Thursday, November 12, 2015

Amuse Yeux

Just a little palate cleanser for you today in advance of tomorrow's tipoff of the college basketball season for the one team we care about. Note that this has nothing to do with college basketball.

But this from Luis Suarez and Neymar in Barcelona's 3-0 La Liga win over Villareal is as good a soccer goal as you'll ever see in terms of individual skill and teamwork. 

I call your attention to Suarez's perfectly weighted and bent pass, which beats two defenders to land at Neymar's feet. It's perhaps even more sublime, if more understated, than what follows.

Holy shit, though, what follows. Neymar's possession, flick, spin, strike is otherworldly. There aren't three strikers in the world that would even try this, let alone coolly execute it.

Enjoy:

10 comments:

  1. i get it. i hate uruguayans and brazilians, too.

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  2. a sweet pass and goal, but if i'm that keeper, when he floats the ball up like that, i'm out there wreaking havoc

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  3. while there's a defender on the ball? no, you're not.

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  4. Video blocked on this website. Gheorghe is moving up in the world.

    ORF Rock tonight?

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  5. I discovered maitake mushrooms tonight. Que delicioso. No hallucinating though.

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  6. If grantland still existed Bill Barnwell would have a great rant tomorrow about the last play of the first half.

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  7. Steph had 46 tonight. Draymond had 12 assists. I've beer enjoyed watching a basketball team more than the Warriors of the past two years.

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  8. I've beer enjoyed a lot over the years.

    The Jets are a disgrace, but having to play on short rest in the second half of the season is even more disgraceful. Most teams have at least a dozen injured folks these days.

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  9. Nobody loves completing 3rd down passes short of the first down marker like the Jets.

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  10. TR, the Jets may eke out that title only because the Skins equally love running the draw or screen on 3rd down.

    And I like this post, only because it makes me think of this clip.

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