APRIL!!!!

Yes. Going Home is approaching.

Two things i'm excited about:

1. On the 17th GOING TO WATCH THE TORONTO BLUE JAYS PLAY THE BOSTON RED SOX AT THE ROGERS CENTRE!!! AHHHHH Me very first baseball game!!
2. On the 28th, GOING TO WATCH TORONTO FC vs KANSAS CITY WIZARDS!!! Okay, i never thought my first live football match was going to be a Major League Soccer one. But whatever, its still a live football match.
   

I'm more excited about the baseball really.

Moving On.....

Today was a generally slow moving, sucky, boring, uneventful day. I woke up at 8am for whatever reason and spaced out while staring out the window for a while. It snowed overnight again. Isn't it supposed to be spring already? Guh.. Anyway, still felt abit depressed from the mid-week football matches. Yeah, people get depressed about stuff in real life, i get depressed over sports. Well, sports is real life right..? Whatever. I'm depressed, end of.

Football babbling alert

The week started out all right, was looking forward to Tuesday because I would be done with my 2nd final and then watch the Bayern-Milan match in peace. The final turned out way easier than I had anticipated, considering i didn't really REALLY study for this one. I was procrastinating all the way through the weekend, until Sunday Night, which was when i dutifully turned off my laptop and concentrated on the mountain of notes in front of me. So after the simple enough Communications final, I rushed back to my room to tune in to the game. It was a fantastic game!! Actually I was kinda worried about Mark "the one asshole to rule them all" Van Bommel's and Oliver " I just can't seem to let go and retire" Kahn's absences but I was excited that Michael Rensing and Andreas Ottl were gonna be filling in! I've never see them play before but Axe said that he'd been impressed by them everytime he watched them play..true enough, they were awesome replacements!!

Rensing was just absolute class. The save of the night has to be credited to his one handed close range reflex save from Ambrosini's header. And when he saved Gilardino's shot at point blank again, the look on Gilar's face was like "WTF?" but it was a cute WTF. Made me want to go awww. Andi Ottl was arguably the best player in the first half. Constantly threatened the Milan goal with his efforts from long range. And he's supposed to be a defensive midfielder! Well, that's one more dimension he has to him, compared to Owen Hargreaves. But I guess Hargreaves is the type who breaks up play and wins the ball for the attack. But isn't that what DMs are supposed to do? *scratches head* ahh..well, okay, he's an All out DM.

Daniel Van Buyten needs his own shrine built for him. After that ridiculous penalty decision by that Russian Referee, I was about to give up. WHY? WHYY is it always like that against Italian teams?? Then DVB equalized again in the 93rd minute!! And I was like COME OOOOONN!! It was fun watching Gattusso freak out at the end. I mean, his little bitchfit to the ref was so fuckin' laughable. I really dislike Gattusso..one minute he's acting like a tough guy, the next he's rolling around on the pitch like a wuss. *rolls eyes*

Some match trivia:

• Rummenigge actually complained about this ref before the match, incidentally, its the same guy who officiated the same match last season between these two teams in the last 16, where Bayern lost 4-1. Well, that penalty wasn't one at all, so for once, Karl Heinz opens his mouth for something useful.
  
• Rensing played in the first leg of last year's match up where they drew 1-1. Kahn played in the return leg and they lost 4-1!!!! SHITE!! History, please don't repeat yourself. I don't think they're gonna play Rense in the return leg.
  

The revelations of the night were obviously, Rensing, Ottl and Christian Lell. You could see that once Christian Lell (and Claudio Pizzaro) came on, the game totally changed. Lahmy and Schweini actually STARTED to play ball. Poldi was absolute shite in this game. So Willy Sagnol's injury is a good thing, Bayern says that Lell is gonna be his replacement for the rest of the season. Yay more german talent!! Will also be looking forward to Furstner and Hummels play in the future.

Oh, Dida is crap and Milan suck at set pieces.

Man Utd vs Roma

Well..what to say about this game..uhm.. I don't think its over for Man Utd yet. Before i start to get into the details, i must rant on one ginger haired Paul Aaron Scholes. SCHOLESY!!! Like WTF WERE YOU THINKING!!!!! Come on Man, you have too much experience at this level to make such stupid mistakes. The two yellows were for unnecessary, reckless tackles which honestly, you should have carried out in a cleaner, more efficient way. Argh. Now we're gonna miss a key player for the 2nd leg. Which ultimately decreases our chances of going through. Seriously, Scholes looks like such a harmless person, yet he's such a monster on the field. Is it the hair? There's this saying that red headed people are generally more hot tempered than others. Yis, i'm blaming the hair.

Roma were really outplaying Man Utd throughout the whole match. Even before we went down to 10 men. For some reason, we just cannot produce our Premiership form in Europe.

To more positive things, Ronaldo was just unbelievable. In the first half, he was awesome. In the second, he was just fantastic. Roma were practically shitting themselves when he got the ball. And the orchestration of the goal was just incredible. Ronaldo, please remain a redblood for the long run!

Rooney + Ronaldo = Class.

Speaking of Rooney, he finally scores in Europe after 3 long years. Does that mean you're gonna break your international goal scoring duck soon? The control of the ball and then shooting pass the Roma GK was just brilliant.

We got that away goal and at least its 11 vs 11 at OT. Must. remain. optimistic.

UEFA Cup rants: A tale of two German Clubs

God, yesterday was the main source of my depression.

Bayer Leverkusen vs Osasuna

*orders some tequila shots*

3-0. At home. My poor heart. Bayer have a poor record against Spanish clubs but i didn't expect the the score to be SO lopsided! This is like PSV at home to Liverpool. Well, i guess, like its mirror image in the champions league, this tie is effectively over. Can't see Bayer scoring 4 goals in Osasuna. Argh..what makes it more painful is that Leverkusen, playing on their day can beat ANYONE!!! But if you hurt them early, like Osasuna(scoring in the 1st minute FFS!!), they just get shell shocked and don't know how to hit back. *sighs*

Werder Bremen vs AK Alkmaar

0-0. Away. I think Bremen not getting an away goal might hurt them in the return leg. But they're strong in the Weserstadion so hopefully it'll be okay. They just have to make sure Alkmaar do not score in Bremen! Tie's still up for grabs.


Okay that was my usual footie rant/babbling.

Less than a month to go!! Yay!!


soliloquy88 at 3:15 AM | Comment

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