I dey watch am oh.

Schuster is on the hottest seat in the world

This is it!
Schuster is gone already.Just waiting to be officially shown the way after Barca "destroy" Madrid in the El Classico next week.
Madrid defence makes West brom's look water-tight mayne.

Spanish Primera División -Sunday 6th December


Deportivo La Coruña 2 - 0 Málaga
65' Lafita
69' Omar Bravo_pen


Mallorca 2 - 3 Recreativo Huelva
16' David Navarro 25' Marco Rubén
35'Jose Jurado 42'Adrián Colunga
53'Javi Fuego

Numancia 2 - 1 Almeria
20'Javier González Del Pino 12' Esteban Solari_pen
52' Asier Goiria Etxebarria


Osasuna 3 - 3 Valladolid
18' Dady 60'Henok Goitom
43' Javad Nekounam 65'Miguel Flaño _og
57' Dady 85'Bartholomew Ogbeche


Racing Santander 1 - 1 Athletic Bilbao
83'Gonzalo Colsa 49'Francisco Javier Yeste


Real Betis 1 - 1 Espanyol
57' Achille Emana 71' Coro


Real Madrid 3 - 4 Sevilla FC
19'Raúl 3' Adriano
69'Fernando Gago 22' Ndri Romaric
67' Gonzalo Higuaín 39' Frederic Kanouté
85'Renato

@mukina n mccrakles,
i'm so laffin that y.y toure wouldnt mind leavin barca to come to arsenal, is he mad or crazy. . . dream on

madrid paly comically every week now, i jst hope they dont change next week
and this la liga is so crazy, no 4-0 lead is safe
on sat, getafe ended up drawing 3-3 after leading 3-0, same happend to osasuna today, sevilla to lost their 3-1 lead, the league is goals crazy
at least barca have a good defence to get out of this goals craze

lai-lai:

@mukina n mccrakles,
i'm so laffin that y.y toure wouldnt mind leavin barca to come to arsenal, is he mad or crazy. . . dream on
madrid paly comically every week now, i jst hope they don't change next week
and this la liga is so crazy, no 4-0 lead is safe
on sat, getafe ended up drawing 3-3 after leading 3-0, same happend to osasuna today, sevilla to lost their 3-1 lead, the league is goals crazy
at least barca have a good defence to get out of this goals craze

Why cant he come and join his bro?Also if he's not playing regular he can switch loyalty too.Never say never bro,it's now called Football Bizness!
The assertion that attack is the best form of defence has really worked for Barca this season and they seem unstoppable.But how they will cope if their bubble is bursted along the line is yet to be seen.Football is like biscuit,you just do not know where it will crack.

lailai
Yaya will come if AW goes for him
you have cattty Hleb naw

Italian Serie A - Sunday 7th December


AC Milan 1 - 0 Catania
65'Kaká


Atalanta 3 - 0 Udinese
20' Valdes
78' Cristiano Doni
88' Christian Vieri


Cagliari 1 - 0 Palermo
34'Michele Fini


Lecce 1 - 2 Juventus
83'Daniele Cacia 57' Sebastian Giovinco
90'Carvalho De Oliveira Amauri


Napoli 2 - 0 Siena
62' Cristian Maggio
72' Germán Denis


Reggina 2 - 2 Bologna
40'Bernardo Corradi 53'Francesco Valiani
56'Edgar Barreto 61'Marco Di Vaio



Torino 1 - 4 Fiorentina
77'Alessandro Rosina_pen 3' Adrian Mutu
43'Alberto Gilardino
75'Zdravko Kuzmanovic
84'Alberto Gilardino


Sampdoria 0 - 1 Genoa
50'Alberto Diego Milito

German Bundesliga - Sunday 7th December

FC Cologne 1 - 2 Hamburg SV
83'Milivoje Novakovic 15'Mladen Petric
31'Mladen Petric


VfL Wolfsburg 2 - 1 Hannover 96
32'Cristian Zaccardo 59' Jiri Stajner
63'Jiri Stajner_og

French Ligue 1 - Sunday 7th December


AS Monaco 1 - 1 Sochaux
20'Alejandro César Alonso 9' Francileudo dos Santos


Grenoble 0 - 0 AJ Auxerre


Lorient 1 - 0 AS Nancy Lorraine
83'Kevin Gameiro


Paris Saint-Germain 3 - 1 Le Mans
22' Guillaume Hoarau 30' Grégory Cerdan
39'Guillaume Hoarau
87'Pegguy Luyindula

Dutch Eredivisie - Sunday 7th December


FC Volendam 1 - 2 Ajax Amsterdam
41' Gerson Sheotahul 44' Luis Suárez
64'Jan Vertonghen


