Stuttgart - Barcelona

Its the return of the raining champions to the CL, to see if they can become the 1st team in CL history to retain the title.

Barca will go into this game without Xavi and Kieta and with alves missing from the 1st team for the last three weeks.

Stuttgart has been in great form leading up to this game, and had a 1-5 victory away from home at the weekend.

Can a confident stuttgart beat and somewhat out of form and injured plagued barca.

Messiah wrote:Its the return of the raining champions to the CL, to see if they can become the 1st team in CL history to retain the title.

Barca will go into this game without Xavi and Kieta and with alves missing from the 1st team for the last three weeks.

Stuttgart has been in great form leading up to this game, and had a 1-5 victory away from home at the weekend.

Can a confident stuttgart beat and somewhat out of form and injured plagued barca.

No.

Effenberg wrote:

Messiah wrote:Its the return of the raining champions to the CL, to see if they can become the 1st team in CL history to retain the title.

Barca will go into this game without Xavi and Kieta and with alves missing from the 1st team for the last three weeks.

Stuttgart has been in great form leading up to this game, and had a 1-5 victory away from home at the weekend.

Can a confident stuttgart beat and somewhat out of form and injured plagued barca.

No.

Why so little faith in your german compatriots

Faith? What am I, a religious fanatic?

It's Barca. They've lost one game all season. They're the best team in the world. A few injuries don't change that.

Barça has lost 3 games...1 in each competition.

Anyway, should be a comfortable win. Clean sheet would be nice...0-2 I think.

As if clean sheet would matter in a away game.
Any win should be excellent for you.

I am really interested how much of a fight Stuttgart has to offer.

Alves,Xavi and Ibra trained with the 1st team yesterday, i think alves will start no so sure about Xavi or ibra.

Effenberg wrote:

Messiah wrote:Its the return of the raining champions to the CL, to see if they can become the 1st team in CL history to retain the title.

Barca will go into this game without Xavi and Kieta and with alves missing from the 1st team for the last three weeks.

Stuttgart has been in great form leading up to this game, and had a 1-5 victory away from home at the weekend.

Can a confident stuttgart beat and somewhat out of form and injured plagued barca.

No.

I agree. Despite the win at the weekend, our defense is still pretty shaky and will definitely be taken apart by Barca.

Messiah wrote:Alves,Xavi and Ibra trained with the 1st team yesterday, i think alves will start no so sure about Xavi or ibra.

Papers say Ibrahimovic is sure to play, the other two aren't. tbh, I hope Pep doesn't rush anyone back, esp. 2 key players like Xavi and Alves.

Ibra going for his first CL KO goal in about his 17th game.

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:Ibra going for his first CL KO goal in about his 17th game.

what a player

Effenberg wrote:

Messiah wrote:Its the return of the raining champions to the CL, to see if they can become the 1st team in CL history to retain the title.

Barca will go into this game without Xavi and Kieta and with alves missing from the 1st team for the last three weeks.

Stuttgart has been in great form leading up to this game, and had a 1-5 victory away from home at the weekend.

Can a confident stuttgart beat and somewhat out of form and injured plagued barca.

No.

OF COURSE, they CAN

or rather

of course they COULD

the problem with today's Germans like the moron above who says NO is that they are metrosexual DEFEATISTS

of all the players LAHM is their hero

on TV, it's KERNER

in politics, it's MERKEL, Röttgen, v d Leyen

their SYMBOL is the SCARF

usually

they HATE

NUCLEAR POWER and BAVARIAN BEER

most of them read the SPIEGEL, ZEIT or the SZ

-------------

they tend to know NOTHING about SOCIETY or PSYCHOLOGY

and

are 100% POLITICALLY CORRECT



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Stuttgart are a MASSIVE outside-bet against Barca and should be underestimated

this COULD have UPSET-by-UNDERDOG written all over it

Stuttgart can write HISTORY, the players can become club LEGENDS

Barca have EVERYTHING to lose and will find it difficult to take VfB seriously

IF Gross manages to communicate this massage to his players they have an EXCELLENT chance of springing a surprise

IF he instills fear and tells them to just ENJOY the game and try to get Messi's shirt, they will LOSE by a margin

note

Hleb thinks VfB have VERY LITTLE chance

ie, they should kick him out of the squad for this game; VfB need players who BELIEVE in the unlikely

I do not know enough about Gross to make a prediction

but THEORETICALLY

an upset is MORE than possible

Lehmann vaunts German values

Published: Monday 22 February 2010, 15.38CET
Jens Lehmann believes some typically German football will ensure VfB Stuttgart give FC Barcelona a run for their money as their UEFA Champions League first knockout round tie kicks off on home soil.


Thrilled to still be playing at the "highest level", goalkeeper Jens Lehmann fancies VfB Stuttgart's chances of ousting first knockout round rivals FC Barcelona, even though he admits: "We are huge outsiders."

At 40, the Essen native boasts the kind of experience few can match. He has appeared in a FIFA World Cup semi-final and a UEFA European Championship final with Germany, plus a UEFA Champions League showpiece with Arsenal FC, but Europe's top club competition is still special to him.

"These games are played at the highest possible level," he said. "Every team in the Champions League is a top side when it comes to technique and tactics. This is the highest level there is in world football – even higher than the national teams since they are not as well-rehearsed as club sides."

If club football is tougher than international football, then there can be no more challenging opponents than Barça. Lehmann remembers the European champions only too well from his UEFA Champions League final appearance in 2006, which was cut short by a red card 18 minutes into Arsenal's 2-1 loss in Paris. Meeting the Blaugrana again, though, will not be harrowing for Lehmann. "You cannot really compare those two games," he said. "These are two entirely different teams and that was a final."

