Champions League Semi Finals Thread

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

Kroos wrote:fack we might lose to them

no dortmund player can be suspended for the final

Hlebagone wrote:

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

With the team Mourinho has at his disposal, getting to the semi final is par for the course. Compare this team to the one Liverpool dicked on or the 2008 one which came up quickest on a google search. Bit of credit to Mourinho for improving them but how many players from that team would be in Madrid's current team:

1 Iker Casillas
4 Sergio Ramos
5 Fabio Cannavaro
6 Mahamadou Diarra
7 Raúl González
8 Fernando Gago
11 Arjen Robben
14 Guti
16 Gabriel Heinze
17 Ruud van Nistelrooy
22 Miguel Torres

Excluding Casillas and Ramos for obvious reasons, I count Cannavaro, and even that's debatable as he was well past his best. It makes any comparison redundant really.

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

Jaime wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

They are good on the counter no doubt about it but if they finish like they did against Malaga in la Rosaleda, for example, 3-0 is very possible.

Jaime wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

They are good on the counter no doubt about it but if they finish like they did against Malaga in la Rosaleda, for example, 3-0 is very possible.

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

With the team Mourinho has at his disposal, getting to the semi final is par for the course. Compare this team to the one Liverpool dicked on or the 2008 one which came up quickest on a google search. Bit of credit to Mourinho for improving them but how many players from that team would be in Madrid's current team:

1 Iker Casillas
4 Sergio Ramos
5 Fabio Cannavaro
6 Mahamadou Diarra
7 Raúl González
8 Fernando Gago
11 Arjen Robben
14 Guti
16 Gabriel Heinze
17 Ruud van Nistelrooy
22 Miguel Torres

Excluding Casillas and Ramos for obvious reasons, I count Cannavaro, and even that's debatable as he was well past his best. It makes any comparison redundant really.

Guti, Robben and RVN aren't to be sniffed at, nor is Raul, arguably one of the best CL strikers of all time.

You can't just expect him to win a European Cup. Even Sir Alex fails to win a lot of them. It's very difficult to win one, as an Arsenal fan you should know this.

If you want a spectacular failure look at Mancini.

Cristiano wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

100% agree.

What I didn't understand though is how clumsy we looked, every Dortmund players was running past our players like they were freaking Maradona. Whenever we had the ball the players looked like they were about to lose it, they seemed overwhelmed by the occassion, pressing or atmosphere.

messiah wrote:

Jaime wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

They are good on the counter no doubt about it but if they finish like they did against Malaga in la Rosaleda, for example, 3-0 is very possible.

We stand a better chance of turning it around than Madrid,

Luis wrote:I don't understand. This is the special one's team right?

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

They are good on the counter no doubt about it but if they finish like they did against Malaga in la Rosaleda, for example, 3-0 is very possible.

Not saying that they will be always as efficient as today, but first match against Malaga was also an aberration. You will have to play high defensive line against them and Borussia will have many chances to attack space behind it. 3:0 is impossible, 4:1 - maybe.

Fey wrote:Sickening from Lionel Lewandowski( is he already a Bayern player ?) to score 4 times...now the so called goat did the same against Leverkussen...he does it against Madrid in a semi-final. 8 goals against Madrid ffs! Is La Liga overrated, or Malaga that good!

I feel sorry for Madrid, finally have more % ball possession then their opponent they still lose big time..

But on the other hand...the financial healthy ones are the ones who are gonna play the final, that is a nice thing.

Hahah Kaka, is coming on, didnt knew he still play football.

Jaime wrote:

Cristiano wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

100% agree.

What I didn't understand though is how clumsy we looked, every Dortmund players was running past our players like they were freaking Maradona. Whenever we had the ball the players looked like they were about to lose it, they seemed overwhelmed by the occassion, pressing or atmosphere.

There were long spells where both teams, in my opinion, looked equally disjointed but where as Dortmund had a real cutting edge we produced almost nothing in the final third of the pitch. Again a big fail from Ozil and ok he was isolated out on the wing but I would be shocked if he completed more than 30% of his passes, too much dribbling sideways, dispossessed to easily. Really poor from him. Khedira, well, I don't need to say anything more. Modric was ok but I think he wasn't fully fit either.

