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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT9| Dedicated to Morosini & others who didn't make it. RIP.
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mocolostrocolos
Member
It would be nice for the drama but I would die of a heart attack.
Awesome Animals
Member
Lovely, great read!
¡Hala Madrid!
And we might even sign Heskey.
Welcome to the Martin O'Neil era.
Meus Renaissance
Member
Only on GAF will you hear two attacking sides playing against each other to mean "the most boring games ever". The amount of mental gymnastics at display here, smh
If you manage anything against City, I will be verging-on-sexually grateful.
mocolostrocolos
Member
And what's more important, Messi isn't Messi without Xavi or Iniesta.
I won't get tired of saying it.
Meus Renaissance
Member
Barcelona have definitely an issue on the wing. Telio and Cuenta have looked like fish out of their pond in these last few games. They are missing the predatory instincts of David Villa to finish these chances.
You have my sword.
We sure as shit will try our darndest. They're not amazing away whereas we're amazing at home so...
Looks like Silva is everyones play toy....
The Friendly Monster
Member
Tiki taka isn't exactly "attacking" though. Spain managed to make every single game they played boring in the world cup, even against a good attacking side like Germany.
Did you really think last night's match lacked entertainment?
I don't think attacking football necessarily means playing like Barcelona.
Also would it even be possible for two teams to play successfully at that style? Doesn't the style necessitate having almost all the possession. It would be interesting to see but it's not necessarily the way I want to see every team playing.
Broder Salsa
Banned
They should just only have Nocerino on there, that sexy beast. All the other ruins the photo, especially the old woman in the middle.
Meus Renaissance
Member
If by Tiki Taka you mean possession just for possession sake, something Spain and Barca often do, then no I don't obviously endorse that. As I explained earlier, I'm using Barcelona's approach in this context as a contrast to what Chelsea did; I would rather have more teams who relied on their attacking ability than their defensive ability.
Last night's game was entertaining until Messi missed the penalty. Barcelona passed the ball among themselves a billion times but rarely forward. The constant sideways passing bored me, as did large portions of the first leg. The Bayern - Real game was a much more better football much in my eyes. Then again the Arsenal-Barcelona first half last year was better than all of them put together in terms of attacking entertainment.
Already said that in the previous page.
Awesome Animals
Member
Where was the attacking yesterday? All I saw was them passing sideways and backwards around the outside of the box. They could have spent all day crossing the ball into the box, making runs and trying to thread the ball to the top, or take outside shots, but they didn't. They just passed it around. It was one team utilizing tactics that serve to negate the effects of another team's tactics, and in this case Barcelona did nothing to change that. There are no mental gymnastics at play here.
Most of the people in this thread are thrilled to see Chelsea force Barcelona to adapt to their tactics rather than adapting to Barcelona's tactics. There isn't only one way to play football. That would stifle the game and make it boring. It isn't about two attacking teams. If both teams played the way Barcelona did yesterday it would have been all midfield and no attack. The game is about playing to your strengths and weaknesses, not playing to the other teams strengths.
Like I said. Chelsea chose to play rock against Barcelona's scissors. Barcelona could have switched to paper, but they kept playing scissors and Chelsea would be stupid to switch away from rock.
YES! The perfect cure to any ailment!
yes this is true, i mean one of the primary ideas behind tiki-taka is that if you have the ball then the other team can't score.
Stramaccioni: "La terza stella? Se la Juve la mette è perché penso stia dimostrando il suo ottimo momento di forma, il campo dice Juventus"
"The third star? If Juventus puts it it's because I think it's demonstrating their good form, the pitch says Juventus" Something like this.
Moratti RUH-ROH
"The third star? If Juventus puts it it's because I think it's demonstrating their good form, the pitch says Juventus" Something like this.
Moratti RUH-ROH
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-24-nearly-half-of-fifa-euro-2012-dlc-teams-are-unlicensed
Fuck off EA. I'm not touching this DLC with a barge pole.
Fuck off EA. I'm not touching this DLC with a barge pole.
Awesome Animals
Member
Skipped it as well :/
Me too. Fifa 12 as it is already gives me enough hastle.
Cunts. >:-(
Trials just got a billion times better for me with the discovery of all the custom tracks you can download....
Some of them are really fucking awesome
Carvalho and Lass are the first out the door. Kaká won't be sold. And it would be crazy. Nothing big will happen on the transfer market for us,
Gareth Bale
Member
EASSASSIN
lol StraMOUccioni
Maybe the replacements will do a better job of getting points?
You'll want to wish the opposite, my friend.
Maybe. BAE has been running on empty for a while, Rose is an able deputy. It was with him in the side that we turned Liverpool over at Anfield last season, so you never know. I very much doubt that Gallas/King will do better than Kaboul though. We desperately need a bit of pace in the centre of defence.
Apparently Harry doesn't even realise we're 3 points behind Newcastle in 5th, he said on Sky 'we're still fourth'. Oh how I loathe him.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Inter? No, PALERMO AT 3. Copenhagen at 6 and then some riff raff at 8:45
FFS!
At this point, I'm just thankful for the season we had. We have very difficult fixtures coming up where if we fail to win all of them we will not get a CL spot. It won't matter what the teams around us do/don't do. If we drop points against Wigan, Chelsea and Everton then we're screwed.
Hahah wow, turning on SSN now.
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