CL Midweek

dobsdave

KdjaCL wrote: »

good win for schalke.


kdjac

Indeed, but both teams poor for large periods of the game.

KdjaCL

dobsdave wrote: »

Indeed, but both teams poor for large periods of the game.

Only seen ET, porto didnt finish their dinner so get nowt.

kdjac

eZe^

Anyone notice Dunphy contradict himself again?? Yesterday he was criticising united for not playing Scholes, yet he was mocking the 'wiseguy' that questions Grant for not playing the likes of Essien and Anelka today...

Mr.Nice Guy

So that makes the final eight:

Manchester United
Arsenal
Chelsea
Fenerbahce
Schalke
Roma
Barcelona
Liverpool or Inter

I think it bodes very well for the English teams left in the competition.

Royale with Cheese

Dear Santa/Jesus/whomever it may concern

Can I please have Schalke in the next round. If Schalke are not available i'll take fenerbahce.

Thanks, Arsenal FC

StickyMcGinty

United to get Schalke or Fenerbache in the quarters, they always have rediculous luck in draws.

The english teams will be terrified of drawing each other, nightmare scenario would be two all english games.

~Rebel~

Dunph is hilarious. "Robben is a poor player, Drenthe, ordinary, Gago useless!"

Pepe LeFrits

He is hilarious, as long as he isn't talking about your team!

KdjaCL

Agree with him on drenthe and gago but think robben has to be arsed and Schuster doesnt make him arsed like jose used too.

kdjac

DSB

StickyMcGinty wrote: »

United to get Schalke or Fenerbache in the quarters, they always have rediculous luck in draws.

You can't actually be serious?

PHB

StickyMcGinty wrote: »

United to get Schalke or Fenerbache in the quarters, they always have rediculous luck in draws.

Yeh, defo, like Villa then Arsenal in the FA Cup, then Lyon in the CL when they were the hardest possible team we could ever get. Also something like 16 premiership teams drawn in a row in the FA cup. You can have that luck if you want

I really want one of the weak 3 though, any of the top 5 could beat each other I think.


I think Robben or Ruud would have won the game for Real tonight, but alas that's football.

Extremely happy to see Schalke go through. A nice fan run club doing well is just wants needed in football these days.

eZe^

PHB wrote: »

any of the top 5 could beat each other I think..

Thats when it starts getting exciting, thats the real cup football. Predictions can go out the window because its all about how they play in 2 games... Im getting excited now!

I dont want any English team though... Hahahah.

KdjaCL

PHB wrote: »

I really want one of the weak 3 though, any of the top 5 could beat each other I think.

No offence PHB but thats balls, your there to win it so you want the best teams on the way. Man utd fans should be hoping for barca, they the best team left you could hope for.

Only sad fans want the easy way to the final, Utd in the fa Cup are proof, anytime i in manchester never once heard man utd fans say "bugger" at the fa cup draw, always "bring it on tbh" thats what you want. Play the best, beat the best, be the best.

/slaps PHB stop being a pussy.


kdjac

Pepe LeFrits

I don't see Roma posing any of the premiership sides much of a problem*.

* Roma will now draw Arsenal and beat them, to spite me

Pepe LeFrits

eZe^ wrote: »

Thats when it starts getting exciting, thats the real cup football. Predictions can go out the window because its all about how they play in 2 games... Im getting excited now!

I dont want any English team though... Hahahah.

If Barca had to face one of the English sides though, which would you want it to be?

PHB

KdjaCL wrote: »

No offence PHB but thats balls, your there to win it so you want the best teams on the way. Man utd fans should be hoping for barca, they the best team left you could hope for.

Only sad fans want the easy way to the final, Utd in the fa Cup are proof, anytime i in manchester never once heard man utd fans say "bugger" at the fa cup draw, always "bring it on tbh" thats what you want. Play the best, beat the best, be the best.

/slaps PHB stop being a pussy.


kdjac

**** that ****. Personal abuse, banned

Seriously, why would I want tough draws? I want to win the treble this season. An easy game in the CL would make that much more likely.
Any of those top 5 teams can beat each other on the day I think, why would I want to play the best team? If we win the CL, after getting Fenerbache in the quarters, the winner Schalke vs. Roma, and then whoever in the final, I'l be happy with it. I'd like to beat the best teams on the way and win it. It would make it more special. But i'm willing to settle with just winning it.

I nearly had a ****ing heart attack in the Lyon game, can't take that sort of pressure. Once we get the draw, bring it on. Until then, I'll hope for an easy draw.

[p.s. I wanted Chelsea in the FA Cup draw, because the winner of that game will win the FA Cup, and we might as well get the game out of the way now, that way if we lose we can concentrate on the other cups. Instead we got the worst possible draw imo we could get, not Chelsea but not an easy match.]

eZe^

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

If Barca had to face one of the English sides though, which would you want it to be?

I think about it, and I honestly cant decide.


-When Man Utd put teams to the sword, they put teams to the ****ing sword..

-Liverpool are perfectly set up with Rafa to expose our weakness' again added to his experience of Spanish teams with Valencia...

