They'll be sacrificing sheep in the streets of Karagandy tonight - Champions League 2013/14

That has happened me tbh

Moyes concentrating on the league

such a nice goal

virtually no gk id favour over de gea on a shot like that either, maybe neuer

roy hodgson can answer the most feared costa rican question now

maybe de gea could have got closer but the curve on it was perfect

are we at the point where there are players actively not performing for Moyes now i wonder

olympiakos were rather good, not surprisingly given the latin complexion they looked like a good 7th 8th best team in la liga, they virtually never lost shape because the united movement was so shit

wasn't there that poster on rawk, allegedly a guy with some sort of coaching experience, who was convinced before the season started that Moyes would fail because his approach is all about position and shape and doesn't encourage improvisation/fluidity or something like that. sounds about right

Keane is so brilliant right now

Keane looking for a face to tear off

Olympiakos are usually superb at home. Although he was only there for six months, I think Jardim's influence is still felt in the way they play. Very strong in defence and very organised in midfield / attack. He has gone on to revitalise Lisbon in an equally short time.

xposts. Aye, phaseofplay. Amazing how spot on he's been.
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=49582

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LisaCarrick ‏@LisaJCarrick 3m

Deleted my tweet .. Emotions got the better of me .. Just disappointed

xp ah yes thanks not a rawk member so can't access that link but google found me these quotes from last May which I was thinking of:

This is the hope we all had for Hodgson, though, is it not? That he was only coaching and playing that way to reflect the quality of players he had worked with. But no, he stuck with his own methods, and brought the level of the players down. Moyes is the same. Coaches have their methods because they believe in them and believe those methods are transferable. Rafa doesn't change from one team to another. Mourinho doesn't. Guardiola will do the same things at Bayern as he did at Barca. Moyes will do what he did at Everton. And it won't be enough.

It's less to do with the technical level and more to do with the habits of the players. Everything they did on the field for Ferguson was drilled into them day by day, session by session, exercise by exercise, until all of those visual and tactical triggers became second nature. Now that flow of information will not only be disrupted, but changed almost completely. They will effectively be starting at the start again, and have to learn a new way of playing, a new set of triggers to look for, a new way of training, and a new way of defending. These transitions are made smoother when you keep the previous coaching staff and work little by little. This is what happened, to a degree, with Rodgers, when he came in. New staff, new methods, new style of play and new set of triggers. The only reason he had some leeway is because we haven't challenged for the league since Rafa, and had been out of the top four. Moyes is taking over the reigning champions, and so his margin of error with the players is virtually non-existent. If he gets it wrong and takes a step in the wrong direction, he'll rapidly lose the belief of the players, and they will put on sub-standard performances in games, consciously or unconsciously.

RVP: Other United players are often in the zones I'd like to play in. I find that a pity.
Dutch TV Reporter: Do you know what is wrong with this United?
RvP: Yeah but, I won't point fingers, because I'm not like that.

I don't suppose LBI is around and can confirm?

the same quotes are going round elsewhere translated differently but functionally they are identical

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What might've been, eh Utd fans?

wow @ that bale goal. i was full sure it was ronaldo at first, its more his style of goal

Meh, looked like Santana finished it off to me. Huntelaar's goal on the other hand was a belter.

Actually pretty instructive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2xSQU1Avw

He IS looking only the ball.

Daniel Taylor ‏@DTguardian 6m
Astonishing that Arsenal have brought Miyaichi out to Munich without realising he's ineligible. Hence only six subs tonight.

lol come on

so u watch atleti milan cuz it's still open and they let diego costa open the scoring with a piss goal two minutes in

this midfield of de jong essien is just awful, might as well get lee cattermole in their reprising the pirlo role

23434 gifs of that balotelli fk by 9pm

kaká 1-1, nice goal with balotelli and poli combining

Townsend's urgent little "go ons" every time Arsenal break are making me feel a bit ill

"Arsenal have done half the job." I beg to differ.

just watching the halt time highlights and it looks like bayern were making most of the chances?

What a weird pair of goals

this Ian Wright autobiopic on itv4 right now is amazing

It's just him talking to camera about what it was like when he was a kid, but he's laid himself so open, it's really powerful stuff

Good to see the press have gotten over Ozil being good at Everton so they can get back to their preferred narrative, regardless of what actually happened in the game

the boys on RTE reckon City could cause an upset against Barca today. i dont see it happening myself. lively game so far though.

enjoyed them handing over to "Spanish football expert" Eamon who then proceeded to utterly mangle the pronunciation of Valladolid

this is the best i've seen barcelona this season considering the opposition, wrongly disallowed goal and half a dozen other last ditch clearances and fine saves from hart, silva's backheel the only quality shown by city

don't think aguero is more than 80% fit

starting to think the Barca lads have had a bet on City or something

considering his limitations lescott has done well not to fuckup like that during the prior 70mins of messi vesc neymar & iniesta running at him

vesc

this was kind of inevitable

pissed on them over the two legs

another epl side built to win via physically overpowering inferior opposition and then win with a bit of individual skill, tactically there is no multiplier effect

kompany being a purblind idiot again

jamie redknapp 'barcelona won't want to draw bayern will they graeme'

fucking state of this

De Gea; Rafael, Jones, Ferdinand, Evra; Valencia, Carrick, Giggs, Welbeck; Rooney, van Persie.

Subs: Lindegaard, Hernandez, Young, Fletcher, Kagawa, Fellaini, Januzaj.

Olympiakos should be looking to knobble Ferdinand asap given that bench

Fellani could end up being a revelation at CB

*Fellaini

Get Valencia off imo. He was shite for the first 6 mins and looks like the elephant man after that clash of heads.

now he has one eye to go with his one foot