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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT4| Welcome Sweet and Tender Hooligan
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Good. Keep it that way!
Broder Salsa
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You got to be fucking trolling. :lol :lol :lol
Milchmonster
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Seriously, it was hard as fuck. Everyone was like Ajax can't play football and expected us to win something like 3-0. We haven't achieved shit in the CL yet, Ajax was very good and it was a very important match for them, too, it's not like they accept to go out 4th. The pressure for us was extreme, it was win or CL is (almost) done already. The matches against City and Real will be different, maybe even easier for us. I mean, what can you lose at the Bernabeu?
Vivalaraza
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Joe Hart and Madrid's poor finishing was the only thing keeping it a game at half time. Madrid should have been out of sight.
Manchester United have got to the final 3 out of the last 5 finals and won one. Chelsea have been in two finals and won one. Arsenal have been in the final. Liverpool have won and been in two finals.
In this time, Real Madrid have crashed out at the last 16 stage 8 times or so, and got to the semi finals twice.
Try harder.
Well, it was sort of coming. Throughout the match, City's defense were shambles and this just the error needed to tell the true story of the night.
Broder Salsa
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But result based football is dead, it's all about the way you play
A Fantastic game of football (the last 15 minutes at least), Chelsea - Juve better step it up!
ChelseaGAF are all top lads it's going to be relatively tame here tomorrow.
And fuck you Milan, gotta go to bed early tonight. Night fellas.
Fake Pogba will flop on his face against bigger teams.
ChelseaGAF are all top lads it's going to be relatively tame here tomorrow.
And fuck you Milan, gotta go to bed early tonight. Night fellas.
Fake Pogba will flop on his face against bigger teams.
City to finish bottom
mocolostrocolos
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But what match did you guys watch?
Hart has saved like 10 shots. Can't blame him for shitty defending.
Hart has saved like 10 shots. Can't blame him for shitty defending.
Think people are being a bit harsh on Hart for the last goal. A top CB like Kompany should not be ducking under a shot leaving his GK in a horrible situation. It's been the feature of top defenders since time began - Put your body on the line to block EVERYTHING. Also Zabaleta letting Ronaldo step inside is criminal.
Losing hurts full stop. But look at the positives. No one gave us a chance, we lead twice and came so close to coming away with something. But we didn't and from this the players and the manager need to learn.
You could see the reactions, Garcia flipped his shit and threw a paddy on the floor, they really wanted something from that game.
I think City can get out of this group and I think they will.
You could see the reactions, Garcia flipped his shit and threw a paddy on the floor, they really wanted something from that game.
I think City can get out of this group and I think they will.
PrematureQuiche
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A Fantastic game of football (the last 15 minutes at least), Chelsea - Juve better step it up!
ChelseaGAF are all top lads it's going to be relatively tame here tomorrow.
And fuck you Milan, gotta go to bed early tonight. Night fellas.
If you beat us we won't be friends for at least till the next CL game :/
Made three very good saves for me. The one from Ronaldo at the start, the one from Higuain (that was actually a bit lucky), and the one from Benzema near the end.
mocolostrocolos
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Good keeping alone can sometimes be so vital, and poor finishing is madrid's own fault, IMO City had chances to score on 2 more occasions tonight as well but they blew it. Sure Madrid was dominating, but City were defending pretty well with a poor Kompany. And this was at the Bernabeau. They gave *far* too much space for Marcelo's goal, and the third goal - the winner- was a horrible error. Madrid were excellent of course, but for the little that City had - poor kompany, no aguero or balotelli - is a testament to how far City can go these days IMO.
Well gaf says the premiership is the best league. I believe it is in term of money, but game level? pffff... mediocre IMO, everyone is equally on the bad side.
Anyway, nice game by Madrid, too bad City couldn't finish the job.
Steverulez
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European Champions bro, don't hate!
A Fantastic game of football (the last 15 minutes at least), Chelsea - Juve better step it up!
ChelseaGAF are all top lads it's going to be relatively tame here tomorrow.
Im hoping for a great game tomorrow, will be extremely tough to beat you and our current form isn't great! Hoping to see Mata make an appearance. Will take some photos if I can
He didn't deserve to be on the losing side. Best player on the pitch tonight, MoTM.
Not his fault at all, we'd have lost 8-2 if it wasn't for him.
... who says Premier League is the best league?
I think we all agree La Liga is a step above.
But I was saying before that City would tear Real a new one.
Your boys disappointed me, dc.
Yes their defense was quite bad at times :/!
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yeah Casillas has been pretty poor with set pieces this season so far, and that free kick was no exception.
Alonso should also be embarrassed for that Kolarov goal.
KidA Seven
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Willkiller
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Real Madrid and Barca are ahead of anyone in the PL. The rest of the league though? Not even close.
I still don't understand Mancini's decision to go with an attacking fullback against Ronaldo. Zaba should have started that match, no excuse. If only Zaba had been able to knock in that cross at the near post...sigh.
I think Nastasic played pretty well on the whole given the circumstances. He made a mistake on the Benzema goal but it was more to do with a nice turn -- he anticipated the wrong move. I don't know that Lescott would have done any better than him, frankly.
Can't get over how disappointing Kompany has been this season though.. that really continues to stick out like a sore thumb.
I think Nastasic played pretty well on the whole given the circumstances. He made a mistake on the Benzema goal but it was more to do with a nice turn -- he anticipated the wrong move. I don't know that Lescott would have done any better than him, frankly.
Can't get over how disappointing Kompany has been this season though.. that really continues to stick out like a sore thumb.
Personally, I say the Norwegian Tippelegaen is the best league in the world, BUt again that is my personal take on things here on GAF.
La Liga Sucks. Next year, Vålerenga is gonna win the Champions league.
KidA Seven
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We're just piling on Hart because you talked shit about our De Gea.
mocolostrocolos
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I also thought that this debate was settled last season with Europa League and Champions semis.
People tend to say the Premiership is the most exciting league in the world and I don't think that's too far from the truth. In terms of quality La Liga has been ahead for a few years.
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