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

Cheap cheap cheap

Worried by the four times they've bothered attacking how easy it is to double up on us out wide.

Crikey

Cunts

Trippier and davies deciding our offside line

Poch should've been all over this that first half had signs

Davies having a nap

Extra time I hope

Davies isn't to blame at this stage for being Davies.

Legs are gone from Juve, fouling all over the shop

Alli is cancerous tonight.

Bit harsh darragh

Defence has been the achilles heel

Alli has been dawdling all night and the lack of protection to the overworked centre halves starts with him, with the two spurs full backs playing high (until that bloody second goal) the juve full backs have had easy passing triangles to progress alarmingly easy for the penalty in the first half and the soft goal in the second.

Dier off and although the it means less cover tbh it's next to no cover rly the way he treats defensive positioning.

Son and the delivery from wide may save us yet here but joking poch out aside he hasn't responded well to how juve set up tonight

Plus the system.tjat wants a fullback to deliver killer balls ten yards from the opposition line but also depends on them being the guy dealing with deep crosses has hurt us again.

Tldr juvevare good and we're also good but juve have seen how to hurt us and imo they'll get another.

Chiellini a giant

Davies collapsing on the ball now as well

Read an article mentioning that he's now one of the best full backs in Britain today had a lol

Joke call from ref that but fair result

Yep. Can’t argue they deserved it tonight.

Ah well. Thanks for the run lads. Plenty of players starting tonight should be nowhere near cl

Another game where lloris hasn't a save to make apart from picking ball out of the net. Another thing to look at, when we give up chances we give up very good chances.

Maybe the players could write a diary tonight noting how poch got schooled eh

LOL Poch out on Radio 5 phone-in

Probably an Arsenal fan though.

Well that's nonsense. But he might let this prick his own bubble.

Alli should be dropped its easy to drag Davies but one of those players is playing above his level and the other has not played anywhere near his all season.

Jaysus dier for the first goal

Jaysus

And yet LOL @ Spurs fan saying Poch has done brilliantly on a limited budget.

Well...he has?

Limited budget?

I mean far be it from me to push a nuanced view of what a manager may or may not have achieved after a terrible thirty minutes of football

Yes a limited budget what's the actual question

You don't even have to net spend to note what the teams around spurs are spending.....I mean cmon man

Rte boys ranking lloris on the second goal

Rte boys otm

I've got no idea what Spurs transfer outlay has been since Poch has been there, because I don't pay that much attention to them, but aren't they, like, the 10th richest football team in the world or something?

... 11th apparently, Juventus are 10th.

Xpost Lloris getting blamed for 2nd goal. A tad unfair imo

I dunno

Maybe

That's not much to do with pochs outlay tho tbf.

XP it's unfair to blame him once it's one on one agreed but the two things he should be doing he didn't do, ready to come out while playing the high line, and once staying on his line he flung himself under the ball

Dunno who to blame, Davies was deep but can't forgive trippier for stepping up, when your just after conceding play safe and track the runner

Systemic

I'll just choose to remember the party atmosphere in the stadium at half time. All turned funereal pretty quickly though. Wanyama should really have been on from half time.

Knockout rounds out to juve and we held our own. Hardly the worst thing ever.

Now, fourth

TBH being whipped by Real Madrid in 2011 and watching Chelsea win the Champions League in 2012 both felt worse than this because you just knew the team would be dismantled soon after. This time it feels like we could and should be back.

Yep

And the things that went wrong are things that frankly you expect to be exposed in exactly such circumstances

I trust it'll be acted upon but it's absolutely natural stuff.

The jump in European performance in a year is fucking incredible.

Poch in.

it was a p good game really. can only wish ill on juve and their creaking, violent egotism but allegri moved the game faster than spurs could keep up with. idk what change I'd have made really. wanyama for dier after his knock, perhaps. lucas has looked so encouraging it's tempting to imagine him bursting on and causing problems but really this was still pretty close. can't help but think neither of the fullbacks are up to this level, trippier especially seemed clueless and ineffective in possession.

it was an odd game, before Juve got a goal they looked tired and more likely to pick up 2 red cards than 2 goals, then they get a goal and Spurs fall apart

point of information there mike it was two goals

and we were ok after that but never gonna score

I thought Milan would be better than this

LOL another season looms for Wenger.

and of course fellaini starts

having said that, sevilla are shaping up for a right shoeing atm

and of course as soon as i say that, united go on to do fuck all for ten minutes

need to hook Sanchez. Works hard, but less productive than Mkhitaryan so far

very poor from united. midfield getting hammered against jibbers