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TranceStorm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
1616 Posts
April 26 2012 04:37 GMT
#7341
Oh, and in response to what a few people were asking - John Terry will not be allowed to lift the trophy if Chelsea win the Champions League: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/25/john-terry-champions-league-trophy
Timurid
Profile Joined April 2011
Guyana (French)656 Posts
April 26 2012 04:55 GMT
#7342
On April 26 2012 13:37 TranceStorm wrote:
Oh, and in response to what a few people were asking - John Terry will not be allowed to lift the trophy if Chelsea win the Champions League: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/25/john-terry-champions-league-trophy

Granted what he did was stupid, but this is just wrong.
Stimp
Profile Joined November 2010
South Africa780 Posts
April 26 2012 05:40 GMT
#7343
I agree on yellow cards rules. Takes an heroic effort from say, chelsea to beat barcelona, obviously picking up tons of yellows, but then that just cripples you in the final because if say, real madrid got through, they'd have nearly no suspensions. Whats the point in putting all that effort in the semis only to pay for it in the final.
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Surrealistic
Profile Joined September 2009
311 Posts
April 26 2012 05:48 GMT
#7344
Pretty harsh from UEFA. But it's John Terry. So. Fuck it. And. HAHA.
On April 26 2012 13:21 TranceStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 11:40 Surrealistic wrote:
Bayern's defence and central midfield for the final is gonna be really bad. Van Buyten has a broken foot (Feb) and even if he does come back, there's no way he can deal with a fully fit Drogba. Tymoschuk for Badstuber, Rafinha / Contento for Alaba and Pjanic for Gustavo. Oh man. I really don't want John Terry to win anything.

e: He does get to lift the trophy even if he is suspended right?

Same issues are going to afflict Chelsea. They'll have to play with Luiz and Cahill at center-back (both of whom are slightly injured at the moment). Chelsea don't have any backups at that position (unless you consider bringing Bosingwa to CB, but I can only imagine Gomez running rampant in that situation). Plus, they've lost two of their main midfielders meaning that Lampard, Mikel, and a 3rd player (Essien? Romeu?) Both teams will be struggling at those positions, but we'll be asking those questions in a few weeks.

I really do think people overrate Gomez alot. He doesn't run rampant ever, he mostly accidentally and exclusively scores goals from parried Robbery shots (exaggeration people). But otherwise good points and agreed.
meatbox
Profile Joined August 2011
Australia349 Posts
April 26 2012 06:46 GMT
#7345
So who will be MIA for the finals from Bayern and Chelsea?

Chelsea: Terry, Ivanovic, Ramires, Meireles...

Bayern..?
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51705 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 06:48:46
April 26 2012 06:47 GMT
#7346
How bad are Cahill's and Luiz's injuries? Don't Chelsea have another two weeks or so for them to recover?
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MapleLeafSirup
Profile Joined July 2009
Germany950 Posts
April 26 2012 07:19 GMT
#7347
On April 26 2012 15:46 meatbox wrote:
So who will be MIA for the finals from Bayern and Chelsea?

Chelsea: Terry, Ivanovic, Ramires, Meireles...

Bayern..?


Alaba, Badstuber and Gustavo
sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 07:47:01
April 26 2012 07:40 GMT
#7348
On April 26 2012 13:21 TranceStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 11:40 Surrealistic wrote:
Bayern's defence and central midfield for the final is gonna be really bad. Van Buyten has a broken foot (Feb) and even if he does come back, there's no way he can deal with a fully fit Drogba. Tymoschuk for Badstuber, Rafinha / Contento for Alaba and Pjanic for Gustavo. Oh man. I really don't want John Terry to win anything.

e: He does get to lift the trophy even if he is suspended right?

Same issues are going to afflict Chelsea. They'll have to play with Luiz and Cahill at center-back (both of whom are slightly injured at the moment). Chelsea don't have any backups at that position (unless you consider bringing Bosingwa to CB, but I can only imagine Gomez running rampant in that situation). Plus, they've lost two of their main midfielders meaning that Lampard, Mikel, and a 3rd player (Essien? Romeu?) Both teams will be struggling at those positions, but we'll be asking those questions in a few weeks.


No way our midfield is going to be v strong, only weakness is defence (big weakness)

Meireles is really quite shite, lampard >>>>>> meireles, essien >>>>>>> meireles, romeu = meireles.

Ramires is a big loss but can be replaced by Sturridge, it does suck because he would have been amazing locking down robben or ribery.

