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darealsola:
damn i didnt know..where did u download it

I downloaded from TFPDL but toxicwap also has it

darealsola:
I heard money heist season 2 has already been premiered in spain....like the pple there have watched it and waiting 4 season 3 already...damn I can't wait for season 2 to drop here so we watch.m..money heist is a fucking badass series...dat Berlin is a very crazy character...dat guy is a fuckn OG

Money heist season 2 is available for downloads online bro.. we await season 3

I wouldn't read much meaning into this result, Seychelles played like the amateurs they are.

Iheanacho had a bit of an improved game but i think he would have been better suited as a ss, IMO he isn't creative enough to carry the creative burden of the team. A SS role would have allowed him as much closeness to the goal post, increasing his odds of scoring and improving ighalo's game. We had little or no need for two DMs, either of Ndidi or onazi would have sufficed with the 2nd midfielder(etebo in the absence of iwobi) playing the central attacking midfield role, and kalu and musa as right and left side midfielders respectively. That is of course if we must play both iheanacho and ighalo at the same time.

Having started with the traditional 433 however, Rohr watching from the side line should have noticed how the seychellois set up. They weren't the most coordinated at the back but they were crowded in the middle, making it difficult to slide sleek passes through and create good chances. Little wonder, for all of our possessional play, we didn't really test the goalkeeper. The few times we did, they either conceded or where saved by the bell. This problem would have been solved by wing play, which brings me to our wingers.

Samuel kalu had an impressive debut, he kept the width nicely and always opened up as a passing option, and when he held the ball, he unsettled the shaky seychellois defence, his willingness to also combine with awaziem was good, a certain Victor Moses would not have trusted awaziem that much.

Musa also tried but unlike kalu, he was more of an inside forward, always looking to come in and find space at goal which made traditional wing play on the left almost non-existent. Idowu also didn't help matters.

What Rohr should have done was to bring onyekuru for ighalo and give musa the striking role. Now I know onyekuru also likes to cut in so he should be given strict instruction that his primary role was to keep width and disorganize the Seychelles defence.

Using the entire width of the pitch by fast and good dribbling wingers would have worked magic in that it would have drawn the inexperienced seychellois defence to the wings, creating tons of space for the CAM and Striker to work with. And with a more clinical and mobile musa, we would have gotten a lot of goals.

Still a fair result but there is a lot of room for improvement.

PS: we have our wing position sorted. With Moses Simon, onyekuru, kalu and musa, Iwobi has no business on our wings again, he should be left to carry the creative burden of our team as our designated 10.

AYFikayomi:
TBH... We don't have plenty of Spanish players in our first squad anymore. Alba is probably only big omission.

True though.. With the seeming interest in Rabiot, we're becoming more of les bleus

Chelsea have more players in the latest Spanish squad than barca Lucho

Upnepaa:
It is stupid to even think we won't top the group.... Under any circumstance. Barcelona motto of "Mes que un Club" stands for larger things than you think.....If you think we won't top the group you have no business being a barca fan, How can you be a barca fan and have a mentality of clubs like Sevilla or Bilbao....Inferiority complex at its peak.

Most of these people don't even have a mind of their own. They go on BB, read comments and then come here to spew verbatim what they saw there.. How do you take someone whose opinion is based off someone else's thought process serious?

Gnucci007:
It's just at Ikeja-Along B/Stop before you enter computer village. Ask when you get there, it's a very little walk from the bus stop.

Thanks alot

SIRcumalot:
Ukaku needs someone to challenge him for that striker spot.
His way too comfortable. He could have bury this game for us early and we don't even have the excuse of chance creation.

I would try the piano man in his spot if I was Jose.
By fire by force we must get some value from Sanchez.

Like sanchez didnt miss that kind of goal against Newcastle last season

Someone please help me with the address of nysc LG secretariat Ikeja.

This comment on reddit

This game was a classic anime battle.

Valladolid came out with the villain strategy activating their special power "Shitty Ripped Up Pitch" to gain an advantage through chaos and cheating. Results early on show their devious plot may just succeed. Fanboys everywhere hold their breathe in anguish. Traitor Masip is seen laughing maniacally in goal.

Messi activates "Hand of God", it's completely ineffective. Valverde mumbles to himself, "You can't use that with VAR active, idiot"

Suarez activates "Dummy to Messi", it's ineffective . Valverde mumbles to himself, "That hasn't worked since 2016, idiot."

