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Wouldnt mind a trip to barca myself although my brownie points with this missus are fast running out - too many matches and too much begging for the ok
Like most of the fans I wouldnt want to draw the chavs or the mancs (though I have a feeling that inter will sort out the chavs) but I also wouldnt want to get cska but I havent really looked at the remaining teams cos I am largely a game by game man.
After watching BARCELONA vs VALENCIA, i just cant imagine who in our team is gonna stop messi. Teams usually need TOP class DCs but we just have vermalen, sol will never be able to handle the pace.
euphoricone wrote:After watching BARCELONA vs VALENCIA, i just cant imagine who in our team is gonna stop messi. Teams usually need TOP class DCs but we just have vermalen, sol will never be able to handle the pace.
Playing barca is a gamble, it can either be a tremendous moment of glory (CF4 to score the winner, yes please) or we could end up looking like right twats and fully cement our position as the "poor mans barcelona".
euphoricone wrote:After watching BARCELONA vs VALENCIA, i just cant imagine who in our team is gonna stop messi. Teams usually need TOP class DCs but we just have vermalen, sol will never be able to handle the pace.
What about song Or maybe diaby Better still denilson
euphoricone wrote:After watching BARCELONA vs VALENCIA, i just cant imagine who in our team is gonna stop messi. Teams usually need TOP class DCs but we just have vermalen, sol will never be able to handle the pace.
Playing barca is a gamble, it can either be a tremendous moment of glory (CF4 to score the winner, yes please) or we could end up looking like right twats and fully cement our position as the "poor mans barcelona".
ooo possibly but Cesc fabregas will be well covered , Iniesta Xavi will both take care of him, they are his superiors .
Will be interesting to see over 2 legs though. Good draw for neutrals imo.
Just reading through the pages as I'm intridge as anyone who we get but don't want the Chavs or Manc and had this thought....
It would be rather ironic should we meet either of them (or both! ) and despite our record being highlighted in the media against them we go and beat them.
Remember how Chavs could never beat us, (wasn't it in the same season) we beat the home and away and home in the FA cup yet lost in CL!
euphoricone wrote:After watching BARCELONA vs VALENCIA, i just cant imagine who in our team is gonna stop messi. Teams usually need TOP class DCs but we just have vermalen, sol will never be able to handle the pace.
i've seen good defenders left messi with almost nothing in a few matches. it can happen.
i cannot say the same about drogba, though. i think lucio is the first defender to fully OWN drogba in a match in the last couple of years. usually drogba only has a bad match if he wants to.
talking about that, funny thing is, my cousin is friends with argel, a brazilian central defender who used to play for benfica and other teams i don't remember right now. when asked about the greatest attacker he ever played with, the most impossible to mark, guess who he answered?
thierry you should see him saying why, describing what thierry does and why is so impossible to mark him. gave me goosebumps
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) and despite our record being highlighted in the media against them we go and beat them.
you should see him saying why, describing what thierry does and why is so impossible to mark him. gave me goosebumps 
