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I think I'm all for a balanced outfit, one that brings all the ingredient that makes for effective football to the plate i.e Compact defending, Possession and efficiency in attack etc I think over the years the teams who've come closest or have managed to apply all of the listed qualities are Barcelona of the Rijkaard era and Bayern of the Heynkes era...
Barca had a defense of Zambrotta, Puyol, Thuram, Sylvinho...A midfield made of the very effective Toure, Van Bommel, Motta (was injured most time) and Deco (who bore the creative load from the middle)...An attack led by the predatory instinct of Eto, the magic of Dinho and the workmanlike attitude of Giuly...In this team, we saw a balance of attack and defense as the team was made up of players who were not shy of playing dirty...
Now over to the Bayern team of Juup, the team mirrored that of Barcelona in personnel and style...
One thing is stands out in both cases, Pep...He brings a whole lot to the table but his knack for all out offensive possession based football has exposed the both teams to all forms of vulnerability against well oiled counter attacking teams...
It'd be interesting to see how Pep manages this Man City team filled with players who're hardly suited for a possession based foootball...

The first page is filled with consummate haters, viewer discretion is advised...

Just one building with a handful of thieves holding the nation to ransom...The ones we call our representatives are hardly representing us except the kleptomaniacs and never do well among us...

ollah1:
The emboldened doesn't work in footie. If Mueller had scored the pen, raumdeuter and a40 would be the happiest men in the world ahead of Pep, the board and other Bayern fans.

You sounded like city didn't even come close to scoring...Granted they grossly under performed but a goal for city at any point would've made all of Madrid's dominance count for absolutely nothing

raumdeuter:
As good as those attempts were, they were not on target.

Those attempts are documented under attempts OFF target

Would you rather have tame shots on target than what Fernandinho produced? The post was the difference...

raumdeuter:
You know how many if's we can say about Madrid? if Bales header had gone in instead of hitting the bar, If Pepe shot in the first leg had gone in, If Casemiro's header had gone in

Both legs Madrid bossed City. City was the worst team in the semi finals this season

My point was against his line that city didn't have a shot on target...Fernandinho's attempt as well as Aguero's was good...It was as good an attempt you'll get

ollah1:
boring match.. All madrid finals.. Atletico for the trophy

Best team in England.. 0 shot on target

EPL is simply trash

I get you're always in your element when it comes to banter but let's be sincere, if Fernandinho shot had gone in off the post you'd be quiet now...

It's expected, the state of our nations economy meant most investors though willing to invest will likely apply caution to the wind...Things will get better with time...
For the retards above blaming PMB and trying to exonerate GEJ, I hope they perused through the OP and not just drew inference from the headline?
If our previous governments had diversified our economy as most folks with brains were clamoring for, we wouldn't have had it this tough...

A40:
Did you see that ball Boateng laid on a plate for him? It was even better than the opening goal vs Dortmund in the league

Me just dey look forward to the era of Don Carlo

3 years of Pep has been a waste

Bookmarked...

In your face Dayo...Bayern remain domestic bullies

Diego S. na mad man

Oblak is gold

It could go anyway at this point in time

Torres sha

Nihilist:
If only muller had scored that awoof penarity eh, Raumdeuter?

If only

If and only if...Bayern are domestic bullies

Are we gonna party here? Definitely yes...Who dash Bayern 2 goals...
Anything to silence that roach called Dayo...

We're ready to wait, slow and steady does the trick...Enough of fast and furious...
We voted for change and we're ready to exercise patience to have things turn around for good...

Team Atletico Madrid

Adminisher:
But you fools were calling him courageous a few days ago?. I hate PDP kids with great passion. All their IQs are low. I asked this question at an earlier post, how are you sure Fayose is for real, what if he changes tune?.

You guys are suffering from a lack of internal emancipation and grounding. So Fayose is now flip flopping?.
What if I told you that 25% of evidence that is being used by Buhari in investigating fraud came from a very angry Goodluck Jonathan himself? What will you do, kill yourself?.
You guys are a joke. You all don't know much about human motivation and life in general.

You must be mad, check my post history and confirm where I stand before hyperventilating...So many retards on here

Now we know the real blues, I only know and respect the Leicester blue...Congrats to the new Champs

Watching Chelsea play is a timely reminder that it could have been worse for Man Utd...Chelsea have gotten so bad that at this point you'd be forgiven to think the team on blue on top of the log is Chelsea and the one we're all watching right now is Leicester...
Anyway, here's hoping it gets worse from here on in...KTBFFH!!!!

Fayose, flip flopping since eternity...

Omenka you've put forward a totally different perspective to this whole drama, one I subscribe to...
In as much as we're all in the dark as regards the perpetrators of this dastardly act, it's important we apply the voice of reason as we can't possibly rule out the possibility of a politically hatched plan in all of these...

Any topic by explorers should be on the front page, dude has so much to offer via his threads...

Interesting read

Stopped watching the team a month back, Van Gaal is clueless...

Correct op

Dongorgon5:
lol, I really can't conut the number of times this united team made me lose my bet this season with their bad performance against small teams.
If you qualify, you are going to disgrace english football, which I strongly doubt.
Don't worry bro, when the season ends remember I told you no top 4 for this united team under gaal.

Okay we don hear Prophet Dongorgon5

parrotibaba:
Everton just de open nyash anyhow for Liverpool



Make their promo reach us on Saturday o

I dey wish same o

Guys, how are we doing thus far?
Is Rooney playing well?
I'm stuck with the Merseyside derby where I am...

olabode89:
I will stick with Rooney.

Martial creates a lot of chances from the left wing. Also the opponent will have to ensure that their right winger (right midfield player) or DM double-up with the right back to nullify martial's threat thereby creating space for other players.

Perfect idea but you remember our match with spurs at white heart lane? Martial had Walker on the ropes all day but our right wing was non existent cos LVG rather had mata defending than expanding our play

olabode89:
I think it's high time we accept that Martial's best position is LW. He played most in that position for Monaco. That is the only position he has played for the French National team and he look most dangerous for United playing as a LW.

Rooney vs Martial leading the line today, you preference?