Skyfall:UEFA Champions League 2015/16

First 30 mins of Lazio-Leverkusen was superb, the last 15 mins merely okay except for Calhanoglu almost scoring from the right touchline 50 yards out.
Owen Hargreaves has a massive crush on Jonathon Tah, who has been admittedly excellent. Wendell also p impressive at LB for Leverkusen tho impulsive enough that he probably was lucky not to pick on a 2nd yellow card just before half-time. Candreva has been good for Lazio, who still have Klose at CF rounding keepers like it's 2002 but hitting the post unfortunately.

MEMPHIS! MEMPHIS IS THE RONALDO NUMBER TWO

haha. i don't know about that but his second was p sweet

just saw bender's fizzer against the post, oof

memphis' first was the better goal tbh, great juggling solo effort. watching it muted while listening to a radio stream of forest-charlton quite disorienting

just seen the 2 goals from memphis. v sweet.

Also BT's red button coverage isn't in HD.#FirstWorldProblems

CSKA look good on the break. Conceded early and missed a penalty but Doumbia just danced past the Sporting keeper to equalise.

Mauricio with a scandalous 'tackle' on Bellarbi. Only a yellow somehow.

Keita Balde with a v impressive goal for lazio, strength, speed, finish

leverkusen had one wrongly chalked off earlier

papadopoulous studs up over the top on his own teammate!!

Celtic up 2-0 over Malmo in the first 10 minutes of the first leg tie at Parkhead.

Valencia-Monaco was p good stuff. Valencia won 3-1 but Clattenburg blew a clear penalty call that would have given Monaco the chance to equalise when it was 2-1.

Ended up 3-2, with both of Malmo's goals coming from Celtic flop Berget. The second Malmo goal came with the last kick of the ball. At 3-1 progress would be close to guaranteed. Now going over there with the slimmest of leads and with a horrendous defensive record so far this season.

Celtic up 2-0 over Malmo in the first 10 minutes of the first leg tie at Parkhead.

;_;

Celtic are terrible.

Watching Leverkusen - Lazio and Son isn't playing, apparently he's on his way to Spurs which should please mizzell. Guess that means they've given up on Beharino I dunno.

Calhanoglu is so good

Lol and then he scores

Is it just me or does Rooney have no idea how fast he is(n't)?

Constantly tries to beat players for pace ending up nowhere

Woah, and on comes ravel Morrison.

Lev have completely dominated this but one Lazio goal would be enough to send them through

Lovely break by Lev, unselfish square by Brandt,finish by bellarabi. 3-0 beautiful.

misssssss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_37qG2WDUxw

https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEduVP7dllMcNQFNe/giphy.gif

Group A: Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, Malmo

Group B: PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United, CSKA Moscow, Wolfsburg

Group C: Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray, Astana,

Group D: Juventus, Manchester City, Sevilla, Borussia Monchengladbach

Group E: Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Roma, BATE Borisov

Group F: Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Olympiakos, Dinamo Zagreb

Group G: Chelsea, Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Group H: Zenit Saint Petersburg, Valencia, Lyon, Gent

Man City group is p sweet. As is Barca's. Chelsea got the best draw but I guess that makes sense as they were seeded #1. Memphis back to PSV already.

group f there is in the order that it will be in when the ties have all been played

Watching Leverkusen - Lazio and Son isn't playing, apparently he's on his way to Spurs which should please mizzell. Guess that means they've given up on Beharino I dunno.

Calhanoglu is so good

― pandemic, Wednesday, August 26, 2015 3:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ack, this move me makes me anxious. i love son, though haven't seen much of him since he joined leverkusen, but spurs have been burned through so many promising young players. spurs' twitter using the hast tag here comes the son is an inauspicious start, imo. calhanoglu had some tough words for him leaving.

man u team for tonight: De Gea; Darmian, Smalling, Blind, Shaw; Schweinsteiger, Herrera; Young, Mata, Memphis; Martial

looks like a decent attaking side, what the hell is this lvg guy doing?

where young, mata and memphis will actually play i'm not sure

It's Mata at #10, Memphis left, Young right apparently

excited!

God speed NN, looking forward to this too obv :)

Young is playing right because our worst player, Brenet, is a right-footed left-back -_-

have you watched Memphis in the league at all this season? Curious if you have any insight as to why it hasn't quite happened for him yet

That means only blind is sort of out of position, wtf is going on?

