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Vidal, muthafucka! |
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like i said i only watched the last 15' |
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I watched nothing — I just checked the lineups here: http://www.livescore.net/soccer/cham...ich/1-2363726/ :D |
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I think he was already a little beat up, then the Colombians did a job on him, and THEN Uruguay kicked the shit out of him, a few days later. Guy hasn't played for Bayern since: 0-1 vs Dortmund and yesterday's 2-3. I guess they kinda need the feller... |
hot damn this frankfurt dortmund 2nd half is bananas
dortmund is getting weidenfeller'd 0-1 all first half bunch of substitutions 1-1 eventually 2-1 seconds later 11 min to go now w/ frankfurt ahead -- and it's a 2-1 frankfurt win what a game! |
bayern/bayer game 1-1 right now!
and leipzig was 6 points ahead of bayern before this game started at this rate ancelotti is gonna get "sacked" as the ingleses say gotta say i was looking forward to his tenure but i'm not seeing the progress not just ready to say "i miss pep" lololol. but i do miss heynckes. |
Man City 1 - 3 Chelsea
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Looking forward to watching it on MOTD later. Sounds like a crazy one. |
Actually turns out the top pic of Aguero was from another match but yeah, mental game.
And I'm now officially worried about West Ham beating relegation this season. Although a part of me would actually welcome it, if only cos it'd throw a massive great spanner in Karren Brady et al's evil plans. |
speaking of worries, i'm worried about bayen
sure, they beat mainz 3-1, ha ha ha but the first half they got scored against first, they came back, scored one, looked like they could have scored 1,000, managed to score only a 2nd one, went to halftime. 2nd half was slow as molasses, looked like mainz could have equalized, but bayern won with a glorious set piece from lewandowski but only 1 minute before regulation. meanwhile, mueller has not been able to score a single goal in bundesliga all year. he has a total of only like 4 goals all season. mueller! oh and yes vidal DID play today. i can't explain... |
Remembering Ancelotti at Chelsea he was great at getting a very good crop of players to maintain their level. They'd never collapse but at the same time they wouldn't play above themselves. Don't know if that's happening at Bayern but clearly with Pep, his teams can often do the extraordinary but also, on occasions not click at all.
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oh, that sounds familiar
in fact neuer has been complaining that the team needs to push harder |
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wtf? awesome |
bayern/ atlético
barcelona/ monchengladbach let's see how the bundesbunda performs today |
Can't believe Wenger's playing Sanchez in such a meaningless game. Apart from anything else, it's fucking with my decision whether to captain him in my fantasy football team this weekend. The guy needs a rest so why risk him tonight?
Bayern v Atletico is clearly the one to watch though. |
fuck yeah lewandowski!
so far an entertaining game and now bayern ahead 1-0 this past weekend he did almost exactly the same vs. mainz oh now atletico on fire ha ha time to fip the tortilla and counter them --- ETA: that was satisfying (for me anyway) atlético super-hard to score against but it's not like bayern didn't have more chances. could have been 2 or 3-0 with very slight randomness. i really appreciated that atlético was unable to suprise bayern on counters. this is a new development. neuer had very little work to do, and that's definitely good, whereas it was oblak who at times had to act as sweeper keeper. costa a beast, robben great on counters w/ lewandowski, this was very satisfying for me. oh i just said that. well it's true. |
is anyone watching real/borussia?
== eta - poor dortmund, at halftime. they're really trying but player for player madrid is just MORE. even the great aubameyang looks a little lost on good news though, little pulisic is fantastic at barely 18 years of age == fuuuuuuuuuc 2-0 -- yesss! auba YESSS === batman & robin are BACK!!!! ![]() |
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Yeah I watched it. The pace of that game was just relentless. I'd disagree that Dortmund looked lost. They were certainly holding their own in the game, but it's just they didn't take those early chances. Good game though. |
Alexis Sanchez being offered £400k a week to play in China. :eek:
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If he went then he's an idiot.