Coutinho activates thundercunt curler, it's ineffective. Valverde mumbles to himself, "You can use that with such poor footing, idiot"

The halftime whistle blows at 0-0 and Ray Hudson's face is completely covered in either sweat or tears or both.

Suarez plays "Random pass." It's unaffected by the shitty pitch, goal Dembele! Valladolid's manager is beside himself, "How? Our pitch is perfectly awful. No one should able to pass like that. It's not logical." Valverde replies, "Suarez's passing doesn't apply logic, that was your mistake, idiot."

Plano activates baby curler, it's ineffective. Valverde laughs, "Hahahaha, you're own pitch is your enemy now, idiot."

Valverde activates Arturo Vidal, he looks drunk.

Suarez activates offside goal, it's super effective for five seconds, and then isn't.

Valladolid activate offside goal, it's super effective for two minutes, and then it isn't.

End

Suarez's pass doesn't apply logic

Melvyn11:
cc veekid Debroslink haymekus Sommyroy10 Isomerizm Avraham Coutinho14 Olamyyde Upnepaa dmcdad SerVik . All the Uefalona fans your attention is needed.

If you and your Twitter robot cannot spare a minute to do a simple Google search, then I can't help you.

Olamyyde:
Paco should leave if he wants to revive his career. Poachers don't thrive at barca. I hope rafinha doesn't leave, he was the best player in the preseason.

Denis should be loaned or sold...he has the talent but i don't think he is consistent enough to make it here.

Roberto should be nothing more than a rotational option at rb...we have way better midfielders.

Consistency comes with game time. Unfortunately, Denis isn't going to see much of that so I might be inclined to go with your loaning option. Was quite surprising to see even Gomes ranked ahead of Denis on the pecking order last season..

Samccalister:
any kebbi corper in the house

kebbi here

ddippset:
Aturo Vidal is on the market.

Who else is interested?

Mehn bayern is offloading en masse

Sommyroy10:
Not really Barca policy. It's Segura that's the problem.

Lol.. One would have thought with Abidal as new sporting director things would be different but it seems mans isnt even given a free hand.

femiti:
Thiago can not add anything extraordinary to our midfield. Let him enjoy his Bayern jeje.
Mans has not really improved in my eyes

You think? Thiago is more suited to barca than bayern.. Our depth in midfield is really thin, if we wish to compete favourably in ucl next season then we need an elite CM... Arthur and even FDJ will need time to adapt. How many CM are currently better than thiago and how many are available in the market and how many would go below 100mil in today's market? Those are the questions you should ask yourself before dismissing Thiago so easily.

Isomerizm:
I guess Barça has a policy of not creating room for players who have once left of their own volition. Plus, the guy, as good as he is, is chronically injury prone.

I know its an ego thing. But really if we should be frank with our selfs, we aren't really producing that much quality to be rejecting players. Even with that policy, we brought back cesc, pique etc... Heck we were about bringing back bellerin last summer so whats so different about thiago's case?

About his injury record, well we said the same thing about coutinho and he's been enjoying himself since he joined.

Why arent we going all out for thiago ffs He wants to come back, bayern are willing to let him go for a reasonable price(in the region of 60mil). I mean, this board will likely return with a bid of 80mil for william, 50mil for FDJ, an outragious fee for rabiot but 60mil for thiago is what we're having 2nd thoughts about?? Beats me!!

Upnepaa:
Oh Lord He is so freaking defensive minded. Please what happens to Thiago or Pjanic of this world.

IKR.. The board has been making noise about one big name midfield signing, i hope this isnt what they meant.

BTW.. This might be wide off and just agent rumors to spark madrid interest but i'm reading of interest in hazard from various news outlets. I think what we need is a striker to offer competition to suarez but if hazard comes, then i would move messi to a false 9 position. An attacking trio of hazard messi dembele... A midfield trio of busquets coutinho and arthur/rakitic(highly impressed with his WC display), and with lenglet already a done deal, i think we just might have the depth to compete favourably next season.

ddippset:
Are we really going for Rabiot?

Looking like its almost a done deal sef

ddippset:
very unfair

that guy have blood sweat tears for the shirt

got some crucial goals too

was very much part of our double


he deserves respect even though he's leaving

To be fair, he did his best, his best just wasnt barca standard.

Not any fault of his, the transfer was just off from the go. Seen guys on BB calling it money laundering sef

Hearing paulinho might be shipped back to china. Okay, this is legit funny

Unlimited22:

Never did I imagine.

Shows how much the game has developed. I'm so enjoying this world cup

Unlimited22:
Mexico have 6 points and South Korea have zero, so please how exactly can they qualify?
Uncle, we both know Korea ain't beating Germany. Let's be real here.
And goal difference counts before head to head.

