champions league - bayern v roma
I always seem to be out on Tuesday nights, boo. Only got around to watching this now. Usually the English press is pretty safe for spoilage (for non-English team Champions League, anyway), but unfortunately I read an interview with Robben today which accidentally spoiled the scoreline. Bloody shame.
Bayern 7 - 1 Roma :D
5 goals in the first 35 minutes, it's Brazil all over again, albeit with a better team defending. What an amazing 45 minutes of football. Total domination, fluid and beautiful and incisive. This is Germany as it should be but clearly isn't right now. What a difference Lahm a proper midfield makes.
As to be expected, the second half was a little less awesome. There was a particularly bad offside call in Bayern's favour at '68, but bad ref calls are in nobody's interest. Got very interesting at '53 where Roma had a one-on-one clear shot and the shot bounces off the sidebar, and you think, it's one of those nights. Seconds later they had another attempt on goal but Manu cleared it with a (somewhat usual, now) one-hander. Then at '60 Roma hits it point-blank from a free-kick on the corner of the 18-yard box and again Manu manages to somehow keep it out. This guy has had some great saves this year but these must have been among his best. He really deserved to keep a clean sheet, but eventually even the best keeper in the world, as it turns out, couldn't save a bullet header from 3 yards out. So it goes.
If I had one gripe - well okay, two - I wish Kroos were still here, and that I wish Robben were German. Can you imagine the national team then. (Well, okay, still doesn't solve the defence problem, but would the ball ever get past the halfway line anyway? :P ) This is as close to fantasy football as real-life teams go, surely?
I like Alonso well enough but can't bring myself to talk about him yet. I still can't quite reconcile the idea of a Spaniard crashing the national team party, wut.
Haven't really paid attention to Lewandowski prior to this but now he's on my radar. The header in the first half was proper Klose-style poacher stuff.
I laughed very hard when I first read the Telegraph describing Shaqiri as "Man-Fridge". The name has stuck. Come '78 where Goetze comes off, it's all \o/ \o/ "MAN-FRIDGE!!" \o/ \o/
Look at him, though. Have you seen anyone more... rectangular in football. I don't generally like this term, but that man is built like a brick shithouse. There's just no other description more apt.
Just for the lulz.
Bayern 7 - 1 Roma :D
5 goals in the first 35 minutes, it's Brazil all over again, albeit with a better team defending. What an amazing 45 minutes of football. Total domination, fluid and beautiful and incisive. This is Germany as it should be but clearly isn't right now. What a difference Lahm a proper midfield makes.
As to be expected, the second half was a little less awesome. There was a particularly bad offside call in Bayern's favour at '68, but bad ref calls are in nobody's interest. Got very interesting at '53 where Roma had a one-on-one clear shot and the shot bounces off the sidebar, and you think, it's one of those nights. Seconds later they had another attempt on goal but Manu cleared it with a (somewhat usual, now) one-hander. Then at '60 Roma hits it point-blank from a free-kick on the corner of the 18-yard box and again Manu manages to somehow keep it out. This guy has had some great saves this year but these must have been among his best. He really deserved to keep a clean sheet, but eventually even the best keeper in the world, as it turns out, couldn't save a bullet header from 3 yards out. So it goes.
If I had one gripe - well okay, two - I wish Kroos were still here, and that I wish Robben were German. Can you imagine the national team then. (Well, okay, still doesn't solve the defence problem, but would the ball ever get past the halfway line anyway? :P ) This is as close to fantasy football as real-life teams go, surely?
I like Alonso well enough but can't bring myself to talk about him yet. I still can't quite reconcile the idea of a Spaniard crashing the national team party, wut.
Haven't really paid attention to Lewandowski prior to this but now he's on my radar. The header in the first half was proper Klose-style poacher stuff.
I laughed very hard when I first read the Telegraph describing Shaqiri as "Man-Fridge". The name has stuck. Come '78 where Goetze comes off, it's all \o/ \o/ "MAN-FRIDGE!!" \o/ \o/
Look at him, though. Have you seen anyone more... rectangular in football. I don't generally like this term, but that man is built like a brick shithouse. There's just no other description more apt.
Just for the lulz.