"Too much humility is vanity" | The alternate universe that is The Other Teams Thread [R]

Cordoba gets an away-goal against Real Sociedad. Looks like it will be the Segunda division team to face Barca in the next round of the CdR. Lead 3-1 on aggregate.

 

Well that works out nicely for Barca I guess, assuming no 3 goal burst from Real Sociedad in the next 25 minutes. Cordoba is a wonderful city to visit in Andalusia, same great Moorish melding into Catholic architecture w/o the crowds of Granada and Sevilla, great food too.

EDIT - Now sealed up for Cordoba with another away goal, Real Sociedad won't be scoring 4 in 15 minutes. Cordoba played Barca B in October and beat them in Cordoba 2-1, but they sit below Barca B in the table.

 

Could you imagine if he went to Bayern last summer? Right now Bayern are 11-1-1 with 38 goals scored and 5 against. Amazing domination which would have totally been attributed to Mourinho if he was managing them. As it is, the players are getting the credit. Also too late for Mourinho to go there if he wants the media to link any "coincidental" improvement in the team he takes-over (which is something he has built his entire reputation on).

 

We are all hoping pep would take the Bayern helm once JH retires this year..
Pep > Mou

I think the 3 egos at the top would tone down more for pep then they would Mou.. I foresee a lot of clashes between Mou and FO after about 3 months

I really hope pep doesn't go to Chelsea or something like that

 

Same here, specially after that derbi has been that extremely one-sided in the past years. Just imagine the meltdown all over Real Madrid if Atleti manages to beat them at their own stadium.

Can't wait.

 

I've discussed it on our boards and yours a few times,
https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/...t-leg-4-17-12-r.1933879/page-39#post-25540796
https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/la-liga-j35-el-clásico-fc-barcelona-v-real-madrid-21-april-2012-r.1935521/page-12#post-25571849
and I agree with Wilson, but the truth is that we gamble that giving him offensive freedom will result in an advantage for us. In order to make an attacking run the right-back needs to leave Ronaldo up the pitch, so he'd better be a very good right-back. Most of the time it works, and sometimes it doesn't. It's a calculated risk.

You might recall another player who didn't track back often and played on the left wing who was also considered for WPOTY:

 

track back? clearly they're run out of reason haha​

 

Argh!

 

I think Wilson is guilty of over-complicating things. Madrid got 78 points the season before Ronaldo joined. Okay, they kind of threw away a couple of games at the end of that season, but at best they were headed for a point tally in the mid-80's in La Liga. Since then they've averaged 96. And it's not because of Kaka.

Meanwhile, Man United haven't quite reached the level they were at from 2006-9.

 

?? We don't usually play with both of them, it's one or the other.

 

Footballing-wise, there are many things wrong with LPB, but way more things right. Cristiano Ronaldo is by far their best player. Their on-pitch problems aren't down to how C-Ron has played, although obviously at the time of a crisis more could be asked from everyone.

 

Looks like Athetic Bilbao fielded a B-team in Israel, apart from Llorente. I'm not even sure the A-team traveled as I don't recognize many names on their bench either.

 

Not a surpise since they are already mathematically eliminated and, to my knowledge, Europa has no requirements to field certain # of first teamers on the pitch at all time (unlike Copa del Rey). This is another reason to be happy we are resting half our starters today.

Levante looking to not advance at the moment (need 2 2nd half goals to advance), but thankfully Valencia is on track to advance (as they seem the toughest possible opponent in Real Madrid's corner of the CdR draw before a likely semifinal with Barca in January).

 

Good on Levante, came back with 3 2nd half goals and now look to be through 4-2. Chelsea in another scoreless draw so far in game 2 of the Rafa era.

 

Corinthians to win the FIFA Club World Cup.

 

Todo Poderoso!!!

 

Well if you think PK are less impressive than lets say for example tap-ins coming from open play then that is your personal opinion... or even free kicks.. Everybody has a taste. But that is not even my point, because if you are going to start counting goals on their impressiveness level then that is completely different.

It seems you are the one missing the point. My point, and it is without bashing on Messi (don't get your nuts in a tie), who I do think is the best player in the planet, does not need you to hide or twist the facts to show that he is the best football player; and it ends up not only boosting Messi, but downgrading the other players in the League.

Goals are facts, they either happen or they don't, don't twist the facts too boost up what you think it is more impressive. It becomes annoying; as if the other goals are less meaningful, even if that is not the point you are trying to portray.

 

So many possible ways to answer to this lol.

 

No, not my personal opinion. It is fact that a kick from twice as far (at least) with 6-10 defenders between the ball and the goal is more difficult.

We are talking about a statistic for individuals here. Thus I think the purpose of the stat in the first place is to reflect individual qualities. If two defenders score 10 goals each in a season, but one got 9 penalties it doesn't mean he is a great attacking defender. He's (probably) just a good PK taker. Nothing more, nothing less. However the other one with 0 penalties and 10 goals most likely is a dangerous player in attack. So although the goals are equally important for the team, they say something different about the attacking qualities of the individuals.

No need for you to get personal. Its just my way of illustrating that Messi has been able to maintain his goal-scoring pace this season without the benefit of his teammates and the referees earning a lot of penalties for him.