Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[Agrias]

Yeah, incredible how after a awesome 4x0 we manage to suck that much just a few days later. Really disappointing.

 

[ElUniversal]

Ha! Another record broken by our dear Dunga...
He already had given us the happiness of the 5th position, and now for the first time in 94 years of history we're 3 consecutive games at home without scoring A SINGLE GOAL. Nice, huh?

It seems your Dunga and our Basile are two of a kind....last night we lost to Chile for the first time in the world cup qualyfiers history (and Chile's last -and I think only- victory before that was in 1970, or around that time)
It was pathetic, we could have lost 3-0 or more, thank God Chile can improve all they want but they're not used to shooting at the goal, therefore they scored only once.
This bastard (I refuse to call him by his name for the time being) set up a 4-man defensive line with 3 central defenders and over-the-hill-really-tired-to-attack Zanetti. That's not all, the midfield had 3 central/defensive guys (Cambiasso, Ledesma, Mascherano) and Messi as the gamemaker (nice, you put a guy who doesn't enjoy passing the ball to be your 10...wtf?) with Agüero as his only pass option (Diego Milito played too, but never got the ball because Messi only passes to Agüero, and viceversa)
I won't even try to comment on the "moves" he made to fix the situation...actually, I only remember one thing he did: smoke a cig (which is prohibited) and watch the NT break yet another negative record

 

[Mendes]

You guys can cry all you want, but your qualification is never placed in question. In the Euro Qualifiers its way worse. We've seen England out of the Euro already, and now I seriously fear for Portugal's capacity to qualify in a group with Denmark and Sweden where only the 1st goes trough. We won the 1st game, but we lost at home 3-2 with denmark and drawn away 0-0 with sweden. Yesterday we (snif... snif) we drew with Albania (0-0) :' (
Now I'm worried...

 

[Lohnt]

Yea, we lost also last night, but we deserved it the way we played. On the one hand I can't blame Papadopoulos for fouling and giving a penalty, but on the other I am so happy we have a 20 year old on the first squad.. I can't blame him for one mistake especially since the match wasn't absolutely necessary for us to win.

Anyway, Portugal.. I don't even know what the deal is with you guys last game. Not that Albania isn't a strong team, they've beaten us many times also, but.. this was not a game to lose. Isn't it the first two teams that advance..?

My condolences to Argentina and Brazil.. By the way, why is Lendesma playing he's garbage IMO. Last year at Olympiacos, he played maybe 1 or 2 good games in the Ch. League, but overall he was non-existant, there HAS to be a better DMF.

 

[ElUniversal]

My condolences to Argentina and Brazil.. By the way, why is Lendesma playing he's garbage IMO. Last year at Olympiacos, he played maybe 1 or 2 good games in the Ch. League, but overall he was non-existant, there HAS to be a better DMF.

Ledesma has been the best DMF in the local league so far, thus he was called (granted, Gago is injured....Battaglia is not in his best shape...and 5 other guys couldn't be called because of different reasons). He may have failed in the Greek league, but he's always been one of the best we have...great technique, excellent defense, nice temper

This just came in: BASILE QUIT!
It looks like Batista is going to be the coach (not the best but not thw worst either)....but it's too soon to be picking a replacement....Miguel Russo, Carlos Bianchi and Ramon Diaz seem like the best choices....in a second level, we have Batista, Simeone, Gallego and 20 other guys...
Dark horses: Maradona? Batistuta?

 

[Lohnt]

A night full of goals, and I still ended up seeing the lowest scoring matches. Real vs Juve was.. surprising to say the least, Amauri is a terrible forward and he was very lucky, in fact I would consider it an own goal, rather than award him with it. Casillas was playing.. as if he paid off =p

But, what surprised me the most is Villareal, with one of the strongest defenses evaaaar this early, scored 6 goals and accepted 3 from.. AaB.. how? I am happy Caperdevilla scored tohugh, I've always liked that player.
Arsenal and Bayern are back in form, and Manchester laid the floor with Celtic, it seems like Berbatov is the star forward this first half of the season. Perhaps Cristiano simply wants to under-perform in order to be transfered, but I doubt it, he probably still lacks full form from his injury.

Also I was right about Milan trying to make an all star team, they're saying they want Beckham on loan so that he can be ready for England.

