Copa Del Rey Champions!
By: Isaiah | May 14th, 2009
VISCA EL BARÇA!
La Vanguardia has a nice photo gallery of the game, if you’re interested.
Category: Copa del Rey
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Ok on the striker debate why is Alvaro Negredo mentioned…He can be excellent coming off the bench and he could be a next Eto in the making….Ex-real madrid reject……
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not sure if it was mentioned here yet, but next year’s home and away jerseys were leaked. looks pretty legit. i’m down with the small stripes.
http://fcbtransfers.blogspot.com/2009/05/next-seasons-shirts-leaked.html
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What a boring game that was.
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If ManUtd were Barca, the fans would probably have booed despite having won the title today. I hope we kick ManUtd’s ass
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urgggh let’s win this week so we can start resting players for the final! man utd will probably be putting out the babies against hull next week
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Re: Striker Debate … why not Forlán, again? He’s ready for a bigger team and does wonders both solo and in tandem w/ other players (like w/ Kun & Riquelme). So remind me.
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Forlan is not really a suitable replacement for Eto’o.
@Kxevin: Tevez isn’t worth 20m to me. i don’t rate him all that highly, particularly for our system. i think a contributor to the Guardian podcast summed him up nicely as “the rich man’s Dirk Kuyt”. there are certainly 4-5 players i’d rather have on our left wing and 12-13 i’d rather have in our front line.
Torres will not leave Merseyside for some time to come, at least not after this season. it’s possible that if Liverpool continue to founder and remain trophyless, he could move along, but he’s very dedicated to that club and absolutely essential to pretty much whatever success they have.
Adebayor i think has again shown this season that he’s just not very good.
for me the only real option(s), if you want to call them that, are Villa and, slightly less likely, Ibra. Villa will almost certainly leave and is guaranteed to perform at least at Eto’o’s level. he’s the safe choice. Ibra wants to leave and could perform either way, but spectacularly. i could embrace either, but i just don’t see any other replacements for Eto’o, who, let’s be fair, is a very good player who has a strike rate in La Liga that’s pretty incredible.
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I like Forlán although he sometimes reminds me of Eto with his inconsistency. The thing is he is already 29 and also quite expensive. I don’t THAT much upside with him vs. Eto/Villa. Villa and Ibra are younger. I have mentioned Negredo, who I believe is a steal, before but I think RM will try ANYTHING to keep him outta our hands even if it means buying him back and rotting his career away on the bench.
Regarding box busters, here’s a new one to most: Edin Dzeko, Bosinan #9 from Bundesliga leading Wolfsburg. He’s around 6′4 and I have been very impressed with him the admittedly few times I have seen him play. He just turned 23 and has scored 22 goals and 8 assists in the Bundesliga this season. Worth a look although I DOUBT anything happens with him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZAV2fuEWko&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXMoh2_Zgio&feature=relatedHope you like Bosnian hip-hop
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The key to piercing the bus is having midfielders shooting from long range. Bulldozing strikers alone would not do the job. For such a tactic to work, you would have to create an entirely different attacking system where the whole game revovles around long balls, and crosses to the box (EPL style)
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Changing the system is a big word, Sid. I think all what we need is to make some touches when needed, and out tactical structure is flexible enough to upgrade. I wrote once about it but to brief:
1) Install Keita as a third Midfielder with Xavi and Yaya when you have a “Bus problem”. He has the long shots, and he can penetrate to the box to hunt the crosses and assist the lone striker.
2) Instead of having Alves opening on the right flank and Messi cuting in, switch the roles. Let Messi hug the lines pulling out the defense and stretching the field to Create more gaps in the middle to place shots. Let Alves cut in to the edge of the box and you get an additional missiles bomber.
3) If the Bus is Ultra defensive, you wouldn’t need Yaya as a DM and Xavi will have it too crowded in front to make his distribution role. Switch them. Let Xavi do the ball passing (left-right-center)play making from little deep where he have more time space away from the crowds. And you will have a Yaya who is closer to the Box edge. If he penetrate he can damage with his altitude. He can shoot from distance. And his Physical strength added to his underrated techniques and passing skills make him a player who is harder to contain than Xavi who is a better maestro but just a human being.
All that make the team more efficient in long shots, crosses, and even squeezing the opponent more through dominating them physically from the very first quarter of their own field.
——————————————————Here I get advantage of Isaiah and Kxevin generosity and Post the links for three Samples I made once.
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http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww346/Ramziblog/crossing1.gif
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Lets go Villareal!
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goal! Pires header!
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just as i was rooting them on…
Villareal break on a counter…
Ibagaza is sprung down the left flank.
Ibagaza crosses to the Penalty spot where both Rossi and Pires are WIDE open. but rossi wasnt tall enough. Pires heads it left of Casillas into the goal.Posted from
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Agreed Ramzi. Just for the record, I dont want the bulldozing system and become a boring side.
Like you say, Flexibility is the key. So many successful sides are successful because of being flexible and being able to adapt to the requirements( Current Manu, Chelsea under Mourinho, AC Milan of the past and so much of the Italian natinal team). A good part of improvemtn in our team is also because of being able to adapt, especially to physical games and bad pitch conditions ( that too without compromising on the beauty )
Having said all that, Somehow the adjustment making a bulldozing striker work seems really difficult in our system. But Pep seems to think otherwise (his demand for Adebayor and Crespo)and In PEP we trust to make it work.
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Yea Villarreal scored a nice goal and was close to scoring another shortly before the half-time break.
A good sign as usual, but with Madrid you just never know until the whistle blows. 45 minutes left gentlemen!
By the way, has anyone herd of the Vidic to Barcelona rumor?
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Grr. MAdrid scored, shitty defense..
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Torres lobbed a ball long, Higuain chased it down, and one times it to a crashing RVdV
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Today the Premiership and Serie A have been decided, as Manchester United and Inter were crowned Champions. Lets just hope La Liga follows suit
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We will get the point tomorrow anyway. Live the luxury of being unworried. Jason I am looking at u
RM will make a substitution. One of their most brilliant transfers and most talanted youth will enter now. A french Luccin looking guy
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Wishlist:
from Isaiah: Mallorca Preview
from Kxevin: CdR Review
from Villareal: A Victory or a draw
from Madrid: a loss. No not a tie. Just a loss.From Pep:
Pinto
Caceres-Botia-VicSan-Syvinho
——–Busquets————
—-Keita—-Gudjohnsen—–
Pedro—–Bojan——–Hleb-(insert Pique, Alves or Abidal if need be, as long as Caceres and Sylvinho stay in)
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HOOOOYA!
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some Real “defender” got caught with some shady touches in the 18, Cani runs and smacks the crap out of it past a helpless Casillas
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Jason, the CDR review is up.
I am trying to do u a favor hectorizing myself for you. But u keep on commenting here!Posted from
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Robben is too good for Madrid. If it wernt for his knee problems, i say he would be my second choice if the Ribery thing didnt pan out.
Sometimes you can see it in his face, the “Whata f* am i doing here surrounded by so much mediocrity?” the same face Ribery gets…
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oh ok, im just blabbing like an idiot then… i will go check that review then… it must be fairly new then..
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