I hope Astro will broadcast most of our UCL matches since we have almost all the big names in football today.

About the draw, I hope that we can meet Chelsea. Not that because they are in good form or anything. For me, Chelsea had always been the best english team in Europe for several years now.

Defense line left a lot to be desired. I was expecting Meltzelder to start.

Anyway, did anybody watched the Bayern vs Wolfsburg highlight. Robben was absolutely fantastic. Glad to see that. I miss him~ Damn it Perez! Ribery better be on his way next summer!

How come I didn't even know anything about this method?
How can we know whether this service is available or not?

This post has been edited by gto87: Aug 30 2009, 01:04 PM

Hurm. #816? Gonna try it the next time.

If Robben played for Madrid last night, he would have ended in the score sheet for sure. From what I see, we barely tested their LB. Arbeloa was good but he didn't want to cross the ball. He always cutback and passes it to Lass or Kaka. I didn't say it's a bad thing just that he can do much better if he try to cross the ball ONCE IN A WHILE.

Madrid and Milan played a very good game in 1st half and 2nd half respectively but, for me Milan had two different successful half and Madrid have only one.

I REALLY thought things are gonna change with Madrid's gameplay at the second half and yes it did and as the game grows, our strikers tend to be wingers and we rolled our pass in front of 7 or 8 Milan players. and we lost the ball once we pass it to the center and Milan starts to counter. This happens fro several times until we started to play long ball later in the game which btw, made us look more pathetic. I don't understand why we let them defend at our own game. If we launch a counter attack (which we did and Kaka took more than half of the responsibility for ruining it) we could have won the game.

Simple but effective. Think of this. We have very fast offensive players of which their ball controls are not even close to bad compared to their players. We have a long ball specialist. Place all the fast players wider and we have ourselves a great counter attack team.

Just my 2 cents.

EDIT: looking forward to this weekends game for it'll be a very interesting Derby.

This post has been edited by gto87: Nov 4 2009, 04:13 PM

Verx

That's what I'm talking about, We know they're an Italian team, and we know damn well they gonna sit back, defend and counter us whenever they got the chance. So why don't we sit back and let them attack a bit and we'll hit them on counter.

If you guys remember, not a while ago, we used to launch similar attacks when we're under Schuster's tenure. Robinho and Nistelrooy were very clinical at that time and compare that line up to what we have today, I think we can fire at least 2 goals past Milan or any other team.

Well, like you said maybe it's fitness problem or maybe not, we'll never know, but one thing we do know that, we have a lot of potential in this team and I don't like to see it to be wasted. Don't get me wrong here, I never underestimated Pellegrini, but I expected a lot better from him.

I hope Perez will be patient and throw his axe away so that we can really bring stability to the team.

->Verx
I agree with your last line, I do want to see it happen.

But I don't think letting the opponent attack while having our backfour with 2 DMs at the back as inviting pressure, I think solving counter attacks with only 3 players at the back is inviting more pressure. But maybe that's just me. That said I'm not asking us to be more defensive. I'm saying that instead of just giving time to the defenders to gel, why don't we prevent the goal first.

We can't always prevent the opponent from scoring. But if we counter them for each time they attack, plus with the players we got, I'm pretty much sure, we'll be in comfort zone before the ref blows his final whistle.

But, I respect your opinion verx, everybody have their own opinion on the team's strategy, but somehow I find yours is in need of a very lengthy period and mine is the short term solution, agree?

I watched Barca played before and what I can say is they cut down the opponents attack way before they even planned to launch one and that's what you mean it. I get it. But, ever wonder why they win the ball most of the time? It's because their forwards helped the MFs to pressure the opponents player who's in possession and narrowed down the gap before he can even think of doing something. That's what it takes if we really wanna win the ball up front. The forwards must work together. But in Madrid, apart from Raul, this is a very rare thing to happen. So, why waste so many players up front when only Lass is doing that job. It's like when the opponent get the ball, they bypassed all our MFs with one quick counter not because they literally quick and not because they're good in counter attacks. No, that's not it. It's because our MFs is simply too lazy to chase the ball and they think it's the defenders responsibility to do the chasing, tackling and winning the ball.

So, I say we agree to disagree on the highly unlikely part. I assumed that you had watched all the madrid match including Madrid vs Gijon match, vs Sevilla, vs Alcorcon, vs Getafe, vs Deprotivo. Ok, you can clearly see that all these teams were given space to attack, and by space I don't mean just for counter attack, they really did came forward, string a few passes in front of our goal and at some point in the game, they even had all their 5 or 6 forwards in our half switching the ball from right to left vice versa with us just watching and waiting for the right moment to snatch it. Given the chance, even a team like Alcorcon will attack us and they did just that.