Xp lbi!

Herrera's out of position too tbf. I don't really like him in a midfield two

Hey guys! Go-to place, this right here. The draw for this group pulled me back in :)

NN: I think he's not quite gelling because he's just not as good as he will be someday. You've seen his touch of individual class in those goals against Brugge alone, but he still needs to learn a helluva lot. At PSV he lost possession a lot, but it didn't matter because he could score two brilliant goals nearly every game. At ManU, in the PL, not so much.

No doubt that it will come, but he really needs time to get used to the PL I think. Time you're rarely granted in the PL.

tv3 commentary a full second ahead of picture you fuckkkkinnnnngggnnnngggg cuuuunnntttssss do your fuckinnnnnggggnnnnngggg jobbbbssss

hows that not a penalty/red

RIP Shaw

Xp never a pen

Dutch tv refuses to replay the incident bcz of how bad it looked :(

it's a red card tackle anywhere but in the box, reckless as to how he hit the opponenet and out of control of his momentum

that is absolutely devastating

poor lad

I've seen the replay and haven't seen anything awful ito angle of leg or anything tbh

tv3 just confirmed another camera angle won't be shown...... fuck

Horrific...

not able to watch this on my feeble connection but shit, i'm gutted for him

I've seen it again

It's 100% a red card. Completely reckless and out of control

Yeah, saw the replays myself now. Terrible tackle, red card.

25s ago20:22

35 min: I’ve just seen a still of the aftermath of Luke Shaw’s clash with Hector Moreno and I think it’s safe to say the poor lad’s ankle is badly broken. If you’ve a strong stomach, you can probably find a picture of it on Twitter. Probably better just to take my word for it, though.

yeah, fuck that :(

Had to be. Shame though.

Shouldn't have been on the pitch any more, but it's not underserved imho

Guy's still in the ambulance. 2015 people: https://twitter.com/LukeShaw23/status/643872862546317312

ffs

Lol Mata, lol Young

the Memphis Martial partnership looks seriously promising

19 year old showing Rooney right up

Sweet Morata finish and Juve are 2-1 up having done next to nothing all game.

Next to nothing all season tbh.

Sensational! :D

man maybe juve's literally just now finding their form but i can't believe man city lost

bringing on Fellaini there lost us the point

They should just revoke City's CL place or give it to the team in fifth, anything other than just letting them squander it season after season.

But that would deny us the pleasure of watching them mess it up

Is there an EPL thread in ILE?

'no swears and don't sit on the floor -Premier league 2015-16'

Which to go for Roma v Barca , Olympiakos v Bayern, or Valencia v Zenit?

Hazard penalty miss? Not watching that trash but would be interested to know how Zahavi gets on.

Salah is looking good for Roma.

Was about to say Zenit have been awful recently and they just scored.

Roma have looked p decent so far.

Suarez one nil. Might be an idea to get within 10 yards of Rakitic maybe?

Lol. Arsenal losing.

Fuck what a goal!!!!!

Omg

Florenzi from 40 yards!!!!!

omg

Ter stegen might wanna cut back on his sweeper keeping after that

if you missed it

https://streamable.com/izeq

lololol Giroud second yellow. Arsenal trailing and down to ten before half time.

hahaha, the Welsh guesthouse I'm staying in doesn't have BT Sport, except it does have the BT Sport Goals Show channel which is even better, it's some WITH SITE NEW ANSWERS I CAN SEE INTO ALL BOARDS shit

everyone is scoring from attempted crosses

Two nil Zagreb!

just got home, listening to some thoughtful, measured analysis from Arsenal fans on the radio

incredible reaction from ter stegen. "no, this can't go in - i play for barcelona".

hes a shit keeper, right?

nah i rate him p highly, was great for gladbach and had a good first season in the cups for Barca

Borisov two nil up against Roma after twenty. Not even playing that badly.

rip zagreb

Three nil Borisov!

never fully over the line

'André André'

lol Arsenal

they're still gonna win this by two imo

still in awe at the simulcast

red surely

letoff in Europe imo

borderline but I'd call it a yellow

read the news man there are no borders in Europe now

remarkable

ahahaha

I'm.not sure Gibbs would even make our squad. woeful.

goal and assist Walcott has been shit

parodical lacknof interest in goal here from arsenals attacking midfielder xi

God, the fury on Mourinho's face after the Willian free kick, he barely even acknowledged the equaliser.

