The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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Arsenal won !!
But only just. Nice one van persie.
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Am i right in thinking that Arsenal are playing Liverpool this weekend?
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Get On The Right Thing:
Sheff Wed 1 - 1 Stoke 21' 1 Richard Cresswell 82' Franck Songo'o 1 avoiding rlegation one point at a time...
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Scunthorpe 1 - 1 Sheff Wed 18' Ian Morris 1 49' 1 Ben Sahar literally one point at time... yes, yes, i realize i am quoting myself... i'm the only wednesday fan online here though...
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Chelsea won... Things wont be that easy tomorrow, specialy if Neville plays
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Intheskywithdiamonds, you should be OK on Sunday as Man U are doing well at the moment. Arsenal = i don't really want to talk obout it as they have blown it big time.
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promotion to league championship... 1 Swansea 82 2 Carlisle 78 [color=limegreen]3 Doncaster 73 4 Nottm Forest 69 5 Southend 68 6 Leeds 64 looks like swansea(feck-dirty jacks) and carlisle for sure. i'd like to see nottingham forest get through...
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I'm back from... kind of my meditation in India. All reminds the same. Real Madrid wins if Raul does "his goal" like with Sevilla. And the rest are somewhat far away. 7 matches to go and Real Madrid 66, Barça and Villareal 59. Atletico 53. When I said 7 goals from the Utd to Barça I meant not in one game only but in the two games of the round. I would like to see that match but members have the advantage to get the tickets. Maybe if the second game is here it will be possible for me.
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21st Century Paul:
When I said 7 goals from the Utd to Barça I meant not in one game only but in the two games of the round. I would like to see that match but members have the advantage to get the tickets. Maybe if the second game is here it will be possible for me.
Barcelona would be hosting the first game... providing they can get past Schalke, which isn't a sure thing the way they've been playing.
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Sheff Utd 2 - 2 Sheff Wed 39' 1 Adam Bolder 56' 2 Adam Bolder 62' Richard Wood (og) 1 85' James Beattie 2 one...point...at....a...time...uuuuuuugh! for those keeping count that is 6 draws in a row for the wednesday!
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Afternoon Intheskywithdiamonds, Hope you are looking forward to Sunday! Any predications on the score? Well done for last night's score by the way. I don't even want to talk about Arsenal's performance against Liverpool the other night. Except, that we had it in our grasp for about 3 minutes. And then we got a yellow card. F*******g Arsenal. May the best team win on Sunday.
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Hey I've watched the two last Arsenal vs Liverpool matches. The Premier and the Champions one... I thought Fabregas was better, all I had seen was highlights from matches and comments but well he is only 20 but now he's not even good enough to play in the Spain team. That reminds me of Torres, now in the Premier he seems to be one of the best strikers in the world and here hardly scored goals. The English playing is a lot different and run and drible striker have a lot space, that's very good for Torres, Cristiano Ronaldo, rooney, Henry... but these players without so much space are not so good... I think Cristiano Ronaldo would not be so good for Real Madrid.
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Semifinals Barcelona vs Manchester and Liverpool vs Chelsea The penalty scored by Gerrard was a silly one. The Arsenal defender throws the liverpool striker just when stepping into the area with a lot of people inside... but today everyone's here has been with the Laudrupitos, the little Laudrups, the Getafe guys against Bayern Munchen. If you have not watched the game I can't explain it here cause is too long. Oliver Kahn aka "The Monster" has done it again. When he runned to the other side of the field before the corner I said "Beware with the Monster, look out!" he can't score, but he usually throws aways some defenders... maybe the most hated soccer player in the world. I hope he retired soon... or someday at last.
Laudrup: "this game will go down in history". The Fantasy, Magic Getafe playing a la Laudrup almost does it with 10 men since minute 5. Like the famous quote: "Why in the movies the good ones win but in life evil ones win instead?" Laudrup Forever and Kahn I hope not forever.
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21st Century Paul:
That reminds me of Torres, now in the Premier he seems to be one of the best strikers in the world and here hardly scored goals. The English playing is a lot different and run and drible striker have a lot space, that's very good for Torres, Cristiano Ronaldo, rooney, Henry... but these players without so much space are not so good... I think Cristiano Ronaldo would not be so good for Real Madrid.
BBC text commentary of the Liverpool-Arsenal Champions League game described it at one point as "like a Premier League game: lots of running, no defence, but exciting". Pretty much. Amazing display by Getafe who led 3-1 despite being down to ten men after only six minutes. But horrific goalkeeping by Pato Abbondanzieri gifted Bayern into the semifinals.
I'm not really convinced of Laudrup just yet. After all, he's inherited a team that finished ninth in La Liga last season (their best ever finish) and reached the Copa del Rey final as well (which qualified them into the UEFA Cup for the first time ever). Josu Uribe was the man who guided Getafe from the Segunda into the Primera, while Quique Flores and Bernd Schuster each spent two seasons at the club and made them competative in La Liga. Laudrup currently has Getafe in 12th position and they've again reached the Copa del Rey final. Oli Kahn's contract at Bayern ends after this season and he stated after the World Cup that he would not try to renew it. So I guess he'll be retiring next month.
