2015–16 UEFA Champions League

baldur · Post #1161 » by **baldur** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:48 pm

El Turco wrote:zenit has been very impressive. not the strongest group but beating both valencia and lyon in both games is nothing to sneeze at.

yes in a challenging group, they did pretty well.

DD12 · Post #1162 » by **DD12** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:37 am

Damn what happened to the best midfield in Serie A? De rossi-ninja-pjanic

DD12 · Post #1163 » by **DD12** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:38 am

Batu7, were you kinda excited that roma was going to break your record(8-0 against liverpool) when it was 6-0? All my bjk fans were so hopeful barca was going to score more but they couldn't lol

Post #1164 » by **magik9113** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 2:08 am

DD12 wrote:Damn what happened to the best midfield in Serie A? De rossi-ninja-pjanic

well, De Rossi didn't play. He would have restored them some dignity.
But Juve probably have the best midfield with Pogba-Marchisio-Khedira, Khedira just hasn't been healthy enough and who knows when/if he will be. Pereyra is very important to the midfield too and he's also been out injured.

jirrit · Post #1165 » by **jirrit** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:43 am

http://www.footytube.com/video/barcelona-as-roma-nov24-386698

:nod:

Foye · Post #1166 » by **Foye** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:12 am

These group stage games have become an absolute borefest.

Hopefully, the knockout games will be better.

EArl · Post #1167 » by **EArl** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:52 pm

Foye wrote:These group stage games have become an absolute borefest.

Hopefully, the knockout games will be better.

Who doesn't enjoy a good beating every now and then.

Foye · Post #1168 » by **Foye** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:51 pm

Schürrle starting to pay back that enormous transfer fee. Didnt expect that lol

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DD12 · Post #1169 » by **DD12** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:56 pm

Wolfsburg-CSKA game was a great explanation why football iq is the most important thing that a team can possibly have. CSKA played an one sided game, especially in the second half, however they have players like Dzagoev, Doumbia and especially Musa who have minus football IQ. They wasted so many chances, couldn't create a lot more even though Wolfsburg defense was so shaky, couldn't make final passes. Combining the football iq of these three is probably not even quarter of Iniesta or Pirlo.

On the other hand, Wolfsburg that has a little bit of football iq played great and found two goals were created and scored by smart players.

In todays football, physical attributes are important but not as important as it used to be. Most important thing is a football iq. That's why Iniesta, Pirlo, Xavi are the gods of football in this era even though their physical attributes are not nowhere close to their football iq.

DD12 · Post #1170 » by **DD12** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:44 pm

atl will score a lot of goals

El Turco · Post #1171 » by **El Turco** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:02 pm

bilal, sabri, jem all starting :lol:

this is going to be laugher, i wish i got home early enough to put boatloads of money on atleti

Foye · Post #1172 » by **Foye** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:07 pm

Otamendi is such a flop for City haha

Post #1173 » by **magik9113** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:38 pm

Sandro gets better each game he plays. That was one of Mandzukic's best halves of the season too. Juve are lucky Buffon came up big on the thru ball Marchisio sent to Aguero but other than a couple errors we look great. Let's finish this out, we need to be 1st in this group

DD12 · Post #1174 » by **DD12** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:18 pm

Who was that person said Gotze is better than Pogba? :lol:

Post #1175 » by **magik9113** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:20 pm

Embarrassing miss by sterling after Juve shoulda made it 2-0

DD12 · Post #1176 » by **DD12** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:51 pm

No more english team in CL please.

Foye · Post #1177 » by **Foye** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 9:58 pm

It is amazing how mediocre United are. Wouldn't surprise me if they manage to fail in Wolfsburg as well and PSV take their spot.

Det the Threat · Post #1178 » by **Det the Threat** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:56 pm

magik9113 wrote:Sandro gets better each game he plays. That was one of Mandzukic's best halves of the season too. Juve are lucky Buffon came up big on the thru ball Marchisio sent to Aguero but other than a couple errors we look great. Let's finish this out, we need to be 1st in this group

Yes, you should be and you should bring out that 2nd half strategy you used against us to at least get that point at Sevilla. :lol:

We finally won one even though it was the worst of our three home games.
Still, we lost yet another winger(Traoré) and Schubert brought on Drmic to play in right midfield.

He tried very hard, but that's just not going to cut it and we either need to play Hazard or shuffle the lineup a bit.

No_20 · Post #1179 » by **No_20** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:10 pm

I've always had a soft spot for Schürrle. The bloke is an old school German player. Not the prettiest but so damn effective and always performs in the big games unlike bottlers like Reus and Özil.

Hellcrooner · Post #1180 » by **Hellcrooner** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:51 pm

6th round can become a real disaster for the Self named and self publicised "best league".

There are more than fair odds that 50% of their teams get screwed.
And some ( not much) odds that 75% of them go down and the remaining piece gets their anual trip to spain to be crushed -.