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Balotelli v Welbeck - Who will score more goals this season?
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Who will score more goals this season?
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Total Votes: 14
Keyser Söze-
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5 games 4 goals- Welbeck
7 games 1 goal- Balotelli
7 games 1 goal- Balotelli
Yrael-
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Against Porto. Which was Falcao's last game in the CL I believe. No wonder he transfers every time his team reach the CL, he probably still has nightmares about Bendtner.SBSP wrote:Last Arsenal player to score a hat trick in Europe? Nicklas Bendtner
vel-
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GET EMKeyser Söze wrote:Balotelli 7 games 1 goal
Godbeck 5 games 3 goals.
I guess Scotts GF being killed puts football into perspective
Scott_LFC-
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Even by your standards, that's horrible.
Keyser Söze-
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2777580/Mario-Balotelli-Danny-Welbeck-moved-16million-point-prove-evidence-suggests-Arsenal-bargain-Liverpool-trouble.html
FCB-
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Balotelli has been overrated since his ManCity days and possibly before then too. I remember when people were jumping on his dick during Euro 2012.
Zzonked-
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FCB wrote:Balotelli has been overrated since his ManCity days and possibly before then too. I remember when people were jumping on his dick during Euro 2012.
The thing is he was really good for his age at one point, but he's just not progressed since then. I think people took for granted the fact that he would have still have to improve and it wasn't a given. I remember watching two pundits talk about him while he was at City and one was insistent that he was City's Cantona in both attitude and ability.
I still think he has time to improve and I wouldn't write him off yet though. Age 24 now though, he needs to start backing it up in the next couple of years or it's too late.
Scott_LFC-
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Balotelli has had fuck all service, though. We've been so shit all over the pitch since Spurs and the only clear cut chance I remember him having since the Spurs game was that side-foot volley sitter against Everton, which Howard somehow, miraculously got the slightest touch to, to divert it up onto the bar. Apart from that, he's been restricted to long range efforts and shocking long balls aimed at his head.
The knee-jerk over Welbeck after this hat-trick is amusing though. Up until his hat-trick last night, he had been shocking, missing sitters all over the place. Now, all of sudden, he's a great signing.
Next week, when Chelsea absolutely cunt Arsenal, he'll be shit all over again.
The knee-jerk over Welbeck after this hat-trick is amusing though. Up until his hat-trick last night, he had been shocking, missing sitters all over the place. Now, all of sudden, he's a great signing.
Next week, when Chelsea absolutely cunt Arsenal, he'll be shit all over again.
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SBSP-
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He was MOTM against Villa.
Keyser Söze-
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Scott sounding like Arsenal fans when they talk about Giroud
Balotelli has been shit. Pure and simple. He has had "fuck all service" because he's been too shit to get into attacking positions (unlike Welbeck whose movement is world class). So the service has been there he's just not been around to take it.
Balotelli has been shit. Pure and simple. He has had "fuck all service" because he's been too shit to get into attacking positions (unlike Welbeck whose movement is world class). So the service has been there he's just not been around to take it.
Scott_LFC-
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Have you even been watching our games?
El_indian-
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I feel Mario needs a partner.
Scuba Steve-
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Er, Luigi?
SBSP-
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That was a too easy
El_indian-
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i set him up.
SBSP-
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Better service than anything Balo's gotten.
El_indian-
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well in lad.
Scott_LFC-
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El_indian wrote:I feel Mario needs a partner.
Agreed. And a good partner. The only game he's looked good in so far is the Spurs game, where he seemed to strike an immediate understanding with Sturridge.
Zzonked-
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Lets see what /u/vel has to say, does he need a partner?
El_indian-
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Scott_LFC wrote:El_indian wrote:I feel Mario needs a partner.
Agreed. And a good partner. The only game he's looked good in so far is the Spurs game, where he seemed to strike an immediate understanding with Sturridge.
Did he really? I just think that Sturridge's world class movement and pace will create a little more space for other players, and every player could do with a little more space.
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Keyser Söze-
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But I thought you said Balotelli wouldn't have a problem scoring goals while Sturridge was out injured?Scott_LFC wrote:El_indian wrote:I feel Mario needs a partner.
Agreed. And a good partner. The only game he's looked good in so far is the Spurs game, where he seemed to strike an immediate understanding with Sturridge.
Scott_LFC-
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Keyser Söze wrote:But I thought you said Balotelli wouldn't have a problem scoring goals while Sturridge was out injured?Scott_LFC wrote:
Agreed. And a good partner. The only game he's looked good in so far is the Spurs game, where he seemed to strike an immediate understanding with Sturridge.
Lol, I was wrong.
Scott_LFC-
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Also, whilst we're on the subject of Balotelli, has anyone else noticed how he's being targeted? Keeps getting nasty kicks in the shins/ankles, etc. It's like he can't get past anyone without being hacked down.
ResurrectionRooney-
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Scott_LFC wrote:Also, whilst we're on the subject of Balotelli, has anyone else noticed how he's being targeted? Keeps getting nasty kicks in the shins/ankles, etc. It's like he can't get past anyone without being hacked down.
Imagine targeting a player who is known to be hot tempered with nasty sly little digs to try and provoke a reaction. If a Liverpool player did that he'd probably be kicked out of the club.
Scott_LFC-
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They're not sly digs, though. They're actual fouls, that get pulled up as fouls by the ref.
Apart from that off the ball incident against Aston Villa, where their CB tripped Balotelli up.
Apart from that off the ball incident against Aston Villa, where their CB tripped Balotelli up.
ResurrectionRooney-
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Scott_LFC wrote:They're not sly digs, though. They're actual fouls, that get pulled up as fouls by the ref.
Apart from that off the ball incident against Aston Villa, where their CB tripped Balotelli up.
Biting, eye gouging, racial abuse, hair pulling etc. are all actual fouls as well. It happens to all known hotheaded players, some of the shit Barton got a couple of years ago (to the amusement of Shearer and co) was unbelievable. It's one of football's ways of punishing violent and reckless footballers and the clubs who sign them. There are benefits for these players as well to be fair, often they become completely overrated because of their presence in the public eye, gain a cu*t following, getting higher wages and sponsorship deals.
*l or n, your mileage may vary.
vel-
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this guy needs a cellmate for when he is arrested for crimes against humanity when he scores 70 goals in the Premier League YNWA xD xDZzonked wrote:Lets see what /u/vel has to say, does he need a partner?
The Zlatan-
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If RR was a banter courier he'd be Royal Mail 1st Class.
Zzonked-
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vel wrote:this guy needs a cellmate for when he is arrested for crimes against humanity when he scores 70 goals in the Premier League YNWA xD xDZzonked wrote:Lets see what /u/vel has to say, does he need a partner?
Keyser Söze-
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Balotelli 8 games 1 goals