Champions League Knockouts (12 Aug - 23rd Aug)

Game won after 30 mins. If Bayern are smart they will deliver a professional performance 2nd half and leave plenty in the tank for Wednesdays semi final
 
Shit from Barca.

Bring on AG and OD.

Get Boeteng sent off and that might bring them back into it with an extra man
 
You need to think this through mate. Re-watch this first half perhaps.
I’ve seen the same game as you. Barcelona defending has been shambolic. Munich punished them for sure, but most of FCB problems were self created.
 
It's scary how inferior Barca looks. Less pace, less physique, less intensity.
 
Barca just look old. Bayern are fecking brilliant and bullying them everywhere. Even in the frantic opening 10 minutes where both had chances, Bayern was so much more controlled.
 
He's by far their best midfielder. Mostly because he's the only one with the mobility and physicality to get around the pitch while also offering genuine goal threat and being a good ball winner and covering a lot of cracks

Now, having said that, i hope they keep playing De Jong out of position :lol:

Is he that good? He only has 2 goals and 2 assists. For 100m, that is pretty poor, even if he plays a bit further back..
 
Absolute power show from Bayern this half. Far too dynamic for Barca that half.
 
A third of the talent and a quarter of the organisation of 2011 Barca, disgraceful
 
Barca lack pace to exploit Bayern high line. Bayern are comfortable playing that high because they know they have quick players to recover and that Barca are no threat pace wise.
 
However, this is just Summer football, right? It seems those friendlies superteams go and play in Nowherland to promote football after Summer camp. Only you win the biggest trophy in club sport in the end. Amazing!
 
I hope Bayern cruises this and then wins the whole thing. Don’t want any state owned PR project winning the trophy

Would be my first choice to win it. They are a fantastically well run club, with ex-players/legends at the helm.

We are on our way to matching them though.
 
Referee seemingly giving everything to Barcelona yet they're still 4 1 down.

Same story as usual last few years away from Nou Camp for Barcelona in later stages of CL so far.
 
Barca look like they can score but what's the point when your defense is that bad? They'd need to score 8 to have a chance of winning. I'm not sure what on Earth is wrong with Stegen today. The pressure seems to have gotten to him quite clearly.
 
If rumours are to believed, you have to wonder why players like Thiago, Boateng and Alaba want to leave such a fantastic team.
Bayern hierarchy never pay their players what they're worth. Almost all their players can double their wages by leaving. They always have wage fights with their players even publicly because they're trying to run the club as cheaply as possible even while trying to win as many trophies as possible. It works for the hierarchy but it's extremely disrespectful to their players. Neuer just recently had a very public fight over wages and it was settled but now it's Alaba's turn.

Every single Bayern player is under paid. If they care about being paid what they're worth, they should think about packing up and leaving like Douglas Costa, Kroos, Vidal etc. who all left because they were disrespected.
 
Has to be one of the poorest quarter final displays in a long time.
 
I’ve seen the same game as you. Barcelona defending has been shambolic. Munich punished them for sure, but most of FCB problems were self created.

I think you are massively underestimating how fantastic Bayern are going forward, how hard they work for each other (like that Muller tap in, check the build up), the accuracy of their crosses and through balls, the pressing and the intensity with which they attack. They are simply frightening.
 
Probably my red specs, but I swear we get yellow cards for doing feck all half the time, so maybe that's why we don't.

We do! refs can't wait to card us for the slightest infractions. Our opponents have learnt to foul us as much as possible to break up our counter attacks.