Juve-Sevilla p good stuff. Haven't seen Juve in Serie A this season but they've looked really good in their 2 CL games. Cuadrado has been exciting and Seville's #4 has been excellent.Nice to see Khediera back playing again as well.

CSKA killing PSV. One missed penalty away from 4-0 at half time. Doumbia, who missed it, is on a hat trick.

Looking at the highlights seems like Joe Hart having one of his heroic CL nights.

Master stroke from LVG swapping an out of position winger for an out of position winger.

Ex QPR stopper Julio Cesar with terrific double save to keep Benfica ahead vs Atleti.

Aguero just scored the ninth penalty Gladbach have conceded in seven games. Probably deserve the win on balance.

Congratulations to United on their first goal in nearly 360 minutes of football.

404 minutes it turns out.

the inexorable journey towards lvg's being fired and the whirlwind of speculation over man u's next manager is wearying me already

That's actually kind of annoying. The boos ringing out when he took off Martial, the worm was actually turning against him, but now he'll take this as vindication of his tedious anti-football (and vindication for keeping Rooney up front).

went up with my kids to watch the boro game last week - good god they were grinding the gears, even reverse wasn't working properly

Real Madrid were lucky to win. PSG were really impressive esp. Di Maria, even Luiz was reading the play well.

I really like Rabiot as well. How Madrid won that game I can't explain

the indignity of the BT pundits cumming over Rooney after the hours of bullshit that preceded that well-worked goal was embarrassing even by BT pundit standards

i was going to come complain about arsenal and then lol chelsea are losing again and the zen state of jose hilarity kicked in so i forgot about my own team

Chelsea are winning

booo wait some fucking typo bbc, chelsea went 1-0 up. also arsenal will never stop being shit in this comp will they?

Summary

Lewandowski header from Thiago cross
Muller with deflected left-foot strike
Chelsea 0-1 Dynamo Kiev
Dragovic heads cross into his own net
Matic starts, Hazard on bench
Use play icon to watch 5 live Final Score

is currently on my page still, even after a refresh

Nice hit from Alaba.

getting bit ugly for arsenal

Excellent Giroud goal.

Think Bayern will hang on here

Looking at the ground. Blaming the ground. He's looking see him here he's looking straight-at-the-ground and he's telling giroud he's blaming the ground

Several minutes of blissful silence

To think an entire country has angered sufficient number of gods or one sufficiently powerful God that the full breadth of said nation could be inflicted with Ronnie Whelan's piping depressive monotony of evil witterings all at once

Pique arsenal there

Sitting side by side with the Rolling UK Comedy Thread appropriately.

Stating the bleeding obvious I know but Jesus United are aggressively boring

Shakhtar just pulled three goals back vs Real, having been losing 4-0.

^ !

man u match was so dull to listen to. dull and stressful and a dismal result

a serious low point that

fuck the philosophy

Yaya's double chin has begun.

Utd are going out with a crocked Chris Smalling up front

now going through in hilariously shambolic fashion

Oh ffs

going out again

LOL, that was quick!

PSV are winning

it's over

Real Madrid making me so thankful that Celtic didn't qualify.

alright you can go now Louis

Disappointing result but the most entertaining United match I've seen in ages. Young lads played really well too.

okay, let's watch the start of the gnev era.

whoa 1-0....no disallowed

lol the acres of space in the midfield in this game and we've only been going 10 mins.

replay of the disallowed goal shows nothing untoward.

chance for lyon, saved.

hmm is this deadly don hutchinson on the co-commentary?

sweet swet goal by cornet, lyon one up.

lol whistled off at half-time

Gent are winning so it might end up not mattering but losing to a Lyon team that couldn't turn up when they still had a shot of qualifying for something is nagl.

the europa league line up is looking like it could be p boss. sevilla will probaly roll it again.

i'm not sure exactly but i think it could include sevilla, valencia, leverkusen/roma, napoli, liverpool, spurs, dortmund, man utd, arsenal, porto/chelsea etc

Looks like that's Arsenal through.

hope they draw barca as their reward.

classy from lacazette, 2-0, may have tweaked his hamstring scoring it though.

arsenal qualifying from that position is v creditable but yeesh give the grand tales of heroism a rest already u losers

from the radio it sounded like Olympiakos played themselves more than a bit

hope they draw barca as their reward.

