Who is the best Bottom half team of top 5 leagues in Europe

Going by table last year, Nominees for each league would be:

BPL: Stoke
La Liga: Malaga
Serie A: Cagliari
Bundesliga: Schalke
Ligue 1: Montpelleier



and please, don't turn it into a THIS TEAM HAS BETTER PLAYERS ,so they are better.

that's now how football works...it's a team football, and it's the unit that counts

you cannot consider Malaga as a bottom half team anymore. Not with their roster. A final placement below the top 6 would surprise the hell out of me.

Schalke, and why is Stoke even mentioned in a thread that is linked with "BEST"?

Sporting Gijon had third best defense in league last year.

Draw 1-1 with barca.Lost 1-0 to madrid, won 1-0 against madrid.

Schalke made CL semis last year, no contention there

Schalke or Malaga.

Stoke gets this one for sure..
Schalke gets the second place, now if only they can fix their midfield and defence.

Stoke's record this season (DAMN YOU KIEV FOR LAST MINUTE EQUALIZER)

Games Played: 9
Won: 6
Draw: 3
Loss: 0

Goals Scored: 11
Goals Conceded: 3

One of the top 5 defensive UNITS in the world at the moment IMO...

Believe me it's hard to get results away in Europe, when you have likes of Salif Diao, Matthew Upson, and Ronnie Whelan starting.

Pulis is god

and in most of those games, Stoke have had less possession that opposition, and probably 2-3 shots on target all game at best.


Stoke = Defensive solidity and Efficient up front

I had some faith in Stoke City, they keep this shit up and they just might get the CL spot for once, if not an EPL title.

All this hype yet we( Newcastle) are above them in the league despite the fact we are a load of crap......

Stoke are getting way too overhyped on this forum lol

Immaculate_Mole wrote:All this hype yet we( Newcastle) are above them in the league despite the fact we are a load of crap......

Stoke are getting way too overhyped on this forum lol

Stoke did the double over NUFC with 4-0 win included last season


to be honest, my favourite Stoke player is Ricardo Fuller.

He goes on some mazy runs when he is in form, you'd think he is Messi. Not a hoofball player at all

Schalke get CL qualification every now and then. Really, they're a top 5 team in Germany. Not really fair to compare them to the others, but we know how crazy the Bundesliga table can seem and how erratic teams perform.

I still think Schalke or a top half Bundesliga team..
If you want to talk about a bottom half Bundesliga team, mention Hannover96. They are surprizing me day after day

Chievo & Parma>Cagliari

How did Stoke get so many votes?

BarrileteCosmico wrote:How did Stoke get so many votes?

Because they are one of the best defensive units in Europe and were 1 minute away from beating Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine (place where many teams struggled and Mou's Inter almost got eliminated there)...and on top of that, Stoke were playing their second team in midfield and attack

Awesome team spirit

Anyone can defend the Stoke way though lol.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Anyone can defend the Stoke way though lol.

Bollocks.

It's like me saying, Anyone can attack the Barca way

BarrileteCosmico wrote:How did Stoke get so many votes?

Premfaces.

Malaga better than Stoke ??!!!

Really ?

Sepi wrote:Malaga better than Stoke ??!!!

Really ?

They know nothing, Sepi.

Wait till they play them.
*evil smile*

On that list only team Stoke is better is Cagliari and may be Montpelleir.The stoke hype in this forum are for fun i believed

Malaga and Schalke are way better than Stoke and infact the comparison is in itself hilarious.

leemhuis wrote:Chievo & Parma>Cagliari

Sepi wrote:Malaga better than Stoke ??!!!

Really ?

yeah i mean malaga have such crap players,cazorla,joaquin, van gol, etc etc

Shawcross and Huth will skinned every heavyweights with Delap assist