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

should be pen

they all should be pens

I'll never stop hating Madrid
But I'll never stop loving Modric

hes the kawaii william fichtner

ya dancer!

scwan

I imagine this is how Sting has sex. All build-up and no release. Fuck that was tense, and wholly dissatisfying.

Bastards.

get the fucking thing in the box u idiots

suits liverpool

I'd like to believe that but... I don't? Think Liverpool had a way bigger chance at winning the thing against Bayern than against RM.

Real have looked v ropey & their defence is a mess. Bayern would have been the better game

Real look ropey a hell of a lot... And yet they're through. Again.

honest q since i don't follow too closely outside the Prem and CL -- does RM often play against teams set up like liverpool? there really aren't any maniacal counter-pressing teams in la liga, right? feel like bayern might have been tougher simply because heynckes might be more accustomed to klopp's MO

And have now knocked out Bayern, Juve and PSG xp

there really aren't any maniacal counter-pressing teams in la liga, right?

There aren't, no. Not against RM/Barca/Atletico at least. And those three get along fine passing until they score. Atletico somewhat the odd one out, they'll play defensively and look for the counter. But they don't need to counter-press maniac style. The gap between those three and the rest is just too big.

Real Betis this season are playing beautiful attacking football and it got them a deserved fifth place, but any more is just not on the cards.

this lfc vs this real is a great final

Ulreich, inspect the damage

lol lbi love that sting simile

this lfc vs this real is a great final

Assuming it happens, which is a big if given this Liverpool defence, if there are any fewer than nine goals it'll be a disappointment.

marcelo v salah must happen

a bit nervous because yes, this liverpool defence and the fact that Roma havent conceded a goal at home in the CL.

A dull uneventful next couple of hours please ta

Ah bollocks that's ruined it.

done

2-2

and rome should already have had a pen there.

Jeez louise. Can't say Rome aren't trying. They could've scored three times in the last three minutes alone.

Okay. Rome have 5 minutes plus injury time to score twice.

poor stuff but cant blame lfc for that

oof

that peno dzeko shouldve got looks a big miss now

-30 seconds for one goal

It's odd but Roma have the right to feel hard done by

There ends my interest in this year's Champions League tournament.

That was nuts.

Roma effectively rendered Salah and Firmino useless. Madrid will take note, though I rate Roma's defense (I know I know 5-2 etc) higher than Madrid's defense, which is a shambles this season. I can see Liverpool nicking this somehow, if they've enough gusto.

Roma left it all out there. Klopp made us believe we needed to win the game for just long enough

We rode our luck (TAA handball in particular) but both the penalties Roma were given were charity penalties – nonsense calls given to a team the ref knew was going to lose. Easy to start dishing out those penalties. Much harder when you're at the Bernabeu and there's a game riding on it.

Salah had a poor game and everyone looked gassed at the end. What a bunch of lads!

Madrid will dive their way to the title and Ronaldo takes his top off.

they were both penalties

and two more that shouldve been called but werent

behave

Trent one should (morally) be pen all day, hand stuck out to block, like Marcelo and Ramos yesterday. I've no interest in a count back. VAR kills football. We're in the final.

My point is the ref doesn't give handball penalties until the heel of the hunt when he knew he was going to blow the final whistle immediately after it, and I don't think (though it's a hypothetical) that the other ref would have given the Milner pen in the first leg had we not been 5-0 up in that game (5-1 at the time).

OK, so now I'm supporting Real in the final.

yeah same

*joking* I always was.

nah i literally just changed my mind

Let's just say my position was solidified.

i just can't bring myself to root for Real no matter how much i might wanna

I thought your interest was over already?

I was lying. NV otm.

lookit there was one solid peno (TAA handball) that wasnt given and the peno that was given shouldnt have been. milner handball in the last game shouldnt have stood either. shut it ye whinging tarts

its not that they were outrageous calls

its that of all fans to handwave away borderlines against, my god

also dzeko was onside when taken out by yr hairdresser/gk