Champions League Knockouts (12 Aug - 23rd Aug)
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Madrid need a revamp (KDB) and Barca is open (Pep). He usually runs in the face of a challenge. There is nothing beautiful about Man City that would push him to stay imo. If he goes, City return to what they were under Pellegrini and over time deteriorate to an Arsenal like version of themselves.
Please stop assuming that the only way that people could possibly agree with you is if they have not seen any games and have no idea what they are talking about. It is a very arrogant way of thinking.
Pep bottled it tonight with tactics and team selection. Even armchair fans like me could see that.
Just look at how Munich went for it. Pep went all Mourinho tonight. Paid dearly for it.
Its football and its not Sporting so there is nothing to get upset about but Many people speak without actually having seen games.
Cheeky bid?
Would they? If PSG were already out then maybe.
Deserved win for Lyon. Great team performance with lots of players individually performing right at their limits. Aouar, Lopes, Cornet, Marcelo, Marçal, Denayer, Dubois and Dembele all had a genuinely great game, and others like Guimarães, Caqueret, Reine-Adélaïde and Tete did really well too. Practically only Memphis was quite non-existent and didn’t seem to contribute much.
Wouldn’t sing similar praises for all of City’s players. I think Pep’s somewhat negative tactical approach of five defenders and two DMs took some danger off from their attacking play in the first half. But then again they still lost the game after switching to a back four. I often think their dominance of the ”AM zone” with multiple technically superb players is one of their biggest strenghts, but today Lyon and Pep’s tactics kind of killed that.
Wouldn’t sing similar praises for all of City’s players. I think Pep’s somewhat negative tactical approach of five defenders and two DMs took some danger off from their attacking play in the first half. But then again they still lost the game after switching to a back four. I often think their dominance of the ”AM zone” with multiple technically superb players is one of their biggest strenghts, but today Lyon and Pep’s tactics kind of killed that.
I must have missed all that. All I ever see on this forum is people saying how crap the Premier League is.
Based on how you are debating your point it is very justified to assume you have not seen a lot of Juve games bar CL.
Yet they won the league.
Above so called better teams right?
Tell me how that works, I'm begging to know!
Yes it was unreal
... eh They allowed the ball across the 6 yard box for both Sterling and Jesus to miss there. Thats completely unfair. They were better in front of goal but they gave up more good chances than we did and we gave up 3 sitters.
He can wind his neck in.
I love it tbfCheeky bid?
The way City has been knocked out in recent years has been absolutely hilarious. Late VAR involvements, missed sitters
I´m not sure I can agree with that. Sometimes you need to be lucky as well.
Pep throwing sterling under the bus!
Yes, and that was the whole point. You claimed a 20% underdog WILL win. Which is nonsense. And saying "City will win" would have been as non-sensical. That's what the other poster criticised you for. And I'm right behind that because I also find these sort of posts annoying. And I pointed out to you that both teams (obviously) have a non-zero chance of progressing. With City's being much higher.
This one game format knockout makes for much more exciting games to be honest. Keep it!
Of course you'll defend them, you're a Bayern fan... Fresh players have a massive advantage against tired ones, they press faster, they run faster, they chase back faster and they have higher levels of endurance. Couldn't care less if you disagree, it's clear it had a huge say in this years Champions League and i'm saying this as someone who hates Barcelona and Manchester City. Just please don't bottle it against PSG in the final.
Looked like he was going to cry in the interview felt for him
I know. So fecking joyous and hilarious. Last year I was jumping around laughing hysterically too.The way City has been knocked out in recent years has been absolutely hilarious. Late VAR involvements, missed sitters
I want RBL to win the tournament, but the prospect of a Bayern vs PSG final is very exciting.
Pep hasn't won the CL since 2011. Ten years by the time it comes round again.
He's won it twice - both times with the best group of players in recent memory, the vast core of which won the WC for/with Spain in 2010.
Money can't buy everything. What a great result.
He's won it twice - both times with the best group of players in recent memory, the vast core of which won the WC for/with Spain in 2010.
Money can't buy everything. What a great result.
Obviously that's why he told Mbappe to tweet it for him
#Pray4Pep
I have already explained it and you keep saying the same thing
Lyon proved my point today so there you go
Ah, so your issue was me not adding that it was a prediction, on a game that is yet to be fecking played.
I was definitive in my prediction, and backed it with money. I’m not fecking God, I’m not obligated to say ‘I think’ about a football match to be played 5 days in the future. You’re just talking shite, as was the other poster, who would have scrolled past if I had said City will win.
First time I've heard not playing for 3 months and 1 month is an advantage.
It's as if match fitness suddenly isn't a thing when it comes making up excuses for La Liga and EPL teams.
Okay so part of their play was finishing chances. Part of your play was missing chances. They outplayed you.
I am sorry but when your team which has had a similar core for the last few years capitulates like this so frequently in Europe. It is not bad luck.
Not to say you are a bad team, winning the Champions League is hard. I am just saying this is not some fluke.
If I was Ed, I'd pay £250m for KDB. I'd dare say he'd fancy it as well just to feck off Pep and City.
I would agree with you because I assume they can only get better.
My point is about THIS season. If you just reread my posts you would see that.
I don't know about next season because it has not started yet....
I’ll light a candle for him tomorrow the wee cnut..
They're still at it. Found a video still showing the ref was about to blow for a foul before the second goal. It's like watching the news when the Queen Mother died.
Nice jinx right? Should make the same for Utd tommorow