roundup
japan
already-relegated yokohama produced probably their best football of the season to upset urawa reds 1-0. they always looked dangerous on the counter and probably deserved to nick it. urawa can only blame themselves for their late collapse. i think they din win a single game in the last 4 games or something to see their 7point lead disappear into thin air. full credit to kashima antlers for embarking on an astonishing run of 9 straight victories after a winless opening 6 games to clinch the title on the last day. gamba osaka, probably the best attacking team in the league disappointed me by dropping points in the last 2 games to blow their own chances. but between kashima and urawa, i must say kashima are a much more attacking team. urawa is just so conservative. they haven impressed me in the j-league games i saw. the much-vaunted robson ponte has been so disappointing. shinji ono and tatsuya tanaka should start. i dun really understand why ono is on the bench when he is obviously their best midfielder. i needed only 7 minutes after he came on against kashima to come to that conclusion because the moment he passes the ball, he knows exactly wad should happen next and dictates the play accordingly. no wonder they called him tensai. genius.
holland
ajax played the worst football i have seen this season to lose 3-0 to nac, and at home. well, it has been coming. our defence has really been leaky. only 3 clean sheets this season, and sometimes i do feel our goals are lucky. so when your luck runs out and you dun score and u concede, you lose. it is a time bomb waitin to explode.
spain
i dun even want to talk about what happened. 3-0 at the mestalla to bilbao, thanks to 2 goals fr yeste, the man with the golden left foot. well, i have always tried to buy him in fm because he is pure class.
england
arsene wenger is prob right when he says tt if we play like we did in the first half against villa, all the other teams would have problems dealing with us. except tt we need to play like that for 90 minutes, or go 10-0 up in the first 45. because we were lucky to get away with 3 points after being totally dominated in the second half, something which i have never seen before. it was so shocking tt i was really just waitin for full time.
managed to catch hamburg's 3-0 win over stade rennes in midweek. van der vaart showed some great touches, but it's prob time for him to leave hamburg. perhaps after a successful euro 2008. he can leave because players like trochowski, zidan can probably step in for him to reduce the effect of his loss.
speaking of euro, we are drawn in the group of death again, as in 2000 and 2006. france italy romania. it's true tt if u want to be champions, u have to beat a big team at some pt in the comp. but u certainly dun do urself any favour by having to meet them so early. and lookin at our current form, the way we have been playing, i think we are in deep trouble.
germany escaped fr the group of death and ended up with a relatively straight forward group. they really should go into the tournament with high expectations, because they have a good team as well.
already-relegated yokohama produced probably their best football of the season to upset urawa reds 1-0. they always looked dangerous on the counter and probably deserved to nick it. urawa can only blame themselves for their late collapse. i think they din win a single game in the last 4 games or something to see their 7point lead disappear into thin air. full credit to kashima antlers for embarking on an astonishing run of 9 straight victories after a winless opening 6 games to clinch the title on the last day. gamba osaka, probably the best attacking team in the league disappointed me by dropping points in the last 2 games to blow their own chances. but between kashima and urawa, i must say kashima are a much more attacking team. urawa is just so conservative. they haven impressed me in the j-league games i saw. the much-vaunted robson ponte has been so disappointing. shinji ono and tatsuya tanaka should start. i dun really understand why ono is on the bench when he is obviously their best midfielder. i needed only 7 minutes after he came on against kashima to come to that conclusion because the moment he passes the ball, he knows exactly wad should happen next and dictates the play accordingly. no wonder they called him tensai. genius.
holland
ajax played the worst football i have seen this season to lose 3-0 to nac, and at home. well, it has been coming. our defence has really been leaky. only 3 clean sheets this season, and sometimes i do feel our goals are lucky. so when your luck runs out and you dun score and u concede, you lose. it is a time bomb waitin to explode.
spain
i dun even want to talk about what happened. 3-0 at the mestalla to bilbao, thanks to 2 goals fr yeste, the man with the golden left foot. well, i have always tried to buy him in fm because he is pure class.
england
arsene wenger is prob right when he says tt if we play like we did in the first half against villa, all the other teams would have problems dealing with us. except tt we need to play like that for 90 minutes, or go 10-0 up in the first 45. because we were lucky to get away with 3 points after being totally dominated in the second half, something which i have never seen before. it was so shocking tt i was really just waitin for full time.
managed to catch hamburg's 3-0 win over stade rennes in midweek. van der vaart showed some great touches, but it's prob time for him to leave hamburg. perhaps after a successful euro 2008. he can leave because players like trochowski, zidan can probably step in for him to reduce the effect of his loss.
speaking of euro, we are drawn in the group of death again, as in 2000 and 2006. france italy romania. it's true tt if u want to be champions, u have to beat a big team at some pt in the comp. but u certainly dun do urself any favour by having to meet them so early. and lookin at our current form, the way we have been playing, i think we are in deep trouble.
germany escaped fr the group of death and ended up with a relatively straight forward group. they really should go into the tournament with high expectations, because they have a good team as well.
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