― pandemic, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thanks

lol, should be no problem Barca haven't won in 3.

Gent v Wolfsburg

Roma v Real Madrid

Paris St-Germain v Chelsea

Arsenal v Barcelona

Juventus v Bayern Munich

PSV Eindhoven v Atletico Madrid

Benfica v Zenit St Petersburg

Dynamo Kiev v Manchester City

problem the worst draw chelsea could have got, well maybe Juve.

aw utd v atleti would have been a thrashing to savour

would imagine these ties will all go to plan. city might flake it away, manduzkic & dybala might have themselves some fun on a bayern off day, but eh

interesting technique

https://giant.gfycat.com/FearlessExemplaryJuliabutterfly.gif

the way he holds that one ball is suspicious alright but they got roma. there are easier teams to get if they were going to fix it.

Chelsea, for instance.

Slight difference in class here maybe

and yet they should be ahead

Clowns in studio ignoring the millions of medals and saying Zlatan might not be top class as his record vs English defences isn't great. (apart from the four goals in one game?)

I'm sure he could do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke but why the fuck would he want to?

Fair enough Chelsea starting to perform a bit

you've got to score those son

Yeah that's what a wall is supposed to do

Otoh that was bullshit

that must be the most eventful five minutes of Mikel's career

Hard to reconcile PSG's attacking nous with the cluelessness at the back

they haven't really done much in an attacking sense either? Obviously they're vastly superior technically but I don't think they've had any clearcut chances apart from the Zlatan header

Chelsea had been in a good moment I think but then the goal

Herself awful interested in football all a sudden when rabiot appeared in side profile

Fair that PSG's superiority was largely ineffectual maybe but I still won't back Chelsea over two legs

2-1 at home is always such a tenuous lead to bring into a second-leg.

Indeed, these cunts must be obliterated, I will not rest easy until they are.

verratti hotter than rabiot imo

noted but you didn't refuse to make me tea last night whilst veratti was on screen so idgaf

too bad about iniesta's head

Arsenals lack of nerve/quality in the final ball/shot tonight was so frustrating

I'll rep for giroud as a good enough all-rounder unfairly maligned but Jesus he was a very specific type of shit tonight- zero composure in the moments that mattered

Juve - Bayern looked like a cracker. some goal from Robben there too

you have to show him on his right lad

PSG - Chelsea is good. Excellent Costa equaliser.

Rip roaring 1st half

Great game

my dad said it was a bunch of evil foreigners and a corrupt ref conniving to cheat the noble corinthians of Chelsea out of the tie y/n?

Possibly

But some of em are playing for chelsea

Only thing I'd note of ref is that he's letting huge amounts go, adding brilliantly to match imo.

tbh i did not believe my dad's account to be impartial

There it is.

Aw that was devastating

Fear for rabiot if Chelsea look like losing this

idk who is this cunt commentating w Martin Tyler on the Fox Sports stream im watching but his insistence on pronouncing Azpilicueta's name "Azpiliqwerta" has been and is driving me fuckin nuts.

had a brief pang of "oh damn this was a great game i wish we couldve had extra time" with that 2nd PSG goal but then the camera flashed to a hag-ridden JT in the audience and i remembered that it's Chelsea there is no hell-fire hot enough

Amen. I wouldnt mind another chelsea goal for excitements sake but jesus no more than that

idk who is this cunt commentating w Martin Tyler on the Fox Sports stream im watching but his insistence on pronouncing Azpilicueta's name "Azpiliqwerta" has been and is driving me fuckin nuts.

― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:20 Bookmark

yep. stewart robson

has anyone seen souness' eyebrows lately btw...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk7dPD-he5Q

it's very easy

PSV - Atleti has gone to penalties. Wouldn't fancy chances against Zoet.

Sudden death! Ten taken, ten scored.

Narsingh hits the bar!

