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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
ha ha... well maybe not exactly "sloppy" but... i can't explain-- seemed like "lots of muscle" or something. in bundesliga games there is a lot of speed and physicality, but with more... precision? less wrangling? not sure. this is different. it was awesome though! honestly, i enjoyed it. a different style from what i'm used to see but no less entertaining. and seeing swansea really pressure for a goal during the 10-15 minutes they managed to dominate with 10 men was awesome--i thought they'd sit back & defend.
i didn't watch the 1st half so i didn't have a full appreciation unfortunately. sakho was really dominant though. for me, a total stranger to these teams, with no background or understanding of who was who, it was like watching "sakho & company" vs. swansea.
btw, wasn't carroll a loan from.... liverpool i think?
anyway, good match & congrats again!
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sorry to hear about agüero's injury. rome are probably ecstatic with the news. i wonder who pep will line up vs. cska.
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Carroll started as a loan from Liverpool but WH bought him in the end. To be honest he's been a disaster since then, out with injury far more than anything else, and dictating the way we played even when he was out, because Sam had built the entire team around him. Sakho was brought in to address that and it's worked brilliantly so far.
The match itself wasn't a classic but it did I suppose represent some of the intensity and physicality that you get at the lower levels of the Prem, where that 'Any Given Sunday' spirit causes regular upsets. To be honest, I don't think anyone looking for the 'best' football would follow the Prem. It's probably better suited to those who like the whole David v Goliath thing, and, in that sense, it's lesser known managers like Allardyce or Pardew, rather than say Mourinho or Pellegrini or Wenger, that arguably represent its real uniqueness.