Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:00 am  

Catalancs wrote:

Disagree. Barça were amazing and didn't allow Madrid to play their game. Plenty of La Lliga style dramatics but apart from that a thoroughly enjoybale game. Mourinho's after match press conference was superb television and not only for the question he completely ignored

Theres not allowing a team to play their game and then there is that team not been able to string 2 passes together. Barca were brilliant, probably their performance of the season while Real were truly awful. You can't honestly think that Barca are 5 goals better than that Real team playing even close to their potential? Having read Mourinhos comments I'd pretty much agree with him.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:29 am  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Theres not allowing a team to play their game and then there is that team not been able to string 2 passes together. Barca were brilliant, probably their performance of the season while Real were truly awful. You can't honestly think that Barca are 5 goals better than that Real team playing even close to their potential? Having read Mourinhos comments I'd pretty much agree with him.

Five goals maybe not. Better? Definitely.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:32 am  

Catalancs wrote:

Five goals maybe not. Better? Definitely.

Therein lies what I was trying to say. Barca played superbly but there is no way Real played even remotely close to even an average performance. I'm looking forward to the 2nd El Clasico and I still fancy Real to win the league over Barca for some reason.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:34 am  

With the football the two managers insist on playing, I sincerely hope Barcelona win La Lliga.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:36 am  

Catalancs wrote:

With the football the two managers insist on playing, I sincerely hope Barcelona win La Lliga.

They play by far the more pleasing on the eye football. But Mourinho just seems to have that gift of winning titles. It will go to the wire. I just think Real will sneak it. Watch Barca have it won by March

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:43 am  

I backed Madrid pre-season with Mourinho tipping the scales for me. He said in the post match press conference that it wasn't a match to mourn over and that it would be easy to move on from. Fair enough, but to then blame the referee for a bad performance edges towards desperate.
He's been trying to play mind games with Guardiola all season and it still hasn't worked. I have no doubt he'll cary on and I have no doubt that it will all be in vain. Didn't see how sitting on the bench yawning after Barça's third goal did anything to help his players, but I haven't won leagues in three different countries so it probably went straight over my head.
The Madrid supporters in the bar said nothing about Madrid playing badly only that Barcelona had played them off the park, and fair play to them.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 10:48 am  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Theres not allowing a team to play their game and then there is that team not been able to string 2 passes together. Barca were brilliant, probably their performance of the season while Real were truly awful. You can't honestly think that Barca are 5 goals better than that Real team playing even close to their potential? Having read Mourinhos comments I'd pretty much agree with him.

Real didn't play because they weren't allowed to play, it's that simple. Villa, Pedro and Messi were allover them from the front. Real's team was massively imbalanced, they massively lacked athleticism in midfield and they never attempted to defend from the front.

Barca are 5 goals better than Madrid when it comes to the strength and chemistry of the team, Madrid have great names, but last night's result didn't flatter Barca or do their performance justice. Madrid have received a lot of hype this year, but this was their first test and they were blown out of the water, they were completely outplayed by a side that is far superior to them in every single aspect of the game, including management.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:36 pm  

Off down to Arsenal for the game tonight - I must be mad lol

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:44 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

...they were completely outplayed by a side that is far superior to them in every single aspect of the game, including management.

You really think that Guardiola's far superior to Mourinho?

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:16 pm  

I'm forever blowing bubbles!!