UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread

Muntari's only playing because of the injuries to De Jong, Flamini and Nocerino and KPB has been dreadful all season. I wonder what the odds on each of the scoring tonight was?

In fairness though, you're comparing him to two excellent keepers who for different reasons have their mistakes blown to high heaven. De Gea has made, from the top of my head, about 3 or 4 errors this season that have lead to goals (and arguably there's always been players more to blame than him for each one) but has the mistakes he has made laughably over-analysed by a media that want to see him fail.

I don't think there's a clear case for any of them being better or worse than the other, and I don't think there's any case for replacing him with players that will inherently suffer the same problem of stepping up to a big club that De Gea and, to an extent, Neuer himself did. Courtois, Begovic, Ter Stergen, Leno and Trapp are all untested at this level and, really, are a gamble for a top team looking for stability (if they're as good as they look they almost certainly turn out to be good, but you have to have the patience through the original errors) especially one that already have a keeper they paid a lot of cash for and has had such a ridiculous record with goals conceded this year.

I think it's pretty unfair to criticise Bayern's CBs as well, Dante is clearly a monster but Boateng and Badstuber are very good players and although I can see Van Buyten shipped out and Martinez used as a 4th choice auxiliary CB (it's the Pep way), and despite the fact they get massive help from one of the best drilled midfields I can remember seeing in recent times I just don't think it makes any sense to go rooting around upsetting a unit thats been that solid this season.

Is that Madonna on the right?
Didnt know Seedorf was still at Milan either.

No it's not, and it's not Seedorf, pretty sure the one you're thinking about is actually Mario

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Iker Casillas will not play against Manchester United.

I'm shitting breeze blocks.

Still think we'll do it though.

Will be missing the match because its the wife's birthday

She's so inconsiderate.

Surely the best present she can get for her birthday is to see you happy? so watch the game.

Yup... "if you really loved me you would want me to be happy".

Or I could get some sleeping tablets and stick them in her tea.