Rennes against Boys: the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2020/2021 thread

Someone had to

United have seemed comfortable.

The second half of Zenit vs Bruges was absolutely wild.

this is the PSG we know and love, but Utd have been really solid

Telles has an unbelievable cross on him. Hopefully our lads will learn how to attack them eventually

Lovely header from Martial.

Ah fuck off

Bizarre

I actually cannot fault that performance

Not even the kit?

The kit's grown on me

Bless Eder and his ability to score once in thirty matches, but only in big games.

Real are two nil down

Lol, three.

Against the Shakhtar b-team as well!

Great goal from Modric. If Shakhtar sit back, there’s no way they’re holding this lead.

Vinicius scores three seconds after coming on.

this is the sort of predictable fascist parade that they specialise in

it'll finish 6-3

VAR comes good at last.

Good draw for Lokomitiv.

oh excellent, my jinxes never work usually

Szoboszlai is so good. Traore at Ajax looks excellent too - only one goal so far today, he scored five at the weekend.

The five at the weekend was amateur hour tbf

Madrid 2-0 down, you love to see it.. again!

Madrid level!

I was thinking the fake crowd noise at the Chelsea game was unusually good

then I realised there are actual fans in the stands

Morata has had three goals disallowed through VAR.

Rashford for PM

Hat trick!

Joao Felix looks excellent this season. Consistently the biggest threat Atleti have.

Looking forward to seeing how Gomez and Williams handle Zapata, Muriel and the other Gomez later.

Jota with two brilliant finishes.

Five nil, Jota hat trick. This is hugely impressive counter attacking.

The bittersweetness of enjoying Jota's rise won't stop, but I am pleased for the cunt

Surely a bit more sweet than bitter in that it's clearly a transfer that everybody benefits from

Every time he scores I assume it ups the fee and he clearly wasn't in Nuno's plans so yeah it is more sweet than bitter but he's killing it, which is great, but obvi sigh

I mean basically he's a good lad so god speed

He looks like he's been playing for us for years

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United turned over by Erdogan’s boys.

Atrocious performance again

A loss to Everton and I think/hope Ole is gone

Madrid currently losing to Donetsk again. As it stands, they’re third, level on points with Shakhtar. Depending on how the other game tonight goes, Shakhtar could potentially be playing an already eliminated Inter last.

RBS vs Lokomotiv has been great fun.

Lokomotiv penalty, brawl, Salzburg goal in two minutes.

lol, 2-0 Shakhtar.

i don’t understand how they took the tying goal off the board in the inter match... like i literally don’t get it

Embolo was fractionally offside, which usually wouldn’t matter as he didn’t touch the ball, but he was blocking the vision of the goalkeeper so was considered ’active’.

ah ok. seems like a crazy subjective rule. somehow the VAR toothpaste needs to be put back in the tube

sadly it's here to ruin football forever now

That Inter shirt is fucked up

Some game this in leipzig

Jesus keeper

Yep, straight down the middle.

tbh, you could have been talking about either keeper though.

Unsighted and a clean strike but like

xp keeper made a good recovery of the second incident tho

Great fun of a game that

No idea how Fred's gotten away with that

Well that was inevitable

Bizarre not to have subbed him at half time.

Giroud has scored four vs Sevilla.

Ole genuinely has the worst in-game management I've ever seen

It's killing us

Lazio bottling it against a 10-man Bruges.

2-2, Bruges need to win and have been absolutely dominant.

They hit the crossbar!

Leipzig didn't

lol

Ole has sussed that this team plays best overturning an opposition lead

AWB is getting absolutely murdered out there

Doesn't know where he is

playing 7 defenders and Angelino has the freedom of the pitch

Bahçeşehir have walked off saying Pierre Webo was racially abused by the fourth referee.

Başakşehir even.

Surely Solskjaer gets his cards now

Embarrassing from United.

he still won't

what even is Harry Maguire

Great stuff by Başakşehir and PSG.

Ever get the feeling you're being trolled?

Hmmmm.

I hate that I was made to care about that

So fucking thrilled to see that after Sunday's parliamentary elections, where a previously unknown, batshit far-right party made up of Iron Guard worshipping, ethnonationalist, christopath covidiots whose leader is a literal ultra somehow managed to garner 9% of the popular vote – in no small part thanks to expat voters, a quarter of which apparently want nothing more than to trade Ludovic Orban for Viktor Orbán – some racist shit-for-brains referee puts Romania back in the spotlight.

