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2016/17 Soccer/Football Thread
- Thread starter Aurious
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Is it always an Arsenal thing that you play Cech in PL games and Ospina in CL?
My predictions:
Club Brugge - Leicester 2
and....
FC Porto - FC Copenaghen 1
Juventus - Siviglia 1
Legia - Dortmund 2
Leverkusen - CSKA Mosca 1
Lione - Dynamo Zagabria 1
Manchester City - Borussia Monchengladbach 1
Real Madrid - Sporting Lisboa 1
Tottenham - Monaco 1
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Wenger said Ospina is Keeping all CL games. Like, that logic is just weird to me.
Let's all laugh at Tottenham.
Man city look like they might do well this season in champions league. Dortmund look like they are on another level. Real Madrid need some work apparently. Juventus paid a lot of money for a striker that we all knew can't score in big games. Leicester should be moving out of their group which will be amazing. Typical Tottenham. That is all
Was enjoying watching the Leicester game, even though Brugge's defending was fucking terrible, just kept giving the ball to Leicester all the time. I'm sure we'll face harder challenges than that, but it was nice to see Leicester back to their best; solid, organised defending, great work rate, and great on the counter. It was easy to do though, once we went a goal up, the problem for Leicester is always when the opposing team scores first, and then we can't afford to sit back anymore.
destinyunknown
Banned deucer.
From the Bundesliga games I've watched of Dortmund, they haven't looked too well, they have had problems to create chances, so while they were great yesterday, I'm not sure whether it was just because Legia Warsaw is really weak. Also stop it with the Higuain circlejerk, he's been great so far, Juventus just weren't too hot in attack yesterday (or rather, Sevilla defended really well).
As for the Tottenham game, I'd say it was more of a ''typical Monaco'', Monaco played a mediocre game and deserved a draw at most, but somehow snatched a lucky win. The amount of times this has happened in the last few years is amazing.
Higuain has scored 3 goals in 3 games in Serie A, if I'm not mistaken. Not a bad record at all.
Legia aren't a terrible team and Dortmund can pick up steam really quick. Higuain has proven he hasn't scored in big games so his serie a record doesn't help with his image. Typical Monaco plus Typical Tottenham created that game as well
Cavani with 4 goals, thank you football gods! Sometimes though I really do wonder if is football is all rigged, what a ridiculous sport.
So I could only watch highlights so I have a few questions. Is Matic the best midfielder chelsea have to be playing alongside Oscar? Who was marking the far side on the first liverpool goal? Was David Luiz exposed? When did Jordan Henderson learn to shoot from 30+ out?
For the first goal, Chelsea left 4 of our players unmarked in the penalty area. Poor defending.
Personally, I felt while Luiz didn't cover himself with glory in that game, Ivanovic and Cahill were the main culprits.
As for Henderson, he scored a few goals like that before but because he rarely shoots from there, people tend to forget he can be a goal threat.
HBK
Subtlety is my middle name
Lovren's goal was the result of some comical marking, the Chelsea players marking each other while four of Liverpool's were completely free on the other side. Matic has certainly been better so far than he was last season, and against Liverpool, he was the only one who seemed to making a proper effort but I still prefer a midfield three of Oscar, Kante and Fabregas since Matic is just too similar to Kante and we need Fabregas' creativity. It's still too early to label anything, Luiz did only make his debut this week but he was decent, nothing special but he wasn't paticularly bad either. And Henderson does pull those out of his hat every once in a blue moon.
I don't understand why Conte thought our results could take a turn for the better without him actually changing anything.
In other news, Capoue just scored again, and this time against United....he's unstoppable atm. Speaking of which, watching United lose is so therapeutic
Time to fire Mourinho, spend 200 million plus pounds on players, and wonder why it keeps on happening
destinyunknown
Banned deucer.
Why are we talking about a mediocre midtable team like United and not about the excellent performances of Everton this season? The team looks really promising, both the results and their play are speaking volumes so far
Like Leicester and Spurs last season? Oh, wait ....
So, uh, Stoke City's back line...
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