Euro 2012 Thread

Stickfigure said:
No that Chelsea that finished 6th last season. Fat lot of help that record did :p
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Yeah, know what you mean. All we did was win the Champions League (with the most goals in the tournament since the inception of the new format, tied with Real Madrid).

Please. Continue.
 
smokey said:
Yeah, know what you mean. All we did was win the Champions League (with the most goals in the tournament since the inception of the new format, tied with Real Madrid).

Please. Continue.
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Haha, you know what he means smokes :p
 
smokey said:
Yeah, know what you mean. All we did was win the Champions League (with the most goals in the tournament since the inception of the new format, tied with Real Madrid).

Please. Continue.
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Smokey has spoken. Damn. Feel the burn.
 
Randhir said:
Haha, you know what he means smokes :p
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Of course I know what he means. He means we had a bunker mentality for a few crucial games - which is the only thing people talk about when it comes to Chelsea. It's as if it's not allowed to play defensively when you have something on the line. It's a churlish attitude, especially when it comes from a United supporter (you didn't exactly play free-flowing footy when you beat Barca in the semis a few years back). When you need to, you defend like your life depends on it. when you don't need to, it's still better to have a rock solid defense and then work for goals as opposed to going all out which is what people expect Chelsea to do.

The most nailbiting season so far for me has been Ancelotti's, and that's because we needed to concede before we would go on a rampage. It was an interesting season, but no thanks to that sort of mentality again.
 
Portugal were the better team attacking most of the game. Though alot of their last touches were poor with a lot of silly mistakes.
 
hugo69er said:
Portugal were the better team attacking most of the game. Though alot of their last touches were poor with a lot of silly mistakes.
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Ronaldo whacked the woodwork twice too, remember. With some luck that could have been a rout.
 
hawker said:
Defending is as much a part of the game as attacking is.

Spain holding onto the ball and passing the opposition into exhaustion can be awesome to watch. There is no such thing as anti-football.
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What would you call Spain's brand of football compared to that of Total Football, as perfected by the legendary Dutch teams of the late 60s through the 80s? The Spanish ''tika-taka'' style is supposedly a development of the Total Football system, but unlike Total Football, tika-taka can break down into an incredibly low paced game, where preventing goal scoring opportunities takes on as much, if not more, priority than goal-scoring opportunities, and this is exactly what Spain do frequently.

And oh yes, there is such a thing as Anti-Football. There are two variations of it; the physical style where abrasive, aggressive play and time-wasting is used by inferior opponents to unsettle superior opponents and then you get the Spanish style of tike-taka that while it is supposedly a form of Total Football, it is also prone to an extremely slow pace of football where they mainly focus on preventing the opponent scoring more so than they actively seek goal-scoring opportunities themselves.

"Anti-football" is a term used to describe an extremely defensive, aggressive physical, robust style of play of football where one team deploys their whole team, except the striker, behind the ball. In doing so, they try their best to stop the opposition from scoring, rather than trying to win the game themselves.
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Replace aggressive physical, robust style of play with high possession football and you get the Spanish model.

But yeah, personal preference. I'd much rather watch Uruguay and a firing-on-all-cylinders Germany carve a team apart. What Germany done to England and Argentina was merciless. Both of those teams looked shell-shocked as they were torn apart by incisive, attacking movements and passes. I actually fell asleep in the Germany-Spain game in 2010 because it was horrendously boring and once Puyol scored, I knew it was game over as the Spanish would just throttle the life out of the game. Spain are not beautiful to me. They win, but they look dreary doing it. For these reasons, while I dislike both teams, Real Madrid are better to watch than Barcelona as Barcelona is really the book from where Spain draws inspiration.
 
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Yes it is nice to watch a team score alot of goals and the whole thing of total football. For me, how can you say a team plays total football. One team can play attacking football, where as the next team can sit back and defend for there with counter attacking. Football is all about WINNING and how you do that is up to the team and what style of football suits them.

Yes sometimes it is boring too watch, but if it WINS you games, why change. The team is not going to change there style of play to satisfy there supporters. The goal is too WIN and that will make the supporters HAPPY
 
What's up with the Greek Keeper, has he had butter fingers for the whole tournament.
 
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