You know it’s bad news when pom shows up in a footy thread #sadlol

Disgraceful.

it was willi orbáns night

Tbf he reportedly said 'negrul', which means 'the black guy'. While referring to black players by the colour of their skin is, uh, insensitive, to say least, it's also important to note that 'negru' in Romanian is not a racial slur in and of itself – it just means black (masculine).

As has been repeatedly pointed out though, why would he be referring to him like that at all, rather than as 'the assistant coach, him' *gestures*

That's the crux of it, yes. No one in Romania thinks that's racist because, well, Romania is a racist af country like all of its Eastern European neighbours, so the aforementioned far-right anti-Western party (AUR) will score some extra points in the collective unconscious tonight.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that he didn't use the n-word per se, since that's how it was seemingly reported at first.

LJ otm, referring to a person by calling out his colour is nagl. He'd not have said 'hey whitey' if the assistant had been white, surely, to call on him. It annoys me immensely yet it's completely unsurprising to read a lot of footy fans going 'but negru isn't racist! it's pc gone mad!'. Finally a team had the balls to just say 'enough of this shit', to walk the walk after every match starts with 'no to racism', with the opposite side showing solidarity no less. That's class imo.

For sure, but it's also worth noting that the majority of Romanians have never seen a black person in real life, have little to no knowledge of Western colonialism's history, and are thus simply too ignorant to approach such matters with the required sensitivity. To my mind, there is a difference between a Western European saying this is an instance of PC culture gone mad and an Eastern European arguing the same thing, doubly so if they're not expats, because my anecdotal sense is that 95%+ of Romanians just don't get it at all, including the least overtly fash ones.

Beyond that, however, and to the extent that we are collectively incapable of acknowledging the murderous racism that we've inflicted upon the Roma and Jewish communities within our own country over the centuries, it seems clear to me that these 'attenuating circumstances' conceal a stubborn unwillingness to engage with issues of race in general, greatly decreasing whatever leftover sympathy I might have as a Westernized expat. Not to mention – and this, too, is key – that Colțescu himself should have known better insofar as he belongs to that minority of Romanians who have indeed interacted with black folks before, and because an international match calls for international mores, including in one's own mother tongue. The fact that he, unlike most of his compatriots, was directly privy to the aforementioned context yet drew no lessons from it is damning, and he fully deserves the flak, even though he will no doubt continue to paint himself as a hapless victim now that he has the entire nation's backing.

i mean in short part of that is the old "honest mistakes are fine, but if you don't listen when you're corrected then you're a dick" thing, which is hardly unique to eastern europe but is super poisonous as a political tool

Of course this is being used as an opportunity to argue that WE'RE the real victims of racism here, so there's definitely a pattern, yeah. *sigh*

Well, Romanians are not the real victims of racism but there's a scale, an on one end there is a referee who may or may not intended something despicable and on the other there's Erdogan, the Qatari owners, the French political class, all with well worked racistographies that are crying foul. When they are painting the Romanian as some backwards non-cosmopolitan redneck who can't possibly save himself from being decent, it rings as hollow and it rings as racism. I support the players decisions to walk off the pitch, but anything above that is hypocrisy, and I'm sad the players won't protest that.

Erdogan in particular can go get stuffed, but our community dgaf about racism unless it targets us specifically, so while I have no doubt that some Westerners are using this as an excuse to continue dumping on Romanians in general, there is also no question to my mind that the majority of Romanians are utterly unable and/or unwilling to question their own prejudices. France, for all its flaws, is still a less racist nation than Romania in 2020.

yeah well the most racist comments I've heard in Montreal have all come from Romanians.

Colour me surprised… Navigating this shit among other Romanians (and Eastern Europeans in general tbh) is a fucking nightmare at the best of times. It makes me empathize with Americans whose relatives have succumbed to the Great Trumpist Plague of 2016 and for which no surefire vaccine has been found so far. It's also an involuntary masterclass in rhetorical persuasion for me to the extent that simply going 'you're racist!' makes them even more entrenched in their position, whereas a modicum of dialogue and proper contextualization does go a long way with some people, which is about as much as we can ask for, I'm afraid.

The 'funny' thing, too, is that on the scale of Romanian racism, Colțescu's actions rank quite low. He even self-policed his tone by saying 'ăla negru' (the one who is black) instead of the sadly more common 'negru ăla' (that black one, which sounds more contemptuous in Romanian without quite entering n-word territory tbf) so unconsciously he must have known that language matters.

