UEFA Champions League 2010/2011

[alonsoJonathan]

Raally such a nice game.the first half was boring,but the second one wow!
good thing i ask for my day off!
so sad sergio wont play! =( pepe wont play either!
good for Barca i guess,i just cant stand Messi!

 

[miwa]

One of the worst games I have ever watched. The amount of diving from both teams (but especially from Barcelona) is shameful. Dani Alves being on a stretcher writhing in pain and then 5 seconds later playing like nothing happened is sad. The red card was too harsh. Congratulations Barca. First Chelsea, then Inter, then Arsenal and then Real. Referees must really love you.

 

[dorien]

mascharano's translation is class!
and pique's comment at the end is the icing on the cake.

 

[Jared]

Pep said it best, Mou has not evolved as a coach.
every game against Barça (except the first in charge of RM which he was given the famous manita, because he tried to play Barça in their own game) Mou has defended with 10 men, playing for the long ball in hopes of a hail mary. today was no different. Barça 71 % 29 RM ball control.
the players who had been playing dirty, in champions league, with international referees, finally got the yellows and reds they deserved. except for Marcelo for intentionally stepping on Pedro

Messi was phenomenal. ¡el segundo gol es de antología!@!
Casillas again was the best man on the pitch for RM, were it not for him, easily one or two more goals. with valdes behind the arc (he has improved so much in the last couple of years and does not get the credit he deserves), and the captain puyol back to organize the defense, RM could not even even smell it. Villa and Pedrito still shooting blanks, but Messi put the team on his shoulders and carried us through.

Messi > CR

no Sergio Ramos, no pepe for the next match. Mou will continue to defend, if he opens up (and he needs to attack) he will get the trashing of his life.

Cantera > Cartera

I'm sorry but that game was a disgrace. It's just sad when 2 of the best teams in the world play football like that. Not a single redeeming quality in that game except for Messi's second goal.

And even that only came about through cheating. Dani Alves acting > Pepe gets sent off > Barcelona score their goals. This is not the first time they've done this (Remember Motta & Inter last year). Not sure how anyone can defend this.

Ps. Barca medical team work miracles. Alves goes off on a stretcher, then runs back on a minute later as if nothing happened..

 

[alonsoJonathan]

well thats part of the game. every team does that

 

[ladygodiva]

SO much for watching the game... I fell asleep But I did catch Messi's second goal which was phenomenal. From what I've gathered the game was disgraceful with how both teams were playing, and I HATE when a team like Barca or Real play such football; it brings a bad name to the game. Two of the biggest teams in the world and this is how they behaved. I truly hope the return leg is far classier but I doubt it, these two teams have such a history I feel like this is the only way they know they can play against each other. Diving, pretending to be injured, getting the opponent sent off.

And alonsoJonathan - it's not part of the game to feign fake injury, to roll around on the pitch like your life depends is about to end and to get your opponent sent off. It's stuff like that that brings a bad name to the beautiful game and to see world class players and world cup winners take part in such act is just wrong and shameful. When players from my own team do it, I'm ashamed.

 

[alonsoJonathan]

well there is not a match that i have watch that all those things didnt happen,besides when both teams cant get to the goal all those fake injuries can make the team get closer to the GK and score.

i know is not clean or the best soccer,but sometime it works to score,specialy in games like that when they cant really get all the way to score. well that is what i think,but yeah i agree with you in this game it wa just too much!

 

[alonsoJonathan]

poor guy i feel sorry for him,

 

[alonsoJonathan]

^translation:

“I will just ask a question to which I hope one day to get a response: Why? Why? Why Ovrebo? Why Busacca? Why De Bleeckere? Why Stark? Why? Because every semifinal the same things happen. We are talking about an absolutely fantastic football team, so why do they need that? Why? Why does a team as good as they are need something that is so obvious that everyone sees it?

“Why Ovrebo [two] years ago [when the Norwegian referee did not give Chelsea a series of penalties against Barcelona]? Why couldn’t Chelsea go to the final? Last year it was a miracle that Inter got there playing with 10 men for so long. A miracle. Why weren’t there four penalties against Chelsea [in 2009]? Why send off [Arsenal's Robin] van Persie [in the last 16]? Where does their power come from?”

Josep Guardiola is a fantastic coach, but I have won two Champions Leagues. He has won one Champions League and that is one that would embarrass me. I would be ashamed to have won it with the scandal of Stamford Bridge and if he wins it this year it will be with the scandal of the Bernabéu. One day I would like to see Josep Guardiola win this championship properly.”


“The return game is mission impossible. Barcelona has qualified for the final. Sometimes I feel disgusted about this football world of ours. Yes, we have already been knocked out. We had the intention to keep the game at 0-0, then bring on a striker, then a third phase with a No. 10 behind three forwards. But the ref didn’t allow it.’”

“I don’t know if it is the Unicef sponsorship or if it is because they are nice guys. I don’t understand. Congratulations to Barcelona on being a great team and congratulations for all the other stuff you have which must be very hard to achieve. They have power and no one else has chance.”

he make some interesting points of view,never really think of anything like that.

what do you guys think?

 

[jomarlushka]

One of the worst games I have ever watched. The amount of diving from both teams (but especially from Barcelona) is shameful. Dani Alves being on a stretcher writhing in pain and then 5 seconds later playing like nothing happened is sad. The red card was too harsh. Congratulations Barca. First Chelsea, then Inter, then Arsenal and then Real. Referees must really love you.

