Year Round The Football/Soccer Thread v2

[xi0]

Looks like the Barca losing wish came through

 

[Black Lagoon]

Can't believe it either, and the clasico is around the corner.
Messi Looked exhausted

 

[jorped]

Spoiler

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

And a miracle happened

Spoiler

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

Looks like the Barca losing wish came through

And my wishes keep coming true

Now, Benfica is the only team on the Europe, that still doesn't know the taste of defeat this season. Actually i think that Juventus also doesn't, but Benfica is on the CL and Juve isn't .... It's quite admirable, since Benfica has already played with the three strongest teams of Portugal ... Porto, Sporting and Braga ... and they already played with MU twice ....

I just hope today Porto beats Braga. If Porto wins this game ... i think we once again will achieve the levels of confidence to show the quality and skills of our team. We started well .... but then we became worse each game ... but i hope that the victory against Shakhtar and possibly against Braga will change that. We need to beat Zenit in order to go through the next phase of the CL, though i am not sure if that is what we really want. Based on the CL group's classifications we might get a RM, Barça or Bayern and that isn't cool at all

Spoiler

 

[blai]

What's with all the "el classico" hype year after year.

I'm looking more forward to Saint Germain vs Marseille tonight...

 

[kakashi919]

I don't get hyped for cassico's any more... Since Murinho came, it kinda got lame and unbearable to watch, and the post match interviews are a pain.

Anyway, more important teams to talk about :P Liverpool beat Chelsea again at the bridge Hopefully the way Liverpool are playing will carry on for the rest of the season and we can win the league or at least finish in champions league spot.
Juventus still unbeaten in more great news

 

[jorped]

The problem doesn't only reside in Mourinho LOL. Barcelona is starting to fear Real Madrid ... and fortunately this year they will be defeated. If Madrid beats them they will be on a good position to actually win the league. I don't have any problem with Barça. I actually like Guardiola for example ... but their are some things i don't really like about Barça. Barcelona won lots of trophies being scandalously helped ... specially on the Champions League .... and though imo they "are".... "were" the best team on the world they shouldn't have win some trophies.
This year, i think that the game is going to be away better. When the season started, RM lost, whatever is the name of that trophy, but difference between their strength wasn't as big as on the last years, and i finally can see Real winning against them.

And i want to see Mourinho making more history. His second year on a team until now has been always better than the first ... GO Mourinho
But i have to admit that he is problematic ...

OMG i can't believe it. Group B of the Euro 2012 is crazy

Portugal, Denmark, Netherlands and Germany. Their isn't an easy opponent on this group like on the others.
But i still believe in Portugal, though it will be almost impossible

 

[Black Lagoon]

Messi missed several straightforward goals and should have easily increased the score today, but it was a Good Game.

 

[jorped]

Tomorrow is Champions Day. Go Porto

A victory and we will be at the next phase ... otherwise the Europe League is our destiny

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Europe League here we go

 

[Imperium]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


(I'll come back later with something smarter or funnier to say)

 

[kakashi919]

Both Manchesters knocked out!
Porto knocked out
This is probably the best champion's league in a while

 

[goldb]

This year is the lowest number of english teams there's ever been in the knockout stages since it was put into place. I can't believe BOTH Manchester teams are out; I don't care about United, good riddance to them but I wanted to see City test their mettle against Barca or Real; it would've been entertaining.

Man Utd gravely underestimated their opponents again and got punished for it. Only 3rd time they've not passed the group stages in the last 17 years. As for Man City, they came into the match knowing that their fate wasn't in their hands at all, and despite a comfortable victory it didn't go their way. Shame. I guess now they're going to take out their frustration in the UEFA Cup. Poor Totenham must've thought that competition was theirs lol.

 

[kakashi919]

Tottenham haven't been playing well in euro at all though.... but yeah they probably thought only arsenal would join them
I knew City wouldn't have made it far in CL, they haven't proven to me yet that they are title challengers even if they are on top of the league. Can't wait to see the draw for the round of 16.

 

[ibra87]

What an awesome RM start, 1-0 in the first 20 seconds. Unfortunately only Benzema seemed to be his usual self (and later on also Kaka) so the others wasted so many chances. When it became 2-1 for Barca, the morale of RM was destroyed. gg, Barca deserved this.

 

[Black Lagoon]

YEAH!!! Way to Go Barca
Iniesta and Puyol were the BEST ... CR7 as usual (The Guy that does nothing in big matches)
That early goal was at the same time good and bad for real mardid, Bad because Barca was switching between 433 and 343 so early and Dani ALVES created many opportunities.

 

[ibra87]

Have to admit Puyol is impressive.. even at 37 he's still faster than those 25's running around in RM. Yeah, way to go barca. Now to beat them at Camp Nou \o/

Honestly, didn't even see Dani Alves this match except when he "fell"

 

[kakashi919]

That was a really entertaining classico

Iniesta totally destroyed that defense after the first goal. RM had no answer and the game quickly turned into a foul fest. Though, when Kaka came on they got back a little fight. Then Fabregras came and ended it. It was fun to watch lol

 

[Black Lagoon]

Yeah, can't believe he's 37 ... Barca and the Spanish national Team will miss him once he retires, I hope he could make it to the 2014 World Cup
and BTW looks like Abidal plays well only when Pique and Puyol are around
Forgot to mention Busquets ... impressive Match (he works in the shadow)

 

[Saintz0r]

It's impressive to see how easily Barça has been kicking Real's ass

 

[kkck]

So glad to see mourihno lost lol. I really don't like that guy (as I have said many times before) and I don't think he has as much professionalism as someone in his position should have. Unfortunately I could not watch the game though (was driving at the time).... It really is good to see barcelona still has that much of an edge over real madrid, unfortunately it was not a 5-x result lol. What formation did mourihno used this game? They usually defended quite well against barca (only reason they were not butt raped in a couple past games was because the guy switched to a defensive game). Or where they actually foolish enough to go head to head in a offensive game against barca?

 

[kakashi919]

It was the usual. They started pretty good, pressuring Barca and winning the ball often. After the equaliser though, they went back to their fouling ways.