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airmark:
Wetin bring my moniker inside your post? Se ori e pe sa?

Meanwhile, what will you do if you are Sarri now?

Be like you dey mental. When you dey type my handle for your useless jejune arguments you no dey remember abi

Pelu Sarri pelu Chelsea gbogbo yin ti ya werey

Lana1:
Grasping at straws. We are talking Hazard. You are bringing Pulisic. Are you now afraid to defend ur shaku shaku princess.

1 goal all season. What a disgrace. Just like ur football career

Airmark reading your tweet rn

Couldn't shakushaku sef

We warned you people about the fraud that is Hidden Hazard.
£100m with one goal.

biomustry:
I still remember 'that goal' against Arsenal though. Scammer

Na local champion like we've always said

raumdeuter:
Hensben hazardfan airmark

Where was Hidden Hazard tonight

I don't understand people over hyping this fraud. They said it was Chelsea that was holding him back. He's now at a big club and is shittin the bed even worse

For me it's not even hate or beef. The guy no reach the hype level at all. Madrid will regret this signing Bigly

Let's see if Hidden Shakushaku will rise up for once. It's actually a thing of shame that in 8 seasons in elite Europe you can't point to one CL knockout stage match and say Hazard was the difference maker. Banter aside

BlueRayDick:
* In the words of afrodoc * It is a phucking disgrace!

1.Henderson played 30 epl matches and gave 1 man of the match performance

2. Alexander-Arnold played 37 epl matches and was man of the match 4 times

3. Sadio Mane played 34 times in the EPL and was awarded man of the match in 7 of those matches

4. Sallah played 33 matches and gave 6 man of the match performance.

But somehow Handerson is EPL's best player according to some INEC officials called Football Writers Association

Thank God everybody eye don dey open small small. This is why we should all say no to polling booth awards.

Because trust me any agenda can be spun to award anybody anything. If PFA or FWA want to give Kepa Aribisala award they will find one narrative repeat it over and over and give him.

Fuvxkin Jordan Henderson

Ibime:
It makes sense in the short term to stake on the likes of City vs Norwich but in the long run, you will lose your whole stake one day. E go take like 6 or 7 bets to claw it back.

An accumulator crystallizes this fact into one weekend. If you like, go and bet on Liverpool, City, Juventus, PSG, Madrid, Barca and Bayern on the same weekend, at least one of them must flop.

There are even other markets that you can stake on rather than depending on a singular outcome of a straight win. Far too risky, of course nothing is foolproof

Hehehehe it's only a rookie that will pick that many and give it an outright win. They just need one Judas

Ibime:
That's a Mayweather bet. Small percentage gains on huge stake.

That Maths has never made sense to me. Wagering 1m to win back less than 30% of the money.

seankafor:
It ended in tears

Lmaoooo this person is funny. Hope he hedged because I don't even understand this kin mumu bet

BlueRayDick:
Na the job of bookies be that.

He obviously knows Arsenal has won the most F.A cup, he knows Arsenal manager himself won the cup as a player and would take a pride to win it as a coach, he knows Arsenal won the last they met at this stage of the competition and the coach would have it remain so....But alaye wants as many people as possible to follow his tip and gift him subatantial part of their income

He won anyways. I'm sure some boys are cursing Alabi this night somewhere in their single room apartment

Lmaoooo people are so fuckin gullible. If a bookie tells you to do one thing you do the complete opposite. Not rocket science

OliviaPope:
That'll be an actual competition. He's the only one that can challenge Lewis, and Lewis knows

Lmaoooo that image is hilarious. Max just puts you under all kinds of pressure

Let's see if Red Bull can give Max an elite car this season or next. We already know Valteri doesn't have a prayer

OliviaPope:
This didn't age well.

Max is anything but overhyped. Arguably the best driver on the grid

I'm itching to see what he can do with a car on the same level with the Mercs.

