***Official Football (Soccer) Thread: All leagues and competitions Part 39***

[LukeS1]

City not in great form, too inconsistent especially in the big games. Also serial knockout chokers

Real Madrid riding high after the league win, I'd back them

[Merretto]

What bothers me about city is how unpredictable they are.

They have the highest ceiling in europe, and the lowest floor of any big team.

They can dismantle Liverpool one game, then lose to a relegation threatened side.

No leadership in that dressing room.

[LukeS1]

What bothers me about city is how unpredictable they are.

They have the highest ceiling in europe, and the lowest floor of any big team.

They can dismantle Liverpool one game, then lose to a relegation threatened side.

No leadership in that dressing room.

Consistently bad in the UCL though, how that team has never made a CL final.... some awful flops across the years

[Merretto]

Consistently bad in the UCL though, how that team has never made a CL final.... some awful flops across the years

Even as someone who's not a city fan, its frustrating to watch.

In a big game you would expect Jon Stones or zinchenko to screw up and create an opportunity for the opposing team.

But last year in the second leg against tottenham, their most reliable defender of the season (laporte) handed tottenham 2 goals on a silver platter with individual errors. I don't think he made any individual errors that season before that point..

Comical

[TokenV]

Even as someone who's not a city fan, its frustrating to watch.

I like it though lol

[ButcherSir]

once again city will chit their pants in the big stage/10
once again GOATnaldo will show why its cristiano league/10

[Merretto]

Anyone here watching Juve vs Lyon?

[TokenV]

Anyone here watching Juve vs Lyon?

haven't watched it all but saw the highlights

how that Lyon penalty was not overruled by VAR is beyond me, cleanest tackle there is

[Xinroth]

haven't watched it all but saw the highlights

how that Lyon penalty was not overruled by VAR is beyond me, cleanest tackle there is

foul was because he was tripped from behind, not the tackle.

Also, Inb4 Ronaldo is the best in the world ITT because once again Juve get a dodgy pen decision which he converts. His second goal is good though.

[TokenV]

foul was because he was tripped from behind, not the tackle.

you mean the slight touch from Bernardeschi?

I wouldn't call that a penalty neither tbh....

[engscott]

City through now up 4-2

Lyon Juve is going to be a fun 20 Minutes now....though neither was a peno

[TokenV]

Atalanta, Leipzig, Lyon, Bayern would be my preferred semi finalists

[Merretto]

once again city will chit their pants in the big stage/10
once again GOATnaldo will show why its cristiano league/10

Footballpredictions/10

Wrongabouteverything/10

Ronaldo played a good game though. Albeit 1 of his goals was a penalty that he didn't earn and frankly shouldn't have been a penalty, but the other goal was nice.

[Merretto]

haven't watched it all but saw the highlights

how that Lyon penalty was not overruled by VAR is beyond me, cleanest tackle there is

Agreed.. Terrible call on both penalties. Neither was a pen. unlucky for Juve, but honestly they don't deserve to progress playing like this.

[Rai9]

Imagine blaming Juve’s CL losses to guy carrying the team lol. You’d have to be some kind of retard. Like frezko.

[Merretto]

Imagine blaming Juve’s CL losses to guy carrying the team lol. You’d have to be some kind of retard. Like frezko.

Juve is garbage this year. But Ronaldo did not carry the team. Half of his goals this year were penalties. The announcer made a good point as well, why is he still taking the free kicks? he's scored 1 of the last 50. 1!

He needs to go to PSG where he gets better service

[Merretto]

Imagine being autistic like Rai9

"RoNaLdO iS Da bEsT pLaYeR on JuVe aNd iN sErIa A"


2019/2020 Seria A awards
Best Goalkeeper: Wojciech Szczesny
Best Defender: Stefan De Vrij
Best Midfielder: Papu Gomez
Best Forward: Ciro Immobile
Best Young player: Dejan Kulusevski
MVP: Paulo Dybala






Ignore Rai 9. He is legit the sport misc autistic shrek. Legit a fukkin clown and dummy when it comes to sports (especially football)

lol

Ronaldo was the deciding factor in 10 games this season.. No more.

