Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete
Havent been watching Champions league for too long, but Real has to be the most overrated, selfish team that Ive seen
This is a good answer @se1f_made
Madrid's problem this season besides injuries was the fact that Ronaldo is content to make it all about him and not understanding that when everyone eats they feed you too. Benzema is one of the best pure strikers in the game...but you wouldnt know it..cuz Ronaldo. Bale can't shine like we know he can because "nah Gareth, feed Ronald
"Madrid actually could have a good thing with the way that Chicharito is hungry to prove himself but Carlo wasn't going to give him a shot really..why? Cuz Ronaldo. Look at dude's face when someone OTHER than him in the attack scores (be it Benzema, Chicharito, or Bale). Carlo's lack of foresight and backbone directly lead to Morata leaving Madrid...and look at who JUST beat Madrid in CL...
If you look at Messi, Suarez and Neymar...they are entering and leaving the pitch together. On free kicks they are talking together. Messi accepted a more wide and conducting role to let Suarez eat and look what its done for Barca. Around christmas this team was dead in the water. But Messi sat down with Enrique, and did what was best for the TEAM and his attacking teammates. You will NEVER see Ronaldo say "let me risk not getting as many goals in order to win." Never.
It sounds really terrible but to the leadership in Madrid its the Ronaldo show. And only Bale (and possibly Sergio Ramos) are people who couldn't be sacrificed.
Real Madrid's problems this season has been it's lack of tactical variety because of thin options in midfield and the insistence on fielding Benzema ,Ronaldo and Bale. As bad as DiMaria has been for United they could rely on him to switch up the game.There are games when they started with a 4-3-3 which ended up looking like a 4-4-2 with DiMaria on the wing giving them good workrate. This season they have no DM or even a defensively sound box to box mid and when Modric got injured they were down to playing Ramos in that position and or attacking midfielders like Isco and James. Bale's game is known, once you double team him to close any space he might get he doesn't look too good. He does not have the free role he had at Spurs in the last season when he could take up any position on the pitch. Their central midfield was the weakest link once they decided Illaramendi and Silva are not good enough and Khedira stopped playing. Teams can design ways to choke off supply to Bale and Ronaldo so they needed someone in midfield to provide an alternative and they could not find one at key times.
all them nikkas on Liverpools team look like brothers
Crystal Palace
Hate to say it but both Kroos and James are basically busts right now. And not because of their play is awful, but because of the simple fact that they just arent versatile enough to replace what they lost with Di Maria, Xabi Alonzo and Khedira. I still think dealing away Di Maria was the silliest thing they did in years. Dude was at many times the only man hustling on the pitch during the last few legs of CL last year.
P.S. fukk Gerrard and Liverpool.
King Jove
King Of †he Gawds
man, fukk those liverpool players and the manager for the send off they gave to gerrard, for real!!!
after all the shyt this nikka has done for them and they lose the nikka's final home game!!!
and i ain't even a reds fan!!!
gerrard deserved better!!!
yseJ
Empire strikes back
that CL came off as super lucky in the last minute of added time, with iker coming extremely close to being the goat (not the GOAT) and carlo backing him in the process. like Ive said the bayern win was great but the actual trophy was lucky. its kinda like di matteo's UCL win
Dushane Hill
Superstar
man, fukk those liverpool players and the manager for the send off they gave to gerrard, for real!!!
after all the shyt this nikka has done for them and they lose the nikka's final home game!!!
and i ain't even a reds fan!!!
gerrard deserved better!!!
He's had the worst possible end to his Liverpool career.
Was pretty much on his way to his first Premier League title last season, but bottled it at the very end
Gets sent off in under a minute against United
Has a run of losses towards the end of this season which ultimately put Liverpool out of CL contention
Knocked out of the FA Cup
Lost 3-1 to Palace at Anfield in his last ever game for the club
Just wasn't meant to be a fairytale ending. At least this time next year he'll be sitting poolside at his Bel-Air mansion I suppose.
He doesn't slip in that howler against Palace no less
then Liverpool wins EPL last year. Team confidence and cohesion tanked at that moment. I'm sure at that point Suarez was like "
Yo fukk me and Sturridge carrying this scrub ass team. I'm out".And on the CL tip, Real lucked up in that final. Atleti out played those fools all night and facking Sergio Ramos had to be a damn hero.
Cuz until that point Di Maria was the only Real player worth a damn for 90 mins.
