Group A - Barcelona, Chelsea, Werder Bremen, Levski Sofia

Parks Lives wrote:So if Levski got a draw and Bremen held on to win, is that Barca officially out?

By that table (if it's right) Yep.

TITO will be pleased!

Parks Lives wrote:TITO will be pleased!

So will the rest of Europe!

Barca 2 up against Sophie! lol

wtf frings

one of the best in the world

Deisler wrote:wtf frings

one of the best in the world

Parks Lives wrote:

Deisler wrote:wtf frings

one of the best in the world

hahaha why are you laughing?

hes better than all english midfielders thats for sure

piss more display by us today we look nervous until iniesta got the 2nd goal.

Iniesta,Motta,Deco,Puyol

Forza Bremen !

what does Ricky have against Thuram when marquez came off injured i would have put money on him putting him on but no it was oleguer.

Parks Lives wrote:

Deisler wrote:wtf frings

one of the best in the world

At falling over and winning a free kick?

Deisler wrote:

Parks Lives wrote:

Deisler wrote:wtf frings

one of the best in the world

hahaha why are you laughing?

hes better than all english midfielders thats for sure

Better than hargreaves ?

@ barca fans

Surely Iniesta should be ahead of xavi in the pecking order, shouldn't he?

Even if xavi regains his form i would still play iniesta ahead of him because he( iniesta) scores more, is more penetrative and far more dynamic. Imo Deco and xavi should fight it out for a place in midfield.

Deisler wrote:wtf frings

one of the best in the world

I want arsenal to buy him, wanted to post that on the arsenal board. Hargreaves is not better than him but they are basically the same type of players; they can play both play as holding and box to box midfilders.

well i look at it two different ways.

Inietsa at the moment is our best midfielder and should derserves to be starting in place of Xavi, but when Xavi fines is form i think Xavi should start for the simple fact that Iniesta woudld give us more coming of the bench than Xavi.

But i think iniesta would be more usefull to the team than xavi for the reasons stated above.

Agooner wrote:But i think iniesta would be more usefull to the team than xavi for the reasons stated above.

and thats the reason why i believe he would give us more coming off the bench the Xavi. but at the moment i believe the iniesta,deco combo is best fo r the team

Besides, its alot easier for Rijkaard to sit Xavi and not Deco. Xavi will sit on the bench and not bitch, not sure Deco would do that ...

Deisler wrote:

Parks Lives wrote:

Deisler wrote:wtf frings

one of the best in the world

hahaha why are you laughing?

hes better than all english midfielders thats for sure

Behave. Frings has never come across the UNIT.

Until he has, Torsten is thoroughly untested.

So just 1 game to go in the group with the table looking like this:

1. Chelsea 10
2. Werder Bremen 10
3. Barcelona 8
4. Levski Sofia 0

So Chelsea are already through, whilst Levski cannot even get a UEFA Cup spot. 3 points will guarantee Chelsea win the group, whatever the result in the other match. With all due respect, I think Chelsea will win very comfortably and, even without Terry, shouldn't concede.

The other match is much tougher. A Werder win or a draw is enough for Werder to qualify, although I think Barca will probably just have too much for them, being at home. Whatever happens in that game, I think Werder will feel very proud, as most people (including myself to be honest) didn't expect them to get anything against either Chelsea or Barcelona.

So a pre-final to the CL final is on the cards on Dec. 5th. It'll be grossly unfair on whoever goes out (hopefully not us!) because Bremen are much better on current form than all the other 2nd place teams, and even some 1st place teams.

Fortunately for us, we did enough in our first 3 games to qualify.

I said right at the beginning, that if Chelsea get 7-9 points from the first 3 games (bear in mind we had Werder Bremen and Barcelona at home with Levski away - which to be fair, was just like an extra home game), we would qualify.

I believe taking even 1/6 point(s) from the Barcelona-Werder Bremen back-to-back away games was an achievement too.

I've got tickets to go watch Chelsea-Levski next week. If I hadn't, I think I probably would've watched Bremen-Barca on the tele.

so, any Barca/Bremen fans feel nervous yet?

Hell yeah..

But still a week to go..

Bit early mate!!
Bet your feeling glum though!

yours truly wrote:Bit early mate!!
Bet your feeling glum though!

I am very annoyed that Chelsea managed to equalise, but apart from that I don't think we can blame anybody but ourselves.. The team is only starting to get into gear, and that is simply too late considering the strength of the group.

Of course missing 2 out of 3 of our attackers doesn't help either..

And also playing an attacking midfielder in his wrong position!

yours truly wrote:And also playing an attacking midfielder in his wrong position!

Guddy has to get used to it.. He isn't going to be getting either dinho's or Messi's spot.

S4P wrote:so, any Barca/Bremen fans feel nervous yet?

You seem eager to find out...wonder why?

yours truly wrote:And also playing an attacking midfielder in his wrong position!

Funny how everyone always said Mourinho is doing the wrong thing by playing him in midfield, but when he comes to us and hasn't quite settled as a striker, suddenly he was an attacking midfielder after all, and we were stupid to sign him.