Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[goldb]

England vs Brasil's friendly should be fun. And Im still pissed Man U lost to Chelsea, and Ferguson is pissing me off too.

Yeah he got fined £20, 000, and got a 4 game touchline ban; 2 of those are suspended ti the 2010/11 season.

There's a few absenses for the England team, on last news Frank Lampard had to withdraw from the team with a minor injury. Also, Cudicini the Totenham Goalkeeper is in hospital; he's fractured both wrists.

 

[Lelo]

wow both wrists, sucks.

Do you know when Lennon will be back for Tottenham? I want to buy him for my fantasy league, he's pretty cheap right now, it would be a great pick up. I saw on a website that he'll be ready for the 22nd game but I dont want to take a chance

 

[Bugzee]

I was joking about Inter lol!

Man Utd had the best chance of winning back to back the champions league and they failed patheticly!!! Who the hell would start out with Ji Sung Park in the final?

Fergie failed miserably in replacing Tevez and Ronaldo. Valencia is a good player, but they really needed a central midfielder with PRESENCE!!!!

 

[KnuckleheadedNinja]

Anybody else following the U-17 world cup? That have been a really good tournament. Looks we, Nigeria, is going to take the cup again. It great to see this young fellows giving it all they got, unlike the heartless national team.
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Fergie failed miserably in replacing Tevez and Ronaldo. Valencia is a good player, but they really needed a central midfielder with PRESENCE!!!!

Fergie didn't replace them they chose to leave. Fergie did the best he could to keep Ronaldo with Man U. but you can't say the same thing regarding Tavez. I think Fergie should have try to keep Tavez and give him his much deserved playing time, instead of Berbatov. Berbatov have been a waste of £23.4 million so far.

And Valencia is an alright player he ain't no Ronaldo though. And he only got one or two moves, and it ridiculous watching the guy incapability to use his left leg too. If he can use his left leg, he would be a lot better. He hasn't shown the same form he showed with Wigan. At least it doesn't look like he is going to be a massive fail like Nani.

The biggest problem with Man U so far is our back line. The back line have been quite bad this year, and the injures ain't helping.

 

[goldb]

Nani is a huge failure. when he first came to the club there was all this hype about how he was the next Ronaldo but so far nothing.It's funny watching him play cos the way he gets critisised on Sky Sports or Match of the Day is hilarious. Man Utd hasn't been playing all that well, it's taking a lot longer than I had expected for the team to get used to not having Ronaldo around, but they've been getting results and still 3rd just on goal difference AND already qualified for the next stage of the Champions League.

I as an Arsenal fan, just hope our form doesn't dip, cos November-December is normally a bad time for us, but so far we're still in it and just need to qualify for the Champions League hopefully on our next game so we can rest some of our key players. I was worried about where the goals would come from once Adebayor left, but the whole team is contributing to the tally and not just the strikers, so that's a very good sign to have in a team; when you have many sources for goals.

In other news, apparently Brazil still wants Robinho to play despite Man City telling them that he can't; which by the way was stupid. Why send a player to his national team, only to tell them that he can't play? why not jsut keep him with you? I don't get how Mark Hughes saw befenit from that decision...

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

tevez was not worth 25 million, if you watch his games for City, there are much better players than tevez for cheaper, also berba has been awesome this season.

 

[Bugzee]

Thats because Man City have no football style, Hughes has purchased players who can't play correctly together as a collective, imo there team just looks wrong, somethings not right with Man City. Hughes didn't buy wisely either.

Tevez suited Man Utd's play and style! Berbatov has been a total let down, he should go into bloody acting. I hope we get to see more of Tošić this season.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

berba is better than tevez on his day.

 

[Bugzee]

True, lol but how many times a season is Berba's day loool! I loved the way he played for spurs but its just ashame that he hasn't performed well for Man Utd yet. That goal against Blackburn was SUUUUPPPPEEERRR btw!!!!

