Saturday, November 30, 2024

Van Der Sar praying for Barcelona win

Edwin van der Sar hit out at Chelsea for their defensive approach in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

The Premier League representatives recorded a 1-0 victory over the Catalans at Stamford Bridge, and Van der Sar said that Barca should beat Chelsea in the return ‘for the sake of football’.

“For the sake of the game and for football in general, I hope Barcelona win at Camp Nou,” the former Manchester United great was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

“I love teams who attack. Chelsea did nothing but defend with nine players and kept lots of players in the middle of the park.

“But this tie could have been over by now. I expected Chelsea to lose by a big figure. And it could still have been 5-1 to Barca in the end. Chelsea had just one shot at goal – and they scored.”

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  • Jamo

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    Up barca fath man’d

  • sammy xeoul yyinzz baba

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    okay lets get this straight Edwin van Der sar is right by saying that Chelsea just go defensive even though they spend unimaginable sums of money in buying superstars e.g Mata teams should play to entertain their spectators for example Barcelona
    But on the other hand he is wrong by saying indirectly that chelsea is not worthy of winning trophies because of their defensive formation.
    i am a man u fan but i still think that strategies are adopted for teams to be successful but chelsea should adopt attacking formations

  • Gilsen

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    Edwin Van der Sar is right, teams should play for the sake to entertain the watcher not their bosses. If Chelsea wants to acquire more respect; they should start by dropping that hideous defensive strategy. Such strategy even if is effective, it is not fun to watch, to follow, and destroys the sport entirely!

  • tayeman

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    why was barcilona playing? and why was chelsea playing?…they have the same target to score goals and to win the trophy..is nt it?..how wil they score goals?..the mannager care z way how they score..not how u play but how u score…chelsea scored but barsa cant …gud bye barsa..a chelsea fan…

  • Aziki

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    If u like play the game like angels, if u cannot score, u have’nt start anything. Barca played but chelsea win’s why are you complaining.

  • johnspart

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    for the sake of football,mrs edwin not mr edwin is mad,football is 11 against 11 ,so use your best tactics to win ,even if it means that u are going to defend from first minute to the last minute of the game ,just do it.

  • fillix

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    edwin edwin edwin barca ha so many goal attempts i think 79 or so but no goal poor weak chelsea only needed 1 chance nd they made it count lol fairwell van der sar.

  • livinho levi obianika chijindu zion the great

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    hahahahahahhhahaahahahahahahhahahahahaahaa,i suddenly increase the degree of my laughter why reading the comments of jealous fan.football embodies the pleasure of entertainment but we have to give it the lie,football at this contemporary time is nolonger seen as a real entertainment but a trasure that is priceless,the best aspect of football at this prevalent time is to win and not to entertain like barca s.i am a juventus fan.but truths are always unpalatable.lets live by it.

  • Haokip

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    Ijoba i don’t expect everyone to play the same but i expect everyone to play football and not to camp inside their penalty box for 90 minutes at least from a team who are through to the semi final of ucl.
    I know you mentioned arsenal because they played great football but do not win any trophies but ignores teams like barca who completely dominate every competition they played in and won the ucl 3 times in the last 6/7 years…the only reason why arsenal did not win any trophy is because they lose their best players every season due to lack of financial resource but they still play great football and managed to finish in top 4 every season, on the other hand chelsea have already spent about 1.2 billions….and for what????….to defend against 10 men benfica. And what style does chelsea play??? I guess….defend from the first minute and hope that they can get a corner somehow and maybe drogba can head the coner towards the goal and gets deflected luckily in the goal or get lucky in the penalty shootout

  • KazWorld

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    Van der Sar should just keep quiet… no team in the english legue today can play an attacking game against Barca without lossing… its Barca’s prime time’!
    And Man-U did the same in both games when they played Barcelona, until Paul Scores scoerd from a long distance to end it one zero and Van der Sar was in the team at that time. He should know we have records… although am BARCELONA, I don’t only watch Li Liga

  • Vusi

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    Unfortunate Mr. Edwin We won the champions league. No wonder the dutch football is interesting but the world cup is not at your cabinet. The opposition strategise according to your strength and look at themselves which strategy to counter your own.

