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So far Stoke have looked utterly disinterested in trying to score a goal. I appreciate their defensive style but this has been ridiculous.
Nzonzi should have been sent off with a straight red.
They also have Spurs Legend Helder Postiga!
Oh and for all the Spurs fans out there... Townsend is playing for QPR.
I'm not 100% sure about that: I would put Messi, Iniesta, Xavi, Fabregas, David Villa, Alexis Sanchez, etc. or Gomez, Muller, Robben, Ribery, Mandzukic, Kroos, etc. up against Rooney, Van Persie, Kagawa, Hernandez, Nani, etc. fairly reasonably. You could probably also make an argument for Real Madrid, just based off of Ronaldo, Higuain, Benzema, Ozil, and Di Maria, as well.
EDIT: I may have misread; you might have just meant the Prem, in which case you're most likely correct. Sorry for misreading you if I did.
Vying for my affection, no doubt.
PSG also has good set of attacking talent.
Reading, Villa and Wigan are all still dancing with danger, but none are as doomed as QPR. And I'm still unconvinced that West Ham can stay up, though they do host Wigan and Reading.
The relegation battle looks like a four-team race for one spot, and it's probably a two-team race between Villa and Wigan, with QPR already ###### and Reading just lacking the quality to play in the league.
Bad loss for Everton today - they were overall outplayed by Norwich, it was a deserved result for the Canaries. I think Everton are counting on Fellaini to do too much - he's both their primary target and creator in the final third and the heart of their midfield defense in the center of the pitch. He's good, but that's just too much responsibility for one man.
Just in time to take over from Mourinho!
I'm sure Sven is available.
I think West Ham are a bit of a sleeping giant, myself. Well, not a giant like THE MIGHTY HOTSPUR, but they can be as good as Everton are now. It's a well supported club and the Davids have a lot of money. David Gold has a higher net worth than John Henry by himself. With Allardyce they'll stay up but they'll never do much more than that. I think if they really wanted to keep Big Sam around they'd have offered him a contract with a relegation release. All their talk about let's wait and see reminds me of the Redknapp extension talk last year.
Now you're making me think of Henry IV, Part 1.
27. Alaba 9.Mandzukic 25.Müller 22.Starke 39.Kroos
Yeah, I'm starting to thinking Pep made a pretty smart decision.
On a similar note re: former MLSers (*), Kei Kamara came on as a sub and did quite well -- put one header a foot wide, had a mostly-harmless-but-still-neat half-volley bicycle kick and scored the equalizer.
I also had to laugh at the commentator continually referring to Kamara's previous time spent at "the MLS". Somewhere Gab Marcotti is shaking his head...
(*) I think he's on loan, actually.
They rotated him and two other midfielders (I can't remember who) up high last week as well. The kitchen sink is next.
"Ba! in the area! Ba!! Collects! BA!!!!! Loses possession..."
The problem for Johnson is that he doesn't seem to be able to distinguish real chances, half chances, and not much of anything, quickly enough. The one big chance in this game, when Aguero was one on one with Cech from the left wing, would have been a good point for an announcer like Johnson to go big, but he didn't pick up on it quickly enough. He's gone bigger on three or four other half chances already.
And am I crazy, or has Jack Rodwell been having a brilliant game for City? He's doing a defensive job, and he's regularly making dangerous, direct, intelligent runs from midfield.
Chelsea fans have seen this coming for weeks. Rafa has been burning him out in FA/Europa League matches like you said and he obviously has no energy in this match. Rafa is losing this game with his poor decision not to rest Mata and his ill-fated decision to start Ramires over Moses when we obviously need width.
It's still a four-back; Ramires is just playing at right back (David Luiz in the midfield). (EDIT: not that it matters by now, of course)
It's garbage time, so it's NASRI TIME!
I think your right though Ramires is roving a bit, BECAUSE HE ISN'T A RIGHT BACK!. Ideally I wouldn't want another in-season change, but I'd take John Terry Player-Manager right now.
Correction: The Diop red is in the very same minute he appears. I'm going to youtube for clips on that one.
That's fair. I think those players are arguably better, and they are creative/attacking players so in that respect I think there's some merit.
I think that RVP and Rooney are the best forwards in the world though. Hernandez and Nani are really good goal scorers, too. That's more what is so impressive about them - they just seem to be able to create huge chances without dominating the game, and they seem to always convert them. Munich is pretty crazy though - Mario Gomez on the bench for them is insane. I don't know if he just hasn't been fit, but I think very highly of him.
I don't know. I don't want to know. Boo!
LET'S GO BRADFORD!
That's a total -1, right there ...
