Football (real)

[nietzsche]

Wow, what a way to end Guardiola's reign at Barcelona!! Messi got all four goals, and his total for the season is an unreal 72 goals!!

Best in the world.

Not fair, he's a freak, they gave him cocktail after cocktail of hormones when younger.

[maxfaraday]

Juventus Champion.

[nagerous]

Wow, what a way to end Guardiola's reign at Barcelona!! Messi got all four goals, and his total for the season is an unreal 72 goals!!

Best in the world.

Not fair, he's a freak, they gave him cocktail after cocktail of hormones when younger.

They forgot to give him the growth ones, he's as short as me and AoG.

[JoshyBoy]

They forgot to give him the growth ones, he's as short as me and AoG.

Hah!!

[Nola_Lifer]

IBRA is a ffucking monster giant

I hope RM hires him for the next season.

Ibrabitch isn't a Mourinho player. He can score against the middle to bottom teams but, when it comes to the big games, he is a bitch.

[nietzsche]

IBRA is a ffucking monster giant

I hope RM hires him for the next season.

Ibrabitch isn't a Mourinho player. He can score against the middle to bottom teams but, when it comes to the big games, he is a bitch.

Goals vs Real Madrid, Inter, Juve, Bayern, Milan, Barcelona, Man Utd.


Also, this is only rumours but:

[Nola_Lifer]

Not convinced

[Pirlo]

Ibra is more like a play maker than a striker! at least in Milan.

[nietzsche]

Not convinced

[nietzsche]

Ibra is more like a play maker than a striker! at least in Milan.

He can do both. He starts as a play maker and supposedly plays behind the strikers but since he has a steel pipe for a leg, he can shot from anywhere.

He has the talent of a number 10, but also has the talent to play as a number 9. A 9 and a half.

In Milan, without Pato, I guess he has to try and score more, and let's face it, Robinho is a poor striker, he's more suited for running like a crazy man during the game, and at some point if you throw the ball to his feet, he might trip and score.

[Pirlo]

Ibra is more like a play maker than a striker! at least in Milan.

He can do both. He starts as a play maker and supposedly plays behind the strikers but since he has a steel pipe for a leg, he can shot from anywhere.

He has the talent of a number 10, but also has the talent to play as a number 9. A 9 and a half.

In Milan, without Pato, I guess he has to try and score more, and let's face it, Robinho is a poor striker, he's more suited for running like a crazy man during the game, and at some point if you throw the ball to his feet, he might trip and score.

I know mate.. problem with critiques is they don't take into account the environment of a player.. Milan in general is a rubbish team that needs a serious revamp.. they need 3 defenders and a tough defensive midfielder.. add to that they have been suffering in the attack line since they sold Kaka, which means they need a creative play maker and a very good fast striker to get back to european competition!

Bigger problem, Serie A level is too poor now to care that much!

[nagerous]

Potential England squad for 2012?
Here are my predictions

GK: Hart, Carson, Foster
Defenders: Cole, Baines, Walker, Terry, Cahill, Richards/Lescott, Ferdinand, Jones
Midfielders: Barry, Parker, Lampard, Gerrard, Walcott, Young, Milner, Adam Johnson/Lennon
Forwards: Rooney, Wellbeck, Bent, Carroll/Sturridge

[Gypsys Kiss]

I think its about time Terry was dropped

what about Johnson of the Glenn variety?

[Slavivlad]

Shame that Wilshere is injured.

What about Defoe or Gabby ?

[nietzsche]

England has no shot at this Eurocup. They won't make it to the quaterfinals.

[nagerous]

I think its about time Terry was dropped

what about Johnson of the Glenn variety?

Not as good as Walker or Richards imho.

[Slavivlad]

England won't win, we know that. I want Germans to win.

P.S. Liverpool 4 - 1 Chelsea

[nietzsche]

England won't win, we know that. I want Germans to win.

P.S. Liverpool 4 - 1 Chelsea

Germans and Spanish gotta be the favorites.

Is Portugal strong?

[Sniper08]

Germans and Spanish gotta be the favorites.

Is Portugal strong?

spain or germany will most likely win it. holland is as always good but they got germany and portugal in their group so the top 2 of that one will be a real fight.

irelands group is spain italy and croatia so i know we got no realistic chance of getting through and am hoping for 3rd place.

england have an easy group with france sweden and ukraine, france is a shambles so they will come 3rd with england and sweden advancing

then the last group with poland greece russia and czech rep. a bit of a tough call for 2nd but i think russia wins group with czech's second

[nietzsche]

Benzema is in great shape, is France that bad really?

[Sniper08]

Benzema is in great shape, is France that bad really?

they cheated to get in the world cup thanks to henry and then they were humiliated by not even getting out of the group stage. they were placed in pot4 for this tournament which indicates those who havent got a hope in hell of winning it.

[Pirlo]

Benzema is in great shape, is France that bad really?

they cheated to get in the world cup thanks to henry and then they were humiliated by not even getting out of the group stage. they were placed in pot4 for this tournament which indicates those who havent got a hope in hell of winning it.

Their game against Bosnia was controversial too!

