Rennes against Boys: the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2020/2021 thread

Someone had to

United have seemed comfortable.

The second half of Zenit vs Bruges was absolutely wild.

this is the PSG we know and love, but Utd have been really solid

Telles has an unbelievable cross on him. Hopefully our lads will learn how to attack them eventually

Lovely header from Martial.

Ah fuck off

Bizarre

I actually cannot fault that performance

Not even the kit?

The kit's grown on me

Bless Eder and his ability to score once in thirty matches, but only in big games.

Real are two nil down

Lol, three.

Against the Shakhtar b-team as well!

Great goal from Modric. If Shakhtar sit back, there’s no way they’re holding this lead.

Vinicius scores three seconds after coming on.

this is the sort of predictable fascist parade that they specialise in

it'll finish 6-3

VAR comes good at last.

Good draw for Lokomitiv.

oh excellent, my jinxes never work usually

Szoboszlai is so good. Traore at Ajax looks excellent too - only one goal so far today, he scored five at the weekend.

The five at the weekend was amateur hour tbf

Madrid 2-0 down, you love to see it.. again!

Madrid level!

I was thinking the fake crowd noise at the Chelsea game was unusually good

then I realised there are actual fans in the stands

Morata has had three goals disallowed through VAR.

Rashford for PM

Hat trick!

Joao Felix looks excellent this season. Consistently the biggest threat Atleti have.

Looking forward to seeing how Gomez and Williams handle Zapata, Muriel and the other Gomez later.

Jota with two brilliant finishes.

Five nil, Jota hat trick. This is hugely impressive counter attacking.

The bittersweetness of enjoying Jota's rise won't stop, but I am pleased for the cunt

Surely a bit more sweet than bitter in that it's clearly a transfer that everybody benefits from

Every time he scores I assume it ups the fee and he clearly wasn't in Nuno's plans so yeah it is more sweet than bitter but he's killing it, which is great, but obvi sigh

I mean basically he's a good lad so god speed

He looks like he's been playing for us for years

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United turned over by Erdogan’s boys.

Atrocious performance again

A loss to Everton and I think/hope Ole is gone

Madrid currently losing to Donetsk again. As it stands, they’re third, level on points with Shakhtar. Depending on how the other game tonight goes, Shakhtar could potentially be playing an already eliminated Inter last.

RBS vs Lokomotiv has been great fun.

Lokomotiv penalty, brawl, Salzburg goal in two minutes.

lol, 2-0 Shakhtar.

i don’t understand how they took the tying goal off the board in the inter match... like i literally don’t get it

Embolo was fractionally offside, which usually wouldn’t matter as he didn’t touch the ball, but he was blocking the vision of the goalkeeper so was considered ’active’.

ah ok. seems like a crazy subjective rule. somehow the VAR toothpaste needs to be put back in the tube

sadly it's here to ruin football forever now

That Inter shirt is fucked up

Some game this in leipzig

Jesus keeper

Yep, straight down the middle.

tbh, you could have been talking about either keeper though.

Unsighted and a clean strike but like

xp keeper made a good recovery of the second incident tho

Great fun of a game that

No idea how Fred's gotten away with that

Well that was inevitable

Bizarre not to have subbed him at half time.

Giroud has scored four vs Sevilla.

Ole genuinely has the worst in-game management I've ever seen

It's killing us

Lazio bottling it against a 10-man Bruges.

2-2, Bruges need to win and have been absolutely dominant.

They hit the crossbar!

Leipzig didn't

lol

Ole has sussed that this team plays best overturning an opposition lead

AWB is getting absolutely murdered out there

Doesn't know where he is

playing 7 defenders and Angelino has the freedom of the pitch

Bahçeşehir have walked off saying Pierre Webo was racially abused by the fourth referee.

Başakşehir even.

Surely Solskjaer gets his cards now

Embarrassing from United.

he still won't

what even is Harry Maguire

Great stuff by Başakşehir and PSG.

Ever get the feeling you're being trolled?

Hmmmm.

I hate that I was made to care about that

So fucking thrilled to see that after Sunday's parliamentary elections, where a previously unknown, batshit far-right party made up of Iron Guard worshipping, ethnonationalist, christopath covidiots whose leader is a literal ultra somehow managed to garner 9% of the popular vote – in no small part thanks to expat voters, a quarter of which apparently want nothing more than to trade Ludovic Orban for Viktor Orbán – some racist shit-for-brains referee puts Romania back in the spotlight.

