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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2012 18:39:18 GMT
Lew - we'd go through on number of away goals scored (Valencia scored 1, we'd have scored 2) Donks - I'd much rather us go down in a blaze of glory after giving it a bloody good go rather than get that close. I'm as proud as punch of the lads getting this far, just one last, all out 90 minutes of madness is what I want, not a whimpering draw Infact, I'd rather us lose 5-0 then get so bloody close that it hurts by getting a score draw. Like I said, I'm massively proud that we've got this far, they've far exceeded expectations already Bit like the final last season. It was so fucking close, it hurt
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Feb 20, 2012 19:04:12 GMT
Lew - we'd go through on number of away goals scored (Valencia scored 1, we'd have scored 2) Donks - I'd much rather us go down in a blaze of glory after giving it a bloody good go rather than get that close. I'm as proud as punch of the lads getting this far, just one last, all out 90 minutes of madness is what I want, not a whimpering draw Infact, I'd rather us lose 5-0 then get so bloody close that it hurts by getting a score draw. Like I said, I'm massively proud that we've got this far, they've far exceeded expectations already Bit like the final last season. It was so fucking close, it hurt Exactly If we're going to go out, let's go out in style. Maybe boot a few of the diving, paella scoffing bastards off the pitch
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Post by Dharma Bum on Feb 20, 2012 19:07:44 GMT
"...Dean Whitehead, not booked for a throat-high, studs up challenge"
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Feb 20, 2012 19:08:40 GMT
"...Dean Whitehead, not booked for a throat-high, studs up challenge" On Tino Costa, hopefully
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Post by WineDelilah on Feb 20, 2012 19:20:13 GMT
Just read on interweb that Ever Banega, Valencia, has broken his foot...He omitted to put the handbrake when filling his car with petrol and it rolled backwards over his foot...I know it's not funny but... ;D
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Post by Ninjadmin on Feb 20, 2012 19:34:38 GMT
Just read on interweb that Ever Banega, Valencia, has broken his foot...He omitted to put the handbrake when filling his car with petrol and it rolled backwards over his foot...I know it's not funny but... ;D The paramedics had penciled him in for facial surgery after he spent the immediate time after the accident rolling around on the floor holding his face, he told the paramedics that the car had used its elbow.
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Post by PoisonedMonkey on Feb 20, 2012 21:20:53 GMT
Valencia will storm into a 4-0 lead then the game will be abandoned because of snow just before half time.
Stoke win the replay 2-0
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Post by The Swahili Bastardizers on Feb 20, 2012 21:45:57 GMT
Ryan Shawcross @rshawcross87 Looking forward to playing at the Mestalla Thursday! We will be giving it our all. Thanks for warming up our 'championship' players Crawley.
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Post by jamlander on Feb 20, 2012 21:52:58 GMT
Did they rest their players against Barca in readiness for El Classico
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Post by PickSCFC on Feb 20, 2012 22:56:16 GMT
All me fucking mates are off to Valencia tomorrow, 4 days of Beer more Beer and Stoke 5 Euros for 5 bottles of Amstel on Thursday morning Excellent Where you found those prices?
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Feb 20, 2012 23:17:05 GMT
5 Euros for 5 bottles of Amstel on Thursday morning Excellent Where you found those prices? Union Jack bar in Benidorm
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Post by Dharma Bum on Feb 20, 2012 23:20:28 GMT
Soaking up the Spanish culture, eh?
