UEFA Champions League/Europa League 24/25/26 April *** Spoilers ***
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Robben missed his best chance but put in several good crosses, worked the wing well, actually put in defensive work, held up the ball and was by far the best Bayern attacker. Ribery on the other hand did nothing useful, refused to pass most of the time, was lazy as hell and offered nothing all game long.
Neither penalties were good, Ronaldo's infact was worse than Kaka's, no where near the corner and no where near the power he usually uses. Had he struck his normal penalty, power and into the corner the keeper wouldn't have come close, the keeper went the right way, Ronaldo's and Kaka's were pretty easy saves, obviously neither were as bad as Ramos's
You are clueless, literally live in a dream world.
Liverpool won the CL and finished 5th, last season Barca played Man Utd both finished 1st and Man United get outplayed and made to look like a Championship team.
What about Man City/United both going out of the Europa league playing world class players against mid table teams! Stick you your sofa mate.
So how was it for you?
He's probably (still) passed out in a bar somewhere in Spain.
He's probably (still) passed out in a bar somewhere in Spain.
.... and now trying to hitch a lift home after missing his flight.
All said and done Chelsea's thriller was FAR more entertaining than last nights beautiful game (I guess that means I'm not a purist lol).
Question for more me now is if Chelsea go on and win it you would assume that Di Matteo keeps his job. However, if they come second best it will be interesting to see what happens as his record has been great.
Admittedly the players did not want to play for AVB more so than his tactics being bad (imo). But Chelsea's record has been great under Di Matteo...
Question for more me now is if Chelsea go on and win it you would assume that Di Matteo keeps his job. However, if they come second best it will be interesting to see what happens as his record has been great.
Admittedly the players did not want to play for AVB more so than his tactics being bad (imo). But Chelsea's record has been great under Di Matteo...
Sheer madness if Matteo doesn't get offered the full time spot, even if he doesn't win the final.
Give him a fresh season (or two, managers should get more than one) and I'm sure he can turn chelsea into title contenders again.
Give him a fresh season (or two, managers should get more than one) and I'm sure he can turn chelsea into title contenders again.
You do realise nothing you've said there is an actual counter argument to what I said don't you?
there were poor 2nd to mr oscar winner himself pepe, ribery went in on him and caught his arm, you'd have thought he'd snapped his arm into 3/4 pieces the way he was rolling about
.as for the talk about gomez, i think its more about the quality of his finishing last night with the easier chances, considering how lethal he usually is in the Bundesliga.
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Where you getting that figure from? Are you sure it includes CL as well because that sounds more like domestic only (even then it seems low).
I can't seem to find a figure on the Official BM website, but pretty much everywhere else suggests more than 14. However I'll admit the number ranges from about 15 - 23
How can stats be that far apart
Seems like quite a few sources aren't giving assists via winning penalties starting this season.... which is probably why the big difference for Ribery of all people
Young + assists via penalty winning would be higher than he is now. Stat's are becoming quite hilarious as multiple sources decide on different counting of stats. Last year some counted Ronaldo's deflected goal, others didn't. Key passes, failed tackles often being counted as only fouls rather than failed tackles as well so lots of people make dozens of tackles a year, but their tackle success/failure doesn't match up to total tackles at all, meaning tackle success rate is insanely misleading depending on the source.
Someone can have made 50 tackles in a season, have a tackle success rate of 90%, yet only made 5 tackles successfully, with the other 45 all being fouls and not counted. That's one reason why Comolli basing an entire season around purely stats at the moment is mental. Baseball is really very basic stats that haven't changed in decades, everyone is on the same page and they are all pretty meaningful. Every year one stat becomes "unimportant" to the stat guys and another is something to base buying a player on, next year its irrelevant again.
That is by and large why goals and to a degree obviously, assists are relatively finite, mostly accurate, and pretty much the most important stats.
Seems like quite a few sources aren't giving assists via winning penalties starting this season.... which is probably why the big difference for Ribery of all people
Young + assists via penalty winning would be higher than he is now. Stat's are becoming quite hilarious as multiple sources decide on different counting of stats. Last year some counted Ronaldo's deflected goal, others didn't. Key passes, failed tackles often being counted as only fouls rather than failed tackles as well so lots of people make dozens of tackles a year, but their tackle success/failure doesn't match up to total tackles at all, meaning tackle success rate is insanely misleading depending on the source.
Someone can have made 50 tackles in a season, have a tackle success rate of 90%, yet only made 5 tackles successfully, with the other 45 all being fouls and not counted. That's one reason why Comolli basing an entire season around purely stats at the moment is mental. Baseball is really very basic stats that haven't changed in decades, everyone is on the same page and they are all pretty meaningful. Every year one stat becomes "unimportant" to the stat guys and another is something to base buying a player on, next year its irrelevant again.
That is by and large why goals and to a degree obviously, assists are relatively finite, mostly accurate, and pretty much the most important stats.
So, the question Egon asked still stands. Where did you get your stats from
I disagree, assists is a pretty pointless stat imo.
Goals is obviously very important
Meh, it depends on the context the stat is taken in as well as the context it is being used in. Any stat can be made useless 80% of the time