Champions League Thread 2013/14

Two reasons A) Messi wishes his little legs could wallop a ball in from 35 yards and B) Goal.com said it http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4150/...right-now-five

So until Zlatan walloped it in from 35 yards he wasn't the best? Cameron Jerome will be gutted.

Yes until Zlatan walloped it in from 35 yards he wasnt the best.

Good job hes been doing it since 18 :titsup:

Plus every other type of goal you can imagine, plus a few you cant. The only genius left in football :good:

I think it takes more than scoring goals others supposedly can't to be considered the best, after all you're only saying he is the most varied goalscorer. Messi has walloped them in, not from 35 yards sure but he has from 20-25 yards, Zlatan's days of dribbling past everyone and scoring are nearly gone but he has developed in other areas, mainly his strength.

If Zlatan has been doing that since he's 18, how come it has taken you to 2013 to say he is the best for the first time? If you're talking about current form then yeah, maybe he is but on that basis you could legitimately say Ribery.

Zlatan is brilliant though, there's no denying that.

I like Ribery too. Thats Wengers true One That Got Away. The natural successor to Pires that boy and by rights he should win this years Ballon D'or.

When Ibrahimovic was 18 odd a fella called Ronaldinho was on the prowl...Henry and a few others were ahead of him as strikers too. Im of the belief that football is in a dark ages of sorts. The last 6 years has seen a decline in the number of top top players for me.

Best in the world by default then? :ninja:

I don't know, I think there are so many very good players now, the best aren't that distinguisable; taking Messi and Ronaldo out of the equation because it's not worth talking about two freaks.

If there is a decline in 'special' players then I would say it's something happening across sports, with the emphasis on fitness and muscularity, the pure talent is being lost. Federer. :(

Uefa have banned a section of the CSKA Moscow for their next match due to their racist chanting against Toure.


because the racists just won't move to different seats in the stadium. fucking idiots

UEFA are gutless faggots.

Who cares, it doesn't really affect us because all our players are white and English.

Todays Fixtures:

Real Sociedad v Man Utd 19:45
Man City v CSKA Moscow 19:45
Shakhtar Donetsk v Bayer 04 Leverkusen 19:45
FC Copenhagen v Galatasaray 19:45
Juventus v Real Madrid 19:45
Olympiakos v Benfica 19:45
Paris Saint Germain v RSC Anderlecht 19:45
Viktoria Plzen v Bayern Munich 19:45