Year Round The Football/Soccer Thread v2

[jorped]

lol Porto... and to think I have hulk on my fantasy team

Hulk is playing like shit on the latest games ... James is on a much better phase and the coach only used him at 60 minutes.

And what was funny about what i said Bugzee ?
Check Apoel's second game ... you will see that Guarin (only entered at 60's minutes) was running very slowly .... when he could have block the chance of a pass on the "beginning" of that play

 

[goldb]

Yesterday's Champions League night was awful. Chelsea sucked which I don't care about, Arsenal played possibly one of the worst 0-0 matches I've ever forced myself to watch and even though Barca won, I wasn't really impressed with their play. Meh.

Hopefully tonight will be better....

 

[kakashi919]

I'm hoping Lille will beat Inter

City to lose to Villareal and Napoli to at least draw with Bayern. CSKA Moscow should win too

 

[Bugzee]

And what was funny about what i said Bugzee ?
Check Apoel's second game ... you will see that Guarin (only entered at 60's minutes) was running very slowly .... when he could have block the chance of a pass on the "beginning" of that play

Well considering Porto's "traditional" style of play and you saying "our team doesn't run" I thought it was quite amusing at the time. They fricking dangerous on the attack and counters but recently something is seriously missing in the jigsaw. Morale? They weren't like this at the beginning of the season.

Benfica ftw!

Both Villareal and Napoli lost god dammit. D:

 

[jorped]

Yeah you are right Bugzee. They weren't like this on the beginning of the season ... if you saw Porto's game against Benfica *the first half* you can't possibly understand what is happening currently. On that game they were frickin awesome ... at least on the first half, but right now they look like a team with no will to play and without ideas. And the sports news don't really help ... every day we see news coming from Italy saying that they are interested in some Porto's players, like Guarin or Fernando. The summer was enough



And i also blame the coach in some of his decisions, cuz leaving James on the "bank" and use Varela doesn't make sense at all. James needs to play ... he is candidate for the most talented sub-21 player i think. He is an awesome player and will be a top player on the next years.
Now Porto basically needs to win the two games, and in case of Zenit beat Apoel on the next game, Porto will need to win by 2-0 or more than 2 goals. Though if Zenit doesn't win against Apoel, we will only need to win. But it's going to be difficult, and if Porto keeps playing like this we will much likely loose in Doneskt and we will be in serious problems, since we might even not go to the Europe League

 

[goldb]

Any thoughts on Ferguson celebrating his 25th year as Man Utd manager?

I think it's an outstanding accomplishment, which will most likely never be equal because football management nowadays doesn't allow managers too much chances for mistakes like when he started in the 80s.

 

[ErosVp]

Why the brazilian league is the best and most passionate?

There are only 5 games left to the end of the league. The 5 five first team are:
1 Corinthians - 58 points
2 Vasco - 58
3 Fluminense - 56
4 Botafogo - 55
5 Flamengo - 55

In english, italian, german or spanish league the difference in points between the first and the second places are at least 12 points when there are 5 games left... Right?

 

[kakashi919]

Well, Brazillian league doesn't attract "superstars" as the European leagues do. For one, Europe has more money and arguably the most talented players playing there. I'm not dissing Brazil's league or anything, but it's not very entertaining to watch... at least for me anyway. I think this season will be different though... I doubt there will be such a huge gap in points.

 

[Shinsatsu]

Valencia 2-2 Barca red card;
Bilbao 2-2 Barca red card;
Barca 0-0 Sevilla red card;

. . .

 

[Saintz0r]

Why the brazilian league is the best and most passionate?

There are only 5 games left to the end of the league. The 5 five first team are:
1 Corinthians - 58 points
2 Vasco - 58
3 Fluminense - 56
4 Botafogo - 55
5 Flamengo - 55

In english, italian, german or spanish league the difference in points between the first and the second places are at least 12 points when there are 5 games left... Right?

and Flamengo will end as the champion

 

[ErosVp]

Hahaha! Vasco will win the triple crown! XD

 

[jorped]

Any thoughts on Ferguson celebrating his 25th year as Man Utd manager?

I think it's an outstanding accomplishment, which will most likely never be equal because football management nowadays doesn't allow managers too much chances for mistakes like when he started in the 80s.

Really awesome !!! One of the best coaches, and this would be kinda of impossible at least here in Portugal

 

[goldb]

Not just in Portugal, but everywhere in football now. There's so much pressure for managers to succeed and win and the majority of them aren't given enough time to structure the team to their liking or any room for mistakes, especially the top clubs.