  • Ijoba

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    Haokip, are u expecting all the teams in the world to play the same pattern? Look at Arsenal that plays beautiful football, for like 7 to 8 yrs nw, what can they use to show for their beautiful football. My dear, just shut up ur mouth & let every team stick to their style of play. Mcheew. Van dar Sar, just shut up

  • haokip

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    @lamhi,cloud,isifine,kunle and koyla,..you people should stopped watching football matches and instead checked out only the final results because thats all you care and kunle should stick to watching muhammed ali. the fact people were expecting a great game of football fitting for the ocassion that is the ucl semi-final and were ruined by the negetive approach of chelsea does not do any justice to all football lovers all around the world

  • haokip

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    the way chelsea played in the ucl semifinal was no great tactic at all. it was just a simple case of defending at all cost without any other plans or ideas.They should learn a lesson from the way bayern played against real madrid who are considered better than barca this season and thats how a champions semi-final should be played. i’m sure chelsea would played the same kind of football if they had faced madrid

  • chykln

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    d best form of defence is to atack n d bestform of atack is to defend, das wat chelsea did, tink haters lyk edwin r jus spilin dia anguishd ass jus bcus d blues did wat dy nd many teams cudnt do, wat gud is it, if u scor ten n conceed 12 tru counter atack, if chelsea dint atack lyk dy said how com dy got goalssssss…, cnt rmber any barca player scorin an own goal, haters….

  • rNzn

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    BarCA CANT BEAT CHELSEA …thAT WAZ THE FAct.. IN LAST UCL GAME.. ThaTS NoT CALLEd diRTY FOotbAL ..thATS CalLEd FoOTBalL WId taCTICS. I am cHELSEA FAN AND I AM PRoUD ABoUt chELSEA S WIn OveR BaRCa.

  • Barca4life

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    That match btwn chelsea n barca was so shameful if dats d toll modern football is moving to then football will soon becum a mega boring game hw can almost all players suddenly become defensive, am sure even chelsea n their fans though the winning(luck anyway) are never proud of those games n wouldnt enjoy watchn it in dvd sometim in d future. Barca will remain d best for a longer time.

  • don

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    @lamhi,cloud,isifine,kunle and koyla gimme 1answr r u as good as van der sar and have u seen barca or chelsea or any other great club from a goal post attacking towards u?? No No No u r nutts and anti barca and anti football people, that’s for sure. now ask me i’ve ever seen the game of football in the pathetic manner was both the legs btween barca and chelse this seasn. hey tell me now that crowding d pitch in such dirty manner lets u none other than proven loosers and orthodox nu comers trying to gt some how something outta that, and some body up there said that football is all bout scoring he surely is some cricket or some i dont know what player and edvin van der sar wa sthe worlds best keeper i’ve seen and he is surely true with his opinion. i agree with u dear Edvin this cheap people want understand your wordings, and i urge u to always give such real opinions which true fans will admire for wure. thanx

  • Kola

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    Football is a game of tactics.always use a tactics to supress the game pattern of your opponent.i believe that is gud football.van der should stop complaining.

  • Kunle

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    That is his own opinion. The great Muhammed Alli became champion by defending while he allows his opponent to attack and then pick them out on a counter attack. Retire well…

  • isifine

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    Van der sar is crying becuase Chelsea always win him and he could not understand how. If defense is anti football, then goal keepers like Van der sar are not needed for the interest of the game. Yes, Van der sar’s only duty in the feild of play is to stop goals which he was never able to achieve against Chelsea or Baca and now Chelsea put extra men to help Peter Check and he is crying. Maybe he is crying that Sir Alex could not give him extra men during his playing time. Otherwise, he should return all the salaries he erned while killing the beuatiful as a man who stops teams from scoring goals or maybe he should write a new rules for the game?

  • cloud

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    .. no matter how poorly Chelsea played, one fact still remains, they won and that’s all that matters. Van der Sar is just sour graping that his team failed big time in the UCL this year.

  • lamhi

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    Fooall is all about points at the end of the day the end results on the score board matters.

