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BeaTeR
Profile Joined March 2003
Kazakhstan4130 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 15:55:43
April 27 2014 15:52 GMT
#15881
On April 28 2014 00:14 Mensol wrote:
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looooooool


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never forget xD
WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
April 27 2014 15:58 GMT
#15882
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18707 Posts
April 27 2014 16:03 GMT
#15883
On April 28 2014 00:58 WillyWanker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...


every team has a plan A
the good teams have more than plan A ^^
NuclearJudas
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
6546 Posts
April 27 2014 16:05 GMT
#15884
Touré is a boss. What a goal that is.
Life is like Tetris. Your errors pile up but your accomplishments disappear. - Robert Ohlén | http://railroaddiary.wordpress.com/ - My words about stuff.
WillyWanker
Profile Joined December 2011
France1915 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 16:06:36
April 27 2014 16:06 GMT
#15885
On April 28 2014 01:03 sharkie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2014 00:58 WillyWanker wrote:
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...


every team has a plan A
the good teams have more than plan A ^^

More or less... Defending and counter-attacking is a lot easier to prepare though. And when these "parking the bus" teams play against lower teams or strong teams with the same approach (aka Atletico-Chelsea), they can never score surprinsingly
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 16:09:43
April 27 2014 16:08 GMT
#15886
On April 28 2014 01:06 WillyWanker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2014 01:03 sharkie wrote:
On April 28 2014 00:58 WillyWanker wrote:
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...


every team has a plan A
the good teams have more than plan A ^^

More or less... Defending and counter-attacking is a lot easier to prepare though. And when these "parking the bus" teams play against lower teams or strong teams with the same approach (aka Atletico-Chelsea), they can never score surprinsingly


Yes but we don't just play park the bus. Liverpool play that same attacking style every game, they never adapt to who they face. Chelsea do, against teams they know they can get hurt by the sit back and defend then counter. Against teams they are favorite or better than on paper they play the attacking, fast paced passing style. But that backfires alot, see Crystal Palace - Villa - Stoke - Everton and Sunderland games ^_^
Having a Plan A and no other plan is very naive in a business, lets not forget this game is a business not just a game or entertainment, the money involved is just like SC2. Would you rather play the long drawn our macro plays with everything solidly, or would you rather 2 gate your way to a champions league and premiership double


City +8 on Liverpool now, come on be +10 by the end of today xD
Also just put on Atletico Marid game to see Costa miss a 1on1 with the keeper ;o
How we can do with that Costa showing up on Weds!
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Maenander
Profile Joined November 2002
Germany4926 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 16:22:44
April 27 2014 16:22 GMT
#15887
Chelsea does not have a good tactic against weaker sides or they would be winning the league.
Craze
Profile Joined July 2010
United States561 Posts
April 27 2014 16:38 GMT
#15888
As a Liverpool fan it sucks for this to happen but I have to agree with people on the choice for tactics. At the same time though, I don't think we are strong enough at the back to play a park and counter game. Our strength is attack. The team is going to give up goals to quality sides no matter what tactics are played.

I'm happy with getting to see Liverpool in champions league football again but I really had hopes for Gerrard to win the league.
Rebs
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Pakistan10726 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 16:43:13
April 27 2014 16:40 GMT
#15889
On April 28 2014 00:58 WillyWanker wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...


Yea its such a load of bullshit. Especially since no one really knows what the fuck they mean by Plan A and Plan B or they come up with some BS tactical adjustment that makes sense in hindsight.

At the end of the day if a team parks the bus there is no Plan B, hindsight is 20 20 and when stuff doesnt work the armchair experts come out with the same shit, "dont know how to break teams down that defend with 10"

They know exactly how to do it the same way they do it every other week. Its just really really hard. If you give me a 200 million something squad i can make them park the Bus to, watch some film, setup matchups, pickout player tedencies,
and then spend the week playing upto the game playing 10s in your half to get comfortable with it.

