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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT9| Dedicated to Morosini & others who didn't make it. RIP.
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gollumsluvslave
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Alonso to my mind in front of the defense is as much they need in the way of a defensive midfielder.
I would have had Kaka instead of Khedira, to be honest - Sami does not offer much going forward, and Alonso is so deep, there is little link-play - Ozil could come deeper much deeper.
Khedira is just too slow for me - I prefer Diarra or Granero as a defensive player in any case, but we only need Alonso in that role IMO.
Of course, I'd also play both Benzema and Higuain up front and let Ronaldo roam in behind, so what do I know.
Too defensive for me.
Meus Renaissance
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Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
FUCK YES
Gareth Bale
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To add to that I accept that Real Madrid were better, and looked the better side, when they had Ozil, Benzema, Ronaldo and often Di Maria up against the Bayern Munich back four. You can say they should have kept playing that way, but it's very risky to maintain that strategy at 1-1 and Mourinho isn't the type of manager to do that anyway. I think you have to accept that with the way they set up Real Madrid were unlucky to lose today.
i saw a lot of fair madrid fans before, during and after the game and i loved it. but i also saw some who were talking about madrid crushing us, winning 8:0 or something like that. fuck you.
besides that, i'm just happy right now. great teamwork, great fighting and wow, what a great performance by our defense.
we're not throught yet, it will be tough. but i'm sure its an advantage for us that we can rest a little, and madrid needs to play against barca. they seemed pretty tired at the end of the match.
oh and...
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERN
besides that, i'm just happy right now. great teamwork, great fighting and wow, what a great performance by our defense.
we're not throught yet, it will be tough. but i'm sure its an advantage for us that we can rest a little, and madrid needs to play against barca. they seemed pretty tired at the end of the match.
oh and...
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERN
The 8-0 comment was clearly tongue in cheek
Alaba and Gustavo were goddamn amazing. Keep in mind they played their asses off being one yellow card away from being suspended.
a yellow was not fine there.
muller had already played the ball. marcelo wanted to hurt him. that's a clear red card and a suspension for several matches.
ramos and coentrao also got off easy.
In all fairness, Marcelo is the only one who does tackles for the sole purpose of hurting the other player with no intention of a play advantage. Pepe and Ramos, while they do act erratically out of frustration, mainly just make poor decisions and late tackles out of frustration (I'm not condoning their actions, but Marcelo is a different story - his tackles are just him being an asshole).
Although Madrid lost, they still got an away goal, so I'm not too upset (I'm just a bit irritated by the way they played after Ozil came off).
Jeff Albertson
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Same goes for West Ham surely?
José Mourinho
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Roll on tomorrow.
if yes, i'm sorry. but for me it sounded serious.
yeah, big respect to those guys. i hope they can maintain that form for the next game.
alaba was having a great but gustavo, save for a few great interceptions, was mostly slowing their game down.
schweinsteiger was even worse. perhaps even the worst player on the pitch.
gollumsluvslave
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Just saw Jose's interview, seems pretty ok with the result
'Will be a very different atmosphere at home, let's go for it'
Of course, a bad result on Saturday may affect the 2nd game, but equally, a repeat of the excellent 2-2 draw the last time we were at Camp Nou would be a huge lift to the team.
Bayern deffo deserved the advantage, let's see how things go next Wednesday.
'Will be a very different atmosphere at home, let's go for it'
Of course, a bad result on Saturday may affect the 2nd game, but equally, a repeat of the excellent 2-2 draw the last time we were at Camp Nou would be a huge lift to the team.
Bayern deffo deserved the advantage, let's see how things go next Wednesday.
Yeah best in the world, he is.
Alaba was great tonight, he and Pepe were the best players on the pitch
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Bayern was superior the whole match except at the beginning of the second half. Happy for you, guys.
Good result. The team really deserved the win, I was scared about Schweini getting sub out, but Kroos did a fine job as CM! We should've been awarded a penalty... Coentrao foul was awful.
Real Madrid is playing against Barcelona in the weekend, and we are going to play a B team against Bremen. If Barcelona do they work and trash Real Madrid, we could win in the Bernabeu.
btw, I don't get the Xabi hype. I see nothing special there.
Real Madrid is playing against Barcelona in the weekend, and we are going to play a B team against Bremen. If Barcelona do they work and trash Real Madrid, we could win in the Bernabeu.
btw, I don't get the Xabi hype. I see nothing special there.
No one believed Madrid were going to win 8-0 haha! I thought elsk was being mental saying 3-0, so for someone to say 8-0 would mean they're deluded
When was the Coentrao foul?
And Xabi's had a poor season by his standards.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Only a mother could love that face. Yuck.
Xabi Alonso is one of the best holding midfielders in football.
He has struggled a bit this season but he is still a classy player.
Ramos and Coentrao challenged Gomez at the same time.
Ramos got the ball but Coentrao ploughed through Gomez.
It was a terrible challenge.
I never even noticed Coentrao haha, I was focusing on Ramos
I'll believe it when I see it.
All the van Gaal kids are awesome, really. Sooner or later they have showed why he believed in them.
Alaba is going to be "the next Lahm". Thank God, we finally found a replacement for Sagnol!
edit: Zidane was in the stadium!
In FM wonderkids we trust.
3-1 it is
a red card to a bayern player would be great! just like bayern vs man utd not too long ago
Mr.NiceGuy
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AL Jazera Sports refereeing expert says almost all the decisions were spot on except Bayern's first goal which was offside.
It was a hand ball for Bayern as well.
Deportivo de la Coruña is still the only spanish team who won Bayern in his stadium
it was makaay who scored against us back then. it seems like that was a good recommendation letter.
lol
Et tu, Brute?
I always believed in badstuber but the progress he made in this season has been enormous.
FM never let me down. EVER.
pepe was in front of casillas. that was not offside.
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