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Post by SuperRickyFuller on Feb 20, 2012 23:40:01 GMT
Soaking up the Spanish culture, eh? Well, yeah
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Post by Dharma Bum on Feb 20, 2012 23:43:20 GMT
Valencia are shit. Play Ric in the Messi role and we'll put 10 past 'em. My team: Begovic Wilkinson-Huth-Shawcross-Woodgate-Wilson/Collins/Upson Pennant-Whitehead-Etherington Jones/Jerome Fuller (TP can have 3 centre backs, to sit back and sacrifice the CM midfield, as long as he plays the strikers with pace, physicality and the ability to hold a punt up.) Probable team: Begovic Wilkinson-Woodgate-Upson-Huth-Collins Shotton-Delap-Diao-Walters
Jones
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Post by aworldofmyown on Feb 21, 2012 8:44:35 GMT
1 more sleep
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Post by The Swahili Bastardizers on Feb 21, 2012 16:44:41 GMT
You did not have to read the respectful match programme notes of home manager Tony Pulis to appreciate the stature of last Thursday night's visitors to Stoke City FC – a simple glance around the directors' box was reminder enough of some of Valencia CF's past glories. Rafael Benítez, the coach who led Valencia to the 2004 UEFA Cup along with two Liga titles, was there, picked up by the TV cameras making notes on his iPad. So too was Gaizka Mendieta, midfield star of the Blanquinegros side that reached successive UEFA Champions League finals in 2000 and 2001. "One of the genuinely big names in European football" was how Pulis described the team who duly marked their 100th appearance in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League by ending Stoke's unbeaten home record in continental competition to leave the Premier League side with a mountain to climb in Thursday's round of 32 second leg at Mestalla. It was a result that gave Valencia defender Ángel Dealbert hope of a long run in the UEFA Europa League for a team who have posted only two quarter-final appearances in Europe's major club competitions since that 2004 triumph under Benítez. Yet he knows nothing can be taken for granted – certainly not at a club which this week lost a key midfielder, Éver Banega, to a leg fracture sustained at a petrol station. "For us it is a very important competition," he told UEFA.com. "We've come from the Champions League, we got knocked out there and we want to go as far as possible. For us it is very important, but we know there are some big teams in it so it won't be easy, and we have to eliminate Stoke first. It will be difficult. "Stoke are very strong from set pieces, very physical and we can't take anything for granted"." Besides the gulf in experience between Valencia and a Stoke side competing in Europe for the first time since 1974, there is also an obvious contrast in styles. Valencia goalkeeper Vicente Guaita warned that his team must "be strong from the start in the second leg", having almost been caught out early on at Stoke, whose forward Jonathan Walters came close to scoring twice. Guaita added: ""We know the way they play is totally different from how we play but you have to adjust to everything and not just the Spanish way" when you're at a club like Valencia playing in Europe. At first it was difficult, they get the ball right into the goalmouth, and they had a long throw they nearly scored from but it got easier." Valencia watched plenty of videos of Stoke's aerial approach before the first leg but on home soil, Dealbert's target is to "try to finish them off playing our own football". Individuals like Peter Crouch and Jermaine Pennant may have experience of facing the Liga's finest, but as a club Stoke have never played in Spain before and while their own ground can be one of the Premier League's most intimidating, they might get a taste of their own medicine at Mestalla. "It is 50,000 people, a big ground, a big pitch, the fans really get behind you," Dealbert said. "I think it will be a good game and let's see who gets through." www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/season=2012/matches/round=2000273/match=2007440/prematch/preview/index.html?rss=1756237+Valencia+mix+ambition+with+caution+as+Stoke+visit
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Post by The Swahili Bastardizers on Feb 21, 2012 16:49:04 GMT
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Post by aworldofmyown on Feb 21, 2012 16:53:07 GMT
We shouldn't really be playing them, they should have just been knocked out of the CL and that was it, along with the Mancs and all the other 3rd place losers Fook UEFA
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Post by The Swahili Bastardizers on Feb 21, 2012 16:55:39 GMT
We shouldn't really be playing them, they should have just been knocked out of the CL and that was it, along with the Mancs and all the other 3rd place losers Fook UEFA I absolutely 100% agree with you... Though it doesn't hold much water with those who say we're there by losing in a Cup Final..
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Post by Chairman Meow on Feb 22, 2012 11:19:56 GMT
Fucking wish I was out there man I know, it genuinely stings Especially because firstly, I experienced it in Istanbul, and secondly, I know a few people going who are gloryhunters. One girl will have been to 3 matches in a year tomorrow. The FA cup semi-final, the FA cup final, and Valencia It's not even as if she doesn't go many because she can't afford it, she doesn't give a fuck at all normally, then much in the same way everybody knows about and supports the England rugby team at the WC, she becomes a Stoke fan. Rant, not over, just suspended.
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