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

Are they ever going to let that go

Great night for us, nightmare for Ramos

 

Sweden's most prestigious literature prize, the August prize, will announce their winner on November 26.
They describe one of the nominated books as "a sensitive and bitter description plunging the reader from the stands to the pitch and to Zlatan's world."

Yes, folks, Zlatan Ibrahimovic could win a literary prize for his autobiography "I, Zlatan".

The book's co-author, Swedish journalist David Lagercrantz:
"Zlatan is a tough guy. He describes himself as a warrior. It is true that it is hard to have him as a team-mate. Zlatan needs to be nasty to be at the maximum. He told me he plays best when he's like that. His team-mates need to learn that from him, they must understand. This is a very complex character. When it is known, he is a great guy. He likes to laugh."

Let's look at a couple of selections from the masterpiece, shall we.

On page whatever we find this wonderful work of literature where he speaks of his arrival at the Football Club of Barcelona...

For our next selection of this literary work of art let's turn to page whogivesafukc, where we find The Author Ibra eloquently describing the 4-1 victory away to Villarreal, a match where he came off the bench with five minutes remaining to replace Bojan...

Sounds like a winner to me!



"Look, we won Liga and Champions before you arrived and we'll win them after you leave, you selfish idiotic prick."

 

Spartak gets back on track in the early match, beating Benfica 2-1. A win over Celtic would put us 5 points above Celtic in 2nd and 6 above Spartak, Benfica, who seemed like the most likely 2nd squad to advance, are sitting on 1 point in 3 games.

I will guess that Benfica reverses the result vs. Spartak at home in the 4th match day which would leave both them with 4 and 3 points. In that case their only hope would be that we sweep Celtic and a wide open battle for 2nd place results, with Barca likely starting bench players and B teamers in the last 2 matches (plus Messi if, you know, he insists on playing and winning another CL scoring title).

 

Spartak beat Benfica in the other match in Barca's CL group. Benfica look poor this season by their usual standards. At the risk of being proven wrong later, this is a real easy group!

 

Aw hell, United completed the comeback.
Interesting scores in other grounds, though.
Valencia managed to do what Bayern couldn't, win away to BATE.
Only a draw but that Danish outfit must regard it as a historic result.
And Waxtap continuing to be impressive in CL group stages. Has a defending CL winner ever failed to advance out of the group stage the following season?

 

Valencia top of their group, and their next 2 matches are at home!

Juve in serious trouble! Best case scenario pretty much has them needing to win in Ukraine on the final match-day. But they still have work to do before their situation is even that "good".

 

^ hmm.. now I'm wondering if the defending European champion ever failed to reach the round of 16 in the European Cup?

Either way, I'll be cheering hard for Shakhtar in matchday 4. A draw there would be good enough. Then Juve can deliver the KO blow in Italy.

 

In the old European Cup?
Off the top of my head, in 78/79 Liverpool were knocked out by Nottingham Forest in the first round, which was Round of 32.

EDIT:
Complete list of defending champions failing to reach Round of 16:
- 1967/68 Celtic knocked out by Dynamo Kiev 3-2 aggregate
- 1970/71 Feyenoord knocked out by UTA Arad (ROM) on away goals (1-1 aggregate)
- 1978/79 Liverpool knocked out by Nottingham Forest 2-0 aggregate
- 1980/81 Nottingham Forest knocked out by CSKA Sofia 2-0 aggregate

 

45'
Joaquin penalty hits crossbar and over goal.
To be fair, the penalty call looked very suspicious. Constant judged to have fouled Joaquin (I think) but it looked fairly clean to me. So perhaps justice in the end.
Halftime
Malaga 0-0 Milan

 

64' GOL!
Nice soft lob by Iturra over the Milan defence, Joaquin runs on and fires first time right footed past outstretched arm of Amelia and off right post into goal.
Malaga 1-0

 

Final
Málaga 1-0 Milan
Good match, especially after the goal. A couple of worrying moments towards the end when El Shaarawy and Mexes missed golden chances to equalize.
Málaga look to be in the same position as Barca as a win at the San Siro coupled with a non-win by Zenit would cement first place in the group.
Málaga ........... 9 pts
Milan ............. 4
Zenit .............. 3
Anderlecht ..... 1