You know it’s bad news when pom shows up in a footy thread #sadlol

Disgraceful.

it was willi orbáns night

Tbf he reportedly said 'negrul', which means 'the black guy'. While referring to black players by the colour of their skin is, uh, insensitive, to say least, it's also important to note that 'negru' in Romanian is not a racial slur in and of itself – it just means black (masculine).

As has been repeatedly pointed out though, why would he be referring to him like that at all, rather than as 'the assistant coach, him' *gestures*

That's the crux of it, yes. No one in Romania thinks that's racist because, well, Romania is a racist af country like all of its Eastern European neighbours, so the aforementioned far-right anti-Western party (AUR) will score some extra points in the collective unconscious tonight.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that he didn't use the n-word per se, since that's how it was seemingly reported at first.

LJ otm, referring to a person by calling out his colour is nagl. He'd not have said 'hey whitey' if the assistant had been white, surely, to call on him. It annoys me immensely yet it's completely unsurprising to read a lot of footy fans going 'but negru isn't racist! it's pc gone mad!'. Finally a team had the balls to just say 'enough of this shit', to walk the walk after every match starts with 'no to racism', with the opposite side showing solidarity no less. That's class imo.

For sure, but it's also worth noting that the majority of Romanians have never seen a black person in real life, have little to no knowledge of Western colonialism's history, and are thus simply too ignorant to approach such matters with the required sensitivity. To my mind, there is a difference between a Western European saying this is an instance of PC culture gone mad and an Eastern European arguing the same thing, doubly so if they're not expats, because my anecdotal sense is that 95%+ of Romanians just don't get it at all, including the least overtly fash ones.

Beyond that, however, and to the extent that we are collectively incapable of acknowledging the murderous racism that we've inflicted upon the Roma and Jewish communities within our own country over the centuries, it seems clear to me that these 'attenuating circumstances' conceal a stubborn unwillingness to engage with issues of race in general, greatly decreasing whatever leftover sympathy I might have as a Westernized expat. Not to mention – and this, too, is key – that Colțescu himself should have known better insofar as he belongs to that minority of Romanians who have indeed interacted with black folks before, and because an international match calls for international mores, including in one's own mother tongue. The fact that he, unlike most of his compatriots, was directly privy to the aforementioned context yet drew no lessons from it is damning, and he fully deserves the flak, even though he will no doubt continue to paint himself as a hapless victim now that he has the entire nation's backing.

i mean in short part of that is the old "honest mistakes are fine, but if you don't listen when you're corrected then you're a dick" thing, which is hardly unique to eastern europe but is super poisonous as a political tool

Of course this is being used as an opportunity to argue that WE'RE the real victims of racism here, so there's definitely a pattern, yeah. *sigh*

Well, Romanians are not the real victims of racism but there's a scale, an on one end there is a referee who may or may not intended something despicable and on the other there's Erdogan, the Qatari owners, the French political class, all with well worked racistographies that are crying foul. When they are painting the Romanian as some backwards non-cosmopolitan redneck who can't possibly save himself from being decent, it rings as hollow and it rings as racism. I support the players decisions to walk off the pitch, but anything above that is hypocrisy, and I'm sad the players won't protest that.

Erdogan in particular can go get stuffed, but our community dgaf about racism unless it targets us specifically, so while I have no doubt that some Westerners are using this as an excuse to continue dumping on Romanians in general, there is also no question to my mind that the majority of Romanians are utterly unable and/or unwilling to question their own prejudices. France, for all its flaws, is still a less racist nation than Romania in 2020.

yeah well the most racist comments I've heard in Montreal have all come from Romanians.

Colour me surprised… Navigating this shit among other Romanians (and Eastern Europeans in general tbh) is a fucking nightmare at the best of times. It makes me empathize with Americans whose relatives have succumbed to the Great Trumpist Plague of 2016 and for which no surefire vaccine has been found so far. It's also an involuntary masterclass in rhetorical persuasion for me to the extent that simply going 'you're racist!' makes them even more entrenched in their position, whereas a modicum of dialogue and proper contextualization does go a long way with some people, which is about as much as we can ask for, I'm afraid.

