Real Madrid CF vs Olympiacos|UCL|24-10-07[R]

I suggest people to watch the 1-3 in Bremen.

Olympiakos has set off to a bad start in the League, but Bremen gave them a new start and they haven't looked back since then.


It will take a better performance than yesterday to win this.

 

That's still undecided apparently, until Schuster gets to hear Robinho and Baptista and then decide what to do with them, at least according to the creative keyboards of the Marca writers.

Olympiakos will probably play with a 5 man midfield like they did in Germany.Galletti, Ledesma, Djordjevic, and Lua Lua as a striker or attacking midfield player will be starting in the midfield area the way it currently looks like.

 

I didn't say they made it up, my opinion is they just reported whatever the Brazilian gossip press was reporting.

It's old news to me either way.

I know that many people want Robinho out for a month to "teach him a lesson", but at the end of the day, i want the team to be as strong as possible.

Leaving two more or less quality players out because of an off field issue that could be resolved off field, is doing nobody any favors, unless we consider giving Balboa some CL action, because right now, he is ahead of Higuain in terms of being a solution for the right side.

 

He even helps out the attack and helped in creating a goal against Werder.

He still does occasionally get turned silly by players, and still runs like a mad bull at players earning yellow cards, but i would say that he's played half decent so far.

I wouldn't expect him to play terrible, nor would i somehow want it.

According to the newspapers in Greece, Kovacevic will not start so they will probably play with Lua Lua as a striker, and the lot of midfield players behind him, the way they started in Germany.

The report also mentions that Olympiakos wants to go for an early goal, after studying the Espanyol game.

Random comments:

Lua Lua:"It's going to be a difficult game, but after i watched them play Espanyol, i have to say that they can be defeated."

Raul Bravo":Real Madrid could be suffering, but even in their worst day, thay can turn the game around with one move."

Kovacevic:"Our goal is to not lose in the Bernabeu."

 

Referee for the match:

Norwegian Tom Henning Ovrebo, who some people might remember from Espanyol - Werder in the UEFA Cup.

 

I have to admit that would be very entertaining.
Maybe do an improvised press conference [SIZE=-1] à la[/SIZE] Eto'o on the hallway screaming "Why the f*** you think they call me La Bestia?!".

 

I haven't weighed in on any of this, but come on, this is a howler. Even if this whole thing was totally innocent, this is just lame, lame lame. I'm old enough to remember when there weren't phones and SMS text messaging available in our pockets 24/7. Hell, I'm old enough to remember when international calling was difficult. (I know it sounds like the stone age, but it was only 15 years ago. ) But there is no excuse in 2007 for this. If I don't call my clients when I'm going to be late or not be able to show up, I don't have clients anymore. I can't even imagine having a job of that importance and (duh! whoopsie! oops!) forgetting to contact them with a game coming up. wtf

With this lame-ass denial, I now totally believe it was a super bon-bon banging party and that 400 condoms were the minimum required. whoo!