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the first half they did look disoriented though. trust me, i watch them every weekend and that wasn't "them". maybe it was nerves, and the bernabeu, or that they're generally not used to facing players of such caliber *on every front* (with the exception of bayern), but they where throwing away such chances and being so overpowered on defense that it was a highly unusual performance. also a bunch of them are very young. madrid's players are grown-ass men. this is why pulisic impressed me on that first half-- he seemed calm and composed and created many of those chances the others wouldn't finish. that boy's got cojones. but anyway seeing reus and aubameyang finally fire up like that in dortmund's 2nd goal made up for all of the early frustration. -- eta: just discovered ZM's first resurfacing after july.... http://www.zonalmarking.net/2016/11/...3-3-2-2-shape/ |
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I half agree but the more I think about it the more I'd understand and even respect him if he did go. 400k a week would make his family secure for generations, to the extent that it could be argued that turning it down would actually be a bit selfish. As a football fan I obviously want him to stay but if I was in his position I'm not sure I'd be able to justify turning that amount of money down for the sake of my own professional credibility. |
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https://twitter.com/Zonal_Marking Check his twitter. He does a lot of pieces for ESPN and the Guardian these days. |
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espn/the guardian -- did he quit the betting business? because most i've seen from him in the past couple of years has been odds predictions and shit like that i'll take a new look |
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250k a week could set his family up for generations! Thing is, the guy is 27 and playing the best football of his life (I still keep thinking about that dummy kick he did against West Ham. Semen inducing). He's clearly someone who loves to play football, and seems to constantly want to better himself. He's not gonna get that in China, is he? And I don't think it comes down to professional credibility. It comes down to ambition and the love of the game. What does he want to achieve and where? If he went to China his quality would dip massively and quickly, and that would affect his position playing with Chile. And he's someone who gives his all when playing for Chile. I honestly don't think he'll go and is just using it as his trump card for more wages. |
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Nah, I think he's still doing that too. |
i don't think that setting up your family for generations is necessarily a good thing
a lot of trustafarians grow up to be useless degenerates and the more money you have the more people want it (kidnappings etc) or suck up to you for it. there was this study years ago that "money buys happiness" up to $75k/yr and then the different becomes negligible. that's in the us, so let's make it flexible for the global economy. $30-$200K/year. but you know he could start a foundation to help chilean kids or something. didn't he himself grow poor? anyway eventually we're all gonna be fans of the chinese superleague (or whatever it's called) and will consider all of the others 2nd rate. i'm sticking to my already-2nd-rate bundesliga though ha ha |
Sanchez might be my fave player in the WORLD right now. I desperately want him to stay in the Prem (although it'd be nice if Wenger rested him whenever Arsenal played West Ham). He's already a very rich man but I won't respect him less if he does go to China. I will if he just takes the money and builds a big gold mansion for him and his bitches but if he uses it for something more positive, then fair play to him.
Personally I don't think he will go, although if Arsenal don't offer him a massive pay rise I can definitely see him moving to somewhere like Chelsea - who are making it quite obvious that they want him and that they're willing to pay big £££s to get him. Wenger's apparently targeting Marco Reus to replace Sanchez if he does go. Meanwhile West Ham are apparently gonna try and get Fellaini and Depay off Man U in January. Not a huge fan of either but definitely improvements on what we've got at the moment. |
isn't arsenal sitting on massive cash reserves though?
i though they have the money but arsène is conservative |
Yeah they have the money but Wenger has traditionally stuck to a rigid wage structure, so we'll see.
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Still makes me chuckle that West Ham actually got Zaza on loan.
Another exciting weekend of football coming up! |
West Ham's owners are entirely to blame for our situation. Instead of building on last season's success they've made Bilic replicate it without proper investment. They're only interested in the stadium and will be happy to stay mid-table until they sell up. Now they're panicking because we could easily be relegated, dramatically devaluing their asset. In a word, cunts.
I can see Liverpool annihilating us on Sunday. |
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confess -- funny thing i've been thinking/dreaming all night & day lately about doing things only for the profit motive (due to some TV i'm watching and trump's cabinet appointments) some fucked up world we live in. i'm mean i'm definitely FOR profit, but when it's the one and only value at play everything gets twisted into some weird shit sorry about your team meanwhile, rb leipzig remains atop the bundesliga table ha ha (the fuckers). something happens to timo werner though they'll sink like a lead weight |
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In principal I don't object to it, I just don't like what it's done to those leagues where it's been most fully implemented. For all the Prem's faults, I'd still rather that than what Germany has. |
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== and on bundesliga news, dortmund *barely* managed to tie vs. cologne today, 1-1, at the last minute of regulation. didn't see other games but bayern and leipzig tied for first w/ 33 pts. which means lepizig lost vs. ingolstadt... yep, lost 1-0. ...and poor wolfsburg, which continues its post-debruyne decline, got beat 5-0 today (yes it was bayern) |
Don't underestimate the value of misery. It's all part of it.
On the fan ownership thing I just meant the Bundesliga's 50+1 model. What did you mean by fan ownership? |
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i meant just that. but i was wondering if it was being conflated with the UEFA rules about money which supposedly diminish parity/preserve winners-- different story altogether. |
Listening to a phone-in at the moment and Man City fans are going absolutely ballistic after their performance today. They're mostly pissed off at Pep's insistence on playing out from the back and players being put out of position.
Have to admit, this is the 1st time I've seen them in the Prem this season where, if I was a Man City fan, I'd be worried. It's not that he makes mistakes (every manager does) it's that he seems to be refusing to acknowledge them. Stones was a disaster today but in the post match interview, Pep said he played well. That's worrying. |
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