European football thread (CL, Europa)

[Bobby Sands]

I feel embarassed for suggesting that they could win this game.

I saw them against Inter Milan after i said that and then i realised how bad they really are now.

I guess i was fooled by their performances against Real Madrid in the group stages.

 

[Bobby Sands]

I quite like Beckham. :wondering:

yea obviously because you are english and an Man Utd fan.

I cant stand the media whore.

 

[lyrical start]

Milan didn't show up.. I think the manager got the tactics and team selection completley wrong. He should have started with Seedorf or Beckham because there was no creativity in midfield.
Hunterlaar is rubbish! get rid of him!!

Madrid should have scored a few goals in the 1st half but Higuain was wasteful. Kaka is failing to live up to expectations, the coach should have dropped him and played with Van Der Vaart.

Lyon stepped up in the 2nd half and were the better team. They had a few good chances to score more goals and Lopez somehow fired wide with only Casillas to beat. Overall Lyon deserved to progress.


I can't wait for the quarter finals draw next week!!

 

[Flipmo]

AC Milan have to rid of their grampas and bring in some youthful players, especially defenders! Zambrotta, Nesta, Kaladze and Jankuloski are done. Keep Seadorf though out of the oldies there, he still shows up week in and out on the field and does his job. Oh yeah, their manager is rubbish. I can do a better job than him for the most part.

Edit: Btw, how was Boriello today? Shit again, as usual?

 

[Duke]

Milan didn't show up.. I think the manager got the tactics and team selection completley wrong. He should have started with Seedorf or Beckham because there was no creativity in midfield.
Hunterlaar is rubbish! get rid of him!!

Seedorf wasn't fully fit I think.

Huntelaar was abused today. Coming from the right, lol. Ridiculous.

 

[Bobby Sands]

I think ill move to Antartica if Man Utd win this.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

It would be nice to see two French teams going far in this competition.

 

[Sebastian]

And Bobby said AC could win the champions league. lol

Anyway, Ronaldo and Guti had a good game. Overall, Madrid had a quite acceptable performance. However, they made one mistake and conceded a goal. Too bad for them.

As far as it seems Kaka is having a hard time to reveal his skills in Madrid.

 

[Flipmo]

Some reactions from the Real's drop out.

Trailing 1-0 from the Champions League first leg, Madrid got a flying start when Cristiano Ronaldo put them ahead in just the sixth minute of last night's return clash at the Bernabeu and the Primera Division leaders might have had the tie sewn up by half-time after dominating the opening 45 minutes.

However, a much-improved Lyon turned things around in the second half and deservedly drew level on the night through Miralem Pjanic's 75th-minute strike.

It also ended their dreams of winning a 10th European Cup crown at their Bernabeu home, where this year's final will be held.

Madrid-based Marca, the biggest-selling daily in Spain, believe the exit will cost Real coach Manuel Pellegrini his job, with their front page announcing: "OUT. Goodbye Champions, Goodbye Pellegrini."

It continued inside: "The same upset as every year. The Whites fall after failing to take excellent chances in the first half. Lyon's changes at half-time changed the match. (Gonzalo) Higuain maintained his bad luck in Europe and Kaka didn't get going.

"Madrid again go crashing against the curse of the last 16. Lyon join Juventus, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Roma and Liverpool in the list of executioners."

Rival Madrid daily AS's front page read: "Catastrophe. Madrid couldn't overcome Lyon not even in the Bernabeu."

Inside the paper discussed how the "failure" and "nightmare" continues for Madrid and how Lyon deserved to go through.

El Pais newspaper made reference to the huge amounts of money that Madrid spent last summer following the return of Florentino Perez to the club presidency.

In a bid to take Madrid back to the top of the domestic and European game, the nine-time European champions spent in the region of €250 million on new players - including a world-record €94m on Ronaldo.

El Pais's headline read: "Football has no price."

It continued: "Lyon question the realism of the mega-project of Florentino Perez and Madrid, who ran out of steam in the second half, fell for the sixth successive season in the last-16.

"Titles are not bought, they are won."

Barcelona-based sports dailies El Mundo Deportivo and Sport, meanwhile, both went with a huge "KO" on their front pages.

El Mundo Deportivo also twisted the knife by highlighting the possibility of Madrid's arch rivals Barca defending their European crown at the Bernabeu in May.

"Madrid will not be in the Bernabeu final! Failure of Florentino's project, incapable of overcoming the last-16 of the Champions League for the sixth successive year," the paper continued.

"Barca's dream of winning their fourth European Cup in Chamartin (Bernabeu) grows."

Sport added on their front page: "The great failure", whilst underneath showing the pictures of Perez, Pellegrini, Ronaldo and Kaka with captions alongside them.

The captions read: "'Florentino, broken. 300million thrown away'. 'Pellegrini, sentenced. The Bernabeu calls for his head'. 'Cristiano, humiliated. He promised every title and has already lost two'. 'Kaka, the next problem. He left the pitch insulting the coach'."

Inside, Sport added: "Galactic humiliation", referring to the 'Galacticos' term given to Perez's star-studded and expensively-assembled squads of now and during his pervious time as president between 2000-2006.

 

[KingOfDarkness99]

Some reactions from the Real's drop out.

bye bye Real

 

[DJ Manny]

hopefully Barca will win next week and the competition

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

Real Madrid to have another overhaul?

 

[Sebastian]

They just need to get Mourinho and then its all good.

 

[Flipmo]

^^^ I agree with that. Once Real get an actual manager capable of dealing with a team consisting of many 'egos' they can do damage. Real's problem is that they're not able to work as a team. Mourinho is capable of fixing that - he's done it at Chelsea which is a team of fucking assholes, and Inter Milan... not to mention Porto back when they were a club not to be fucked with.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

The fans don't want Mourinho though.

 

[Sebastian]

So, who do they want?

 

[THEV1LL4N]

lille just beat liverpool 1-0.

juve 2 fulham 0

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

So, who do they want?

No idea. The fans are against Mourinho due to his negative tactics. I read somewhere that if they won all their games 1-0 they would want Mourinho out. :suspicious:

Arsene Wenger is always linked to Madrid though.

 

[Flipmo]

Wenger's style fits Real Madrid, I'm curious to know what he'd do with all the superstars though. You know he's all about economics first and foremost.

 

[lyrical start]

I've always said Madrid won't like Mourhino. Fans want sucess but with style. Look at Capello, he won the league and still got sacked. Personally I think Pelligrini should stay. He's a good manager but he just needs time.

Wenger will not walk out on Arsenal

Wengers loyalty >>>>>>>>>