Commiserations to LBI. Nando's pen was p sweet but Atleti weren't much cop. Really looking forward to Bayern vs Juve tmrw.

pogba 1-0. game on.

mix up btw alaba and neuer.

find it bizarre that kingsley comon is on loan at bayern and having a great season, if you're good enough to play for bayern i'd have thought you're good enough to play for your parent club.

kimmich was v good vs dortmund looking frwd to seeing how he copes tonight

Neymar helping to seal the inevitable.

xpost still fancy bayern tho

that looked miles offside but not sure it was actually, could've been 2.

Juve were 4/1 to even get a draw before the match.

bayern looking a lil shook atm not quite at going man to man at the nou last season proportions, but still...

ooohhhhh

UNBELIEVABLE GOAL

Morata!

morata dribbling through about 4 players lays it off to cuadrado. 2-0

that was lovely!

has cuadrado being playing well for juve this year?

yah apparently

well he was on the guardians signings of the season piece today

full confession i've barely watched serie a this season bar a couple of napoli games

can add him to the long list of players chelsea have binned who should really be good enough for them actually

juve 4-0 up in the last 50 mins of this tie. lol

are bayern up to getting 3 without reply in an hour (+30 mins)?

almost 3!!!!

Can't believe that didn't go in.

the way juve have denied bayern space has been beautiful and bayern look a complete and utter shambles at the back, really missing boateng/badstuber/martinez

still time to pull it out for bayern but the narrative of pep's failure in CL vs Heynkes success isn't just that bayern haven't won it's the manner in which they've been knocked out. completely tanked in 4? of the 6 legs

pep needs more Spanish doctors on staff ^_^

replay shows that morata's 'offside' goal should have stood.

Arsenal have equalised fwiw

been impressed with alex sandro, anyone seen much of him before? sharivari?

Yes, he has been good all season for Juve and was excellent for Porto the year before.

thanks

yellow cards building up here hope juve don't blow it by going down to ten

morata has been a beast tonight, drogba-esque

Very good hit from Elneny for the Arsenal goal.

ooh almost right on cue

bayern bring on a juve player, well they seem to be in form tonight i guess

67 mins gone bayern have forced buffon into saving one shot so far by my estimate

love that suarez goal

morata off mandzukic on

wish i had a better vocabulary to more accurately convey just how good morata has been tonight

lewandoski scores

great cross from costa

roughly 20 mins left

juve haven't mustered a counter attack in a while

I wouldn't object to anther half an hour of this.

i want juve to win but yeah you're right it's been a cracker

sometimes i would swear that it takes pogba 4 strides to go from the centre circle to the box

think owen hargreaves has been reading the ilx prem thread

Messi with no qualms about kicking a club when they're down

pep gonna go from having costa/ribery/comon/robben as his wingers to navas/sterling. good luck.

Muller, who else?

MULLER!!!!!!!!

Never in doubt.

the space interpreter strikes again

holy shit, him again

Juve are knackered

wtf is lichsteiner doing up there, almost scored

beautiful from thiago

3-2 bayern

So good.

loooovely

ooooh comon

maybe they shouldn't have loaned him out eh?

kinda love allegri

juve miss a sitter

good comeback from bayern and pep lives to fight another day

juve has been great considering no dybala/cheillini etc

costa has been great as has coman

probably the best game i've seen this season

1/4 finalists
psg
barca
real
atleti
bayern
wolfsburg
benfica
man city

Shoulda been a second yellow for Thiago there surely?

shame rtc not watching needed his verdict on boateng's outfit when he came onto the pitch there

In all seriousness has there ever been a better shinned goal than Suarez tonight?

RVP vs Charlton

Wasn't that famous TWP overhead a bit of a shinner? xp

was as much of a shinner as gerry adams

Woof

holy shit juve bayern was good value for money

Evra threw that game

Commiserations to LBI. Nando's pen was p sweet but Atleti weren't much cop. Really looking forward to Bayern vs Juve tmrw.

― pandemic, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:44 (2 days ago) Permalink

Much appreciated Pandemic. Chin up etc.

wolfsburg v real madrid
bayern v benfica
barca v atleti
psg v man city

could've been better than that. atleti might try and attritionball barca.

