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barackodam:
They say we're pessimists, that's why we chopped 4 in both halves.

Even all the teams from London didn't chop 8 in one leg

You dey fuc up ooh.

How did our discussions here affect the match?

Or are you saying that If we had shared your opinion and agreed with you today we wouldn't have lost the game?

FFS why una dey behave like children?

haymekus:
How far

This guy get sense at all? Abi did you catch Vidal with your sister?

haymekus:
No be you follow dey give reasons why Vidal suppose start

Oga enjoy your starting 11 there

Abeg You guys should just quit with this "I told you, I told you" rants.

So if Vidal did not start, then we would be leading right now at half time abi?

barackodam:
I'm not advocating for him to be played. But you made it seem no coach would play him in this fixture, and I'm merely reminding you that Pep would

Right

I pity anybody or any institution that has case against Wike in Rivers state.

barackodam:
Tell that to Pep who played Foden in a must win Quarters against Real Madrid.

If you have balls, you have balls kawai. No long story

Has Puig played up to 5 games this season sef?

Reminds me of Ansu Fati who started the season and lit up la liga in a few games only for some of us to start bashing him mid season.

Puig is lovely.. i am very pround of him and would want to see him start 20-25 games next season because he's the future and he must start getting good game time.

But for this game tonight; it's Vidal over Puig.

Nor be this night we wan begin do balls wey we never do since.

Mcleo007:
The only reason it is even a 50-50 is because we have a deficient coach who cant take bold decisions and start the right players. Only 4-5 players in this Bayern team will walk straight into this Barca first eleven. A combined eleven of both teams shows its 50-50 and the side that takes the most of its chances would go on to win. It will never be rout.

A combined 11 of both teams' starters:

Goalkeeper= MATS over M. Neur
RB= J. Kimmich over N. Semedo
LB= A. Davies over weak man J. Alba
CB= G. Pique = He is light years ahead of J. Boateng even at the twillight of his career.
CB= C. Lengelet = He is a better Left sided CB to D. Alaba
DMF= S. Buequets= A. Goretzka doesnt come close here
CMF= Its definitely a tie between FDJ and Thiago A. Hard to choose who is better.
AMF= T. Muller over A. Vidal
RWF= GOAT no contest here
LWF= S. Gnabry over A. Griezman
CF= R. Lewandoski over overwieght L. Suarez

5 Barca players
5 Bayern players
A tie between FDJ and Thiago

Bayern are good, but definitely not superior to Barca even if this Barca team has been shit all season and can disappoint when you least expect them. They can also pull up maximum surprises and grind out results when you write them off. Tonights' game is nobodys really and can swing either way. This would be Bayern's toughest game of the season. They faced an amateurish Chelsea side so you can call them super powers at the back of that.

ABOVE all, a motivated Messi on beast mode is something no team canhandle, even when he is battling a knock.

Well analysed.

jonsnow92:
My heart is telling me would go through while my brain is telling me to go and sit down somewhere.

The only reason I have a fear about this game is Luis Suarez.

Luis Suarez is finished as a striker.
We don't have a striker.


Borrow us Auba or even Firmino and i beat my chest we beat Bayern.

Barca/Bayern is a 50-50...

The better and luckier side on the day in the 90 minutes will win.

jonsnow92:
They are all starting because we don't have a choice and because our coaches don't have cojones

Vidal is starting because we don't have a choice..

We all remember that he wasn't starting when the season began; when we had options with Arthur, Busquets, De Jong, Roberto and Rakitic.

But now only De Jong and Busi are ahead of him in the pecking order.

Puig has been wonderful. Puig has one more season to mature and gain more experience.
No big time coach will play Puig in a Champions league final or semi final today.

jpmoriarti:
On current form, i prefer Vidal ahead all these players you mentioned. They were our weakest performers against Napoli. A Vidal will not hide away when the going gets tough unlike those weak minded lots especially Alba. He was one of the major culprit in the Liverpool nightmare last season.

That's what am talking about.

jonsnow92:
Lol, we played 8 CL semis and 2 final's during Pep's reign, Keita didn't start one game, not one.
Pep met Fernandinho at City and he does the dirty work while flanked with 2 creative players in the midfield.
Vidal offers something we don't have no doubt but he shouldn't be starting.

Why should Suarez be starting?
Why should Alba be starting?
Why should Griezman be starting?

nyabingi:
The reason is very simple...there was nothing like chibok girls it was all scam scam and scam...by the way the Aisha woman just experiencing her first post menopause crises, she will soon get used to it

Yes it was.

If the Leah Sharibu abduction had happened during Jonathan's regime, it would have been a scam too.

I know. I know.

CuteMercury:
PSG is already in the finals. it is good that Athletico madrid are out, they are so stupidly annoying playing useless defensive football, i was forking angry with their style of football, it makes football boring. PSG vs Barcelona/Bayern or man city is going to be the final of the year.

You think they'd stroll over Liepzig?

Hmmm

A shocker awaits you.

haymekus:
None of them were above 30


Can this Vidal you praise so much go back there and start unlike the players you listed?

He was done and dusted, Bayern sold him and never regretted it

Doesn't matter.

The salient point here is that certain players where rejected from their old clubs and turned out to excel at other clubs.

A few players also have been better at 30 to 32 than in their 20's.

Don't get me wrong anyway; the only midfielders that deserve starting berth ahead of Vidal are Busquets, De Jong and Puig.

But we don't have Xavi and Iniesta no more; we can't keep possessions as we used to.