[LukeS1]

God damn it Ronaldo, only scored 2 goals in the 2 game tie, including one Worldy 30 yard strike with his weak foot.

You'd expect more from a 35 year old , at least 4-5 goals what a disappointment

[LukeS1]

So Real Madrid between 2011 and 2018, reach at least the Semi Final all 8 years, winning it 4 times, including a 3peat from 2016 to 2018.

The following 2 years they suddenly get knocked out at the last 16.

What changed I wonder?

[ButcherSir]

if ronaldo doesnt leave juve for bayern or psg he's a fuking idiot


jesus what a chit team. how they beated lazio, atalanta and inter in the league race is beyond me.
ronaldo legit scored all their KO goals in the last 2 seasons (7)

legit carrying them on his back and they cant do the fuking bare minimum (like providing good passes and crosses)

also just lol @ higuain being a football player lmaoo



poor ronaldo. its difficult to see the goat in his final seasons playing with fuking idiots.

[AJR123456]

God damn it Ronaldo, only scored 2 goals in the 2 game tie, including one World 30 yard strike with his weak foot.

You'd expect more from a 35 year old , at least 4-5 goals what a disappointment

So Real Madrid between 2011 and 2018, reach at least the Semi Final all 8 years, winning it 4 times, including a 3peat from 2016 to 2018.

The following 2 years they suddenly get knocked out at the last 16.

What changed I wonder?

You'll find i'm capable of reproducing your daft observations as well.

Since Ronaldo has joined Juventus they've regressed, they've been knocked out by Ajax and Lyon (#7 in the worst league in europe). They reached 2 of the last 4 finals prior to his arrival and had only been knocked out by Bayern or Real Madrid earlier. All this because they've had to change their style to serve King Ronaldo and it's made the team worse because they've changed their formula of success to cater to a player way past his prime.

Let me tell you what's changed with Real Madrid since you can't see past your profound infatuation with Ronaldo.

Benzema is 32, Kroos is 30, Marcelo is 32, Modric is 34, Ramos is 34, Bale is 31 and zidane won't play him.

The average age of Real Madrid's key players is now 32. When they were winning these players were all in their prime providing Ronaldo with silver platter service as he rarely creates solo goals in his 30s.

Ronaldo had a good game today, he scored a penalty and a nice 25 yard shot.

But like I said many times, Ronaldo is not a game changer anymore unless he receives silver platter service. He's a goal poacher.

46% of his goals this year have been penalties 30% have been tap ins.

[AJR123456]

if ronaldo doesnt leave juve for bayern or psg he's a fuking idiot


jesus what a chit team. how they beated lazio, atalanta and inter in the league race is beyond me.
ronaldo legit scored all their KO goals in the last 2 seasons (7)

legit carrying them on his back and they cant do the fuking bare minimum (like providing good passes and crosses)

also just lol @ higuain being a football player lmaoo



poor ronaldo. its difficult to see the goat in his final seasons playing with fuking idiots.

Oh the irony lol

[mandarino]

if ronaldo doesnt leave juve for bayern or psg he's a fuking idiot


jesus what a chit team. how they beated lazio, atalanta and inter in the league race is beyond me.
ronaldo legit scored all their KO goals in the last 2 seasons (7)

legit carrying them on his back and they cant do the fuking bare minimum (like providing good passes and crosses)

also just lol @ higuain being a football player lmaoo



poor ronaldo. its difficult to see the goat in his final seasons playing with fuking idiots.

Lmao replace the word ronaldo with messi in your post boyo

[LukeS1]

Yeh the whole squad went from world class in 2018 to past their best and liabilities in 2019 lmao

The last time Real Madrid made it to even a Quarter Final without CR7 was 2004. With him they reach 8 consecutive semi finals, and win half of those years.

Its simple, Real Madrid are only good when Ronaldo carried them, and Barca were only good when Xavi/Iniesta carried them

[LukeS1]

Since Ronaldo joined juve, they have scored 7 goals in 6 UCL Knockout games

RONALDO SCORED ALL 7


Juve have a short window here with the GOAT man to win them their first ever UCL. Right now they're doing a shocking job of building the team. Last summer they decided to buy 3 CBs aged between 19-21 for a total of £115m, rather than fixing the numerous holes in midfield and attack

[ButcherSir]

Lmao replace the word ronaldo with messi in your post boyo

why?
barca are miles ahead of juve
and messi can only dream on scoring 100% of his team KO goals (not even talking about 2 seasons..)
and higuain? messi had him when he was top 7 strikers in the world.

