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Straight sets win for Roger. Great performance, when Federer is playing well it's almost impossible to beat him. Especially since his game, and his variety, are a terrible match-up for Del Potro. Still, the Tower of Tandil is definitely headed in the right direction, very good tournament overall and he even had his chances yesterday in the first two sets, the scoreline is deceptively loopsided. That said, although Fed played great, there are things Delpo can improve and must improve if he wants to be a genuine threat at Roland Garros: His forehand is getting closer and closer to the 2009 level and his fitness is also steadily improving. The two main problems are his serve and his return. It's pathetic to see such a big guy with such a weak serve; his serve should be a weapon, giving him tons of free points. Instead, he had only 5 aces, won only 58% of points in his first serve and double faulted on break points. Not good enough. He also could do nothing with Federer's second serve, his returns were not strong or deep at all. If he can improve these two shots, especially his serve, back to 2009 levels (or better), then he will be ready to fight with Djokovic, Nadal and Federer. I still think he had a great tournament, played his best tennis since his injury and can obviously only get better, so it's an encouraging tournament. And let's also not forget that in 2009 he lost to Fed in the quarter in Australia 3,0,0 and then ended the year with a Grand Slam title. Good omen perhaps? As for the semifinal, I hope Roger beats Rafa. Would love a Federer vs Djokovic final. But given the history between these two, Rafa is obviously the favorite. But if Roger can play like he did against Delpo, I wouldn't be surprised to see the great Swiss in the final. |
7-10 times a week? What's too much about that? |
I don't know which was the worse team - Ghana or Botswana. Very poor display from both sides. |
I don't think he did it on purpose |
AjanleKoko:Well, there's a certain Antonella Roccuzo. I guess she gives him some kind of treatment that we may never understand. Does anyone else think another reason for Messi's great performance was Fabregas being benched? Not that they don't get along or anything but it seems when Fabregas plays, he kinda takes Messi's forward position and Messi drops a bit deeper to help the build up. We saw Messi finally making some runs today rather than passing the ball off to his teammates. |
That was Ronaldo's 8th penalty in the league this season. The thing jus tire me |
This should be an interesting game |
Fantastic performance. Messi was on dope today. Shame that freekick rattled the crossbar, he could have had 4 goals. We seem to play better with 4-3-3. |
shuo! Match ended 4-1. Messi grabbed a hat trick |
youngbest:Africa - Salif Keita |
This match is depressing. |
Johnpaul88:See punchline o. This had me rolling on the floor. Funny thing is I feel that we will go and draw in Malaga. |
Red Bull Salzburg have signed B striker, Jonathan Soriano, for €500k plus another €500k in variables. His contract was gonna run out in the summer. Good guy. I really like this guy. He's a natural finisher. He can b[i]an[/i]g in goals. I was always hoping we would one day promote him. He's 26 already though and it's only right he moves somewhere he can play top level, regular football. I Wish him all the best. Now our B team will be in serious trouble! Rodri and Kiko have been quite poor, as indeed, the whole team. Jean Marie Dongou have already been promoted from the Juvenil A team to help the team up front. |
Mcleo007:Cesc can play the Iniesta role pretty comfortably. I was saying that rather than shift Iniesta out wide on the left, play Sanchez as a CF and play Cesc in what would have been Iniesta's position in midfield, in the classico, it would have been better if Sanchez played on the wings, Iniesta played his normal role and Cesc played as a false 9. Altintop was showing us a lot of love down the left hand side, giving Iniesta a lot of space but we didn't exploit that advantage enough because Iniesta is wasted as a winger. Sanchez would have ripped Altintop a new one. Fabregas created a lot of chances from midfield, playing some very clever balls but Iniesta would have done exactly the same thing plus his better dribbling would have given us better penetration which we lacked since Messi played deep and I'd rather have Fabregas on the receiving end of those chances than Iniesta whose finishing leaves a lot to be desired. In our 3-4-3 formation, Cesc plays a 'false 10' behind Messi. With Messi often dropping deep, he moves into the space that Messi has left behind. That's why he's been scoring lots of goals. He plays more or less as a forward. |
hannie: Po Deep:Cesc cannot play the Xavi role. The few games he has played the Xavi role, we've suffered. I'd rather have Valdes play that role than Cesc. Cesc's lack of horizontal play automatically rules him out of playing that central midfield role and that's why Pep doesn't play him there. Busquets is the natural heir to Xavi's throne. |
Good move for him. |
