Yeah, not just in that game because Barca were cheating bastards yet again. Fabregas dives for Barca even more than he dived for Arsenal. He's fudging terrible now.
Barca the little angels were resorting to face holding when no contact was made and a bunch of other things... They need Guardiola back, if only to give them back some sort of self respect... They still dived under him but it wasn't their plan A...
He fudges them up yes, but he is better than their usual 3 midfielders at running from deep and using the false 9 system to his advantage. He scores more goals than the other 3 too, but they always seem a better team without him. He should maybe start on the bench more. Plus, when they play him, he makes them move one of their best players to a position he isn't as effective in... They also lose out on David Villa or one of their decent wingers to play Fabregas, Villa offers goals, so why is Fabregas playing?
Name a tall player that can replace a shorter player and not lower the technical level of the team. They could use some height to defend set pieces but most of their players came through their academy, which makes them more valuable anyway. Also, where would these tall players play?
If he behaved himself, he'd be awesome. Excellent on the ball, excellent defender. He just needs to watch the aggression and watch over-exaggerating things. Take him out of that league and talk to him for 5 minutes and he'd likely behave... Possibly until he was losing a game, but he's still a very good ball playing CB. I doubt we could afford him if he didn't play for free.
They better, they better win the CL this season. Mourinho deserves another one and I don't see their next manager having the chance to win it that Mourinho will have this year.... Plus, Bayern can't win it this year after last year's fudge up. Dortmund are cool and I like a bunch of their players, so they'd probably be my 2nd choice, but this year is Real Madrid's year. Mourinho will go out the way he wants to go out, throwing his CL medal into the crowd.
No, the previous few ties have mostly been Barca players cheating.
You have to go back quite a way to find Real Madrid being the worse of the two and that's only usually when Pepe loses it and stamps on someone. But Sanchez was playing more then and he rivals Suarez when it comes to diving.
It's not playing style issues. Last year they outscored everyone and won the league. They're style is fine. Some might prefer him to play possession football and pass the ball more, but that's not really an issue. No one could have asked for his team to score more than they did last season. Real played beautiful football last season and they couldn't be called Barca wannabes either.
Yes, Barca had the opposite. The Man United want to win their title back thing... Plus the manager change inspired them to want to prove they're good players, it wasn't just Guardiola being amazing that made them into a team some call the best of all time.
It would be madness on paper, but Mourinho is gone, he wants to go and the club don't really want to keep him at this point. Mourinho will want to go out by winning the CL and the Cup and I really hope he does it. I just hope he doesn't return to Chelsea or something next season.
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I love the part where Real Madrid were passing the ball, Real Madrid fans were saying "olay" with every completed pass and Barca were left wondering how they were in that situation at home.
Also, Verane, I've liked the look of that guy for a while and this season he has been amazing. France are going to have an awesome team for the next few years.