Feyenoord Rotterdam 1 - 3 De Graafschap
79'Kevin Hofland 11' Jason Oost
51'Geert Den Ouden
69' Geert Den Ouden


NAC Breda 0 - 4 ADO Den Haag
9'Rick Hoogendorp
69'Richard Knopper
80'Richard Knopper
85'Karim Soltani



NEC Nijmegen 1 - 2 FC Utrecht
33'Saidi Ntibazonkiza 78'Simon Cziommer
90'Cedric van der Gun


Willem II Tilburg 1 - 3 Heerenveen
65'Frank Demouge 45'Arnar Smárason
70'Christian Grindheim
90' Mika Väyrynen

Portuguese Liga - Sunday 7th December


Rio Ave 2 - 0 Naval 1º Maio
40' Semedo
72' Anónio Livramento



Maritimo 0 - 6 Benfica
20' José Antonio Reyes_pen
42' David Suazo
66' Luisão
85' David Suazo
87' Nuno Gomes
90' Nuno Gomes

What are the odds of Hoffeinheim doing what Kaiserslautern did back in 97/98 season? Very unlikely, for one thing, Trappatoni's Bayern were utterly hopeless then but there is a slim chance.

Any true football lover will be rooting for Hoffeinheim.

@4play,

Dortmund were very strong then so was Schalke Leverkusen Bayern and Werder Bremen were expected to be the major challengers But unknown Kaiserslautern won it.

Hoffenheim can do it but maybe the inexperience would do them in. They have lost to Bremen and Bayern already but I feel they would win a UCL spot they are one of the best and most attractive attacking team in Europe.

Ibisevic has 18 goals already!!! and talk are on whether Gerd Mullers record of 40 goals in the league is being threatened.

Nobody can break Gerd Muller's record in the Bundeliga. . . .
Ibisevic is just a pretender to that throne.
Gerd Muller?? Are u kidding me??
He was a scoring machine. He scored more goals than his number of appearances for West Germany!!!

18 goals in 16 games at that rate he would make 40 a season.

Though I so much doubt it. He wont make 40

@kaypumpin
he's playin regularly FYI

hoffenheim have really provided entertainment for bundesliga, even if they dont win it, they are a breath of fresh air
dont think ibisevic can score 40, sometimes it looks as if his goals are just a result of their explosive attacking system but he also has some ruud xteristics

Ibisevic is a poacher like Inzaghi but with a physical presence.

His goals are a testament to the all out attacking football of Hoffenheim.

This was a nice article I read in The Times yesterday about Hoffenheim. The writer argues that Ibisevic is not that talented, he is just profiting from Hoffenheim's tactical style:


[center]Hoffenheim are proving success is not always down to money[/center]
[center]Gabriele Marcotti[/center]
By now, you’re probably familiar with Hoffenheim, the German upstarts from the tiny village of 3,732 souls, who, in their first season in the Bundesliga, sit atop the table. If you took a quick look at the results over the weekend, you would see that they were defeated, 2-1, by mighty Bayern Munich, who have now drawn level at the top of the German league.

Normal service has resumed, then?

Not quite. Because, even now that everyone has written the Hoffenheim feel-good story (replete with the customary caveats: this is not a pub team, Dietmar Hopp, the billionaire founder of SAP, the software giant, has invested heavily, etc.) there was nothing normal about Hoffenheim’s display on Friday night.

For a start, they deserved at least a draw, having outplayed Bayern for most of the game. “They were easily the toughest opponents we’ve played all year at the Allianz Arena,” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the Bayern chairman, said. “Nobody else has come into our house and pushed us around like that.”

The “pushing around” bit is an apt analogy, because it speaks to the way Hoffenheim play. Their 4-3-3 is not a cloaked 4-5-1; their wingers – Demba Ba and Chinedu Ogbuke (who made the journey with John Obi Mikel from Nigeria to Norway, was his flatmate for two years and nearly joined him at Chelsea) – stay up the pitch and furiously press and harass the opposition. Their midfield trio move like clockwork and the back four push right up, applying the off-side trap with maniacal precision.

“My football ideal is Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan,” Ralf Rangnick, their manager, said. “Be aggressive in the press, never pass the ball backwards, be quick and direct in possession, move in unison.” Indeed, Sacchi gave football its last real tactical innovation some 20 years ago.

Back then, Rangnick was working in German amateur football. He would tape every Milan game, edit and catalogue every sequence and build a database of how the side moved on the pitch. And this was years before ProZone. To do this, you have to be something of a football-obsessed workaholic, which Rangnick undoubtedly is. He never made it beyond the amateur game (in fact his playing career includes a stint at Southwick, in the Sussex County League) giving him plenty of time to study the game instead.

