Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[Mendes]

Sheffield united are in the championship. If you theink there better than your team you must be more depressed than i am.

Oh I must be, but I'm not saying Porto's worse than sheffield, but I dont expect us to loose 6-0 as well. The thing is, in Arsenal there's so much potential in the reserves that those players will use every chance to impress the manager. I'd think it'd be awesome to play the favorite of the group in the last matchday, but I dont think its such a big advantage against Arsenal.

I like PES much more than FIFA, but that's me. I'm loving the PES 2009

 

[Lelo]

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.

ohh I saw, it was sick. Ur talking about the save and then assist to Ronaldo right? I just order the whole package with DirectTV w/ DVR, so I'm getting all the football games and recording them

 

[Imperium]

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....

)8 was amazing, but 09, Judging by the demo, i will not be buying it. The only main new thing is the 3d match engine which in itself is not THAT good. Although there are a couple of things that have been made better like the transfers/press confrences but it just feels like a update not a new game. To say im disappointed is an understatement :cry

ohh I saw, it was sick. Ur talking about the save and then assist to Ronaldo right? I just order the whole package with DirectTV w/ DVR, so I'm getting all the football games and recording them

Do you get every football match?

Anyway, CL Tomorrow.

 

[Lelo]

^ yep, theres a bunch of different Fox Sports channels that play mostly English Premiere league and theres a couple soccer channels(some in Spanish) and ESPN plays most champions league matches. But all I pay attetion to is the English league.

 

[Imperium]

Major upsets, minor upsets, close upsets and a dash of english diving, pretty much sums up yesterday. XD I was watching the liverpool-atletico match, and i have to say i realized when it comes to foreign players we can so easily blame them for diving, but when the player is from these isles we so easily turn a blind eye. Atletico were robbed yesterday, simply put. The linesman must have been intimidated or just daft. Gerrard in the dying minutes, jumps into the defender and theatrically falls over with arms flailing, vid = http://videos.sapo.pt/Wrmuq4glM8ElzP22ZUU1. It woulds have made any of ronaldo/drogba/eboue proud. But what i found amusing was our commentators trying to find ways to justify it after the replay. God...Also inter almost lost by the Cypriot team. Which was dissapointing because im sure mourinho's reaction would have made my day week month.

Anyway, united play celtic at home, were they lost a couple years back. So it should be intresting. Real face juve, and fiorentina v bayern. So the arse do fuck up at the emirates tonight against fener, hopefully it wont make big news....


....who am i kidding.

 

[thsv]

United just scraped a draw with Celtic. Arsenal draw with Wenger complaining about the premiership workload. He seems to forget that both Liverpool and Man U have won the European Cup whilst dealing with 38 games against teams that were a lot closer to them in ability than Arsenal has to deal with now. And when Liverpool were winning it in the 70's and 80's they had a far smaller squad, less opportunity to know about their opponents and had to put up with far rougher tackling (two footed tackles rarely got free kicks given, let alone bookings)

Its going to be interesting in the UEFA Cup. Aston villa should walk it against Slavia Prague, considering that Tottenham have beaten them twice in the last two seasons and Arsenal nearly set a European Cup record against them last season. But you never know. Manchester City face FC Twente. At home they look unbeatable so FC Twente have got their work cut out for them. Then its Tottenham's turn against Dynamo Zagreb, who they paid £16 mil to for Modric this summer. Its a question of will the bubble burst or does the revival continue. I mean, come on, this is Spurs we're talking about.

 

[Saintz0r]

Wow, you should check this you won't have the chance to see something like that again xD
It happened yesterday, in Botafogo x Estudiantes for the Sul - Americana Cup lol

 

[Pirulito]

HILARIOUS!

I loled so much yesterday while i watched that. Although it was a very bad attitude of the player

 

[goldb]

man arsenal are annoying, we've lost 3 games in the league already and we ain't even played the top 3 yet...this season has been a shamble. arsene wenger needs to stop making excuses like " they use agressive tactics" and " my players are burning out" what!? burning out!? it's only november!!! i swear to God we best win against man utd or i'm gonna be cursing all over this forum!!

how da hell do we win AT fenerbahce and then we come home and DRAW!?

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

LOL that brazilian player was funny, no need to do that.

 

[Mendes]

For once, we beat the brazilians on something in football: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WIiaXWq1KHY
This was an under 21 match a long time ago :P

 

[Epul]

Correct me if I'm wrong Mendes. But isn't portugal national team is nick named 'The Brazil of europe'? I think I heard that long time back....

 

[thsv]

Correct me if I'm wrong Mendes. But isn't portugal national team is nick named 'The Brazil of europe'? I think I heard that long time back....

Are you Kidding? Apart from an 8 year period in the 60's Portugal haven't really had a national team worth worrying about until Figo and co emerged in the 90's.

