Football : Season 2012/2013

[thenry]

the 'art' of playing the extra man in midfield isnt easy. you really do need to be tactically on point not only off field but on it too. the main man being ill in NY doesnt help, it was working with Tito in the dug out.

Originally Posted by denphone

l think teams have increasingly sussed out how to play Barcelona.

This isn't really how it works. I think teams have known for a long time how to play against Barcelona and many have tried, most of the times they've failed. It is one thing to know how to play against a team but it's an altogether different thing to actually do it.

Barcelona are simply not playing as well at the moment.

[thenry]

Barca look like Arsenal. I said it a few weeks back when the mystery first half lapses were happening.

[Shadow Demon UK]

They've lost against Milan and Madrid, its hardly Blackburn and Bradford....

[thenry]

crisis nonethless.

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Raphael Varane is from Ligue1 side Lens. i wonder if Newcastle had tabs on him, adz?

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Bayern v Dortmund tomorrow

[Shadow Demon UK]

Piques reaction after giving the penalty away is classic. Its as if some players don't realise there are cameras recording the match sometimes. Stonewall penalty and he still protests his innocence...

[colin25]

Originally Posted by Damien

This isn't really how it works. I think teams have known for a long time how to play against Barcelona and many have tried, most of the times they've failed. It is one thing to know how to play against a team but it's an altogether different thing to actually do it.

Barcelona are simply not playing as well at the moment.

Yes, a combination of some good defensive pressing and Barca not playing 100%.

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I've never seen so many bad passes by barca in that game. Some pressure must be affecting them

[thenry]

James McClean closes Twitter account after Wolfe Tones song row

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-21600688

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Dennis Bergkamp to be immortalised with his own statue outside the Emirates Stadium

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...s-Stadium.html



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Soldado, Guaita ‘untouchable’

http://www.football-espana.net/28685...hable%E2%80%99

[denphone]

Liverpool linked with £20million move for Hatem Ben Arfa.

http://www.koptalk.co.uk/20130227297...-ben-arfa.html

[thenry]

profit all round. Ben Afra in - Suarez out.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by thenry

nice profit all round. Ben Afra in - Suarez out.

No no Suarez won't be going anywhere.

[thenry]

itll be tough to keep hold of him Den

[denphone]

Originally Posted by thenry

itll be tough to keep hold of him Den

We shall see Buddy.

[thenry]

talking of Bayern heres team news of tonights clash...

Bayern v Dortmund 1/4 DFB Pokal - ESPN

Bayern: M. Neuer, P. Lahm, D. Van Buyten, Dante, A. Robben, B. Schweinsteiger, Javi MartÃ*nez, T. Kroos, D. Alaba, M. Mandžukić, T. Müller.
Subs: X. Shaqiri, C. Pizarro, J. Boateng, T. Starke, Luiz Gustavo, M. Gómez, A. Tymoshchuk.

Dortmund: R. Weidenfeller, Ł. Piszczek, N. Subotić, M. Schmelzer, Felipe Santana, S. Bender, K. Großkreutz, I. Gündogan, M. Götze, R. Lewandowski, M. Reus.
Subs: S. Kehl, M. Leitner, J. Błaszczykowski, M. Langerak, J. Schieber, N. Şahin.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by denphone

No no Suarez won't be going anywhere.

If he wants to he'll be of and these days there's little clubs can do about it other than get the best price for him, looking at it another way what's to keep him, he won't even have the pleasure of Europa league football next season the way things are going.