randomperson:


This one's insecurities are coming to the fore because everyone is acknowledging the genius of Messi...

How many people did Ronaldo dribble before he got to the position he made that pass? You're hyping a square pass ...

Messi is better than Ronaldo and people who understand football know that... so deal with or kill yaself!!

popizaino:
Ibime don't blow this out of proportion to make your point.you said city who is been coched by a fraud pep guardiola is going to outclass barcelona should they meet but in your flawed assertion pep guardiola doesn't win when his an underdog.i guess city players are more superior to their barcelona counterparts Mr flawed logic abi?

and about your conclusion in hyping conte the fact that your overlord mourinho couldn't do well with Chelsea in 2015/2016 doesn't mean the players conte met was in the following season were inferior to the players pep guardiola met at city.infact conte met a better squad at chelsea than pep guardiola met at city.

ask yourself if conte would have gone pass the group stage of the champions league or perhaps finished 3rd with man city too?

Greatihex:
what has he been serving the world that is not trophies?

Greatihex:
what was Pep's man City vs Monaco?

Melvyn11:

Messi can walk on the sun blah blah blah.........Absolute rubbish.

Greatihex:
the last 2 paragraph of your post has exposed your ignorance. When has Chelsea ever had better players to man City in the past 6 years?

TalabiAudu:



Do you know since when I've been blindly and foolishly supporting EPL??

I supported Hazard all this while, I didn't know his first name was Hidden..

I've been licking Ronaldo's ass all this while, after yesterday's match, when I slept, I saw the god of soccer, he told me that if I don't confess the truth about Messi, I would continue to live with guilt in my mind...


I hated Pep more than my Shīt! The same Pep has been shagging the EPL, beat all the top 6 blue black like secondary school student..

When I'm not blind...

EPL is the most competitive league, have you checked the distance between first and second?

Abeg!!!

ollah2:



So the terminology same "insert team" beat "insert team" usage is strange to you in sports

Greatihex:
the last 2 paragraph of your post has exposed your ignorance. When has Chelsea ever had better players to man City in the past 6 years?

As of Tuesday night it is almost exactly four years since Mourinho last managed a club to victory in the Champions League knockout stages. In his past 10 knockout games with United and Chelsea he has two wins and five low-score draws.

You could make a case that Mourinho is the worst manager in the past 10 years of the Champions League knockout stages

Look a bit closer and even those two moments of triumph didn’t really point anywhere, the last one the ambush of Paris Saint-Germain at Stamford Bridge, when a late airborne siege turned a tie Chelsea were losing. The other was Didier Drogba’s return to Chelsea with Galatasaray, when a cunningly mawkish welcome back ceremony seemed to spook the visitors and Chelsea went 1-0 up after four minutes.

Look even further to his last year at Real Madrid and it is unsurprising Mourinho was so keen to dwell this week on his elimination of United at Old Trafford in 2013. That 2-1 victory, almost exactly five years ago, was the last time he oversaw an away win in the knockout stages. Even then Madrid were going out before Nani was sent off.

At the end of which, under the De Boer formula, you could make a case, factoring in millions spent and clubs managed (all three winners in recent years, just not under him) that Mourinho is unusually bad at negotiating the sharp end of this competition.

That he is, with two wins in 10 and everything from funds to pedigree in his favour, the worst manager in the past 10 years of the Champions League knockout stages.

Too much? Probably. But the real issue is not his place in the hierarchy of knockout failure.

Instead it is Mourinho’s dogged persistence with an approach that, frankly, no longer works at this level. This was another startling element to Tuesday night. Play the game again, play on for five hours into the night and United still wouldn’t have looked like winning. The obstacle here wasn’t details or form, but a fixed-gear defensive approach in a must-win game at home to the fifth-best team in Spain.

This is not to suggest Mourinho’s methods are failing at United. Winning defensive football is still winning football. United are better than when he came, and will be better still in a year.

It is more a question of whether Mourinho still has the will and the methods to cut it in one-off, fine-point knockout games against the very best.

Right now he appears to be doing what he did at Porto and Inter on such occasions, looking to attack an opponent’s strengths rather than its weaknesses, to win by nullifying space rather than using it to create.


There is an element of the Peter Principle in this. Mourinho got so good at managing underdog teams and wringing the best out of B-list players, that when he was allowed to manage overdog teams, his tactics no longer fit, with A-list players too good to carry out his methods with unquestioning zeal.

Ibime:


Are you minding Popizaino. Someone who thought Mikel is a Chelsea-level player. Only popizaino would campaign for Chelsea to play Mikel and expect Mikel to be better than Yaya Toure. Maybe he thinks EPL is AFCON.

10Dove:
Rumdeuter, everyone expected pep to win vs ancelloti( i suppose as per bayern being defending champions) but 2009 vs Fergie n united, pep was the snoopdog! You gotta love the double standard on display.

popizaino:
your fixated hatred on mikel doesn't change the fact that he is an excellent player.For fans around the stadium to name him african Zidane speaks volume of how underrated he is.

randomperson:


I see this is a very touchy subject for you. It eats into you whenever people acknowledge Messi as the superior player... too bad there is nothing you can do about it

But don't worry, last, last you go dey Aiite.

popizaino:
which ignorance kwanu?


All I know is conte meet better players at chelsea than pep met at city.The fact that mourinho didn't do well with them in the previous years does not mean city players were better pls.

airmark:


In that context, it wasn't only strange, it was stupid to use.

raumdeuter:


The same Madrid now beat the same Bayern coached by Ancelotti last year home and away

I never imagined anyone wll call Madrid a team with Ronaldo Ramos Marcelo Bale Modric an underdog to anyone not named Barcelona

popizaino:
Quote me anywhere I said prior to him signing for man United. MOURINHO CAN NEVER WIN THE EPL WITHOUT DIDIER DROGBA.

10Dove:
Madrid is not an underdog against anyone in an european competition

raumdeuter:
lordfalcao no miss as Welbeck dey mix am for Bonnuci na Donnaruma save am

raumdeuter:

Robben < Ronaldo
Bale = Ribery
Benzema < Mandzukic
Casillas < Neuer
Lahm > Carvajal
Marcelo = Alaba
Khedira = Martinez
Modric = Schweinsteiger
Alonso = Kroos
Ramos = Boateng
Pepe > Dante

These are the 2 starting 11 around 2014. Ibime, How many of these will you say the Bayern player is better than the Madrid player

Ibime:


The question you should be asking is how Pep got disgraced 5-0 given these comparisons.

popizaino:
your fixated hatred on mikel doesn't change the fact that he is an excellent player.For fans around the stadium to name him african Zidane speaks volume of how underrated he is.

raumdeuter:
Can everyone see now. Ibime wrote Ramos = Boateng

airmark chic2pimp Can you see? Later he will come here and tell us something else

TalabiAudu:
Nasoo Holy Spirit go dey make them confess one by one...

Just give am time, all those twist wey he dey twist like snake go soon run commot

raumdeuter:


Madrid was better than Bayern and they showed it again last season even when Ancelotti was coach of Bayern. Almost 7 of 11 players are better than Bayerns in 2014 and maybe 2 will be ties with only Neuer and Lahm being the Bayern players outrightly better

raumdeuter:
Can everyone see now. Ibime wrote Ramos = Boateng