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Anyway

Barca v Bayern
Madrid v Juventus

Please



                            

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LurkerJ said:

and it's really a dumb expression. How about "defending" lol


Parking the bus is an extreme form of defending. It's when even your attackers are defending. Funnily enough the term is now used in FIFA. You can select "park the bus" "ultra defending" "defending" "balanced" "attacking" "ultra attacking"



Carl2291 said:
That Barca v Chelsea game was fantastic.


Fuck that game. :'''''''''''''(

 

What sucks the most is that Barca had a missed penalty, plenty of crossbars and so many close chances. They were so fucking unlucky and Chelsea was so fucking lucky. I recognize that defending is a tactic and I don't blame Chelsea for using it against us, but holy shit they were so lucky that night.



What are the life expectancies of Juventus going forward?



KyleeStrutt said:
What are the life expectancies of Juventus going forward?

Who knows.. i think we'll all say that they have no chance but i haven't seen them playing to give a good opinion on them..  I think most of us don't follow italian football cause they have gone down hill a lot since 2010.. is this year a fluke that they are performing so well? or is italy really back?



 

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Starting to feel like Madrid is gonna win it 2 years in a row :(



LurkerJ said:

and it's really a dumb expression. How about "defending" lol

Because a team who is parking the bus gives up on playing static offense. If somehow they end in possession of the ball and the other team had time to position itself chances are it's gonna end up in a long pass to not lose their defensive stance.

They're defending not to get the ball quickly to keep attacking, but to stall the other team. They pretty much rely on mistakes of the other team (or the referee) to score.

This tactic is usually coupled with repetitive fouls to cancel any momentum the other team may build and piss off the other players, plus time-losing tricks if they score, depriving the mach of any fludity in the process.



Bwahahaha

Best possible result is that. A Barca vs Bayern final would have been focussing non-stop on Leo and Pep. Keep that shit out of the final.



                            

Carl2291 said:
Bwahahaha

Best possible result is that. A Barca vs Bayern final would have been focussing non-stop on Leo and Pep. Keep that shit out of the final.

Now we may get a Messi vs Ronaldo: GOTY edition.



Talal said:
Starting to feel like Madrid is gonna win it 2 years in a row :(

Yup.