"From champs to chumps... in the same year" | The Other Teams Thread

we played them in 2005 and we lost in there.. but we win on aggregate

 

I really hope so ..they been bugging us for a while now and we have to break the jinx..


the only teams i see winning this CL are

Barca
Bayern
BVB

in that order... i am not seeing anyone else can compete this year.

 

The scandal was actually not in their favor cause otherwise they would have won more titles in last 15 years, especially during Vierri and Ronaldo era.

 

Nah, not Dortmund. They don't have the depth, the others do.

 

An EPL defense would never concede 8 goals . . .

 

lol He was updating for the many gloryhunting fanboys Chelsea had picked up since last May. Little does he know most of them jumped ship in the past 2-3 weeks.

 

Terrible memories, jfcule. Was having a very good day until I came on here and saw that. The days of the Gaspart still very fresh in the mind, you don't forget the bad times either unfortunately.
One of the most frustrating days ever as a Barca fan for me.

Apparently Pato and Robinho are set to leave Milan next month and they won't be going for Drogba or Balotelli to replace them either. Looking like they'll be real short ahead of the Round of 16 tie, although I doubt they don't get any replacements if those two leave.

 

Who doesnt love the drama

Of the nearly 100,000 participants in an online fan poll by the Spanish sports daily Marca, 82 percent said Mourinho should be fired.
“Iker doesn’t need to be punished to play better,” the former Madrid goalkeeper Cesar Sánchez said. “This only brings to a boil the atmosphere of conflict that Madrid already has.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/sports/soccer/real-madrid-coach-draws-ire.html?_r=0

 

Manchester United leaks even more goals than we do.

 

Man U defense =

 

3-3

EDIT: The Mexican Poacher puts Man U up 4-3.

Elsewhere, City falls.

 

City's form in EPL now is becoming similar to their CL form. I dont think Mnacini could fix it.

 

Hopefully Man U can do this against LPB. They have to defend better though.

 

As poor as RM looks right now, i still see them beating ManU

 

Still a good 2 months away so too early to say. Both Man Utd and Real Madrid's form could change drastically in that time. 2 months ago LPB were looking stronger than Barca and now look at them! So everything can change in that amount of time.

 

Well, they were mising Vidic and Rafael today, two starters in the defense right there.

Not to mention they didn't have Anderson, Rooney, and Kagawa either, and still scored 4 goals. Their depth in attack is fantastic, it just depends on whether they're red hot come February or not.

They were? When was this?

 

In October. They were dominating Barca at Camp Nou in the first 30 minutes of the league clasico. LPB were also destroying everybody in the 2-3 weeks leading up to that clasico, while Barca was skimming-by with dramatic last minute winning goals. Then Alves and Puyol got scary injuries (while Pique was already out).

All that was a little over 2 months ago.

 

The only teams they destroyed in that time were Depor and Mallorca, the latter mainly doing it to themselves by gifting LPB two goals. They beat Zaragoza I believe by a big scoreline but didn't look impressive, the scoreline favored them a lot that day. Athletic, well, they would have crushed them in any form with the way they opened up.

And the Sevilla game was a very difficult game but we won at least while they didn't.

The rest of their wins were much closer and even in performance. I'd say we were more impressive in October and November than LPB were overall, just not defensively which is normal when considering who we were missing.