 

[xi0]

Not just in Portugal, but everywhere in football now. There's so much pressure for managers to succeed and win and the majority of them aren't given enough time to structure the team to their liking or any room for mistakes, especially the top clubs.

It's not unique to soccer either, it's this way in every major professional sport in my opinion.

 

[Bugzee]

It's ashame Levante couldn't keep up with Real and Barca with the winning streaks. It would've been nice to see them at the top even until the end of the year. They were awesome at the beginning of the season. All I can hope is that they start picking up more points to stay in the top 4 over the season.

As for the Serie A...where do I begin!? We're currently 17th! Treble trophy winners of 2009/10 fighting off relegation in 2011/12. So so stupid.

Udinese are doing incredible thus far in the season! Would love to see them finish top! I'm glad to see the "old power house clubs" of italy slowly returning to their former selves. Lazio and Juve are looking very strong. Kinda disappointed with Napoli in the league. I thought they would improve from last season but they're finding it hard in these recent games. ><

So apparently there's interest from Inter for Hazard (Napoli)....interesting that way it could pave a way for Sneijder to go to Man Utd next season!



I can only dream of such a move at present.

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Any thoughts on Ferguson celebrating his 25th year as Man Utd manager?

I think it's an outstanding accomplishment, which will most likely never be equal because football management nowadays doesn't allow managers too much chances for mistakes like when he started in the 80s.

A huge achievement! Off course! I can't really imagine any other manager being in power at a club for such a long time ever again tbh. Specifically, in the Premier League. Clubs are now way too demanding of their team and manager. Fast results and rewards asap. I, myself, can't picture another person taking the reigns of Manchester United for more than two decades like Ferguson. It'll be very very interesting to see who will eventually replace him after he officially retires for good.

Overall, yeah it's an astonishing record. The 90's are still the best years of the club imo. I'm talking even before the 1999 triumph!


Check this out.

I call him "boss"

Oh and forgot: 25 years Tribute

 

[blai]

Fantastic. A truly brilliant game played by Sweden. Never seen such a thoroughly worthless performance in years.

 

[ErosVp]

Anyone got a comment on how Neymar rejected Real Madrid and will stay at Santos until 2014?

 

[jorped]

Anyone got a comment on how Neymar rejected Real Madrid and will stay at Santos until 2014?

That isn't going to be good for him imo. He definitely has potential to be a top player, but right now i feel like people are overvaluing him. The player that he is currently isn't suitable to the Europe. He plays to much and his tactical positioning isn't nowhere good as we expect from the European football players. He might be one of the best players in some years but right now he has still to evolve ... and that isn't going to happen on Brazil ... because though the league is competitive .....

Right now i think RM would do a lot better to hire players that already showed that they can keep up with the European style ... awesome talents like Hazard, James Rodriguez,Gotze .....
Today i saw a news of Santos's coach, saying that Neymar is the third best player in the world
For gods sake ... he has talent and if he is well worked he might be someday but he isn't nowhere as good as what we would expect from the best players in the World. Santos's coach, prolly doesn't know Rooney,Nani,Xavi, Iniesta, Nasri, Ribery, Silva .... and i could keep enumerating players that are clearly way better than Neymar ....

 

[ErosVp]

Oh! Welcome back jorped!

 

[jorped]

Why isn't Bugzee posting on this thread lately?? I can just remember of one word that might explain this

Spoiler

Benfica

Though i shouldn't really mock ... Porto's current situation is terrible. It will be needed a miracle for us to win in Donestk

Spoiler

And a miracle happened

Still no post from Bugzee ?

Today i might watch a bit of Manchester United vs Newcastle ... it will prolly be a good game.
Today here in Portugal is "Derby day". Benfica vs Sporting is meant to be a much more exciting game, than the last years's. Sporting is away better and this year they invested a lot in new players, and a lot of them have great skills, though i still think that they better investment was on the coach department. They hired the coach that managed to put Braga on the final of the Europe League last year, and that two years ago almost won the Portuguese League, and sadly ended on second, behind Benfica. I hope that this game turns to be a good spectacle, because it is important for our league, because lately Sporting has been kinda "weaker" than what we could expect from one of the strongest teams from Portugal. Still today i might check a bit of RM vs AM. I hope Real keeps winning ... and if possible i would like to see Barça loosing