diggz:



How did drogba choke in 2008 Ucl finals?

He didn't turn up, when he decided to show up, he got himself sent off

CONTEDDICTED:

His brain cells are like South Africa's youth, because most of them don't work

Make una leave am.. ..he is just kidding

There are some players that are sacrosanct...especially to me, n Zidane is one of them....you can't be kidding with that name. Na there I go vex

patrickmuf:
To be honest, I actually think Herrera is just as good as Kante if not better, the work of Kante is easily noticed because he is black and he plays for the team on top the log...If Herrera was in Chelsea, they'd still be on top and if Kante was in United, he wouldn't have made any significant difference...
Herrera aq little more than Kante in my opinion, he chips in with a fair share of goals as well as assist whilst still being defensively sound...

The balance both brings to the team is the most vital point. Herrera tho a workhorse too, he's not on kante's level at all, forget the stats

Olamyyde:
This trolling is becoming stupid oooo.

how can someone say drogba was a fraud?

and even compare him to harry kane ...so many arkham escapees on nairaland

As in ehn...the thing tire me. You won't blame them tho, seeing Iniesta n Drogba being labelled as frauds isn't funny tho

raumdeuter:


If the opponent is Southampton and those clueless EPL team then Henry

If its a major final or a big ocassion then Didier Drogba is the man

Baba, in as much as DD na my guy, he has choked in finals too (those 2 or 3 Afcon finals) 2008 champions league final..et Al. .I know you ll probably mention Henry vs barca 2006, wc final, Euro 2000.... but both have those moments when they went awol in finals...so it comes down to consistency for me

raumdeuter:


Give me Drogba anyover Henry the master choke artist. Henry invented the art of choking. I am sure John terry learnt from him

Give me Thierry all day!

bykebyke:
Wait o...Drogba scored just 157goals in 8years for Chelsea?



This man is even more fraudishious than I thought.

sha, since you n Ibime arent making arguments that is far from each others, I shall leave each to his whimps n caprice.. neither of you is an authority in football that's all that matters

bykebyke:

1.Adriano
2.Ruud Van Nistelrooy
3.Totti
4.Raul Gonzalez
5.Trezequet.
6.Forlan
7.David Villa
8.Del Piero.
9.Crespo
10.Shevchenko


LOL.....

Stop rating Drogba..He was shït.

Del piero's prime was with them r9 them. Raul too.sheva too. He is greater than the rest..

bykebyke:

LOL..I can list like 10more players who were better than Fraudgba in that period.


Mtswww.

Slide hand in the air celebration merchant.

Strikers, not players, compare like for like, dish out your list

Strikers, not players! Dish out your list.

In the last decade, if your name isn't Henry or Eto'o, you ain't got nothing on DD.. try trolling with another topic cos this is just as baseless as the Iniesta topic that's been recycled too much already

bykebyke:

Yeah..as if Chelsea fans exalt Xola they way do they do Didier Mediocre Drogba.

Drogba offered their team more in terms of service (trophies n big moments) This your new agenda is DOA byke

bykebyke:

Nope..Chelsea didn't have any Legends before Fraudgba..That's why they exalt him to high heavens for being mediocre.

Get your facts rights, there was zola. (Coupled with one or 2 overrated English men ) you can't put Drogba's name with mediocrity. Talk more of placing his name side by side with a good for nothing player like Harry kane

bykebyke:
Another Chelsea player with questionable legend status is Didier Drogba.

A nothing player like Harry Kane has surpassed his number of premier league hat tricks in less time played.

Fraud.

Hate to do this to my African brother,but,the game is the game.

Don't even go there! DD is actually chelsea's GOAT! He isn't a pretender to the throne...he's the mofucking Chelsea king.

jonsnow92:

I re-iterate we are Shit this season... Yet Today's game marks 17th consecutive la liga game without a defeat... Thats champions stuff
Let's not forget..The caveat for the argument is if we win this league is it worth celebrating or Not??

Madrid went how many unbeaten again? Yet they r stinking up erywhere atm. Stats can mislead this generation! Did you actually make out time to see those 17 unbeaten matches you are quoting? I can't shout abeg...

Ibime:


All your fellow Barca fans told me he is not an AM. Which of you are confused?

I'm happy you consider him an AM. I consider him an AM for 70% of his career until the last 3 years.

But come o bros, do you know any good AM than only does ZERO goals and 5 assists per season?

deep down, I know it's just for the banters,cos you mind was made up 8years ago

Ramos time loading? I really hope not

Madrid loosing! It can finally pave the way for sampaoli n his boys...sleeping a happy man.

Ibime:


If he is an AM, show me his goals and assists.

Since Xavi left, Iniesta has dropped deeper in an attempt to replicate Xavis function, but to no avail.

The football you are playing is not anti-football, but it is just not tiki taka. You still keep 60%, sometimes 70% sef of possession. This is not antifootball, it is just the same level as other top teams like Chelsea, Arsenal etc.

To play tikitaka, you need 250-270 passes per game from your 3 man midfield. That is an average of 3 passes every minute.

It used to be:

Xavi - 100 passes
Busquets - 80-90 passes
Iniesta - 60-70 passes

For Spain, it needed to be uber tikitaka as Spain did not have killer strikers like Messi, so the best way to protect themselves was to ensure they don't lose the ball. That's why Xabi Alonso was added to increase the possession football even further. The 3 man midfield was:

Alonso - 100 passes
Busquets - 90 passes
Xavi - 100 passes

Now you have a situation where Iniesta has dropped deeper to reprise the Xavi role, but his ppg stays at 60 passes, even dropping to 50 passes this season.

