Match Day Thread 2016/17 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

A joy to watch? He had good players, but it was still terrible football. Abramovich is the biggest evidence of that, always wanted something more.

 

Just look at how he won the CL with Inter. Awful but effective football. They had a strong but ultimately weaker team than most in Europe that year, but won because they went defensive with an effective counter attack.
So effective yes, but good to watch no.

 

Phil Neville says he's not even that bothered anyway that Arsenal beat Man Utd because Zlatan is still the player of the season and Mourinho is taking Man Utd forward so shut up he's not even crying

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39840233

 

Jose Mourinho is always a bad loser. Why mocking Arsene Wenger?. He is hurting.

 

His Chelsea side were good to watch.

The inter side did a job.

 

And Real Madrid fans hated him for his style too.

 

Players wearing gloves at this time of the year, its May ffs!











I Don't care if you are a goalkeeper

 

Are Madrid fans ever happy?

They want Barca style football without keeping the management structure the same. At least Barca have a 'DNA'

 

Tbf.

Inter hated him
Real hated him
Chelsea then hated him
Utd fans are grimacing but have some strange hope he will turn out joyous football

Like.... over time hes been more despised now than loved.

 

Boro' all over Chelsea

 

Told you

 

That about wraps it up for Boro.

Better luck next time.

 

Poor boro. They wrre so like burnely. Tried real hard first time up and could defend but could not score at all.

 

Blimey Fabio is a poor defender. Don't think he's managed to successfully mark one player yet and got in behind him for both goals.

So is Boro being relegated good for us in last game of season? Is with pressure off will they be awesome

 

I actually think Valdano hit the nail on the head in regard to Mourinho and Benitez, in particular.

"Chelsea and Liverpool are the clearest, most exaggerated example of the way football is going: very intense, very collective, very tactical, very physical, and very direct," he added. "But, a short pass? Noooo. A feint? Noooo. A change of pace? Noooo. A one-two? A nutmeg? A backheel? Don't be ridiculous. None of that. The extreme control and seriousness with which both teams played the semi-final neutralised any creative licence, any moments of exquisite skill.

"If Didier Drogba was the best player in the first match it was purely because he was the one who ran the fastest, jumped the highest and crashed into people the hardest. Such extreme intensity wipes away talent, even leaving a player of Joe Cole's class disoriented. If football is going the way Chelsea and Liverpool are taking it, we had better be ready to wave goodbye to any expression of the cleverness and talent we have enjoyed for a century."

Valdano explained why Benítez and Mourinho were to blame for the demise of flair and creativity. "The lives of Mourinho and Benítez have crossed in a world that is ever more scrutinised and exposed by the media, which is why they look at each other with such distrust," he wrote, "but they have two things in common: a previously denied, hitherto unsatisfied hunger for glory, and a desire to have everything under control.

"Both of those things stem from one key factor: neither Mourinho nor Benítez made it as a player. That has made them channel all their vanity into coaching. Those who did not have the talent to make it as players do not believe in the talent of players, they do not believe in the ability to improvise in order to win football matches. In short, Benítez and Mourinho are exactly the kind of coaches that Benítez and Mourinho would have needed to have made it as players."

 

Middlesbrough are going to be relegated tonight, nothing to play for when we play them apart from
their pride.

 

Fact is today they needed to win (yes a draw staves off relegation but its pretty ****ing useless in the bigger picture) and they've come out with the same tactics of defence.... and then proceeded to be **** in defence.
At least if they'd had a go and tried to threaten Chelsea and either won or lost at leas they'd known they did as much as they could. This is a pretty tepid way to be relegated.

 

Pride can be a right bastard.

With luck they have a go or they play some kids for next year.

 

What about Wenger and Fergie?

Neither really made it as players, well Wenger surely didn't make it