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posted September 16, 2013 10:32 PM |
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Drakon-Deus said:
Premier League: Foreign XI
XI consisting of the greatest foreign footballers ever to grace the English top flight
Goalkeeper - Peter Schmeichel
Centre-back - Jaap Stam
Centre-back - Nemanja Vidic
Centre-back - Marcel Desailly
Right-wing - Cristiano Ronaldo
Centre-midfield - Patrick Vieira
Centre-midfield - Roy Keane
Left-wing - Ryan Giggs
Striker - Eric Cantona
Striker - Thierry Henry
Striker - Dennis Bergkamp
Good, except I wouldn't count Giggs as foreign... so better Pires.
I agree, though Bergkamp was never anything special when I got around to interest myself for football, though I've seen and heard of his high quality from before those days.
I'm especially fond of Viera, and since Veron is a favorite of mine, I'd be inclined to include him if it wasn't because he was nothing special in Man. U.
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Sociedad-Shaktar
This and Plzen - City in my opinion.
Guesses on FT:
United - Leverkusen x
Sociedad - Shakter 2
FCK - Juventus x
Plzen - City x
Olympiakos - PSG 2
Benfica - Anderlecht x
Bayern - CSKA 1
Galatasaray - Real Madrid 2
Schalke - Steua x
Chelsea - Basel 1
Marseille - Arsenal x
Napoli - Dortmund 2
Wien - Porto 2
A. Madrid - Zenit 1
AC Milan - Celtic 1
FC Barcelona - Ajax Amsterdam 1
Your guesses?
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posted September 16, 2013 10:37 PM |
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United - Leverkusen x
Sociedad - Shakter 1
FCK - Juventus 2
Plzen - City 2
Olympiakos - PSG 2
Benfica - Anderlecht 1
Bayern - CSKA 1
Galatasaray - Real Madrid 2
Schalke - Steua 1
Chelsea - Basel 1
Marseille - Arsenal 2
Napoli - Dortmund x
Wien - Porto 2
A. Madrid - Zenit 1
AC Milan - Celtic x
FC Barcelona - Ajax Amsterdam 1
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posted September 16, 2013 10:48 PM |
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Not taking many risks there, eh? 
Only the Milan - Celtic draw prediction really surprises me. Celtic is so far from what they used to be, I imagine only Wien has a worse team. Milan is still about the strength of Napoli, a team who can maybe do something to incredible Dortmund and solid Arsenal.
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posted September 16, 2013 11:03 PM |
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OhforfSake said:
Not taking many risks there, eh?
Nope, maybe that's why I'm terrible at predictions 
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Only the Milan - Celtic draw prediction really surprises me. Celtic is so far from what they used to be, I imagine only Wien has a worse team. Milan is still about the strength of Napoli, a team who can maybe do something to incredible Dortmund and solid Arsenal.
I still think they can get a draw, personally I don't respect Milan too much. And I think Napoli is stronger than them.
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posted September 17, 2013 12:20 PM |
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Bergkamp wasn't anything special? What are you smoking?
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posted September 17, 2013 03:55 PM |
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Not after I started following the sport, no. Before, I'm sure he was.
I read up on it, and found out why too. Up till some time after France 98 he was regarded as one of the best forwards in the world, but only a year after it had become frustrating times and as time passed his position in Arsenal weakened somewhat.
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posted September 17, 2013 04:05 PM |
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Drakon-Deus said:
Premier League: Foreign XI
XI consisting of the greatest foreign footballers ever to grace the English top flight
Goalkeeper - Peter Schmeichel
Centre-back - Jaap Stam
Centre-back - Nemanja Vidic
Centre-back - Marcel Desailly
Right-wing - Cristiano Ronaldo
Centre-midfield - Patrick Vieira
Centre-midfield - Roy Keane
Left-wing - Ryan Giggs
Striker - Eric Cantona
Striker - Thierry Henry
Striker - Dennis Bergkamp
No Jan Molby?
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posted September 17, 2013 04:41 PM |
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You can include him in your top 11 if you want to. Would be cool to see which players you like the most. Mølby is "long" before I was interested in the sport (98), so I personally wouldn't know.