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

last year he got us vital goals and assists which gave us 1-0 wins.

 

[KnuckleheadedNinja]

Wow. Un-fucking-believable. Nigeria is in the world cup. Thank you Mozambique.

berba is better than tevez on his day.

I will take Tavez over Berbatov any given day.

 

[Bugzee]

Gary Neville needs to retire, he really has had his time! I actually like Fabio & Rafael as long term replacements in the backline.

 

[Saintz0r]

I began to watch Portugal x Bosnia when Liedson almost made an espetacular goal... after that Portugal had some chances to score the second goal but couldn't, in the end I guess they were satisfied because they didn't suffer the draw. ( really lucky of them, 2 balls in the post on the same play @.@' ) Still a dangerous result


In Brasil's friendly game against England I'm just sad that Fabio Aurelio, Gerrard and Lampard couldn't play. Fabio could be our regular in the WC, but with his awesome 'luck' of getting injured everytime he has a chance I'm really starting to get worried about our left wing. On the bright side, even if England didn't have Gerrard and Lampard we didn't give them any chances to score.

About the Premier League i just dunno, when the european season began I was thinking that Liverpool would repeat the same from the last one and ManU would be a little weaker. Buuut, It's the opposite Liverpool is really missing Xabi Alonso, Lucas just isn't the same level.
About the brazilian twins of ManU I don't think they'll be playing as regulars very soon, although they're very good in the offense their defensive skills are really lacking

 

[Imperium]

In Brasil's friendly game against England I'm just sad that Fabio Aurelio, Gerrard and Lampard couldn't play. Fabio could be our regular in the WC, but with his awesome 'luck' of getting injured everytime he has a chance I'm really starting to get worried about our left wing. On the bright side, even if England didn't have Gerrard and Lampard we didn't give them any chances to score.

I think it was a bit more than Gerrard and lampard that were out for england. It was something like 9 of the starting 11. ^^;

Normal lineup
James
Johnson - Terry - Ferdinand - Cole
Lennon - Barry - Lampard - Gerrard
Rooney
Heskey

Team that played
Foster
Brown - Upson - Lescott - Bridge
SWP - Barry - Jenas - Milner
Rooney
Bent

If both teams had fully fit starting 11's i think it might have been a closer game (i.e. that we would have a bit more chances). But it was a friendly so i guess its all about learning about the squad and if they can cope against top opposition etc. Aurelio is constantly injured, does brazil have nobody else to play leftback? What about Andre santos and kleber or even adriano? Where they not good enough?

Italy - Holland, Van persie out for 2-3 months.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

Wow. Un-fucking-believable. Nigeria is in the world cup. Thank you Mozambique.


I will take Tavez over Berbatov any given day.

I wouldn't, tevez has legs and thats about it, he's got pace, but berba isn't slow, berba also links up play much better and technically superior, his attitude and respect to fergie is much better, I dislike tevez after all the crap he said about fergie and now to the fans for booing him plus why spend 25m on a player that might retire so soon?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...eatens-Manchester-City-walkout-World-Cup.html

 

[Bugzee]

I hope we don't draw against Everton

 

[Mendes]

I began to watch Portugal x Bosnia when Liedson almost made an espetacular goal... after that Portugal had some chances to score the second goal but couldn't, in the end I guess they were satisfied because they didn't suffer the draw. ( really lucky of them, 2 balls in the post on the same play @.@' ) Still a dangerous result

Man I saw the game in the stadium... I pissed my pants in the final minutes. We were so lucky there... Still we had some excellent chances throughout the match. That one you mentioned by Liedson would be one of the goals of the season! Impressive! Another excellent hiring from Brazil :P

Did Hulk play against England?

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

He came on as a sub.

 

[Mendes]

How did he do?

 

[goldb]

Hulk was meh...

I am going crazy over this Van Persie injury!! no wonder club managers hate international matches. He's been so crucial for us this season; 8 goals and 8 assits you really can't ask for more can you?