The 'funny' thing, too, is that on the scale of Romanian racism, Colțescu's actions rank quite low. He even self-policed his tone by saying 'ăla negru' (the one who is black) instead of the sadly more common 'negru ăla' (that black one, which sounds more contemptuous in Romanian without quite entering n-word territory tbf) so unconsciously he must have known that language matters.

The plot thickens. Romanian media is reporting that one of the Turkish officials (presumably) yelled something to the effect of 'in my country, Romanians are gypsies. I can't say "gypsies"'. Yet you just fucking did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqIEVX8G9Y

Anyway, fuck everything about this incident.

Poch effect in full swing.

Mbappe hattrick, 1-4 PSG.

probs not the best idea rushing pique back

Sevilla hadn’t conceded in seven games prior to tonight and are 3-1 down at home to Dortmund in the first half. Terrible defending and Haaland is lethal.

the thought of haaland at man city is terrifying, the thought of him at man utd agonising. he looks too big and too awkward and almost lumbering and then he suddenly darts off behind the last defender like you've x6'd the DVR and KABOOM!!!

Moves like special effects, its crazy

Porto bossing their match against Juve.

Thanks var

Absolute corker from Giroud

Wowwwww

Ten man for an hour porto are putting juve out

Oh no they aren't

Unbelievable

Goal 113'

Goal 115'

Wait juve need another cos away goal

Bullshit obv as it penalises second leg home team

Surely a pen

119' to juve VAR

Prob not

Three mins added time in extra time, all juve

Always a happy day when Juve lose.

Anthony Taylor ruining a potentially interesting match in Paris.

Anthony Taylor ineptitude is now making it more interesting.

Ref and var uninterested in Chelsea fouls here

(However light the contact, two fouls, one def in box one close)

How on earth is that a red

Ref is a joke tbh

PSG look like they can score at will vs Bayern.

Bayern playing incredibly well now, still losing

well, me posting did the trick

cannot like psg somehow

Fucking Chelsea though, ugh.

if the first-leg winners all prevail we are faced with a situation where man city might be the least evil club left in it

and that is worrying

best half of football I've seen this season. terrific stuff.

Absolutely

And city back brilliantly this half

Keeper should always track that ball for me, if someone gets a touch its still better than watching a lob go in from thirty yards

Oh the state of that wall holy shit

Cunts tackle, red all day and lucky if gundogan not badly hurt

If city played with a forward theyd have three more

You can take the Poch out of Tottenham, but you can't take etc etc

Cant argue that

Great fuckin match that but mbappe took the night off

They should have made the guy lying down stand in the wall imo.

Ex-@ManUtd manager Sir Alex Ferguson visited the PSG team hotel on this morning. The Lowry Hotel is currently only hosting the PSG squad, with no other guests currently staying there due to coronavirus restrictions.

[via @ManCityMEN] pic.twitter.com/EuOiFuoTip

— Man City Report (@cityreport_) May 4, 2021

lol

Neymar is a greedy shit and its costing his team here

Could be a very good week in Europe for those disgraceful ESL teams everyone is so disgusted by.

Impeccable counter

It would be good if that kind of thing wasnt a red card imo

lol

These cunts are like children it’s hilarious

Orange all day trevor

Another one there

Ref giving them a benefit

All four finalists from England for the second time in three years would be pretty bleak tbh.

ESLland rather than England tbf.

Nothin unbleak about oligarchy or shadow financing teams from any country owning the game tbh

But we're told the stout-hearted football fans of England would give up reaching Champions League finals by beating PSG in the semis for 51% fan ownership and midweek Carabao Cup games against Rotherham Utd.

If twere offered

christ this Madrid team is dire

It's completely mystifying how badly both Sarri and Lampard managed Kante.

kante, I was just msging friends about this, I did lol when fat Frank dropped him completely and sari's positional messing around was unnecessary too (to accomodate jorginho), tuchel is currently living at ngolo's house and wrapping every surface in cotton wool. he know's he's a winner, full stop.

Hazard : a sad shadow in this dad's army real team, no loving from zidane coming off, on the pitch at the end, laughing and joking with Chelsea subs, Madrid fans will be going mental

Romance of the cup the final everyone wanted

Is this is the worst season of football ever?

8,000 fans from the UK travelling to Turkey to watch City v Chelsea seems perfectly sensible

Fine if Turkey can be persuaded to keep them.

