On May 20 2012 06:42 ApocAlypsE007 wrote:
It feels that in this season more than Chelsea has won the CL, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich had lost it.

pretty much

Poocannon

Germany15 Posts

May 19 2012 21:43 GMT

#571

On May 20 2012 06:35 DragoonTT wrote:
Offense wins games, Defense wins championships - proven right again.

Bayern wasted all those advantages and opportunities (Robben choking AGAIN, after destroying Bayern's hopes for national championship single-handedly) and comeback king Drogba nails it for Chelsea. You may or may not lie their playstyle, but analysing your opponent and finding the appropriate countermeasures has to be appreciated. Whole thing kinda reminds me of Greece taking the 2004 European Cup.

Where the fuck was chelseas play an appropriate coutermeasure ? They looked completely invisible, while parking their Team Bus right in Front of th Goal, Bayern had too many chances to say Chelsea defended nicely. Robbery completely demolished them and the rest of Chelsea was just plain invisible. Bayern was just either too dumb to score or Abramowitsch just payed Lady Luck a Fortune.

(sry for my bad english I'm pretty agitated right now)

hasuprotoss

United States4668 Posts

May 19 2012 21:43 GMT

#572

On May 20 2012 06:36 Mafe wrote:
Chelsea may have won the cup, but they have lost a lot of respect.

Why?

They played their hearts out, tirelessly defended and won. What's wrong with that?

Malinor

Germany4758 Posts

May 19 2012 21:43 GMT

#573

To repeat Leverkusens 2002 legacy, Germany now also has to lose the EC finals.

Ysellian

Netherlands9029 Posts

May 19 2012 21:43 GMT

#574

On May 20 2012 06:39 ilj.psa wrote:

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Terry didn't played

Terry doesn't deserve anything after what he pulled in the semi's

Maenander

Germany4926 Posts

May 19 2012 21:44 GMT

#575

Congrats to Chelsea, they pulled off a Greece 2004.

I guess Chelsea deserved to win a Champions League title after all those attempts, but who would have thought that they win it when they are at their worst in years?

sharkeyanti

United States1273 Posts

May 19 2012 21:44 GMT

#576

Chelsea definitely rode their luck. It's fucking infuriating as a Spurs fan that they had a miracle comeback against Napoli, and parked the bus for three straight matches here and won out. Kudos to them for being resilient and whatever, but goddamn if they didn't get some help from the soccer gods. It's nice to see guys like Drogba and Lampard finally get the trophy though.

DragoonTT

3398 Posts

May 19 2012 21:44 GMT

#577

On May 20 2012 06:38 sharkie wrote:

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You do know he has scored 80% of his goals vs lower mid table teams? He has scored ONE goal vs top6 in the Bundesliga.

This. Gomez is a really good striker if he gets fed all those Ribery/Robben crosses against a weak defense, but he totally fell apart against well-organized defenses, at least in national league games. He scored a lot of goals - often more than one in a single game - but those always against weak teams where Bayern wins 4-0 or higher anyway.

Bayern really, really needs a striker with high technical skills and good stamina, helping out in defense and being more skilled all-around. Just waiting for the one, golden pass does not cut it these days, even if you have >70% possession every game.

Crushinator

Netherlands2138 Posts

May 19 2012 21:45 GMT

#578

On May 20 2012 06:43 hasuprotoss wrote:

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Why?

They played their hearts out, tirelessly defended and won. What's wrong with that?

Their style of play is offensive to me. Yeah I'm bitter.

HwangjaeTerran

Finland5967 Posts

May 19 2012 21:45 GMT

#579

If I were to big a fail in this finals it would have to be Gomez. Sure Bayern has better strikers than that -.- I don't care if he's done 50 goals in this years CL. Robben was a disappointment too, not because of the missed penalty alone but the whole game he looked way try hard.
I would question Hoeness decision to put schweinsteiger on the penalty spot. He was way too distressed (although the penalty wasn't quite that bad), you could see that in Robbens penalty already. I love Olic so sucked to see him fail his penalty -.-

I think Chelsea deserved this if not only for their insane work morale and attitude. Last 3 games you could hardly tell that was Drogba. Cahill was sick the whole way. Everyone pulled their weight...& Terry.

Overall the game was really good: great goals, few posts, and a lot of chances and action.

Oh and the keepers made the penalties really exciting