[EU] Champions League 2008/2009 (30 Viewers)
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Inter wasn't that embarrassing. Zlatan got nobody as his foil, so he was a complete loner. Vieira was past his prime to begin with and never should have started over Muntari.
Roma got f'ed, but that was expected.
I expected none of the Italian teams to even score, let alone go through. Thankfully Roma and Juve kept the cleansheet streak of EPL teams against Serie A opponents in the knockout rounds to only 9 straight matches.
The EPL deserves the accolades. They have the money, the talent, and now finally the results. Things always change eventually, however. So they may as well enjoy their moment in the sun.
Liverpool did their usual... 3x more impressive in the CL than in the EPL. But I gotta suggest that ManU is still the team to beat. They could dispatch with any of the other English sides left, IMO.
And Real? Talk about the anti-Liverpool...
Roma got f'ed, but that was expected.
I expected none of the Italian teams to even score, let alone go through. Thankfully Roma and Juve kept the cleansheet streak of EPL teams against Serie A opponents in the knockout rounds to only 9 straight matches.
The EPL deserves the accolades. They have the money, the talent, and now finally the results. Things always change eventually, however. So they may as well enjoy their moment in the sun.
Liverpool did their usual... 3x more impressive in the CL than in the EPL. But I gotta suggest that ManU is still the team to beat. They could dispatch with any of the other English sides left, IMO.
And Real? Talk about the anti-Liverpool...
Amazing Red,I live in Manchester but I'am a season ticket holder at Arsenal makes sense to me,I said I was a season ticket holder at Manchester City not Arsenal, yes I do have a soft spot for Arsenal because they play the game how its supposed to be played,fluent attacking football but it seems I'am not aloud to 'like' two teams,irnonic from your position ey mate?.
I never mentioned Andy in my PM mate,I don't know where that one came from I asked why I was given an infraction?.Racism I diden't see me being Racist I think perhaps you read the wrong post.My post was calling an Irish player an IRA scumbag,which in truth mate the IRA are scumbags guess you did'nt read the news this week.
Inter had a very strong team when Mancini was fired and when Mourinho took over. At the summer Mourinho strenghtened the team even more (or he at least tried to) by spending +50m eur on Quaresma, Mancini, Obinna and Muntari (looking at how well and how much the first three play this season, that's 35m eur down the drain).
The goal was the champions league of course. They didn't win it, and it's ok, only one of the many great european teams can win it afterall. But when you look at Mourinho's record in champions league with Inter you'll see that he was actually an embarrassment. He was second in his group behind Panathinaikos. He won two, drew three and lost three matches with a negative goal difference (7:8) and without scoring a goal on the last 4 matches, losing 3 of these 4 matches.
In the league one can argue that the stronger serie A is a reason why he isn't better than Mancini was last year. It could be true, but i'll share the facts with you anyway.
At this time last year, after 27 rounds, Inter had 64pts, 9 pts more than the 2nd placed Roma. This year they have 63pts, 7 more than the 2nd placed Juve.
Even here Mourinho is worse than Mancini and there isn't an improvement.
In the Coppa Mancini was always going all the way to the final and winning it sometimes, while Mourinho will have a hard time to get to the final after the 3:0 defeat from Sampdoria. No improvement again.
In other words, The Special and highest earning coach in the world did shit for Inter and his only achievement so far worthy mentioning was introducing a primavera kid to the senior squad.
Bravo, bravissimo Jose.
The goal was the champions league of course. They didn't win it, and it's ok, only one of the many great european teams can win it afterall. But when you look at Mourinho's record in champions league with Inter you'll see that he was actually an embarrassment. He was second in his group behind Panathinaikos. He won two, drew three and lost three matches with a negative goal difference (7:8) and without scoring a goal on the last 4 matches, losing 3 of these 4 matches.
In the league one can argue that the stronger serie A is a reason why he isn't better than Mancini was last year. It could be true, but i'll share the facts with you anyway.
At this time last year, after 27 rounds, Inter had 64pts, 9 pts more than the 2nd placed Roma. This year they have 63pts, 7 more than the 2nd placed Juve.
Even here Mourinho is worse than Mancini and there isn't an improvement.
In the Coppa Mancini was always going all the way to the final and winning it sometimes, while Mourinho will have a hard time to get to the final after the 3:0 defeat from Sampdoria. No improvement again.
In other words, The Special and highest earning coach in the world did shit for Inter and his only achievement so far worthy mentioning was introducing a primavera kid to the senior squad.
Bravo, bravissimo Jose.
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