 

[Epul]

It's gonna be hard for cristiano to repeat his awesome form last season... those kind of things happens once in a lifetime....
really looking forward to Chelsea vs. roma.....

 

[Pirulito]

Yesterday, God decided play "Winning Eleven" or "Pro Evolution Soccer" with Barcelona's team and He chose Basel's team on easy difficulty to play against to.

 

[Networks]

You guys can cry all you want, but your qualification is never placed in question. In the Euro Qualifiers its way worse. We've seen England out of the Euro already, and now I seriously fear for Portugal's capacity to qualify in a group with Denmark and Sweden where only the 1st goes trough. We won the 1st game, but we lost at home 3-2 with denmark and drawn away 0-0 with sweden. Yesterday we (snif... snif) we drew with Albania (0-0) :' (
Now I'm worried...

Why didn't the Portugueses still with Felipão? On the World Cup he gets an awesome 4th place.

Is true who Japan it's already disqualified for World Cup?

 

[Mendes]

Yesterday, God decided play "Winning Eleven" or "Pro Evolution Soccer" with Barcelona's team and He chose Basel's team on easy difficulty to play against to.

LOL so true... Barça is very similar to Arsenal... when they're on their day, its a football machine. Messi is unbelievable. If he doesnt win the best player award this year, he'll win the next for sure... unless something tragic happens, like Barça loosing in the 1/8 finals or he gets injured.

Why didn't the Portugueses still with Felipão? On the World Cup he gets an awesome 4th place.

Is true who Japan it's already disqualified for World Cup?

Scolari chose to quit Portugal in order to find a new challenge in Chelsea (or so to say... more money). I was never a big fan of him, but the truth is that he had good results. Now, the thing is, most people think us getting a 4th place in the World Cup is awesome... a 2nd place in the Euro Cup is great... Well I think its crap! I should remind you, we Never won a competition with the national team. As a small and not so developed country, its rare to find ourselves with so many star players on our team and if there's a time when we can win something, I feel like its now or never. But we keep wasting chances and as long as we have a powerful team, I'm not satisfied with anything less than a 1st place, for Once! :P

As for the champions league, it was a huge goal scoring matchday. I've never seen a CL matchday with so many goals! It was common to see a 6-3, 5-3, 5-2, 5-0 result... The bad thing-Porto lost. This home loss is devastating, it makes very unlikely for Porto to get the 2nd place. It would need wins over Fenerbahce and Kyev away (no, I dont consider the possibility of getting a result against Arsenal). Zenit is in trouble. No luck, no experience, whatever caused their poor results, the fact is, they'd need a miracle to go trough the 1/8

 

[ElUniversal]

Holy s**t! Maradona is Argentina's new coach!

We're doomed!

 

[KnuckleheadedNinja]

Diego Maradona as a coach? OMG, the world is coming to an end.lol. That like the last person you will be expecting to coach.

 

[Pirulito]

I loled when I knew Maradona is the Argentina's new coach.

Argentines want to use the mystique and respect for the player Maradona in an attempt to recover the mystique of their own team.

I don't put my hands on the fire if I was an argentine but the football would be thankful if this bet is satisfa

 

[Lelo]

Man U is kicking ass is the Champions league. Dimitar Berbatov is kicking ass. I watched 2 games and he scored 2 goals in each game. What an awesome start. Rooney is kicking ass too. He scored one in each game. GO Man U

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Holy s**t! Maradona is Argentina's new coach!

We're doomed!

LOL, hes probably going to tell them

"here, take this white powder, it'll make you play better. It helped me out."

 

[KnuckleheadedNinja]

Man U is kicking ass is the Champions league. Dimitar Berbatov is kicking ass. I watched 2 games and he scored 2 goals in each game. What an awesome start. Rooney is kicking ass too. He scored one in each game. GO Man U
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Yeah Berbatov had been impressive so far. He is the leading scorer so far with 4 goals. Rooney had beem impressive too. We are just waiting for Ronaldo to get back to been the Ronaldo of last year. GO MAN U. WE GOING FOR THE REPEAT.

 

[Imperium]

Im still in a state of disbelief, no title-challenging team loses a two goal margin in stoppage time to a team at the bottom of the league. Im despair, were dropping too many points. I doubt we will win anything this season.

