4/12/05 CL Quarters, Leg 2: FC Bayern München v. Chelsea FC [R]

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[yasik19]

you beat me by about 30 seconds, I was going to start this thread in about a minute.

Well, Bayern feel really confident they can do it and i think they have the team to do it, but it won't happen.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=330344&cc=5739

I just think Mourinho knows exactly how to beat a team and his tactics almost never fail. I see 2 possibilites for this result. Either Bayern wins 2-1 and we advance on aggregate goals, or Chelsea win 2-0. We score an early goal, forcing the German side to constantly attack, and late in the second half, we get a good counter attack going and score the second. Come on Chelsea!

[DemmahoM]

Don't expect Bayern to make the same mistakes they made in the first leg, we got Demichilies back which will no doubt strengthen our defence...


Also with Makaay back and possibly Pizzaro you can be sure Bayern will be attacking on full force.

The only thing I fear about Chelsea is their counter attacks, let's just hope our defence can handle them.

My prediction:

3-1 for Bayern.


BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN!!!!!

[yasik19]

Don't expect Bayern to make the same mistakes they made in the first leg, we got Demichilies back which will no doubt strengthen our defence...


Also with Makaay back and possibly Pizzaro you can be sure Bayern will be attacking on full force.

The only thing I fear about Chelsea is their counter attacks, let's just hope our defence can handle them.

My prediction:

3-1 for Bayern.


BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN!!!!!

I don't expect Bayern to be making the same mistakes, i expect them to make new ones. Makaay and Pizzaro are good, but nothing we haven't faced before. We faced Eto'o, Ronhaldinho, Henry , RvN, Rooney, and few others. Nulifying the strikers of the oppoosition is not a new concept to Chelsea.

[sstarch1]

I swear i will never speak of this again. But i was just soo upset, if Chelsea finished 4-1, this game would be out of reach.
Now a 3-1 will give BM a win, something i think they are capable of doing, especially with the return of some of their.....better..players.
But one thing i do like is that me tied over the weekend. I think Chelsea will come out fired up and quite angry.
Be aware of an angry Drogba, he eats little german defenders for breakfast.

[Bluto11]

1-1

Bayern scores first. Chelsea level in the 2nd half

[Eddie26]

Don't expect Bayern to make the same mistakes they made in the first leg, we got Demichilies back which will no doubt strengthen our defence...

[NICEPHORAS MODE ON]
And why not? Bayern didn't make so many mistakes as Mourinho was just genius to see that we could own you with long balls played off to attackers. It worked, you guys never adapted. JM won't do the same thing this time, he'll do something else to make your team look like a bunch of fools.

Also with Makaay back and possibly Pizzaro you can be sure Bayern will be attacking on full force.

We have the best defense in the world. Better than most national teams. I am not afraid and neither are the boys, trust me. Pizzaro and Makaay strike fear in no one but Arsenal. (Sorry Bluto)

The only thing I fear about Chelsea is their counter attacks, let's just hope our defence can handle them.

Good, then you won't care when we're scoring at will again on your team. You defense doesn't have the pace to keep up with our wingers or Drogba.

My prediction:

3-1 for Bayern.

Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one...you might have two.


BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN!!!!!

You're no where near as good as the Barca trolls we had. Take some hints from them. Though after we knock you out too, do us the favor of stomping on your balls by coming back here and taking it like a man, unlike those panty wastes who trolled for a week, lost and were never heard of again.
[NICEPHORAS MODE OFF]

[nicephoras]

Eddie, just so you know, there are royalty fees involved. ;)

[yasik19]

I can't wait for this game. I get so excited for the CL, i just can't help it. There is certainly something about playing the giants of Europe that gives me goose bumps. I am becoming very nervous as each match day comes closer. I have already spent the entire day yesterday and this morning on predictiing scores, formations, strategies in my head. It's like Chelsea occupies a large part of my brain and it becomes very distracting for me to pay attention to work, girlfriend, daily chores and other non-Chelsea related life crap. Something needs to be done, or i think i'll go nuts. How many more minutes till the kick-off?

[CanadaBlue]

It's like Chelsea occupies a large part of my brain and it becomes very distracting for me to pay attention to work, girlfriend, daily chores and other non-Chelsea related life crap.