Edit: Come to think about it, I also thought Djorkaeff was rather good.
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posted September 17, 2013 09:01 PM |
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Casillas injured by Ramons on the second minute rofl
edit: difficult match for RM, but great goal from Isco now yeah! This guy so talented ^^
edit 2: aaaand Drogba injured as well, what a chaotic match! First half ended on minute 51 xD
edit 3: Benzema & Cristiano joins the party, 0-3 for Real
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posted September 17, 2013 10:42 PM |
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Okay, let's see, you had 5/8 right so far.
I had 5/8 too.
We both overestimated Leverkusen, and while I was more familiar with the Danish team as I should be, you were less familiar with a Spanish team!!?
I overestimated Plzen and Anderlecht.
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posted September 17, 2013 10:44 PM |
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Yeah, 1-6 for Real, including a hat-trick from Mr Ronaldo ^^
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Okay, let's see, you had 5/8 right so far.
I had 5/8 too.
We both overestimated Leverkusen, and while I was more familiar with the Danish team as I should be, you were less familiar with a Spanish team!!?
Maybe I had too much faith on them?
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posted September 17, 2013 10:46 PM |
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I expected for Sociedad to get at least a goal as well, but oh well. United also did better than I thought, as did Madrid. And Juventus... 
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posted September 17, 2013 10:53 PM |
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Ah sorry guys, I forgot how it feels when you're confident a team you cheer for will make a good result, and then they utterly fail (I recently experienced that too). If it's any consolidation, I'm sure Real S will do much better against United, and properly Leverkusen as well.
To be fair, I was in much doubt about the Juventus game. Juventus is so superior in Italy, and many Italian sides can easily wipe the floor with any danish team, so one would think Juventus would be even stronger. Futher more, Copenhagen has done horribly in the danish league for the first time in 15 years, or similar. If one counts all Copenhagen clubs, it's the first time in the entire history of the league.
But league strength is usually not the best indicator of how well a club will perform on international level.
Juventus also has a tendency to do bad against smaller teams, while doing great against stronger teams. I'd not be surprised if Real Madrid ends up with 10 points, with 2 losses against Juventus, or something similar. While Juventus will get the majority of their points against Madrid because for some reason Juventus does much better against stronger sides.
Also Juventus only got a draw last time they visited Copenhagen against a weaker team, and at that time Juventus was even stronger than today.
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posted September 18, 2013 12:36 AM |
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C. Ronaldo has scored 205 goals in 204 official matches with Real Madrid.
How is this guy so ridiculously good at scoring? Jesus christ
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posted September 18, 2013 08:27 AM |
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I forgot how it feels when you're confident a team you cheer for will make a good result, and then they utterly fail
It happened with Leverkusen and to some extent Juventus for me, I hope it won't happen with Arsenal as well.
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posted September 18, 2013 01:47 PM |
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I expected for Sociedad to get at least a goal as well, but oh well. United also did better than I thought, as did Madrid. And Juventus...
From what I saw during the extended highlights, Sociedad played better. They had 10 big occasions vs 2 for Shakhtar, hit the post twice etc.
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posted September 18, 2013 02:56 PM |
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Barcelona have never played against Ajax in an official match. It's incredible considering both teams kind of shared their evolutions.
zamfir said:
Vindicator said:
I expected for Sociedad to get at least a goal as well, but oh well. United also did better than I thought, as did Madrid. And Juventus...
From what I saw during the extended highlights, Sociedad played better. They had 10 big occasions vs 2 for Shakhtar, hit the post twice etc.
Awww, too bad. Hopefullly they'll get a win agains ManU so the group becomes exciting to the very last moment xD
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posted September 18, 2013 09:32 PM |
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Napoli - Dortmund ... omg. 1-0 for Napoli, Napoli player misses free goal, Dortmund goalie gets suspended.
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posted September 18, 2013 09:43 PM |
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Yeah, you should understimate Napoli strength
Oh, Dortmund goalkeeper with a red card? lol
edit: Klopp so mad rofl
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posted September 18, 2013 10:35 PM |
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4-0 Messi hat trick and Pique goal, Arsenal 2-0 Ramsey and Walcott, nice.
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