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#3,077
#3,077
volball625 said:
**** being bitter. Atleast you were squarely beaten in the final last year. Granted, we have no one to blame but ourselves. But hitting the woodwork five times, missing a penalty, Chelsea scoring basically on their only three chances, finishing so poorly, Terry being sent off like a jackass. Those are a lot of tough pills to swallow.

De Matteo rolled the dice and decided to defend for the entirety of both legs and hit sparingly on the counter attack. It has made a lot of teams look absolutely idiotic and made Mourinho look like a dumbs last season, but a genius the season before that. I would say Chelsea were great goalkeeping and four posts away from being embarrassed.
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Sounds like couda wouda shouda to me... Again, we will give you the pass for being bitter. Time cures all.
 
#3,078
#3,078
milohimself said:
Wha huh? I don't choose the Cowboys because everybody and their momma on Madden uses Peyton and Brady, and the Cowboys secondary is godawful and I'm not good enough at it to overcome that.

But, more important than all of that, it's a damn game. You're getting all worked up over some information etched into a plastic disk.
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Exactly, its not very fun trying to play with Atletico or Köln when everyone else is Barca, Man U and the likes.
 
#3,079
#3,079
slh1089 said:
Sounds like couda wouda shouda to me... Again, we will give you the pass for being bitter. Time cures all.
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Don't get me wrong, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Creating that many great chances and not burying them is squarely on us.

Like I said, Chelsea's strategy normally gets teams a 4-0 loss pretty easily, but we just couldn't finish our chances and Chelsea finished theirs.
 
#3,080
#3,080
volball625 said:
lol at the Arsenal fan who will only play with Barcelona on FIFA
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As I recall it, when I started beating you down you stopped playing me and haven't since... hmmm

Also, I will add that I didn't always hate Barcelona. Their antics have made me hate them. I would hate to be around one of them if they stubbed their toe. I'd probably go to jail for assault.
 
#3,081
#3,081
volball625 said:
Don't get me wrong, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Creating that many great chances and not burying them is squarely on us.

Like I said, Chelsea's strategy normally gets teams a 4-0 loss pretty easily, but we just couldn't finish our chances and Chelsea finished theirs.
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Fair assessment
 
#3,082
#3,082
TylerD said:
As I recall it, when I started beating you down you stopped playing me and haven't since... hmmm

Also, I will add that I didn't always hate Barcelona. Their antics have made me hate them. I would hate to be around one of them if they stubbed their toe. I'd probably go to jail for assault.
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Do yall play on PS3 or xbox?
 
#3,085
#3,085
TylerD said:
As I recall it, when I started beating you down you stopped playing me and haven't since... hmmm

Also, I will add that I didn't always hate Barcelona. Their antics have made me hate them. I would hate to be around one of them if they stubbed their toe. I'd probably go to jail for assault.
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I believe I picked Arsenal and you literally would not pick anyone else. You are no better than people who choose BArcelona every game in quick matches regardless of who the other person chooses.

I think i tried to play you a couple of times and something prevented us from playing. I haven't played FIFA in months though, we will have to play sometime soon.
 
#3,086
#3,086
volball625 said:
Don't get me wrong, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Creating that many great chances and not burying them is squarely on us.

Like I said, Chelsea's strategy normally gets teams a 4-0 loss pretty easily, but we just couldn't finish our chances and Chelsea finished theirs.
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To be fair, you are right if you are playing Spanish teams. English teams don't play defense on the ground and it makes a difference. Messi couldn't get by them because they wouldn't go to ground, and they defended as a unit.

The only one that went to ground was Drogba, but he does that all the time offense or defense.
 
#3,087
#3,087
volball625 said:
I believe I picked Arsenal and you literally would not pick anyone else. You are no better than people who choose BArcelona every game in quick matches regardless of who the other person chooses.

I think i tried to play you a couple of times and something prevented us from playing. I haven't played FIFA in months though, we will have to play sometime soon.
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Those are strong words for someone that has a losing record to me, and only played me a few times over a year ago.

Pick it back up and when you think you're ready let me know. I'll let you post the results.
 
#3,089
#3,089
TylerD said:
Those are strong words for someone that has a losing record to me, and only played me a few times over a year ago.

Pick it back up and when you think you're ready let me know. I'll let you post the results.
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Why does my record prevent me from saying that you will only play with the best team in the game, a team you supposedly hate?
 