Sure that post-match Hazard image won’t be a big deal in Madr ... ah pic.twitter.com/e5pJih2RiX

— James Dart (@James_Dart) May 6, 2021

If shonda isnt all over this then idk what

Turkey is in full lockdown until at least May 17. My work colleague is in the Ankara suburbs and tough luck if you can't persuade the gendarmerie that you're grocery shopping. Still, Istanbul, eh? Maybe, JUST MAYBE.

xp guardian journos plagiarising less prominent journos tweets is it

I'm sure they are taking the defeat well in the Madrid pre-ah. pic.twitter.com/AcFiDaPmC2

— Gavin Cooney (@gcooney93) May 5, 2021

not Chelsea's weekend so far. that first 30 secs were insane. lieke martens tho. running the game.

🚨 Noticia @partidazocope

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💸 Además se exponen a una fuerte multa económica

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No suggestion that English clubs might be affected yet.

Why would they be exempt

The only reason I can imagine is they all dropped out and the rest kept the idea alive longer.

Ah, justice

So Man City v Chelsea again next year?

Hate to admit it but the game has been great so far.

Is this on YouTube? Sounds like a great game tbh.

Yes, on YouTube.

It's not bad at all for a game with no palatable outcome

Nice appetiser for the Euros, the surrogate 2022 world Cup

happy for tuchel and havertz

Happy for Kanté!

Really wanted that Mahrez ball to go in for the game to go extra time, it was a fun match.

Chelsea are scum but pretty hilarious that Guardiola has once again failed abjectly to do the very thing he was hired to do.

sacked in the morning

Please.

Wanted the final annulled and every Chelsea fan who went to Porto to get covid but they totally played City.

don't like de bruyne but when a guy spends five minutes on the ground concussed, maybe don't immediately start grabbing and patting his head once he gets up

Thought that shoudve been a red tbh

Chelsea were excellent, just excellent. Decisions and execution individually all over the pitch just at an extraordinary high level

away goals abolished, which i get even though i am a fan of them. what i don't get is having 30 mins of extra time before pens in event of an aggregate draw, seems unfairly weighted in favour of whoever has the 2nd leg at home.

Away goals are great, fucking uefa

True.
I'm not sure what I think about that change but I kinda liked that away goal rule although I agree that it was difficult to justify nowadays.

xpost

Why is it difficult to justify nowadays? What's changed?

for elite teams i assume ease, comfort and time of travel.

Sorry, don't understand.

away goals rule was instituted when plane travel was slower and less comfortable, and some teams even travelled via bus to neighbouring countries. accommodations could be unpleasant, training facilities sub-par. football was also a lot less developed so teams weren't taking their sports scientists and nutritionists with them, these roles not existing then.

back in the day many uk teams have sob-stories about mammoth journeys to eastern europe, dingy digs, dodgy food, training in car-parks. all that jumpers for goalposts "real football" type shit.

now it's millionaires taking a flight, usually just for a few hours, going to an interchangeable luxury hotel that could be in any city, having an identical routine pre and post-match in terms of food, training in comparable facilities etc.

Indeed but why is it difficult to justify the away goals rule nowadays? It was introduced in the era when teams might have to play a third match to settle a match, and that's not about to happen again, and also to stop teams parking the bus in away ties.

Is the theory that penalty kicks are a fairer way to settle ties?

By the way, when I said, "What's changed", I meant from last year, not from 1965.

jim that's a solid summary of where the rule came from but away goals always create a tactical slyness that will be missed, just another bland step to TV mulch

Four penalties in the first half of Sevilla - Salzburg, three of which went to Salzburg, two of which were missed.

salzburg have been great.

United will be extremely lucky if they get a draw, at this rate.

lol

deserved for allowing him to stay at the club

watched the last 15 of this man u game, seemed like utd had decided a draw was enough, from early in the second half, what was lingard thinking making that pass, did he just want an assist and didn't care for who?, why were cronaldo and penandes hooked early in the 2nd half? was jaded poncho even playing?, is cavani now behind martial, who came on and didn't even touch the ball, weird game, I have questions

Wan-Bissaka was sent off in the first half, although that doesn't adequately explain the total capitulation followed

Cavani is injured

10 men vs. 11 young boys.

yeah, I didn't see any meaningful football in the last 15, til lingz decided suicideball was the answer

Barcelona's kit is unspeakably awful.

this superleague is mint

What a shower of dismaying cowards this spurs squad consists of

Ref and linesman are not at it, hes just seen an anklebreaker on Lucas and let it go unremarked

So poor. Deservedly losing to a very limited side.

