; Alvarez, Messi

I don't know how in the world u/dragon_stangler managed to predict an England win if France outscored England, but that's not an illegal move as per the rules, so it counts.

u/holyfields-ear was the only one to predict that Torres would score the winning goal, but that doesn't get an award sadly.

Konate played in the third place game, didn't go well and got subbed off. Quansah played in the third place game, didn't go well and got subbed off injured. Henderson was injured. Munoz didn't play a single minute of the entire tournament but won the World Cup. Mac Allister played but lost the final.

June 18: France (4th) 4 - 6 England (3rd)
June 19: Spain (1st) 1 - 0 Argentina (2nd) AET

Predict 3rd place and the final here!

u/Apprehensive_Leg5209 and u/WaifuWarrior18 win the semifinal round with 7/10 points!

The mistakes:
Leg: France win, FRA/ESP goes to ET, France score 3.
Warrior: FRA/ESP goes to ET, France score 3, Spain score 4.

July 14: FRA (1st) 0 - 2 ESP (3rd)
July 15: ENG (4th) 1 - 2 ARG (2nd)

Konaté, Henderson, Quansah, and Muñoz all did not play.

Alexis Mac Allister played the full 90, got 3 shots and 0.42 xG.

First, the R16 points total had an error in it, it's been fixed now (see the image attached), the winner was still the same though.

Predict the semifinals here!

u/TraceOfHumanity, u/Ummagumma-, and u/Wafflebreeder have won the QF round with 15/20 points, the mistakes were:

TraceOfHumanity	Ummagumma-	Wafflebreeder
France scoring 3	Morocco scoring 1	France scoring 3
ESP/BEL needing ET	ENG/NOR not needing ET	Morocco scoring 2
ENG/NOR not needing ET	Switzerland winning	Spain scoring 3
Argentina scoring 2	ARG/SUI going to pens	ENG/NOR not needing ET
Switzerland scoring 0	Argentina scoring 1	Switzerland scoring 2

Former and current player recap:

Konaté (FRA), Muñoz (ESP), Aasgaard (NOR), Henderson (ENG), and Quansah (ENG) didn't play at all. In Quansah's case, he was suspended.

Alexis Mac Allister scored the first goal for Argentina 10 minutes in in their 3 -1 win vs Switzerland in extra time. He will face England next.

- World Cup Prediction Tournament -
MD: 1A / 1B / 2A / 2B / 3A / 3B / R32A / R32B

04.07
6:00 PM - Canada (30th) 0 - 3 Morocco (6th) FT
^(Azzedine Ounahi 50', 82', Soufiane Rahimi 90+8')
10:00 PM - Paraguay (34th) vs France (1st)
05.07
9:00 PM - Brazil (5th) vs Norway (21st)
1:00 AM - Mexico (10th) vs England (4th)
06.07
8:00 PM - Portugal (7th) vs Spain (3rd)
1:00 AM - USA (16th) vs Belgium (9th)
07.07
5:00 PM - Argentina (2nd) vs Egypt (24th)
9:00 PM - Switzerland (15th) vs Colombia (11th)

Knockout Stage Bracket:
PAR/FRA v CAN/MAR vs POR/ESP v USA/BEL
BRA/NOR v MEX/ENG vs ARG/EGY v SUI/COL