The plot thickens. Romanian media is reporting that one of the Turkish officials (presumably) yelled something to the effect of 'in my country, Romanians are gypsies. I can't say "gypsies"'. Yet you just fucking did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqIEVX8G9Y

Anyway, fuck everything about this incident.

Poch effect in full swing.

Mbappe hattrick, 1-4 PSG.

probs not the best idea rushing pique back

Sevilla hadn’t conceded in seven games prior to tonight and are 3-1 down at home to Dortmund in the first half. Terrible defending and Haaland is lethal.

the thought of haaland at man city is terrifying, the thought of him at man utd agonising. he looks too big and too awkward and almost lumbering and then he suddenly darts off behind the last defender like you've x6'd the DVR and KABOOM!!!

Moves like special effects, its crazy

Porto bossing their match against Juve.

Thanks var

Absolute corker from Giroud

Wowwwww

Ten man for an hour porto are putting juve out

Oh no they aren't

Unbelievable

Goal 113'

Goal 115'

Wait juve need another cos away goal

Bullshit obv as it penalises second leg home team

Surely a pen

119' to juve VAR

Prob not

Three mins added time in extra time, all juve

Always a happy day when Juve lose.

Anthony Taylor ruining a potentially interesting match in Paris.

Anthony Taylor ineptitude is now making it more interesting.

Ref and var uninterested in Chelsea fouls here

(However light the contact, two fouls, one def in box one close)

How on earth is that a red

Ref is a joke tbh

PSG look like they can score at will vs Bayern.

Bayern playing incredibly well now, still losing

well, me posting did the trick

cannot like psg somehow

Fucking Chelsea though, ugh.

if the first-leg winners all prevail we are faced with a situation where man city might be the least evil club left in it

and that is worrying

best half of football I've seen this season. terrific stuff.

Absolutely

And city back brilliantly this half

Keeper should always track that ball for me, if someone gets a touch its still better than watching a lob go in from thirty yards

Oh the state of that wall holy shit

Cunts tackle, red all day and lucky if gundogan not badly hurt

If city played with a forward theyd have three more

You can take the Poch out of Tottenham, but you can't take etc etc

Cant argue that

Great fuckin match that but mbappe took the night off

They should have made the guy lying down stand in the wall imo.

Ex-@ManUtd manager Sir Alex Ferguson visited the PSG team hotel on this morning. The Lowry Hotel is currently only hosting the PSG squad, with no other guests currently staying there due to coronavirus restrictions.

[via @ManCityMEN] pic.twitter.com/EuOiFuoTip

— Man City Report (@cityreport_) May 4, 2021

lol

Neymar is a greedy shit and its costing his team here

Could be a very good week in Europe for those disgraceful ESL teams everyone is so disgusted by.

Impeccable counter

It would be good if that kind of thing wasnt a red card imo

lol

These cunts are like children it’s hilarious

Orange all day trevor

Another one there

Ref giving them a benefit

All four finalists from England for the second time in three years would be pretty bleak tbh.

ESLland rather than England tbf.

Nothin unbleak about oligarchy or shadow financing teams from any country owning the game tbh

But we're told the stout-hearted football fans of England would give up reaching Champions League finals by beating PSG in the semis for 51% fan ownership and midweek Carabao Cup games against Rotherham Utd.

If twere offered

christ this Madrid team is dire

It's completely mystifying how badly both Sarri and Lampard managed Kante.

kante, I was just msging friends about this, I did lol when fat Frank dropped him completely and sari's positional messing around was unnecessary too (to accomodate jorginho), tuchel is currently living at ngolo's house and wrapping every surface in cotton wool. he know's he's a winner, full stop.

Hazard : a sad shadow in this dad's army real team, no loving from zidane coming off, on the pitch at the end, laughing and joking with Chelsea subs, Madrid fans will be going mental

Romance of the cup the final everyone wanted

Is this is the worst season of football ever?

8,000 fans from the UK travelling to Turkey to watch City v Chelsea seems perfectly sensible

Fine if Turkey can be persuaded to keep them.