For the second time in a week.

Individually so dreadful that it would almost make you miss that the interplay has been much, much worse

Take your equaliser and fuck off

Real Madrid 2-1 down at home against Sheriff Tiraspol.

Stunning goal too.

4 assists from Curtis Jones tonight

I counted 4 assists from their goalie

Superb game by Curtis tho, really stepping up

That messi goal had me up out the seat, especially after watching spurs for the few years and especially especially after watching city the entire second half

Terrified to try anything where it mattered. Horrible to watch

Anyone watching Porto/Pool? I was just checking the live text and sounded like Diogo Costa had an unbelievably bad game.

See my comment 2 posts above. He made several inexplicable decisions resulting in goals

Utd getting absolutely rinsed here

De Gea is good again though. The shitter we are the better he gets - like a Spanish Shay Given.

Another spanking for Barcelona, this time from Benifca.

Delightful to see Adel Taarabt playing for a team 3-0 up against Barca.

I’ve seen all Barca’s league games this season and they really are awful. They have injuries, tbf, but they’re a one-man team at the moment and, unfortunately, that man is Memphis Depay who turns up for one game in three,

Koeman wants to be sacked but Barca can’t afford his severance pay. He was criticised for not playing enough young players so has been stuffing the team with 17-year-olds out of spite. They make Spurs look organised and cohesive.

Ah rats, Ronaldo winner.

absolute robbery

what's happening to/in barca is a huge tragedy. i used to love that club but i can hardly watch any of their games.

psg is the new barca

no

also Barca are reaping what they've sown and I'm glad they're dead

Yeah, couldn't give a fuck about any of these megaclubs and their travails.

I’m not enormously sympathetic but going from a situation where about ten clubs could plausibly win the Champions League to one where four could does make things even more boring than they were previously.

no

― oscar bravo, Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

not in terms of style and strategy, but in that now everyone wants a PSG jersey and cheers for them. they're the new "most loved" team internationally

Also no imo

Yes, got no idea where you're getting that from.

so, this happened tuesday

behind the scenes 📹

The legend Messi protects the wall 🐐😂 pic.twitter.com/7n3cFllnap

— Enock Essel Niccolo Makaville (@EsselKobina39) September 28, 2021

https://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-the-toe-poke/story/4486413/psgs-lionel-messi-lays-behind-wall-for-free-kickneymar-asks-what-are-you-doing-there

that just skid past reus's head. it still would've gone in

ajax is dominating

This is mad stuff but this ref is excellent

Only an animal disallows that teixeira goal

this has to be the end

Surely

What a goal

they're looking really good now lol

Shaw is rolls royce, if yr rolls royce had alternator issues maybe

put him up front gareth!

LOL Cron to the rescue, Solskjaer lives to fight another day.

that'll buy him another six months

turns out this Utd formation doesn't work against a competent team

shocker

Hard to believe this is the same united team that looked exactly this bad against us

Oh my word

ugh

You cant question oles genius

I mean you can but he gets pissy

bringing on Sancho and van de Beek in the 86th minute would have been a fitting denoument to his tenure

First time chested assist for a volley equaliser for shakhtar, you love to see it

Michael Oliver and Stuart Atwell taking the clown car on the road. Poor red card followed by a soft penalty in the space of five minutes in the Dortmund game.

Pretty weird red for Felipe in the Liverpool match. I think everyone has been booked for Atleti at this point

Ronaldo vs Messi lol

Or maybe not

UEFA investigating controversial Champions League last 16 draw and whether it will have to be performed again after Man Utd fiasco #MUFC @DailyMirror @MirrorFootball https://t.co/f4kUlbQEkB

— David McDonnell (@DiscoMirror) December 13, 2021

redo, eufa confirmed

maybe

As a result of this, the draw has been declared void and will be entirely redone at 1500 CET.

— UEFA (@UEFA) December 13, 2021

lol

Salzburg v Bayern Munich
Sporting v Man City
Benfica v Ajax
Chelsea v Lille
Atlético v Man United
Villarreal v Juventus
Inter v Liverpool
PSG v Real Madrid

UEFA were obv. determined Chelsea play Lille no matter what.