Its the same thing Sam Allardyce does and Mourinho does it no differently, he just has better players to do it with

Teams play with an identity, Mourinho teams have none, that is why Madrid hated him. That is also why his teams lose to shittier teams because they dont have an identity but can deflect teams that refuse to throw theirs away.

Thats not to say he cant give teams an identity, he just chooses not to because that gets in the way of him playing the percentages of what he needs to do to win. And when it comes to big games, he sure can win, and winning is nice and all but my God for the neutral its such a drag and it sucks for football in general


Its the same reason shit players like Lleyton Hewitt who have 0 weapons would win Grandslams a decade back, simple counter punching + Show Spoiler +
(thank God tennis doesnt reward that shit anymore)


But it works so thats that. But please enough with this BS about plan B's. As much as I would have liked for Liverpool to play for the draw I wouldve have also lost a fair bit of respect for them.
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18707 Posts
April 27 2014 16:43 GMT
#15890
On April 28 2014 01:40 Rebs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2014 00:58 WillyWanker wrote:
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...


Yea its such a load of bullshit. Especially since no one really knows what the fuck they mean by Plan A and Plan B or they come up with some BS tactical adjustment that makes sense in hindsight.

At the end of the day if a team parks the bus there is no Plan B, hindsight is 20 20 and when stuff doesnt work the armchair experts come out with the same shit, "dont know how to break teams down that defend with 10"

They know exactly how to do it the same way they do it every other week. Its just really really hard. If you give me a 200 million something squad i can make them park the Bus to, watch some film, setup matchups, pickout player tedencies,
and then spend the week playing upto the game playing 10s in your half to get comfortable with it.

Its the same thing Sam Allardyce does and Mourinho does it no differently, he just has better players to do it with

Teams play with an identity, Mourinho teams have none, that is why Madrid hated him. That is also why his teams lose to shittier teams because they dont have an identity but can deflect teams that refuse to throw theirs away.

Thats not to say he cant give teams an identity, he just chooses not to because that gets in the way of him playing the percentages of what he needs to do to win. And when it comes to big games, he sure can win, and winning is nice and all but my God for the neutral its such a drag and it sucks for football in general


Its the same reason shit players like Lleyton Hewitt who have 0 weapons would win Grandslams a decade back, simple counter punching + Show Spoiler +
(thank God tennis doesnt reward that shit anymore)


But it works so thats that. But please enough with this BS about plan B's. As much as I would have liked for Liverpool to play for the draw I wouldve have also lost a fair bit of respect for them.


Yes Liverpool cares a lot about your respect. Your respect is worth a lot more than THE title for Liverpool, right? ^^
Otolia
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
France5805 Posts
April 27 2014 16:45 GMT
#15891
On April 28 2014 01:40 Rebs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 28 2014 00:58 WillyWanker wrote:
On April 28 2014 00:37 Pandemona wrote:
Yeah Neville were saying and i think i mentioned it once or twice, Liverpool have Plan A....and thats it. They needed a different approach to when a team can defend in front of them. Oh well.
Mourinho also laying into Jamie Redknapp in his after match report ^_^
Those two really don't like eachother

This whole "plan A" stuff is getting annoying. At least they have a plan A...


Yea its such a load of bullshit. Especially since no one really knows what the fuck they mean by Plan A and Plan B or they come up with some BS tactical adjustment that makes sense in hindsight.

At the end of the day if a team parks the bus there is no Plan B, hindsight is 20 20 and when stuff doesnt work the armchair experts come out with the same shit, "dont know how to break teams down that defend with 10"

They know exactly how to do it the same way they do it every other week. Its just really really hard. If you give me a 200 million something squad i can make them park the Bus to, watch some film, setup matchups, pickout player tedencies,
and then spend the week playing upto the game playing 10s in your half to get comfortable with it.

