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

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

fucking pinto trying cryuff turn on the edge of his 6 yard area. barca not coping with high press AT ALL

villa off the bar. Barca getting trashed.

messi free header from 8 yards out. wide.

atleti off the bar AGAIN

good to see Koke has gotten his feet back under him since bombing out in MLS

haha oh shit maybe the wrong koke

moyes takes one in the crackers

which is a result even if they don't go through

messi looking lost out on the right. get pedro on right, messi centre, neymar left and stop fucking about.

iniesta's runs and turns have been lovely but his passing has been off

as uncomfortable a first 20 mins as i've ever seen busquets have

Not watching but Bayern v Utd stats are like Any Decent Team v Celtic. 70/30 possession, 13/1 shots.

13 shots? Can't recall anything on target by either side

Robben's had about 8 all directly into United shins

BBC says 13.

Oh wait. None of those on target. Presumably lots of Robben cutting inside and shooting wildly from 20+ yards.

Lol perfect crosspost

neymar with a chance blocked by courtois, messi with a semi open goal doesn't want to try with his right foot, falls to xavi 4 yards out-over the bar.

Goal imminent in Madrid I reckon

STOP PRESS: shot on target by Kagawa

Are Utd going to nick this?

YEEEEESSSSS!!!!!

PATROIIIIICEEEE!!!!

Fuck me

oh fuck

Shit!

xavi free header 7 yards out. misses

8 man defence looking a bit ragged all of a sudden