[betiko]

Benzema is in great shape, is France that bad really?

they cheated to get in the world cup thanks to henry and then they were humiliated by not even getting out of the group stage. they were placed in pot4 for this tournament which indicates those who havent got a hope in hell of winning it.

we cheated to get in the world cup? perhaps were you guys qualified or something before henry did that? and it was over 2 years ago ffs, get over it. we all just want to forget that last world cup, most shamefull moment of our national team ever between that and the "strike" they did in the middle of the world cup. hopefully we got over that and blanc brings a new state of mind.
just want to qualify for 1/4 finals and i think it's no wet dream, we clearly have our chance.

you don't seem to follow much france's results gary, here are all the games we played since we have laurent blanc as head coach.
we played 20 games, lost the first 2 since then we are on a 18 games undefeated strike (12v, 6n, 2d since blanc) and we've beatten teams such as germany (in germany), england (in england), brazil (in france) and beat ukraine by 4 goals (in ukraine). So if you think france is weak as piss i would suggest you inform yourself better. In fact i think it's very hard to predict the outcome of that group, ukraine being the host, england being england, (you never know), and sweden having a pretty decent team.

germany 1- 2 france
france 0-0 belgium
france 1-0 USA
france 1-1 bosnia
france 3-0 albania
romania 0-0 france
albania 1-2 france
france 1-1 chile
poland 0-1 france
ukraine 1-4 france
belarus 1-1 france
france 0-0 croatia
luxembourg 0-2 france
france 1-0 brazil
england 1-2 france
france 2-0 luxembourg
france 2-0 romania
bosnia 0-2 france
france 0-1 belarus
norway 2-1 france

(in red friendly games, all others were from the qualifying group stage to the eurocup where we ended first)

[Sniper08]

Benzema is in great shape, is France that bad really?

they cheated to get in the world cup thanks to henry and then they were humiliated by not even getting out of the group stage. they were placed in pot4 for this tournament which indicates those who havent got a hope in hell of winning it.

we cheated to get in the world cup? perhaps were you guys qualified or something before henry did that? and it was over 2 years ago ffs, get over it. we all just want to forget that last world cup, most shamefull moment of our national team ever between that and the "strike" they did in the middle of the world cup. hopefully we got over that and blanc brings a new state of mind.
just want to qualify for 1/4 finals and i think it's no wet dream, we clearly have our chance.

you don't seem to follow much france's results gary, here are all the games we played since we have laurent blanc as head coach.
we played 20 games, lost the first 2 since then we are on a 18 games undefeated strike (12v, 6n, 2d since blanc) and we've beatten teams such as germany (in germany), england (in england), brazil (in france) and beat ukraine by 4 goals (in ukraine). So if you think france is weak as piss i would suggest you inform yourself better. In fact i think it's very hard to predict the outcome of that group, ukraine being the host, england being england, (you never know), and sweden having a pretty decent team.

germany 1- 2 france
france 0-0 belgium
france 1-0 USA
france 1-1 bosnia
france 3-0 albania
romania 0-0 france
albania 1-2 france
france 1-1 chile
poland 0-1 france
ukraine 1-4 france
belarus 1-1 france
france 0-0 croatia
luxembourg 0-2 france
france 1-0 brazil
england 1-2 france
france 2-0 luxembourg
france 2-0 romania
bosnia 0-2 france
france 0-1 belarus
norway 2-1 france

(in red friendly games, all others were from the qualifying group stage to the eurocup where we ended first)

first off henry handled the ball twice in extra time to score that goal, the momentum of the game was totally ours and if it went to penalties we would have won, we were stronger on the night and deserved to go through to the world cup.

secondly, friendlys dont count as countries field all sorts of different teams than they would in competitive games.all those competitve teams you listed you would expect france to beat i mean come on belerus(65th ranked),bosinia(27th),romania(45th),poland(68th) and luxembourg(127th) are nothing teams that any good national team could easily beat. you might be on a "winning streak" but your not beating the likes of spain, italy, holland or england your beating lesser countries. its like a premier league team that beats first division teams and thinks they are great because of it.

while blanc is a good manager(former united player) the team just isnt there for me and i think they will struggle to make it out of the group stage.

[betiko]

lol!

so basically winning them in friendly games doesn't mean shit, but losing vs them would mean WE are shit? did i say the results are spectacular? no! I said they were decent. also you are telling me we have beaten no decent team, are germany, england and brazil not decent teams? (england is in your list of decent teams we haven't faced and beaten, how could we if friendly games don't count for you?)

also, whatever, if you want i let you win that game to participate in the world cup from 3 years ago that i don't give a flying f*ck about, i understand it's the paramount for ireland to participate in a world cup, not for us; we would've better stayed home in 2010. (it just makes me laugh how all irish are able to predict the end of that game, also to know for sure they would've won in penaltys in case it would ve gone that far)

I think the french team looks good in attack, so so in defence; has a good goalie and has a problem in midfield this year.

If we don't win I want anything but spain or italy to win, my all time enemies in football.
would like germany to win actually, I've really enjoyed their game in the past 6 years, and they would've deserved something. not like the previous ones with klinsmann, matthaus and all these guys i hated.