Sure that post-match Hazard image won’t be a big deal in Madr ... ah pic.twitter.com/e5pJih2RiX

— James Dart (@James_Dart) May 6, 2021

If shonda isnt all over this then idk what

Turkey is in full lockdown until at least May 17. My work colleague is in the Ankara suburbs and tough luck if you can't persuade the gendarmerie that you're grocery shopping. Still, Istanbul, eh? Maybe, JUST MAYBE.

xp guardian journos plagiarising less prominent journos tweets is it

I'm sure they are taking the defeat well in the Madrid pre-ah. pic.twitter.com/AcFiDaPmC2

— Gavin Cooney (@gcooney93) May 5, 2021

not Chelsea's weekend so far. that first 30 secs were insane. lieke martens tho. running the game.

🚨 Noticia @partidazocope

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💸 Además se exponen a una fuerte multa económica

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No suggestion that English clubs might be affected yet.

Why would they be exempt

The only reason I can imagine is they all dropped out and the rest kept the idea alive longer.

Ah, justice

So Man City v Chelsea again next year?

Hate to admit it but the game has been great so far.

Is this on YouTube? Sounds like a great game tbh.

Yes, on YouTube.

It's not bad at all for a game with no palatable outcome

Nice appetiser for the Euros, the surrogate 2022 world Cup

happy for tuchel and havertz

Happy for Kanté!

Really wanted that Mahrez ball to go in for the game to go extra time, it was a fun match.

Chelsea are scum but pretty hilarious that Guardiola has once again failed abjectly to do the very thing he was hired to do.

sacked in the morning

Please.

Wanted the final annulled and every Chelsea fan who went to Porto to get covid but they totally played City.

don't like de bruyne but when a guy spends five minutes on the ground concussed, maybe don't immediately start grabbing and patting his head once he gets up

Thought that shoudve been a red tbh

Chelsea were excellent, just excellent. Decisions and execution individually all over the pitch just at an extraordinary high level

away goals abolished, which i get even though i am a fan of them. what i don't get is having 30 mins of extra time before pens in event of an aggregate draw, seems unfairly weighted in favour of whoever has the 2nd leg at home.

Away goals are great, fucking uefa

True.
I'm not sure what I think about that change but I kinda liked that away goal rule although I agree that it was difficult to justify nowadays.

xpost

Why is it difficult to justify nowadays? What's changed?

for elite teams i assume ease, comfort and time of travel.

Sorry, don't understand.

away goals rule was instituted when plane travel was slower and less comfortable, and some teams even travelled via bus to neighbouring countries. accommodations could be unpleasant, training facilities sub-par. football was also a lot less developed so teams weren't taking their sports scientists and nutritionists with them, these roles not existing then.

back in the day many uk teams have sob-stories about mammoth journeys to eastern europe, dingy digs, dodgy food, training in car-parks. all that jumpers for goalposts "real football" type shit.

now it's millionaires taking a flight, usually just for a few hours, going to an interchangeable luxury hotel that could be in any city, having an identical routine pre and post-match in terms of food, training in comparable facilities etc.

Indeed but why is it difficult to justify the away goals rule nowadays? It was introduced in the era when teams might have to play a third match to settle a match, and that's not about to happen again, and also to stop teams parking the bus in away ties.

Is the theory that penalty kicks are a fairer way to settle ties?

By the way, when I said, "What's changed", I meant from last year, not from 1965.

jim that's a solid summary of where the rule came from but away goals always create a tactical slyness that will be missed, just another bland step to TV mulch

Four penalties in the first half of Sevilla - Salzburg, three of which went to Salzburg, two of which were missed.

salzburg have been great.

United will be extremely lucky if they get a draw, at this rate.

lol

deserved for allowing him to stay at the club

watched the last 15 of this man u game, seemed like utd had decided a draw was enough, from early in the second half, what was lingard thinking making that pass, did he just want an assist and didn't care for who?, why were cronaldo and penandes hooked early in the 2nd half? was jaded poncho even playing?, is cavani now behind martial, who came on and didn't even touch the ball, weird game, I have questions

Wan-Bissaka was sent off in the first half, although that doesn't adequately explain the total capitulation followed

Cavani is injured

10 men vs. 11 young boys.

yeah, I didn't see any meaningful football in the last 15, til lingz decided suicideball was the answer

Barcelona's kit is unspeakably awful.

this superleague is mint

What a shower of dismaying cowards this spurs squad consists of

Ref and linesman are not at it, hes just seen an anklebreaker on Lucas and let it go unremarked

So poor. Deservedly losing to a very limited side.

For the second time in a week.

