Magic Lamps

what an incredibly poor game.

Corinthians plan is pretending to be utter shit and then suddenly converting.

what a poor freekick, they always need so much time to prepare and the outcome is all the more frustraing. Why does no one knows you can hit freekcikcs without the wall to b e arranged. you simply have to tell the ref you are ready and he shall blow. in bundesliga there are some aweseome goals scored once in a while with the taker completely surprising the keeper.

Oh Mata. corinthians are so shit technically. never ahve seen players running the ball out of play so many times without any pressure. Even our technically not as good players as Ramires or Ivanovic are better technically on a higher level than their offensive players.

Technically Corinthians are shit, it looks like the plan is to attack with not so many bodies forward and let corinthians do some play, cos tehy only can defend dirty and counter

cahill must score that

what a ball by lamps to torres

Maybe our most offensive lineup ever. This can get horribly wrong if we get countered, cos Corinthians will surely park the bus. At least we got Ramires pace to cover space in the midfield but all in all this is a tactical battle.

this could and most likely will become a corny encounter. Our rivalry with leeds and our tiredness returning from Japan won't help. Last year we had no real problems with them and our B-team made light work of them, but this time we got no experienced squad players like Meireles and Kalou, who know how to run this. We either have to rely on the maestros who will be tired as fukc or we have to hope Lamps does it again. he of course will also be tired as fuck. N o idea if a youngster would be ready to figuere here.

Perhaps. IMO you can compare it to the Portugese or Russian league, with the exception these teams play CL. But no team of either of these leagues is a challenge for us.

yeah but even the bild, the most Bayern-biased newspaper in the world made a relatively decent rating and comparison before the CL final. Their rating after the final was rather bitter and pathetic, slagging all our players except Lamps, Drogs and Cech off and rating every player A or B except of Robben. They will surely feel comforted by that.

not even. You simply can not compare. our players are proven on the highest level not only in a shit league. None of these players has ever played a game in the CL, none of them has real World Cup experience. This Globo shit must be on crack. You can not rate and compare professional players on a 5-star scale of these attributes. Not even my 13 y.o. brother would buy that.

Lamps has scored 4 times against teams who defend better than Deportivo from midfield on multiple occasions. U alwayss need luck for goals and when you are scorer it cummulates. But this is not an extra argument for buying him.

Yep Benteke's been a revelation. Still only 22, strong, good in the air, great right foot. his goals were quality and his assist was suh a great example of link up play, his pin-point cutback class. Should improve his scoring rates nonetheless, have heard he is rather wasteful in some games. But we need a player for the direct impact, Benteke is a great prospect but as for now I'd prefer Ba.

Cesar looks so psycho. lol. piazon: "In the end I lost my two balls"

Great views. i understand there many Corinthians supporters having sympathed with us in our CL campaign, cos we are very similar. Similar number of league titles (5), big spending power but it lasted till 2012 to turn that into a CL success, then courtesy of great tactics, teamplay, discipline and fighting spirit.

Great memories about the match but , even though it did not matter anything in the end, very bad memories about his performance. He awarded Barca goalkick after a dive, booked Ramires and Ivanovic for fun and should have sent off Messi for an assault on Lampard.

This ridiculously bad English reminds me of Big Phil. "Hä iz är gräit plair bicors hi iz diffränt"

why the heck do pacy players like Walcott or Sturridge always wanna play in the middle. They are brillant on the wings but are defo no lone striker or a false 9. They shall run past the defence and cross ffs.

You can compare no one with Lamps. Greatest player ever. It is far too early to let Lamps go. There is nobody there to succeed him. Mata Oscar and Hazard might be able to compensate his goalscoring and assists but not his ability to lead the team in difficult situations and big games and no tactical plan B either. NO one else plays these 60m diagonal balls and shoots from distance like him. Lamps is as big as the sport, an icon every athlete should follow his example. His attitude professionalism and his character made him the legend he is. A legend like Roger Federer or Kobe Bryant, age has not restraint him from still succeeding at the very top.

Yeah, 49 league goals in 171 games. I think season in Brazil is about to end. Guerrero has scored an emphatic 6 goals. Another nice fact, Paolo Guerrero has scored more goals in Regionalliga Süd (German 4th division), than he has league goals to his name in 8 years of professional football. Best goalscorer ever. But my fav story is when, after the game, the players were heading to the changing rooms while refuelling themselves with energydrinks, he was racially abused by a fan. Some might have ignored it, Cantona aimed for a kung-fu kick, Guerrero kept his cool, stopped, assessed his options and threw the bottle into the fans face with phenomenal precision. Some even said his best hit ever he got a lengthy ban for this but said it was worth it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851kywuWuzQ he got a habit of collecting lengthy bans. This is another Guerrero classic. He does his name and the reputation of his recent club all honour. His sprint over 56m with 31km/h was the fastest sprint of an HSV player in the whole game this guy is pure comedy

well Mata did neither shoot nor did he square for oscar but instead passed it into Chavez and we were luckywell Mata did neither shoot nor did he square for oscar but instead passed it into Chavez and we were lucky that he was such a dork to put it into his own net

still better to have him performing, the club still got the chance of selling him. Torres best contribution was his brillant pass with the outside of his boot around the defence for Oscar to make a mess of it but Chavez still managed to convert. Nonetheless the old Torres would have scored more, he could not even beat these Monterrey defenders for pace.

Yeah, I watched their games against Al-Ahly and the CL final against boca juniors. Both were pretty poor games. In the former they did ok defensively, drawing a lot of fouls, which would not be possible in Europe. Santos was impressive neutralizing Bocas dangerous right side, against the Egyptians they were not really challenged. All in all, I'd still say they defend better than they attack, because Ralf and Paulinho got real urgency in the tacklings and protect their D by always holding the line. Their attack is more about movement than about individual effort, so tactically I rate their attacking play but all in all and abilitywise they defend better. Its really difficult to say, cos you can't predict how they would cope with the altered circumstances, but they got great depth and some good individuals, so provided they would get used to the football quick enough, my guess is they even might avoid relegation

I'd say midfield is their strongest area, their strikeforce is erratic and not particularly talented but experienced and physically stronger than you'd expect of a Brazilian team. Their defence might be good for that but tactically not on European level. Their flair players in midfield are a disgrace for a team from Sao Paulo, but Paulinho and Ralf form a more than decent double pivot. Their defence usually is allessandro or welder - Wallace-chicao-Fabio Santos. Every EPL and most Championship sites got a better D.chicao and alessandro are small and slow as fuck, Santos and Wallace are kinda decent for their standard, but none of them has real experience. It is really hard to become a good defender without ever having played in Europe. This would become even more blatant if we still had Drogba and Malouda up front they would tear them to shreds physically. I'd even argue Monterrey's defense at full strength is better than Corinthians.