Champions League Knockouts (12 Aug - 23rd Aug)

He's tiny next to Süle but still taller than Thiago. There that should settle it

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He might be tiny next to Süle, but Süle is tiny next to Lewa in the brick-shit house department

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Not sure what they're on about, high line game after game. This is how Bayern plays almost every team in the Bundesliga.
 
It's going to be an exciting final, I can see PSG punishing Bayern with Neymar finding his long-lost shooting boots.
 
Very flattering scoreline. Lyon fecked up massively at 0-0 and shouldve made ot a match at 2-0.
 
I think PSG will win if Bayern play like that defensively. They could have conceded 6 or 7 in the last 2 games. I don't think Neymar, Mbappe, and Di Maria will miss those chances.
 
Be interesting if the run out for Pavard, although brief, brings him back into contention for the starting XI and pushes Kimmich to CM along side Goreztka, while pushing Thiago to the bench.

If Bayern don't clean up their shape at the back when pressing or attacking forward, PSG will pick them apart and you would think take at least a couple chances Lyon had tonight.
 
Who cares. They won as predicted... 3:0. With Leroy Sane in the team next season the attack will be stronger. Goals win the games.
 
Very flattering scoreline. Lyon fecked up massively at 0-0 and shouldve made ot a match at 2-0.
Tend to disagree, one could clearly see that Lyons power-hungry style cost them, lack of precision in attack as result. On the other hand, bayern looked like playing not all-out and able to crank up a bit if necessary.
 
Not sure what they're on about, high line game after game. This is how Bayern plays almost every team in the Bundesliga.

Apparently some only discovered that last week, which still baffles me.
 
Bayern are so bloody good in attack. It feels strange that they do not score more in the Bundesliga given that the defending is not the best and other teams score a lot too.
We almost broke the record for the most goals in one season with 100 goals in 34 games. The record is 101, achieved by us somewhere in the 70s.

I really, really didn't think that we would do so good after Robben and Ribéry.
 
Tend to disagree, one could clearly see that Lyons power-hungry style cost them, lack of precision in attack as result. On the other hand, bayern looked like playing not all-out and able to crank up a bit if necessary.

I agree there were moments in the first half where they should have calmed themselves down instead of trying to play faster than they can handle themselves. There was a poing where I told myself that the leadership of players like Junihno or Edmilson would have been useful tonight. Interestingly panic has been the common theme for Barcelona and Lyon against Bayern.
 
They're running their Club in professional way.

That's more complicated than that. Most german players [EDIT : or players in germany] dream of playing for Bayern since it's THE german club with a direct access to the mannschaft. Plus, Bayern has so much influence in germany that basically, players make deals with their club to have a cheap exit when Bayern wants to purchase them. That's part of the reason why other clubs have a hard time competing long term with Bayern, all their best german players go there. Now that's not an reprehensible strategy but it surely weakens the competition. Ask Dortmund how they felt when Lewa and Hummels left for Bayern for exemple (for 0 and 35M).
 
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That's more complicated than that. Most german players dream of playing for Bayern since it's THE german club with a direct access to the mannschaft. Plus, Bayern has so much influence in germany that basically, players make deals with their club to have a cheap exit when Bayern wants to purchase them. That's part of the reason why other clubs have a hard time competing long term with Bayern, all their best german players goes there. Now that's not an reprehensible strategy but it surely weakens the league. Ask Dortmund how they felt when Lewa and Hummels left for Bayern for exemple.

How many German players they have on First XI?
 
Tend to disagree, one could clearly see that Lyons power-hungry style cost them, lack of precision in attack as result. On the other hand, bayern looked like playing not all-out and able to crank up a bit if necessary.
Fair enough, but, and I realize this is an empty cliche, if Lyon go 1-0 up it's a different game. Bayern were always going to win here, but it couldve been a more competitive game.
 
Bayern who were a shambles in the league for a while now looking like a superb side one of the best of the century.

Just shows how fecking stupid it it the media giving it “best team ever” to certain teams who smash the first half of the season then get knocked out of everything within a week. It’s how you finish the season that determines such a status. Same for United in 99 but they bring up points totals because the first half of the season was dodgy.

20 wins in a row for Bayern - unreal.
 
Thanks. I can understand if Germans prefer to play for Bayern, but I don't know about other nationalities.
2 of those were free as well. Lewa and Goretzka.

Do German clubs price out moves to BM in the same way PL rivals do to each other?