Individually so dreadful that it would almost make you miss that the interplay has been much, much worse

Take your equaliser and fuck off

Real Madrid 2-1 down at home against Sheriff Tiraspol.

Stunning goal too.

4 assists from Curtis Jones tonight

I counted 4 assists from their goalie

Superb game by Curtis tho, really stepping up

That messi goal had me up out the seat, especially after watching spurs for the few years and especially especially after watching city the entire second half

Terrified to try anything where it mattered. Horrible to watch

Anyone watching Porto/Pool? I was just checking the live text and sounded like Diogo Costa had an unbelievably bad game.

See my comment 2 posts above. He made several inexplicable decisions resulting in goals

Utd getting absolutely rinsed here

De Gea is good again though. The shitter we are the better he gets - like a Spanish Shay Given.

Another spanking for Barcelona, this time from Benifca.

Delightful to see Adel Taarabt playing for a team 3-0 up against Barca.

I’ve seen all Barca’s league games this season and they really are awful. They have injuries, tbf, but they’re a one-man team at the moment and, unfortunately, that man is Memphis Depay who turns up for one game in three,

Koeman wants to be sacked but Barca can’t afford his severance pay. He was criticised for not playing enough young players so has been stuffing the team with 17-year-olds out of spite. They make Spurs look organised and cohesive.

Ah rats, Ronaldo winner.

absolute robbery

what's happening to/in barca is a huge tragedy. i used to love that club but i can hardly watch any of their games.

psg is the new barca

no

also Barca are reaping what they've sown and I'm glad they're dead

Yeah, couldn't give a fuck about any of these megaclubs and their travails.

I’m not enormously sympathetic but going from a situation where about ten clubs could plausibly win the Champions League to one where four could does make things even more boring than they were previously.

no

― oscar bravo, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

not in terms of style and strategy, but in that now everyone wants a PSG jersey and cheers for them. they're the new "most loved" team internationally

Also no imo

Yes, got no idea where you're getting that from.

so, this happened tuesday

behind the scenes 📹

The legend Messi protects the wall 🐐😂 pic.twitter.com/7n3cFllnap

— Enock Essel Niccolo Makaville (@EsselKobina39) September 28, 2021

https://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-the-toe-poke/story/4486413/psgs-lionel-messi-lays-behind-wall-for-free-kickneymar-asks-what-are-you-doing-there

that just skid past reus's head. it still would've gone in

ajax is dominating

This is mad stuff but this ref is excellent

Only an animal disallows that teixeira goal

this has to be the end

Surely

What a goal

they're looking really good now lol

Shaw is rolls royce, if yr rolls royce had alternator issues maybe

put him up front gareth!

LOL Cron to the rescue, Solskjaer lives to fight another day.

that'll buy him another six months

turns out this Utd formation doesn't work against a competent team

shocker

Hard to believe this is the same united team that looked exactly this bad against us

Oh my word

ugh

You cant question oles genius

I mean you can but he gets pissy

bringing on Sancho and van de Beek in the 86th minute would have been a fitting denoument to his tenure

First time chested assist for a volley equaliser for shakhtar, you love to see it

Michael Oliver and Stuart Atwell taking the clown car on the road. Poor red card followed by a soft penalty in the space of five minutes in the Dortmund game.

Pretty weird red for Felipe in the Liverpool match. I think everyone has been booked for Atleti at this point

Ronaldo vs Messi lol

Or maybe not

UEFA investigating controversial Champions League last 16 draw and whether it will have to be performed again after Man Utd fiasco #MUFC @DailyMirror @MirrorFootball https://t.co/f4kUlbQEkB

— David McDonnell (@DiscoMirror) December 13, 2021

redo, eufa confirmed

maybe

As a result of this, the draw has been declared void and will be entirely redone at 1500 CET.

— UEFA (@UEFA) December 13, 2021

lol

Salzburg v Bayern Munich
Sporting v Man City
Benfica v Ajax
Chelsea v Lille
Atlético v Man United
Villarreal v Juventus
Inter v Liverpool
PSG v Real Madrid

UEFA were obv. determined Chelsea play Lille no matter what.

OMG

pic.twitter.com/QeHU9sySQ1

— James Allcott (@jamesallcott) December 13, 2021

chelsea world club cup semi final nicely slotted in the middle of a young sheldon / big bang theory marathon on e4

1-0 psg win it -- suck it madrid!