Looking it up, Swansea would be the first Welsh club to win an English cup competition since 1927.
(not that I'm against Swansea, even if their lineup and performance against Liverpool in advance of this match left a #### taste in my mouth ...)
If Swansea was making better choices in the final third, this could be 3 or 4 nil right now.
It's the Capitol One League Cup against Bradford; I'm having trouble spotting the special nature of the moment ...
[edit] I get why Dyer would want to take the penalty, what I don't get it why he was so pissy and unconsoleable about it ... I mean, DeGuzman did *win* the penalty, and, after all, it is only a ####### League Cup Final against lesser opposition ...
Shut up and go eat your prawn sandwich then.
UEFA Europa League Third Qualifying Round
The League Cup place is the worst of the English EL places, so they will most likely have to travel somewhere odd.
Maybe they'll face the New Saints! Which would be a Welsh team representing England facing a Welsh team that plays in England!
Sod off, tosser.
So, any .X multiplier would probably only apply to total goal situations like Messi/Mueller. Btw, the final score in today's Cagliari-Torino game would be 3.4 - 2.7 under such a system. An open goal for Torino wins it...hmmm....I kinda like it.
2012 Liverpool 3-0, 1-0 FC Gomel aka FK Homel
2011 Stoke City 1-0, 1-0 Hajduk Split
2010 Liverpool 2-0, 2-0 FK Rabotnicki
2009 Fulham 3-0, 3-0 FK Vetra
The ideal scenario would be
2013 Swansea City 1-1, 2-2 Airbus UK Broughton
Airbus UK Broughton are currently second in the Welsh League. First place is TNS, the team literally on the English border, and second place is Broughton, which is about four miles from England and basically in Merseyside.
If you're bothered by penalties why not just count goals from play? Most of the credit for a penalty goal should go to the victim/diver after all.
EDIT: I see, you want it to count it like that in games. No thanks.
For record keeping purposes I feel the same about goals and PKs that I do about homers and steroids. If you put the ball in the net it counts as a goal.
I think he was drunk. Or high. Yeah, maybe high. He was absolutely awful.
RE: Gus Johnson
I've heard him three times now and today was easily his worst performance. It seemed as though he took the criticism to heart and responded by trying to "learn" the game. So, instead of simply calling the action, he was now offering tidbits on players and situations, at least once or twice being blatantly wrong (err...I meant Belgian. Yeah Hazard is Belgian even though he played in France.). Further, he called EVERY single pass receipt by a full back in the opposition half an overlapping run, often times when the fullback was simply pushing forward. He also failed to see obvious actions, such as Mata not moving on a ball because he was in an offside's position, not because he wasn't ready. Another example was his claiming that Rodwell's (I think it was Rodwell) shot had too much power when it was clear to anyone watching the broadcast that the shot was actually on target but had been saved by Cech. Just an awful performance.
He needs to stop trying to add insight to the game. He doesn't know it and sounds silly when he does. Simply call the action as you see it. He doesn't have to say Clichy's on an overlapping run; you don't even know what one is. Simply say "to Clichy" and be done with it. Once that's done you can turn it down about 6 notches and you might have a shot of being an acceptable PBP man.
Because he doesn't know enough about what he's watching?
There is no way that someone with as little knowledge of soccer or as little experience of broadcasting it would get a regular gig as a TV play by play man in, say, England. The TV guys usually do years on Radio first.
Based on the rest of the paragraph that followed, I can only think that this first sentence was either a typo or complete sarcasm ...
It was an honest question. He's been calling MLS games on the radio and, unless he's a liar, he's been making an intense study of the sport the last couple of years, yet he sounds like he just started following the sport last week. It's just strange to me. He's an experienced broadcaster so I just don't get why he can't do a better job.
Lastly, he probably hasn't bad much time at all with his color men so part of the problem with his bringing out the best of them is likely a simple function of familiarity or lack thereof. Of course Johnson is also about as far from stuff upper lip English as you are going to get. I can easily picture Barton spending 90 minutes giving him the "what the #### are you all worked up about" smirk he gives Wynalda on occasion.
I think criticizing him for being loud and boisterous is not really a fair criticism of performance, more one of style. Fox hired him for that style so they obviously think its the way to go.
I don't think the problem is that his style makes the misreads more obvious, it's that he's making more misreads.
"I don't use it because I don't believe in it," Villas-Boas said. "Sometimes certain tasks might not achieve specific physical data that rewards premium efficiency in terms of a physical performance.
That last one is probably the platonic ideal of a Villas-Boas sentence. That is some kind of jibberish.
Just one guess...
Speak for yourself, peat muncher.
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