Only Spurs rush in: it's the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2018/2019 thread

never saw messi as bad

ref blew up early

rematch when var catches that

Salah sporting a 'never give up' shirt is a nice touch :)

Scenes.

holy shit

im confident we can take what i saw out there tonight tbh

tbh over the two legs liverpool were the better team for a good 120 mins

Congratulations to Liverpool Football Club and all their supporters on a magnificent achievement.

im confident we can take what i saw out there tonight tbh

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:56 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:DDD

What a wonderful team. This is well special.

you think that lad fabinho is gonna try any of that shit against le chèvre pls

Thought Hendo was going to cry then.

absolutely unreal

...bathos and poured water from deems

game had its moments too iirc

I'm crying

(congrats Liverpool fans)

lol I have now cried

tuned into 5L for this about halfway through

holy shit

first final without real madrid, barca or bayern munich in 11 years, i'm told

first with spurs since when

mané, van dijk, allison... immense performances

Consign the tears Fernandonan!! Xp

so fucking proud of this team

Cosign**

The YNWA with the whole team lined up just slayed me.

Yeah that was neat. Same w/ Mané - smiling in disbelief - having his arm around Gini for a full two minutes when the latter gave his post-match interview.

This is how Spurs should attack Ajax tomorrow. Though I doubt Spurs are fit enough to do so.

not taking questions at this time

Just seems Spurs have run out of steam a bit? (though I thought the same abt Liverpool before tonight)

The YNWA with the whole team lined up just slayed me.

― FernandoHierro, Tuesday, May 7, 2019 2:29 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it was pretty dope

spurs are the most knackered I can recall seeing them, amazing how far they've limped but it's all just pain from now on

ive a feeling i know which part weve gotten in this rocky iv tribute alright

can I just say, I was otm about Coutinho

took some licks for it from the Liverpool lads too

no point being right at the wrong time buck

we'd prob have won the league if he was still there.

i don't mean cos he'd have been some dominant influence but he'd be worth a couple more points in some of those seven draws.

but in that timeline Divock Origi would still be trapped in the soul stone

lol

This fuckin tweet:

When Sunderland let a 3-0 lead slip at Derby in 1990-91 it was seen as a massive humiliation; my dad called for the reintroduction of the birch. Now Europe's elite do it pretty much every week. Game's gone.

— Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) May 7, 2019

I was out last night and missed the whole thing but wow at that Trent corner. Amazing that it was your least glamorous or prominent players who were largely responsible for all that, although Alisson looked phenomenal last night.

Henderson was huge in the first half

I guess the two most glamorous players were injured. I thought Fabinho was phenomenal, though it's hard to take away from any of them really, it was a brilliant team performance. Henderson is so much better in an advanced position as he was in 2013/2014, his best spell for Liverpool prior to the last month or so.

It still feels faintly miraculous that Henderson is still getting in your team regularly let alone having that kind of impact on matches. I suppose he slipped out of your first team earlier in the season but has played his way back into it and had looked great recently.

I suppose his energy and disruptive ability and willingness to play wherever he's asked to make him ideal for Klopp and compensate for his shortcomings, maybe he needs a more technical player like Fabinho alongside him though.

he looks way worse in the 6 role - he was brilliant playing high up the pitch in 2013/2014, he's obviously got a huge engine and so the press is perfect for him, he's also good in the tackle and a decent crosser of the ball. i think he can support the front 3 rather than being too connected to the midfield, but he does get around and do defensive work. obv the big problem was expecting to have him as a guy taking responsibility for the tempo of the game in possession - fabinho is that guy 100 per cent, but also has a better positional sense and more discipline about protecting the back four.

obv the big problem was expecting to have him as a guy taking responsibility for the tempo of the game in possession

*also his gait

fergie found henderson's gait too odd the same summer he signed phil jones

straight out of the gait

wearily dusting myself down and, in need of new angles of enjoyment, listening to late 90s alt rock & early nu metal to lean into the mood

Honestly I'm still in a stage of mild disbelief and total joy that this is happening at all.

Starting as they mean to go on.

Hmmmm.

Put up a fight ffs

The response to the goal has been positive though.

Gonna end up 4-4 at this rate

Was anyone meant to be at full back?