Like you said Vidal offers a different approach with his pressing and getting into goal scoring positions.

jonsnow92:
I disagree.
It's just testament to how mediocre we've been over the years, we never had Viking in the club when we were the best in d world by far, Xavi and Iniesta ran, created chances and dominated any midfield in the world, the run you bastards phrase started with Pep and it transcends through the whole team. Puig and Dejong can give exactly that if given the chance, coaching deficiencies and tactics ineptitude is what makes a player like Vidal indispensable.
He's a good player no doubt and offers something different but he shouldn't be starting big games for Barça

Talking about payers who shouldn't be starting for our Almighty Barca!

Suarez
Alba
Busquets
Rakitic

These players also shouldn't be starting for Barca...

Even Griezman, and Roberto haven't earned the right to be starting for Barca.

We should go to the feeders to recruit boys to play Bayern tomorrow.

Seriously Why does Reno not talk about Chibok girls?

Why only Leah Sharibu?

Is it because they were kidnapped during Jonathan

Fake Pastors everywhere I look...

haymekus:
It’s quite funny how a player deemed surplus to requirement by Bayern Munich(probably due to age) automatically becomes one of the most important players we will need to defeat them.

Anyways, let’s see how far his experience will help us dominate and win tomorrow

lol

Na today?

A lot of players like Gnabry, Mo Sallah, Lukaku, Pirlo, Dzeko, all suffered the same fate at some point in their careers.

jonsnow92:
Oh Please.
I'll start Puig over him any day, he offers nothing other than work rate and ability to mark, Puig can be a team player too, offers a lot attacking wise, creative and can be a menace too -Step forward Thomas Partey- I'll pick Puig over Viking anyday.
Vidal was there and we still chop 4 for Anfield.

Vidal gets crucial goals; he helps in attack.

If i was coach, there's no damn way Vidal wouldn't be in my starting line up tomorrow.

You didn't watch the Liverpool match obviously...

If the other 9 outfield players had put in half the effort Vidal put against Liverpool, we would have qualified.

biomustry:
Dembouz gets the green light

He'd prolly start on the bench.

jonsnow92:
Look at Suarez FFS!!
Chai, we are done for.

lol

This can't be today's Suarez na.

CuteMercury:
Some motivation

This guy has to be in the stsrting line up.

The guy with the biggest balls of them all...

They will impeach him and nothing with happen.

If you think you can use wuru wuru to sack 14 duly elected HOA members, then they will use wuru wuru to remove you too..

Bobbyfreshh:
This thread is for zombies, putting Gej and dictator in one sentence alone makes whatever trash you wrote totally useless

Having a gently face and a more outspoken wife doesn't stop you from being a dictator.

Racoon:
Seems the meaning of a dictator have been lost on this woman.Even Lai Mohammed knows Jonathan was not a hardliner.
Otherwise the Occupy Nigeria, Save Nigeria Group, all the now mute political activists of yesteryears should have grounded this oppressive regime by now.

Is this all you have to say?

Shame on you..

Damn who provoked her?

Are you sure this is not an old pishure?

Mikeangelo0433:
[b]How is it so convenient [/b]for people to forget that 2009 Barca won the treble twice a feat that eludes the almighty Real Madrid. Apart from coaching deficiencies after Pep left I think not having a clear goal haunted us as we were in the running for almost all trophies every season only to be short changed by fatigue to key player and a questionable squad depth.

Very convenient.

10Dove:
I personally would sacrifice 2 liga trophies for an UCL tho.
Zidane saying that was cos he had totally dominated the UCL and wanted to balance his CV by adding the liga... Don't interprete it otherwise.
He knows one UCL is still worth like 3 ligas

That's my point exactly.

As humans we yearn for what eludes us. Both in football and in life generally.

*Zidane and his Real Madrid would take La Liga over UCL this season.
*After winning the UCL last season, which do you think Liverpool would have chosen to win this season if given a choice? The UCL or the EPL? Your guess is as good as mine.

If we happen to win 2 UCL in a row and fail to win La Liga for the next 4 seasons, which do you think we would want to win next?

My point?

La Liga or any other league title is almost as cherished and as valuable as the UCL and winning it should never be seen as a non factor in determining club success.

jonsnow92:
2015/2016 was Enrique's fault, we had a QF game against Atletico yet you allowed MSN travel for South American games only to return jet lagged. 2016/2017, the cracks were so obvious and people realised Neymar had been given the creative impetus for the team so they just doubled up on Neymar and created a wall around him, hence the reason we got so dominated in away Champions league games. So for me it still falls on coaching deficiencies from both Enrique and Lord EV.

But I tell you solemnly,

Nothing beats that capitulation against Liverpool.

10Dove:
Even the last decade, we underachieved with what we had.
Madrid has like how many UCL trophies in this same time?

You only yearn to win what eludes you.

I refuse to see winning a league title in Spain and England as a piece of cake which could be undermined.

Winning a league title is a very very very great feat in Europen football.

Even Zidane confessed last month that La Liga was more important to win for him than the UCL.

Irrespective of what we think about the UCL I refuse to concede that Madrid (your reference point) had a more successful last decade than Barca.

Barca 3 UCL and 8 La Liga.
Madrid 4 UCL and 3 La Liga.

I refuse!.

Even though I do accept now that we have underachieved with Messi in our ranks.
(Especially with explanations from jonsnow92 and jpmoriarti)

homesteady:
But should it be allowed for one team to have both Neymar and Messi playing together?

I wonder how we managed to win only one UCL when the two of them were in Barcelona, not forgetting peak Suarez.

Forget that we won 2 UCLs this last decade, based on the players we had, we were the biggest under-achievers.

10Dove:
Someone pointed out how we underachieved under Lucho with Prime messi, Neymar and Suarez, you're here bringing up 2009.
Did football start in 2009?

See the bolded Sir.

That's what my post is based on.

He had 3 paragraphs.

I focussed on the 3rd.