"Estoy triste": The pouty, not impressed, hands-on-hips Other Teams' Thread [R]

Being 9 games into the season I think determines how we should take it (LPB still the main threat).

LPb won 21* straight league games starting late September, 2011.
Won 12* straight starting early October, 2010.
Won 18* straight starting January, 2010.
Won 17, tied 1, lost 0 starting December, 2008.

* = excluding clasicos.

 

That's impressive from LPB.

 

Sorry, el-cap, I tried; but to do so, I apparently have to have an account on Facebook. Which I don't.

 

Pablo Hernandez, ex-Valencia player, scores near the end for Swansea to earn a 1-1 draw with Chelsea.

 

Yes and no. No because they don't play Barca anytime soon so they could easily run off a 13-17 game winning streak now that they only have to worry about the "cannon fodder 18" in the league until March-April. Atletico have a 0.0% chance of doing that. In fact, they are part of the cannon fodder.

 

haha... Ibra with a red-card and PSG lose at home.

Is there another striker in the world that gets more red cards than this overrated one? Even Rooney has calmed down a bit in that regard.

Title-race totally back on in Italy. Looks like Germany might have the worst title race among the top UEFA leagues this season despite everyone always drooling over the competitiveness of the Bundesliga.

 

Valencia win 2-0

Messi, Ronaldo and Falcao held goal-less!

 

lol Yeah, I'm guilty of that. Will always be given history in recent years (especially 2009). Last season's race was a fairly one-sided affair too but it was Dortmund, not Bayern, who set the record for most points ever in a Bundesliga season. Still, we're only ten rounds in and if BATE Borisov can upend Bayern in Europe then there's hope yet domestically.

 

Neymar with a hattrick today, taking him to 53 goals for the 2012 calendar year. Easy to see why he is such a big star at the moment, really hope we sign him up next summer.

 

I'm impress that Atletico finally dropped point

 

We have our revenge chance on final match day

 

Most of those goals were in the state championships and in Brazil friendlies against teams like Iraq and China. Obciously he is insanely talented, but he hasn't really hadmuch impact for club or country this year. 2011 was a way better year for him.

 

Yea, he didnt have much impact in club world cup final, olympic final and libertadores semi. He has played against Argentina 3 times and the only time he scored when it was against Argentina B recently and from penalty spot.

Players like Martin Palermo scored 91 goals in 124 for Boca and 145 goals in 280 matches in his second stint, impressive stats but only 25 goals in 105 matches during his tenure in Spanish football. Just compare Robinho stats during his time in Santos to his stats in AC milan and Real madrid, it come up short. Aguero 100 goals in la liga weighted more than 100 goals in south american league.

 

True, but how many of these Brazilian superstars put up such numbers in South American leagues at age 19/20? Neymar is a really special player and he has grown so much in the past two years. He's improving his game everywhere, from his shooting to his pressing, dribbling, defending, creativity, decision making, etc. I started watching him back when Santos made it to the Libertadores knockout stages in 2011 and he has impressed me a lot to see how far he has come since. He still has so much to work on because he has been marked out of games completely on some occasions but with the desire he has to improve himself and become a better player, he can't go wrong. I wish he comes to Barca next summer but who would make place? I don't want any of Villa, Alexis, or Pedro to go.

 

Neymar is a talent but he needs to move or he is not going to improve. The Brasilian league is more of a open game, and when defenses collapse on him he struggles, Velez youngster Peruzzi has locked him down a couple times already. So I think he has done all he could do in Brasil, it is time to see how much his star shines when he is in a different league.

 

I hope specially not Villa or Pedro, they are too important for us.