They're playing Napoli tonight, so I doubt they'll be fully rested for the weekend considering their squad size + Michu still in doubt. 3 points is to be expected.
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They're playing Napoli tonight, so I doubt they'll be fully rested for the weekend considering their squad size + Michu still in doubt. 3 points is to be expected.
Baconsaurus Rex
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I accidentally clicked the spoiler and wat
Why not? It's pretty obvious: Florentino wants to conquer a new market, Ecuador.
Freewheelin'
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LanceVance
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Is wedward wenger in disguise?
I was referring to a hypothetical situation in which we had scored the penalty and you were chasing the game. It was the miss took the wind out of our sails, not exhaustion.
Anyway, Barcelona in their prime looked a far cry away from the Bayern Munich I saw last night.
the Ozil criticism is overblown. there's no way to even remotely consider him a flop; he already stepped in without a pre-season and has delivered on many occasions. Assist might be the most meaningless of all the meaningless stats. He's dropped off, but players do that when they're tired—no one is indestcrutible. He's hardly the first Arsenal player to play like shit in February because they're exhausted and Wenger's run them into the ground.
Ozil created first goal against Liverpool out of nothing, he created the penalty against Bayern. Even when he's playing below his own high standards, that's still incredibly dangerous. The real problem is that he's playing passes to Giroud and Sanogo, rather than any kind of competent striker. Wenger felt comfortable starting a teenager with just a single start this season ahead of Giroud in the most difficult fixture of the season; that wasn't a vote of confidence in Sanogo, that was an acknowledgment of the overwhelmingly obvious fact that Giroud is shit.
fuck Giroud.
(people forget how terrible this team was last season; Ozil's made it a lot better)
Ozil created first goal against Liverpool out of nothing, he created the penalty against Bayern. Even when he's playing below his own high standards, that's still incredibly dangerous. The real problem is that he's playing passes to Giroud and Sanogo, rather than any kind of competent striker. Wenger felt comfortable starting a teenager with just a single start this season ahead of Giroud in the most difficult fixture of the season; that wasn't a vote of confidence in Sanogo, that was an acknowledgment of the overwhelmingly obvious fact that Giroud is shit.
fuck Giroud.
(people forget how terrible this team was last season; Ozil's made it a lot better)
This.
Spelunky and Rogue Legacy are probably my favourite games in the past decade.
Broder Salsa
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Cazorla was also rather poor, any of them was fine really.
Facism
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did you know they got all his new hair from his back? Dem Italians are proper manly.
Milchmonster
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Stop talking to Milchmonster and calling him "the source".
But he can actually shoot and is better on the wing so if the idea was everyone stay behind lone striker Sanogo, he probably would have been better.
I think Wenger made a similar mistake in 2006, Hleb didn't have the same goal threat as Pires and wasn't noticeably better when not in possession.
Oh, yes then you're right. I think Arsenal deserved a goal at least in the first 15 minutes.
This is the worst version of Pep's Bayern I've seen in months too. We've been much better, he decided to change the tactics 100% for this match and it failed, he fixed it during the match by changing formation and players... the moment Muller and Pizarro came in, we were playing the system we've been using during the second half of the season.
pls tell me this is a joke
PLEASE
Broder Salsa
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Bendtner coming back was like getting a new signing though, so there was no need for such spendings.
Don't worry, you can have Aspas.
pulga
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dem Pizarro runs, brilliant brilliant absolutely brilliant
bet pep told him to make 'em
goat manager
that's what I've been saying! they sent us a kid, we sent them back a true, bonafide CHAMPION
foolish arsene
Milchmonster
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I would have put Podolski in for Sanogo after the red card to be honest. And then kinda played a 4-3-3 with no central striker.
thanks to that we scored a goal.
Like it or not, the goal was thanks to Lahm, Pizarro and Muller. Not Gomez (vs Chelsea) or Mandzukic (yesterday) were able to do what Pizarro did against a team parking the bus
Yeah, this would probably have been the best thing to do.
pulga
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i rate him 2 Pizarros out of 10
it would be funny if Pizarro was actually bad like Gomez, or even like Mandzukic sometimes but he's absolutely class. stop making a fool of yourself by talking about a player you have no idea of
LanceVance
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I haven't seen freewheelin in a while
What have you done to him Wilbur
Wat hav u dun
What have you done to him Wilbur
Wat hav u dun
You looked better in the second half because you were against 10 men. It's easy to dominate a dog that's already got its tail between its legs.
Nope. It was because of Pizarro.
pulga
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He's got less than 100 goals for Bayern in over 200 games innit. Textbook definition of average striker.
Why do people even take Jupp seriously :lol
He's too busy plugging his ass to scare away his farts
He's too busy plugging his ass to scare away his farts
obviously it would be hard to tell the difference because of the player getting sent off and Arsenal parking the bus.
pulga
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i dont think anyone is baby
it's just fun to poke at him and his deluded opinions
remember when he said robben was better than cr7 lolololollolololololooooool
Dzeko better than RVP and Pizarro making better runs than Borini are the ones that stand out to me
pulga
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which one won a CL trophy in the las 5 years "lolololololololol" I would care about your opinion if you weren't a two team follower joke.
keep living out of our taxes, you fucking tool.
I'm not doubting the players' quality, but I seriously doubt it was his influence that allowed Bayern to control the second half so well. It was clear that the direction to the Arsenal players in the second half was just to contain as best they could, and Bayern set out to tire them by forcing them to chase the ball, which is why Pep put Lahm in the midfield to control the pace of the game. They'd never be able to fight for possession with only 10 men on the pitch, anyway.
Pizarro may have been an important part of that goal after Koscielny took it upon himself to make a last ditch attack and was then caught out of position when Bayern hit back, but I think that's about as far as his influence goes.
So Bosingwa is better than Beckenbaur because he won a CL in the past five years
pulga
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I think Bayern would have had a much more "easier" first half if we had started with Lahm-Kroos as holding midfield. Instead of lonely man Martínez as only #6. But, that is just theory, and we will only be able to see if this is true in the second leg.
Of course, Pizarro wasn't vital, he was part of the goal and that's it. I'm not saying he's amazing for what he did there, I just was pointing out how great he is, after seeing him for two season in a row saving us and showing his quality in Bundesliga and CL. He's basically the perfect striker for a team like Bayern, but he's too old now
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