Anyway, i suddenly developed a taste for football compilations, anybody know any really good ones i can watch? XDD

As for the champions league, it was a huge goal scoring matchday. I've never seen a CL matchday with so many goals! It was common to see a 6-3, 5-3, 5-2, 5-0 result... The bad thing-Porto lost. This home loss is devastating, it makes very unlikely for Porto to get the 2nd place. It would need wins over Fenerbahce and Kyev away (no, I dont consider the possibility of getting a result against Arsenal).

We only need three points to reach the required 10, but we do have our next two cl matches (fernabahce & kiev) in the same week we have united and chelsea, so there is a good chance we might not get the points and we might need to go to the dragon stadium and try to get a win. But the most likely scenario is we do get the points , and wenger ends up resting players against porto (since we have a tricky away game to middlesbrough, in the same week), which means you can easily win.

 

[Mendes]

Dont forget Arsenal's reserves are far better than Porto's mains. As you pointed out weeks ago, Arsenal gave a 6-0 against sheffield united with a team with age average 17 or 18...

I just got PES2009 : D

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Arsenal lost once again and are placing themselves on a very tough position, being already caught by manchaster united. Tottenham is finally showing something. Their last 2 matches were impressive. After recovering the 2 goal disadvantage against Arsenal, they got the draw in the last minutes and this matchday they were loosing with Liverpool but they managed to turn around and Pavlyuchenko scored at 90' the winning goal. Chelsea keeps devastating most opponents for outrageous results. This time the victim was sunderland. I believe Chelsea is the strongest team in the league, and their goal average is very impressive: 11 games played, 27 goals scored and only 4 conceded. Liverpool has the same points as chelsea, but only 16 goals scored and 8 conceded

In Italy, Roma keeps disappointing. 17th place and they lost to Juve. Del Piero and Marchionni scored 2 great goals. Its usually a normal result to loose in Delle Alpi, but Roma did nothing to get a result there.
Inter got the win over Reggina only at 90', 3-2. Inter doesnt look as dominant as it would be expected from them.

You guys should take a look at the 'grass' on the Malaga vs Barça xD omg I've never seen such field! You almost couldnt see green in there. Holes everywhere! Still, Barça got the win, 4-1. Most goals were sequence of free kicks, as expected with the field conditions... A side note for Aguero. He keeps on fire in Spain and scored the 2 winning goals of Atletico Madrid. Valencia was surprised by Racing.

FC Porto is basically off the title challenge. At least if this unbelievable wave of terrible playing doesnt go away. After loosing to Kyev for the champions, we lost at home to Leixões and now we lost to Naval. The past 2 losts had no excuse and we're playing garbage now. I dunno what happened, but Porto's playing so much worse than the beginning of the season... very disappointing. I bet on Benfica to win this year's league

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

Hehe, Ronaldo is getting back to his best, other teams are doomed, also Berbatov is playing better than Rooney and Tevez so far. Berba and Ronaldo kinda have a good partnership going, did anyone see Berba's trick against West Ham?

I think Maradona will do a good job, just being him means he'll get the best out of his players, he'll make them work their guts out, and he should promote attacking football as well.

 

[Imperium]

Dont forget Arsenal's reserves are far better than Porto's mains. As you pointed out weeks ago, Arsenal gave a 6-0 against sheffield united with a team with age average 17 or 18...

I just got PES2009 : D
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Arsenal lost once again and are placing themselves on a very tough position, being already caught by manchaster united.

Sheffield united are in the championship. If you theink there better than your team you must be more depressed than i am. xD As for the arsenal position, three losses and its only November. We only lost three times the WHOLE of last season. It feels sad, because you start doubting things you dont want too. Ah well, lets see how we survive this month (United,Chelsea,City,Villa and 2 CL matches) .

Btw, im too broke to get any new games. How good is it? Pes08 was kinda disappointing for me, and fifa seems to be getting better and better (i havent played the new one, so im judging from 08 xD). Anyway i did get the demo of FM09!!!!! Its bloody awesome

 

[Epul]

there's already a demo of FM09!? i didn't know that. So, anything new in FM09? FM hasn't grown much in the last 3 years.....

Man Utd 4-3 Hull

Man, what a game! I was biting my nail near the end... this hull team is really something......and not to mention some stupid defending from vidic and rio and evra.....

Did you guys watch liverpool against spurs? it was awesome! spurs won it 2-1. Spurs got the winner in injury time. Liverpool dominated the game but lost... their fans must be really disappointed