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

*tips hat at onimo*

this must be how NN felt this morning

Actually a highly-attritional game leaving Chelsea with a chance next week was what I was after, I shouldn't complain

xpost first mention of football in the bible - when jesus went up for the cross....BDUM TISH thangewveryymuch try the veal etc.

― everyday sheeple (Michael B),

got nailed iirc

by a fucking italian defender, naturally

Horrible game :(

0-0 1st leg is weirdly satisfying for both teams - usually makes for a good 2nd leg.

dont feel too worried about chelsea beating liverpool on the back of that performance tbh

Chelsea's CL semi-final scores under Mourinho: 0-0, 0-1, 1-0, 0-1, 0-0. 1 goal scored in 480 minutes (inc extra time).

0-0 seems like a p terrible position for chelsea to be in, imo. a 1-1 draw and AM is through

yeah, always feel like failing to take an away goal is a risk

lol how the fuck did that happen?

Barely a successful pass up until that goal.

nice to hear that Howard Webb's having a good game, otherwise this match wd be of no interest

GET INVOLVED abt pep is especially eyerolly tonight. he has really weakened bayern supposedly cos his teamare narrowly losing a semi final first leg away at the bernabeu

I've not been impressed by them in the CL at all this season

Yeah they were much better last year.

I love how assured Modric looks in games like this. I wish we had him.

That anthem that plays at full time at the Bernabeu is such a buzzkill.

20 Golden Fascist Greats

everyone wishes they had a player like Modric especially teams who actually used to have him

otm.

Rather him than bale back.

lol at pepe running to stir shit up after that dante tackle.

!!!

:(

Better chance of stopping Chelsea in the final, I think.

yeah okay i'll take that as a positive but i'm hoping it doesn't come to that

Can't really begrudge this.

roll out the Bayern of lols

i'm begrudging like crazy but i can't deny it

That was astonishing. I hope they rip Chelsea wide open in the final.

I hope they dont meet Chelsea in the final

I'm just resigned to them being there.

If I were Ronaldo I might have picked a less lame looking celebration for the fifteenth.

I still resent Bayern for fucking up the Munich CL final so massively only to suffer so little for their failure by turning around and winning it and everything else the very next year. So I will savor this embarrassment.

Bayern looked off the pace against United but yknow its United. Is it fair to say theyve run out of puff in the second half of the season?

this is the best madrid side in years and it owes a lot to ancelotti playing di maría in cm

fairly safe to say replacing ozil with a winger whose main prior experience in midfield came in maradona's useless argentina side

and yet he has been so good, providing ridiculously levels of workrate and speed and close control that very few teams possess in midfield

playing on the counterattack they don't really need an elite #10 like ozil because the play is stretched, and modric and especially xabi alonso are exceptional long passers from deep

bale di maría and ronaldo are just absurdly fast and decisive players in transitions and benzema's general play (if not quite his finishing) is better than it has ever been

alonso's booking was completely stupid and if mourinho gets to the final he will exploit it just as he exploited the absence of henderson yesterday (not the same class but very important for liverpool)

That's a lovely free kick. Only works because they jumped for him 60 seconds before, mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-75BZgebI

not as neat as this one although putting the icing on a 6-0 aggregate win over bayern is pretty special

such a complete dismantling of his side that theres must be at a slight chance those impossibly hard to please bayern bossmen get rid of guardiola? considering there are a couple of obvious places he could go to that would absolve them of having to pay compensation

*5-0* obv

Bayern peaked in the win at the Etiad which happened before Pep had the chance to completely remake them.

I guess the dip in form wasnt that apparent since they won the Bundesliga with 10 games to spare

this team might be Jose's masterpiece

Back five and two DMs!

One team will kick off, leave the ball in the centre circle and retreat to the edge of their box. Meanwhile the team that didn't kick off will be stationed at the edge of their own penalty area. The ball remain untouched for 45 mins. This will be repeated 3 times. Then we will go to penalties. Chelsea will win. It will be Mourinho's finest victory ever.

shambolic bus parking there

i'm watching this ona spanish stream and holy shit they're making this game sound insanely exciting. the game is fine but the spanish is making it sound like the best game ever.
also, yay athletico equalising !

tentatively pleased with that first half but even though atleti have an excellent central defense, they would find it hard to withstand half an hour of long ball dogshit if it comes to that

etoo at rb can't work every time i guess

Did terry stamp the spot i wonder

if only it had been the header that went in