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coogar: na your papa name be that?It looks like I have got a report of it somewhere. I guess this was the incident described below. Ronaldo also missed on a breakaway in the 74th minute, just moments after going down when kicked on the ankle. He was still limping as he headed in on van der Saar, and Edgar Davids caught up, pushing the ball just wide before Ronaldo could get off a decent shot. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/world/events/1998/worldcup/news/1998/07/07/brazil_update/ See your self? ![]() Ayagayagayagayo, hei, ayagayagayagayo. |
coogar: na your papa name be that?Then it is very obvious we are not talking about same incidence. Yeye Clement. Your own is now even different from Dayo's highlight. Three different situations altogether. |
dayokanu: He walked into a trap with his reference to France 98 because I had a notebook specifically for that world cup And this particular game I had it on VHS recorded because I couldnt watch it Life because That was the day MKO died and Aluta boys in Ife destroyed the projector and every TV attempting to show the game when we should be mourning MKO. even switched off the whole campus electricityHow does that picture show anything to dispute my story? |
dayokanu: You know he reminds me of those guys in school who would narrate a 3hrs Chinese movie they watched for 2 days The guy who first narrated "Best of the best" movie to me spent almost a weekYou didn't watch the match so you wont know what we are talking about. |
coogar: if there's an academic degree for lying, elampiro would be the vice-chancellor. i gave up on him the day he claimed to have seen hargreaves clipping messi's left foot in 2008.Shut the hell up Mr Clement Njoku sn. [b][color=#000099]You want me to just swallow a photograph dayokanu posted? What I saw was different from this. So there are not many highlights in a match?[/b][/color] |
dademola: Elamps baba!! Why u sef dey carry d matter enter france 98 na?? U suppose don knw say dayokanu and co dey set for u na....Dayokanu no know wetin he dey talk. Na wetin I see I write. It was something we were all talking about. |
dayokanu: Its only analysts who gets facts from pool papers who need to tell lies to buttress their pointsThis is not what I saw. This probably was another scene. |
Those who believe in stat will pick Mikel Obi over Edgar Davids assuming both played at same time. I am not saying Jones is Davids, but they are alike in energy level. In France '98 semi final, Ronaldo Lima went on a counter from just over the centre line, before he got to the 18 box, he had outpaced everyone who was leveled with him and those behind him. As Ronaldo was finally in the box and was about to strike into the net, a fast foot pushed the ball into a corner kick and Ronaldo struck breeze. Whaose. Leg was it, Edgar who was at least 15 yards behind when Ronaldo blasted off from the centre line. I think it should have put Brazil 2-0 up. In our match against Tottenham, Jones gave a similar chase such that the Tottenham guy was confused before he got to our defense. Jones closed down on his so fast. Statistics don't show things like these. |
All these statisticians and chartisticians have come again. * Chart won't show the player who was making himself available to receive passes in tight situations, from those others who were making themselves available only under less pressure. * Chart won't show the player who was closing down opponents better, from those who gave opponents plenty room to make advances towards our defense. Chart can only show tackles won or lost, but we know marking is more than that. You can mark the opponents such that the only option he has to make a senseless pass or take a weak shot, whereas another player under same situation will allow the opponents plenty of space and time to make a vital use of the ball. * Chart won't tell you who was more of a threat in defending corner kicks or attacking corner kicks, etc. * Chart won't show you the player you chased an opponent all the way back, then caught up with him or making the opponent attacking on us impotent. * chart or stat may tell you which player gave away the ball more, but it won't tell you which one gave it away under pressure situations and which gave it away under little pressure. Some players are masters of avoiding to make themselves available under tight marking. We can go all and all. It sometimes appear to me that those who so much rely in stat are those who never kick a ball. |
Oghos1: And rafael seems to bring out d best in valencia. Their link up play is impressiveYou are correct. May be we should put Val on the right and Nani on the left. |
SailorXY: Why must we set up to 'cope' against all teams these daysAdopting your line up and considering Everton are only fast but not a power playing side, I will replace Janujaz with Giggs. Giggs will play a better and matured passing game than Adan. My thought. |
GustavoFring: If you say so my friend.It's tomorrow. It looks like Coogar keeps mixing up the date. |
Hope the naija wrestler will come out of this alive? |
GustavoFring: Smalling against Lukaku?Smalling will be better than Ferdi. I don't know how Vidic will cope. But this is where we miss Jones. |