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

Cristiano wrote:Superior teams. Superior League.

shazlx wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck™ wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

With the team Mourinho has at his disposal, getting to the semi final is par for the course. Compare this team to the one Liverpool dicked on or the 2008 one which came up quickest on a google search. Bit of credit to Mourinho for improving them but how many players from that team would be in Madrid's current team:

1 Iker Casillas
4 Sergio Ramos
5 Fabio Cannavaro
6 Mahamadou Diarra
7 Raúl González
8 Fernando Gago
11 Arjen Robben
14 Guti
16 Gabriel Heinze
17 Ruud van Nistelrooy
22 Miguel Torres

Excluding Casillas and Ramos for obvious reasons, I count Cannavaro, and even that's debatable as he was well past his best. It makes any comparison redundant really.

Guti, Robben and RVN aren't to be sniffed at, nor is Raul, arguably one of the best CL strikers of all time.

You can't just expect him to win a European Cup. Even Sir Alex fails to win a lot of them. It's very difficult to win one, as an Arsenal fan you should know this.

If you want a spectacular failure look at Mancini.

Your argument is seriously flimsy if you're using super inconsistent Guti and a passed it Raul.

Madrid only won the league due to Pep fucking up with the 343 experiment and wrecking their well practiced tiki taka by buying Cesc. :p

Kroos wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

They are good on the counter no doubt about it but if they finish like they did against Malaga in la Rosaleda, for example, 3-0 is very possible.

Not saying that they will be always as efficient as today, but first match against Malaga was also an aberration. You will have to play high defensive line against them and Borussia will have many chances to attack space behind it. 3:0 is impossible, 4:1 - maybe.

i doubt that you will put pressure on BVB, at least not much

they outclassed you in every area, there is no chance for madrid, your organisation is so weak, i am praying this so long

Sergio Busquets wrote:

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

You really do chat some bollocks don't you mate?

Luis wrote:

Sergio Busquets wrote:

Luis wrote:

Jaime wrote:

Luis wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Deluded F*ck wrote:I dislike Mourinho immensely but the very last thing I expect is for his teams to be out-run and out-muscled. Dortmund are quicker, sharper, stronger to everything.

1 league title in three years. Difficult to call his tenure a success on that evidence. First failure of his managerial career.

2 CL semis when they weren't getting past the last 16 years on end, beating the best team in the world to a title. Not that big a failure really.

It is an unequivocal failure. Florentino sold his soul to the devil bringing Jose and he was brought here for one reason. Win the Champions League.

And it's hard to do that. Before him you were getting spanked in the last 16. Last season he was unlucky not to make the final. Tonight has been a disaster but it was a disaster for Barca too last night. These things happen sometimes. I have no doubt if Mourinho stayed another 5 seasons he'd win one or two European cups and a few titles.

You really do chat some bollocks don't you mate?

Says the numpty who is arguing Suarez's bite is worse than Defoe's because Defoe's was only 'a nibble'

shazlx wrote:

Kroos wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:

stinger wrote:

Jaime wrote:Fair play to Dortmund they kept going for it. But honestly we made it very easy for them. Pepe was a spectator while Lewandowski scored two of his goals, another everyone stops waiting for the offside that never came, and just about the most naive penalty conceded by Xabi Alonso of all people. Dortmund's passing is nice and all but to me it's not more impressive than Real Sociedad. 3-0 at home isn't impossible but it means Jose is going to have to really go for it and that is the thing he hates most of all.

PROGRESS!

I think it's impossible for Real to keep a clean sheet against Borussia, they are way too good of counter attacking team.

They are good on the counter no doubt about it but if they finish like they did against Malaga in la Rosaleda, for example, 3-0 is very possible.

Not saying that they will be always as efficient as today, but first match against Malaga was also an aberration. You will have to play high defensive line against them and Borussia will have many chances to attack space behind it. 3:0 is impossible, 4:1 - maybe.

i doubt that you will put pressure on BVB, at least not much

they outclassed you in every area, there is no chance for madrid, your organisation is so weak, i am praying this so long

So strange from a Mourinho team not to have organisation and structure. Very happy with the result though. Was a piss take that Madrid got regarded as the second best team just because they aren't as good as Barcelona. Well most teams aren't as good as Barcelona :p