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The midweek/weekend games thread
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ArnieArdiles
Milenko Acimovic
Proud to be Cypriot =D>
ArnieArdiles
Milenko Acimovic
Glory Hunter....bet you was a gooner a few years back
Dunno whether I should lol at that remark ....Okay I will......... lol
My dad is a gooner ...but I saw the light ..... How good am I ?
yiddo2786
Steed Malbranque
Great. If we do have to sell him, his defensive reputation should bump his price right up.
chancer
Gudni Bergsson
I just had a look at his Wiki too, and came across this quite extraordinary stat:
Barca/All Competitions
Apps: 311
Goals: 228
Assists: 93
228 + 93 = 321
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Messi#2011.E2.80.9312_season
So he's directly responsible for more than 1 goal in every game he's played for Barca. On top of whatever else he does in those games. (And of course Barca = his entire senior club career).
I don't usually get as moist as others about either Barca or Messi, but there's no doubt he's a phenomenon. At 24, he should have 2 more WC's in him. If Argentina can somehow manage to bag one of those with Messi in the team, then he really will deserve mention with the all-time greats of the game. And I dont mean the second tier "greats"...I mean up there with the real big boys Pele and Maradona.
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
Ridiculous that they got so much money for a stadium that A) isn't even theirs, and B) Is about 10 years old. They got more money than the scum got for the Emirates, and the scum are a much bigger club than Emirates Marketing Project.
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
Messi is unreal! Don't understand how anyone can think Ronaldo is better.
He has his strengths and pros - different players in some ways - both extraordinary talents. Not to mention Ronaldo's record at Madrid since signing
zin
Anthony Gardner
Barca just tonked an in form Leverkusen side 7-1. Do you really think they care who they draw? Very, very few teams have given them a run for their money over two legs, even fewer have beaten them.
That is because the propaganda media declare them winners as soon as the draw is made, commencing a psychological brainwash culminating in opponents of smaller teams being too scared to even pass the ball and simply trying to keep the scoreline respectable.
A proper hard team can beat them wish physical, organised movement.
SPURSphenomenon
Kevin Scott
That's what Fergie said... Twice
Utd didn't have the midfield to compete with them. Still don't.
Prefer to use their wide pace and superior striking force combined with massive experience to compete in the PL and get results. They're desperate for a decent CM/AM
Speaking oh whom - Llorente watch tonight for anyone interested
Prefer to use their wide pace and superior striking force combined with massive experience to compete in the PL and get results. They're desperate for a decent CM/AM
Speaking oh whom - Llorente watch tonight for anyone interested
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zin
Anthony Gardner
What's Real Madrid's excuse then?
They approached the game from an extremely physical / semi-negative aspect and in my opinion forgot to play football. By the time they realised what was cutting it was too late. I'm 98% confident if they meet again this season Real Madrid would do them. Like they mighty should. And like they've opened up a 10 point gap in the league to the 'greatest team of all time' (insert tossing smiley) And all fanboys will go support Bayern Munchen instead
Enter the Pitbull
Luke Young
Has this been posted yet?
Fernando Torres turned down the chance to take Chelsea's 70th minute penalty in their FA Cup replay win at Birmingham City, which might have allowed him to end his near five-month scoring drought.
Chelsea were 2-0 up and coasting into the quarter-finals on Tuesday night when Torres was fouled by Guirane N'Daw inside the area. Juan Mata, the designated penalty taker, offered the kick to Torres, his friend and fellow Spaniard, only for the 27-year-old to decline. Although Daniel Sturridge subsequently tried to claim the ball, Mata stepped up to the spot and saw his shot saved by Colin Doyle.
Torres rarely takes penalties but his refusal to accept this one offered the latest illustration of his crisis of confidence. The striker's link-up play was again good, on his 50th appearance for Chelsea since a ?ú50m move from Liverpool, but he continued to snatch at anything in front of goal.
He dragged a first-half chance wide and his descent to figure of fun was reinforced during the interval, when a Birmingham fan missed his kick in the half-time competition. "It was worse than Torres," he told the on-pitch interviewer, to much hilarity. The St Andrew's crowd chanted "We want Torres" upon the award of the penalty. The forward, who has five goals in all competitions for Chelsea, has not scored in 23 matches.