It's good to see him finally getting the respect he deserves. He was named in L'Equipe's team of 2011 alongside Alves, Pique, Xavi, Iniesta and Messi. Over the past two years, he has marked attacking midfielders as Ozil, Rooney, Sneijder or Fabregas and very recently, Ganso, completely out of games. Ever since Busquets made that position his, attacking midfielders have pretty much been non-factors in big games against Barca. Not only are his marking skills great, he reads the game better than anyone and his passing/distribution is pretty much perfect. Xavi and Iniesta have complete freedom to attack with Busquets shielding them. We have improved tenfold since Busquets replaced Touré, we are better in possession and less susceptible to counters. He'll transition into a more central role soon enough and be Xavi's heir, I believe. I don't see anyone else with the potential/style to play Xavi's role in the future. Busquets is not that different today (in terms of role, way of playing) than Xavi was at 23, except I'd say Busquets is definitely a better player than Xavi was back then. |
So many thoughts on this game. We won, its all good, but honestly I felt there are some issues that really need to be addressed. I mean the fact that our goals came from 2 defenders kind of speaks for itself. - Pep, you're my man and all but sometimes you do some WTF-inducing stuff. Iniesta on the flank? Alexis in CF? Fabregas taking over Don's space in midfield? Messi in a withdrawn Argentina-esque role? Why? Iniesta has always looked awkward in that winger position(he did quite well last night though), I mean Altintop, fuc[i]king[/i] Hamit Altintop did a decent job on him. He should've been our entry point in offense. Alexis would've torn him apart. Alexis utilizes that inside cut followed by the reverse direction dribble that leaves fullbacks stumbling, Altintop would've been shredded by the Chilean machine. Been a while since I saw Iniesta look uncomfortable on the ball, but this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who've watched him play the wing before, - Watching Messi today was odd. I wasn't sure if the stripes were Blaugrana or light blue and white. He was playing very very deep, mainly due to Alexis occupying the CF position and Fabregas playing an advanced role as well. Sometimes I swear he was only in front of the back 4 + Pinto, it was odd. He had a hard time really imposing his presence on Madrid, maybe it was a plan by Pep perhaps to draw Pepe and Lass out of the hole a bit but I preferred when Messi was taking them on every few minutes. He still made a few key passes + of course the org[i]asm[/i]ic assist on Abidal's cool finish. However there was a nice positive from this game. - For a minute I wasn't sure if I was watching FC Barcelona but we were actually swinging all the damn corners into the box! I don't know why Pep suddenly decided to do away with those short passes and go for the cross but it was freakin' awesome. I didn't like how we looked in the final third, we just weren't making sh[i]it[/i] happen, and there was some frustrating sloppy passing at times as well. I really hope Pep plays Alexis on the freakin' wing and put Iniesta back in his normal role. There's no reason Fabregas should be occupying that space in the midfield, it belongs to the freakin' Don. Having said that Cesc distributed the ball well and played some clever over the top passes ( he's a boss at that), but unfortunately his dribbling is nowhere near Iniesta's level, and that's not a bad thing. Still not sure what's Cesc best position yet but Pep please, please man, don't have Cesc fu[i]ck[/i]ing with the Don's turf. Before I forget, Happy Birthday in arrears, Pep. Madrid's scalp on a plate at the Bernabeu. You couldn't have had a better gift. |
coogar:You haven't been watching Madrid. di Maria has by far been their best player. 13 assits so far this season, the most in the top 5 leagues in Europe. |
Mou, why don't you just pack your shit and return to England? E neva tire you? |
I think everyone is sleeping on Guinea. They can surprise everyone. They have a good team that can go all the way. One guy to watch out is Alhassane Bangoura who plays for Rayo Vallecano in the La Liga. He's very fast and skillful left winger. He has been outstanding so far this season. |
isik:You just summed it all up. Djokovic should win though. |
More on completed transfers: Chigozie Johnson: Enyimba to Warri Wolves Ikechukwu Gabriel: Pillars to Warri Wolves Gbolahan Salami: 3SC to Enyimba |
usbcable:Me sef o. I was at Ojota. I protest no be small. Now that fuel is selling for =N= 97, na to dey trek from Lere to Sabo and back. Anyway, we're occupying Bernabeu come Wednesday. |
Barcelona's Eric Abidalhttp://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain/2012/01/16/2850134/barcelonas-eric-abidal-signs-contract-extension-report |
AjanleKoko:I thought Messi did quite well last night. He was indeed sloppy atimes, gave the ball away on a couple of occasions and made some poor decisions but still, he was one of our better players. |
hehehe. . . . Haters gonna hate. Watch Madrid's matches and see epic ojoros. |
That Betis goal is the first goal Barca have conceded at home in the league since April 2011. A really incredible record. |
Fuel subsidy is just one of the few things keeping us alive in this country. When I board a bus for N 150 instead of N 300, I'm enjoying the benefits of subsidy. True, it has been abused but it's govt. responsibility to operate it in such a way that it won't be easily hijacked by some unscrupulous elements. At some point, subsidy would and should go but not now. It'd be extremely difficult to survive in this country if subsidy goes now. So, let the price go back to N 65 |
Just look at the people we have in power. He even admitted to collecting bribe to protest against subsidy back then. |
This one wey the meeting no gree end so, I tire o. I hope NLC/TUC are not negotiating price, it's =N=65, shikena! |
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