EPTChampions League & Europa League 2015-16 Thread - Page 52
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Dingodile
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Rebs
Pakistan10726 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:38 Pandemona wrote: Put my life on them not winning the league, City more of a chance than Arsenal. Everyone knows this. Now it would just be morbid. Yeah its around Feb and the first of CL so they should start pissing it away round about now. You're right. Still it would be hilarious. | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28736 Posts
pretty much no chance for advancement but I think they can feel alright about their performance - that is, the players that didn't miss sitters. | ||
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sneirac
Germany3464 Posts
Round of 16 - Day 3 Results! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/V239zsl.png) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/zhR0xfE.png) | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:38 Twisted wrote: Thought Barca were a shadow of themselves this game.. But Arsenal had a decent showing. I thought they played well, just not like if their lives depended on it. It's a two-leg matchup, no reason to go all-in from the first game, especially knowing they almost automatically win in the Camp Nou... They could have passed the ball a bit faster, but for a team that just played a thousand games since December (and winning almost all of them), I think they did ok  | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:41 Liquid`Drone wrote: even though they lost 0-2 at home, I don't really feel arsenal was outclassed here. add clinical finishing to their play and this might have gone the other way. pretty much no chance for advancement but I think they can feel alright about their performance - that is, the players that didn't miss sitters. Yep that is the game i watched too. For MSN being the best 3 strikers in the world which no one can doubt right now. The other 7 players are hardly the best in the world, Iniesta, did he do anything tonight? Guy was best in the world few seasons ago but time has come to him now. Pique out of the 2nd leg as well if Arsenal were not to squander to what they did would have made it interesting, but oh well. It's February its time for Arsenal to shit the bed. | ||
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Rebs
Pakistan10726 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:44 Pandemona wrote: Yep that is the game i watched too. For MSN being the best 3 strikers in the world which no one can doubt right now. The other 7 players are hardly the best in the world, Iniesta, did he do anything tonight? Guy was best in the world few seasons ago but time has come to him now. Pique out of the 2nd leg as well if Arsenal were not to squander to what they did would have made it interesting, but oh well. It's February its time for Arsenal to shit the bed. Yeah but you dont need 7 players to be the best players on their position. That doesnt make for a great team anyway. Its unfair to be too critical. They had a plan, they stuck with it, executed it well enough. Didnt work. I am a firm believe that you cannot win things without a world class striker. Someone who can create their own goals from time to time. And Arsenal has lacked that since Henry pretty much. RVP had like one season and he saved his real league winning goals for United. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18572 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:47 Rebs wrote: Yeah but you dont need 7 players to be the best players on their position. That doesnt make for a great team anyway. Its unfair to be too critical. They had a plan, they stuck with it, executed it well enough. Didnt work. I am a firm believe that you cannot win things without a world class striker. Someone who can create their own goals from time to time. And Arsenal has lacked that since Henry pretty much. RVP had like one season and he saved his real league winning goals for United. Bayern didn't have a world class striker when they won their treble. | ||
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WillyWanker
France1915 Posts
Busquets #1, Iniesta #1-2 (find me a better playmaker in the game right now), Alves/Alba top #1-3, Mascherano and Piqué are top #5 but too many haters, and Rakitic I'm not sure how to rank him this season but last season he wasn't exceptional. Also, the clean 0-2 might be a bit harsh for Arsenal, but I don't think they were ever in the position to win that game. Barcelona never really accelerated and they could have scored 4-5. Arsenal only had 2 clear opportunities in the whole game... | ||
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Rebs
Pakistan10726 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:51 sharkie wrote: Bayern didn't have a world class striker when they won their treble. Muller is more than world class even if he is technically a midfielder. The point was a healthy influx of goals from somewhere. There are instances of other teams of winning well without world class strikers. Nothing is absolute. Pointing out outliers to a general trend isnt really a solid argument. But most of your commentary operates on exceptions and nitpicking anyway so I guess we can be used to that. But that doesnt change my belief because once every 30 years someone manages to do it. Also Japan sucks at football. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18199 Posts
On February 24 2016 07:18 Rebs wrote: Muller is more than world class even if he is technically a midfielder. The point was a healthy influx of goals from somewhere. There are instances of other teams of winning well without world class strikers. Nothing is absolute. Pointing out outliers to a general trend isnt really a solid argument. But most of your commentary operates on exceptions and nitpicking anyway so I guess we can be used to that. But that doesnt change my belief because once every 30 years someone manages to do it. Also Japan sucks at football. As opposed to Pakistan, a regular world cup contender  | ||
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Rebs
Pakistan10726 Posts
On February 24 2016 07:24 Acrofales wrote: As opposed to Pakistan, a regular world cup contender Damn right... | ||
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haitike
Spain2722 Posts
On February 24 2016 06:44 Pandemona wrote: Iniesta, did he do anything tonight? Guy was best in the world few seasons ago but time has come to him now. Maybe I saw a different match, but I think Iniesta was the best of Barcelona tonight (With Ter Stegen and Messi). He did a great match. | ||
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TerransHill
Germany572 Posts
Such a dominance in the first 60 minutes away against a great team like juve, you just gotta keep that lead! I think pep really screwed up the changes. He should've taken young Kimmich off. He did a great first half but of course a young player who plays on a new position + in CL gets nervous when the match turns. Then he should've taken off Costa earlier. He was so tired in the second half and didn't do shit. Bring Ribery on earlier or Coman. And then of course we still had 1 exchange left in the end... wtf? Why did he just miss out on bringing one more fresh player when we have a good bench and the match is clearly turning around? Really genius Pep | ||
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sneirac
Germany3464 Posts
Round of 16 - Day 4! ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/PvxCjgT.png) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/iGqM89W.png) Additionally Braga and Sion are playing their Europa League tie a day early at 18:00 tonight. | ||
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Kleinmuuhg
Vanuatu4091 Posts
On February 24 2016 22:59 TerransHill wrote: Ah well before the match I weould have been satisfied with a 2-2, but after that match it's disappointing of course. Such a dominance in the first 60 minutes away against a great team like juve, you just gotta keep that lead! I think pep really screwed up the changes. He should've taken young Kimmich off. He did a great first half but of course a young player who plays on a new position + in CL gets nervous when the match turns. Then he should've taken off Costa earlier. He was so tired in the second half and didn't do shit. Bring Ribery on earlier or Coman. And then of course we still had 1 exchange left in the end... wtf? Why did he just miss out on bringing one more fresh player when we have a good bench and the match is clearly turning around? Really genius Pep I agree we were also really anticipating Pep to take out Costa any second after the break, instead he just kept underperforming | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
Oh, Luuk de Jong is suspended. At least Guardado is fit again. | ||
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30548 Posts
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