Let's go there. If Izzy survives the first two rounds it's likely he wins

simonjassy:
The real problem here is the attacker comolex most people suffer from.Believing the attackers are the most important in any team.Everybody knows that scoring is not a problem for real madrid,their problem is not conceding.They are the exact opposite of atletico.If benzema was in atletico and he scored these goals leading to them winning the league trophy,he will undoubtedly be the MVP as defending is not a problem for atletico but scoring is.

Scoring was not a problem for Madrid this year? Who scored more than 10 goals for Madrid this season? A penalty taking defender!! But scoring is not a problem?

raumdeuter:
The drop from Cortouis to a Madrid standard goalkeeper is also not as steep as you are making it to sound. Keylor Navas won them the last league and 3 CL titles. Benzemas 8 assists is about tp 5 in the entire league

PSG #1 last season is Courtois's backup. Not some scrub

raumdeuter:
Atletico dont concede but lack of goals, Simeones side have conceded just 3 goals more than Madrid but are 20points behind Real Madrid because they scored 18 goals less than Madrid. That mean they will never win, All their clean sheets is wasted because no one will do the business on the other end I am sure Atletico with their solid defence will die to have a striker to deliver >= 29 g+a like Diego Costa did for them in 2014

The funny thing is Atletico every season are a clear proof that Defense doesn't actually win championships

The World class record breaking defense numbers is what Atletico do in their sleep but they have barely competed for a league title since 2014.

Doesn't matter how good your defense is, this is a league campaign. You still have to score.

raumdeuter:
For Madrid goals conceded some have said Ramos, Some Cortouis
Some will say its Mendy that stayed back more and more defensively aware than Marcelo used to, Some have said Casemiro that was covering them

So we have almost 6 layers claiming glory for Madrid low goals conceded

But the attack credit only goes to 1 person Kareem Benzema

Carvajal dey.

Ibime:
Why can't Jovic give a 21 goal season as starting striker with confidence on his side? He's come close before in lesser team.

I rate Areola, that's why I'm not just going to rubbish him completely. Goalkeeper position is also a match-rhythm and Confidence position

Can Militao or Nacho what Ramos gave?

What is his antecedents of doing this? Even Adebayor did not deliver at Madrid and that was a proven striker. Why do you think Jovic will based on one or two good seasons?

Should we start listing the players that did well at small clubs and made big moves only to finish as historical flops?

simonjassy:
IMO the MVP'S for real madrid this season is the defence,especially cortoius.. 21goals is all nice and good,but without 18 clean sheets,those goals will only get them to probably 3rd or 4th..case study last season.
Benzema,did not show any marginal improvement this season,but the goalkeeper in this case did,anybody trying to dole out the mvp award to benzema is clearly being biased

Cc @Ibime

Shey you can see? Some will say Ramos, Some will say Courtois

Ibime:
That's just the way awards work, otherwise defenders will never win any individual honours. You usually go for the leader or organiser of the defence ie Ramos, VVD, Terry, Kompany etc. I'm sure if Ramos played his normal gung-ho style of defending, Varane would have continued to be unfortunate because Varane is a follower in defence, not a leader.

I no dey for this point and shout pattern as a metric for judging defenders. I judge defenders by ability and not for their perceived organizing traits.

Even within Madrid and league circles some will tell you Courtois was better and more important than Ramos. I've seen him hailed for keeping clean sheets and making important saves.

How can we categorically say Ramos has been more important than Courtois? This is why I no too send polling booth awards

Ibime:
No one can begrudge Benz some honours. The club should be pushing for him to be honoured because he sacrificed himself for nearly a decade for Ronaldo to score. When the responsibility fell on him, he did good and delivered a Championship. . . but not World Class like the defence. He deserves something for the years of sacrifice coupled with this year's performance. But normally, this year's POTY should go to Ramos.

The defense has been good but one of the reasons Defenders typically don't get awards is because at the end of the day it is still a collective. How really can we judge who was better between Ramos and Courtois.

With Benzema we know he was responsible for 42% of Madrid's goals. How do we quantify the defensive contributions of each player

Ibime:
8 assists is nothing for a striker and is not extraordinary. Madrid assists are shared around so no one ever posts high assists numbers in that team.