SailorXY: My Line Up for Everton will be;Will this line up cope with the high tempo and speeding football Everton plays? The combination of Fellaini, Janujaz and Kagawa might be too slow to cope together. One or two of them should drop. Currently, Everton is the fastest team in EPL, and they are superbly fit. |
naptu2: I was going to create a similar thread yesterday, but couldn't find the time.Date pls ![]() |
nkem Kalu: My friend Innocent wants to be a WRESTLER and needs an advice........hahahaha....in my dictionary nothing is impossible and if u can dream it then u can achieve it. It is that simple. Some one in this forum has given u some tips which I tend to agree on but unfortunately, the sports is not developed at all in Nigeria. And I believe that is why many still believe it is fake and does not exist and whatever they do their is acting. This is not true. It is never acting....U must first of all be a risk taker, U must be strong and have guts and most importantly have the ability to endure unimaginable pains. As I am talking to u now REY MYSTERIO has been out of action for 9months due to injury he sustained in the hands of ALBERTO DEL RIO who happens to come from the same country with him (MEXICO) This is because that thing they do that entertains u tears their body apart but it is one of the most rewarding and paying careers of our time. They are paid even much more higher than footballers and Basket ballers. Let me give u a clue on how POWER MIKE started and he remains the only one that made wrestling famous in NIGERIA bringing in some notable wrestlers like Mighty Igor, MIL Mascaras, Ali Baba of Lebanon, Dick the BULL DOG BROWER, BUDDY ROSE, MICHAEL HAYES, THE MONGOLS, CARLOS COLON AND THUNDERBOLT wILLIAMS etc. tO Lagos Nigeria in the early or Mid 70s.You are a wrestling guru. But I diasgree with you that wrestlers earn higher than footballer. John Cena won't even earn close to Fernado Torres or Robin Van Persie. |
coogar: young has more skills in his left foot[b](that he never uses)[/b] than the whole of valencia.At the bolded. ![]() When will he use these skills for the benefit of Man United. |
Wenger hits out at Ballon d'Or obsession Goal.com By Alec Fenn December 1, 2013 8:14 AM Arsene Wenger has hit out at soccer's obsession with the Ballon d'Or and says he does not want anyone to win the game's most prestigious individual prize. Debate continues to rage over which player will be handed the award in January, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribery the favorites to wrestle the crown from four-time winner and current holder Lionel Messi. But Arsenal boss Wenger said he is completely against the idea of individual prizes in a team sport and says he will fight to bring to an end to the trophy's existence. The 64-year-old told Telefoot: "Who do I want to win this year? I do not want anyone at all. I am against individual awards. This is an endorsement of an individual which goes against the essence of our sport. I fight like a mad man against the award, which hurts football. Unconsciously, the player is prompted to favor individual performance over that of the team." FIFA recently extended the voting deadline for the prize from Nov. 15 to Nov. 29, with the winner of the 2013 Ballon d'Or set to be announced at a ceremony in Zurich on Jan. 13. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/wenger-hits-ballon-dor-obsession-131400301--sow.html |
This Everton match..... me I never sure o. Everton is in a very good form. |
coogar: de gea, rafael, smalling, evans, evra, anderson, cleverley, nani, kagawa, young, rooney. at this stage, we should go for it - no point playing mechanical players again....and you think Young is not a mechanical player? What skills does he have? |
More and more active members. This forum is becoming more interesting. Where has this darefestus been since? I guess we will clash soon. ![]() |
** our late subs with 7 minutes to go shows that Moyes has not taken on the Man United DNA yet. He still has the Everton mentality - a balanced game with Tottenham is ok. ** Goal scoring has plenty to do with the defence and midfield. If the defence and midfield are not able to win tackles quickly, it means that the forwards will have little time on the ball in the 90 mins of play. It also meant that the forwards will join them in trying to retrieve the ball from opponents. On the other hand, if they are slow in retrieving the ball, they should not fall to dominate possession with it once they got hold of it. Last season, Scholes, Carrick and Cleverly were able to hold possession, work with the forwards to play a pressing game on the opponents. Now Scholes is gone and Carrick+ Cleverley are yet to find their rhythm yet. Last season we played better such that the goals we conceded against weak sides were from counter attack on us. This season, we are held mostly to our final third that even teams like Cardiff would have missed 3 clear chances against us before finally finding the back of our net due to our ineffectiveness in our own back. |
There is something which will always hurt us. Our defense play too deep and far from the forwards. That gives too much room for opponents to explore in the midfield, as well as too much space for our midfielders to cover. That also delay the ball to the attack. I think we need the younger guys to take over our CD. Look at the way Vidic was easily outpaced and almost got a red card. Those days Anderson and Cleverley did very well together in the mdfield, we had Jones, Evans and Smalling in the CD. We had Jone/Smalling, Jones/Evans pairings, then Rafael or Smalling on the right. Then Evra on the left with Fabio having one or two games. They pushed forward and together with the CMs played energetically games, close down strikers, chased backwards with speed, won tackles and help the forwards with quick balls. Don't be surprise now if we get Modric or Fab or Song and we still have to defend a one nil lead from 25th minute. |