-Chelsea I think wouldnt do as well against Barca as they did last season, but again well set up to take advantage of Barca's weaknesses.

-Arsenal are the team most like Barca in the competition.

Id say if I had to choose one it'd be arsenal, be a cracking game too.

StickyMcGinty

PHB wrote: »

then Lyon in the CL when they were the hardest possible team we could ever get.

ha ha yea sure.... Lyon who had the worst defence of ALL the champions league last 16.

PHB wrote: »

Yeh, defo, like Villa then Arsenal in the FA Cup,

yea ok, thats a pretty tough draw to get this year. what about last year though? Portsmouth, Reading, and Boro and Watford amongst the scalps you claimed.

what i'm saying is that united seem to have good luck in CL draws. but maybe thats just in my head

PHB

ha ha yea sure.... Lyon who had the worst defence of ALL the champions league last 16.

We could have drawn

Lyon
Schalke
Porto
Fenerbache
Olmpicanicas (no idea how to spell that)

still pissed off about that draw.

StickyMcGinty

PHB wrote: »

We could have drawn

Lyon
Schalke
Porto
Fenerbache
Olmpicanicas (no idea how to spell that)

still pissed off about that draw.

and Celtic?

sure we'll see how accurate i am on the 14th

_blank_

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

. Pat Dolan ? :rolleyes:

+1

Nunu wrote: »

Lua Lua with a camera giving behind the scenes footage of the first leg...it was different, I liked it.

It was shít

JæKæ wrote: »

game over-vucinic looks excellent again

That guy is going to make bits of Ireland.

Mr. Presentable

KdjaCL wrote: »

Arse, 4 english teams have 4 good managers with fookin millions to spend, with the money on offer in the PL 4 english semi finalists should be expected.

real and sevilla simply could not defend, both teams have excuses Navarro injured for Sevilla and Ramos left, Real are just not very good at defending. Barca winging it , they got the handiest draw and their superiority showed vs a poor team.

Inter are doomed, no way they will score 3 vs pool. Unless PL teams get each other i would expect an all english final. As Roma Fenerbache etc: certainly wont trouble them.

A good manager and money and having more of it then everyone else will always win, look at the Pls dormant years they couldnt compete with italian and spanish wages now they can and they getting into a dominating position.


kdjac

Absolutely agree. English clubs are coming back to the top of the cycle again. If, as Kjacl suggests, 2005 was the start of their apex, we have until 2020 before the cycle passes to another league (Germany?). I see an Arsenal - Manchester Utd draw.

mike65

nipplenuts wrote: »

Absolutely agree. English clubs are coming back to the top of the cycle again. If, as Kjacl suggests, 2005 was the start of their apex, we have until 2020 before the cycle passes to another league (Germany?). I see an Arsenal - Manchester Utd draw.

He was quoting me

Mike

kaimera

Schalke keepers second save last night was top bloody notch; fantastic save

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOxw1p501aQ

Shootout clip

PHB

He looks some player doesnt he

eirebhoy

DesF wrote: »

That guy is going to make bits of Ireland.

And he's only a Roma sub. Pizarro, Aquilani, De Rossi, Taddei, Mancini, Giuly, Vucinic, Totti... ahh I wish I was a Roma fan. Imagine Arsene Wenger working his magic on that team.

Unearthly

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Setanta's coverage is woeful. Pat Dolan ? :rolleyes:

I actually like him, only pundit outside of RTE that doesn't bore me tbh

Dave!

The Eamon Dunphy of Setanta Sports?

Mr.Nice Guy

I could never take Dolan seriously after his Trapattoni rant saying he was past it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-uQaV5uyk

DSB

DesF wrote: »

That guy is going to make bits of Ireland.

I doubt he'll get the chance to be honest.

eZe^

Nicholas Cage went to see Real-Roma the other night. Calderon got him best seats, he got to meet the players, whole nine yards.
Trouble was, it was just a guy pretending to be Nicholas Cage but unfortunately noone told that to Calderon....


http://football.guardian.co.uk/championsleague200708/story/0,,2263211,00.html


Genius.

Dave!

LOL

Maybe if I impersonate Bertie Ahern I'll be given the 1st class treatment he's given in Manchester! I've only got small pockets though, so I don't know if I could fit £8,000 in them

MIN2511

DaveMcG wrote: »

LOL

Maybe if I impersonate Bertie Ahern I'll be given the 1st class treatment he's given in Manchester! I've only got small pockets though, so I don't know if I could fit £8,000 in them

Yeah true, try that... brilliant!!!

Nunu

eZe^ wrote: »

Nicholas Cage went to see Real-Roma the other night. Calderon got him best seats, he got to meet the players, whole nine yards.
Trouble was, it was just a guy pretending to be Nicholas Cage but unfortunately noone told that to Calderon....


http://football.guardian.co.uk/championsleague200708/story/0,,2263211,00.html


Genius.

I wqs getting 'deja-vu' reading that and then I realised that guy has done this before!
It was at a Roma home game years ago (can't find it online anywhere)....and he really is a dead ringer for Cage!