WHAT A GOAL BY KYLIAN MBAPPÉ 🤯🤯🤯#UCL

via @CBSSportsGolazo pic.twitter.com/qi80kfwgRI

— beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) February 15, 2022

just one of the worst halves of football I've ever seen from Manchester Utd there

not watching but 65% of the possession and only 2 shots (both off-target) - i can only imagine the thrill

well, you only need one shot on target

and how cool was that finish?

1. i love this multicast (madrid/psg and man city/sporting lisbon)
2. no surprises in any of these matches

second offside, eager beaver

v clearly a foul by benzema

horrible mistake by psg

modric with two minutes for the history books

ha, deflected. own goal i suppose

haha, whoaaaa, benzema is such a beast

that was a class class finish

its just like watching spurs this

pretty much

no no i meant madrid

I'd like to see this Real side try to put 5 past Lampard's Everton.

messi at psg has turned out to be astonishingly meh. does he just not know what to do when a team isn't completely and fundamentally geared around himself? or is he just unmotivated and pining for Barca?

I'd like to see this Real side try to put 5 past Lampard's Everton

I'd like to see them stop at 5. Maybe 15min each way.

xp six of one three of t'other three of old as fuck

always thought ken early was a bit early on the bandwagon of "messi doesnt run" but when modric ate him up last night there wasn't any place to hide from it

Maguire and Ronaldo headbutting each other at that corner is my footballing moment of the year so far

Wonderful Real Madrid goal.

Not sure anyone is better than Benzema at the moment. Vini Jr has also been exceptionally good this season.

And another.

critical support for Generalissimo Madrid

That Modric assist

Delighted for Villarreal and their cast of Spurs misfits. Amazing performances.

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in a world where i wanted a limited nuclear strike to hit the Bernabeu, i lolled

Atletico beating Man City would be <3

City's half time music is I Feel Love? I really don't want to like them but

Not sure who else would go for the Panenka in that situation.

Wonderwall at the final whistle

order is restored

lol

4-3 vile

Hard not to like City. It was a good match!

Not that hard tbh.

Lol. To each their own

Liverpool has had some pretty massive chances. Thiagggggo Allllcantara

RB liverpool just too caffeinated for villareal in the end

Madrid bottling it so far

Holy shit

Kin 'ell

Crikey

This is funny as fuck

Manchester Chokey

GuardiLOLa (again)

You can tell Grealish came to accept the fundamental immorality of the whole project at some point during the game. Heart wasn't in it

I was making fries the other day only to discover only to discover that I had no more oil left. I turn around to see a bald man running away with my oil! After catching up to him I found out it was Pep Guardiola, he said "Please I need more oil to win the UCL"

— 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓺_𝓰𝓮𝓶 (@blaq_gem) May 4, 2022

stay classy

man I think being told they had six minutes of stoppage to pull back the tying goal really energized em.

Twitter was filled with people saying "too late, too late" after the first goal, shows them.

so annoyed Man City didn't score in the 1st half after putting my £5 freebet on Man City/Real ht/ft result @ 20/1

Salah looking hungry

Feel like Liverpool need to score here.

This Liverpool line-up is so good. I know a lot of it is coaching but their recruitment has been pretty remarkable really.

Does anyone know why they are tear gassing Liverpool fans with tickets? Did General Franco rise from the grave?

Man Pool are lucky there

Yay VAR strikes again!

I would love to say that Michael Owen saying Liverpool will "blow Real Madrid away" and Gerrard and Ferdinanad saying they would win comfortably has not coloured my view of this match... but I can't. Also Andy Townsend talking about Reel Madrid.

Liverpool have looked knackered the last few games really, after 40 mins without scoring they were basically spent. Trent played like his critics say he plays, poor for the goal, a few terrible attempts on goal and crap set pieces. Keita was awful when he came on. Great defending from Madrid tbf.

https://i.imgur.com/Mtjjt6Z.jpg

Yes, some fantastic defending in this game.

easy

I'm sorry but mentioning you're showing Solihull Moors vs. Chesterfield not once but twice in course of a Champions League Final, fuck you BT Sports, let's have it back on free to air TV.

0 goals in 3 finals

Shut up, Owen.

Great episode of Stadio about the shit outside the stadium last night: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rOApkyvOobmKYmL7WbZza?si=88a1547b76ce4c2a

(can't find a way to link that isn't Spotify)

Liverpool getting a chasing so far, they look shite

Very harsh pen

Weird they let him take it. Great entertainment so far!