I agree with you 100% - and I live in Barcelona! I looooved Barcelona from around 2004 until 2009 and enjoyed their game but after what I saw in 2009 until now I just don't - the theatrics and cheating is just tooooo much

 

[kokobombon]

Real Madrid has always been critized about diving, getting special treatment from refs and so on... there´s a song that goes something like "this is how, this is how, this is how Madrid wins" in allusion about getting special treatment. That ended for good during this match, now it´s my turn to sing "this is how, this is how, this is how Barza wins"...

 

[ladygodiva]

well there is not a match that i have watch that all those things didnt happen,besides when both teams cant get to the goal all those fake injuries can make the team get closer to the GK and score.

i know is not clean or the best soccer,but sometime it works to score,specialy in games like that when they cant really get all the way to score. well that is what i think,but yeah i agree with you in this game it wa just too much!

WHAAAAT? Getting fake injuries makes it easier to score? That's the most ridiculous thing I've read. And no offense I have no idea what matches you've been watching but the matches I watch rarely have the fake injuries, diving and/or deliberate sending off. If you can't get through the other teams defense system then you applaud the other team for playing good football as far as I'm concerned. It's cheap and shameful to try and get a player from the other team sent off. And if you can't score that's what extra time and penalties are there for.

 

[Jared]

WHAAAAT? Getting fake injuries makes it easier to score? That's the most ridiculous thing I've read. And no offense I have no idea what matches you've been watching but the matches I watch rarely have the fake injuries, diving and/or deliberate sending off. If you can't get through the other teams defense system then you applaud the other team for playing good football as far as I'm concerned. It's cheap and shameful to try and get a player from the other team sent off. And if you can't score that's what extra time and penalties are there for.

Totally agreed, there's no way anyone should be defending faking injuries. And I'm a United fan but I'm the first to criticise Nani when he does it. However those players last night were on a whole new level of trying to cheat their way through.

 

[jomarlushka]

Totally agreed, there's no way anyone should be defending faking injuries. And I'm a United fan but I'm the first to criticise Nani when he does it. However those players last night were on a whole new level of trying to cheat their way through.

totally agree with you guys and I am living in Barcelona and have been a supporter ...but since 2009 I just can't look at their games and enjoy them 100%, honestly , I wish I could as I remember the time when they won the CL 2006 and I was celebrating on the streets that night but since then they changed quite a bit (people=players, sports managers, club manager etc.)...

If they come to the final against MU which is about 89% now I hope MU shows them that you can win by playing football rather then diving and acting around.

Here's what Adebayor said yesterday (youtube.com)
Barcelona's players are falling down and crying like babies

 

[alonsoJonathan]

yes guys i agreed with both of you,last night game was just too much!

do you guys think RM stand a chance on winning?
even dough Mau has said they are done

 

[dorien]

been watching fútbol since i was a child:
EPL, La Liga, Serie A, Leauge 1, EuroCup, world Cup, Champions League,

never, ever, have i seen a game that was absolutely perfect when it came to refereeing. never.

now, on that moment the referee does not have technology to go back and see if there is contact or not. did he touch him, even know, it's hard to say how much of contact, if at all, there is.

now, why i think the referee pulled the red, is because pepe came in with the cleats, he never had the intention to play the ball, late to the challenge, cleats up. the rules state, that if a player injures or tries to injures a player, 'playing dangerously' that is a straight red. to me it seem like Dani pulls his leg away just in time from being broken.

and for those who say, well he got up quickly right after. i've had my right ankle fractured in a game (got caught up between the goalie and defender) still got up after impact, and took a step or two before failing to kick the ball. adrenaline is running, you 'can' get back up after a serious injury. in el clasico of la liga. two defenders of RM drop Villa, step on him, and then while Villa is on the floor in pain, they force him up. Villa got up on his own, and gets in their face. adrenaline.

speaking of the first classico. villa doesn't get called penalty for reaching the ball before Casillas. marcello 8 mins from time, dives, and gets a penalty called to tie the game. Pep said nothing. didn't cry, didn't speak bad of the Refeeres, nothing. Mou goes on his soap box, and says had it only been 11-11.

in Copa del Rey, Pedrito's gol could have been awarded, and a different game. but to be honest, Barça didn't play well overall (Pep went with Pinto instead of valdes and i respect why he did it) RM played well in the first half. Pep didn't moan, or blame anyone else for his loss.

Mou looses , each time he looses, he cries and blasts everyone except his team. it's his tactics, he is the one telling the players to bring the axe, to foul, to play the long ball, to play aggressively, to park the bus. barça had control of the ball, they attacked more, all RM could do was chase the ball and foul


look at ronaldo demanding his teammates to help. says it all to me.

 

[alonsoJonathan]

i dont think he deserved the red card,but ohh well is done.
im more mad as of why he gave the yellow one to Sergio
wonder what puyol told Mou.

 

[miwa]

Are you serious with Pedro's goal? Every single referee would have called it offside because, guess what, it WAS offside.
To every of your moanings about RM players diving I can retort with Barca players also diving and committing fouls (and, no, it's not just Busquets, Pedro and Alves). But I don't care anymore.

 

[ladygodiva]

I seriously don't understand how anyone can defend either team after their display on Wednesday. The only redeeming thing you can take from that game is Messi's second goal. The fact that both teams are being investigated by Uefa should indicate just how ridiculous the match got, you usually get one team getting fined or disciplined or investigated but both teams is just shameful IMO.

 

[alonsoJonathan]