The true sign of a *real* fan. :eek: :rolleyes:

[Bluto11]

[NICEPHORAS MODE ON]

We have the best defense in the world. Better than most national teams. I am not afraid and neither are the boys, trust me. Pizzaro and Makaay strike fear in no one but Arsenal. (Sorry Bluto)




tis true

[TerminalVertigo]

my prediction is a 2-2 tie

i figure bayern will score chelsea will get two and bayern will pull one back.

all we have to do is score, and i dont see that being much of a problem.

blueisthecolor:)

[ZANI]

Don't expect Bayern to make the same mistakes they made in the first leg, we got Demichilies back which will no doubt strengthen our defence...
If you got Michelin we got Goodyear.


Also with Makaay back and possibly Pizzaro you can be sure Bayern will be attacking on full force.

Is Makaay, the dude that just hangs idle upfront all game?

The only thing I fear about Chelsea is their counter attacks, let's just hope our defence can handle them.

My prediction:

3-1 for Bayern.

BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN BAYERN!!!!!

There will be no counter attack. There will shock and awe.

[rayray]

chelsea 5 - 3 bayern
maka's gonna find the net!!!

wool hat on two assistants

[yasik19]

chelsea 5 - 3 bayern
maka's gonna find the net!!!

wool hat on two assistants

LOL. :D The odds of that score are as high as Makelele finding the net.

(If Maka means Makelele and by "finding the net" you don't mean locating it on the goal posts.)

[rayray]

lol - glad someone saw the humor in it - my post...he's (maka)
yet to score for chelsea? if so thought he should do so in munich

do think there could be loads of goals though - can't wait to watch!

[gaijin]

Some rather thoughtful insight, as I predict what could happen;

Before the game the regular Chelsea fans apparently won't be allowed into the ground on account that the UK is going for a more 'sexy' look, in a bid to sell the London 2012 Olympic bid to our German cousins.

'The rather drab and moody look of West Londoners isn't going to cut it, says British Olympic committee chairman, Barbara Cassani. And I mean, 'blue'? That is so Barcelona 92! We need a more glamorous approach. We need to sell this thing to the world! And what better? Than an army of page 3 lovelies, attending the match?

At first the move appeared to be working better than imagined, well for Chelsea anyway, as the thousands of male Bayern supporters were so preoccupied with the totty in the far corner of the stadium - they forget that they are at a football game and simply turn their attentions off the field.

The Bayern team are stunned. They can't believe it. So they have to sit in a stadium full of drooling and ogling young men. However, Owen Hargreaves is unflustered as he has been to many a Beyonce concert, and attempts to take on the Chelsea XI.

Incredibly, lil' Owen is works wonders against all eleven players and somehow manages to nick a goal for Bayern with 4 minutes to go.

Abramovich is having none of this, so he secretly presses a button under his chair, which suddenly, springs all the Page 3 lovelies into life. That damn oligarch was conspiring with the London Olympic Bid all along! The army of eye candy, pounce rhythmically to their feet and whip out some Mr Abramovich's home-made Kalashnikov rifles and let rip on poor old Owen standing on the half-way line.

Mourinho, on the other hand is secretly watching the game, through the aid of his privately owned space-station, orbiting the earth. Showing no mercy from his view in his space station he uses his laser cannon via the ability of a hand-held remote that magically spell out commands in the sky to the Chelsea players, whilst at the same-time seemingly blinding all delegates of UEFA at the same time.

A scene of carnage ensues, blood shed, babes and burnt retinas. All the Bayern team have but all succumbed to defeat. John Terry then scores a 67 yard overhead kick in the last minute and the German side are just flabbergasted.

'We saw nothing offensive", declares UEFA spokesman William Gaillard.

"Well, you saw nothing at all", responds the Mirror and goes on to produce a lovely Bayern montage of all the Germans airbrushed into their lovely lederhosen with the rather catchy title -

"Tons of buns with guns, shun the huns."

Genius.

I'm sorry, I’m sorry Its in bad taste, I know - the anti-German and Women defamation league has already accused me of speaking to the pro-German and Women defamation league at the half-way point of writing this post. Needless to say, BigSoccer has confirmed that I was making it up and I will be banned from the Chelsea forum for two match threads.

[miensoccer]

I think Chelsea will win again
there is nothing stop Blue Fly

back in game: Chelsea will kick BM by long ball & counter attack

[Clan]

If you got Michelin we got Goodyear.




Is Makaay, the dude that just hangs idle upfront all game?



There will be no counter attack. There will shock and awe.

Zani at his best :D

[gomez]

I'll go with 3-2 Chelsea. Due to the two goal deficit, the tactics Bayern would probably want to use against Chelsea in any other game won't work for this one. Bayern have to score at least two goals which means they have to attack and attack some more. This plays right into the hands of Chelsea's counter. They will be forced to play the game we want and they will be punished for it.