Say what??

somehow:
If we are both on +0 goals and i beat you on H2H, who wins?

The team that scored the highest goals wins. E.g if iceland wins tomorrow 2-0 and we draw 0-0, they would progress because even though we both would be on +0 goals, they scored 3 while we scored 2.

somehow:
Says who? Its your net goals that matter not gross goals

Goal difference, goals scored then head to head

If two teams tie on goal difference, the team that scored the highest will progress. If they still tie on goals scored, then head to head shall be considered.

Neimar:
Portugal cannot beat uruguay

You think so? Uruguay have not been impressive.

Neimar:
banging goals wen he's going to lose R16

He's meeting either of russia or uruguay in the R16. I dont see portugal losing to those teams

There be ice dragons here. By aron gunnarsson.


I hope our World Cup opponents aren’t reading this, because I’m gonna tell you exactly what has made our tiny country so successful.

But first, I need to explain a little bit about Iceland. Because I’ve noticed that now, whenever I meet people, they’ll say, “Oh, you’re from Iceland? That’s so cool. Northern Lights! Yeah, man!”

After the Euros put our country in the spotlight, it seemed like everybody started going to Reykjavik on vacation.

But I’m not from the vacation part of Iceland.

I’m from the north of Iceland.

If you try to find my town on old maps, it just says: There Be Ice Dragons Here.

My hometown is a place called Akureyri, with about 18,000 people. There wasn’t really much else to do there except play sports, so I began playing football. Of course, I dreamed of becoming a pro. But there were two problems.

First, I could only play in the summer. You see, in the winter, the pitches were covered with … come on, everybody say it together! You guessed it: ice and snow. And I’m not talking about the kind of winters you have in England, where a few centimeters of snow cause panic. I’m talking about proper winters. Several meters of snow. Minus 10 °. Four or five hours of sunlight a day.

Have you seen Game of Thrones? Well, then you get the idea.

So in winter, I played handball instead. But that didn’t solve my second football problem. You see, when the snow finally melted, I didn’t play on grass. That kind of luxury was reserved only for the senior players.

So I had to play on gravel.

Seriously.

Safe to say, it wasn’t ideal. One day I came home with this horrific gash on my leg, and my mother was shocked. Of course, all I had done was to go into a sliding tackle, but you’d think I had been fighting a bear!

The team I started playing for was called Thór, named after the god of thunder. (I’m not making this up — you can ask my mother.) And I wanted to be a footballer so badly. I was doing these sprints, I was hitting the gym … basically, I was working like a madman. But I also knew the odds were stacked against me. I kept asking myself questions, and I didn’t like the answers.

Aron, how many professional footballers have come from Akureyri?

Not many.

And how good can you possibly get by playing only in summer on a gravel pitch?

Probably not very good.

But I chose to ignore the facts. And then came the game-changer. You see, years ago, the Icelandic Football Association invested heavily in these indoor halls with artificial grass. Suddenly every kid in Iceland could play football all year.

Do you realize how big a deal that was for us? All year!

Of course, I immediately moved into my local hall. I made it my living room. They often had to kick me out at night. But there was still this mental block. What I mean by that is, nobody really believed you could win anything as a footballer from Iceland. In fact, this one time, a player on our national team told me a story about how he told his club coach that he dreamed of playing in the Euros.

“That’s a nice thought,” the coach said. “It’s just a shame you’re from Iceland.”

Pretty depressing, right?

Personally I didn’t let that bother me, but I did know I had to leave Iceland to evolve as a player. So when I got the chance to join AZ Alkmaar, in Holland, I took it. I was 17 years old. And man, it was tough. The football was on another level. In my first training session, I got nutmegged four times. I was so embarrassed that I considered jumping on the first flight back to Iceland.

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But the hardest part was leaving my family. I spent the first two months holed up in a hotel, calling my mother, crying, saying I didn’t really want to do this. Thankfully, my family encouraged me to keep going, and deep down I was still hell-bent on making it.

I guess all my tears paid off, because 18 months later I got the call for the Iceland senior squad. They were playing a friendly against Belarus in Malta, and I had to get on a flight immediately in order to make it in time. Only I didn’t have a car. During my first year in Holland, I had been riding a bicycle everywhere because I couldn’t afford anything else.

So you know what my mother did? She bought me a scooter.

A red scooter. It looked more like a motorcycle really, which I thought was kind of badass. I actually grew quite attached to it. So when they called me up to the national team, I strapped on my backpack, put on my bike helmet and drove to the train station, where I got the express train to the airport.