Its the same thing Sam Allardyce does and Mourinho does it no differently, he just has better players to do it with

Teams play with an identity, Mourinho teams have none, that is why Madrid hated him. That is also why his teams lose to shittier teams because they dont have an identity but can deflect teams that refuse to throw theirs away.

Thats not to say he cant give teams an identity, he just chooses not to because that gets in the way of him playing the percentages of what he needs to do to win. And when it comes to big games, he sure can win, and winning is nice and all but my God for the neutral its such a drag and it sucks for football in general


Its the same reason shit players like Lleyton Hewitt who have 0 weapons would win Grandslams a decade back, simple counter punching + Show Spoiler +
(thank God tennis doesnt reward that shit anymore)


But it works so thats that. But please enough with this BS about plan B's. As much as I would have liked for Liverpool to play for the draw I wouldve have also lost a fair bit of respect for them.

Mourinho's teams have a clear identity : Do whatever you need to win.
Mensol
Profile Joined September 2012
14536 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 16:53:42
April 27 2014 16:48 GMT
#15892
Atletico won 1-0 against Valencia!!!!

That was the hardest remaining game for them. Now they just need to win against Levante (A) and Malaga (H) and they are champions of La Liga!
If you don't know what the fuck you are doing, how are your enemies supposed to know what the fuck you are doing. - imaqtpie on NA teams at Worlds.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 16:52:30
April 27 2014 16:51 GMT
#15893
On April 28 2014 01:48 Mensol wrote:
Atletico won 1-0 against Valencia!!!!

That was the hardest game remaining for them. Now they just need to win against Levante (A) and Malaga (H) and they are champions of La Liga!


Haven't real got 1 game in hand on them? So if they win they are 1 point behind them? So the Barca game is still the key? Oh wait they dropped more points, they have 3 point lead on them if win game in hand oh wow xD
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6343 Posts
April 27 2014 16:55 GMT
#15894
On April 28 2014 01:48 Mensol wrote:
Atletico won 1-0 against Valencia!!!!

That was the hardest remaining game for them. Now they just need to win against Levante (A) and Malaga (H) and they are champions of La Liga!

Yeah but dropping out to Chelsea in the CL semi-final will deal a big blow to their moral and they might tank the next two matches.
Pre-emptive retaliatory de-escalation action
haitike
Profile Joined June 2009
Spain2739 Posts
April 27 2014 16:56 GMT
#15895
So awesome Atletico this year. Nobody would have bet in them this summer.

btw, now at 19:00, Athletic Bilbao vs Sevilla playing for the 4th spot (champions league spot), the winner will be 4th.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
April 27 2014 17:03 GMT
#15896
Damn City only won 2-0 at Palace taking them +8 goals on Liverpool.

Next games;

Saturday - Everton vs City
Sunday - Chelsea vs Norwich
Monday - Crystal Palce vs Liverpool

Oh boy xD
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Mensol
Profile Joined September 2012
14536 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-27 17:12:25
April 27 2014 17:11 GMT
#15897
Everton vs MCity is Q.P.R level game for MCity.

It's the key match right now because i can't see them losing against West Ham at home.
If you don't know what the fuck you are doing, how are your enemies supposed to know what the fuck you are doing. - imaqtpie on NA teams at Worlds.
3point14
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany890 Posts
April 27 2014 17:26 GMT
#15898
On April 28 2014 01:48 Mensol wrote:
Atletico won 1-0 against Valencia!!!!

That was the hardest remaining game for them. Now they just need to win against Levante (A) and Malaga (H) and they are champions of La Liga!

GL please dont let Real win it
Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
April 27 2014 17:40 GMT
#15899
How can chelsea fans tolerate this.
If my team had that squad and played that football I'd be furious.

VAMOS ATLETICO!
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
malcram
Profile Joined November 2010
2752 Posts
April 27 2014 17:49 GMT
#15900
Maybe we are pragmatists.
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