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

Ah, they just have - could've been iiuc.

it looked inside the box to me

thats two ties done and dusted tonight

Kompany not taking it too well

Vincent Kompany: "Barcelona weren't superior to us".

Roy Keane: "He's obviously tired. I'm not sure he knows what he's talking about".

i need to be absolutely clear on this:

neil lennon, resplendently redheaded against tv3's blue background, has just described zlatan's left foot screamer as having gone in

like an exorcist

pellegrini just called the ref 'not impartial' thats gonna cost him

xpost possibly a clumsy reference to how quickly the evil spirit left linda blairs body in the movie of the same name

He's got a bit of that in him

surely the best use would be a dive reference to fr karras at the end idk

Paris was amazing last night. Bayer ran after the ball the whole game.
4-0, 65% possession in an AWAY game : Paris already in the quarter finals. yay !

yeah - i feel like the only team against which they don't stand a chance is bayern; all the other teams they can possibly beat.
also got to love zlatan who when asked what it felt like scoring with his wrong foot replied that "there is no wrong foot"

Matuidi looks like a really good player. His first goal last night was class.

ahah, really ?
as for bayern, yeah. I would also include barca and real. all these teams in top form would still beat a PSG in top form, I guess.

pellegrini just called the ref 'not impartial' thats gonna cost him

"I think it was not a good idea to put a referee from Sweden in charge of such an important match..."

OK, so Pellegrini is officially a fucking idiot.

Szczesny; Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs; Flamini, Wilshere; Ozil, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Sanogo

Neuer; Boateng, Dante, Martinez, Alaba; Lahm; Thiago, Kroos; Robben, Mandzukic, Gotze

I had a doozy of a ticket for this but couldn't make it (work) and had to pass it on to a mate. So I'm hoping it's good, but not *that* good.

is sanogo real or

jesus christ

that peno was a fucking turd

good wank gesture by szczęsny upon exiting

That was inevitable the moment they changed tack

they fucked up that free kick and werent in position

sky commentators apologized for 'untowards gesture' by szczesny

Awesome header from Diego Costa, he must have a neck like a whip

Disbelievingly, slightly mournfully, Szczesny headed towards the tunnel, pausing for a few words of encouragement for Lukasz Fabianski, who had replaced the unfortunate Cazorla. As Szczesny left, he appeared to make a hand gesture similar to the rolling of a dice.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10649714/Arsenal-0-Bayern-Munich-2-match-report.html

That has happened me tbh

Moyes concentrating on the league

such a nice goal

virtually no gk id favour over de gea on a shot like that either, maybe neuer

roy hodgson can answer the most feared costa rican question now

maybe de gea could have got closer but the curve on it was perfect

are we at the point where there are players actively not performing for Moyes now i wonder

olympiakos were rather good, not surprisingly given the latin complexion they looked like a good 7th 8th best team in la liga, they virtually never lost shape because the united movement was so shit

wasn't there that poster on rawk, allegedly a guy with some sort of coaching experience, who was convinced before the season started that Moyes would fail because his approach is all about position and shape and doesn't encourage improvisation/fluidity or something like that. sounds about right

Keane is so brilliant right now

Keane looking for a face to tear off

Olympiakos are usually superb at home. Although he was only there for six months, I think Jardim's influence is still felt in the way they play. Very strong in defence and very organised in midfield / attack. He has gone on to revitalise Lisbon in an equally short time.

xposts. Aye, phaseofplay. Amazing how spot on he's been.
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;u=49582

http://i.imgur.com/SQ4DSji.png

LisaCarrick ‏@LisaJCarrick 3m

Deleted my tweet .. Emotions got the better of me .. Just disappointed

xp ah yes thanks not a rawk member so can't access that link but google found me these quotes from last May which I was thinking of:

This is the hope we all had for Hodgson, though, is it not? That he was only coaching and playing that way to reflect the quality of players he had worked with. But no, he stuck with his own methods, and brought the level of the players down. Moyes is the same. Coaches have their methods because they believe in them and believe those methods are transferable. Rafa doesn't change from one team to another. Mourinho doesn't. Guardiola will do the same things at Bayern as he did at Barca. Moyes will do what he did at Everton. And it won't be enough.

It's less to do with the technical level and more to do with the habits of the players. Everything they did on the field for Ferguson was drilled into them day by day, session by session, exercise by exercise, until all of those visual and tactical triggers became second nature. Now that flow of information will not only be disrupted, but changed almost completely. They will effectively be starting at the start again, and have to learn a new way of playing, a new set of triggers to look for, a new way of training, and a new way of defending. These transitions are made smoother when you keep the previous coaching staff and work little by little. This is what happened, to a degree, with Rodgers, when he came in. New staff, new methods, new style of play and new set of triggers. The only reason he had some leeway is because we haven't challenged for the league since Rafa, and had been out of the top four. Moyes is taking over the reigning champions, and so his margin of error with the players is virtually non-existent. If he gets it wrong and takes a step in the wrong direction, he'll rapidly lose the belief of the players, and they will put on sub-standard performances in games, consciously or unconsciously.

RVP: Other United players are often in the zones I'd like to play in. I find that a pity.
Dutch TV Reporter: Do you know what is wrong with this United?
RvP: Yeah but, I won't point fingers, because I'm not like that.

I don't suppose LBI is around and can confirm?

the same quotes are going round elsewhere translated differently but functionally they are identical

http://giant.gfycat.com/ObviousHonestGalah.gif

What might've been, eh Utd fans?

wow @ that bale goal. i was full sure it was ronaldo at first, its more his style of goal

Meh, looked like Santana finished it off to me. Huntelaar's goal on the other hand was a belter.

Actually pretty instructive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj2xSQU1Avw

He IS looking only the ball.

Daniel Taylor ‏@DTguardian 6m
Astonishing that Arsenal have brought Miyaichi out to Munich without realising he's ineligible. Hence only six subs tonight.

lol come on

so u watch atleti milan cuz it's still open and they let diego costa open the scoring with a piss goal two minutes in

this midfield of de jong essien is just awful, might as well get lee cattermole in their reprising the pirlo role

23434 gifs of that balotelli fk by 9pm