Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

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i was talking about now... if atletico would meet arsenal now ... and real were not that good in the early 2000s ?they won the ucl twice.... :mjlol: they had zidane, ronaldo raul :mindblown:


Real underachieved by their standards domestically. Look what happened after they got rid of Makelele.

And Arsenal would beat Atletico if they played right now.
 

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Real underachieved by their standards domestically. Look what happened after they got rid of Makelele.

And Arsenal would beat Atletico if they played right now.
when did they underachieve...when they won the 2001 la liga? when they won the 2003 la liga? the early 2000s were real's best years in recent history. makele left in 2004, i think thats like mid 2000s
neither of us can tell for sure what will happen if atletico would play arsenal this year... im just looking at what la liga teams achieved last 2 seasons in europe and what epl teams achieved :manny:
 

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Ander Herrera finally gets a start. Here's to hoping he gets a brace and an assist and makes van Gaal look like the arrogant fool we all know he is
 

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Ander Herrera finally gets a start. Here's to hoping he gets a brace and an assist and makes van Gaal look like the arrogant fool we all know he is
idk how relevant this is against brugge.... depay was brilliant against brugge and shyt against newcastle
 

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I already saw it against newcastle...and I saw it again today.

typical van gaal tactics are executed as they should be

blind and smalling going into midfield positions to create an extra player in possession.
Wingers keeping the field wide in possession
defenders going against the attacking midfielders when the ball is played high against them
no balls are played horizontal
 

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They stuck us with Bayern again :martin:

Tho I'm kinda surprised FIFA's darlings got the group of death w/Leverkusen, Roma and Borisov
what doeS UCL have to do with fifa?
at first i tought man utd had a lucky draw, but if you look at it
 
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