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GTR63

I never get why players act like they ran over a cat with a lawnmower when they score against their old clubs. Not wanting an Adebayor level celebration but your not playing for them anymore.
Brother just reminded me its Milan v Barca next week, hope it gets postponned indefinetly.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

What a header though. Better even than Moscow 08.

GTR63

Rafael is more Pancaro in Deportivo 04. (that one gave me legit nightmares)

Ando's Saggy Bottom

He needs help, they should be doubling up on the likes of Ronaldo in those situations.

GTR63

Pepe for Alonso?
How disgusting.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Rams is an awful yoke altogether. :pac:

Ando's Saggy Bottom

The Bernebeu silenced and a job well done. Fergie got his selection spot on and as predicted when you let Madrid play in front of you they don't look great and were mainly reduced to pot shots. A bit disappointed not to win it with RVP's chance.

GTR63

Taking off Di Maria made no sense when the opposition were sitting deep width is key. Think Madrid can score at Old Trafford on the counter which is their main strength but will conceed cause Mourinho has made no impact on this side.

Tinie

I forgot how much of a plonker dunphy is. My ma has more footballing knowledge than him.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

GTR63 wrote: »

Taking off Di Maria made no sense when the opposition were sitting deep width is key. Think Madrid can score at Old Trafford on the counter which is their main strength but will conceed cause Mourinho has made no impact on this side.

Its a good result for Utd as they can afford not to throw players forward so limiting Madrid's ability to counter. If Madrid score early next day they'll go through as the game will open up.

Lord TSC

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

The minimum though is to keep them from building up a lead tonight. A draw of any sorts will suit us cause when they come to Old Trafford, I do think we can take them there.

More than happy with the 1-1 draw, though frustrated RVP fluffed the shot at bringing the wincast in. (Did cover myself with Over 19 corners at halftime though, so still walked out with profit today, even if it was a small one).

Think we can definitely take them now. Welbeck, Kagawa and De Gea had fantastic games. Shame the ref was poor...

Digitalism

GTR63 wrote: »

T Think Madrid can score at Old Trafford on the counter which is their main strength but will conceed cause Mourinho has made no impact on this side.

Ah now, Madrids main playing style is a crowded midfield which pushes up very high, with constant pressure, basically pinning the opposition into their own box. Its very direct. Counter attacking is not their main strength, Chelsea are a counter attacking team.

United coped decently with it tonight, and should get through in 3 weeks time, but its not over yet. Dunphy saying neither team would win the CL is laughable. How is a pundit, who is an ex pro have the blinkers on constantly? The people who post here or in the soccer forum seem to know more about football than him and hes an apparent "footballing expert" :P

Giles isnt much better either. Get Didi or Ossie Ardiles back! :pac:

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Digitalism wrote: »

Ah now, Madrids main playing style is a crowded midfield which pushes up very high, with constant pressure, basically pinning the opposition into their own box. Its very direct. Counter attacking is not their main strength, Chelsea are a counter attacking team.

Don't agree with the at all. Madrid won the league last season by eviscerating teams on the counter. They mastered he art of transferring the ball from box tobox at lightening speed. They've struggled this year when teams deny them this space and prevent the breakaway. The same was true tonight, Fergie got it spot on tactically.

Digitalism

Pete Campbell wrote: »

Don't agree with the at all. Madrid won the league last season by eviscerating teams on the counter. They mastered he art of transferring the ball from box tobox at lightening speed. They've struggled this year when teams deny them this space and prevent the breakaway. The same was true tonight, Fergie got it spot on tactically.

Well ive watched them play in la liga a fair bit, and most of the time where they are successful, is by crowding out the midfield and pinning teams into their own box and opening up space by intricate wing play and passing around the D for the wingers to get the ball and cut inside/cross, or for short passing into feet. Sure they do counter attacking football also (what top team nowadays doesnt do that), but its not their main strength.