OMG

pic.twitter.com/QeHU9sySQ1

— James Allcott (@jamesallcott) December 13, 2021

chelsea world club cup semi final nicely slotted in the middle of a young sheldon / big bang theory marathon on e4

1-0 psg win it -- suck it madrid!

WHAT A GOAL BY KYLIAN MBAPPÉ 🤯🤯🤯#UCL

via @CBSSportsGolazo pic.twitter.com/qi80kfwgRI

— beIN SPORTS USA (@beINSPORTSUSA) February 15, 2022

just one of the worst halves of football I've ever seen from Manchester Utd there

not watching but 65% of the possession and only 2 shots (both off-target) - i can only imagine the thrill

well, you only need one shot on target

and how cool was that finish?

1. i love this multicast (madrid/psg and man city/sporting lisbon)
2. no surprises in any of these matches

second offside, eager beaver

v clearly a foul by benzema

horrible mistake by psg

modric with two minutes for the history books

ha, deflected. own goal i suppose

haha, whoaaaa, benzema is such a beast

that was a class class finish

its just like watching spurs this

pretty much

no no i meant madrid

I'd like to see this Real side try to put 5 past Lampard's Everton.

messi at psg has turned out to be astonishingly meh. does he just not know what to do when a team isn't completely and fundamentally geared around himself? or is he just unmotivated and pining for Barca?

I'd like to see this Real side try to put 5 past Lampard's Everton

I'd like to see them stop at 5. Maybe 15min each way.

xp six of one three of t'other three of old as fuck

always thought ken early was a bit early on the bandwagon of "messi doesnt run" but when modric ate him up last night there wasn't any place to hide from it

Maguire and Ronaldo headbutting each other at that corner is my footballing moment of the year so far

Wonderful Real Madrid goal.

Not sure anyone is better than Benzema at the moment. Vini Jr has also been exceptionally good this season.

And another.

critical support for Generalissimo Madrid

That Modric assist

Delighted for Villarreal and their cast of Spurs misfits. Amazing performances.

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in a world where i wanted a limited nuclear strike to hit the Bernabeu, i lolled

Atletico beating Man City would be <3

City's half time music is I Feel Love? I really don't want to like them but

Not sure who else would go for the Panenka in that situation.

Wonderwall at the final whistle

order is restored

lol

4-3 vile

Hard not to like City. It was a good match!

Not that hard tbh.

Lol. To each their own

Liverpool has had some pretty massive chances. Thiagggggo Allllcantara

RB liverpool just too caffeinated for villareal in the end

Madrid bottling it so far

Holy shit

Kin 'ell

Crikey

This is funny as fuck

Manchester Chokey

GuardiLOLa (again)

You can tell Grealish came to accept the fundamental immorality of the whole project at some point during the game. Heart wasn't in it

I was making fries the other day only to discover only to discover that I had no more oil left. I turn around to see a bald man running away with my oil! After catching up to him I found out it was Pep Guardiola, he said "Please I need more oil to win the UCL"

— 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓺_𝓰𝓮𝓶 (@blaq_gem) May 4, 2022

stay classy

man I think being told they had six minutes of stoppage to pull back the tying goal really energized em.

Twitter was filled with people saying "too late, too late" after the first goal, shows them.

so annoyed Man City didn't score in the 1st half after putting my £5 freebet on Man City/Real ht/ft result @ 20/1

Salah looking hungry

Feel like Liverpool need to score here.

This Liverpool line-up is so good. I know a lot of it is coaching but their recruitment has been pretty remarkable really.

Does anyone know why they are tear gassing Liverpool fans with tickets? Did General Franco rise from the grave?

Man Pool are lucky there

Yay VAR strikes again!

I would love to say that Michael Owen saying Liverpool will "blow Real Madrid away" and Gerrard and Ferdinanad saying they would win comfortably has not coloured my view of this match... but I can't. Also Andy Townsend talking about Reel Madrid.

Liverpool have looked knackered the last few games really, after 40 mins without scoring they were basically spent. Trent played like his critics say he plays, poor for the goal, a few terrible attempts on goal and crap set pieces. Keita was awful when he came on. Great defending from Madrid tbf.

https://i.imgur.com/Mtjjt6Z.jpg

Yes, some fantastic defending in this game.

easy

I'm sorry but mentioning you're showing Solihull Moors vs. Chesterfield not once but twice in course of a Champions League Final, fuck you BT Sports, let's have it back on free to air TV.

