UEFA Champions League/Europa League 24/25/26 April *** Spoilers ***
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they didn't need to though, had enough chances in either game to win easily, for some reason they all decided to leave there shooting boots at home for the same 2 games
.aside from his falling over, drogba looked to be back to his best in these 2 games, really can dominate a defence when he's in the mood.
be interesting to see if that penalty miss knocks messi out of his stride.
going to hit chelsea hard seeing the number of players they are missing and may miss through injury.
As I said in my previous post, nobody, not one team in whole of europe or in the world would play like that, because it would be too dangerous, you would concede 100 goals every game.
Why would anyone play like that, even if you camp in their penalty box, the chances of you scoring vs 11 men defending in the penalty box would be far lower than the defending team making a counter and then scoring. If fact if anything the last game proves is that counter attacking is more effective and a full on attack with 10 players.
A tactic like you guys are describing would never happen in a proffesional game or league. Maybe in a Sunday pub team but not in the real competition.
It might actually be for the best. It'll give Di Matteo a reason to campaign for money to buy a stronger squad (assuming he is given the post full time, madness if he isn't).
It would happen, hence why the rule. You're forgetting that, if their back four camp outside the opponents penalty box, that would also pin down their entire team inside that penalty box, or level with it.
It might seem more difficult to defend, but in reality it would be actually much easier. For ex; Torres would have been offside, and Barcelona might be wondering how they would play the final atm. It's a lot easier to chase someone dribbling a ball, than to actually dribble it also.
Not to mention if its a really long ball, then nobody would be near it and the keeper would just come out.
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Serious question. Has cesc made the right choice to join barca?
he may not win a single medal this year and he just another average player in the barca ranks.
he no longer is the main man pulling strings game after game and instead another play who just passes to messi and hope for the best.
he may not win a single medal this year and he just another average player in the barca ranks.
he no longer is the main man pulling strings game after game and instead another play who just passes to messi and hope for the best.
It has taken Barca years and years to be that good and the players have all come through the ranks, they are the best but does that mean every team they play against should play to all out attacking football?
It is madness, Inter Milan did the same thing and beat Barca to get to the CL final, Man Utd got ripped apart by Barca in the final and so did Arsenal in semi final a few years ago.
It is madness, Inter Milan did the same thing and beat Barca to get to the CL final, Man Utd got ripped apart by Barca in the final and so did Arsenal in semi final a few years ago.
There's no denying that Barcelona are a better overall club than Arsenal. Sure, they might be on a bad run at the moment, but they are better. I think he made the right choice.
Playing with the best players on the planet, week in week out is only going to make yourself a better player too.
Have Arsenal won anything this year that he is missing out on?
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I have to mention how cool Torres was rounding the keeper. Basically jogged up to the keeper. Great stuff.
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they didn't get to a semi final of the cl that's for sure...
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You might not count the world club cup, super cup, and Uefa super cup as "real" cup's, but that is 3 more **** cups he wouldn't have had this year had he been at Arsenal.
No, you're completely wrong, being the big fish in a little pond doesn't appeal to most players, he's 24, Barca WILL win more in the next decade than Arsenal, they'll likely win more NEXT YEAR than Arsenal, they may win more in the next couple years than Arsenal win in the next decade.
He's playing for a better team, he's on a bigger wage, he's living closer to his family and friends, he's living in a better City with a way of life he and his family will almost certainly much prefer, he's playing with better players, he's under less stress in his job of not being the most important player, he's coped with a niggling injury FAR better this season than last season because of this, because the team can afford to rest or substitute him when Wenger ran him into the ground.
He now has more money, a better style of life, is spending less time on the treatment table, where has the move gone worse for him exactly?
Pep has the team currently just passing to Cesc, early in the season when the team wasn't doing this Cesc was in the best form he's been in at any stage of his career. Pep fell apart, he might not be there next year, or if he is he's far far more likely to finally learn from his blundering around this season, to not play Messi as the lone striker, which will likely result in Cesc being a far bigger forward impact as he was for the first 2-3 months of the season.
At Arsenal he could........ be flirting with losing 4th, be under pressure, be picking up injuries, playing injured because what will happen to the team if he doesn't, be playing with worse players, etc, etc, etc.
Arsenal fans are starting to sound ridiculously bitter. "ha Nasri hasn't won anything this year, and he said he left for silverware". Did Nasri, or Clichy, or Cesc, ever claim they would obviously win far more in their first seasons at their new clubs, do people really think they can suggest that City/Barca aren't massively more likely to win more leagues/euro cups than Arsenal in the forseeable future?
So is John Terry an habitual liar, like does he have a problem with actually admitting anything? He backed himself into a corner with the half time excuse, probably thinking that Chelsea were still odds on to go out, and thus thought a denial would deflect the blame, i.e. putting JT's interests first again. In hindsight an honest admission of a rush of blood would have stood him in good stead in the light of Chelsea going through, but he couldn't even bring himself to own up afterwards and brought out the familiar "looks bad on the vid" defence. To bare face lie infront of millions of people, with that deliberate dead pan face, he really is a nasty piece of work.
No one is saying go out all on attacking but come on having 4 shots on goal in 180 minutes is a joke. The teams in the semis are suppost to be some of the best in the whole of europe and to only have 4 shots on goal in 180 is pathetic IMO.
Looking at chelsea conversion rate of 3 goals out of 4 attempts, they really should have attacked more and probably would have scored 1 or two more. Barca was all over the place in defense in both legs.
And yes you can take on Barca if you attack, Real Madrid and Valencia have proven this already. Especially Madrid, don't know if you have watched the 2nd round of semis in the spanish cup (copa del ray) but Madrid totally outclassed Barca that match.
Here's the highlights.
http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2012/01/25/barcelona-vs-real-madrid-2-2-copa-del-rey-highlights-2012-video-second-leg-goals-pedro-alves-benzema-ronaldo/
I'm reading this and I'm not sure whether you know that Chelsea went through? Barca's defence is so dreadful that you only need 4 shots to score 3 times, so why attack more than you need to? Should have attacked more? What are you talking about? Are you broken? They scored more goals than Barca, maybe that suggests you should attack efficiently rather than regularly.
He has already won 2 or 3 medals this year though.
But he shouldn't have gone there this year, too soon.
Should have attacked more to put the game to bed not try and hold on for no reason. Would have made the game more exiting instead of parking the bus like pussies and then play the long ball.Also if barca had their shooting boots on, the 3 goals that they scored would not have been enough
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Would have loved to have been in the stadium for that Torres goal. All the way through that game of football, the eyes of the whole stadium were at one end of the pitch as that is where every single player was. Then right at the end, one white shirt strays forward and finds himself clear through on goal.
The silence in the stadium as Torres ran through on goal will make that a footballing moment that will stick with me forever. The way he finished it too helped make the moment.
Oh and obviously Gary Neville's commentary
The silence in the stadium as Torres ran through on goal will make that a footballing moment that will stick with me forever. The way he finished it too helped make the moment.
Oh and obviously Gary Neville's commentary