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21st Century Paul:
Semifinals Barcelona vs Manchester and Liverpool vs Chelsea The penalty scored by Gerrard was a silly one. The Arsenal defender throws the liverpool striker just when stepping into the area with a lot of people inside... :
Tell me about it! Apparently the ref didn't see the dive and it shouldn't have been a penalty. The game was definately excioting = so much so that i was sitting on the edge of my seat. I didn't want to blink in case i missed something. Poor defence by Arsenal in certain parts of the game. I reclon Walcott might be the next Henry. Did you see the way he was moving just before Arsenal scored? Reminds me of Henry and Ljungburg. Talking of Henry, I'm sad that he left Arsenal but on the other hand, I think Arsenal are playing much better footie now because he went. Henry has nice legs though!
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Luis AragonĂ©s' preliminary list of 31 players for EURO 2008. The squad will be cut down to the required 23 in mid-May. GOALKEEPERS Iker Casillas (Real Madrid) AndrĂ©s Palop (Sevilla) JosĂ© Reina (Liverpool - ENG) DEFENDERS Raul Albiol (Valencia) Xabi Alonso (Liverpool - ENG) Ălvaro Arbeloa (Liverpool - ENG) Joan Capdevila (Villarreal) Juan GutiĂ©rrez (Real Betis) Ăngel LĂłpez (Villarreal) Antonio LĂłpez (AtlĂ©tico) Carlos Marchena (Valencia) Fernando Navarro (Real Mallorca) Mariano PernĂa (AtlĂ©tico) Carles Puyol (FC Barcelona) Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) MIDFIELDERS RubĂ©n De la Red (Getafe) Cesc FĂ bregas (Arsenal - ENG) Pablo HernĂĄndez (Getafe) Xavi HernĂĄndez (FC Barcelona) Pablo Ibåñez (AtlĂ©tico) AndrĂ©s Iniesta (FC Barcelona) Albert Riera (Espanyol) JoaquĂn SĂĄnchez (Valencia) Marcos Senna (Villarreal) David Silva (Valencia) FORWARDS Luis GarcĂa (Espanyol) Daniel GĂŒiza (Real Mallorca) Bojan KrkiÄ (FC Barcelona) RaĂșl Tamudo (Espanyol) Fernando Torres (Liverpool - ENG) David Villa (Valencia) Upcoming matches: 31 May v Peru in Huelva (friendly) 4 June v United States in Santander (friendly) 10 June v Russia at Innsbruck (EURO 200
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hettyw:
21st Century Paul:
Semifinals Barcelona vs Manchester and Liverpool vs Chelsea The penalty scored by Gerrard was a silly one. The Arsenal defender throws the liverpool striker just when stepping into the area with a lot of people inside... :
Tell me about it! Apparently the ref didn't see the dive and it shouldn't have been a penalty. The game was definately excioting = so much so that i was sitting on the edge of my seat. I didn't want to blink in case i missed something. Poor defence by Arsenal in certain parts of the game. I reclon Walcott might be the next Henry. Did you see the way he was moving just before Arsenal scored? Reminds me of Henry and Ljungburg. Talking of Henry, I'm sad that he left Arsenal but on the other hand, I think Arsenal are playing much better footie now because he went. Henry has nice legs though!
Well, if there's a lot of space, the faster wins, as long as he carries the ball with him. Then it's like a 100 metres run, but in football there are 11 guys defending their area... but well, in England someone who just runs and drible can have a lot of success. Or that just runs and shoots. Etoo would score 40 goals there. And none in Italy.
Sometimes is not so easy to tell if a player is good or not. Raul is a horrible striker with lots of space, he's not gonna got run and drible, or shoot, etc. I believe that now when big teams play most of their rivals put their defence back in his area. Like Recreativo against Barça yesterday. So for a big teams, the "smart strikers" are more important than the runners... you know, Raul, Drogba, Van Nistelrooy, Inzaghi, Luca Toni, Bojan!, etc. For instance I guess all the teams in the Euro Cup (except Netherlands, I guess) are gonna play against Spain with the defence back in his area. No use for Torres then. He can't move away from defenders to be alone somewhere in the area. If you see Barça playing you see the strikers not knowing how to lose the mark of the defenders in all the game, they don't know to place themselves, there's not much chances to win then. But well if you put the defence in the midfield.... like Spain did vs France in last World Cup, you got a Henry goal. I still don't know why Aragones put the defence that way against that Henry, now he doesn't do it.
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unclesox:
Luis Aragonés' preliminary list of 31 players for EURO 2008. The squad will be cut down to the required 23 in mid-May.
yes, anyone but Raul.
Next Tuesday Luis Aragones will do a show on TV where people will ask him questions, like politicians sometimes do. And half of them are gonna be about Raul... For God's sake he's gonna win the league all alone... but personal problems are this way.
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21st Century Paul:
For God's sake he's gonna win the league all alone...
That's a stretch, even for a Raul fanboy.
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unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
For God's sake he's gonna win the league all alone...
That's a stretch, even for a Raul fanboy.
I know it's a stretch but if people say Maradona won the 1986 World Cup "all alone" I can say that too. Raul is what the other teams don't have and would want to have. On the other hand, if there are so many personal trouble between Aragones and Raul and they can't solve it, better leaving Raul at home. A good feeling is the best a team can have, a bad vibe ruins any team. See Villareal doing very good without Riquelme, and when Riquelme plays with Argentina they say he's the best player of the national team and in Villareal they dare to keep him away anyway by whatever cause.
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I said long time ago Madrid would win it, now, there are no doubts....
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