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Yes, Brest are at an enhanced level right now.

Likely need 17 points to grasp top 8. The Footballer Manager players will have run the sims. Fewer might do it but I don't think so. So that means Barca would need another 11 points from 15. Doable.

The 5-0 drubbing of Real Madrid is the surely peak level any football team can attain. It was perfection.

It's very easy to say and much harder to do, but try to look to the future mate. You can't change the past. This is an exciting young team that has a lot to look forward to.

Wikipedia talks some amount of bollocks. Noel Gallagher clearly edited this: ' A prolific goalscorer and widely regarded as one of the best players in the world, Haaland has all the attributes of a complete centre-forward.[169][170][171] He uses his sizeable frame to hold play up effectively...

Just watching highlights of all the games again in the CL. I know it sounds bitter but how many times did balls bauble off Dortmund players or come off them and into a RM player's path? It happened for at least three of their goals. Vasquez's goal for example - nothing square pass, deflects back...

Yes I agree, it's really mostly any injuries curtailing development and potential burn out factor that concern me. But the Barca coaches and staff will hopefully manage him sensibly. Anyway thanks for the discussion here - I have enjoyed it. But it is 1.30 am and I really should try to sleep...

Scoring on and off the pitch.

That's my fear too, and @Don Juan Laporta Estruch keeps trying to reassure those of us who are more pessimistic individuals in general that Lamine will have an all-time great level career. He really can have that, but it is so difficult to be brilliant from as young as 16 to as old as 33/34/35...

Probably Pele was the last one to be such a young prodigy. He scored in the World Cup Final - two goals - aged 17. R9 maybe too. But even then, R9 was an unused sub at 17 in USA 94 (though doing well at club level) and almost a full year older than when Yamal was starring in and winning the...

I was thinking about Diego Milito this morning strangely, after Gabriel Milito's thread was posted in lol. Drogba is often used as an example too - he was probably class before but he really exploded hugely when he went to Chelsea age 26. And played in the second level in France for a while...

To be fair to Carra, his analysis is at least better than Neville's.

The Dirk Kuyt special.

It's a joke. RLY is shorthand for really, hence me saying really. As I say, a terrible joke. I thought about it though and couldn't come up with anything.

RLY? Really? Sorry, bad joke.

Yes you're spot on there, great point - xG is a longer-term stat, not to be taken too seriously in isolated games. It can deviate a lot for a team game to game but will regress to the mean over a period of time. Eye test is definitely better. For example that amazing cross (was it Lamine?) to...

Thanks, I will. Haven't lurked on there in several days. They tend to be better when talking about non-United or non-PL football topics so I will give a look soon. Merci.

Yeah. The CL suits Real Madrid down to the ground because knockout games are more about moments, bursts of energy or quickfire goals or scenarios. The league on the other hand is about week in week out consistency. The former will always favour a team like Real Madrid who have the highest highs...

I thought Jofre Torrents was a new download site when I first seen the title of the thread.

Yes, I made that same point last season when many thought Arsenal would hammer them. League form counts for fuck all in the CL, especially with the big teams.