Its easy to "eviscerate" scrub defences in the bottom half of la liga with counter attacks with the pacey forwards like real have, but united tonight, and the better la liga teams show that can be nullified, so Real usually go back to their stronger play style of passing it around and crowding/pressing up front, but that style is less exciting and more patient. Thats where they do the most damage against the better teams though IMO.

Of course, this is all my opinion though!

But hey, I dont wanna get into a tactics argument, I do enough of that during work :pac::pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

Madrid seemed to become frustrated as the game wore on. For all their possession they couldn't create too many clear cut chances. De Gea in fairness dealt well with anything they did create.

I'd still fancy them to get through, I've a feeling their class will prevail in the end.

grames_bond

What a game last night! Fergie got everything spot on! Few outstanding performances, DDG, Wellbeck and RVP especially!!

sorry for the delay in reply to this but...

ShagNastii wrote: »

That's f'n brill. Hate to be nosey but I remember you mentioning your involvement with WWE in your organisation of the SSF charity night. Where do you work exactly?

I work for a mobile services company and we are partners with WWE. We have the contract to sell WWE sh!te via mobile, and I am the first point of contact with everything WWE. And I run the WWE Mobile UK & Ireland FB page!

GTR63

So the blade runner apparently shot his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, a very sad story that.

gimmick

Pete Campbell wrote: »

The Bernebeu silenced and a job well done. Fergie got his selection spot on and as predicted when you let Madrid play in front of you they don't look great and were mainly reduced to pot shots. A bit disappointed not to win it with RVP's chance.

Yes, because that is a very difficult thing to do.

grames_bond wrote: »

What a game last night! Fergie got everything spot on! Few outstanding performances, DDG, Wellbeck and RVP especially!!

Apparently he asked Tony Pulis his opinions on utter dirt football and how to look for set pieces as a way of scoring.

Manyoo last night = Stoke with RVP.

GTR63 wrote: »

So the blade runner apparently shot his girlfriend on Valentine's Day, a very sad story that.

Not quite the story it was at 8am this morning when it looked like he thought it was a burglary. Beginning to look a bit grim for Pistorious. Regardless, a pretty smoking hot lady is dead completely needlessly.

JP Liz V1

Charisteas

Happy Greg's Day

GTR63

Wow just noticed that Greg Valentine looks like Bobby the Brain and HHH had a kid together.
Vintage Liverpool miss a fair few chances then conceed 2 quickly back to back. After Monday it felt so predictable.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Predict the lol headlines for LFC's latest shambles.

Valentines Day Massacre?

Tinie

Yes because losing 2-0 away to Zenit with a team like pools is such lol worthy.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Tinie wrote: »

Yes because losing 2-0 away to Zenit with a team like pools is such lol worthy.

Pretty much everything they do under David Brent these days is lol worthy tbf. 41 games under him and haven't beaten one decent side yet.

Charisteas

Pete Campbell wrote: »

Predict the lol headlines for LFC's latest shambles.

Valentines Day Massacre?

From Russia with Love?

Lord TSC

These videos are scary...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0cRHsApzt8

500 injuries according to Sky News

Ando's Saggy Bottom

I hear Brenton Rodgers described their 2-0 loss as "near-perfect". Never thought theyd actually find a manager more deluded than large portions of their support base. :pac:

GTR63

Pete Campbell wrote: »

I hear Brenton Rodgers described their 2-0 loss as "near-perfect". Never thought theyd actually find a manager more deluded than large portions of their support base. :pac:

If we took the chances we had we'd have won the tie but Suarez wasn't scoring which meant we weren't scoring.
As for the comment on beating a good team even if we beat Chelsea, City or Arsenal we still wouldn't of beaten a good team.

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GTR63 wrote: »

If we took the chances we had we'd have won the tie but Suarez wasn't scoring which meant we weren't scoring.
As for the comment on beating a good team even if we beat Chelsea, City or Arsenal we still wouldn't of beaten a good team.

Well then they're in an even worse mess than I thought!

Diabhal Beag

Re: meteors and asteroids

It's amazing stuff like that doesn't happen more often. There's a massive forest in Siberia or somewhere that was wiped out by a meteor.