Football Fanats 2008

[alanrotoi]

Maradona's Argentina 1 - Scothland 0

[Chulk]

Argentina played a good match, always in control of the game. We started playing great football for the first 25 mins, then the team just relaxed a bit and had the ball but coouldn't create chances to score. Scotland did what they usually do, defend with 8-9 players, and counter-attack using the wings and centering the ball for his big FW (McFadden in this case). Only 1 or 2 risky moves by Scotland but nothing more while it seems that Argentina could score anytime they wanted to.
Big difference from Basile's soulless team to Maradona's intention to play fast, short, low passes. An example of it is the great goal, scored by a player Basile never liked, Maxi Rodriguez (he was Argentina's best in Germany '06, he scored that great goal against Mexico). We still have to see how the team will play when Messi, Riquelme, Agüero are available to play, but this debut was a lot different than matches Basile played against similar teams, where Argentina suffered a lot (Algeria, Norway)

[Duplode]

What's more, Brazil also played yesterday vs. Portugal (in Gama, a city neighbour to Brasilia), and guess what, we played a great game, with flair and effectiveness: 6-2! That would be unbelieavble under any circumstances a few days ago...

(...) but this debut was a lot different than matches Basile played against similar teams, where Argentina suffered a lot (Algeria, Norway)

With Brazil it does not seem to be too different from those issues: if the opposing team plays a deadlock, the creation/attack fails completely, even if it is Bolivia at home or something like that...

[CTG]

Hungary - Northern Ireland 2-0

We are still a crappy team but at least I can see some improvements. Koeman seems to be a good trainer.

[Chulk]

What's more, Brazil also played yesterday vs. Portugal (in Gama, a city neighbour to Brasilia), and guess what, we played a great game, with falir and effectiveness: 6-2!

Nice! I loved to see Ronaldo's Portugal get kicked! (Even if it means Brazil played great football)

[alanrotoi]

Where Koerman is from?

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Where Koerman is from?

he's Dutch. i also consider him a good trainer, well suits the imporving Hungarian team. watch out for Hajnal's performance in Borussia Dortmund! 

[Akoss Poo a.k.a. Zorromeister]

Second Division, East:

1. Ferencvárosi TC     15     11     3     1     44–11     +33     36
2. Böcs KSC    15    10    3    2    38–13    +25    33
3. Debreceni VSC II-DEAC    15    9    2    4    30–20    +10    29
4. Ceglédi VSE    15    7    4    4    21–20    +1    25
5. BKV Elöre SC    15    6    6    3    27–19    +8    24
6. Kazincbarcika    15    6    5    4    22–23    –1    23
7. Makó FC    15    6    3    6    33–29    +4    21
8. MTK Budapest II    15    6    3    6    20–22    –2    21
9. Békéscsaba    15    6    1    8    27–39    –12    19
10. Baktalórántháza    15    6    1    8    18–31    –13    19
11. Szolnoki MÁV-Mondi    15    5    4    6    20–25    –5    19
12. Vác-Újbuda    15    4    4    7    33–32    +1    16
13. Jászberényi SE    15    4    4    7    21–25    –4    16
14. Vecsés FC    15    3    5    7    23–28    –5    14
15. ESMTK    15    3    3    9    24–30    –6    12
16. Tököl    15    2    1    12    15–49    –34    7

First division:

1.   Debreceni VSC-TEVA    15     10     3     2     33-14     +19     33
2.   Újpest FC   15    8    6    1    27-17    +10    30
3.   Vasas   15    9    1    5    27-23    +4    28
4.   Szombathelyi Haladás   15    7    3    5    22-13    +9    24
5.   Nyíregyháza Spartacus   15    6    6    3    20-14    +6    24
6.   ZTE FC   15    6    4    5    25-22    +3    22
7.   Gabona Trans-Kaposvár   15    6    3    6    26-21    +5    21
8.   Kecskeméti TE-ERECO   15    6    3    6    23-19    +4    21
9.   FC Fehérvár   15    6    3    6    17-19    -2    21
10.   MTK Budapest   15    5    4    6    20-22    -2    19
11.   Budapest Honvéd   15    5    4    6    22-25    -3    19
12.   Diósgyöri VTK   15    5    4    6    17-26    -9    19
13.   Györi ETO FC   15    5    3    7    23-19    +4    18
14.   Paksi FC   15    5    3    7    21-31    -10    18
15.   BFC Siófok   15    2    2    11    9-27    -18    8
16.   REAC   15    2    2    11    19-39    -20    8

