QuoteNapoli 1-0, Higuaín. This could get interesting. Now 2 points clear of Dortmund, who are still locked at 1-1 with 10-man Marseilles.
And Arteta sent off!
Milan down to 10, a straight red.
There's a pattern here.
Napoli 1-0, Higuaín. This could get interesting. Now 2 points clear of Dortmund, who are still locked at 1-1 with 10-man Marseilles.
And Arteta sent off!
Megaphone fan in Naples is giving it plenty or was that the official pa?
Arsenal down to 10, must have missed their Uefa dues.
Samaras gets one back for Celtic, leaped like a gazelle to stroke one home from a corner.
Napoli made no effort to put 10-man Arsenal to the sword... and Dortmund have just scored against Marseilles. Napoli have injury time to score twice.
Samaras running rings around the Barca defence, had a certain goal bound shot cleared of the line.
Dortmund players diving like swans in France.
2-0 Napoli! Can they do it?
Forde would easily have got down to save that Dortmund 2nd goal.
I see the Basel red card was just farcical, a 100% cheat.
For Schalke's 2nd there were only 4 players offside.
Just the 4? Amateurs.
David Forde undoubtedly watched the Celtic match tonight licking his lips at all the goals he could concede to Barcelona with Messi back.
Only 3 teams outside the big leagues got through to the last 16, Olympiakos, Galatasaray and Zenit. The first 2 are there on merit but Zenit who got trounced by Austria Vienna can consider themselves fortunate.
Szczezny just did a Noel King on Tony O'Donoghue. It's been a tough year for TOD, poor guy.
After years interviewing Trap, Tony mistakingly thought he knew a thing or two about mentality.
Who the fck decides to sends TOD with a microphone to Italy for that cráp indulgence in sport psychology..
Well, he's got the rest of his life to wonder...Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Well he won't have to wonder that long considering he'll be Celtic's #1 next season!Well, he's got the rest of his life to wonder...
Hang on, someone said he was signing a new contract with Millwall, so doubtful...
Hopefully.
It was a foul (he was blocking the Schalke players arm) and he was more or less the last man, in those situations there is always the risk of the red card. That second goal was undoubtedly offside, its been a few years since I've seen a team play an offside trap when defending a set piece like that. But it's hard to have sympathy for Basel, they did well in both matches vs Cheslea but were absolute stinkers in the other 4 games, picking up only 2 points from the home and away matches vs Schalke and Steaua, which is nothing like good enough to make it to the next round.
It might have been a foul against the Schalke player, more like 7 from one and 6 from the other, but it looks 100% that the Schalke player swung himself to the ground, too much of a coward to follow the ball.
http://footyroom.com/schalke-04-2-0-fc-basel-2013-12/
Somehow the ref just happened to miss the import of the rugby tackle on Streller who was clean through on goal.
Nobody's asking you have sympathy for Basel, an objective appraisal would do for a change
They were very much in that game until they had a player sent off.
It was a foul and the ref had already booked a player from each side for similar fouls, he wasnt letting things go and as such any foul on the edge of the box while being the last man was a huge risk for Ivanov to take.
They were only in the game in the sense it was 0-0, zero attacking intent. Even for the 30 mins where it was 11 vs 11 they never looked like doing anything - it was as if the whole game plan was to cling on to the 0-0. Here is an objective stat for you, 4 games vs Schalke and Steaua only 2 goals scored and 5 let in. As I suggested last season, and earlier this season, Basle are a limited team. If you have competent markers at set pieces (specifically corners) and you put a good tracking player on Salaah (their only attacking player with a degree of craft) then the chances of them scoring dwindle dramatically. They are leaky at the back, another objective stat for you - Steaua only scored 2 goals in their 6 games, both against Basle. There is/was a lot of hype about this Basle team but I really don't think they are anything special at all. This season, they havent been able to get the better of Steaua who are 3rd in Romanian league or take a point from Schalke who are 6th in Bundesliga (and, in terms of points, nearer the bottom than the top).
So you commend the Schalke player for throwing himself to the ground, simulating getting thrown to the ground, or do you actually believe that theatric was a natural aspirated event?
Are you still digging up stats to show that you are are an expert on football and the limitations of fc Basel?
Jesus wept!
As has been said on here before, Basel are middling team by European standards, with a good successful academy, with middling income levels, playing good attractive football, attempting to punch above their weight playing against the richest clubs in Europe, managing to haul a few big scalps on a regular basis and earning kudos from football fans around Europe, in a similar way that Athletic Bilbao did.
Edmundo, get a life, Basel beat Chelsea home and away, sh+t happens, does anybody really care how you feel about that or how that home and away win against Chelsea went against the grain of your previous appraisal of Basel. And now that Basel are out of the CL, you have a dossier of facts ready to prove you were right about Basel all along and that Schalke one of the richest clubs in Europe are actually better than Basel?
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