Barca never allowed such attacks and to prevent them they used their forwards wisely, cut you down before you can grow~

A thriller it is, and I was surrounded by mostly Barca and ManU fans. adeh~ It was a fine day until Ramos gets his marching order.

If I'm not mistaken, Ramos will not be available for the match against Alcorcon and that means he can play against Racing Santander next weekend.

A player who is dismissed from the field of play for receiving a second caution in the same match will be suspended automatically from all approved first team matches commencing forthwith, until such time as his club’s first team has completed its next match in an approved competition.

I can't find any proof for that, but I'm pretty much sure that's the case for every league in Europe.

It's fair to say that we don't deserve to go through the next round. If you guys watched the match I'm pretty much sure that you'll say the same thing. They won it fair and square. Congrats and let's move on two win the double~

I'm really getting tired of reading this thing over and over again. I think you are better than your own coach, Guardiola, when even he himself stated that Pellegrini has to be given more time to make 'it' happen.

Please, and please I'm begging you guys, if you have nothing to say other than bashing us, than you're almost good for nothing here, I'm trying real hard to be very polite. Please post a constructive post.

Thanks~

P/s: I've posted this before. But it never came up in the site. I don't know why. So i posted it back.. I'm sorry if you think I'm spamming..

The bus?? huh? The didn't even defended that hard. They looked more organized than us, that's for sure.

But Pellegrini disappoint me again. Why? Think again, we need to score goals, to be accurate, more than 4 goals without conceding any. In order to do that he fielded two 32 years old strikers which one of them just came back from a very long injury, 2 DMs (Diarra & Gago) and a playmaker who never did made anything (Kaka).

Kaka's move is predictable, and most of the counter attack will end up with a miss pass by him. My comment about Kaka might sounded harsh to many of you, but please watch Madrid's game in which he played. You'll understand why I'm saying this. Don't get me wrong, he is good, he did well but sometimes he can do much better with simplifying his gameplay.
-The end-

Btw, Raul Albiol took a knock in his latest match for Spain. It's been said that he will not be available for this weekend's match. I'm not posting the URL because I want to wait for the actual report 1st.

This post has been edited by gto87: Nov 19 2009, 01:47 PM

Yupe, it's on 2.00am which is right after the Arsenal vs Chelsea match.

Nope, it's clearly onside.

It was a far better performance than what Madrid used to show us. I'm proud of them cause we actually made Guardiola a bit surprised with that kinda start to the game. Puyol was the best player on the pitch but I love to talk how Kaka and Ramos improved their gameplay, just that Ramos should've done better to prevent the only goal. But anyway, Ronaldo had a very good game, shame he didn't convert his chance, same goes to higuain and Benzema. They should've scored but thanks to puyol who made it very hard for us.

Yes it is a self made line but not by me, it's from the web tiki taka. But what I'm trying to prove here, that even-though we can still argue whether it's offside or not, we need realize one thing and one thing only that it was very close and it's ridiculous to say the referee didn't see it. You said it yourself that it's hard to judge from that picture. Same as you, I don't have any problems with the ref giving the goal.

Damn It! Kaka won't play for this coming Madrid's match!

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But maybe it's a blessing in disguise since I'm more interested to see El Pirata in action!

I was about to say the same thing, it's kinda frustrating to see that. Another trend is, we tend to concede twice in a very short period.

Last night, he was nowhere near to the last season's Higuain. But he took his goal well and should've buried the volley a minute later. He assisted and scored. I think I'm satisfied with his performance but he was absolutely furious when benzema didn't pass the ball in the dying minutes. hahaha~

It was like a drama of Ronaldo. He missed the penalty, didn't even celebrate Benzema's goal with his team mates because he was so frustrated, then he went on to score in the next minute, had a very hard time taking of his shirt. Eventually he did took it off and celebrate it with a ROARR!! hahaha~ That was nice. That was really nice until he got his marching orders.

I'm trying to remember when the last time Ramos celebrated like lastnight, hahaha.. He watched to much of Nani's vids man~

This post has been edited by gto87: Dec 6 2009, 01:51 PM

You get it right bro. I stand corrected~ hahahah~

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Added on December 7, 2009, 4:02 amif one day he's the world's best player, then expect no less than that from any of top teams in europe for him~ hehe~

Indeed, but I'll hope he won't grow to be some cocky player in future.(Although he already built that character when he was a 'devil' ) He's a boy. He'll be a man one day.

He's not a 'devil' anymore. ~ hahaha. Cheers bro~
Christiano Ronaldo apologized after red card against Almeria

This post has been edited by gto87: Dec 7 2009, 04:16 AM

After 3 years I'm pretty much sure that he'll grow up to be a man. He was a boy at ManU and he still is a boy now considering his attitude on the field.

It's typical for portugal stars to take penalty that way I guess~