On April 26 2012 13:37 TranceStorm wrote:
Oh, and in response to what a few people were asking - John Terry will not be allowed to lift the trophy if Chelsea win the Champions League: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/25/john-terry-champions-league-trophy


Holy shit...Does this apply to people with double yellows?? That would be SO fucking unfair, some of the yellows were just plain ridiculous.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 07:51:36
April 26 2012 07:48 GMT
#7349
Champions League Final 2012 at the Allianz Arena, Munich.
Bayern Munich Reserves vs Chelsea Reserves....Thank you UEFA >.<

Like everyone has said, as of next season UEFA need to come out and abolish the yellow card rule for the semi final 2nd legs, i mean i can understand it if you picked up your 3rd boooking in the semi final first leg and missed the 2nd leg that imo is fine. But for players to miss finals because of silly yellow cards mounting up is a joke! It ruins the game, ruins the spectacle its just plain silly. All be it there isnt that many attacking players who are missing the game for both teams as its mainly defenders who have picked up the cards minus Ramires and Raul but it still is silly and reduces the game to what could of been saying comes into play with the game, if we had JT then we would not of conceded that goal, if bayern had badstuber they would of not conceded there etcetc.

Chelsea have yet to comment on the Cahill and Luiz injuries but i have faith they will be back in time for the final, as both would not want to miss it anyway and they will be playing through injections if worst comes to worst due to the fact the only 2 CBs available for the game are Cahill and Luiz for us.

I am going to try my hardest to get tickets to the final as i want to whitness history in Munich and i want to see that stadium, it looks great!

EDIT: I think it will effect the suspended players on yellow cards as well. I mean there technically "suspended" just like JT is, such pitty rules from UEFA.
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Telcontar
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom16710 Posts
April 26 2012 07:50 GMT
#7350
Harsh, but it's Terry. So I'm ok with it. LOL
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RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6324 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 08:12:24
April 26 2012 08:12 GMT
#7351
Well 80% of the yellow cards players get can be easily avoided by said players. They just have to get smarter instead and then they can just play the finals anyway.
nepeta
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
1872 Posts
April 26 2012 08:17 GMT
#7352
On April 26 2012 16:48 Pandemona wrote:
Champions League Final 2012 at the Allianz Arena, Munich.
Bayern Munich Reserves vs Chelsea Reserves....Thank you UEFA >.<
...


Players should try and reign in their troglodyst behaviour. If anything, more cards and longer suspensions should be given.
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Retric
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany284 Posts
April 26 2012 08:17 GMT
#7353
On April 26 2012 11:40 Surrealistic wrote:
Bayern's defence and central midfield for the final is gonna be really bad. Van Buyten has a broken foot (Feb) and even if he does come back, there's no way he can deal with a fully fit Drogba. Tymoschuk for Badstuber, Rafinha / Contento for Alaba and Pjanic for Gustavo. Oh man. I really don't want John Terry to win anything.

e: He does get to lift the trophy even if he is suspended right?


oh god, hopefully not pranjic for gustavo, that would be a total desaster,

i think kroos substitutes gustavo and müller will play on kroos' position.
Surrealistic
Profile Joined September 2009
311 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-26 08:22:18
April 26 2012 08:19 GMT
#7354
e: ^ Yeah bit too attacking and similar no?


On April 26 2012 16:48 Pandemona wrote:
Chelsea have yet to comment on the Cahill and Luiz injuries but i have faith they will be back in time for the final, as both would not want to miss it anyway and they will be playing through injections if worst comes to worst due to the fact the only 2 CBs available for the game are Cahill and Luiz for us.

Bayern only have 1. Tymoschuk can only be considered because he's played there in the past. And then taken Tymoschuk out of the equation, Bayern only have 2 fit central midfielders in Sweinsteiger and Kroos, but they're way too similar to play next to each other. So you include Pranjic just because he's played there as well. I wonder how Altintop feels leaving Bayern. He would start the final in this situation, but instead, he wasn't even on the bench for the semis.
SkyTheUnknown
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Germany2065 Posts
April 26 2012 08:24 GMT
#7355
On April 26 2012 13:21 TranceStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 11:40 Surrealistic wrote:
Bayern's defence and central midfield for the final is gonna be really bad. Van Buyten has a broken foot (Feb) and even if he does come back, there's no way he can deal with a fully fit Drogba. Tymoschuk for Badstuber, Rafinha / Contento for Alaba and Pjanic for Gustavo. Oh man. I really don't want John Terry to win anything.

e: He does get to lift the trophy even if he is suspended right?

Same issues are going to afflict Chelsea. They'll have to play with Luiz and Cahill at center-back (both of whom are slightly injured at the moment). Chelsea don't have any backups at that position (unless you consider bringing Bosingwa to CB, but I can only imagine Gomez running rampant in that situation). Plus, they've lost two of their main midfielders meaning that Lampard, Mikel, and a 3rd player (Essien? Romeu?) Both teams will be struggling at those positions, but we'll be asking those questions in a few weeks.