If anything, Josep Guardiola's current crop are more fearsome opponents than the side Lehmann faced with Arsenal, but the goalkeeper sees no reason to be daunted. "We are huge outsiders but we are also a German side," he said. "We have a special style and from my long career I know that our qualities will allow us to give them a difficult match."

Taking a positive result to Camp Nou for the second leg on 17 March is therefore the mission, yet whatever happens the return encounter will represent a personal milestone for Lehmann. "Barcelona's is the last big stadium I have not played at, but I think I can contain my excitement for the three weeks until we play there," he concluded with a grin.

De Guzman wrote:Lehmann vaunts German values


If anything, Josep Guardiola's current crop are more fearsome opponents than the side Lehmann faced with Arsenal, but the goalkeeper sees no reason to be daunted. "We are huge outsiders but we are also a German side," he said. "We have a special style and from my long career I know that our qualities will allow us to give them a difficult match."

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LEHMANN is a LEGEND



fortunately, DEFEATISTS like "effe" (the poster) have LEFT Germany

and can now spread their GLOOM in America



but as I said

the problem is that Lehmann is NOT your average German

chances are the likes of Tasci and Co will NOT believe in German virtues anymore

Yeah, well, but never fear, the original Junge Wilde have stepped up to boost everyone's confidence:

http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/stuttgarter_nachrichten.html/id/bbda86ec-1333-4298-88d6-2414038c4ea7

I have a LOT of time for Khedira



although

his gay style of dressing, with V-neck T-shirts is NOT acceptable

still, he is a REAL FIGHTER

and PROUD to be GERMAN

he recently said that he had NO TIME for the likes of BoatengSr, Jones,... for playing for other Nationalmannschaften the second they were no longer selected by the German Coach

you needed to have PRIDE in ONE TEAM and COUNTRY and stick with it through THICK and THIN

not BAD for somebody whose father is from Tunisia and who had to WAIT for a LONG, LONG TIME before getting the Mannschaft's nod (compared to Tasci, Boateng, Weiss, Compper and Co)

Ibrahimovic to score all the goals he's missed this season...on Stuttgart!

Puro wrote:Ibrahimovic to score all the goals he's missed this season...on Stuttgart!

Lehmann says no

Tonight will henceforth be remembered as "The Revenge of Hleb".

Predicted lineup for Farcelona:

----------------Valdes

Puyol-----Milito-----Pique-----Maxwell

----------------Toure

-----Busquets-------Iniesta

Messi--------Ibrahimovic--------Henry

Puro wrote:Ibrahimovic to score all the goals he's missed this season...on Stuttgart!

If he's ever going to score in the knock outs it'll be against a team of Stuttgart's calibre.

72-76-80-96-08 wrote:

Effenberg wrote:

Messiah wrote:Its the return of the raining champions to the CL, to see if they can become the 1st team in CL history to retain the title.

Barca will go into this game without Xavi and Kieta and with alves missing from the 1st team for the last three weeks.

Stuttgart has been in great form leading up to this game, and had a 1-5 victory away from home at the weekend.

Can a confident stuttgart beat and somewhat out of form and injured plagued barca.

No.

OF COURSE, they CAN

or rather

of course they COULD

the problem with today's Germans like the moron above who says NO is that they are metrosexual DEFEATISTS

of all the players LAHM is their hero

on TV, it's KERNER

in politics, it's MERKEL, Röttgen, v d Leyen

their SYMBOL is the SCARF

usually

they HATE

NUCLEAR POWER and BAVARIAN BEER

most of them read the SPIEGEL, ZEIT or the SZ

-------------

they tend to know NOTHING about SOCIETY or PSYCHOLOGY

and

are 100% POLITICALLY CORRECT



------------

Stuttgart are a MASSIVE outside-bet against Barca and should be underestimated

this COULD have UPSET-by-UNDERDOG written all over it

Stuttgart can write HISTORY, the players can become club LEGENDS

Barca have EVERYTHING to lose and will find it difficult to take VfB seriously

IF Gross manages to communicate this massage to his players they have an EXCELLENT chance of springing a surprise

IF he instills fear and tells them to just ENJOY the game and try to get Messi's shirt, they will LOSE by a margin

note

Hleb thinks VfB have VERY LITTLE chance

ie, they should kick him out of the squad for this game; VfB need players who BELIEVE in the unlikely

I do not know enough about Gross to make a prediction

but THEORETICALLY

an upset is MORE than possible

They need to invoke the strength of Germany. Like I said to Ozil(poster) you need get your hands on some Effenberg DNA and clone yourself some players.

Otto, let it be known that I find you insulting me as a moron and a "metrosexual (wtf?) defeatist" pathetic, sad and in poor taste.

As for the actual football match, it's only realistic to see no chance for Stuttgart against Barcelona. That goes for all but 3-4 teams in Europe. It has nothing to do with Stuttgart being a team based in Germany. It has everything to do with them being mediocre at best.

Jaime wrote:Predicted lineup for Farcelona:

----------------Valdes

Puyol-----Milito-----Pique-----Maxwell

----------------Toure

-----Busquets-------Iniesta

Messi--------Ibrahimovic--------Henry

Confirmed

I heard Marques not Milito?

Fedup of seeing Iniesta as a LW. When will Guardiola wakeup?

L r dd wrote:I heard Marques not Milito?

Yeah, Marquez is there. UEFA.com must have it wrong because Xavi is playing as well.

----lehmann
celozi-tasci-delpiere-malinero
gehbart-träsch-dedhira-hleb
----progrekniak---cacau