CL Group B Thread - Inter, Bremen, Panathinaikos, Anorthosis

stinger wrote:Great performance by Ibrahimovic, big threat all the time, and provided assists for both goals.

Does Adriano look reaaaaally fat only for me?

Ibra is Ibra. Those assists were just brilliant, specially the one for Adriano's goal!!!

Good to start the CL with a win after such a long time... that too an away win, nice. We'll sail through this group.

chrissicross wrote:And he also caused some problems offside the pitch, he isn´t exactly a player who improves the team spirit.

And then there's the fact that he considers himself a Topstürmer and therefore doesn't keep quiet, if benched.

chrissicross wrote:Yeah, I know, even though Didi lied when he said, the HSV wouldn´t have money for more transfers this year.

Well yeah, that was obvious. I never believed the "HSV only has one million euros for transfers"-legend anyway.

chrissicross wrote:Okay, atm the budget for wages should be more or less the same, but only because we had 5 years CL in a row. Without the CL we can´t compete with the HSV financially.

Okay, but you DID have the 5 years CL in a row. And so we certainly aren't richer than you are. Das ist nunmal der Ist-Zustand.

Lesley wrote:

chrissicross wrote:And he also caused some problems offside the pitch, he isn´t exactly a player who improves the team spirit.

And then there's the fact that he considers himself a Topstürmer and therefore doesn't keep quiet, if benched.

Yeah, I remember right after the Africa Cup, Schaaf wanted to put him in after 80 minutes, but he refused to play because Schaaf dared to bring the great Sanogo so late and just for 10 minutes.

And last Tuesday he left the stadium rigtht after the final whistle out of protest, because Schaaf didn´t let him start. After all the great Sanogo scored the 3-0 against Cottbus last weekend demonstrating his world class once more.

Believe it or not, but Allofs confirmed today Werder got an offer from some Arabian club where Winnie Schäfer is coach these days. Apparently they offered 10m (!!!) Euro for him. But unfortunately Sanogo didn´t want to leave, he wants to become first choice in Bremen again.

Lesley wrote:

chrissicross wrote:]Okay, atm the budget for wages should be more or less the same, but only because we had 5 years CL in a row. Without the CL we can´t compete with the HSV financially.

Okay, but you DID have the 5 years CL in a row. And so we certainly aren't richer than you are. Das ist nunmal der Ist-Zustand.

Long may it continue.

Lesley wrote:

chrissicross wrote:And he is right. He´s an excellent footballer, much better than Sanogo for example.

That's hardly a sign of extraordinary quality though. Sanogo can't play football. That ain't a secret. He has the quality to be at the right place at the right time quite often, that's why he still manages to score.

But I do think a great deal of Pizarro. He just seems to be out of shape at the moment.

Just the comparison to Sanogo is a bit....well...it's not THAT hard to be a better footballer than Sanogo is.

chrissicross wrote:The problem here is that we can´t use the CL money for wages, other clubs can spend more here, even without CL. After all Bremen is not München, Hamburg, Dortmund...

Um....what exactly are we doing in the 'money list' here? Did I miss something *raises eyebrows*

Really, I'v only seen a few times, but every time he has been pretty decent. Can't say if I just got lucky in terms of his performances, but there seemed to be more to his game that just being in the right place at the right time. He made some of his own chances in ACN and converted them. He was pretty decent when he got the chance. Drogba even said that Sanogo reminded him of himself at that age. He seems to have a bit more talent than you suggest but appears inconsistent especially in second half of season.

Lesley wrote:

chrissicross wrote:And he also caused some problems offside the pitch, he isn´t exactly a player who improves the team spirit.

And then there's the fact that he considers himself a Topstürmer and therefore doesn't keep quiet, if benched.

chrissicross wrote:Yeah, I know, even though Didi lied when he said, the HSV wouldn´t have money for more transfers this year.

Well yeah, that was obvious. I never believed the "HSV only has one million euros for transfers"-legend anyway.

chrissicross wrote:Okay, atm the budget for wages should be more or less the same, but only because we had 5 years CL in a row. Without the CL we can´t compete with the HSV financially.

Okay, but you DID have the 5 years CL in a row. And so we certainly aren't richer than you are. Das ist nunmal der Ist-Zustand.

He did at ACN, and did pretty well both off the bench and when he got the chance to start. Might have created false impression but he did look decent there.

i think bremen will have one night again where they humiliate INTER and then will lose against athen

sack schaaf

EMP wrote:Really, I'v only seen a few times, but every time he has been pretty decent.

He wouldn't be the first player, who is different in the national team than at his club.

I don't even want to discuss this lengthily. I can just say that he has been here for a year and has never managed to convince me of any extraordinary abilities. Quite the opposite actually.

He has been in Bremen for a year now and chrissie and I seem to pretty much agree on this topic.

So I guess I can't be all that wrong after all.

Toni Kroos wrote:i think bremen will have one night again where they humiliate INTER and then will lose against athen

sack schaaf

Oh, dream on!

Lesley wrote:

EMP wrote:Really, I'v only seen a few times, but every time he has been pretty decent.

He wouldn't be the first player, who is different in the national team than at his club.

I don't even want to discuss this lengthily. I can just say that he has been here for a year and has never managed to convince me of any extraordinary abilities. Quite the opposite actually.

