Michel Bastos Scored The Only Goal Against A Schalke Side Who Look Awful At The Back.
Claude Puel's men hosted desperate Bundesliga side Schalke with three points and a positive
Champions League start in sight. Unfortunately for Magath, another pointless start has been the
order of the day after a hard fought match in France.
The Ligue 1 or Ligue Un is more competitive than a few years ago, and that can only be good for
the game. But is it open enough for an unfancied team like Lille to win it all?
Professional Football Players Observatory (PFPO) and RunningBall developed a
new statistics model for football and the model helped predict the probable national champions in
Europe's top five leagues in 2011.
Just view the images of Laurent Battles at the 61st minute of yesterday's game, knocked out by a
full blow free kick from Michel Bastos and you'll imagine how I felt after this derby. I needed to
sleep (or at least try) over the game to sort out my thoughts. Today I gave up trying to make a
synthesis and decided to share the four facets of this game that are still revolving in my
post-game thoughts.
There has to be someone on this planet willing to bankroll a competition with Michel Bastos,
Taye Taiwo and John Arne Riise. Please?
[101gg]
- Radiohead play a 4-5-1. (EPL Talk)
- Stuart Atwell gets a cartoon. (A Football Report)
- Goalless galacticos. (SoccerLens)
- Standing up for anti-football.