Second division, West:

1. Gyirmót SE     15     10     3     2     26–7     +19     33
2. PMFC    15    10    2    3    27–13    +14    32
3. Kaposvölgye VSC    15    9    2    4    23–19    +4    29
4. FC Tatabánya    15    7    3    5    23–15    +8    24
5. ZTE FC II    15    7    2    6    26–20    +6    23
6. Lombard Pápa FC    15    6    5    4    19–14    +5    23
7. Felcsút FC    15    6    4    5    22–16    +6    22
8. Kozármisleny SE    15    6    4    5    23–22    +1    22
9. Budaörs    15    6    3    6    25–26    –1    21
10. FC Ajka    15    5    6    4    17–15    +2    21
11. Györi ETO FC II    15    6    2    7    31–30    +1    20
12. Százhalombatta    15    4    3    8    11–22    –11    15
13. Integrál-DAC    15    3    5    7    13–16    –3    14
14. Bajai LSE    15    3    5    7    19–26    –7    14
15. Dunaújváros FC    15    4    1    10    16–36    –20    13
16. Barcsi SC    15    1    4    10    13–37    –24    7

[CTG]

10.   MTK Budapest   15    5    4    6    20-22    -2    19
13.   Györi ETO FC   15    5    3    7    23-19    +4    18

Very disappointing performance from the champion and the bronze medalist of the last season...

Second division, West:

1. Gyirmót SE     15     10     3     2     26–7     +19     33
11. Györi ETO FC II    15    6    2    7    31–30    +1    20
13. Integrál-DAC    15    3    5    7    13–16    –3    14

Three teams from my hometown, Gyirmót has a pretty good chance to qualify to the first class. They won't but still a strong team in second class.

[CTG]

UEFA Champions League

Qualified to knockout phase (group winners with bold):

AS Roma, Chelsea, Panathinaikos, Internazionale, Barcelona, Sporting CP, Liverpool, Atlético Madrid, Manchester United, Villarreal, Bayern München, Olympique Lyon, FC Porto, Arsenal, Juventus, Real Madrid

4 - England
4 - Spain
3 - Italy
2 - Portugal
1 - France
1 - Germany
1 - Greece

No real surprise... Poor Anorthosis Famagusta, they lost by a single funny goal versus Panathinaikos (stupid reserve goalkeeper's fault, he's Hungarian...), losing the chance to continue in UEFA Cup. Zenit was the negative surprise for me: after the latest results of Russian football I expected a lot more. Arshavin is not THAT good...

To UEFA Cup (3rd place in the groups): Girondins Bordeaux, Werder Bremen, Sahtar Doneck, Olympique Marseille, Aalborg, Fiorentina, Dinamo Kiev, Zenit St. Petersburg

2 - France
2 - Ukraine
1 - Denmark
1 - Germany
1 - Italy
1 - Russia

The fallen teams: CFR Cluj, Anorthosis Famagusta, FC Basel, PSV Eindhoven, Glasgow Celtic, Steaua Bucarest, Fenerbahce, BATE Borisov

2 - Romania
1 - Belarus
1 - Cyprus
1 - Netherlands (what happened to Dutch football? )
1 - Scotland
1 - Switzerland
1 - Turkey

[BonzaiJoe]

Please note yesterday's result:

Manchester United - AaB  2-2

MU did save some players for the forthcoming league game, but look at their players:

(Tomasz Kuszczak, Gary Neville (76: Rafael), Rio Ferdinand, Jonny Evans, John O'Shea, Darron Gibson (46: Ji-Sung Park), Ryan Giggs (46: Paul Scholes), Anderson, Nani, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez.)

This match was also not complete pointless. MU only won the group because Villareal lost in Glasgow at the same time.

So, at the end of the day, AaB was the only of the 4 "small teams" (AaB, BATE Borisov, CFR Cluj, Anorthosis) that made it to the 3rd place and further participation in the UEFA cup.

[CTG]

Anorthosis is a lot smaller team than AaB but they were closer to qualify to the knockout phase (in points).

[Chulk]

Zlatan's Magic

[alanrotoi]

Groso este tipo

[CTG]

Zlatan is not my favorite player and I was really polite with this...