Barcelona - Real Madrid anticipation thread (December 23rd)

johan the baptist wrote:You did, Well I'm sorry. I make it up.

You hate Capello, this is the last time Milan lost in a CL Final .. in normal time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srt8Q11NWsI

Merry Xmas and a Happy new Year.

supermadrid wrote:

johan the baptist wrote:You did, Well I'm sorry. I make it up.

You hate Capello, this is the last time Milan lost in a CL Final .. in normal time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srt8Q11NWsI

Merry Xmas and a Happy new Year.

can you post the link to the game against madrid with ajax? i cant seem to find it.

juligen21 wrote:

Luso wrote:So it appears as though he's won over the critics? At 30 million I still think Madrid over-paid, but he never was the $h!t defender everyone tried to portray him as.

The 'best display ever' comment is over the top however and really puts down everything he's done in the past... maybe if they'd watched him prior to his Madrid days they'd have something a little more sensible to say.

Still, he isn't good enough for Brazil.

Pepe is Brazilian??????????? Are you sure about that? Can he still play for us? Please tell me that he didn’t naturalized for Portugal?

juligen21 wrote:

TM wrote:Brazilian born Portugese international footballer.

f@ck OFF I am sick of those countries getting Brazilians because they cant produce their own players. This is not a grocery list. Oh I don’t have tomatoes today, let’s buy some to make a sauce.

Invest in your youth scout, go train kids, make changes, produce your OWN DAMN PLAYERS.

When Brazil didn’t produced new strikers I had to endure Vagner f@ck!!ng Love for almost a year, don’t have a right back wing? lets try anybody until we found someone, no good GK? Let’s change our training methods, bring people from others countries and start to produce our own GK. THAT’S HOW IS DONE.

El Tiki Taka wrote:
Do people still think that Ten Cate wasn't the brains behind the outfit?

EMPortuguese wrote:

El Tiki Taka wrote:
Do people still think that Ten Cate wasn't the brains behind the outfit?

No he is so over rated look at his management at Ajax

Since 1888 wrote:

EMPortuguese wrote:

El Tiki Taka wrote:
Do people still think that Ten Cate wasn't the brains behind the outfit?

No he is so over rated look at his management at Ajax

Finishing 2nd and only missed out on the title by one goal is the closest Ajax got to the title in the last years.

Torrente wrote:What an amazing performance that was! Admittedly, this was probably the worst clasico in a long time but we won so I don't really care. We were simply much better than Barcelona and should have won by more goals.


Casillas - 7.5

Made some very good saves but fumbled a shot by Bojan near the end that could have cost us. Besides that he did nothing wrong.


Pepe - 9.5

Barcelona fans laughed at what we paid for him, but now we should laugh at them for what they paid for Milito. I had never seen any defender make Eto'o his bitch the way Pepe did tonight. Admittedly Eto'o is not match fit yet but he was amazing against Valencia. Pepe's performance tonight reminded me of a vintage Rio Ferdinand performance. Strong, quick, sublime in the air, and stopped everything that came his way. With every game I'm becoming more convinced that Pepe is the rock solid defender we've been looking for since Hierro left.


Cannavaro - 8.5

Once again, he read the opposition's plays like a book. He was the perfect foil for Pepe today. Didn't let anyone go past him either.


Ramos - 8

What's left to say about Ramos that hasn't been said already? The guy is 21 but he plays like he's 30. He nearly scored an amazing goal as well in which he went passed Abidal with a great backheel change-up. My only criticism is that he left an awful Ronaldinho go past him once or twice.


Heinze - 8.5

He may not have contributed too much in attack, but he was sublime in defense. Great call by Schuster to have chosen Heinze over Marcelo for this game.


Diarra - 8

Gave a couple of bad passes, but besides that he was excellent. His best game of the season for us IMO. I've always had faith in Diarra and his performance tonight has confirmed this. I lost count of how many dangerous counter-attacks Diarra cut off.


Robinho - 7.5

It was not his clasico as I was expecting but was a constant headache for the Barcelona defense. He was also unlucky that on 2 occasions that he got away from Puyol and was on his way to a scoring opportunity, he was immediately fouled after that. I also think that Robinho missed Marcelo's overlapping runs since Heinze did not help Robinho too much in attack.


Baptista - 8

I'm happy that this is another case in which I've been proven right. I kept saying that I wanted him to play this game over Guti and the results speaks for itself. Nevermind the golazo he scored, he started many dangerous counter-attacks and worked tirelessly in defense. We still need a creative midfielder, but Baptista deserves credit for the way he's fulfilling the role.


Sneijder - 6.5

His setpieces were always a danger and he had a few nice moves but disappears too often for my liking. He also messed up an excellent counter attack in which we would have been 4 against 2 by kicking the ball too far.


Raul - 4.5

I would even consider giving him lower if it wasn't for that amazing exchange he had with Ruud at the very end of the game. Once again Raul pulled the invisible act and he had a disgraceful challenge on Puyol that could have gotten him a red.


Ruud - 6.5

Amazing assist to Baptista for the goal but lacked sharpness in several counter-attacks. Should have scored at least twice tonight.


Schuster - 9.5

Once again, Schuster made Rijkaard his bitch. Made the right decision in playing Heinze and his tactics were spot on tonight. I really liked the fact that we often changed up our pressing at random times. Sometimes we would start pressing in midfield and other times we pressured Barca in their own penalty area and this had them completely confused. What an amazing start for this guy. He's very close to proving that firing Capello was the right choice (something I've believed from the start).



I'd like to see the big mouth Golsud over here after all the Cr@p he's been saying all week. Even funnier would be Puro with his 5-0 prediction
But I'm sure he'll say that by some strange coincidence he didn't bet any money on this game. (that's what he always says when he makes a wrong prediction)