"Three at the back? Early in the sack." Van Gaal won't be on these '14-'15 UEFA Champions League nights thread

are you fucking shitting me

Ikr decent second half performance and then go and concede a goal from a corner with 2 mins left. 3rd goal conceded from a set piece in the CL so far. Even so if they won it would still all be down to the next match against Basle.

Liverpool are struggling against Basel as if they are the main character in Kafka's Metamorphosis, having just woken up.

Xp fuck this, got punished instantly by Gerard :(

well-struck

holy shit dat goal

Whoa Walter Samuel... Didn't know he was still playing...

Have great admiration for Basel trying to get their foot in the door so consistently with Europe's best 16.

Man City through to the last 16

non-rampant totti

Yeah ridiculous really, he was a passenger for the entire game.

good article

http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2014/12/11/champions-league-60th-anniversary-wolves-honved-gabriel-hanot

seems a bit of a contradiction that the man so moral to be above committing a professional foul has no problem purposefully creating a water logged pitch to give his team an advantage.

yeah i thought the same thing but his argument would probably have been that it affected both teams equally, rather like the anatole france quote about rich and poor both being forbidden from sleeping under bridges

Paris St-Germain v Chelsea
Manchester City v Barcelona
Bayer Leverkusen v Atletico Madrid
Juventus v Borussia Dortmund
Schalke v Real Madrid
Shakhtar Donetsk v Bayern Munich
Arsenal v AS Monaco
FC Basel - FC Porto

From a Leverkusen perspective, Atletico doesn't feel like the total nightmare Real/Barca could have been. Nonetheless totally hopeless, and inevitable after bottling going through first in the last two matches...

https://twitter.com/PSG_inside/status/567377353509052420

https://twitter.com/PochoLavezzi/status/567368556757925888

uh

good game this

PSG should have a few cards and maybe a goal already

d Costa an intriguing mix of the bad and the ugly

this may be the game where I see ibrahimovic look all that

oh great goal

beauty

I predict a classic finish to this one

PSG hasn't looked this good in a while really wish they'd score a second one

dislike veratti

rong

luiz tho he's a fuckin eejit

like idk exactly how much 50m worth should buy you in eejit but I feel it ought to be a lot more than one

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31514168

nice one england

London, most tolerant city in Europe, man.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-Hb3f2IgAAJ12o.jpg

Churchill wd've been appalled to be associated with these ah never mind too easy

Remember that Chelsea fan who used to post here? Pete something? I remember him once tearing a strip off me for associating Chelsea with Rangers, he was all, "How dare you try to infect us with your tawdry sectarianism", or words to that effect (obv., as a Celtic fan, sectarianism could be inferred in my case).

Pete was a really good poster but iirc he fucked off after we intimated john terry might be a cunt

i think of pete most tuesdays whenever i disconsolately leaf thru the snotrag yuppie brochure masquerading as time out these days

(sudden urge to shout PARK LIFE after reading that post back, soz)