Serie A 11/12 (best league)

Scouser_Dave wrote:What a shite game that Udinese v Juve one was. Watched 65 minutes in the pub and nearly fell asleep into me pint.

My*

Inter are one-nil down to Lecce at home

Inter seriously are shit.

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:Inter seriously are shit.

They should have kept Eto'o, he would get them out of this mess.

Sean wrote:OT to this game, but is Eric Lamela any good?

he has good technical skills and surprisingly good stamina/workrate for a 19 year old. that said, lamela's still adapting in general. new country, new culture, new language, etc. for the price we paid for him, he can only be considered average so far. but at least he's still capable of slotting into our first team

the biggest problem with him is he's very selfish on the ball. but that's because most of river plate was crap last year and they relied on lamela too much to escape relegation (fyi, they failed).

anyway, hopefully lamela will be more of a team player as time goes along. a roma player actually punched him in the face recently for not passing the ball if you haven't heard

Schnix wrote:

Sean wrote:OT to this game, but is Eric Lamela any good?

he has good technical skills and surprisingly good stamina/workrate for a 19 year old. that said, lamela's still adapting in general. new country, new culture, new language, etc. for the price we paid for him, he can only be considered average so far. but at least he's still capable of slotting into our first team

the biggest problem with him is he's very selfish on the ball. but that's because most of river plate was crap last year and they relied on lamela too much to escape relegation (fyi, they failed).

anyway, hopefully lamela will be more of a team player as time goes along. a roma player actually punched him in the face recently for not passing the ball if you haven't heard

Osvaldo is a bit of a hot head though.

Laurencio wrote:

Schnix wrote:

he has good technical skills and surprisingly good stamina/workrate for a 19 year old. that said, lamela's still adapting in general. new country, new culture, new language, etc. for the price we paid for him, he can only be considered average so far. but at least he's still capable of slotting into our first team

the biggest problem with him is he's very selfish on the ball. but that's because most of river plate was crap last year and they relied on lamela too much to escape relegation (fyi, they failed).

anyway, hopefully lamela will be more of a team player as time goes along. a roma player actually punched him in the face recently for not passing the ball if you haven't heard

Osvaldo is a bit of a hot head though.

they both are, lol, but osvaldo probably a little bit worse. he thinks he's maradona

I did hear about that, wasnt it because Lamela told him to pass the ball , you're not Maradona?

Sean wrote:I did hear about that, wasnt it because Lamela told him to pass the ball , you're not Maradona?

to summarize, lamela shot from a tight angle while osvaldo was in a better position to score. osvaldo went after him after the game, telling him "this isn't river plate". lamela responded with "you're not maradona". osvaldo then proceeded to punch him in the face

Inter Milan.. thankfully they're in an inferior league to most and can easily turn this around next season.

justaddfinesse wrote:Inter Milan.. thankfully they're in an inferior league to most and can easily turn this around next season.

Lmao...

Don't hate on this league. It is the source of my Ultimate team.

Serie A has been very shit lately tbh.

Jelavic9|RFC wrote:Serie A has been very shit lately tbh.

I think the lack of marquee matches in the past few weeks might have been a turn off for most foreign Serie A fans. The fact that the few big match-ups in this time-frame (Udinese v. Juve and Napoli v. Roma) were dreadful, probably didn't help the situation. Overall, I think it has been been a well balanced and fun first half of the season to watch. A lot of teams have been playing good football, some more consistently than other of course.

On a side note, watching Napoli demolish Genoa 6-1 tonight was definitely an improvement on the Udinese v. Juve match, despite my hate for both Genoa and Napoli.

"OH MY GOD!!"

Edit; I suggest you turn down the volume

Inter are 5th and only 9 points from the top, told you they'd recover

Does Di Natale really mean "Christmas"?

I put it in a translator because I wanted to know what "Di" was and that's what it come up with.

Report: Juventus closes in on Marco Borriello and Martin Caceres for January

Splashy wrote:Does Di Natale really mean "Christmas"?

I put it in a translator because I wanted to know what "Di" was and that's what it come up with.

No, only Natale means Christmas, that's why they say Buon Natale (Merry Christimas)

'Di' means 'of' afaik

Best name for Chistmas apart from Ángel di María

Juventus have a tough fixture list in January. Atalanta away (Denis ) Udinese home and Parma away.

Filippo Inzaghi wrote:Report: Juventus closes in on Marco Borriello and Martin Caceres for January

Borriello would be some temporary cover because we're planning on finally getting rid of Toni and Amauri (fingers crossed). He hasn't really figured into Luis Enrique's plans, even though Roma made his move from Milan permanent this past summer.

As for Caceres, he's a versatile defender that actually had a decent loan spell at Juve a few seasons ago despite suffering a few injuries.

Amauri at Parma

Kuled wrote:Amauri at Parma

Hopefully off the face of the earth.

On a slightly more cheerful note:

Buffon
Wish our club had an official youtube channel, they're so cool. Man City's one is the best

Kuled wrote:Buffon
Wish our club had an official youtube channel, they're so cool. Man City's one is the best

He's always clowning around when he's off the pitch.

Matri

Claudio and Matri...

Kuled wrote:Buffon
Wish our club had an official youtube channel, they're so cool. Man City's one is the best

We need the money MUTV generates too much to provide free content

That's the guy some of the people here like