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| Topic Started: May 6 2012, 09:04 AM (1,642 Views) | |
| rsisthebest8 | Jun 10 2012, 11:20 PM Post #196 |
 
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Torres on Buffon: "He knew what I was going to do, and made a great save." |
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| rsisthebest8 | Jun 10 2012, 11:37 PM Post #197 |
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Cesc slams "lamentable" pitch European champions not happy with slow playing surface after 1-1 draw ESPN staff June 10, 2012  [Cesc Fabregas: Scored Spain's equaliser] Cesc Fabregas: Scored Spain's equaliser© PA Photos Spain goalscorer Cesc Fabregas has hit out at the state of the pitch at the PGE Arena in Gdansk after the defending European champions were held to a 1-1 draw by Italy in their opening match. Fabregas grabbed the equaliser for Vicente Del Bosque's men shortly after Antonio Di Natale had put Group C rivals Italy ahead after 61 minutes. Spain had chance to win the game late on, but substitute Fernando Torres proved wasteful in front of goal. Italy gave as good as they got but Barcelona forward Fabregas felt the slow pitch at prevented Spain from playing the high-tempo passing game that has made them the number one team in the world. "I don't want to complain, but we deserve much more," Fabregas said. "It is lamentable that we have to play on a pitch like this. "It has been a difficult match, the most difficult one we have in the group against a very strong rival. "After going behind it is not a bad result. We are still dependent on ourselves. We have shown character and played well." Spain lined up without a recognised striker, with Fabregas preferred to Torres in a 4-6-0 formation but coach Del Bosque insisted he had made the right call. "We wanted to have superiority in the midfield so that we could have possession and arrive higher up the pitch. David Silva, Cesc and Andres Iniesta arrived very well from the second line of attack and I think they did very well in a lot of moments. "The plan didn't go badly, Cesc did very well in this position. When Fernando Torres came on the match was much more open. We had more chances to score, but so did they and we can't forget that. Time will tell whether this is a good point or not." Spain at times looked uncharacteristically slack in possession, particularly in the first half, but Del Bosque was quick to give credit to Italy's pressing game. "We knew Italy were going to press us high and they wanted to take the initiative. I had already warned that they are very dangerous and that has been the case," he added. Italy boss Cesare Prandelli was disappointed his side allowed Spain back into the game just three minutes after Di Natale's opener. "What disappointed me about this evening was that we allowed them to equalise so quickly. We were playing against the world champions but we should have made it more difficult for them after we scored," he said. "We need to improve on certain things. "We were a little surprised with Spain's line-up but we agreed that we needed to focus on our own game. "We will analyse this game and work on some things. We expended a lot of energy which we will need to recover for our next match." As for Mario Balotelli's performance, Prandelli said he had already decided to remove the striker after he dallied too long when clean through on goal., “I don’t know what happened to Mario when he was alone in front of Iker Casillas," he said. "He probably had two options and in these cases a striker should only have one. He should’ve passed it to Antonio Cassano. “I will talk to him and we’ll see. His booking didn’t worry me more than a little, either. I want my strikers to always give 100 per cent. The substitution? I had already decided to bring on Di Natale before the error, so it was not punishment.” |
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| rsisthebest8 | Jun 13 2012, 11:57 PM Post #198 |
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Cristiano Ronaldo is turning into Portugal’s Fernando Torres Cristiano Torres. (AP) Everybody has bad days. But there comes a time when too many bad days turns into a trend and the next thing you know, what was once so easy now, suddenly, feels impossible. This is what happened to Spain and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres starting right around the time a British record £50 million was spent to acquire him and now it appears to be happening to Cristiano Ronaldo, right around the time he's being prodded to carry Portugal on his back with an increasingly large knife. It might seem unthinkable that a man just off a season in which he scored a career-high 60 goals for Real Madrid across all competitions (second only to Leo Messi) could now be unable to score against a goalkeeper who plays club football for Evian in Ligue 1, but that's the predicament Cristiano Ronaldo finds himself in. And while Nicklas Bendtner, a man whose superhuman confidence has always exceeded his performance, twice equalized for Denmark against Portugal, Ronaldo, a man whose superhuman confidence actually has matched his performance, had to rely on his teammates to score three goals and make up for his blown opportunities. He was given some slack in Portugal's Euro 2012 opening loss to Germany because he was trying and, well, it was Germany. But against Denmark, his own shortcomings weren't shrouded by his teammates' lesser abilities and every time he got the spotlight he normally feeds off of, it burned him. He kicked the ball into the keeper's hands, wide of the post and at times even missed the ball entirely -- which actually allowed Varela to get the ball and score the winning goal for Portugal in the 87th minute. With each squandered chance, Ronaldo became more visibly frustrated, hesitant and distrusting of his superior instincts (a notion that was previously impossible), finally releasing his anguish by blatantly tripping an opponent from behind to earn the clearest of yellow cards. Ronaldo was the joint-third leading scorer in Euro 12 qualifying (which Portugal had to go through a playoff to do) with seven goals, so he has hardly been a dead weight with an armband for his country in recent years, but his struggles once a major tournament begins are growing more and more profound as the standard he sets for himself at the club level continues to rise. And like Scrooge with his ghosts, Ronaldo might feel that Euro 2012 is turning into a nightmare with Torres as his phantom escort. |
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Touch, I remember touch, pictures came with touch, a painter in my mind, tell me what you see, a tourist in a dream, a visitor it seems, a half forgotten song, where do i belong? Tell me what you see touch, sweet touch, youve given me too much to feel, touch, sweet touch, youve almost convinced me im real, i need something more, i need something more... | |
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| Shalini | Jun 16 2012, 07:35 AM Post #199 |
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EM team of the week: (goal.com) Pletikosa (Croatia) Mexes ------ Hummels ------ Mellberg Walcott ------ Moutinho ------ Schweini ------ Silva Torres ------ Gomez ------ Bendtner hmmm I disagree! where the F is Iniesta???? |
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Rest in peace Dr. Chopra...   | |
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| Shalini | Jun 16 2012, 07:39 AM Post #200 |
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Pirlo is also missing |
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Rest in peace Dr. Chopra... | |
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| Younique | Jun 16 2012, 07:54 AM Post #201 |
Chase the dream not the competition
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Agree about Pirlo, plus i dont think Mexes should be there and yes Iniesta should be there too |
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| Musafir | Jun 16 2012, 07:55 AM Post #202 |
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Silva & Walcott are there but not Iniesta or Pirlo. 
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| Shalini | Jun 18 2012, 08:46 AM Post #203 |
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BREAKING: Nicklas Bendtner has been banned for 1 competitive game and fined €100,000 for showing his sponsored boxers against Portugal. |
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Rest in peace Dr. Chopra... | |
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| Musafir | Jun 21 2012, 01:02 PM Post #204 |
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I dislike Bendtner. |
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