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*Official* English Football Season 2013-14
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Lillian Thomson
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Shouldn't this be in the Spanish Football Season thread (if there is one).
Lillian Thomson
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Fair enough. In that case Pep Guardiola looks like Rodney Bewes.
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You do fancy Liverpool to gift you a goal at some stage over 90 minutes though. It's just hilarious that it was Gerrard, if that costs them the title it's up there with Terry's CL final penalty as the best thing to ever happen.
Cabinet96
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Usually agree but it must have been some effort (didn't watch it) considering they didn't play their two usual centre backs, their first choice goalie was out, as was their best offensive player and Liverpool have been remnant the last couple of months and had what must feel like the whole country gunning for them.
Yeah for sure, they defended really but it was not in anyway inventive, nothing that Pulis or Allardyce could not plan. Mourinho is brilliant at executing it and I am not going to pretend otherwise, his record against big clubs is stupidly good but he is not on some kind of different tactical level to other managers.
Basically I am just bitter and hate when that approach to a game works even when it is totally warranted.
Cabinet96
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Did Chelsea ever look like scoring before the Gerrard mistake? Can't help but feel it shouldn't be too hard to not concede when Chelsea play like that and you don't have to win (which Liverpool didn't). Did Liverpool kind of get their approach wrong? I mean Atletico were never troubled on Tuesday.
There was a chance from a corner not long before but it was certainly nothing like Real v Bayern.
Liverpool did not do an awful lot wrong before the goal, just failed to create enough after it.
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I'm pretty sure Dani Alves just ate a banana that was thrown at him by some Villareal fans. What a guy.
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As it stands it looks like Chelsea's style was ultimately too defensive to rack up as many points against **** teams as Liverpool or Citeh did. So maybe there should be more of a media focus on that. He's getting too much
But in terms of stuff like game planning, team selection and substitutions I think he's very much on a different level to other managers. That's maybe just as much because managers are generally bad at that side of the game though. I think of some of his good decisions, like when Nani was sent off and he replaced Arbeloa with Modric, and it's a really obvious, simple change. But then you look at PL managers and how many would have thought of it? Moyes was probably the best of the rest at Everton and at United he invariably got similarly simple decisions horribly wrong.
