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

ugh yeah that was poor

he wasnt very good in the bernabeu game either

Messi-like run from Reus, played in Derek beautifully, touched it round Casillas and then with an open goal he hit it lazily and is didn't cut far enough, back off the post

He has had 4 decent chances tonight

jallet is to this psg what rainha is to bayern

psg just need to shift 10 yards forward because every time chelsea retain possession they are one short pass from the edge of the penalty area

Touch of the Fellainis about Bale whenever I've seen him against high quality opposition this season

Lucas Moura wearing the hangdog air of a man who knows it's his fuck-up that will send Chelsea through

Good move Laurent

Gah

oh man

Inevitable though.

so shit

lol what a shit goal after a series of aimless punts

inevitable because psg have been defending far too deep

Ba had about five touches there

looked like he hit that off his own standing leg

get a load of this timewasting

bale was really good vs sevilla and in the first leg vs dortmund

not so good vs atleti or barca but baby steps

worst club

Fellainiesque in that his touch seems noticeably more leaden than others

PSG mugged themselves really

fucking despise mourinho beyond measure

Rangers > Greece 2004 > the other team in Escape To Victory >>>>> Chelsea

Are we supposed to like this PSG team? Fuck em' imo

I do like them anyway, but surely tonight it's got to be relative

don't particularly like psg but thiago silva & verratti are two of my favourite players

tonight is their fault though, should have done far more wit their possesion in the first half, cavani was shit

The silver lining is that Liverpool-Chelsea is between the two legs of the semi-final

Keane's hair's looking a lot better these days. There's always something not quite right about it - the front sits badly - but this is an improvement imo.

hes always had hair like an 8 year old boy, now with greying temples

finally got round to watching that vieria / keane programme 'best of enemies', worth seeing

real were so so shit tonight. missing ronaldo (but he was there shouting from the bench)but you'd expect better from them. dortmund should've won really. heaps of chances. bale was crap alright but hardly the worst offender. isco was terrible, he runs exactly like ronaldo with the little flappy arms prance but has half his brain.

those ITV docs are pretty good in general. Even the Ian Wright one surprisingly enough. His evil stepdad made him face the wall when MOTD was on!

madrid seem to have that same complacency after an easy first leg that bayern showed vs arsenal last season, although ancelotti's credentials in the really big games at madrid remain unproven

if atleti go through then half the sf teams will be attritional counterattackers, so madrid at least provide something more expansive

chelsea remain the desiccated maggots in the baklava of elite european football

lol

Fucking shit pair of results last night, hate both clubs

i dont mind the real one but the chelsea win bugs me. two shitty stoke-esque goals to win the tie as well.

Would be tough to argue they were not two goals better though. PSG were pretty awful for the last hour and Chelsea should arguably have scored more, however inelegantly.

Yeah it was a terrible bottling by PSG, they can't complain.

What gets me is that Chelsea's run just goes on and on, no matter how badly they run themselves. That's eleven straight years of some significant success. Even when they did fail they went and won the Europa League instead. My worry is that at some point they're going to become an actual big club and there'll be no getting rid of them.

Yeah PSG really choked probably convinced themselves that they just had to leave possession to Chelsea and wait it out. Still think Paris should have won but Blanc screwed up by making the team play against its nature

Dortmund were fantastic to watch last night although the goals they scored came from monumental Madrid fuck ups whereas they squandered all the many chances they created from good play. Well, I say they but I really mean Derek.

Alonso v lucky not to get a red card for an obvious foul while already on a yellow.

Think I'll go with barca v atleti tonight the first leg was much better than I expected. Is Costa fit?

I don't think i'll ever stop hating Chelsea, especially a Jose Chelsea and especially one that does better in Europe than it ever should. I didn't see last night but shame on PSG. Zlatan deserves more.

there is always that ship of theseus aspect to chelsea, most of the components shift from year to year but they are still chelsea, irremediably, in a way that can't be attirbuted to the numinous presence of juy tuy and lamps alone

ac milan had something similar but it's gone

uh Barca playing with their 4 midfielders (busquets, xavi, cesc, iniesta) so I guess Neymar will be playing from the right again which never really works.

rumours were cesc would be playing false 9 then messi off the right and neymar left

ooh that would be more interesting. haven't seen much of bartra wonder how him and masch will do.

iniesta is left, neymar on right looks like. no costa

bottler webb is the ref FFS

koke 1-0

doesn't change that much for barca i guess. neymar and iniesta swapping pos constantly