[CL] Champions League 2014/15 (16 Viewers)

[swag]

Sorry Greg but Porto and Benfica are like two levels below Atletico.

With a league coefficient now ahead of Serie A umpkin:

Atletico will do well, but they will be out of the La Liga running by midseason, IMO.

 

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[AFL_ITALIA]

It was written in the stars for us to get Malmo of course. I don't care, just want to see 6 points from them.

Atletico

 

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1-1 draw with Malmo.

 

[Joe]

If we draw Malmo at home for our first game, I won't be watching any of other our CL games.

 

[Zacheryah]

Dont be that guy

 

[Hust]

There will be plenty of those guys.

 

[Post Ironic]

Any team from Pot 1 would be extremely difficult, especially for a team like us.

However I think we got a good pick still. We hit probably right in the middle of the spectrum in terms of difficulty.

Tier 1 - Bayern, Barca, Real Madrid
Tier 2 - Atletico Madrid, Arsenal
Tier 3 - Porto, Benfica

THIS.

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1-1 draw with Malmo.

Olympiakos will be another Galatasaray scenario.

DO you always have to be a douche here? Seriously, the endless nonsense and negative garbage spewed by you is just a little ridiculous.

 

[Zacheryah]

If only he was the only one who does it

 

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THIS.

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DO you always have to be a douche here? Seriously, the endless nonsense and negative garbage spewed by you is just a little ridiculous.

Why don't you spread the positive vide instead then? How ironic!

 

[Tevez10]

Europa League! Maybe this year we will win that shitty cup and get over with it!

 

[Lion]

we shouldn't be afraid of athletico. sure they are a good team but ffs so are we. i think after last season's disaapointing performances everyone here is seriously underestimating the quality of our players.

 

[CrimsonianKing]

we shouldn't be afraid of athletico. sure they are a good team but ffs so are we. i think after last season's disaapointing performances everyone here is seriously underestimating the quality of our players.

It's hard to trust our defence nowadays, individual mistakes cost us a ticket back home. No matter how much we added to the frontline (we really didn't but...), our problems at the back need to be fixed and it's not very assuring when you have the same players from last year.

 

[Lion]

i'm with you. let's hope ogbonna's confidence problems are gone, and chiellini ets back in form. bonucci should never play

if worse comes to worse just play vidal in defense and asa in mid. they would do better than dumb and dumber

 

[ALC]

So tired of the individual mistake excuses. Almost all goals conceded are due to individual mistakes when you think about it. Yet other defenders and teams are put on blast here whenever they concede.

 

[Post Ironic]

If only he was the only one who does it

Yes. I mean, it's alright to jest about it on occasion, but this endless daily nonsense, with the little army of members that do nothing but complain and whine about Juve and everything related, it's cringeworthy, on an epic scale.

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So tired of the individual mistake excuses. Almost all goals conceded are due to individual mistakes when you think about it. Yet other defenders and teams are put on blast here whenever they concede.

This is just it. Our problem generally hasn't been one of conceding too many goals anyways, it's more so not scoring enough. It's not like there weren't defensive errors by players from Gala, Real, Benfica, etc when we scored on them last year. We were just too toothless in attack, and often too passive with our strategies to outscore them. We played rather defensively against certain opponents without a strong enough backline to win that way.

 

[CrimsonianKing]

So tired of the individual mistake excuses. Almost all goals conceded are due to individual mistakes when you think about it. Yet other defenders and teams are put on blast here whenever they concede.

It's no excuse. Chiellini's red and Caceres give away were huge factors in our elimination. There are some mistakes that are simply individuals. Doesn't mean the rest of the team were not to blame for the outcome after the 6 group matches.

 

[ALC]

It's no excuse. Chiellini's red and Caceres give away were huge factors in our elimination. There are some mistakes that are simply individuals. Doesn't mean the rest of the team were not to blame for the outcome after the 6 group matches.

I can't think of a single team that hasn't conceded a penalty. Calling it an individual mistake sounds like such a cop-out. How about saying Chiellini and Caceres just aren't that good? Or that our defense wasn't organized properly? Or that our coach didn't trust our attack and midfield enough and let our defenders play tiki taka with themselves?

 

[MikeM]

Chiellini's penalty was also highly debatable.

I also don't like to put all the pressure on just our defenders when we talk about defending when teams like Atletico Madrid defend with literally every single player. I wonder what Barzagli and Chiellini would look like with those midfielders and strikers pressing the shit out of everyone in front of them.

As a team unit, I think we have a lot to improve defensively. Our defensive record in Serie A is mostly due to high ball possession (and the league). Our #1 defense was ball possession and then in Europe it was a pretty standard 5-3-2 with no hope for a counter and no strategic pressing.

 

[ALC]

Exactly. We're not that good and it wasn't "individual mistakes" that led to us getting knocked out.

 

[Elvin]

perfect group for us.