Dup/Leo is the Brazilean championship so dull as I see? I feel it's happening here too but in the continental cups seems Brazilian teams lowered the quality and now it's more equal. But an equality to a worse level it's a shit. San Lorenzo won last Libertadores Cup... with a shitty team. The top 4 were:
1 San Lorenzo (Arg. shitty team, cheap and lucky)
2 Nacional (Par. nonexistent budget team.)
3 Bolivar (Bol. who?)
4 Defensor Sporting (Uru... def who?)
Fortunatly the current Libertadores seems to recovered some quality. Mostly from Argentinian teams (but still low)
There are 6 Argentinian teams. 3 are already classified to the next round. The rest two has high chances and the other (San Lorenzo) very low chances.
Brazil: 5 teams: 1 already classified, 3 with high chances and 1 very low chances.
In my opinion the current performance of the Argentinian football is lower than some years ago. That's mostly why I think Brazillian football is in crisis too.
I'm very curious how is Inter perfomance this year. I love D'alessandro's game.
Tigres and Boca Jrs. seems to have the best performance up to now.
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Strong BRA/BRA and ARG/ARG pairings!
Quote from: alanrotoi on April 17, 2015, 05:34:13 AM
Dup/Leo is the Brazilean championship so dull as I see? I feel it's happening here too but in the continental cups seems Brazilian teams lowered the quality and now it's more equal. But an equality to a worse level it's a shit. San Lorenzo won last Libertadores Cup... with a shitty team.
2014 was a low point indeed, whether you look from the Brazilian teams' perspective or, as you say, to the overall picture of the Libertadores. And "equality to a worse level" quite often is an apt characterisation of the Brazilian Série A.
Look on the bright side, though: both of us had our Group 2 wishes granted! (São Paulo 2 - 0 Corinthians; San Lorenzo 0 - 1 Danúbio)
And I'm happy for San Lorenzo :D
Let's tip the results from here to the final match! Then at the end we compare the results. (I'll add the scores later):
Quarters:
Boca vs São Paulo
Guaraní vs Racing Club
Tigres vs Atlético Nacional
Atletico Mineiro vs Santa Fé
Semis:
(if Boca beats São Paulo then they will reach the finals) but
São Paulo vs Guaraní
Tigres vs Santa Fé
Final:
São Paulo vs Tigres
Champion: São Paulo
It will 1st time a Mexican team reaches the final match.
BUT THE RESULTS I WISH ARE:
Quarters:
River Plate vs São Paulo
(the stronger between Guaraní or Corinthians) vs Racing Club
Tigres vs Emelec
Inter vs Estudiantes
Semis:
São Paulo vs Racing Club
Tigres vs Inter
Finals:
Racing Club vs (who showed the best performance between Tigres vs Inter)
Champion: Racing Club
:D
Hey... Chivas or America was finalists yet
Cruz Azul 2001 and Chivas Guadalajara 2010
Oops. I must be confused with Copa America then :D
I wrote "bet" but I mean "tip". I'll edit it.
Santa Fe in quarters. First tip correct :)
Tomorrow is the second match between Wanderers (URU) vs Racing Club (ARG). The first match was 1-1 in Uruguay so this time they play in Avellaneda (Argentina).
Good is the Sudamericana (with Atlético Paranaense)
Today in Avellaneda!!
Racing Club (ARG) vs Wanderers (URU)
!!!!!!!
Both São Paulo and Corinthians out ::) No chance of a semifinal against Racing for us...
Racing is in quarter finals yay! It's against Guarani (again)
In La Bombonera
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFAnJG0UIAAFR0a.jpg)
What happened to the Boca vs River match?
Shame. I can't bealieve it. I don't know what's worse the vandals or the failure of authorities from CONMEBOL, Boca, Referee, Police, AFA. Fuckers.
Quote from: BonzaiJoe on May 15, 2015, 09:51:43 AM
What happened to the Boca vs River match?
Suspended after Boca supporters attacked River players with pepper spray before the second half.
46hs later, we are still waiting for a decision as CONMEBOL is trying to figure out a way to give Boca an easy way out and still make it look like they are being really harsh and are making an example out of this.
The drone became meme in Brazil and now became adverstising
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hahahahaahayauahuahuahuahuahauhauhaua
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFKjfWwUEAA9GYC.jpg)
Jajajajaja que maldad!!!!!!
Hahaha, nice one!! Even though it touches my heart, it's still pretty good.
Did you ever think a joke against your own team? I did last December when Racing won the championship:
It says something like: "Quetzalcoatl would be manifesting in Racing's stadium. They say Cthulhu would also appear."
"Quetzalcoatl estaría manifestandose en el estadio de Racing. Dicen que también vendría Cthulhu."
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Some strange facts:
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It's funny that the paraguayan referee last name is Amarilla (Yellow) :D
Mineiraço Part II...
Yep, I'm not surprised from River, but surprised of Cruzeiro's passive defense.
Today Racing vs Guaraní, the last match of Libertadores before Copa América.
- Guaraní Paraguayo foste para ganar de Racing
- Para o qué?
- Paraguayo!
Today final match Buenos Aires 22hs GMT -3 (too late but I guess it's adjusted for mexicans too)
The cup turned in a shitty contest because mexican teams are from CONCACAF so they can't classificate to Teams World Cup by winning Libertadores cup (CONMEBOL). As the final match is River Plate (Arg) vs Tigres (Mex), the Argentinian team is already at Teams World Cup only by winning semifinals match. A shit.
Why mexican teams participate in Libertadores then? I guess it's to give the cup more international pretige, I don't know.
What do you think?
Quote from: alanrotoi on August 05, 2015, 03:42:42 PM
Today final match Buenos Aires 22hs GMT -3 (too late but I guess it's adjusted for mexicans too)
The cup turned in a shitty contest because mexican teams are from CONCACAF so they can't classificate to Teams World Cup by winning Libertadores cup (CONMEBOL). As the final match is River Plate (Arg) vs Tigres (Mex), the Argentinian team is already at Teams World Cup only by winning semifinals match. A shit.
Why mexican teams participate in Libertadores then? I guess it's to give the cup more international pretige, I don't know.
What do you think?
22 hours is the same time here in Brazil. In Mexico is about 17 or 18. The only thing who explains the mexican is $$$$$$$$. Remembered one of last years what Corinthians made this travel to play against Tijuana: São Paulo - Los Angeles - Tijuana. More than a UCL travel. I have an opinion: or merge the confederations or play Libertadores without mexicans.
...Ríber won