Real, Bayern, Barca, PSG is a decent final 4 tbf

<3 Suarez

lol aurier back in the psg team after 2 months, wonder how much grovelling went on?

luiz buys a pen. zlatan takes, hart saves. poor pen tbh

zlatan misses a sitter. v rarely have i seen him not put away that sort of chance.

what??? wolfsburg 2 nil up on Real!! I'm watching the wrong game! Wolfsburg have been crap this season, especially last weekend.

de bruyne one nil. i love him soo much.

LOL

lol fernadopaws + joe hart. 1-1 zlatan scores with a tackle. lol again.

Wlolfsburg. Fantasies of cutting Michael Owen's vocal cords.

ms mac's fav boy rabiot scores 2-1, crappy set play goal.

ooh zlatan off the bar

Didi hamann was a joy commenting on that zlatan goal at half time.

"If you are a ten year old boy at my training and you do that I call your parents over and tell them take you home and don't come back"

hahaha

Delivered in a casual flat tone,

Ooff another disaster goal

comedy defending. shambles.

aurier needlessly gave the ball away at the beginning of that.

PSG are a bit shit really

Redemption for the player didi sent home with his parents and who Damien duff breezily described as the "worst Brazilian footballer ever" only 30 mins ago, what a world, what a game

that's harsh from duffers, has fred been forgotten already?

I don't presume duffer has an encyclopaedic knowledge nor a eidetic memory tbh

Fred was just a fall guy. Luiz is genuinely offensive

I mean he's certainly not defensive

i think he's p good.

though tbf i really really rated navas when he was sevilla but i can barely remember a performance since he arrived in manchester.

both these teams seem to leave incredible amounts of space in midfield. neither a patch on juventus.

genuinely amazed that wolfsburg won 2-0.

the romance of the cup UEFA Champions League sponsored by Gazprom.

zidane's coat!!!

omg marcelo getting max arnold booked. such chicanery!

lol danny mills is such a clown. thinks joe hart is the only one of the city eleven tonight who will start for city in august.

probably be the first out the door tbh

going from the ultimate sweeper keeper to joe hart lol at u pep

told ya they were shit

Gutted but I don't think Wolfsburg had a shot on target

kind of hilarious how no actual person really gives a single fuck

Bayern in control, 70% possession, then neuerlols misses a cross, 1-0 benfica.

vidal 1-1 that should seal it.

think i'll switch to the atleti-barca game. atleti must be horrible to play against.

this barca kit has always been vile.

off the bar from atleti, p much bossing this

great break from felipe luis, penalty.

griezmann 2-0

barca still need one goal same as before although the commentator doesn't seem to realise it. are away goals really that complicated?

Iniesta should have been sent off there

that was a pen wasn't it?

barca screwed for a change

real madrid
man city
bayern
atletico

felipe luis has been great. really not good enough for chelsea?

messi barely got a kick, no other team deals with barca in quite the way simeone's atleti do.

don't see city beating atleti but think they'd have a chance vs real madrid.

felipe luis has been great. really not good enough for chelsea?

― pandemic, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:36 Bookmark

can't wait for griezmann's middling spell there next year before atleti buy him back to partner costa at a tidy profit

mighty stuff from atleti. love those cunts

lol yes their goal is clearly to sign then prematurely release an eleven of the best players in europe.

xp

Brady knocking Atleti for being cynical. Dunphy commending little-engine-that-could Atleti. Dont agree with Brady but #TopBantz from the old dogs all the same

man city vs real madrid
atletico vs bayern

atleti are the best balanced of the sides left yeah?

i guess bayern can defend when they have their first choice defence available

City Bayern final would be fun.

nahh not nearly as fun as cholo's revenge

solely judging by the lack of posts here it could just be that BT have ever so slightly overpaid for the Best Club Competition in the World TM.

still i'll be watching tonight, i don't really know why i like Atleti cos i generally loathe Mourinho teams playing the same style of football.

i have thought that but i) unlike any jose team since porto, needs must and ii) even jose never had the cojones to have a ball thrown on the pitch so idk, bit of sass or w/e i guess

solely judging by the lack of posts here it could just be that BT have ever so slightly overpaid for the Best Club Competition in the World TM.

more like last nights match was a boring shitefest

almost all i watch of the competition is in the pub so commenting online usually feels superfluous

would've thought this would be a perfect thomas muller game but he's only on the bench. also surprised ribery isn't starting. vidal has improved as the season has gone on.

never too sure about alaba as a CB

https://twitter.com/NordiskFootball/status/725394884790734848

this just happened in sweden. don't get any ideas cholo

OMG!!!!!!!!!

what a goal

statues

Lovely goal

Dunno this Saul guy

vidal punched in the head by the goalie. no pen?

