Feyenoord tournament

Friday:

Shanghai v Pool
Porto v Feyenoord

Sunday:

Shanghai v Porto
Pool v Feyenoord

Dirkie is back

Think V's Shanghai it's a wekaer side, but maybe Rafa's going to go with two different teams, to give everyone a go

I expect something like this for the first game:

.................................Carson................................................

.....Arbeloa............Hyypia...........Agger................Riise............

...........Pennant...........Sissoko.........Lucas........Benayoun...........

..................................Crouch........Voronin..............................

then against Feyenoord:

....................................Reina..................................................

......Finnan................Carra...........Agger..............Riise...............

.........Gerrard............Masch?.........Alonso............Babel.............

.................................Kuyt............Torres.............................

Porto match will be boring I think we draw or something. Shame we dont play Shanghai, the c**ts have a bigger harbour then us these days. We should show them they dont have a better team yet

When we play against Fc Kuyt I hope we dont humiliate them. So 2-2 will be fine.

Doubt Babel will play against use Luis.

Fey wrote:Doubt Babel will play against use Luis.

Why not?

Luis wrote:

Fey wrote:Doubt Babel will play against use Luis.

Why not?

Not really a fan's favourite Would be hard for us to cheer when Kuyt gets the ball, and whislte when Babel gets it!!

Fey wrote:

Luis wrote:

Fey wrote:Doubt Babel will play against use Luis.

Why not?

Not really a fan's favourite Would be hard for us to cheer when Kuyt gets the ball, and whislte when Babel gets it!!

I don't think Rafa will deny him the chance to play in Holland again against a big club, but we will see,

Well he is already a failure, you still have the receipt? Might as well stop in Amsterdam...I must say im impressed with Voronin. It looks like the average players from the Bundesliga are living up in the EPL.

Already a failure? after what? 2 games, one of which he played on the right of midfield!!

I still have faith in Babel.

As for Voronin, I've been really impressed, I don't think too many fans were optimistic about his chances here, because he was free and he came around the time Torres signed so all the attention was on him, but I did see him play a few times before he moved, in one game for Leverkusen and then once or twice for Ukraine and he impressed me, he's a hard worker and he's really good on the ball, he's a very clever striker, he's not a clinical finisher but I think he could get a good understanding going with any 3 of the strikers at the club

Boring? Nah only if you guys play for the draw we are there to win

And if you want to play against the chinese by all means i would prefer to play against Feyenoord and Liverpool anyway.

Força Porto

Porto have been often in Netherlands this preseason. You like it over here?

Good weather (temperate not hot like sunny Portugal-good for holidays but not to work out )
Less media pressure (3 daily sport newspapers need news, be it true or not)
And the dutch know to respect privacy like no other country


Perfect for a pre-season really

PS: we have a new youth manager BTW...dutch

Protheus wrote:Boring? Nah only if you guys play for the draw we are there to win

And if you want to play against the chinese by all means i would prefer to play against Feyenoord and Liverpool anyway.

Força Porto

Didnt mean it that way, but I still have a grudge against Porto of what happened 14 years ago!!!!! You played with 11 man on the goalline!

Fey wrote:

Protheus wrote:Boring? Nah only if you guys play for the draw we are there to win

And if you want to play against the chinese by all means i would prefer to play against Feyenoord and Liverpool anyway.

Força Porto

Didnt mean it that way, but I still have a grudge against Porto of what happened 14 years ago!!!!! You played with 11 man on the goalline!

Yeah we owe it to Baía to hold the 0-0
I've watch it live in the first leg with that late Domingos goal.

Well will be 21 C tomorrow afternoon & sunny. Should be great football weather in the evening.

Nice old skool pic: Gullit scores matchwinner v Mancs at tournament in 1984.

Hopefully the stadium will be fuller than the Amsterdam Tournament.

DD wrote:Hopefully the stadium will be fuller than the Amsterdam Tournament.

Don't know it it will be fuller (don't know how many they had yesterday), they only sold tickets for the 1st tier so far, but there will be a better atmosphere for sure.

NOS TV 3 will broadcast the Feyenoord - Porto match. TV Rijnmond will broadcast the Pool v Shanghai match.

http://www.rijnmond.nl/Homepage/Regionieuws/Sport?itemid=45468

@Protheus

Will the sublime Quaresma play against Feyenoord?

@Fey

Will Drenthe play against Porto?

Drenthe will not play 2 full matches in 3 days that's for sure. He was 1 of the last to start training (due to U21 EC) & was tired after 60 minutes v Chelsea. Think he'll feature in both matches, but don't expect him to play a full match.

Hope Porto play a strong team including Quaresma.

Cheers JDG,

I will check the team sheets before kick off.

Rez wrote:@Protheus



Will the sublime Quaresma play against Feyenoord?



@Fey



Will Drenthe play against Porto?

Probablly, i am sure Porto will play with the best eleven (including Quaresma of course) and use second choices against the chinese.
But only when i can see the team sheets later on i can confirm that.

Protheus wrote:

Rez wrote:@Protheus



Will the sublime Quaresma play against Feyenoord?



@Fey



Will Drenthe play against Porto?

Probablly, i am sure Porto will play with the best eleven (including Quaresma of course) and use second choices against the chinese.
But only when i can see the team sheets later on i can confirm that.

Makes a lot of sense. Pool do the same, they even say (on their own website) they play v Feyenoord with Liverpool & v Shanghai with Liverpool XI.

Martin, Finnan, Insua, Paletta, Hyypia (cap), Leiva, Sissoko, Leto, Benayoun, Torres, Crouch

..............martin

finnan...paletta....hyypia....insua

yossi....momo.....lucas......leto

...........torres.....crouch



Interesting

I know feck all about most of these players

COTR wrote:Interesting

I know feck all about most of these players

You don't need to. That line-up will never play together again.

DD wrote:

COTR wrote:Interesting

I know feck all about most of these players

You don't need to. That line-up will never play together again.

It's more the fact that Im looking forward to seeing lucas, leto and insua and of course a bit more of torres

Torres scores vs the randoms.

well done.

Leto is looking really good actually, linking up with Insua well.

Rosicky wrote:Torres scores vs the randoms.

well done.

I love him already

i can see why nutty fell so badly for him


it's been so long since we have had a player with his sort of speed/ability/skill/movement up front

the boy is class