They'll be sacrificing sheep in the streets of Karagandy tonight - Champions League 2013/14

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Celtic are shite. That was as bad a display as I've seen since, ooh, Saturday.

First half of this game wss total mince... from both sides. There was an improvement in the 2nd half but only from Ajax.

"It's an opportunity lost, but all is not lost," said Lennon. "The whole thing could flip again if we beat Milan and Barcelona take something off Ajax."

ooh idk neil big ask for the catalan lads there

xxp can't stop watching the sunglasses + flag man.

feel like that gif is the first time in years it's felt like germany are an arrogant footballing behemoth rather than the technically brilliant underdogs doing things the right way.

last time i remember that feeling was watching croatia vanquish the 90s team in 1998.

that's not from last night fyi

but the context is

well it's from last year's all German CL final so not really

Then they were aiming at the stars with Live Forever; last night was them dropping Be Here Now

xxp can't stop watching the sunglasses + flag man.

Range of facial expressions on topless guy ftw

Nothing like the sobering slap in the face of your team conceding to make you remember that its fucking freezing and you're not wearing a shirt.

Paris Saint-Germain dropped their first points in this season's Champions League on Tuesday evening when they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Anderlecht. The Belgians looked like they might snatch a win until The Mighty Zlatan Ibrahimovic rode in to save the day on his metaphorical ninja unicorn to bag a 70th-minute equalizer.

After the match, a few Anderlecht players revealed that the Swedish striker used more than just his power, agility and enchanting musk to gain the advantage: he also likes to trash talk. The Guardian has quotes that USMNT midfielder Sacha Kljestan gave to Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad:

"After a perfectly normal challenge, Ibra turned to me and provoked me, making a joke about my moustache, saying: 'That really is terrible.'"

It seems wrong to mock a man for his face fuzz during Movember — even if it is a permanent fixture — but fortunately, Kljestan had a burn of his own lined up:

"I responded by saying that he should think about his nose."

Champions League: BT Sport wins £897m football rights deal

Celtic are being horribly naive here against Milan and are being picked off repeatedly on the break. Kaka and Balotelli have the freedom to do whatever they want. Defending at the Milan goal was shocking, Kaka four yards out, middle of goal, heading in from a corner with no-one near him.

Our attacking play has mostly involved the getting it wide and getting crosses in (mostly from deep) that failed so spectacularly over two legs against Juventus last year. This type of play gets people saying we are playing well and taking the game to them etc but Milan are clearly completely comfortable with that primitive tactic.

Ajax are terribly ok. 2-0 up against Barca :-/

And have had 55℅ of possession.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink is in the crowd. I'd be OK with the getting out wide and putting crosses in if he was on the park. When your main strike threat is Kris Commons, not so much.

The defending was an utter shambles at the Milan goal.

So tired of pundits mistaking "absolute fucking shite defending" for "zonal marking". Zonal defending wasn't the problem, it was that they weren't doing it properly. Or at all, really.

Amazing chance missed by Van Dijk. Corner at other end with NO DEFENDING again

0-2 :(

Provan still chuntering on about zonal fucking defending.

yeah p sure there's a difference between zonal marking and doing fuck all

Ajax down to 10 men and 1-2. My twitter feed being taken over by a highly disturbing photo of a man who fell from the stands at half time. Ambulance took him away, they are mopping the floor now :-(

Wish I hadn't clicked on that :-(

Celtic are being horribly naive here against Milan and are being picked off repeatedly on the break. Kaka and Balotelli have the freedom to do whatever they want. Defending at the Milan goal was shocking, Kaka four yards out, middle of goal, heading in from a corner with no-one near him.

Our attacking play has mostly involved the getting it wide and getting crosses in (mostly from deep) that failed so spectacularly over two legs against Juventus last year. This type of play gets people saying we are playing well and taking the game to them etc but Milan are clearly completely comfortable with that primitive tactic.
--^stop that^ (onimo)

Soz Ailsa

Mario's good but ffs don't just LET HIM DO WHATEVER THE FUCK HE WANTS

:-(

Zonal marking?

*ducks*

also, LBI, not your fault, you did say "highly disturbing"...

Just so we're clear I'm at the pub watching the arsenal game right now, had been checking in on this thread but I don't know how the hell zing made the quote upthread happen, it was entirely unintentional and wasn't meant to be drawing attention to any part of onimo's post. Now need to suss wtf is going on with zing. As you were.

Marseille have been wank btw

xp Yeah I know. Photos been removed already btw

I'm just taking the whole quote as a resounding otm xp

Hold on, Chelsea lost?! Youse might've said.

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Aw hell, they qualify anyway? No wonder you managed to keep a lid on it.

Puskas and di Stefano both got hat-tricks?! Get outta here

thats a really good barca team that got beat. i thought they were going to play the youngsters.

shame chelsea are through and we arent. didnt see the game but all indicates to another ok second gear type performance that has got us doing alright this season already.

Heaven forfend that I should produce another by-the-numbers "Get Involved" post that'll draw nakh's terrifying articulate ire in my direction but really, you guys were by the far the better team and should've had a couple more

Terrifyingly articulate, fuck this phone etc

18 year old German-American forward comes on for Bayern vs CSKA and the US soccer twitter world blows the fuck up

Quite a feat to make Bayern's first team before wikipedia notices you.

Lovely jubbly

Pleased with MU winning with some goals again, but seriously, they don't have to play good to beat this dire Leverkusen squad.

Nonsense. This is a new dawn for The Pride of All Europe.

lol galatasaray

Peachy from Nani

Lol NBS

So. Fucking. Easy.

What's going on?

All the "See? Kagawa on 10 and we're brill!" Is such huge nonsense though. Buttner on 10 would've done equally well against this side.