"I asked him if he wanted to take it because he provoked [won] the penalty," Mata said. "He said: 'I'm not first on the list to shoot,' so that's what happened. It was because he forced the penalty and I gave him the chance. Robbie [Di Matteo, the interim manager] put a paper with who shoots penalties and that was it."
Chelsea continue their search for a permanent managerial replacement for Andr?® Villas-Boas, who was sacked on Sunday, and the club's hierarchy noted the anti-Rafael Ben?¡tez chants that came from the visiting enclosure at St Andrew's.
The former Liverpool manager has advanced his candidacy and has suggested he could help to restore Torres to his former glories, having overseen him during their time together at Anfield. But Chelsea's directors are not thought to have him under consideration.
Chelsea's players were told by the owner Roman Abramovich, in the wake of Villas-Boas's dismissal, that they have to raise their game and there was the sense at Birmingham that the message had gone through.
"He [Abramovich] said that we have an opportunity to change the run of defeats and against Birmingham we did so," Mata said. "We have to prove ourselves every game. For me and the other players, we are playing in a top squad and a top club, and we must always do our best in every game.
"There is a lot of unity in the dressing room. No matter who the manager is, we are all focused on the same objective. We must do the best for the club ... we belong to the club and we will do everything for the club. Every one of the players will do it. We will try to win this FA Cup and also against Napoli [in the Champions League last-16 second-leg]. I think we can do it – it is possible for us to win 2-0 [to advance on aggregate]."
Fernando Torres turned down the chance to take Chelsea's 70th minute penalty in their FA Cup replay win at Birmingham City, which might have allowed him to end his near five-month scoring drought.
Chelsea were 2-0 up and coasting into the quarter-finals on Tuesday night when Torres was fouled by Guirane N'Daw inside the area. Juan Mata, the designated penalty taker, offered the kick to Torres, his friend and fellow Spaniard, only for the 27-year-old to decline. Although Daniel Sturridge subsequently tried to claim the ball, Mata stepped up to the spot and saw his shot saved by Colin Doyle.
Torres rarely takes penalties but his refusal to accept this one offered the latest illustration of his crisis of confidence. The striker's link-up play was again good, on his 50th appearance for Chelsea since a ?ú50m move from Liverpool, but he continued to snatch at anything in front of goal.
He dragged a first-half chance wide and his descent to figure of fun was reinforced during the interval, when a Birmingham fan missed his kick in the half-time competition. "It was worse than Torres," he told the on-pitch interviewer, to much hilarity. The St Andrew's crowd chanted "We want Torres" upon the award of the penalty. The forward, who has five goals in all competitions for Chelsea, has not scored in 23 matches.
"I asked him if he wanted to take it because he provoked [won] the penalty," Mata said. "He said: 'I'm not first on the list to shoot,' so that's what happened. It was because he forced the penalty and I gave him the chance. Robbie [Di Matteo, the interim manager] put a paper with who shoots penalties and that was it."
Chelsea continue their search for a permanent managerial replacement for Andr?® Villas-Boas, who was sacked on Sunday, and the club's hierarchy noted the anti-Rafael Ben?¡tez chants that came from the visiting enclosure at St Andrew's.
The former Liverpool manager has advanced his candidacy and has suggested he could help to restore Torres to his former glories, having overseen him during their time together at Anfield. But Chelsea's directors are not thought to have him under consideration.
Chelsea's players were told by the owner Roman Abramovich, in the wake of Villas-Boas's dismissal, that they have to raise their game and there was the sense at Birmingham that the message had gone through.
"He [Abramovich] said that we have an opportunity to change the run of defeats and against Birmingham we did so," Mata said. "We have to prove ourselves every game. For me and the other players, we are playing in a top squad and a top club, and we must always do our best in every game.
"There is a lot of unity in the dressing room. No matter who the manager is, we are all focused on the same objective. We must do the best for the club ... we belong to the club and we will do everything for the club. Every one of the players will do it. We will try to win this FA Cup and also against Napoli [in the Champions League last-16 second-leg]. I think we can do it – it is possible for us to win 2-0 [to advance on aggregate]."
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indianspur
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what does Mata gain by informing everyone of this....fellow countryman, colleague, all he has done is embarrass Torres. taco