PSG ne sera pas sur cette chose - It's the Champions League 2017-2018 thread

Real were fairly fortunate but it was the usual bottling shite from Emery & co.

preach!

Adrien Rabiot: "I am disappointed. We started by producing the match that we needed to. We always say the same things, we always do the same things, and in the end, we are always floored in the same way." (BeIN)

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Adrien Rabiot: "It's great to put 8 goals past Dijon, but it is in these matches that you have to make it count."

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A bit of context, please, for our new readers and friends who are wondering 'robot, or friend?,

real glad i dvr'd the lfc/porto match, hot damn

Oof @ Rabiot, that's truth talk, c'est vrai.

Rabiot is correct and, fair or not, the turning point is going to be seen as replacing Cav with Meunier. PSG can’t actively defend a lead and, in retrospect, there was probably more chance of it finishing 1-1 had they spent the last fifteen minutes trying to get a second away goal.

Emery proactively dug his grave last night (unusual starting 11, puzzling subs) but I guess that’s better than sinking quietly (he was gonna be sacked unless he won the CL)

Otm. I think he'd even be sacked if he did win the CL, reasoning "his work is done here". It's no secret that, now that the squad is "glamorous", they want a really big name as manager too. For better or probably worse.

They/we already one (Ancelotti) but he was deemed too boring. Apart from Guardiola I don’t really see who would fit the bill at this point (Conte, Simeone, Mourinho are all probably too defensive for the owners)

Fuck off

Don't even think it

It's their opponents you should be worried about

Oh I am

But #psgdna prob a stronger pull for poch imo

Baaderonixx, what's the reaction there to PSG failing like they did? I mean, what kind of team are they trying to be? Their attack is so frontloaded and yet they seem to retreat to some angsty defending and collapse under pressure. Same as last year against Barca.

Par for the course really. Common opinion is that while they have a great team (don’t underestimate the lesser known players), they just aren’t a great club (poorly run, lack of clear authority, rival factions between the Brazilians and the others). Then, for various “political” reasons, they spent all their budget on offensive players last summer on offensive players, while everyone knew that the greatest needs were in the middle and at the back.
Now tbh if the ref has made a couple of different calls last night, the perception today could have been very different so I wouldn’t overestimate all these issues

Oh and Poch definitely prime choice given his time at the club

I have literally no idea what I was on about 20 posts ago. Alcohol eh

McGregor's winner against Zenit was nice

I just hope it's enough.

Batshuayi scores 2 for Dortmund tonight

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<3 Still my fave problem child. "C'est un garçon qui a besoin d'amour," his club president said last night. The boy just needs some love.

Want

Barca have 187% possession, Willian keeps hitting the woodwork. It's still not all that enjoyable tbh

Chelsea are playing this well I think

i've got Willian to score anytime though :/

Paulinho is still shit btw

don't care what he's done this season

It's Steven seagal trading places bet stuff and he is utter shit

But he's better than sissoko

Chelsea playing very well there's a real post-montage rocky iii to their spell just before HT there

Yerman in Barca midfield will be off before the hour

Paulinho's played really good this season, fuck the haters. (not tonight tho)

Chelsea are doing pretty well, yeah. Which makes this all the more difficult to watch.

I saw a footy scarf with the words "The Chels" today. Makes me want to burn my eyes.

Of course

Had to be him tho, he's had a cracking game.

Third times a charm

He's got some shot on him

Moses>>>>>>>>Paulinho

Beautiful goal

He looks like a cheat player out there tonight

People don't really say "the Chels" do they?

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Get in there!

Fuck yeah

Nyom

Messi's first goal against Chelsea, which seems hard to believe

Yeah that's quite the statique

That's not a yellow for rudiger but the pull by Suarez on Christiansen should have been a second

Suarez at Barca is like having Vinnie Jones "acting" in Snatch.

Ah he was grand in snatch tbf

Yeah ok that was harsh on Vincent

lol lbi

that little hang in time as christensen's pass to no man's land broke the chelsea defense was magnificent

simultaneous sudden deceleration of pace and acceleration of panic

Haha, it def was, good call.

Am I the only one enjoying the Giroud-benched-yet-again-the-feels-man-the-feels.jpg gifted to us by his move to "The Chels"? Surely not.

Chelsea players not sounding too confident in the post-match interview. I think they know they let this tie in general slip

Brian Kerr looks reanimated