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SailorXY:
He chose to type like that I believe.
Formerly very few peeps cared about constructive sentences or diction, but as more people arrived the ITKs grew in leaps & bounds!
I go still dey express in Naija style, the surest way to Heaven

Nihilist:
Ah but Demola's English has improved gaan ni o...

Was it only a few years ago, that he posted exclusively in textspeak? Now he is something like the second coming of Nitlad.

Awolowo be praised.

homesteady:
I told you he bosses El classico, and was the MOTM in the last game. Are you trying to tell us that the 2nd best attacking trio in the world didn't put pressure on barcelona defense?

The Guardian:
"We play in the other team's half as much as possible because I get worried when the ball is in my half," he says. "We're a horrible team without the ball so I want us to get it back as soon as possible and I'd rather give away fouls and the ball in their half than ours." The stats bear that out: Dani Alves makes the fourth highest number of touches in the opposition half in La Liga.

Barcelona attack to defend; when they lost to Arsenal, Guardiola was angry with Alves not for attacking too much but for attacking badly. That Barcelona lost because they were caught up the pitch is one reading; Guardiola's reading is that had they scored they would not have been caught on the break.

"Barcelona are the only team that defend with the ball; the only team that rests in possession," Lillo says. "They keep the ball so well, they move so collectively, that when you do get it back, you're tired, out of position and they're right on top of you." Lillo knows: his Almería side were defeated 8-0 by Barcelona.

Michael Laudrup, the Mallorca coach, said: "They move the ball so fast that by the time you get there, it's gone. You end up desperate, and shattered." As Rexach notes, Barcelona even waste time with possession. Most teams would go down to the corner; Barcelona would rather keep the ball between themselves.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/mar/06/barcelona-pep-guardiola

homesteady:
He beat Neuer to this award!
When will your club keeper win it? or will you also say it was barcelona system that made him to make such a save?

homesteady:
You didn't answer the questions I asked you -


Why then does your team not play with a high line defense?

homesteady:
Why was the whole world blaming Pep for using a highline against barcelona last UCL season?

homesteady:
Igorance! So a big club like barcelona will just wake up one morning and decide to buy any keeper they see to replace Valdez?

Ter stegen was making waves in Bundesliga, I think he conceeded the least goals after Neuer and the 2nd highest clean sheet after saving the club from relegation the previous season!
I know EPL clubs don't have a good scouting policy, but it doesn't stop you from checking out good players from other leagues.

homesteady:
Didn't you also watch the last worldcup? Bravo was one of the standout keepers!
Don't even enter Bravo's matter, his stats speaks for him, I'm already expecting you to say the system helps him.

raumdeuter:
Terry was England captain and one of the most overhyped player. He has excellent leadership skills but as a footballer he is below average

Gerrard is another scam

Nothing debatable about Yaya, he is everyones favourite customer in europe, once you see yaya. just buy lubes he's sure to chop am

homesteady:
And don't you know that it's players like Messi who make his defending job harder by not tracking back?
Is attacking the only aspect of a game? No - that means other players play important functions.

homesteady:
Ermmm.... how many times do I have to say this - He had a good season and even won best save of the tournament! Was it not his UCL form that made people and the press to say he was Neuer's heir?

homesteady:
O really? Why then does your team not play with a high line defense?
Who doesn't know that is the most difficult style of defending where you are highly exposed to counter-attacks?
Why was the whole world blaming Pep for using a highline against barcelona last UCL season?

homesteady:
He became a defensive liability in Man city.

homesteady:
Read my post well, I was comparing Hazard situation to Ter Stegen!

homesteady:
Lmaoooooooooooo! Bravo won copa America with Chile, it shows you don't know what you are talking about

homesteady:
You would surely make a bad coach! You buy
2 new good keepers, is sharing responsibilities between them the best thing to do?

homesteady:
there is always ab excuse! SMH

homesteady:
Yea... the system! Some of your type even say the system is what makes Messi look good!

homesteady:
Barcelona played a more direct football last season, and yet Piqué was one of the best defenders in Europe!

homesteady:
Who has been the best defender in EPL for a while now? - Terry. I guess you remember how he fared when he played in a high line defense under AVB, and Piqué the 'mediocre' defender Excells in such a system!

homesteady:
Does a Defensive midfielder need thousands of lessons to play as a defender?

homesteady:
How old was Piqué when he was in Man U? I know things are bad now for you guys, but it has not always been like that! man u had a great squad then, you don't expect such a young Piqué to break into the team!
Besides, it was only pique that couldn't break in, Pogba also!

homesteady:
Haa! Hazard won PFA player of the year, but he is playing rubbish now, does that mean he has always been playing rubbish?

homesteady:
2 new keepers were bought at the same time, their duties were shared - Bravo for la liga and Ter Stegen for UCL!

