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Alves was in the box, and he was there for a reason. My candidates for a fuckup (leaving Sneijder alone) are Xavi, Busquets and Pedro. Its hard to tell when you dont have an overview of the situation, but i think it was indeed Pedro, who was standing there.

I would estimate our chance to 40-60.

Nice to hear, but still suprising. I always felt there have always been some aggressive emotions towards germany when croatia played us, like at euros 96 or wc 98 and finally euros 2008. But good to see that i was wrong, or at least not everyone shares them :)

Bayern-Lyon is pretty much a 50:50. Although i head that both CDs from Lyon are out for tonight and Toulalan is supposed to play as one of the CDs. Also Lopez seems to be questionable while Ribery is fit.

He apparently confirmed having had 'contact' with the girl, but said that he didnt know about her underage. There is also no charge against him, he is only been asked as a witness. BEsides its absolutely no big deal for anyone besides himself and perhaps his wife. So no real scandal there.

You refer to his involvement in a sex scandal with an underage prostitute?

Mostly b/c this is the Yaya Toure thread. And i dont deny that he had sucessful passes as well, but his overall passing performance was just subpar for Barca.

You can do bad passing even if someone finally receives them. I have three different situations in mind, that occured within a few minutes: 1. Yaya passing from the right midfield (with no one in 10m proximity to himself) to a player (busi afaik) in the center with 3 opponents close by. Totally...

But thats not untypical for him. He is running and pressing a lot, but with the ball on his feet he isnt the strongest. Neither his passing nor his dribbling usually let him produce good opportunities or are a part of a good attacking move. His best asset is his finishing, which is incredible...

he shaped up in the 2nd half imo. he won back some crucial balls in the midfield and distributed the ball as good as he could. Wasnt easy with the deep and tight positioning from espanyol and esp. not with one man down.

And if you dont know how to pass, visit a football training camp ...

Yes. Yes. Yes. :) Hm, so where are you from?

That would be the best deal of Bayerns history

Currently it looks a lot like this, althought its still a very static diagram that doesnt regard the players switching positions fluently ------------------------VV------------------ Alves ------ Pique ------- Puyi ---- Abidal --------------Xavi --------Busi-------------...

Perhaps. But i dont think he is on the same level like the other Barca players regarding ball control and passing. He loses the ball to easily, mispasses to often and also doesnt seem to be the most successful dribbler (well ok, when you get compared to Iniesta, Messi and even Xavi its hard to...

I also kinda expect him to leave in the summer. Its just pretty obvious that Busi is Peps DM of choice, and i dont think that it makes sense to keep his predecessor in the squad simply for dressing room reasons. You could also still make some money out of him that can be used somewhere else.

Just a little correction: Magath didnt win the league with Stuttgart, he was runner-up, which was still an enormous achievement with a veary young team that was almost relegated the year before.

Bojan could have easily score one more if Messi passed him the ball on his run somewhere in the middle of the 1st half ... dont think he was offsides there

So where did Bayern or Fulham cheat?

boring football, cheating cunts, corrupted managers ... do i need to say more?