Sometimes i think Bill Murray should have been dutch.He actually missed out on Groundhog Day, De Boer actually missed that penalty in 98, get the point.
The dutch have a long tradition of glorius failures.I wanted PSV to win, Milan with all their pedigree and tradition were made to look mediocre over 180 minutes.Ambrosini scored and the rossoneri will visit Istanbul in 2 weeks time.It almost made me cry, PSV were the better team, and played some very good and some not very bad football but they lost to Milan who played badly.Thats how great teams are, even when they play badly they manage to get something out of the game, i'll come back to this later.
The same story with a different cast in the UEFA CUP, after 122 minutes of football filled with promise and hope, a freak goal, another dutch team ousted from a European tournament.
Just when i was about to forget that Barca were a first tier team in Europe, a certain Ronaldinho came along and tommorow will lead Barcelona to their first title of the century.He scores magical goals, sets people up,takes care of the dead ball situations and also scores impossible goals in impossible situations.
Barcelona cannot win at the Mestalla, said Helguera.The ball fell fast from the sky to the edge of the area, Ronaldinho leaned back and brought his right leg over and across the ball with amazing grace, connecting with a volley of outrageous difficulty and sending the ball whooshing past Valencia's right-hand post.
The home supporters, normally a voluble and aggressive lot to visiting teams, simply remained silent. It was a telling moment, a collective acceptance of the fact that they were witnessing greatness. You don't jeer at greatness, because it doesn't come along very often.
He hushed the Mestalla - no easy feat in possibly the noisiest stadium in Spain.Barcelona won by 2 goals.
My brother is a Real fan, if you don't know what Real is you better stop reading this article and continue breathing, if you must.The decline began when they sold makka, Claude Makelele to Chelsea - who by the way prospered since his arrival, ask Terry and Lampard what he means to them - Fiorentino Perez , famously said 'We've just transferred a player who can only pass the ball four yards and bought another [Beckham] who can pass it forty'.Thats when you knew he had lost his way.
Real will go trophyless for the second consecutive season, thats some sort of a record in itself.They have been mediocre all this season, till Gravesen came along.Things have been upward, even Raul started playing better, even scoring but then it was too late.The catalan juggernaut wasn't going to be stopped.
Juventus and Milan have combined to win 11 of the last 13 Scudettos, but this is the first time the two have gone head-to-head; Lazio, Inter, Parma and Roma being either club's competitors on those previous occasions.In fact there is some sort of an alliance between the two, once that will sustain some damage.
Juventus don't have to worry about putting in a great display of football, they rarely are brilliant.Milan have more talent, more firepower and the worlds only one man strike force in Andriy Shevchenko.For my money he has been the best striker for some time, he scores with a mediocre midfield, without one and also marries a playboy playmate.Then theres Gianluigi Buffon, a lot of managers around the world pray to god to find someone half as good as him.
After last weeks defeat by Juve, Milan know that the title race is as good as over.Always a difficult side to break down, their 27th minute lead from a well-taken goal by David Trezeguet, who pounced to head in a Del Piero overhead kick of a cross from the left, meant they could play out the rest of the game in their favourite fashion: closing down spaces, putting at times nine men behind the ball and defending indepth,Commiting nasty little fouls in midfield that have been breaking down opponents' counter-attacking all season - statistics, who mean less in soccer than in other sports anyway, show Juve have committed more fouls than anybody else this season.
Milan will still play and possibly win the Champions League, with Nesta, Stam and Maldini forming the heart of defence its very difficult to see the reds scoring, especially without a good striker.Maldini might win his 4th Champions league winners medal, when you are the best left back of your generation, theres a standard you have to live upto.
In England for the first time in a decade we saw 3 times with a fighting chance of winning the league.Chelski fuelled by the billions of a certain russian, frustrated, fluttered and destroyed everything in their way to win the league.The fact that United and Arsenal were both out of form, Arse still managing bits and pieces of their form at times, United have been mediocre all season.With the Glazer takeover looming large over Old Trafford, the arrival of the american will mean hit the final nail in the coffin of the United era.One that will live long in the memories of many people.
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