  • oybek

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    I am delighted to know that there are people around who watch football for the sake of this great game and NOT for Big Names, Clubs with Big Pockets and Arrogant Players and Coaches ( Real Madrid is a leader). Most reasonable Chelsea and RM fans would admit that Barca showed the greatest ever game in both of recent matches, which made the games more entertaining and enjoyable and Barca also deserved to win. We all should feel lucky to be watching such a great team play. We never know if there will be another team like Barca given the number of clubs and fans in favor of defensive and ugly football is skyrocketing.

  • oybek

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    I am delighted to know that there are people around who watch football for the sake of this great game and NOT for Big Names, Clubs with Big Pockets and Arrogant Players and Coaches ( Real Madrid is a leader). Most reasonable Chelsea and RM fans would admit that Barca showed the greatest ever game in both of recent matches, which made the games more entertaining and enjoyable and Barca also deserved to win. We all should feel lucky to be watching such a great team play. We never know if there will be another team like Barca given the number of clubs and fans in favor of defensive and ugly football is skyrocketing.

  • lamhi

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    Fooall is all about points at the end of the day the end results on the score board matters.

  • cloud

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    .. no matter how poorly Chelsea played, one fact still remains, they won and that’s all that matters. Van der Sar is just sour graping that his team failed big time in the UCL this year.

  • isifine

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    Van der sar is crying becuase Chelsea always win him and he could not understand how. If defense is anti football, then goal keepers like Van der sar are not needed for the interest of the game. Yes, Van der sar’s only duty in the feild of play is to stop goals which he was never able to achieve against Chelsea or Baca and now Chelsea put extra men to help Peter Check and he is crying. Maybe he is crying that Sir Alex could not give him extra men during his playing time. Otherwise, he should return all the salaries he erned while killing the beuatiful as a man who stops teams from scoring goals or maybe he should write a new rules for the game?

  • Kunle

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    That is his own opinion. The great Muhammed Alli became champion by defending while he allows his opponent to attack and then pick them out on a counter attack. Retire well…

  • Kola

    0 0

    Football is a game of tactics.always use a tactics to supress the game pattern of your opponent.i believe that is gud football.van der should stop complaining.

  • don

    0 0

    @lamhi,cloud,isifine,kunle and koyla gimme 1answr r u as good as van der sar and have u seen barca or chelsea or any other great club from a goal post attacking towards u?? No No No u r nutts and anti barca and anti football people, that’s for sure. now ask me i’ve ever seen the game of football in the pathetic manner was both the legs btween barca and chelse this seasn. hey tell me now that crowding d pitch in such dirty manner lets u none other than proven loosers and orthodox nu comers trying to gt some how something outta that, and some body up there said that football is all bout scoring he surely is some cricket or some i dont know what player and edvin van der sar wa sthe worlds best keeper i’ve seen and he is surely true with his opinion. i agree with u dear Edvin this cheap people want understand your wordings, and i urge u to always give such real opinions which true fans will admire for wure. thanx

  • Barca4life

    0 0

    That match btwn chelsea n barca was so shameful if dats d toll modern football is moving to then football will soon becum a mega boring game hw can almost all players suddenly become defensive, am sure even chelsea n their fans though the winning(luck anyway) are never proud of those games n wouldnt enjoy watchn it in dvd sometim in d future. Barca will remain d best for a longer time.

  • rNzn

    0 0

    BarCA CANT BEAT CHELSEA …thAT WAZ THE FAct.. IN LAST UCL GAME.. ThaTS NoT CALLEd diRTY FOotbAL ..thATS CalLEd FoOTBalL WId taCTICS. I am cHELSEA FAN AND I AM PRoUD ABoUt chELSEA S WIn OveR BaRCa.

  • chykln

    0 0

    d best form of defence is to atack n d bestform of atack is to defend, das wat chelsea did, tink haters lyk edwin r jus spilin dia anguishd ass jus bcus d blues did wat dy nd many teams cudnt do, wat gud is it, if u scor ten n conceed 12 tru counter atack, if chelsea dint atack lyk dy said how com dy got goalssssss…, cnt rmber any barca player scorin an own goal, haters….