homesteady:
After that save he made from Robben in the final, you still don't expect him to win it?

homesteady:
[s]You should have told me you preferred brutes[/s]!

homesteady:
So because Matic and his teammates are playing badly now, then I can say he was very average and it was his teammates that made him look good?
The whole team played badly, thats why they finished the season trophyless.

homesteady:
I hope you also know he won best save of the tournament? that shows he was very good during last UCL and is only suffering from loss of form now.

homesteady:
Who was?

homesteady:
In any criteria you want to use, Piqué is still among the elite defenders!

homesteady:
Though he lost form for a season or two, but it wasn't only him but the whole team!

homesteady:
Last season he was like the best defender in Europe - That's why he made UEFA team of the season!

homesteady:
Besides he made FIFA world best 11 about 3 times, when the list was still sensible, not now that David luiz is making the list!

homesteady:
He ticks all the boxes of a good defender, except that he doesn't have speed, how many defenders have speed sef?

Debroslink:
I believe Pique has been among the top 3 defenders in the world in the last 6 years. A top class elite defender.

homesteady:
A player who was an integral part of a world cup, Euro cup, and 2 times treble winning squad not an Elite player?

homesteady:
If Pique is not an elite defender, then I wonder who qualifies to be an elite defender!

raumdeuter:
How was the career path of Klopp, Reus Hummels Kroos, Ozil, Khedira, Schurlle etc decided by my club

raumdeuter:
Klopp is now at Liverpool that must be part of Bayerns agenda too

raumdeuter:
Have you now known why Klopp left Dortmund

raumdeuter:
Ok sorry I heard he has burns on his back. na why him name be sound like say he don "lana"

Oya my paddy Adelana1 come dance for us. I go pardon you and pick another person maybe Dadehmola

leggo:
You are surprised the shekpe fan could not keep up with his own reasoning in the space of 5 minutes? It is their hallmark! While normal people have brains in their skulls they have a pair of ivanovic's butt.

raumdeuter:
There is a reason they wrote both together and not Just "Bayern won 5 CL" or "Bayern won 5 European cups"
Use your brain and stop going to that Cocacola building in Ilorin Because thats the only place you use your head

raumdeuter:
If you are not an idiott then you would know Bayern has won just 2 CL and 3 European cups. Bayern has been European Champions 5 times

raumdeuter:
Maybe this is more than illiteracy afterall, you went to the site, Point or circle where they said won CL 5 times

and even quoted this as evidence?

elampiro:


The Ayagayagayagayos have gone into hiding after they said I was ashamed to post. Now who ashamed to post?

If I am not posting, it doesn't mean I have nothing to post or I cannot put up a sound defence. It's just that I sometimes choose not to post.

chinemerem26:
E pain pass wen a celebrity snubs a fellow celebrity... imagine vic o snubbing airforce1.

elampiro:
Rooney will still top our scorers chart this season. He only needs to score in successive games and that's all....

elampiro:
We have seen captains scored two own goals in one match and still ended captaining the team for many years more.

elampiro:
How was the net an empty one? There were bodies in the net. Goalkeepers and players

elampiro:
I thought they meant he blocked a ball going into the net.

Well, it can happen when one is low in confidence. He has been criticized too often of not hitting the ball first time, so he didn't want to stop it. Gaal must have hammered him at half time which probably resulted in him getting low in the second half.

elampiro:
Which incidence was this?

UniqueGem:
No matter the area you want to look at attributes from, Cazorla, more especially Coutinho shouldn't be grouped with Mata.

UniqueGem:
Apart from James Rodriguez, the other players you mentioned are not on same level as Mata when it comes to creativity. In the EPL alone, the most creativeplayers are Silva, Mata and Ozil in a distant 3rd.

Dadehmola:
• Carzola (last season)
• James Rodriguez
• Isco
• Coutihno
Ps : they aren't on the same level with silva but they still influence games (to a very considerable extent) for their respective clubs.
Mata is becoming an inzaghi-esque #10 - scoring chance goals & providing assists without necessarily pulling his weight as an attacker.

chrisley024:
Is he actually our no.10 cos you see him more in the box finding spaces than the player playing behind the CF eg. Rooney.
Dude creates the most chances in this team and has the most intelligent movement off the ball to find spaces in the box.

Caveatemptor:
Mata has improved this season.
The back heeled flick for Smalling and Uniteds second goal last night was audacious and the sign of a player coming to terms with his role in the team as well as his responsibility.

Caveatemptor:
The fact that Van Gaal has got him taking penalties for the team ahead of Rooney shows that Van Gaal believes and trusts in him.
Now if Van Gaal could just grow an extra pair and drop Rooney to the bench and play Mata in his natural role...............

chrisley024:
How many players in Europe even influence matches that much?. Bar Silva in EPL I'm still thinking of anyone else.