Activate Another Lever and Still Lose to a Madrid Remontada - The Small Teams Thread

And results were average for Bayern standards. Getting eliminated by Villarreal is terrible no matter if you have won 6/6 group games. Benitez at RM probably has better winning percentage than Del Bosque or similar because those days 75-80 points were enough to win the league most seasons. Depor even won with 69 points in 2000. So Nagel being Top 4 winning percentage at Bayern all time has same context as Tata Mariano 2013-14 Barca having more points than Rijkaard's double winning 2004-05 team.

Kovac was underwhelming at Bayern, but he won the domestic double in his first season. Carlo's Bayern lost to 2016-17 RM. I don't think Nagel achieved anything more than those two at Bayern.

 

J-Meezy funny stuff I am into stats and end product. But a friend of mine brought up how many players myself I idolize who are legendary but would be crucified in the era of stats. It make me think Zizou, Dhino and Riquelme would be considered time wasters for their lack of an incredible dribble that lead to nothing.

He had a point.

I still put end product over entertainment but I do miss that element of the game that's gone after the whole data science bit came in.

The irony is I like someone like Alain Saint-Maximin of Newcastle. Pure showboater and that's what I miss. But at the same time, I don't want him anywhere near my team lol. It's a conundrum.

 

I think Lucas can help when we are facing a low block and our RB is more about providing width and going forward but Lucas isn't a defender with all respect to the player.

 

Interesting starting XI. Probably should end that experiment, but their odds of qualifying are certainly in the 95-99% range.

 

Germany 2- Belgium 3

Lukaku could have had first 20 minutes hat trick if he weren’t Lukaku!

Florian Wirtz subbed after just 32 mins, completed 9 passes and lost ball 5 times.

 

Nagel got intimidated by Mane'a words apparently.

🚨 Un clash a éclaté entre Sadio Mané et Julian Nagelsmann après la victoire du Bayern face au PSG. 💥

Mané était en colère par son faible temps de jeu.

Le vestiaire bavarois aurait remarqué que le technicien allemand était intimidé par les paroles de son joueur.

(BILD) pic.twitter.com/GqXsbG2McB

— Actu Foot (@ActuFoot_) March 28, 2023

 

Ansu Fati’s dad wants son to join Madrid one day.

 

thats simply terrible. Terrible way to run a team catering to a has been star

 

I think we are past that point, there is no where near as much club loyalty as I would like, but to be honest apart from what might be someone’s “home” club, or a few select quite unique clubs like ourselves, most football clubs are much of the same. But it’s been like this for a long time. Not sure what it is about this particular case that saddens you.

 

Lol. Nothing to see here.

 

They cheated

A man drives into a whorehouse
He is seen taking cash out of the atm
He is seen buying condoms
He goes in
Comes out 30 mins later zipping his pants
He is seen throwing condom wrapper away
a Woman is seen waving saying come back again


@4x4s to the man’s wife. There is no evidence that he definitely had sex with the hooker!!! There is no evidence he cheated!!!!

 

What’s strange is this whole time I kept hearing about these ref reports and lower league scouting but now I’m reading Negreira never actually sold reports (apparently his son does) nor was that his services to Barca at any time. His contract was only verbal and no reports were provided (im assuming this means 3rd grade generated ones reported in the media came from his son… idk). He was also buying gifts for refs…

But yeah, nothing to see here. Just the usual, pay the VP of the ref committee for “lobbying services” and the usual businesses expenses.

 

A young Hazard

 

I mean I’m not like the rest that is 100% conspiracy theorist. I don’t believe everything is rigged. I don’t believe when we win is because we are awesome and when we lose it’s because we were cheated. That’s some Trump loser type of shit And some victim syndrome

BUT when a club is paying the head of the refs…I mean come on.

what @4x4s and Barca supporters don’t comprehend is that the agreement was never gonna be a blatant win us the league ref. There is possible jail time for such corruption. The agreement is clearly carefully influence the matches when you can. A pk here, a non call here, a disallowed goal here and there. Many times maybe Barcelona would have won anyways, maybe they ended up winning by several games, but just a minor touch to give them an edge. Barcelona still had to play games and they still had to win games. Refs weren’t going to do it for them nor could they have no matter how corrupt they are.

but that cheating was done is as clear as day. In races as tight as the ones we’ve had with them and even Atletico, 2 results make a HUGE difference. That’s how despite the cheating, we’ve still been able to win some leagues and even without the cheating, they would have won some too. Just not as many and they clearly stole some from us.

 

No one is really expecting anything but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen

paying the head of an organization definitely has an impact on something.

This is silly. They cheated. They got caught. They got away with it

we move on

but don’t act as if it didn’t happen