So you have:

Busquets - 80 passes (even dropping these days to 60 or 70)
Iniesta - 60 passes (even dropping to 50)
Rakitic - 60 passes

How do you expect to play tikitaka out of that?

The truth is Enrique does not have the raw materials to reprise the old tikitaka. Playing to the so called strength of your skipper is non-existent because your skipper does not, and has never had the tikitaka strength you think he has.

Unless you get a tikitaka specialist like Thiago back, you are better off continuing with a more counterattacking style. That is the same job Modric and Kroos are being asked to do at Madrid to capitalise on the speed of BBC, and they are not complaining about it.

Not another merry go round! Show us these other Am's pass stat. I'm sure when you proclaimed him the best 8YEARS ago, you weren't a teenager.

Ibime:


Look man, it's a simple question and you keep parambulating round the bush.

What is the strength of your skipper that you want the team to be built around?

If it is retaining possession ie tikitaka football, show me one laliga season where he has ever averaged 100 passes per game. OK make it 90, OK make it 80.

You are living in dreamworld thinking he can control tikitaka. Those asked to control that style of football like Alonso and Xavi make 100 passes per game, and Iniesta is a 70 man at best.

Even Busquets can do and has done seasons with 90 passes.

I see you are another hype merchant who doesn't know or understand the football he is watching.

Tell me which strength of your skippers that the coach should set his team up to exploit. You want him to build tikitaka around a 70 passes man? You better go and beg Thiago to come back if that is what you want. Your skipper has no strength to build upon.

well, he isn't a cm, so kindly show me Am's doing 100 passes. As for your question, I already answered. Also show us Am's that hardly gets dispossessed like iniesta

jonsnow92:
How is it Mediocrity?..The Psg Trashing??

who is talking of our disgraceful European outing? Reminisce on the liqa games you've seen this season, both the once we've lost, draw, or won, 70%of them are mediocre performances that's if you like to be truthful to your self, you can sugar coat if you wish to

Ibime:


Busquets is great at possession football as well as Xavi. Iniesta is not. The passing stats don't lie.

So what exactly is your skippers strength that you want to play to?

Iniesta(The greatest attacking midfielder since zizou)is good at passing, retaining possession, creating spaces for his team mates to exploit. Until a reputable analyst says otherwise, we won't quote the words of a bias nairalander. Meanwhile, busquests has been called useless on numerous occasions on this forum, hope you haven't endorsed such statements before now?

jonsnow92:

Whereas Barca are Shit at the moment Still
We've beaten Valencia away,Beaten Sevilla away,Beaten Atetico madrid away,drew d clasico due to a last gasp goal from Ramos...
Sometimes too much Success brings Unnecessary expectations... Its because Barca are used to succeeding thats y you typed dis Shit!!

in martino's season, we did the double over Madrid, didn't loose to atm, won some big games too, so all these ones you are saying is not the koko. We celebrating this liga (if we win) is celebrating mediocrity. Simple!

mcdreeezy:
So if we end up winning the league, you won't be happy?

If It will be pivotal in saving L Enrique's job, I won't be happy

Ibime:


What is your skippers strength exactly? Which has he ever averaged 100 passes per game like Xavi? Even at the height of tikitaka, his average was around 70 at best.

So what exactly is this strength that you want to play to? Can you squeeze blood out of a stone?

Busquests was never good enough, xavi covered him all those years, iniesta is a carry along, leaving xavi as the only person at the middle of the pitch, make up your mind or go home

jpmoriarti:
What would we do to be deserving of champions ?

This is the most nonsensical post I have seen here - and I have seen lots of senseless posts here.

smh!!

see who is talking of nonsensical post...is ur head out of Enrique's as yet?

If sevilla can persevere n win this liga, it will be a victory for football! It's obvious we don't deserve to be champions even with this many games remaining.

senorova:


Yes, Enrique ruined our midfield. But you just know that barca needs to look up to someone. Inesta is not just a great player, he's Barca's skipper and a LA masia product.... I just envy Sergio Ramos how he carries the madridiots on his shoulders when they need him most. Even when they play nonsense, you just see Ramos lead this team from the back...

What I'm saying is that Enrique hasn't done what he should with our midfield... But iniesta is not a new to the barca system.... He's our skipper and our most experience man in the middle, its just natural for players to look up to him when the system fails.

Can't you see that this isn't the barca system? You should notice that iniesta n busquests ll suffer the most in this useless set up. You play to your skipper's strength, not his weakness. Don't you see Madrid putting in 1000 crosses in the box when they are in a search of a goal? Cos they know there ll always be a Ramos in there. Or them trying to win set piece in dangerous positions so as to whip in dangerous deliveries for Ramos to head home?

sebod:

It's a known fact that the whole team is not doing fine with the coach having the chunk of the blame. Nevertheless, Messi on his day would have done far better. I think he's not happy with the coach with the situation of things.

The coach definitely gets the buck of the blame. But, I wouldn't blame him for Suarez sending wide the ball from a very decent angle, Rafinha's inability to place a simple pass nor Messi's failure to drop back in helping out when in trouble.

well, I will definitely blame him alone for our midfielders always positioning badly, passing to the back or full backs

sebod:

Our players just seem not to know how to pass the ball around anymore. It's just so painful.
I don't care about the scoreline, we played utter rubbish.
Even Messi seems uninterested in helping out the midfield again, bar the goal and the nice free-kick he forced Oblak to save, he played nothing.

If you were to be in Messi's shoes, will you keep helping that midfield while they deteriorate on a daily, Even Messi has noticed Lucho can't get his midfielders to string 5 passes together.

All these merry go round should stop. If someone beats you in both team n individual achievement, you should take a bow, Lampard isn't even the finest English midfielder of the past decade, Scholes was!

Bykebyke can be controversial for Africa!