Thanks for that one, mum �

So I go off and live my dream, playing for Iceland, and it’s incredible. I fly back to Holland, and I’m still in the clouds. I’m buzzing. I’m a big time footballer now, right? Well, I walk outside the train station to fetch my scooter from the rack where I had parked it … and what do I see?

In the very spot where my scooter was supposed to be, there’s nothing but a single tire with a chain wrapped around it.

Someone had stolen my damn scooter while I was off playing Belarus.

My mother just laughed about it, but I’m telling you, I was genuinely upset! That robbery really brought me down to earth quickly.

A few years later, I was part of the group that qualified for the 2011 under-21 Euros in Denmark. That was a big deal, because Iceland had never done that. By the time we entered qualifying for the 2014 World Cup, many of us guys from the under-21 team had become part of the senior side.

Of course, even with all that young talent, we were never supposed to make the World Cup.

People always used to say, “Iceland? Bah, there’s not many world-class players in Iceland.”

But, actually, with 330,000 people living there … we don’t have many players full-stop.

So we had to be clever about the way we played. And that’s where our former coach, Lars Lagerbäck, came in.

When you look at Lars, he doesn’t appear to be a prolific coach. He’s very understated. But, man, he knows what he’s doing. When he arrived in 2011 he began holding these meetings about how we defended. They were long, and honestly, extremely boring. Just so, so boring. But Lars kept going on about it. Positioning. Corners. Throw-ins … none of the fun stuff. In training, we’d play attack vs. defense, just so that we could work on our defensive shape.

Because of that collective spirit, we made the playoffs, and faced Croatia. And when we got a 0–0 draw at home… honestly, I thought we had a chance. Then in Croatia, when they went 1–0 up but got a man sent off, we just needed one goal. One goal. We were so close…

But we never made it.

Croatia won 2–0.

Afterwards our locker room was like a graveyard. Not just because we hadn’t won, but because we hadn’t played well. But then somebody says, “Well… Let’s just go to the Euros then!”

I still don’t know who said it, but I remember thinking, He’s right. Screw this. Let’s just move on to the next one.

So that’s what we did. We started working even harder. And in that qualifying campaign for Euro 2016, we just got better and better. Our fans were a huge part of it, too. When we played Holland at home in October, I remember we went up 1—0, and the stadium fell quiet for a bit … and then …

BOOM, BOOM, HÚH!

I turn around. What was that? It was like the sound of a thunder strike.

BOOM, BOOM, HÚH!

Shivers run down my spine.

BOOM, BOOM, HÚH!

You see, that was the first time our fans did the famous Viking Clap. We may only play in front of 10,000 people, but when they do that clap … man, it feels like 100,000.

That night, I looked at some of the Holland players, and I thought, Whoa … They must be feeling that.

At the end of qualifying, we needed a point at home against Kazakhstan to become the smallest nation to ever reach the Euros. That match was a struggle. I even managed to get sent off. But when we dug out that 0–0 draw…. We went ballistic. I sprinted out on the pitch with my jacket on. We did the Viking Clap so loudly that the whole of Iceland must have heard it. And when we went to a square in Reykjavik later that night, we saw tens of thousands of people waiting for us.

That’s when you realize that you’ve really made your country proud, you know?

Of course, qualifying was one thing. The tournament itself? Who knows? Many people thought we would be lucky just not to be embarrassed.

It’s funny, because I can recall the exact moment when I realized that we had something special. It was after a training session just before the tournament, when Eidur Gudjohnsen came up to me.

He said, “You know, Aron … I really wouldn’t want to play against us.”

I said, “What do you mean?”

He said, “Well, there’s no space. I wanted to play these passes, and I wanted to create chances … But I just couldn’t.”

And that’s when the penny dropped for me. Because if you didn’t know, Eidur is football royalty. He’s played for Pep Guardiola at Barcelona — he’s played with Ronaldinho and Messi. Basically, if Eidur says you have a great defense, you really do have a great defense.

We started off against Portugal. And everyone was talking about what Cristiano Ronaldo would do to us. “How many will he get? Two goals? A hat-trick?”

So when we ground out a 1–1 draw … well, the Portuguese weren’t happy.

Of course, we celebrated. Then I saw that Ronaldo had criticized us for having a “small-country mentality”.

And I thought, “Hang on, we’ve never been at this stage before. You have done it plenty of times. We’re Iceland. Of course we’re gonna be proud!”