Still Chelsea will have a significantly better lineup when Luiz and Cahill will recover in time. Bayern has no other central defenders left apart from vanBuyten, who will miss this game definitely. Tymoshuck will be the last option left and it's an terrible option because he is not a central defender at all but a defensive midfielder. Now imagine a inexperienced central defender against the likes of Drogba or Torres,...good luck. Bayern will have to bring in Contento or Rafinha for Alaba, both are pretty mediocre, I'm not sure they are good enough for a CL final. Furthermore the defensive midfielder position will be vacant when Tymoshuck goes for central defender (Gustavo is booked for the final). Pranjic cannot be an option, he is a terrible player, so most likely it will be Schweinsteiger and Kroos as defensive midfielders and Müller als offensive midfielder - which would be a very, very offensive lineup.
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown - H.P. Lovecraft
sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
April 26 2012 08:31 GMT
#7356
On April 26 2012 17:24 SkyTheUnknown wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 13:21 TranceStorm wrote:
On April 26 2012 11:40 Surrealistic wrote:
Bayern's defence and central midfield for the final is gonna be really bad. Van Buyten has a broken foot (Feb) and even if he does come back, there's no way he can deal with a fully fit Drogba. Tymoschuk for Badstuber, Rafinha / Contento for Alaba and Pjanic for Gustavo. Oh man. I really don't want John Terry to win anything.

e: He does get to lift the trophy even if he is suspended right?

Same issues are going to afflict Chelsea. They'll have to play with Luiz and Cahill at center-back (both of whom are slightly injured at the moment). Chelsea don't have any backups at that position (unless you consider bringing Bosingwa to CB, but I can only imagine Gomez running rampant in that situation). Plus, they've lost two of their main midfielders meaning that Lampard, Mikel, and a 3rd player (Essien? Romeu?) Both teams will be struggling at those positions, but we'll be asking those questions in a few weeks.

Still Chelsea will have a significantly better lineup when Luiz and Cahill will recover in time. Bayern has no other central defenders left apart from vanBuyten, who will miss this game definitely. Tymoshuck will be the last option left and it's an terrible option because he is not a central defender at all but a defensive midfielder. Now imagine a inexperienced central defender against the likes of Drogba or Torres,...good luck. Bayern will have to bring in Contento or Rafinha for Alaba, both are pretty mediocre, I'm not sure they are good enough for a CL final. Furthermore the defensive midfielder position will be vacant when Tymoshuck goes for central defender (Gustavo is booked for the final). Pranjic cannot be an option, he is a terrible player, so most likely it will be Schweinsteiger and Kroos as defensive midfielders and Müller als offensive midfielder - which would be a very, very offensive lineup.


Clearly this is going to be an amazing game for these reasons. Scary for Chelsea and Bayern fans...without proper defences. But amazing for everyone else. I predict 4-5 goals in the game.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
April 26 2012 08:33 GMT
#7357
We all know as well Muller scores vs England for fun...>.<

@Nepeta, i guess you don't understand football much huh? Or seen all the games leading up to the Final? Some of the Referee's Chelsea have had going into the final have been shocking, but i do admit the closer we got to the final the better the Referee's were. Now also to take into consideration that you want "longer bans" for players picking up 3 yellow cards in the knockout stages deserve to be banned. Do you realise how many games that was?
Last 16, 2 games
Round of 8, 2games
Semi final, 2games
6 games to pick up 3 yellow cards is not much? When you consider thats one yellow over both each round. Ivanovic for example picked up a yellow vs Napoli, a yellow vs Benfica and a yellow vs Barcelona in the 2nd leg and now he misses the final, i think its stupid how it should still be counted in semi final second legs. Like i said if that was the semi final first legs i would not have a problem but it isn't its to miss out of a game that does not come round often a champions league final, the best game you can be involved with a club level in Europe and you cant play because you got 3 yellow cards in 6 games pre the final. I think they just need to stop the yellow card ban for the final.
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Argoth.
Profile Joined December 2004
Germany1961 Posts
April 26 2012 11:01 GMT
#7358
Funny how there was nearly the complete first eleven of the German national team on the pitch yesterday Good practise for the upcoming Euro 2012^^
Kaesebrot
Profile Joined April 2012
Germany128 Posts
April 26 2012 12:04 GMT
#7359
On April 26 2012 20:01 Argoth. wrote:
Funny how there was nearly the complete first eleven of the German national team on the pitch yesterday Good practise for the upcoming Euro 2012^^


Hummels, Götze, Schmelzer, Reus...
Retric
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany284 Posts
April 26 2012 12:34 GMT
#7360
On April 26 2012 21:04 Kaesebrot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 26 2012 20:01 Argoth. wrote:
Funny how there was nearly the complete first eleven of the German national team on the pitch yesterday Good practise for the upcoming Euro 2012^^


Hummels, Götze, Schmelzer, Reus...


Schmelzer, you serious?
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