0 goals in 3 finals

Shut up, Owen.

Great episode of Stadio about the shit outside the stadium last night: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rOApkyvOobmKYmL7WbZza?si=88a1547b76ce4c2a

(can't find a way to link that isn't Spotify)

Liverpool getting a chasing so far, they look shite

Very harsh pen

Weird they let him take it. Great entertainment so far!

3-0 before half time. Gomez nowhere near this level. The Georgian kid for Napoli looks electric

Kvaratskhelia

KLOLpp out

4-0. They need Tuchel to sort this defence out

more puke football from Spurs

I’ve honestly never seen a Spurs side with less ability to put three passes together and I remember the George Graham era. They deserve nothing out of this campaign.

Never in doubt.

Pretty impressive to qualify top of your group having, across the six games, led for a total of 75 minutes.

Yikes, Liverpool.

getting battered by 3 goals at home to real - couldn’t be my team

joe gomez disaster class

5 goals for Haaland with half an hour to go.

... oh hold on, he's been subsituted. I'm sure he was delighted by that.

I'm playing a game where I hack off a finger every time Darren Fletchers mispronounces 'Benzymar' and I'm finding it a bit hard to type lads

his grandad is from the island so that works out quite well narratively

I've just realized the CL Final is on Sky or BT Sports or some channel I don't have and also just realized I can't be bothered to find another way of watching it, let alone go to a pub to watch it. Changed days!

Yes tho if you cba it's free on BT Sport's YouTube as the other two UEFA finals were

OK I'll probably watch it then! Even though the inevitability of Mon(che)ster City winning has sapped my will to live.

not inevitable imo theres a sting in this inter side

Whoever decided Steven Gerrard and Joleon Lescott would make a good pair of summarizers for a Champions League final needs sacking.

Lukaku to score the winner would be pretty great ngl

shocking decision great tackle

ref sweating for city here tbh

Lukaku blocking the equaliser is pretty lol ngl

1-0 City from Rodri knocking a ball back in from the edge of the box is the most crushingly obvious way for this to go

xp otm

hes a lot of things but light on his feet he aint

fuck me lads thats the chance the whole inter game was based around

lukaku you embarrassment

Cunts.

maybe Pep will fuck off out of the EPL now he's won the big one? ah who am I kidding

Imagine a football boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Man City are just a fucking player warehouse

I was hoping Lukaku would get an equaliser but unfortunately he's an oaf

putting the l onto oaf

drunk Man City fan on the radio now getting outraged at accusations they've got money to burn

Idgi Darragh

loaf
2 of 2
verb
loafed; loafing; loafs

intransitive verb
: to spend time in idleness

Bit drunk thought it was a capital i

Ioaf
Oafi
Oiaf

it works on 2 levels since he earned the L tonite

This Scott Carson thing has almost made all of this worthwhile.

it works on 2 levels since he earned the L tonite

― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:59 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

three because he hasnt been avoiding carbs neither

lol

this Utd team just continues to give

at least we won't be in the Europa now

both matches very spicy today

omg now BOTH matches tied on aggregate

Barca coach sent off, and they're down to 10 men already

Barca comprehensively fucking this

oi Dortmund, how do you let TWO runners undetected into the box

OMG DORTMUND

I hate fucking PSG but if Dortmund can go through I'll be happy.

OMG DORTMUND

― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, April 16, 2024 4:32 PM bookmarkflaglink

Borussia Dortmund 3 Bayern 2 or gtf

have to say City have absolutely shat themselves here

everybody too afraid to go top corner

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Premier-less semifinal

Loving the Champions League this year.

been a good two days of matches.

thank u for no away goals

Bernardo Silva possibly the most embarrassing penalty miss I've ever seen in my life.

yeah that one was hilarious. at least Modric's was just weak

i can take no joy in Madrid winning anything but hey it's the Champions League it's all heels

Fucking hell, how do Madrid get away with this stuff

Didn't have an attack worthy of the name for about 100 minutes. Bellingham was absolutely non-existent

Still, lol City etc

i had a low-stakes wager that Man City would score exactly one goal, and I cashed out early after their first one because it looked like they were going to add a second real quick.

Great day to be a salty premier league fan!!!

Dortmund beat PSG home and away, absolutely awesome.