We could only draw against Hungary next, so we needed a point against Austria in the final group game. They needed to win. As usual, we defended well. It was 1–1 on 90 minutes…. They’re putting pressure on us…. We clear a corner, we launch a counter-attack…. And we score!

Arnór Traustason! 94th minute! Iceland goes through to the knockout stage!

Unbelievable….

I guess you may have seen the clip of the commentator on Icelandic TV going berserk when we score. It went viral, and no wonder. I mean, the guy genuinely lost it. He was screaming and crying, losing his voice.

But the thing is, everyone in Iceland was feeling like that. It wasn’t just the players and the fans — it was people back home too. We were all going berserk.

As we celebrated on the pitch, I went looking for the drummer in the Iceland fan group. I knew him, so I gave him a hint … He told everyone to be quiet … and then we did our most famous rendition of the Viking Clap. We had never done it like that before, with both the fans and the players together.

It was just pure, spontaneous joy.

BOOM, BOOM, HÚH!

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We were so relaxed ahead of the Round of 16 game against England. We had reached our goal — everything else was a bonus. We actually had extra motivation, because everyone in Iceland loves the Premier League — they show every single game on TV. Literally. So now we had this great chance to beat our heroes. And just in case anyone wasn’t fully up for it, Eidur made a speech.

He said, “Is everyone full? Do we want any more? Are we still hungry?”

You can imagine the roar of the response.

It was the opposite for England, I think. I almost felt sorry for them. They were under so much pressure, and you could definitely tell. They were making simple mistakes, getting the basics wrong…. They knew the trouble they would be in if they lost to Iceland.

Everyone spoke about how bad England were, but watch the game again. Look at how organized we are. We run. We shut down space. We cover for each other. What Eidur had said after that training session was spot on: We really are horrible to play against.

When the game was over, I sprinted toward our fans so quickly that I forgot to shake hands with the England players. So if you guys are reading this … sorry!

And, then … well, I know this may sound weird, because I’m this Icelander with all these tattoos and a beard and all that. But as we celebrated, I wanted to cry. Honestly. When we did the Viking Clap with our fans, shivers ran down my spine.

I must admit that it took us a while to come back down to earth after that tournament. But we managed to do it. You see, at our next team meeting, Heimir Hallgrímsson shook us back to life. He had been the joint first coach with Lars during the Euros, but now that Lars had left for the job in Norway, he was in charge.

His message was simple.

We had never made a World Cup in our nation’s history.

So … Why can’t we do it?

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I mean, we could have said, “We’re tiny Iceland. Nobody expects us to qualify. We won’t put any extra pressure on ourselves.”

But there was no way that was happening. That’s just not us.

In fact, at the Euros, we had already sent people to scout our World Cup qualifying opponents. That tells you something about our mindset. We wanted more.

Some of us players are nearing the end now. We’re in our late 20s and early 30s, and we know we’ll have to give way for younger players soon. That’s why it’s so important that we pass on the values that have made us successful. I mean, we could go to Russia and try to play like Barcelona. But what would be the point? We’d just be a bad copy. We’d definitely be a worse team.

That’s not what Iceland is about. It never has been.

In a way, I see our style as a symbol of Iceland. Just look at some of our players — I mean, maybe we’re not the most technical. Maybe we’re not the prettiest to look at. But would you want to fight us? I don’t think so.

We’re united. We’re tough. We fear nothing.

And that’s the lesson I want to pass on to our young players in Russia. I want them to realize that if you work hard, and if you have guys who are willing to stick together, anything is possible in football. Anything. CC: mujtahida


Aron Gunnarsson
ICELAND

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/there-be-ice-dragons-here

I'll be sharing a very long piece by aron gunnarson. Feel free to skip if you dont have the stomach.

goldfish80:
Although this could be medicine after death but I do think the team needs a world class psychologicist in times like this. I think we highlighted on this point in our thread world cup 10 pointer championed by Icon4s.
I get the sense that the players are scared out of their minds now after the loss and moreso with the abuse on their social media.
I noticed Leon Balogun deactivated comments on his Instagram page.
The team really needs a psychologist because I forsee fear and lack of self believe creeping into the players. Some will even be to careful to avoid mistake, thereby making lots of mistake as a result. Coupled with the fact the team is inexperienced at this level,could be even a more humiliating performance.

I'm not saying this because I expect the team to win the group but I don't want Nigeria to be embarrassed.

Is it so difficult for these guys to stay off social media completely? The amount of negative energy currently on nigerian cyberspace can demoralize anybody.