Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[berryfreshman]

Whoa. There's a football thread here.

Cool.

Anyways, CFC Rules.

 

[venicia777]

Drogba won with 79 votes, Eto'o is second with 74 votes and Essien only has 39.

yeah. i just checked that and it was online.

and of course, with two phenomenal strikers - Drogba and Eto'o- each with a great story for achievements in 2006-- i never gave Essien a chance.

 

[berryfreshman]

Essien played most matches in central defense because of Terry's and Riccy's injury's.

If he had the chance to play in the midfield I bet he would have given some tough competition to the other 2.

 

[Epul]

Man Utd will play Liverpool this coming weekend. It will be interesting to see whether Benitez will put in his strongest eleven since the game against Barcelona will come shortly after.

 

[Ichimaru Gin n Tonic]

Epul, Man United also got a Champions League game next week. So both managers will be doing a lot of gamble, but Liverpool will be betting a lot on this one since they need to be ready for Barca now that Eto'o is back.

 

[venicia777]

Epul, Man United also got a Champions League game next week. So both managers will be doing a lot of gamble, but Liverpool will be betting a lot on this one since they need to be ready for Barca now that Eto'o is back.

Eto"o lost to Drogba for African best player of the year. Liverpool-- get ready- he will be coming for vengeance

 

[Ichimaru Gin n Tonic]

Eto"o lost to Drogba for African best player of the year. Liverpool-- get ready- he will be coming for vengeance

Yeah, Drogba is a very powerful pacey forward. He reminds me of a young Christian Vieri. Let's hope Drogba will not end up like Bobo. [br]Posted on: March 01, 2007, 10:29:31 PM_________________________________________________Man Utd won 1-0 against Liverpool. Wooooohoooo!!!
Too bad Scholes got red carded for a stupid useless mistake...

 

[bax]

Too bad Scholes got red carded for a stupid useless mistake...

Oh yesh.. a stupid mistake on his side, really. Now if only his hand connects with the face, I bet the FA will be on his head.

 

[Ichimaru Gin n Tonic]

Oh yesh.. a stupid mistake on his side, really. Now if only his hand connects with the face, I bet the FA will be on his head.

Actually, somehow i wanted that too and his feet managed to kick Xabi's *cough*nuts*cough*.

Let's see, Arsenal vs Reading, looks like Wenger is resting some of his senior player and giving young players premiership time

 

[bax]

Ah really? I missed the line-ups

Maybe Wenger thinks Reading is not worthy enough? But seriously, if they underestimate Reading, who knows what will happened.

Ah.. Theo Walcott is playing today I see.

 

[Seiken]

Puh, it almost went wrong at the end, but Arsenal won 2-1 over Reading. I was seriously afraid that resting some of the best players would backfire, but luckily, it didnt.

So, Arsenal HAVE to beat PSV on wedensday of two good reasons:

1: The have to if they are going to advance in the Champions League, obviously.
2: I am leaving the cold and depressive Tromsø (Norway) to see them live at Ashburton, so they better win!

 

[venicia777]

Xoph-- sorry for Etiennes loss

And i am sure Bax will be jubilating-- Arsenal got a win. Liverpool will be reeling.

And those are really wonderful goals by Bergkamp.

 

[bax]

Xoph-- sorry for Etiennes loss

Xoph will hate me more for this >.<

And yeah, I predicted Arsenal won 2-0. But that 1 goal Reading got was totally avoidable And yesh, next up, the Champions League.

6th March

Roma (0) vs Lyon (0)
Barcelona (1) vs (Liverpool (2)
Porto (1) vs Chelsea (1)
Inter (2) vs Vakencia (2)

7th March

Celtic (0) vs Milan (0)
PSV (1) vs Arsenal (0)
Lille (0) vs MU (1)
Real (3) vs Bayern (2)

 

[venicia777]

Nice predictions there. The one i am looking forward to is the Liverpool vs Barcelona match. With Eto'o back--- that should be extremely entertaining.

 

[caco]

Im looking foward for a 0-1 in the Bayer-Real Madrid game

 

[venicia777]

i wonder if D. becks plays with them

 

[caco]

i dont like becks he doesnt put his soul into the game (i had to admit in the last champions game he play really good, but ever since he arrive in Madrid he didnt give a shit to play well he is just think in his money)

 

[Epul]

Can't wait for Liverpool against Barcelona. It's gonna be cracking game! I think Barcelona will go out all guns blazing. With the agregate being 2-1 in favour of liverpool, it's up to Barcelona to take the game to Liverpool.

 

[venicia777]

i dont like becks he doesnt put his soul into the game (i had to admit in the last champions game he play really good, but ever since he arrive in Madrid he didnt give a shit to play well he is just think in his money)

I dont think it is money alone- but it definately may be a factor. Anyways, becks is injured (i just read it) so he is out for about 4 weeks.

 

[Epul]

Champion's League results:

Chelsea 2-1 Porto (agregate 3-2 Chelsea go through)
Liverpool 0-1 Barcelona (agregate 2-2 Liverpool go through on away goal)
Lyon 0-2 Roma (agregate 0-2 Roma go through)
Valencia 0-0 Inter (agregate 2-2 Valencia go through on away goal)

I watched the Barcelon against Liverpool game. It's sad to see Barcelona go out. But to be fair they had a lot of the ball but didn't create enough chances. Ronaldinho hit the post in the second half and after that Gudjhonsen came off the bench for Barcelona and scored a goal. Liverpool played well on the counter attack and unlucky not to have scored. Liverpool could have scored at least two in the first half and could have finished of the game by then.
Now I have one more game to look forward to, the man utd against Lille game. Glory glory man utd!!