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May 22, 2007
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Regarding Bale vs Giovinco.

Bale has only really had 3-4 months of consistently good football, where he has admittedly shone well. The rest of the time he's been at Spurs he has been quite terrible, so it's still an uncertainty. I felt he was incredibly anonymous in the first half of last nights game. Giovinco hasn't had any consistent game time which he'll have this season with Parma, and apart from that he's had a handful of impressive displays and some which have been average, so he's also very unknown. At the end of this season it should be a lot clearer as to who is better.
 

Fred

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Regarding Bale vs Giovinco.

Bale has only really had 3-4 months of consistently good football, where he has admittedly shone well. The rest of the time he's been at Spurs he has been quite terrible, so it's still an uncertainty. I felt he was incredibly anonymous in the first half of last nights game. Giovinco hasn't had any consistent game time which he'll have this season with Parma, and apart from that he's had a handful of impressive displays and some which have been average, so he's also very unknown. At the end of this season it should be a lot clearer as to who is better.
Bale is not a good fullback. At the start of his Tottenham career he was played as a fullback and of course he was quite average. But when played in his more favorable left wing position, he has been consistently good for Tottenham. Also lets not forget Giovinco is two years older than Bale, at this stage of their careers 2 years means a lot.

Also, if the question was, who was more fitting as a winger in a 4-4-2, i don't think there is a debate here, Bale is definitely a better option in that case.

As for who the better player is, i agree that we can't judge that until Giovinco gets an extended period of playing time.
 

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Werder Bremen: Wiese; Pasanen, Mertesacker, Prödl, Fritz; Bargfrede, Frings, Borowski; Hunt; Pizarro, Hugo Almeida

Werder Bremen bench: Mielitz, Boenisch, Arnautovic, Rosenberg, Marin, Wagner, Jensen

Sampdoria: Curci; Volta, Gastaldello, Lucchini, Ziegler; Semioli, Palombo, Tissone, Mannini; Cassano, Pazzini

Sampdoria bench: Junior Costa, Dessena, Guberti, Pozzi, Poli, Stankevicius, Marilungo
 

Klin

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May 27, 2009
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Werder Bremen vs. Sampdoria in a few. Should be a good watch. I'm interested to see how Sampdoria will cope in Europe.
 
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    Big chance for Samp.

    Werder must be unsettled by Ozil leaving so close to a big game.
     

    El Santo

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    Nov 26, 2008
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    Werder Bremen vs. Sampdoria in a few. Should be a good watch. I'm interested to see how Sampdoria will cope in Europe.
    Yeah me too. I believe Sampdoria could pull off a win against Bremen, losing Ozil was a big loss for them.

    Bang! Now we're on the right thread Klin. :lol:
     

    Klin

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    Yeah me too. I believe Sampdoria could pull off a win against Bremen, losing Ozil was a big loss for them.

    Bang! Now we're on the right thread Klin. :lol:
    :D

    Loosing Ozil was very bad for them, especially when it's just few days before this game.

    Hoping for a Cassano show tonight.
     
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    SKY are showing it here.

    They probably only decided to show it when they thought it would be Ozil v Cassano.
     

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