  • haokip

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    the way chelsea played in the ucl semifinal was no great tactic at all. it was just a simple case of defending at all cost without any other plans or ideas.They should learn a lesson from the way bayern played against real madrid who are considered better than barca this season and thats how a champions semi-final should be played. i’m sure chelsea would played the same kind of football if they had faced madrid

  • haokip

    0 0

    @lamhi,cloud,isifine,kunle and koyla,..you people should stopped watching football matches and instead checked out only the final results because thats all you care and kunle should stick to watching muhammed ali. the fact people were expecting a great game of football fitting for the ocassion that is the ucl semi-final and were ruined by the negetive approach of chelsea does not do any justice to all football lovers all around the world

  • Ijoba

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    Haokip, are u expecting all the teams in the world to play the same pattern? Look at Arsenal that plays beautiful football, for like 7 to 8 yrs nw, what can they use to show for their beautiful football. My dear, just shut up ur mouth & let every team stick to their style of play. Mcheew. Van dar Sar, just shut up

  • Vusi

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    Unfortunate Mr. Edwin We won the champions league. No wonder the dutch football is interesting but the world cup is not at your cabinet. The opposition strategise according to your strength and look at themselves which strategy to counter your own.

  • KazWorld

    0 0

    Van der Sar should just keep quiet… no team in the english legue today can play an attacking game against Barca without lossing… its Barca’s prime time’!
    And Man-U did the same in both games when they played Barcelona, until Paul Scores scoerd from a long distance to end it one zero and Van der Sar was in the team at that time. He should know we have records… although am BARCELONA, I don’t only watch Li Liga

  • Haokip

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    Ijoba i don’t expect everyone to play the same but i expect everyone to play football and not to camp inside their penalty box for 90 minutes at least from a team who are through to the semi final of ucl.
    I know you mentioned arsenal because they played great football but do not win any trophies but ignores teams like barca who completely dominate every competition they played in and won the ucl 3 times in the last 6/7 years…the only reason why arsenal did not win any trophy is because they lose their best players every season due to lack of financial resource but they still play great football and managed to finish in top 4 every season, on the other hand chelsea have already spent about 1.2 billions….and for what????….to defend against 10 men benfica. And what style does chelsea play??? I guess….defend from the first minute and hope that they can get a corner somehow and maybe drogba can head the coner towards the goal and gets deflected luckily in the goal or get lucky in the penalty shootout

  • livinho levi obianika chijindu zion the great

    0 0

    hahahahahahhhahaahahahahahahhahahahahaahaa,i suddenly increase the degree of my laughter why reading the comments of jealous fan.football embodies the pleasure of entertainment but we have to give it the lie,football at this contemporary time is nolonger seen as a real entertainment but a trasure that is priceless,the best aspect of football at this prevalent time is to win and not to entertain like barca s.i am a juventus fan.but truths are always unpalatable.lets live by it.

  • fillix

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    edwin edwin edwin barca ha so many goal attempts i think 79 or so but no goal poor weak chelsea only needed 1 chance nd they made it count lol fairwell van der sar.

  • johnspart

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    for the sake of football,mrs edwin not mr edwin is mad,football is 11 against 11 ,so use your best tactics to win ,even if it means that u are going to defend from first minute to the last minute of the game ,just do it.

  • Aziki

    0 0

    If u like play the game like angels, if u cannot score, u have’nt start anything. Barca played but chelsea win’s why are you complaining.

  • tayeman

    0 0

    why was barcilona playing? and why was chelsea playing?…they have the same target to score goals and to win the trophy..is nt it?..how wil they score goals?..the mannager care z way how they score..not how u play but how u score…chelsea scored but barsa cant …gud bye barsa..a chelsea fan…

  • Gilsen

    0 0

    Edwin Van der Sar is right, teams should play for the sake to entertain the watcher not their bosses. If Chelsea wants to acquire more respect; they should start by dropping that hideous defensive strategy. Such strategy even if is effective, it is not fun to watch, to follow, and destroys the sport entirely!

  • sammy xeoul yyinzz baba

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    okay lets get this straight Edwin van Der sar is right by saying that Chelsea just go defensive even though they spend unimaginable sums of money in buying superstars e.g Mata teams should play to entertain their spectators for example Barcelona
    But on the other hand he is wrong by saying indirectly that chelsea is not worthy of winning trophies because of their defensive formation.
    i am a man u fan but i still think that strategies are adopted for teams to be successful but chelsea should adopt attacking formations

  • Jamo

    0 0

    Up barca fath man’d

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