[Merretto]

why?
barca are miles ahead of juve
and messi can only dream on scoring 100% of his team KO goals (not even talking about 2 seasons..)
and higuain? messi had him when he was top 7 strikers in the world.

You clearly don't watch barca. If a team has a pulse, they have a chance against that team.

They're terrible, literally the worst major team in europe. Messi missed 11 games in the last 2 years and Barcelona only won 3 of those without him. At the moment, without messi this team is AC milan, they wont't finish in a champions league position.

[Merretto]

Yeh the whole squad went from world class in 2018 to past their best and liabilities in 2019 lmao

The last time Real Madrid made it to even a Quarter Final without CR7 was 2004. With him they reach 8 consecutive semi finals, and win half of those years.

Its simple, Real Madrid are only good when Ronaldo carried them, and Barca were only good when Xavi/Iniesta carried them

I think you underestimate Real Madrid's supporting cast. Sergio Ramos is one of the GOATs, Bale may be inconsistent but he was the MOTM and deciding factor in 2 of Real Madrid's 4 UCL. Casemiro has been better than Busquets now for years and has been a beast in Semi final, even winning a MOTM in a UCL final with real madrid. Modric is a Ballon D'or winner and carried croatia through the world cup. Xavi and Iniesta have never won a Ballon d'or

Since Ronaldo joined juve, they have scored 7 goals in 6 UCL Knockout games

RONALDO SCORED ALL 7


Juve have a short window here with the GOAT man to win them their first ever UCL. Right now they're doing a shocking job of building the team. Last summer they decided to buy 3 CBs aged between 19-21 for a total of £115m, rather than fixing the numerous holes in midfield and attack

Juve is doing a terrible job building this team. The problem is that they can't build properly out of the midfield and service Ronaldo in the right position.

I would argue that they would be a better team had they somehow purchased Messi instead of Ronaldo, I would also argue that Ronaldo made the wrong choice going to Juventus, if he went to Man City who creates more chances than any other team, he would still be banging in 60 goals a season and they might be UCL winners. That team is perfectly designed for him, Juve never was.

Ronaldo plays the knife's edge of the game, that role requires support, it requires service. Although Ronaldo plays well individually and scores alot of goals, he doesn't do anything to improve the team or the players around him other than the occasional pep talk. He needs the team behind him to be completely world class so they can take advantage of his abilities to finish in the box.

Messi is a deep lying playmaker and goalscorer

He has the best chance creation, key pass, throughball, assists, dribbling and goal scoring combination in the history of the sport. His shot conversion is much better than Ronaldo's as well.

What Juve need is a player like Messi to become the engine of the team open up the game and create better chances for others.

The downside is Juventus would lose their aerial presence in the box, and Messi's penalty conversion isn't quite as high as ronaldo's 78% vs 83%. However, Ronaldo has wasted 49 out of the last 50 free kick's he's taken. Messi would have scored atleast 10 of those, which would make up for his 2-3 penalty misses.

Overall Juve would be better off and to be fair, if you remove Ronaldo's penalties.. He's only scored 20 goals this season.. The same as Sancho for example.

Keep in mind there is more to this game than goals. Ronaldo has only produced better goal contribution numbers than Messi 1 time in the last 15 seasons.

[LukeS1]

I agree with the guy that said Ronaldo should move on, kinda a shame to waste the end of his prime in a talentless squad like that , which has no shot

PSG would be fun, with Neymar and Mbappe either side. Ronaldo would be exactly what they need to get over their choking and finally win one. There isn't really fit for him in the Prem, and Bayern wouldn't go for him when they have Lewa I guess

[LukeS1]

Id love to see Messi try a new challenge as well. This Barca squad isn't what they used to be. Still a top 5, probably top 3 team in the World though


We all just wana see if he can prove himself in another environment, another league etc