What on earth is going on here?Rafael da Silva | 2010-14 Performances
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What on earth is going on here?People getting pissed off with a defensively shit fullback?
Give it a rest Pete.
Classic bollockarama - wannabe winger at fullback doesn't do the job and fecks his team up. Exit.
I almost wish we had Santos, Jenkinson or Sagna.
No harm in admitting Rafael lost Ronaldo.
His performance 11 vs. 11 was flawless.
To lose Cristiano Ronaldo once with your team under severe pressure is no great blot on your copybook.
Pete's just losing it as Arsenal slip further into irrelevancy and the fact he's had to suffer shit full-backs and defending for about 7 years now.
If the Arsenal Spurs horror show is anything to go by, Rafael knows the basics of defending better than any Arsenal defender.
His performance 11 vs. 11 was flawless.
To lose Cristiano Ronaldo once with your team under severe pressure is no great blot on your copybook.
Pete's just losing it as Arsenal slip further into irrelevancy and the fact he's had to suffer shit full-backs and defending for about 7 years now.
If the Arsenal Spurs horror show is anything to go by, Rafael knows the basics of defending better than any Arsenal defender.
Hear hear. It was a great move by Real and Ronaldo showed great anticipation to beat his man. Simple as that.
'Flawless' my hairy arse. He had already tried to dribble in the box and lost the ball. Also gave away a pen 10 v 11. Smell the fanny.
Everytime I try to take a pete post seriously he says Rafael gave away a penalty...not quite sure pete gets how football works.
Simply reading Pete's posts makes it impossible to take him seriously.
Yeah for those in Brazilian carnival land (see Anderson as well). Wake up and smell the fanny.
You wake up.
Rafael knows the basics of defending better than any Arsenal defender.
I've never seen him caught out as bad this season as your back four at Spurs.
Reacting a millisecond late to Ronaldo doesn't even come close to the incompetence on display at Arsenal.
And other than Jenkinson, yours are supposed to be seasoned pros. Rafael is 22.
I remember when pete called Rafael slow
Big 3 games in the last 12 months :
- fecked Brazil in Olympic final (even the Brasil FA said he was shit)
- probably gave worst display of any defender in living memory in the Bernabeu
- lost Ronaldo for winning goal (and gave away pen)
Steamin' fanny.
- fecked Brazil in Olympic final (even the Brasil FA said he was shit)
- probably gave worst display of any defender in living memory in the Bernabeu
- lost Ronaldo for winning goal (and gave away pen)
Steamin' fanny.
Pardon my ignorance (and laziness to go back through this thread), but what is this "He gave away a penalty" bullshit about?
The handball from Higuain's header which everyone at the time thought was a great defensive header. If it's not given it's great defending in theory but pete reckons it was given.
Worst display of any defender in living memory?! Hah!
WUM, and no mistake. Get yourself a hobby, Pete.
WUM, and no mistake. Get yourself a hobby, Pete.
The funny thing is I actually know an Arsenal fan at Uni who spouts the same shite as pete.
You know you're desperately scraping the barrel when you have to bring up games from the summer in a semi-junior tournament like the Olympics, and another game against the most expensively assembled attack of all-time.
Meanwhile, your defenders get fecked over by Aaron Lennon in clusterfeck scenes that would make Titus Bramble blush.
I know who I'd rather have.
It's tough times for them right now tbf.
I just love how the final of a crap semi junior tournament is now a bigger game than Liverpool v Manchester United at Anfield
Possibly a touch over-exaggerated but he was absolute dogshit as Ronaldo, Ozil and even Contrao breezed past him.
I just love how the final of a crap semi junior tournament is now a bigger game than Liverpool v Manchester United at Anfield
Oh man, what a goal to score at Anfield
And that corker against QPR... I just can't wait to see how he'll develop
pete on a wind up is always entertaining.
He had a slightly sketchy first half, fine. Second half he did well, so I think you'll have to dig deeper for contenders for the "shittiest display at the Bernabeu" award.
You're one of the smartest posters on the forum (absolutely brilliant at slicing up scousers) but even you can't polish this turd.
You know you're desperately scraping the barrel when you have to bring up games from the summer in a semi-junior tournament like the Olympics, and another game against the most expensively assembled attack of all-time.
Third-most numerous poster on this particular thread now, is Pete.
feck. I'll have to point out how shit he is until the carnival crew get it.
Really? I am finding it rather tedious
he is just trying to deflect all the attention from Arsenal's defence.
God....I still wince at the thought of those Spurs goals.
Pete, you missed Reading away when he was part of the cartoon cavalcade crew. Give it a rest he's better than all your full backs, which is actually not a high praise. Are they any better young right backs out there ? The answer is clearly no.
Pete's the guy standing in his garden full of dog shit and overgrown grass looking at ours and pointing out our flowers have grown 1 degree off the correct angle.
Media bullshit - we've conceded one more than you in the PL this season.
Obrigado.
You're wrong as hell here though.
Your own slicing up would be better placed in the Anderson thread.
These things tend to get overlooked when you're scoring a shitload down the other end, of which Rafael, and the other defenders, have played a major part, too.
1. He's the attacker and obviously has the advantage here in this situation, if you don't understand that, you don't understand football.
2. 3 yards? really? He gains about 0.5 yards max. See the gif below. You really have misunderstood if you think he gains 3 fecking yards on him. The entire run is only about 6 yards ffs.
Ronaldo is faster than Rafael and the ball has about 2 more yards to travel after Rafael before it reaches Ronaldo, both of these things lead to that 0.5 yards.
Seriously, the idea that Rafael is at fault here is one of the most stupid things I've ever seen on this place.
Brwned, ffs... Rafael has to wait to see what Ronaldo does before making his move. Wow man, just fecking wow!! Gary Neville would've been completely fecked.
IAR is spot on here, as are several others. Most notably, pete is not close to getting this one right.
Looking at this gif again, it's easy to pick apart everyone's role that lead to the Ronaldo score:
Vidic "should not" have gotten beaten to allow the cross.
De Gea "should not" have been glued to the post and thus been out of reach to manage the low cross.
Rafael "should not" have got beaten on the back door.
But in truth Real put together a fantastic play in the box that involved high pace and thread the needle passes. Even Ronaldo's "shot" was crazy stuff, considering the speed at which the ball came, the use of the outside of his right boot and the sliver of angle to get the ball through. That was a "world class" goal every way you look at it. It would be madness to lay that on Rafael.
Had Arsenal been "defending" on the day I don't see how they could have kept Real to under 4 four goals. Real were that good. We just weren't good enough late in the game, unfortunately being down to 10 men.
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