3-0 before half time. Gomez nowhere near this level. The Georgian kid for Napoli looks electric

Kvaratskhelia

KLOLpp out

4-0. They need Tuchel to sort this defence out

more puke football from Spurs

I’ve honestly never seen a Spurs side with less ability to put three passes together and I remember the George Graham era. They deserve nothing out of this campaign.

Never in doubt.

Pretty impressive to qualify top of your group having, across the six games, led for a total of 75 minutes.

Yikes, Liverpool.

getting battered by 3 goals at home to real - couldn’t be my team

joe gomez disaster class

5 goals for Haaland with half an hour to go.

... oh hold on, he's been subsituted. I'm sure he was delighted by that.

I'm playing a game where I hack off a finger every time Darren Fletchers mispronounces 'Benzymar' and I'm finding it a bit hard to type lads

his grandad is from the island so that works out quite well narratively

I've just realized the CL Final is on Sky or BT Sports or some channel I don't have and also just realized I can't be bothered to find another way of watching it, let alone go to a pub to watch it. Changed days!

Yes tho if you cba it's free on BT Sport's YouTube as the other two UEFA finals were

OK I'll probably watch it then! Even though the inevitability of Mon(che)ster City winning has sapped my will to live.

not inevitable imo theres a sting in this inter side

Whoever decided Steven Gerrard and Joleon Lescott would make a good pair of summarizers for a Champions League final needs sacking.

Lukaku to score the winner would be pretty great ngl

shocking decision great tackle

ref sweating for city here tbh

Lukaku blocking the equaliser is pretty lol ngl

1-0 City from Rodri knocking a ball back in from the edge of the box is the most crushingly obvious way for this to go

xp otm

hes a lot of things but light on his feet he aint

fuck me lads thats the chance the whole inter game was based around

lukaku you embarrassment

Cunts.

maybe Pep will fuck off out of the EPL now he's won the big one? ah who am I kidding

Imagine a football boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Man City are just a fucking player warehouse

I was hoping Lukaku would get an equaliser but unfortunately he's an oaf

putting the l onto oaf

drunk Man City fan on the radio now getting outraged at accusations they've got money to burn

Idgi Darragh

loaf
2 of 2
verb
loafed; loafing; loafs

intransitive verb
: to spend time in idleness

Bit drunk thought it was a capital i

Ioaf
Oafi
Oiaf

it works on 2 levels since he earned the L tonite

This Scott Carson thing has almost made all of this worthwhile.

it works on 2 levels since he earned the L tonite

― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

three because he hasnt been avoiding carbs neither

lol

this Utd team just continues to give

at least we won't be in the Europa now

both matches very spicy today

omg now BOTH matches tied on aggregate

Barca coach sent off, and they're down to 10 men already

Barca comprehensively fucking this

oi Dortmund, how do you let TWO runners undetected into the box

OMG DORTMUND

I hate fucking PSG but if Dortmund can go through I'll be happy.

OMG DORTMUND

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 4:32 PM bookmarkflaglink

Borussia Dortmund 3 Bayern 2 or gtf

have to say City have absolutely shat themselves here

everybody too afraid to go top corner

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Premier-less semifinal

Loving the Champions League this year.

been a good two days of matches.

thank u for no away goals

Bernardo Silva possibly the most embarrassing penalty miss I've ever seen in my life.

yeah that one was hilarious. at least Modric's was just weak

i can take no joy in Madrid winning anything but hey it's the Champions League it's all heels

Fucking hell, how do Madrid get away with this stuff

Didn't have an attack worthy of the name for about 100 minutes. Bellingham was absolutely non-existent

Still, lol City etc

i had a low-stakes wager that Man City would score exactly one goal, and I cashed out early after their first one because it looked like they were going to add a second real quick.

Great day to be a salty premier league fan!!!

Dortmund beat PSG home and away, absolutely awesome.

I keep thinking of a West Ham supporter I heard on the radio after Leverkusen had put them out of the Europa League: "Bundesliga? It's like the Scottish league innit?".

an absolutely brilliant away performance, rarely lost intent to break and threaten either and so resolute in defence

everything you want in a team, that. some of the hold up play was of the very highest order.

fantastic reffing performance as well

Started off wanting Bayern to win but as the game wore on I thought why am I supporting Bayern Munich ffs? Anyway Neuer being to one to fuck it up was hilarious, Tuchel taking off Kane was pathetic now come on ye Dortmund!