¡Hala Juve! - The 2018-2019 Other Players (and Teams) thread

Actually, Sport claims that LaLiga are seriously considering allowing Leganes permission to replace him.

 

lol Infinite loop.

The stupidity of the rule really comes out in this particular case because Barca weren't even hit with any major injury crisis. One guy got injured. Their forward shortage is 80% Barca's own fault. How many forwards are on loan elsewhere or recently sold? 5, 6? smh

 

Leipzig might be kicking themselves later for these missed chances/opportunities for an away goal or two.

 

HT

Spurs 0-0 Leipzig

Yellows
TOT: Lo Celso
RBL: Sabitzer, Werner

Atalanta 2-0 Valencia
Hateboer 16'
Ilicic 42'

Yellows - None

 

Yup, if our transfer strategy for this past January was based on the assumption that Dembele would be healthy for the 2nd half of this season, then that would have been the dumbest part of the strategy (which is saying something).

 

Tottenham playing with no Kane or Son. Very little firepower up front. They can't rely on Lucas Moura to score hat tricks...

 

I bet their replacement scores more than ours

 

57' 0-1 to Leipzig. Werner PK.

Also 57' 3-0 to Atalanta. Freuler.

 

Lloris with a great save. Werner is such a smart player. Never watched him but his demeanor reminds me of Thomas Muller. He probably has more raw talent though.

 

Bulldozing Valencia. 4-0.

 

4-1...Cheryshev.

 

If Valencia can get one more they are totally back in it.

 

FT

Spurs 0-1 Leipzig

Atalanta 4-1 Valencia

 

Still on track for 0 La Liga teams in the semis.

 

^ Still on track for 0 La Liga teams in the quarters. LOL

I told you all it could happen.

 

Did anyone disagree with you though?

What would be more surprising is if 0 or 1 English teams reach the quarterfinals. We're a looong way from that, I realize, but certainly possible to see it happening (at least the scenario that just 1 advance past this round).

 

Nah, using two or maybe three games in order to skew the argument your way isn’t how things work.

My sample size is much bigger and therefore the better way to make a judgement. Plenty of Suarez’ goals come from goal fests. Look it up. They’re always welcome but not exactly season-defining moments. Games where we drop points partially because he goes missing or tends to miss easier goals are too easily overlooked.

The top forwards in Europe list by Squawka is also factual. It’s based on per minute goal involvement, that’s goals and assists as well as level of impact in the respective team’s title aspirations. No Suarez to be seen. Those are also facts.

Funny you should mention “in general” cause in general Suarez has simply been bad in CL in terms of being a productive number 9. Unless you take a convenient sample size that is. Another fact.

Anyway, this is the last time I get drawn into a back and forth about Suarez. The facts are there, believe whatever you feel like you need to.

Funny thing is that this makes me seem like I don’t rate Suarez at all, which is not true. I do rate him, I just don’t believe him being healthy would have been season-defining. Sorry. Our problems run deeper than that.

 

Werner looked a real good player ... he did a fabulous dummy in the spurs penalty box - pure class

 

The truth is, everyone's stats are just better in goal fests.

If you exclude games that Barca scored 4 or more goals in this season, the entire team has only 22 goals in games Suarez played. Suarez scored 8 of those 22 goals. 5 out of 15 in La Liga and 3 out of 7 CL goals.

So now we're talking about a full set of data.

Not sure why you're getting so upset. It's a discussion.

 

Lmao, who says I’m upset? Wouldn’t it get tedious for you having to rehash the same thing over and over again? That’s just it, I’m done doing that, simple as. It’s a pointless discussion cause everyone will look at the argument however they want to.

Also, I think a goal fest consists of a game where a team wins by 3 or more goals. If you take that into consideration Suarez has scored a total of 7 goals in goal fests this season. Take that sum off his total of 11 league goals this season that’s 4 goals left in “non goal fests”.

Again, you can choose to twist and turn the facts however you see fit. Maybe even I’m guilty of that in your eyes cause you consider a goal fest 4 or more goals.

It’s just a pointless discussion. At the end of the day that Squawka list is all you need to know where Suarez stands and that obviously is tough for some to accept.

 

Please don’t put words in my mouth. I never said Suarez ONLY scored in blowouts. Try reading again.