FT QPR 0 Chelsea 1. Mata penalty... will he score in every round? #cfc (SL)
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Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) January 28, 2012KTBFFH!
Goals:
Anelka: 1
Bosingwa: 1
David Luiz: 1
Drogba: 6
Ivanovich: 1
Kalou: 3
Lampard: 11
Malouda: 1
Mata: 6
Meireles: 2
Sturridge: 10
Ramires: 8
Terry: 4
Torres: 4
Goals for: 58
Goals against: 32
FT: Real Madrid C.F. 3-1 Zaragoza (32' Ricardo Kakà, 48' Cristiano Ronaldo, 56' Mesut Özil | 11' Lafita). ¡Hala Madri! #realmadrid
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Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadriden) January 28, 2012¡Hala Madrid!
Goals:
Alonso: 2
Altintop: 1
Benzema: 18
Callejon: 9
Di Maria: 5
Higuain: 17
Kaká: 5
Khedira: 2
Marcelo: 3
Özil: 4
Pepe: 1
Ramos: 3
Ronaldo: 31
Varane: 1
Goals for: 102
Goals against: 32
https://twitter.com/#!/inter/status/162289322337386497
Inter Milan exit the Coppa Italia today in a loss to Napoli. Cavani scored twice. Milito should have had at least two penalties awarded. In the end, we allowed two goals and did not score our own.
Goals:
Alvarez: 2
Cambiasso: 4
Castaignos: 1
Coutinho: 1
Faraoni: 1
Forlan: 1
Lucio: 2
Maicon: 2
Milito: 9
Motta: 3
Nagatomo: 2
Pazzini: 7
Poli: 1
Ranocchia: 1
Samuel: 1
Sneijder: 2
Zarate: 1
Goals for: 41
Goals Against: 31
https://twitter.com/#!/realmadrid/status/162307315331108864
Real Madrid exit Copa del Rey after losing 4-3 on aggregate across two legs to Barcelona. Today’s tie was a close match, but finding an equalizer–also a match winner due to away goal tie-breaker–proved to be too much. I didn’t see the game, but it sounded like we kept Barcelona on their heels for much of the match. Sad.
Noteworthy: Ronaldo scored a goal. Sweet form. Messi didn’t. Great. Who is better? Who cares, we still lost. Benzema scored as well. Now, let’s build momentum as we play through La Liga and Champion’s League, and let’s put the finishing touches on Barcelona in the next El Clasico!
Goals:
Alonso: 2
Altintop: 1
Benzema: 18
Callejon: 9
Di Maria: 5
Higuain: 17
Kaká: 4
Khedira: 2
Marcelo: 3
Özil: 3
Pepe: 1
Ramos: 3
Ronaldo: 30
Varane: 1
Goals for: 99
Goals against: 31
Inter 2-1 Lazio: Milito and Pazzini seal comeback go.inter.it/288
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inter.it (@inter) January 22, 2012Goals:
Alvarez: 2
Cambiasso: 4
Castaignos: 1
Coutinho: 1
Faraoni: 1
Forlan: 1
Lucio: 2
Maicon: 2
Milito: 9
Motta: 3
Nagatomo: 2
Pazzini: 7
Poli: 1
Ranocchia: 1
Samuel: 1
Sneijder: 2
Zarate: 1
Goals for: 41
Goals Against: 29
Real Madrid 4-1 Athletic Bilbao bit.ly/wOoQgS #realmadrid
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Real Madrid C.F. (@realmadriden) January 22, 2012Goals:
Alonso: 2
Altintop: 1
Benzema: 17
Callejon: 9
Di Maria: 5
Higuain: 17
Kaká: 4
Khedira: 2
Marcelo: 3
Özil: 3
Pepe: 1
Ramos: 3
Ronaldo: 29
Varane: 1
Goals for: 97
Goals against: 29
Chelsea gained a point away to Norwich today in a scoreless draw. I have but a few things to say.
First, we kept a clean sheet. Great.
Second, we lacked creativity offensively, but there were a few notable standouts. Bosingwa. His early crosses remain terrible, but when he goes bi-line, he creates problems for the opponents. More please. Malouda. His substitution on for Lampard proved valuable, because he was stellar in the second half. He wasn’t selfish; he worked hard and worked well to create chances. Unfortunately, his goal scoring prowess is minimal at best, so when it came time to take some strikes on goal, he was mostly unthreatening. Still, it was good to see his influence. Lukaku. Monstrous. Subbing on for Torres, who had a decent game but who’s toe-pokes proved incapable of getting into the back of the net, Lukaku used his energy and muscle to run down the sideline and get into the box, beating one defender magnificently. Promising, right?
Finally, and back to Torres, it is in this instance that we greatly miss the Mighty Drogba. But Drogba doesn’t seem like he wants to stay. If he does leave, then we have to settle for Torres. We will have to build our offense around him if we are optimally to extract whatever skill out of him. I almost want to say our current offensive strategy is a cookie-cutter approach, which has not made the most of Torres. He had over 60 goals in 100 games at Liverpool. I don’t see why it can’t happen similarly while he wears Chelsea blue, but it will demand that we cater to his needs on the pitch.
Hats off to Norwich for defensively creating a wall that we simply could not penetrate soundly. We all saw this coming though, right? With Drogba gone, with Sturridge returning from injury, and with Lampard’s inconsistency and Torres’ failure to find goals consistently, we knew we would be lacking offensively. Defensively, we were solid. This draw was seemingly inevitable. Time to move on.
Goals:
Wikipedia translates this Latin phrase thusly: “By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”
I saw this phrase on the mirror in V for Vendetta. Whatever you think about the phrase in English, I like the way it sounds in the original language.
Yesterday, I mentioned another quote from the movie that I liked. I find this movie to be really cool from a vocabulary perspective.
Are there any quotes from V for Vendetta that you favor? Independently, are there any Latin phrases that you like?
inter.it – Coppa Italia, Inter 2-1 Genoa: Maicon and Poli.
Inter Genoa to make it to the Coppa Italia quarterfinals with 2 goals to 1. Maicon scored first followed by Poli. Genoa pulled one back but could not find an equalizer.
Forza Inter!
Goals:
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [laughs] Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me “V”. (V for Vendetta (film) – Wikiquote)
I love the movie V for Vendetta. I want the graphic novel for my library, not merely for the art, but also for the clever vocabulary. Case in point: V’s self-introduction. Quoted above from Wikiquote, I realize it is pregnant in meaning, and I would like to build my own vocabulary, so I will now go through this introduction and determine what it is saying. I will be relying on the Oxford English Dictionary.
“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate.”
Definitions:
Paraphrase:
“And there it is! In view, a low yet experienced stage play actor cast as a substitute for both victim and villain by the undesired changes in circumstances by Fate.”
“This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.”
Definitions:
Paraphrase:
“This face, no mere vain disguise covering, is a trace of the people’s voice, now showing no interest, disappeared completely.”
“However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition!”
Definitions:
Paraphrase:
“However, this courageous yet formal visit of a state of being worried from an earlier time stands enlivened and has solemnly promised to utterly defeat these despicable and problematic people who are susceptible to bribery and bitterly hostile, leading the way in immoral behavior and securing those who are deliberately violent and who eagerly violate the conscience!”
“The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.”
Definitions:
Paraphrase:
“The only judgment is punishment for wrong doing; vengeance held as a vigil candle, not without success, for the importance and truthfulness of such shall one day prove the careful watchers and morally upright to be right.”
“Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me ‘V’.”
Definitions:
Paraphrase:
“Truly, this soup of excessive words is becoming most unneeded, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me “V”.