Of course, many have tried to emulate what Sacchi achieved in his first four years at the San Siro, without succeeding. And that’s why Rangnick has provided his own tweaks, starting with the formation (a 4-3-3, rather than Sacchi’s 4-4-2). But, like all great tactical systems, the result is that the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts.

Nobody embodies this more than Hoffenheim’s centre forward, Vedad Ibisevic. He has notched an outrageous 18 goals in 16 Bundesliga match-es and his story is as improbable as they come. A Bosnian refugee, his family escaped to Switzerland when he was fifteen. Ten months later, they gained a visa to the United States. After unsuccessful stints at Paris Saint-Germain, Dijon and Alemannia Aachen, he surfaced at Hoffenheim last season, where he was used mostly as a third striker.

Now he is flourishing. Tall (6ft 3in), strong and mobile, he is the offensive terminus for everything the side do and, beyond his scoring record, his runs and movement have become an integral part of Rangnick’s master scheme. With a contract expiring in 2010, he is sure to be on many clubs’ shopping lists next year, though the question of whether he can succeed away from Rangnick (or, indeed, if this season was just a freak occurrence) will remain for the time being.

From Hoffenheim’s perspective, the question also lingers, but, in some ways, it doesn’t really matter. They have already far exceeded their objectives. They’ve sold out every match between now and the end of the season (including the ones at the new 30,000-capacity ground they will move into in the new year) and they play a remarkable brand of football that is turning heads all around Europe. And, while Hopp’s millions played a part, his impact in the transfer market was negligible: just two of the club’s summer signings, Gustavo and Andreas Beck, are regulars.

Crucially, they have provided an alternative blueprint for success. One based on infrastructure, coaching and tactics. That alone makes them special, whatever may happen.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/gabriele_marcotti/article5304151.ece

Guess who is at the helm in Madrid?!

JUANDE RAMOS

Oh yes!

He has replaced Bernd Schuster as the coach of Real Madrid and his first game will be against Zenit St Petersburg in the UCL Qualifier tomorrow

I knew this was going to happen Schuster has to get the boot

Madrid is a club that have to win games and win trophies not like Arsenal that is comfortable with playing pretty football without winning anything

With this display I think Quaresma deserve the Bin D or award He is so pooooorrr

that was a lovely article about hoffenheim, that is definitely a system ogbuke likes just like d one siasia used for the olympics with nsofor
but we had a poor midfield in comparison with hoffenheim(not saying siasia too was taping milan's tapes years ago. . . . lol)

i wish they had allowed schuster at least till after el classico
that ramos is always a trouble maker against us

dayokanu:

With this display I think Quaresma deserve the Bin D or award He is so pooooorrr

L M A OOOOOO, mourinho would be wondering what went wrong with mancini and quaresma who he thought would rule both wings, nsofor has more impact than quaresma

Quaresma is a trick pony he should be playing exhibition footie and not competitive footie he would make a good futsal player

KLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lyon 0 Bayern 1

bayern has really gotten stronger. . . . .they should be handed chelsea or inter for some test
i'm sure u dont mind dayokanu??

I dont mind anyone right now even Madrid is welcome.

I would really want Man Utd but like they have escaped us for the second rounds

bad guy. . . . on some 411
u dont mind anyone, thats the spirit
u would have liked to knockout manu to lay down the laws for the others abi?. . . . . dont be overconfident, things could change b4 february
chelsea/inter would be the most suitable for you guys, u definitely deserve it

btw, is podolski leavin in january or in the summer

Podolski would leave in summer we cannot allow him to leave in January cos we would be left with just 2 strikers

Looking at the performance of the teams that placed 2nd I am fairly confident we can beat all since Barca is not in that pool. Forget all those Man Utd Gra Gra they would loose.

Bayern prefers all those attackin teams like Real Man Utd so that we can always catch them with the sucker punch

sorry to say but real dont attack much again while manu will surely like to defend too when they meet you

i tot there was one other striker u guys had apart from those 3

we had Jan Schaudraff but we sold him during the transfer window. Unless we might have to use a midfielder as an attacker.

We know how to handle Man utd and Real Madrid perfectly. Whatever they bring to the table they are our customers anyday

dayokanu:

we had Jan Schaudraff but we sold him during the transfer window. Unless we might have to use a midfielder as an attacker.

We know how to handle Man utd and Real Madrid perfectly. Whatever they bring to the table they are our customers anyday

i hear you, i'll keep that in mind

Because Bayern beat Lyon, we no go hear word again. Check out Lyon's recent performances in Ligue 1, they are clearly going through a rough patch so Bayern played them at a propitious time. That Bayern team will be taken apart by stronger teams because, for all their attacking qualities, their defence is non-existent.

One thing about the UCL that people don't factor in is that a lot will change by February. Barca might not be in the same shape as they are today, sides like Real and Chelsea might be in the form of their lives