n0m0705: Where do you guys get this one sided opinion from? Rooney should not drop too deep and be waiting for passes from who? Did you people even watched united matches this season? And if he did that and ended up being isolated through out the match you all will still be calling for his headStarboard must see this rating. When I provided Mancheser United official site and goal.com ratings stating that Jones and Smalling were our 2nd and 3rd best performers, the self acclaimed football statisticians dismissed with so much levity the credibility of suc ratings. Now look at a third source saying same thing. There problem is lack of objectivity. Just because of argument, some guys watched the match with the sole purpose of finding fault in his games. That made them to overlook his overall contribution. This was exactly what they did to Rooney earlier in the season. I try to be objective in my analysis. I mentioned Valencia was poor in the second half, but some people quickly took it as a license to suggest he was one of our worst performers. Valencia was one of the best in the first half but wasted opportunities to make good crosses in the 2nd half. He was also well position to receive passes but he useless them all in the 2nd. Defensively, he still did well for Smalling in the 2nd half. I mentioned Nani should have started (even before the match), they said I don't know tactics, we needed to stop Lenon. Which lenon? The one Man City turned to a school boy? Lenon who has been confusing himself with his own speed. England should drop him for now. Whereas Nani was one of our top performers against Leverkusen. All Evra or Jones or Evans needed to do was play a short pass to Nani in our defensive half, voom off he went. Then Rooney and Kagawa provided a passing option. Same way when Valencia or Rooney sped off with the ball on the counter. Nani and Kagawa provided viable passing option. We largely missed Nani's ability to cut into the middle from the left. His dribbling too and good ball retention skills. |
larride: My personal rating.You sabi watch football and analyse with pure objectivity. |
dademola: Elampiro, jones was at fault for spurs' 1st goal! Pls stop this ur yeye arguement jare!So Jones made Evans not to shield well? The free kick should have been defended. What is yeye argument? So even if Jones scored an own goal, his overall play should be ignored? |
SailorXY: Jones was better than Cleverley who should have left the pitch on the 60' mark for AndersonThanks for this objectivity. |
StarBoard: see ignorance at its zenith.Mr Junior, What has Lucas Moira got to do with match rating and even fans reactions on the goal.com site? Goal.com was even generous enough in the marks awarded Cleverley, but the fans are pummeling him with 'insults'. Is free kick a penalty? Also, Jones mistake could have been defended better by Evans. It was a needless free kick Evans gave away. For your information, someone can even score an own goal and still win man of the match. Your problem is that you are a follow follow. You can't judge for yourself. |
Paul Scholess on BBCRadio 5: "It's been a bit of a patchy start, but that's expected with a new manager coming in, "You can see now he's getting the gist of his players. It was hard for him early on because it's OK watching the players when you're managing Everton but to be spending all the time with them is different. Now I think they can concentrate on getting a good run of form and I expect them to do that. "I expect by January time they'll be really up and running and they'll be close to the top of the league and hopefully with a great run to the end of the season they can win the league." ................................................. David Moyes: "I think the table will sort itself out. I think the big games are all to come in second half of the season. Undoubtedly Arsenal have been very consistent and they have got off to a great start but there will be a lot of teams now looking to chase them down and hopefully we will be one of them. "We had to come from behind twice and thankfully we did that. We just couldn't get a third goal." #mufc #spurs |
leggo: elampiro can start an argument like a sane person then start acting like insane clown posse after just five minutesWhen people talk like this or insult, I know they have run out of ideas. So people who argued that Rooney playing in 9 was our problem and Jones was poor, are the ones who have football sense? Yet they are here defending the principal culprits to our woeful performance. Why won't I react? You people should know this is not a computer football game (PE 13 abi). We are talking of what transpired and real football. |
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you lie for a living.
We put Welbeck on the left to 'cope' with Lennon & Walker, did that ensure the points?