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What you say about Willian is true, he is a wingback despite being a winger on paper. But there's more to it than that. When in positional and possessive offense, we rarely see Willian being the main link in a combination play. We always see Oscar, Hazard or Fabregas taking control of the situation, Willian mostly plays supportive role by providing passing option and being the guy who finds a way to get the ball to them. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I've always felt like Willian is always the wingman, never Barney Stinson. Not sure if tactical instructions, somewhy doubt it, think it's just a matter of confidence and actual skill.

Let me get one thing out of the way now when terms 'proactive' and 'reactive' have become trending. Proactive = closes down early, plunges in? Reactive = backs off, last ditch tackles?

Oh, I thought you were talking about the competition in general.

Not this year, but in a few earlier years I watched some and I remember quite exciting and tense games.

i don't

That's kinda disrespectful towards African nations don't you think? Just because they aren't on the level of Europe's elite means their competitions are waste of space, while every other continent gets to have their own tournaments? I'm guessing that it's a great festive period for the people over there. Though I'm not sure if it should be held every two years. On a different topic, it's actually weird not being affected by the ACoN over a long time.

More likely he done it because he's evasive and cowardly, rather than loving us too much.

No, we are winning (present continuous tense). After extra time we will have won it (future perfect tense, as it is not a presently continuous action anymore.. e.g. after the final whistle you don't say "yay we are winning", you say "yay we won", as the action that we are currently doing will be over by then). How you can say that we are not leading and that this result is a huge blow when in fact if the score stays the same, we will win, I have no idea.

Are you asking me how we are leading when if the round ended with this score we'd win? That is the very definition of leading.

Just Name - A - Line - Up That - Will Win - Us - The Game Subs: If, We, Lose, I, Will, Be, Sad

It was only for a minute? I must have dozed off, I was practically half-sleeping half-covering my eyes by the end. I thought he came on at like 78th or around that.

Please explain how the result was a huge blow? We're leading.

No thanks, he is pony.

Dogshite one day, best striker in the world the other I don't know if it's some special trait of TC or if it's just a reflection of our society's fickleness in general, but it's bloody funny and sad at the same time. My opinion is that Diego is BUTCH

This is what I think: In the league he has to get all the points no matter what, hence take more risks to grab the goals. In knock-out competitions it seems we revert to "there's still the second leg" attitude and in the second leg we go "penalties are better than losing", thus both games are normally very cagey under Mourinho unless we really need to go for it when losing. We usually just look to nick a goal and hold it for our lives to avoid all the ET and peno bullshit. In the league we actually look to improve our goal difference, which isn't important in cups. Yesterday my point was highlighted by the fact that he brought on Azpi for Willian with quite a lot of time left, that was the moment when I realized that Jose just wanted to take the away goal and run with it until we have the home advantage. Playing it safe, but the accompanying performance was horrible for some reason, not a hint of defensive control over the game. Shit needs to improve next game or we're in trouble. This kind of mentality can of course backfire when we play like crap, but it can actually turn out good more often than not imo. Despite yesterday, I'm still confident, because I think there's no way the home leg will be a repeat of what we saw. We're a different animal at home and taking an away goal from Anfield isn't that bad - dont forget, we're still leading. Also, we must remember that cups are the only title hopes Liverpool have and they have extra motivation now for Gerrard to leave with some final silverware. So combine that logic with their habit of raising their game against us, and you get a Liverpool different from what we encounter in the league.

[OT] @CeleryFC, is that you on your avatar? [/OT]

Shit just got real. Let's smash them and run away with the cup.

Not a good picture to analyze an offside, because the ball had already been struck.

I just imagined how I would feel if Terry also pulled off a Lamps... awful even just scraping that thought.

Every description I read about him here reminds me of Paulo.

Asking questions is the basis of knowledge. I'm striving for intellectual perfection and you are a tool in achieving that.

Do you think Oscar may become the next Kaka? Kaka was sensational during his peak, do you think Oscar has that in him? Do you think Kaka is handsome?

Who are Eddie and Cris in your profile description?

What does an average Brazilian fan think of Oscar? In terms of the national team.