The Football Quiz Thread

[Tomous]

Can you name the Premier League's first all time foreign starting XI who played for Chelsea on Boxing Day 1999?

Here are their nationalities:

Netherlands
Spain
Brazil
France
Nigeria
Romania
France
Uruguay
Italy
Italy
Norway

De Goey
??
Thome
Lebouef
Babayaro
Petrescu
Deschamps
Poyet
Di Matteo
??
Flo

Edit: looking at Dan's post I can't believe I missed Zola I think I'm right on the Brazilian and Norwegian because of their SAFC moves to come.

Zola isn't correct

The missing answers are:

Albert Ferrer
Gabrielle Ambrosetti,

[Tomous]

Today's Quiz:

Can you name these six Premier League opening day XIs by player nationalities alone? Clue: they're all from the same season.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

[Corazon de Leon]

Today's Quiz:

Can you name these six Premier League opening day XIs by player nationalities alone? Clue: they're all from the same season.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Is this 2018/19?

First one is City:

Ederson
Mendy
Laporte
Stones
Walker
KdB
Fernandinho
B. Silva
Sterling
Mahrez
Aguero

[Cuttooth]

3. must be Everton then?

[Corazon de Leon]

5 - Brighton and Hove? Nope, Matty Ryan is a keeper. Idiocy.

I think no. 6 is Newcastle - the American is DeAndre Yedlin?

I’m trying to use the rare nationalities as ciphers to guess the teams then work the rest of the squad around it - Algeria, Tunisia, America, Australia, etc. But the Aussie player in no. 5 is killing me.

[Tomous]

1/3/6 correct so far

[A J Styles]

4 - I reckon is Fulham?

2 - Chelsea?

It's the opening day of 2018/19 because I was at City's first game vs Arsenal and that was the team.

[Corazon de Leon]

5 is Huddersfield! The Australian is St. Mirren “legend” Aaron Mooy and the Beninese forward is Mounie?

[Corazon de Leon]

4 - I reckon is Fulham?

2 - Chelsea?

It's the opening day of 2018/19 because I was at City's first game vs Arsenal and that was the team.

Hopefully that’s not counting Nottingham born and raised Tom Cairney as one of the Scottish midfielders...

[Herdanos]

Today's Quiz:

Can you name these six Premier League opening day XIs by player nationalities alone? Clue: they're all from the same season.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Season is 18/19

1 Man City
2 Chelsea
3 Everton
4 Fulham
5 Huddersfield
6 Newcastle

[A J Styles]

4 - I reckon is Fulham?

2 - Chelsea?

It's the opening day of 2018/19 because I was at City's first game vs Arsenal and that was the team.

Hopefully that’s not counting Nottingham born and raised Tom Cairney as one of the Scottish midfielders...

It has to be, they were the only team with a starting Serbian striker (Mitro) and I'm guessing that Sergio Rico in net is Spanish.

[Corazon de Leon]

Today's Quiz:

Can you name these six Premier League opening day XIs by player nationalities alone? Clue: they're all from the same season.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Season is 18/19

1 Man City
2 Chelsea
3 Everton
4 Fulham
5 Huddersfield
6 Newcastle

Cheers for the summary Dan.

[Corazon de Leon]

4 - I reckon is Fulham?

2 - Chelsea?

It's the opening day of 2018/19 because I was at City's first game vs Arsenal and that was the team.

Hopefully that’s not counting Nottingham born and raised Tom Cairney as one of the Scottish midfielders...

It has to be, they were the only team with a starting Serbian striker (Mitro) and I'm guessing that Sergio Rico in net is Spanish.

Yeah I’m sure you’re right on that, I’m just being difficult. I’m assuming Chelsea’s Italian player is Jorginho as well, that really threw me.

[A J Styles]

4 - I reckon is Fulham?

2 - Chelsea?

It's the opening day of 2018/19 because I was at City's first game vs Arsenal and that was the team.

Hopefully that’s not counting Nottingham born and raised Tom Cairney as one of the Scottish midfielders...

It has to be, they were the only team with a starting Serbian striker (Mitro) and I'm guessing that Sergio Rico in net is Spanish.

Yeah I’m sure you’re right on that, I’m just being difficult. I’m assuming Chelsea’s Italian player is Jorginho as well, that really threw me.

Yeah scored a penalty on his debut if I remember correctly! Well done with the Huddersfield one though, I never would have got it. I kept thinking the lone striker looks like a Cameroon flag.

[Herdanos]

Today's Quiz:

Can you name these six Premier League opening day XIs by player nationalities alone? Clue: they're all from the same season.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Season is 18/19

1 Man City
2 Chelsea
3 Everton
4 Fulham
5 Huddersfield
6 Newcastle

Cheers for the summary Dan.

Curses! The remaining answers got posted by others in the thread as I was typing.

[Tomous]

There are 9 players who've scored in the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A & Bundesliga. Name them.

Some of these are very tricky, but there are 4/5 that are very gettable.

[Corazon de Leon]

Really struggling with this. Germany seems to be the main problem - Zlatan and John Carew are just missing Bundesliga goals I think, and I thought maybe Xabi Alonso but can’t remember him having played in Italy.

[Corazon de Leon]

Coutinho! Surely!

[Tomous]

That's one (Coutinho)

[Tomous]

As a clue, I very much enjoyed the goals one of these scored in the PL