Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[L0ki]

That's what you get when you put Milito on the attack.

 

[Mendes]

That's what you get when you put Milito on the attack.

He's Inter's top goalscorer in the pre-season :P
You're not the only south american who says Milito sucks... he must have done some pretty amazing misses in Argentina, but in Italy he's been one of the best goalscorers.

English and Portuguese Supercup today! Man U vs Chelsea. MU will take this easily imo. Porto's got the portuguese supercup in 1 hand, with the challenger being Paços de Ferreira.

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I guess I was wrong, Chelsea actually won on penalties. I don't like their new slow paced style of game conducted by Ancelotti. And their 2nd goal was dirty

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

Nani will probably be out for a few months, some kind of shoulder injury.

 

[L0ki]

I liked the Ballack-Evra duel, I thought they were going to beat the crap out of each other at the end of the match.

 

[ikcud]

I've never liked that guy. The guy always play dirty.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

LOL good news, Nani hasn't ruled out playing for Portugal on Wednesday so not a long term injury.

 

[Mendes]

Yeah, it seems like he actually enjoys playing for Portugal. He could have run off woth that injury. Not like that ass Ronaldo (he looks Usopp with his typical just-before-playing-for-Portugal-injury)! A flu he says... poor soul.

 

[Saintz0r]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Kleberson injured himself playing for Brasil and will only get back to the field by the end of the year. That reduces our chances of winning the brazilian championship, even though we still have the top scorer, aka Adriano
About the Brasil x Estonia game... give me back two hours of my life!

Btw, wth happened in that Everton x Arsenal match? Truly awesome xD
Man. City had 10 impressive minutes and after that they were reduced to defending and trying to find Adebayor in the attack, didn't like much the game, but I guess they could give some trouble to the other teams

 

[krid77]

Denilson's opener for Arsenal was splendid but the other goals...it's like the Toffees let the Gunners score: on Vermaelen's and Gallas' goals -> no marking ; Fabregas scored the 6th after crossing 40/50 meters with the ball and no one was attacking him xD
Big schedule next weeks for Arsenal: Celtic (away and home), Portsmouth, Man U and Man City...

 

[Koen]

Well, I am quite curious about Vermaelen. How did he play? What's his impression towards you?

 

[ikcud]

He can't fill Toure shoes, but I think he has a future. I pick him over that woeful guy that came back from Inter haha

 

[Imperium]

^ What woeful guy that came back from inter?

I swear while on holiday i cut myself off from the internet and news. No football news for like a month (i watched the england-holland match...and thats it), time to update myself *begins re-reading thread*

Well, I am quite curious about Vermaelen. How did he play? What's his impression towards you?

Well he did have a good game but it will take more games to get a better impression. Out defensive problems last season stemmed from a lack of attacking high balls, lack of cover from midfield, and a general lack of concentration and aggression. We still have a lack of cover from midfield and we just have to wait and see about the concentration issue. Now Vermaelen is not the tallest but so far i would say he is an improvement on toure in that regard. He can jump and is very aggresive in the tackle. He can play the ball and is left footed (hurray) which means there is some balance in defence. But other than that, and more importantly finding out if he is any good would have to wait for a match were we are playing a team that has bothered in turning up.

 

[Lohnt]

I sooooo envy Argentina, Messi, Aguero, Lisandro, accept no exceptions.

Back from vacation, back to work, and loving every minute of the new football season.

 

[thsv]

Well the English season is 3 matches old, Tottenham are on their best start for 49 years (Yes it's been that long since we won 3 games in a row at the start of the season). The longer this goes on the more spectacular the crash.

And last night saw a return to the bad old days for English football. It was always going to end badly considering those idiots had two weeks to plan this. Plus there seems to be an inability in England to prohibit alcohol sales within the vicinity of football grounds for contentious matches (I was at an Tottenham/Arsenal game in 2004 on a Sunday. My friend and I got to the pub at noon and it was already packed out for a game that kicked off at 4pm). Several of my colleges at work went to the game and they said the pubs and bars were already full at 1pm (The game was scheduled for 8pm)

 

[L0ki]

I sooooo envy Argentina, Messi, Aguero, Lisandro, accept no exceptions.

Back from vacation, back to work, and loving every minute of the new football season.

I have yet to see them put on a decent team performance, though. Having great players doesn't mean you have a great team. And with Maradona on the bench I'd say the chances of seeing it are very slim.

 

[Mendes]

CL draws were today. Sevilla's group is probably the weakest group in CL since I can remember.
Porto's in a very tough group, with Atletico Madrid and Chelsea, along with a newcomer Cyprus team I don't know. We have chances as long as we outplay Atletico like in last season.

It'll be nice to see Kaka playing against Milan, and Zlatan against Inter.

 

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Apart from Chelsea, the British got pretty easy draws though Utd will have to do some travelling.

 

[goldb]

There's no reason for any slip ups in the group stages for the English sides, except for Chelsea maybe... I'm hoping to go see the Standard Liege vs Arsenal game when they play in Belgium...

 

[Saintz0r]

1- Vermaelen is pretty good imo, but he seems like the type of defender who'll get a lot of cards, he gave some dangerous tackles in that Celtic x Arsenal

2- I don't envy Argentina, they'll get owned next saturday

3- We'll have some interesting matches in the groups of CL, Inter x Barça being my favorite

 

[Imperium]

The united-arsenal game. Complete and utter piss take from both sides. We outplay them, get denied a clear penalty, hit the bar...arrgh. So annoying. Besides the fact that we outplayed them, they were also damn lucky which brings me to my point that on paper and on the pitch...united are average. Fletcher is rubbish, the only reason he didnt get sent off today was because mike dean bleeds red. Carrick was anonymous, giggs had a good second half but he's 36 he cannot always play. Valencia is average while nani will never be a cristiano ronaldo, or in fact anything near that imo. If Ferguson manages to win the league with that lot, it will be one of the biggest achievement of his career. Btw, we also had cesc and nasri out. If they played we would have definitely have been even more dangerous attacking wise (i.e. no diaby n eboue). I just cant wait until we play these ***** at the emirates.

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In other news, milan were bent over by inter. While real madrid scored 3 but conceded two (same old?)

1- Vermaelen is pretty good imo, but he seems like the type of defender who'll get a lot of cards, he gave some dangerous tackles in that Celtic x Arsenal

He's the a-la vidic/terry mould. In the continent he'll probably will get a lot of cards, but here he is probably going to get a pat on the back and good job for getting "stuck in".

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This is going around, apparently showing rooney dives before contact is made (around 17sec). I demand two games.