He has been in Bremen for a year now and chrissie and I seem to pretty much agree on this topic.

So I guess I can't be all that wrong after all.

Not looking for a row. Just observations based on what I saw of him. Might just have got lucky or I'm his lucky talisman.

EMP wrote:

Lesley wrote:

EMP wrote:Really, I'v only seen a few times, but every time he has been pretty decent.

He wouldn't be the first player, who is different in the national team than at his club.

I don't even want to discuss this lengthily. I can just say that he has been here for a year and has never managed to convince me of any extraordinary abilities. Quite the opposite actually.

He has been in Bremen for a year now and chrissie and I seem to pretty much agree on this topic.

So I guess I can't be all that wrong after all.

Not looking for a row. Just observations based on what I saw of him. Might just have got lucky or I'm his lucky talisman.

I can just add that us Stuttgart fans still thank whatever deities there are that we didn't sign him back then...

I want to see a reaction from Inter tomorrow. We must gave a good display to put the memories of the weekend behind us.

One of Balotelli/Adriano gotta start. Come'on Mourinho, please get it right this time!

Inter Squad:
Goalkeepers: 1 Francesco Toldo, 12 Julio Cesar, 22 Paolo Orlandoni.
Defenders: 2 Ivan Ramiro Cordoba, 4 Javier Zanetti, 13 Maicon, 16 Nicolas Burdisso, 23 Marco Materazzi, 26 Cristian Chivu.
Midfielders: 5 Dejan Stankovic, 14 Patrick Vieira, 19 Esteban Cambiasso, 20 Sulley Muntari, 33 Amantino Mancini, 36 Francesco Bolzoni, 77 Ricardo Quaresma.
Strikers: 8 Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 9 Julio Ricardo Cruz, 10 Adriano, 45 Mario Balotelli.

Balotelli, Adriano and Ibra will all start.

Excellent lineup - well done Mourinho!!!



(why the hell did he not start that against Milan?????)

What a shot by Adriano in the first 30 seconds!!!!

Balotelli-Ibra-Adri already combining!!!

Aguero is amazing! Scores again.

TM wrote:Aguero is amazing! Scores again.

Wrong thread, mate...

Soz.

ibra is really an useless c**t, all his actions dont help the team

not based on this match, but overall he is the most overpaid and overrated player on this planet, big game flop

bluenine wrote:Excellent lineup - well done Mourinho!!!

Cesar

Maicon - Cordoba - Materazzi - Zanetti

Cambiasso - Muntari - Stankovic

Adriano - Ibrahimovic - Balotelli

(why the hell did he not start that against Milan?????)

But there is no width whatsoever in that formation!!

Just replace Adriano with Mancini or Quaresma and that could actually work somehow.

Anyone else find it irksome that the British media keep referring to Inter as 'Jose's Inter'?

I like that lineup, except Stankovic isn't up to it anymore imo.

TITO wrote:Just replace Adriano with Mancini or Quaresma and that could actually work somehow.

Or balotelli with Quaresma/mancini.

The big question remains that Ibra is just not the central striker for Mourinho's 433/451 to work. Adriano or Crespo are better suited for that. Perhaps the solution is to play Ibra as an AM, he has the skills to do that, whether he has the apitite to work harder is another question.

This is our problem, Mourinho is trying to force fit a great 442 squad into his own formation, and that may never be optimal.

Inter played a beautiful first half tho. And Adriano looked really good tonight.

btw happy to see Bremen get a point. I hope they go through, and I'm sure they will

Calidad wrote:btw happy to see Bremen get a point. I hope they go through, and I'm sure they will

I was quite impressed with the way they played. IMO Diego with the MOTM, but others like Naldo, Frings, Ozil, and Pizzaro also had a good game. So did Weise, he was very good in timing his runs to block (specially the one on Ibra).

Ketsbaia

i expect to rape inter in bremen like they did it against r.madrid

Toni Kroos wrote:i expect to rape inter in bremen like they did it against r.madrid

We will see about that... hopefully we would have found some form by then!

Toni Kroos wrote:i expect to rape inter in bremen like they did it against r.madrid

Glad for your sake you finished the sentence off

Calidad wrote:Anyone else find it irksome that the British media keep referring to Inter as 'Jose's Inter'?

I like that lineup, except Stankovic isn't up to it anymore imo.

Well, Stank looked back in form in the pre-season, then the injury happened and now he again looks off-colour.

I guess it would be better to play Quaresma instead of Stank at the mo. My prefered Inter line-up would be:


or

Basically, Ibra needs someone further upfront than himself in order to do his magic. This is a fact that every Inter fan seems to know, wonder how long it will take Mourinho to figure it out!!!!

Well done Anorthosis.You have better team than us.Ketsbaia formatted a defensive tactic and strikes Panathinaikos in the counter attack.Your midfield line was so closed with your defensive line(Dellas made a fantastic game, and this role I think switching on his abilities) forcing Panathinaikos make long balls to find Salpingidis.
I think(even Internazionale) nobody will win in Cyprus.

Werder exploited with the best way she could the suspension of Materrazi.Werder has a creative midfield line(Diego,Ozil) and I am sure that he's the favorite for the next matchday game against us.