What?? How many CFs all across Europe have 8 league assists while creating almost 2 chances per game? From open play. It's definitely extraordinary especially since only 3 more players have done better in the entire league

Ibime:
You can't downplay his prominence but you can't rank him no 1.

His goals scored and team goals scored is just another season for Madrid. Benzema goals have improved 0% from last season while total team goals have declined just 7% (the defence clean was good enough to still swallow the 7% decline in output and not only improve position, but win the league outright)

The goals conceded though is an extraordinary improvement from a normal Madrid season - an exactly 100% improvement on last year.

It's not just that he scored it's that no other teammate contributed at even average level. The defense badly underperformed last season but did better this season

However Benzema bore the significant burden in attack and as good as the defense has been you still have to score to actually win matches. There's a reason FIFA increased points for a Win from 2 to 3

Ibime:
If defence has kept clean sheet for you, scoring a goal a game will be worth 3 points. If defence is conceding anyhow, your goals start to become worth 1 point or 0 points.

It can be argued that keeping a clean sheet is merely the defense doing its job. After all all games start 0-0.

Ultimately no matter if the defense keeps a clean sheet the offense still has to score. This is league not cup where you can 0-0 your way to the Finals.

timbros:
This your post goes both ways.

If Courtois doesn't play, will Real Madrid play with 10 men? Another goal keeper will surely take his place and any decent goal keeper that keeps for Madrid will keep at least 3/4 clean sheets, at which point the goals is the real Championship winner since you can replace Courtois with any Madrid-level goalkeeper and still win the League.

This is why I told you in an earlier post that "if" arguments is pointless.

Going with the reality on ground, Benzema played a prominent role in Madrid's title win.

It's not rocket science. Arreola is a competent backup to boot, Same way Ramos missed the penultimate game and Madrid still kept clean sheet. We can play this game ad nauseum

airmark:
You were even quoting a Madrid hater that wanted Madrid, relegated. You no just get sense.

But you claimed nobody dissed Courtois. I have showed you that he was dissed by fans and enemies alike. Stop disgracing yourself. Oponu agbalagba

airmark:
This is a Madrid fan not a Madrid hater, that watched Madrid's matches when you were busy with your roadside mechanic work.


Poor-in-front-of-goal striker.

Akpa nsi. Shut up and show Benzema 'Ghostin' for 11 games in a row like you foolishly claimed

afrodoc2:
When people are comparing the exploits of 5 people i.e the Madrid defence to the exploits of 1 person i.e Benzema then you already know the answer to the question.

You can’t say you are making a fair comparison when you have to do Courtois+Ramos+Varane+LB+RB in order to rubbish Benzema.

Benzema was the single most important individual player responsible for the league title.
The Madrid defence is not a player.

It's perplexing. Benzema is the second top scorer in the league. #4 in assists. He was directly involved in 42% of the goals Madrid scored in the league.

Ibime:
That's between Benzema and the other attackers.

Nothing to do with the defence who have posted World Class stats.

Benzema 21 goals is not a World Class stat. He can only use that to flog his fellow attackers who flopped.

The defense is a collective of 5. Benzema is but one individual. This premise is faulty.

So how do you judge who contributed more? That we are comparing Benzema to a collective of 5 further proves my point.

Besides 21 goals is World class for this season because he is only second behind Messi, add to the fact that he also leads the team in assists this makes his contributions even more significant. Even digging further when you consider the number of key passes he has averaged one can argue that if he wasn't surrounded by shitty forwards his numbers would be even gaudier

Ibime:
A member of the defence must be honoured when the defence posts World Class stats on the way to a Championship and no striker posted World Class stats. That's why Terry was honoured in 2005 over Lampard who scored 20 goals, and why VVD was honoured over Salah who scored 20 or 21 league goals.

This has always been the problem with polling booth awards. So how do we calculate who contributed the most in defense? How do you definitively prove that Terry was more influential than Cech or Carvalho, who is more important in defense for Madrid? Courtois? Ramos? Varane?

