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I'd like it too but I'm biased, I've got money on them.
Yeah.
Heh, I was just going to say it would be 6.5...
After the first game, I get 3.1 times my money if Chelsea makes the final.
See post #508 for reasoning.
EDIT: But who cares? They have done their job: making me money and swelling my ego.
And the best part is that Terry is the villain!
Excellent!
Does this mean we'll find out Victor Valdes name is really Roberto Heredia?
Harry Redknapp has assured us that there is no chance that Chelsea wins the Champions League.
I assume that means you already have money down on them for the final too?
I really wish I had asked for parlay odds on those now though. Thought about it...
Literally (not in a Jamie Redknapp sense)
EDIT: It's a weird play. I mean if you're going to take a shot at a guy make it worthwhile. Of course Sanchez went down like he'd been hit by sniper fire but really he takes worse on pretty much any free kick/corner.
To be clear, an easy red just stupid and pointless.
So it looks like Newcastle get booted to the Europa League but Arsenal will retain their place in the group stage.
If I'm following everything right it looks like the teams that have the most to gain by Chelsea qualifying as the 4th place team AND winning the CL are the third place team in Portugal (Sporting Braga right now) and the 2nd place Russian team (CSKA Moscow in the "first phase", not sure how they're running things, I think this is the year they switch from a summer to a winter league). Both of those teams go straight to the Group Stage if Chelsea finish 4th in the EPL and win the title.
EDIT: But that year they were making it up as they went along. The EPL got an extra spot that year rather than displacing the 4th place team. It just doesn't happen very often that a team can win the CL and then fail to finish high enough to qualify for the group stage automatically.
Because they only qualified as reigning champions:
So unless the qualification rules have changed, Chelsea would be guaranteed a spot, but only into the qualification rounds and Newcastle would be in too (2005-06 five EPL teams qualified).
EDIT: Swedish Chef, do you want to finish my Coke or should I buy you a new one?
Article 2.03 of the Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2011-12
It was amazing. I'm torn that evil got let off the hook. But my god.
I laughed so hard I had to pause the playback to write it down:
Touchline reporter: "I just spoke to an absolutely distraught John Terry who says he did not deliberately strike the player. what happened was the player checked his run...in John's words it was either pile into the back of him or put weight on back foot, that's why his knee went up, he said he did not deliberately strike the player. He said look at me, I've not had one booking in the champions league this season, there's no way I would do something like that, that would be madness to do that deliberately."
This.
(BTW, Ursus, thanks for the link from the last page.)
Watched from about 35 minutes on (and thus caught all the goals)... What made the 2nd half maddening is that Barcelona simply seemed incapable of shooting outside the area--like the thought never occurred to them or something.
I realize at times Chelsea had 9 men in the box, but at some point they needed to say "Screw it, just shoot and hope a crazy deflection bounces to one of our guys and we knock that in." Even if Chelsea got possession they would just hoof it long and lose the ball within 30 seconds; it's not like the strategy contained real risk for a counter-attack. (The only reason Torres scored was because they just basically took a chance since it was stoppage time and play 10 men up.)
Messi hitting the post for the PK was surreal. It was a bizarre game. Bayern/Real must be licking their chops, though--both would be heavy, heavy favorites, right?
Man U probably had similar media training programs...some football version of Crash Davis...
Glad someone caught that...it was pretty funny. Kind of fitting for the unbelievability of the result. Nice counterpoint to Gray's "Ohhh yaaa byoooo-taaaay!!"
Luiz has a hamstring problem, too, right? Well, 2 1/2 weeks...maybe at least one will be ready.
I had this thought as well. The box was so jammed that at times they were 13 abreast with B-C-B-C-B-C-B-C-B-C-B practically spanning the box. I kept thinking there had to be a strategy other than give and go's they could try.
I really just started watching Euro soccer this year, but I'm hooked. Looking forward to the rest of the CL and the Derby on Monday.
To a certain extent, I agree. OTOH, they scored 2 goals, and could easily have had several more, had it not been for some fantastic saves by Cech, and some squanderous finishing. And against an extremely talented Chelsea team. They quit on their old coach, so their league position is somewhat deceiving, but it's no fluke they got to the semis. All while forcing Chelsea to basically adapt a strategy where they are hoping for an act of divine inspiration from one of their stars. I think if you asked Barcelona a month ago if they would be happy with that, they would have said yes.
All credit to Chelsea, they knew what they needed to do, and the executed their game plan to perfection. But this was really about Barca failing to make a brace of high quality chances over both legs count for more that those 2 goals.
The offside was very close, from the camera angle we got on replay. It was a bad angle so I can't say for sure. From what I could see, he probably was off.
There wasn't a good angle that I saw (showing a straight line across the field; the camera always seemed to be angled), but Alves looked pretty offside to me on the replay. The fact that Barca didn't really protest too much makes me think it wasn't even close.
What I (and TE Jr.) like about Euro soccer is that TE Jr. can come home from school and watch a game on TV and still have time for dinner/homework and a decent bedtime. That's impossible with baseball most days.
Of course, these games are on later in Europe than most baseball games, so it's not like they're actually thinking of the children.
Lazio lose to Novara, Udinese go down at home to Inter and Roma lose at home to an injury time winner from Fiorentina.
Napoli and Inter, both of whom were given up for dead a while back, are now only 1 and 3 points out of third, respectively.
It's win by 2 or go through penalties for Real.
Great first half. These teams are both a lot of fun to watch when they're attacking.
The eagle has landed.
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