"good goalkeeping.... [oblak punches guy in head replay].... just about gets there"

dunno about u but i have the misfortune of j pearce and dean ashton commentary

ian darke and michael owen so probably about a third of the talk will be about mark clattenburg and a third about which prem teams are interested in which players.

thought griezmann would dispatch that

lol that alaba shot from 35 yards onto the bar

feel like a bayern goal is brewing

ooh torres so close to a beauty

man

bringing on benatia? last seen getting destroyed by morata and Juve....

i may be wrong but i think atleti are booking free so far tonight

"Advantage who, going into the second leg?" asks Ian Darke - finally giving Michael Owen a question he can't conceivably get wrong.

lol

griezmann has been phenomenal defensively tonight, incredible amount of interceptions for a CF

do enjoy how man city spend £100 odd million on CB's to partner Kompany while Savic looks great for Atleti and Boateng is Bayern's best CB.

has muller actually touched the ball??

oh he just did

so obdurate

bayern were starting to look good before the subs

atleti making bayern play at a really high pace at the mo

Bayern zipping that ball around like Zippy McZipperson

Oof

Lol at claiming innocence on that one.

Saved!

Brian Kerr's 6 a4 pages of scribbled notes <3 the Wexford youths are gonna be trying out a lot of new stuff the weekend

this is great

stand by for awesome final 15

Ya

Spurs Chelsea just a warm-up

This is ridiculous.

U no what's a dead art cunting penalties is a dead art

Someone u nutter

aw

think i h8 atletico

need a mad cunt like simeone in the prem next year

I think if poch has a summer of brooding under a poster of fabregas he might get there

The weird thing is that Atleti defended well but didn't really stifle either game. There was barely a point across both legs, apart from the last fifteen minutes of the first, where Bayern didn't look like scoring but they weren't creative or clinical enough.

love de bruyne and aguero and modric and ramos but the rest of these lot..meh

what chance james rodriguez on the move in the summer, things seem like they've gone downhill since the World Cup p drastically?

to think i used to love navas and now he's just nothing (sigh)

kompany crocked again?????

lucky deflection, bah

What's the general verdict on Zidane at this point?

he kinda gets away with having them play more defensively than another manager would cos he's zidane imo

they look p structured though i thought roma ripped them apart when they met and should have scored 2 or 3.

look p comfortable atm but the game seems so lifeless compared to last night

luka always good for at least one "ooh modric" from me per game. that pass was the first.

for all the service he's getting this half aguero might as well not be on the pitch (i thought the same about griezmann last night tbf)

spurs should buy xhaka, he'll be suspended enough to job share with dier

they're not even very good

xhaka post was meant for the prem thread, sorry

i was talking about rmad, spurs could beat 'em

that was "oh modric" with a different inflection

this is some insipid shit from city, sleepwalking their way to defeat

de bruyne to the centre, sterling wide, yaya off i guess

if city somehow fluke an away goal and get to the final then proceed to play with the same lack of intensity vs atleti they will get taken to the woodshed by those assassins.

on comes the best manchester based teenage striker of the season.

City are dire. They look like they don't give a shit.

this may be the worst half of football by a team chasing a goal that would send them to a final that i've ever seen. come on throw the kitchen sink at it you fuckers.

nicely done on sterling there, heh heh

modric has been ace tonight

good riddance. trash worthless performance by city.

hope atleti win this.

me too but then hope no team from madrid wins for the next 50 years

well at least nobody can seriously argue that pep won't massively improve city after this.

For about 60 minutes I thought City was playing to a plan and they had another gear and then it became obvious that nah

Terrible

getafe 2024 ftw

Atleti's revenge narrative probably the best final pairing imo

'mon el cholo

Real Madrid (4-3-3): Navas; Carvajal, Ramos, Pepe, Marcelo; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo. Subs: Casilla, Nacho, James, Lucas Vázquez, Jesé, Isco, Danilo.

