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

I'm sure his price went up 800 million tonight.

true

also hoping that the prospect of a decent run into the CL might make him want to stick around for the rest of the season at least

Leaving in winter never a good idea imo.

I completely forgot Nkoudou was at Spurs! He's not played all season has he?

Not in the league but has in the Carabao Cup.

Well done L'pool for ensuring Celtic weren't on the end of the biggest tanking in the CL this year.

Really flat atmosphere in the stadium though, except for the Nicosia fans. Anyone would look swashbuckling against that lot, except Dortmund mystifyingly.

I don't think our first team would have risked the ball with such direct passes all night tbh

Certainly they wouldn't have run at their man time and again like nkoudou did (to such little effect for most of it, but still)

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/800/cpsprodpb/BD0F/production/_99099384_hi043431513.jpg

didn't lol but kinda smiled

That's fine. He's alright.

feel like liverpool's problems earlier this season were due to the attack as well as the defence. firmino, mane, and coutinho were either absent or off-form. now those three and salah are flying, it's a formidable setup. okay the defence is still shit but plenty dropped points in CL and Prem were cos of failing to score, they're on fire in that regard at the moment, at a good time of the season to come into form.

I congratulate you and I enjoyed it thoroughly and I agree they are absolutely on fire. But:

"okay the defence is still shit"

is an understatement. It will continue to bite you in the buttocks. Winter is coming: get Van Dijk and some other crack and you're on track imo.

it will do, but the early season was like one goal leads and stuff. 2013/2014 the defence was prob as bad as it is now and the attack papered over it.

as we won the league.

:D

You'll be fine. In 4th or 3rd and a memorable semi against fucking Chelsea. Losing. But you'll be just fine.

there's something a bit heroic about pool this season. reckon they'll do something great but couldn't say in which competition

Caribou Cup

I don't think our first team would have risked the ball with such direct passes all night tbh

Spurs didn't play particularly well fwiw, especially in the second half, Apoel are just rubbish. It felt like exactly what it was, a dead rubber game with a handful of fringe players trying particularly hard to make an impact. Delighted with Llorente's goal though.

Far from perfect alright but an alternative mode even clumsily executed was p welcome to see

Excellent that Spurs finished top of the group in the U19 tournament too.

Juve Spurs

Basel City ffs

Porto Liverpool

Sevilla Utd

LOL Chelsea v. Barca

Bayern Besiktas
Chelsea Barcelona
Shakhtar Donetsk Roma
Real PSG

Liverpool, Utd and City all making out pretty well there. Obviously slightly trickier, but I reckon Spurs can beat Juve too

Looking forward to Real PSG.

RIP Basel, RIP Chelsea.

Fuck finishing first to end up playing Madrid in 1st knock-out round, really

While Bayern gets Besiktas... come on !!

Cunts

Fuck this

pretty strong chance of 4 english sides in the final 8 amirite?

Why bother they'd only give you a harder team again the bastards

Nah bollocks I'd much rather play someone exciting than get Basel or Besiktas or whoever.

stoked

Why bother they'd only give you a harder team again the bastards

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, December 11, 2017 11:51 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

(good thread title for next years CL tbh)

Best time to be playing juve in years tbf, the defence in particular is not what it has been. Higuain scary on paper but he has a track record of flapping it in big games. Certainly shouldn't be intimidated by them

Poch out

Europa League last-32 draw

Borussia Dortmund v Atalanta

Nice v Lokomotiv Moscow

FC Copenhagen v Atletico Madrid

Spartak Moscow v Athletic Bilbao

AEK Athens v Dynamo Kiev

Celtic v Zenit St Petersburg

Napoli v RB Leipzig

Red Star Belgrade v CSKA Moscow

Lyon v Villarreal

Real Sociedad v Red Bull Salzburg

Partizan Belgrade v Viktoria Plzen

Steaua Bucharest v Lazio

Ludogorets v AC Milan

Astana v Sporting Lisbon

FK Ostersunds v Arsenal

Marseille v Braga

^^ some great matches here, it's a good bunch this

Wait wait so why was it that Red Bull gets to have two teams in the competition this year? Seems like UEFA have just completely fudged their own rules about that kind of thing.

Napoli v Leipzig and Dortmund v Atalanta is nice

Lamela in over Son, Aurier instead of Trippier. Interesting.

Lucas instead of Llorente on the bench too

Starting to feel real tbh

Lamela has deserved a start and is better chasing the ball than son.

Aurier nah

Oooops

Rats

Absolutely shocking

That is a joke.

One might criticise the marking there

If a single player isn't to blame there poch should resign