great 2nd goal by Den Haag but :lol:

Apart from not scoring how did Babalj go?

Not his best game unfortunately and can't see him displacing Necid when he's back. Didn't get enough touches or service in the first half. Tried to get more involved by going deeper to recieve the ball and made some nice passes later on, but also lost nearly all of his physical and aerial duels. Although in fairness to Babalj it was his first start in a long time and the whole PEC Zwolle side in general was poor.

why was Sainsbury on the bench? He was best on last game? Was he sore from that?

Sainsbury was rested. Necid, Thomas, Nijland and van Polen all missing.

Just realised Ikonomidis was captain for this week's Primavera win, great stuff.

Sounds like babalj missed a big opportunity, Never nice to score 3 and have a striker not score any

yes, he didn't do much..on aerial duels, he was in front on (almost) everyone, and got knock off the ball everyone, which was a surprise, because Babalj look to be a big guy, plus ref let keep letting it happing

Zwolle look bad, i don't even know how they got those 2 goals in last 15 min..

we talk about A-league 1st touch of the ball, but this game was bad to watch in this department

Edited by adrtho: 22/2/2015 07:39:33 PM

Aussies tonight

Gent v Brugge
Dusseldorf   v Nurnberg
Empoli v Chievo
Everton v Leicester
Luzern v Aarau
Panionios v Levadiakos

look like Parma broke..no game today between it and Udinese in Serie A

This is a big deal. I read a report that Ikon is the first ever non Italian to captain a Lazio primavera team. It will be very interesting to see where he ends up in the next transfer window.

Armenikas is playing in the Primavera anyways, which is a great achievement being a 16 year old in the u20's.

He came off the bench at the 73rd minute in their last game, which was against Inter on the 29th of Jan before the break of a few weeks due to the Viareggio tournament. Pretty sure I posted that here when it happened IIRC.

Their first game back was overnight our time versus Brescia, a 2-1 win for Udinese, seems Panos was an unused sub, however.

Edited by paladisious: 22/2/2015 10:01:30 PM

That's really awesome. Speaks a lot to his personality, which seems readily apparent to me.

It looks like Lazio want to develop him in-house, although I'd love to see him make his mark in senior football asap, myself.

Brillante on bench for Empoli

Tough for Josh, moves to a struggeling club in the hope of game time along with other youngsters from Serie A. Empoli start to hit form and move up the table just as he arrives.

It's an 18 month loan so plenty of time but won't be easy to break into that side at the moment.

I am not too worried about Brillante. Has been mentioned by the coach the him not speaking the language makes it harder for him to be picked, he is hopefully picking that up and he is a player who will always trains well (Pizarro at Fiorentina even mentioned it) so I don't think he will be forgotten easily. Also as you mentioned he has plenty of time to break through.

Your also right Empoli's form makes it hard but as the end of the season gets closer I think there will be chances. They are currently on 27 points, 7 above relegation and 11 off being safe at the end of the season. If they get to theoretical safety or struggle there will be changes made to the team but at the moment they are more in the middle and they only have 1 game a week so there is no need to change up the team. It may be a few more weeks away but I am confident Brillante will be given a decent chance.

Edited by moofa: 23/2/2015 09:43:22 AM

Gavin de Niese had a full 90 in the senior reserves for River Plate.

Touch wood, but he might have a hard time breaking into the first team, who all took viagra before their last game!

Edited by paladisious: 23/2/2015 10:11:28 AM

Correct, Sarri said that Josh was on the right track but has to improve his Italian, which is a very interesting point and something that may be glossed over by a few on here.

Empoli are certainly at the tipping point of their season, it could go either way so changing a winning formulae would be risky. Matias Vecino who is also on loan from Fiorentina returns to la viola in June, which will open up the door for Brillante on the right side of midfield.

I think he is a chance to make an appearance by the end of the season. The chase for European football is so tight though, the manager may be inclined to make more pragmatic selections in his squad. La Viola, Samp, Genoa and Lazio have been so close all year, it's been a very competitve Serie A season.

The Viagra didnt help as they lost 2-0 in Bolivia.The extra leg was too hard to play with but Gavins on track as River have a very busy schedule this year.

River have one of, if not the best football academy outside of Europe. They have developed a staggering 17 players who currently play in the Big-5 leagues in Europe.

Gavin is in the right environment for him to progress and become a top footballer.

Pity they didn't get up.

I see what you did there, there and now there as well.

Well played.

He's probably facing some stiff competition at the moment though.

Oh they were playing in Bolivia. That makes the Viagra thing kinda make sense for blood flow and it is probably not a banned substance.

Interesting.

These drugs have been used to prevent altitude sickness by reducing the pressure of the blood in the lungs with minimal benefits but the main treatment, acetozolamide is banned as its a diuretic.

Surprisingly, sildenafil is not a banned substance.

It's not barred?

Sildenafil has been used for a while for purposes other than altitude issues, and even then it doesn't respond well for everyone. Bodybuilders have been using it for ages. I suppose it's for essentially the same reasons as to why players take it for altitude work, blood flow to muscles, but for different purposes.

According to WADA, no.

Hrustic seems to have had really good game. Scoring one, creating one and having one disallowed. The translation is very messy so I will try and pull out the relevent parts and



Not really clear but it seems he hit the crossbar and the balls gone down before bouncing out. The ref said the ball bounced before the line while others said it was a goal. Something like Lampard's goal in 2010 which was called as bouncing before the line.



A little simple. Hrustic with another shot which was saved but his teammate got the rebound and scored



Can't really tell what specifically happened but Hrustic scored

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