It's a faulty and inconsistent style especially when Benzema has done sufficiently on the other end.

airmark:
You copied and pasted all the posts from a Ucl match in September against PSG. You had to go to the beginning of the season, out of 34 matches he kept. It's so hard for you, that's almost a year ago

Now compare that to a Benzema that ghosted for 11 matches in a row, between December and February, when the league might have slipped away but for others that stepped up. You are just not smart and the reason Dayo likes to use you as a foot stool.

You are a demented mofo. And a shameless liar at that to suggest that was from 1 game. I thought you foolishly claimed there was no Courtois slander in the 19/20 season when the reality was he was useless from August to October at the very minimum

Next time crosscheck before typing nonsense with your leprous fingers.

When did Benzema ghost for 11 games in a row you lying fork tongued serpent. Who were the others that stepped up and let's compare their contributions with that of Benzema. Fool! E say step up like say them no dey collect salary. Benzema must score or assist all 36 games according to your foolish skull

timbros:
I'm not rubbishing Jovic. But I'm basing my comments on what is on ground right now. Jovic has had a very slow start to his Madrid career. His confidence is below low now, there is no way he can give Madrid 21 goals this season.

Same way Nacho/Militao can't give what Ramos gave to the team.

If I were to rate the Madrid players contributions by percentage, I will give Benzema 45%, defence 30%, rest of the squad 25%.

My personal opinion sha.

Exactly. Benzema alone contributed 29 goals + assists. No other Madrid player combined for more than 10 goals + assists. None. Have you ever seen something like that before?

airmark:
When was everybody yabbing Courtois in 2019/2020 season? He was more consistent in the season than the bag of beans.

Your problem is, you don't watch Madrid matches, just arguing based on what Dayo spews and stats on sites.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STo09eyh4p4

erons22:
Abeg courtois is worst

That man has conceded more than 90goals in less than 50matches.

HAZARD still needs time, same with NICOLAS PEPE..


As for lingard they need to demote him back to youth league

oloriLFC:
Courtois like Tortoise. Dem just dey nack am goals any how.

yungsmart:
Courtois is the real flop just swallowing goals like EBA.

Hazard still needs time to cause hazard for realmadrid opponents.

erons22:
.

There is something about this COURTOIS GK

HIS PERFORMANCE WITH HIS NATIONAL TEAM IS DIFFERENT FROM HIS CLUB TEAM.

HE ALWAYS DO WELL WHEN PLAYING FOR BELGIUM .

BUT CLUB TEAM IS DIFFERENT.

andrew444:
Courtois is akpeyi

Uzoho is better than this courtois

biomustry:
Chelsea sold a finished Courtois, an obese Hazard to Madrid and collected kovacic, sold Grandpa Cech and Luiz to arsenal and collected Giroud #scammers.

Miremoses1:
Courtois and Carvahal are pure sh#t

Galaticos444:
d only justify reason is navas is ageing but courtois is a very bad keeper

Tonymegabush1:
Courtois no sabi keep ball ooo happy he even left chelsea

eni4real:
Perez just buy any "next big thing" in football and relegate his proven soldiers!!!

How can you buy Courtois just to relegate Navas??

TalabiAudu:
And to all of.you that want to use the opportunity of Courtois foolishness to blame Hazard tonight, y'all ain't ready for this

I don't blame you. O ti'n di arugbo. You now have the memory capacity of a goldfish

Ibime:
No doubt Benzema has produced but the argument is not as simple as pointing at his goals.

If Benzema doesn't play, will Real Madrid play with ten men? Another striker will surely take his place and any decent striker that plays no9 for Madrid will score at least 18 league goals, at which point the clean sheets is the real Championship winner since you can replace Benzema with any Madrid-level striker and still win the League.

I haven't always been a Benzema fan but as far as this season he's been exceptional.

What Benzema does goes beyond just goals, he is also leading the team in assists and is one of their top chance creator as well.

He is the pivot of that entire attack.

The final part of your post we can plug and play for just about any other team in the league. Liverpool and Ederson has 15 clean sheets. I'm sure even Adrian had some, doesn't mean their defense has been the championship winner when you have Salah and Mane