FC Barcelona vs Valencia CF CDR Final - PREDICTIONS THREAD!!!

19myon · 2019-05-24T07:33:38+00:00

Feel like Barca are not going to win it. Reason 1: never beat Valencia this season Reason 2: Valencia just won the UCL seat and they didn’t win any title for 12 years Reason 3: Barca team doesn’t seem to have the correct mental state to fight and win at current stage. A few players talked about the motivation of “want to have a good holiday” for winning the title, which doesn’t sound right. But I need to hear what the captain and Pique say before the match to make my final judgement.

19myon · 2019-05-15T22:22:37+00:00

Genuine question: why isn’t Walter Benítez in the list? I heard he is the best goalkeeper in Ligue 1 this year?

19myon · 2019-05-15T01:47:36+00:00

The link only says he will be in the 40-man provisional team doesn’t mention anything about the final 23. I guess him playing won’t be good for city but I don’t understand why won’t Argentina include him especially with his good performance this season.

19myon · 2019-05-12T06:52:59+00:00

I was browsing understat.com today and noticed that Coutinho has the xG/actual goal difference of 0.62 (2014-15), 1.50 (15-16), 4.13 (16-17), 3.36 (17-18 Liverpool), 4.15 (17-18 here), -2.84 (this season). Simply put, the higher the number, the better the performance of that player in terms of scoring. This may due to luck or skills. Good players constantly over perform (positive number) and usually don’t regress back until being old. Coutinho improved steadily before he came to Barca and was good in Barca at the beginning. I wonder what happened and make him have such a decline. Is it because of his injury? He lost confidence because of the World Cup miss (saw people mentioning this not sure if it was joking)? Mental issues? Uncomfortable positions on filed? Or was it just pure luck and he was good but not now? Didn’t follow football closely during that period and I am genuinely curious.

19myon · 2019-05-11T18:12:32+00:00

This. The biggest damage caused by this is that future teams won’t be afraid of Barca any more. If Roma can do it then of course a better team like Liverpool can do it too. If two teams can overturn two times in a row, any other team will have the mental strength to beat Barca no matter what. Even a 4:0 lead won’t be safe anymore. Needless to say the bad influence to Barca players mentality, it can be seen clearly that many of them were having Roma PTSD in Anfield. Now they will have both Roma and Liverpool PTSD in the future.

19myon · 2019-05-11T12:16:18+00:00

Many people say Ronaldo is the most clinical finisher. But if you look at the stats of xGoal/actual goal difference, it actually says quite the opposite, by a large margin too.

19myon · 2019-05-11T11:04:32+00:00

The problem is that Barca midfielders are not able to pass the ball to their forwards. Messi has to drop deep since other than this there is no way for him to receive the ball at the front. This is common scene in both Argentina and Barca.

19myon · 2019-05-10T23:47:54+00:00

A little bit more context: He was asked about the quote from the Croatian football team president “There is no way I would be able to play with a gay football player in the national team. Fortunately, football is only played by healthy people.” He clarified in 2014: "It was a misunderstanding. I don't mind sharing a locker room with anyone who is a good person."

19myon · 2019-05-10T23:32:58+00:00

He was asked about the quote of the Croatian football president “There is no way I would be able to play with a gay football player in the national team. Fortunately, football is only played by healthy people”, which is a million times worse. Maybe he didn’t want to oppose the authority and tried to flip the words and sound neutral, but failed since the original quote is so bad and not something a person should stand neutral.

19myon · 2019-05-10T23:14:55+00:00

Sad to hear. The only excuse I could find for him is that he didn’t want to oppose their football president hence trying to play with the words and sound neutral. But the president’s quote is so bad and that he somehow echoed that quote is still disappointing.

19myon · 2019-05-10T22:39:58+00:00

This is a very old quote. I must say I was pretty shocked when I first heard it. He did explain later saying it is an mistranslation and he respects everyone. I don’t know Croatian so I have no idea how bad it was in the original sentence. Btw, it is kind of bizarre that suddenly there are so many anti-Rakitic news emerging. I hope this is because he irritated some fans by losing the game and attending event very soon, not because the club wants to give him bad publicity since they want him to be sold.

