Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

6 weeks isn't abd I thought it would be worse,

hulk played alright not great, but he did an average sub performance.

 

[-Ren Boy-]

Arsenal are doing so well this season, and when main players like V Persie get injured, everything starts to f*** up

I hope this does not kill our chances of winning and cups this season

 

[Mendes]

It happens every season. Arsenal have always been a team that seems to have half the squad injured. I dunno if its just bad luck, a curse, or if it is really a training problem

 

[Bugzee]

Arsenal need a couple of more players imo in order to perform better in all competitions. Its ashme Van P got injured, I think they're gonna struggle now.

 

[goldb]

I hope not. This gives guys like Eduardo a real chance to step and finally prove his worth. But it's true though, every season we seem to have a lot of injuries around this period, but so does everybody else it's just that we don't seem to get the replacement players to perform well enough.

 

[Lelo]

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!!!!

Ya I know, Tevez was a hustler and Ronaldo was great, why they got rid of both, I have no clue. And everytime I watch Valencia he looks a bit sketchy. Never has full control of the ball, but he is pretty fast.

 

[Bugzee]

At least Valencia is doing a better job compared to Nani atm.

I just hope fergie decides to sort out this midfield problem soon.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

fergie did not fail to replace ronaldo, he never tried to replace ronaldo, you can't replace players like him. even if we brought messi which is impossible I don't he would have been as successful as ronaldo was in the epl.

And owen is better than tevez at scoring so...

 

[Saintz0r]

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. ^^;

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.

True, and Terry/Jhonson would've made a HUGE difference, I just wrote Gerrard and Lampard 'cause they're the stars afterall xD
About our lefts: the three you named are so-so, Michel Bastos did ok today too but none of them can defend very well. Marcelo would be my first choice for the position, if he could defend

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?

ahahahah, truly amazing the final minutes!
Hulk did better today, he's a good hope for 2014 along with Pato. For now, he can't compete with Luis Fabiano and Adriano

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?

Same here, in june/july ( dunno xD ) Kleberson got injured playing for our national team and will only get back next year. Now i hear that Maldonado got injured while playing for Chile and the doctors still dunno when he's coming back, thre's only one 'little' diference... Maldonado's one of our regulars and we've THREE more rounds in the brazilian championship, my team is in second place two points away from the leader.

 

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why does lucas get in the squad but not anderson?

 

[Saintz0r]

Personality xD, everyone would rather have Anderson in Brasil over Lucas, but he's the kind of guy that just is the exact opposite from Dunga.
Once, when he still hadn't become a professional he was walking around Gremio's concentration with a cellphone on each hand and using both, then his coach asked if he though he was different from the others. Anderson's answer? 'Yes, I am'
He could be a new Beckenbauer that Dunga wouldn't be too keen on calling him to the WC

 

[Bugzee]

Anderson deserves to be in the first 11 imo. Its ashame, he needs more play time both internationally and on club level!

 

[Pirulito]

More chances than he ever had? No way.
It's a fact that Anderson don't play well in Brazil team for reasons that only God knows. On other hand, Felipe Melo is playing very well along with the team.

It would be unfair to Felipe Melo, who took the opportunity given.

And, by the way, all the world champions qualified for Cup, right?
I'm glad

 

[Imperium]

More chances than he ever had? No way.
It's a fact that Anderson don't play well in Brazil team for reasons that only God knows. On other hand, Felipe Melo is playing very well along with the team.

It would be unfair to Felipe Melo, who took the opportunity given.

And, by the way, all the world champions qualified for Cup, right?
I'm glad

Would dunga use anderson as a more defensively minded midfielder like melo? I always assumed he was a attacking midfield-type player (although ferguson does use him defensively), but i suppose if he was more attacking then he would score some more goals (has he scored for united yet?).

And hell no! France did not deserve to qualify, they cheated there way in. I hope its a repeat of 2002 for them, except that they dont even get a point in the groups this time (and with domenech that could happen...). Platini is a right twat, i suppose he'll still continue saying video technology is not needed. Ireland should have been going to the world cup and not france. How short-sighted does the linesman have to be? There should be a replay. [/rant over]

 

[KnuckleheadedNinja]

Lool. Can someone tell how the heck the referee and linemen didn't see that handball by Henry. Wow. And i love how Henry reacted, he didn't show any sign of having done something wrong.

The match should be play over.

 

[Bugzee]

It would be Henry of all people to score such a goal for France!

 

[Imperium]

It would be Henry of all people to score such a goal for France!

Meaning what?

 

[goldb]

Man, France were ridiculously poor last night and did not deserve anything from that game. That being said Rep. Ireland had enough chances to bury the game within the first half so in that respect the blame is not all France's as that goal wouldn't have mattered had Ireland taken their chances, but that's football; shit happens.

The goal in question is somewhat debatable cos I don't fully believe it was an intentional handball, but it shouldn't had been allowed to stand either way.

 

[digitaldude]

Anyone watch the Algeria vs Egypt match? It was an amazing match.

and so much for the luck of the irish, sad to see them go out this way.

 

[Bugzee]

Meaning what?

Back at Arsenal he did many goals over rivals that were 'allowed' when they shouldn't have been! I couldn't picture any other french player doing the samething and getting away with it!

Oh well, its kinda old but I still can't believe GREECE actually won the Euro Cup LOOOL!