Atlético Madrid (4-4-2): Oblak; Juanfran, Godín, Savic, Filipe Luis; Saúl, Gabi, Augusto, Koke; Torres, Griezmann. Subs: Moyà, Tiago, Correa, Lucas Hernández, Carrasco, Partey, Giménez.

Aw man i wish it wasnt my girlfriends birthday tonight because i really wanted to watch this. I dont know whether to try and avoid the internet and watch it early morning or just enjoy from afar and catch highlights

O god this Alicia Keys bullshit is terrible. American tv surprisingly made the right call and cut to commercial

Caught myself choosing third rate tennis over this, but that's done now. And my gf isn't having her birthday... Such an unattractive bill. Rooting for Atleti.

Xp lol. I read a piece earlier that adding Alicia Keys was done mostly to attract more US viewers.

is mark clattenburg the collina of the '10s or something, he's ubiquitous

the savic defectives.

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 January 2012

lol

atleti are pretty bad
they look like an english team playing 442 in an early 2000s champions league game

yeah i'm very disappointed in bayern still tbh

https://i.imgur.com/iAycaL7.png

huge, if true

lol

they have played roma wolfsburg man city iirc? pretty shit set of teams but take nothing away from them etc etc

Griezmann only one looking like doing anything for Atleti

godin burnett

yeah i'm very disappointed in bayern still tbh

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:21 (17 minutes ago)

this is what i was saying about two games vs one, they knocked out two teams better than real madrid but in a single game the tactical advantage is reduced

they begin having to score at least once in 90/120 vs 180/210 so the defensive/attritional paranoia that animates them in a psychological as well as tactical sense is sort of neutralized; no away goals rule

So Torres is still shit after all?

not really he's been playing fairly well in la liga but with madrid playing deep there's not a lot he can do

atleti 433 now probably so should be competitive

Oh fuck.

lol griezmann looked almost sorrowful beforehand
so easy to fuck with even good penalty takers if the goalkeeper can carry off the tom o'bedlam routine, especially if they are either a penalty specialist or have already saved their penalties
very good value booking

Athleti look much better this half.

yeah
niguez, koke, griezmann, carrasco is a really good attacking midfield
something they didn't have two years ago

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=pepe%20%22don%27t%20like%20to%20see%20that%22&src=typd

aha!

Praying for pens

yeah

Real win on pens. 121st minute winner would be so much better.

navas has 9/29 saved, oblak 7/24 so not a lot of difference
oblak has saved 2/3 since he has been at atletico, vs messi and muller

long day, Atleti so much more imposing in the 2nd half of real time, down to the audio coverage now

they are in atleti time now tho

I hope Clattenberg's learned the Spanish for 'your mother is a whore'.

juanfran is a more competent attacking wingback than had been suspected

than will have been suspected by less seasoned liga bbva viewers

torres needs replacing by correa unless the latter is useless (maybe idk)

it took pepe 110 minutes to get booked, it's like a new beckett play

New Beckett play

lol / lol xp

As John Hartson would say, it's looking like pels.

find it almost impossible to envisage torres scoring a penalty

clattenburg_headshake.gif

Don't think I ever wanted a player to die as much as Pepe. This is really bringing out he worst in me.

Thank you babby Jesus for the pens

Feeling not sorry for Loltorres already

you weren't here but i called that miss

that's disappointing but some consolation from the notifications

Jay Andrews ‏@jayandrews076 9m9 minutes ago

Can't believe Pepe never got yellow carded for his play acting. Don't like to see that ever

if ever, if ever a situation called for a panenka, that was it

Anything on the telly tonight?

oh look one of barca and real won

They've turned the tellyvoff in the pub, I wanted to see Gareth Bale announced as player of the match by BT Sports viewers.

big risk from zidane picking young lad to take the first peno and leave ronaldo last. if kid missed and they lost 4-3 on pens they'd be calling for his head. 5th pens are prob not taken half the time but i suppose ronaldo knew it could be the one for glory

Real having their open top bus printed up with 11 Times Champions or whatever and rolling through the streets of Madrid within nine hours of winning the trophy in a completely different country is some next level shit.

they know a thing or two about making buses run on time, true