Looks like I wasn't disappointed last night. Manchester City almost threw it away against the Dutch. Villa made it look harder than it was. Dynamo Zagreb got raped by a team at the bottom of the English Premiership. Darren Bent got a hat trick. Nice to see him paying back some of that £16 million we paid for him.

 

[Lelo]

Man U tied 1-1 against Celtic. Celtic went up 1-0 but in the 84 min Giggs scored the tying goal. The game was soo agressive though. They were punking Ronaldo soo much.

 

[Imperium]

United just scraped a draw with Celtic. Arsenal draw with Wenger complaining about the premiership workload. He seems to forget that both Liverpool and Man U have won the European Cup whilst dealing with 38 games against teams that were a lot closer to them in ability than Arsenal has to deal with now. And when Liverpool were winning it in the 70's and 80's they had a far smaller squad, less opportunity to know about their opponents and had to put up with far rougher tackling (two footed tackles rarely got free kicks given, let alone bookings)

The liverpool team of the 80's played only a couple of knockout rounds and were through to the Quarterfinals, right? So its unfair to actually compare them to team of today. The current format is more demanding of the players, just look at the CL teams fixture list, this weekend is going to be the fourth consecutive week in which they played a average of a game every three days, and it seems to be affecting the other teams too. Chelsea lost, united and liverpool needed a late goal just to equalize in the CL this week. So he has a point.

Anyway, anybody know if the "1 billion people watch the arsenal v united" statements are true....

 

[thsv]

The liverpool team of the 80's played only a couple of knockout rounds and were through to the Quarterfinals, right? So its unfair to actually compare them to team of today. The current format is more demanding of the players, just look at the CL teams fixture list, this weekend is going to be the fourth consecutive week in which they played a average of a game every three days, and it seems to be affecting the other teams too. Chelsea lost, united and liverpool needed a late goal just to equalize in the CL this week. So he has a point.

Anyway, anybody know if the "1 billion people watch the arsenal v united" statements are true....

True, but back then all the teams they played were champions. And the gulf in quality wasn't what it is now. Thursday night was a great example. Spurs are bottom of the premiership and yet put 4 past a team that had qualified for the champions league. And as I said that Liverpool team had a squad of 16 players. That's it. No opportunity for wholesale changes if they were playing badly. What Arsenal And Tottenham for that matter need is a holding midfielder to do the dirty work of protecting the back four. We'd both concede a lot less goals if that happened

 

[Imperium]

What Arsenal And Tottenham for that matter need is a holding midfielder to do the dirty work of protecting the back four. We'd both concede a lot less goals if that happened

Dont you haveZokora and Huddlestone? Huddlestone seems a decent player. We had to change our style after flamini left *Wengers words*. I think he is moulding denilson into a carrick type player. A deep playmaker who can break play up. But i would rather have an out and out defensive midfielder.

 

[thsv]

Dont you have Zokora and Huddlestone? But i would rather have an out and out defensive midfielder.

Huddlestone and Zokora are more central midfielders than defensive. More balance between defence and offense unlike Jenas who won't track back when we lose the ball. At least when we had Carrick we tended to keep the ball in midfield. Modric is starting to show why we paid all that money for him but I'd prefer it if he had a bruiser next to him.

Man Utd losing made me laugh. After their conduct over the Berbatov transfer I hate them more than anyone. I'd rather Arsenal or Chelsea won the title this season than have United profit from screwing us over. Although they aren't completely to blame. Commolli didn't think we needed a left footed wide player? After 3 seasons? Good riddance

 

[Epul]

Are you Kidding? Apart from an 8 year period in the 60's Portugal haven't really had a national team worth worrying about until Figo and co emerged in the 90's.

When I say a long time back, i mean during the Figo and co era. If I'm not mistaken, I heard that during euro... the commentator mentioned something about Portugal being nicknamed 'The Brazil of europe' Oh well i could be wrong there.

I'm really sad that man utd lost to arsenal...... United played well.... somehow rooney and ronaldo didn't have their shooting boots on.... or else united could have given arsenal more trouble..... Fergie should play Rafael more. He was great coming of the bench and he did really well in all the games he had played

 

[Mendes]

isn't portugal national team is nick named 'The Brazil of europe'?

I honestly never heard that expression, but I suppose its because both Brazil and Portugal share the same language and, perhaps, a similar soccer style. In the portuguese league, almost half of the players here are brazilian and its being more and more common over the years the naturalization of Brazilian players into Portuguese nationality. Deco and Pepe are the most known cases, but Derlei and Liedson have recently naturalized and I have great hopes for the last. He's one of the finest strikers we had in the league in the last years, and we sure need one in the national team.

Arsenal vs Man Utd was amazing! An anthem to football!

Eto'o and Higuain are on top form. A poker for each in the spanish league this matchday. I'm very impressed with higuain this season. He's becoming a monster