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Those were some of the most beautiful counter attacks I have seen in recent years.

Never thought I'd live to see the day when Willian would be consistently our main goal threat.

This is a weird case because I have seen him play well for his national team a couple times. But when I watch him in a blue jersey it's like he's never played the game, what gives?

Thanks for the great work in this forum during all these years, here hoping that you can star good comedy movies in the future 'cause I haven't liked your last ones too much.

Yea, but I thought Everton would be at least top 7. Really surprised with how poor they have been.

What a strike from Courtois.

I'm watching it here: http://freefootylive.net/muuu/

Luis Fabiano was a very good player.

Suárez is so good and yet so unselfish. Holy shit, what a player. It's not by chance that he almost carried Liverpool to the title.

I can only remember two games where Courtois made mistakes not compatible with the level of goalkeeper he has and in one of those he more than redeemed himself in the same game. De Gea has the potential to play like he's the best goalkeeper in the world some games but then he's mediocre in many others. I'd take a goalkeeper that pulls 8 performances every game over one who sometimes is a 10 sometimes is 6 any day. Maybe his style and past doesn't help my judgement, but if I was a man utd fan I'd never feel safe with him there.

IMO DDG is not even top 3 EPL. I'd take any of Cech, Courtois and Lloris ahead of him. Whereas one arguably doesn't make top 3 in his domestic league the other is arguably top 3 in the world. Not even close. I don't like DDG's style nor his consistency, to me it seems he makes silly mistakes too often. Even in this season with his improved version, because in the past he was simply bad, we wouldn't even be having this conversation.

De Gea is not nearly as good as some make him to be. Courtois is easily better, I'd be surprised to see Thibaut concede like that but I wasn't surprised in the least to see it from DDG.

HOLY SHIT

Nah. Just trying to go on the opposite spectrum of people who make a decent/average performance look like the worst performance of a professional player. I think it's only fair.

Come on, it was a fluke, dude. It's not like he took a look and saw Hazard's movement and free space before the backheel.

Yeah, sell him already in light of the increase in his pricetag for that assist.

wat r u talkin abut m8, any1 couldve dune dat pass

Oscar, so useless in that assist.

They might not be looking like world beaters but it doesn't change the fact that Porto's first goals were awarded to them by some really uncharacteristic individual mistakes, not because of Bayern's system or great offensive play by Porto. Fair play to Porto for pressing the defenders and everything but still those errors should have never happened.

To be honest they're losing from weird individual mistakes not their attacking philosophy or system.

He was arguably the best player in the team in the first half of last season. And I'm not the one saying this, if you go back to the posts made back then you'll see many people saying that. I think being maybe the best performing player in the team for half a season is probably more than playing ok but whatever.

I know what you're getting at – he was marketed as the next Pelé but my point is: he never dominated the league in the fashion Neymar did. Heck, Robinho probably wasn't even the best player in the league when he was sold, Neymar was. Robinho's most iconic play here was being fouled and getting a penalty to make Santos win the league – that's how much of a stretch it was, his most memorable feat was getting a penalty, and a really soft one at that, if not a dive all together. Robinho's legendary play: Anyone with half a brain knows it takes a lot more than that to make the next Pelé. Pelé scored a shit ton of goals, Robinho never even was a good goal scorer. It was probably the dumbest hype I've seen in my life.

Robinho was actually always overrated. Even when he was in Brazilian League he was never as good as Neymar. Robinho was very good here, Neymar was destroying the league. On topic, Hazard has the edge on Neymar on pretty much everything bar goal scoring, Neymar is very decisive and he has a tendency of scoring important goals too which brings him to a level close to Hazard but I'd say Hazard is still slightly ahead. The only instance when Neymar would be a better fit is in a team in need of that clutch player in front of the goal. Hazard, on the other hand, has a toolset more suitable to make everyone around him play better and is also less selfish. I don't think he'll ever develop a goal scoring hunger or become a goal machine but that's ok imo. He's already one of the best players in the world as is.

Am I crazy for reading a big chunk of it ? Even bookmarked it to finish tomorrow. Anyways, I thought it was pretty much common knowledge that different people develop in different rhythms. And that applies to pretty much everything, physical aspects – height, musculature; emotional aspects – maturity, emotional control; intelligence, etc. You have people who start growing quite a lot at 12 years old, others at the end of puberty. You have geniuses who peak very early like Mozart and others way later like Beethoven. It's pretty much impossible to predict how people will develop their talents and proficiency at any given task. Also, I don't even know why you waste your time. And I guess you know what I'm talking about.

The goal for those wondering. http://streamable.com/ly6i