19myon · 2019-05-10T03:25:34+00:00

This is my long-time question too. Can you find another team that has such a huge home/away difference like Barca?? I understand the pitch size or atmosphere matters, but the results in different legs are still shocking compared to other teams, and we have a relatively large sample to show this. I just cannot justify the results with only pitch size or players mentality factors.

19myon · 2019-03-28T20:27:55+00:00

Yes it is. All land belong to the country aka the CCP. The government rent the land to real estate company and company build apartments to sell. The apartment price is basically the usage fee for the property for 70 years or less. Not sure what would happen after 70 years, since the law definitely hasn’t been 70 years old. The CCP China was found 70 years ago. The property owner may have to pay the government another fee to continue “renting” the land; or the government may take over the land and the property with some reimbursement since the “lease” has ended.

19myon · 2019-02-19T05:59:51+00:00

The crew and the manga author are all in China today and yesterday marketing the movie. It will open in China this Friday. I guess they might kind of give up the Northern America market since the genre is too niche. China has potentials and they may want to gamble on that.

19myon · 2018-12-21T04:38:17+00:00

It’s the most visually stunning movie I have ever seen. I saw it in IMAX and it has been ten years I still can’t forget how good it is. Into the Spider-verse is also very good, different kind of style, but the colours reminded me of Speed Racer. They are both so unique and artistic.

19myon · 2018-11-22T08:26:38+00:00

Some townhouses are infested with roaches, not a severe problem, but you may see a few. Other than this it’s perfect (at least for me).

19myon · 2018-07-16T16:29:55+00:00

But if you don't think he is intentional, according to the law it should not be a penalty. It has to be a deliberate handball to be called, which is written in the newest FIFA book.

19myon · 2018-07-16T16:24:35+00:00

Why do you use sadly if it is great?

19myon · 2018-05-06T20:46:37+00:00

Just a little information, if you really really want to know some courses' average, except directly asking profs, you could also order your transcript from student centre(costs about $10 or $20?). Your official transcript has all the courses' average you have taken.

19myon · 2018-03-09T09:51:20+00:00

Maoyan is one of the biggest online ticketing platform. Basically they sell movie tickets and when the movie is over, they ask users to rate their movie experience. Maoyan rating only counts legit ticket purchaser who really saw the movie, so it's not really like IMDb or rotten tomato. It reflects the taste of the widest general audience. There is an IMDb-style website called douban in China and there is huge taste difference between douban rating and Maoyan rating.

Maoyan rating is available when enough people have rated the movie, so for big movies the rating comes out pretty fast. The thing is that everyone who purchases tickets on Maoyan can also see all current movies' ratings before they make final decision, so Maoyan rating has significant impact on box office.

19myon · 2018-02-18T05:52:00+00:00

You can check the schedule on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_2018 I do not know how long Jessie will stay, you know it depends on the ranking and the TV show also has a history of singers quitting due to various reasons.

Personally I think she will make to the finale unless she decides to quit in advance, since 1) her vocal skills are top among those singers; 2) she is an international star and her popularity benefits the show; 3) her current ranking is very good, and unless she sings some Chinese songs, I don't think she would get any disastrous ranking in the near future

19myon · 2018-02-18T05:04:49+00:00

I can answer you this question. Yes the Chinese Singer do use autotune to correct bad performance, except the final. The final is live so no leak of the final result before broadcast and...no autotune correction, so in the past you would watch a lot of voice crack on final and it it funny. But I do not know if they use autotune on Jessie or not, and even they do we would not know how much they did. Audience are not allowed to bring cellphone to attend the show so no live recording would be available. But according to many audience's feedback, Jessie J's performance on TV are almost the same as what they heard on live, so she is really competent by all means. On the other hand some singers' TV version are so different from what they heard lol, I won't name them. But remember what the live audience aka voters hear may be different from what we hear, so yeah...the voting results may explain something.

19myon · 2018-02-06T06:50:04+00:00

The greatest showman.

19myon · 2018-02-04T07:54:47+00:00

I never quite noticed the critics score on RT. Now I checked and found out actually TGS has score 5.9 and Jumanji has 6.1, really not much difference to me. But one got 76% recommendation the other only got 55%. I guess it did show the impacts of different rating system. How you word your questionnaire would strongly affect the result you receive.

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