#3,091
#3,091
volball625 said:
**** being bitter. Atleast you were squarely beaten in the final last year. Granted, we have no one to blame but ourselves. But hitting the woodwork five times, missing a penalty, Chelsea scoring basically on their only three chances, finishing so poorly, Terry being sent off like a jackass. Those are a lot of tough pills to swallow.

De Matteo rolled the dice and decided to defend for the entirety of both legs and hit sparingly on the counter attack. It has made a lot of teams look absolutely idiotic and made Mourinho look like a dumbs last season, but a genius the season before that. I would say Chelsea were great goalkeeping and four posts away from being embarrassed.
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I don't know how much he really had to do with today's game in particular, but you have to give him credit for what he's done since taking over Chelsea. He's seemed to push all the right buttons. That team was dead in a ditch on the side of the road 2 months ago, and now they're in the CL final. I don't think anyone can honestly say they saw that coming at the end of February.
 
#3,092
#3,092
Cards should be wiped before the title game. If Bayern is fortunate enough to go through I want to play full strength squad against full strength squad.
 
#3,094
#3,094
volball625 said:
Why does my record prevent me from saying that you will only play with the best team in the game, a team you supposedly hate?
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It's the lack of matches and the fact that it has been forever that we played that prevents your opinion from being valid. I do hate Barca, but as explained earlier I didn't always. It wasn't until I really started watching their games that I realized they weren't the most exciting team in the world, but more like the most pathetic. You can play the most "attractive" football all day, but it doesn't make up for the fact like 40% of the game is them rolling around on the ground and running to the ref asking for a card.

Puyol, who should be one of your toughest players, ran away holding his face 4 times today because Kalou barely touched his face when they were going up for a 50/50 ball. That crap loses my respect no matter who it is.
 
#3,095
#3,095
slh1089 said:
Exactly, its not very fun trying to play with Atletico or Köln when everyone else is Barca, Man U and the likes.
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Sometimes the game doesn't do a good job of matching teams. I think its because not many players use teams lower than a 4 1/2.

Me, Im a Chelsea fan, so I play over half my games with them. I almost always play Barca, Real, Man U, or City. Every now and then I see a Liverpool, Arsenal, Milan, or Inter. Oh and Brazil is a big one. Luckily, I haven't see the Spanish national team but a handful of times.

I do think that Barca/Real/Spanish national team are unfair advantages, but a lot of people that use them suck. Rarely do I get beaten badly by those sides.
 
#3,096
#3,096
bigtime said:
Sometimes the game doesn't do a good job of matching teams. I think its because not many players use teams lower than a 4 1/2.

Me, Im a Chelsea fan, so I play over half my games with them. I almost always play Barca, Real, Man U, or City. Every now and then I see a Liverpool, Arsenal, Milan, or Inter. Oh and Brazil is a big one. Luckily, I haven't see the Spanish national team but a handful of times.

I do think that Barca/Real/Spanish national team are unfair advantages, but a lot of people that use them suck. Rarely do I get beaten badly by those sides.
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Agreed, every time I use a 4 star team I get matched up against the Spanish National team or someone similar. I just stopped playing online because of it.
 
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#3,097
#3,097
^What formation / players do you use with Chelsea? I've used a 4-1-2-1-2 (with Mata and Malouda in the mid for speed) since the beginning and have had pretty much an even record the whole time.
 
#3,098
#3,098
TylerD said:
It's the lack of matches and the fact that it has been forever that we played that prevents your opinion from being valid. I do hate Barca, but as explained earlier I didn't always. It wasn't until I really started watching their games that I realized they weren't the most exciting team in the world, but more like the most pathetic. You can play the most "attractive" football all day, but it doesn't make up for the fact like 40% of the game is them rolling around on the ground and running to the ref asking for a card.

Puyol, who should be one of your toughest players, ran away holding his face 4 times today because Kalou barely touched his face when they were going up for a 50/50 ball. That crap loses my respect no matter who it is.
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I mean I certainly don't like that our players dive and exaggerate fouls like they do. To put my own homer spin on it, so many teams have taken the approach the past few years to ugly up the great and try to disrupt any flow. And while many of our dives are dramatic, teams do tend to take pretty hard challenges that too often go unnoticed.
 
#3,099
#3,099
TylerD said:
You can play the most "attractive" football all day, but it doesn't make up for the fact like 40% of the game is them rolling around on the ground and running to the ref asking for a card.

Puyol, who should be one of your toughest players, ran away holding his face 4 times today because Kalou barely touched his face when they were going up for a 50/50 ball. That crap loses my respect no matter who it is.
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Clearly you only watch Barca when they play Real Madrid, because that's the only time they resort to those tactics.
 
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