I keep thinking of a West Ham supporter I heard on the radio after Leverkusen had put them out of the Europa League: "Bundesliga? It's like the Scottish league innit?".

an absolutely brilliant away performance, rarely lost intent to break and threaten either and so resolute in defence

everything you want in a team, that. some of the hold up play was of the very highest order.

fantastic reffing performance as well

Started off wanting Bayern to win but as the game wore on I thought why am I supporting Bayern Munich ffs? Anyway Neuer being to one to fuck it up was hilarious, Tuchel taking off Kane was pathetic now come on ye Dortmund!

Can Real play as badly again in the second half? I hope so!

Snakey last minute winner from Real, I'd say. Bastards.

I know I know.

I'm team Dortmund here

A couple of times BD made mistakes in midfield, reckon it will happen again and real will snatch something.

Real doing what they do - ride their luck, soak up the pressure, rely on individual brilliance. I hope not, but it feels inevitable.

and there we go

to be fair it's a great goal

Bastardos

it is OVER

Gave that one away. Oh well.

Boo!

wtf is going on

it looks like they've given up on having a competition altogether and it's just gonna be the most lucrative TV games replayed every fortnight for eternity

We've got the Douglas Luiz return match with Juve, Celtic, Bayern and fellow noobs Bologna at home, hmm

We also loaned the guy we got in part exchange for Luiz straight to Bologna

Surprised to see that wasn't my first ever post in this thread. What business could I possibly have had here?

hey don't ask me i just like to press my face up against the window

Leicester and the Vile have reached the promised land, perhaps Wolves can too, but they'd better be quick before the not-so-sleeping sleeping giant in South Birmingham rises up to crush us all like etc

Boarding an unfortunately-timed flight and nervously awaiting a probable systematic destruction by a Vincent Kompany team

the bavarian city will have offered the away support a warm welcome with the advent of oktoberfest, and yet on the field such generosity will be in scant supply it must be assumed

Er, isn't the game in Birmingham?

the west midlands will have offered the bavarian supporters a warm welcome with alehouses to arguably rival their own, and yet on the field the hosts will be aiming to avoid such generosity as many assume they may be susceptible to given the apparent gulf in experience and, it must be said, financial clout, although the latter has come into increasing question given the big-spending expl

jesus that last couple of minutes sounded tooth-grinding

the rosy glow from villa's greatest epl-era result will last until at least the weekend when the bluenoses rack up ten at the valley

we've all missed big games biscuits, not to worry, this'll definitely happen again

They're playing Utd on Sunday

Let the good times roll

Hi everyone

Hope you're all having a lovely evening 👍

LOL City getting trounced by Sporting Lisbon.

i'm sure they can get their revenge fairly soon, of a sort.

... and Real losing at home to Milan. It's looking like a good night all round.

have tbh

if pep isnt winning every game at city given everything

then what the fuck good is he?

genuinely meant btw. cunt has always been a handbrake on the assembled talents of any unit hes managed since the gift of messi

claudio ranieri mocked as tinkerman and has won a fucking premier league with leicester

pep the greatest coach in the world while inventing new ways for the best squad one could possibly assemble to play milk and buttons shite against their own actual talents

miserable fuck an all

xabi alonso back in his box. turncoat. most liverpool fans wanted slot all along.

watched a bit of the Sporting City game on TNT

Noel Gallagher was on co-commentary lol

i saw this on social media, shudder.

cross-plugging at its finest

Still, at least we've got the football. Bring on the Villa!

😵‍💫

quite

Can we just switch this week off and start it again from the beginning

no id take this, all in all

Can only take solace in the fact that Bruges will concede the exact same penalty soon because someone obviously has money on it

If anyone would be interested in converting me to a religion, or perhaps a cult, I am at a very low ebb here

LOL I've just seen the Feyenoord goals.

Bradley clattering Mbappe, what a moment.

Lovely goal

Caoimh a bit of a shark at the penalties

Mbappe was never scoring that though

horrible run up

I honestly felt the same, terrible body language.

Still feel we might let the win slip here.

ouch, Mendy made to look quite silly there

Yikes

wait wtf

Should shave a few quid off the new contract

Slot seems to have really brought back the concept of "get it in the mixer"

Modric almost had him!

Bradley may not be as talented as Trent with the ball, but I sort of wonder if you're just better off with him in general since he doesn't switch off. Had a brilliant game tonight.

Slot must be thinking "who is this Klopp guy"

Robbed of a last second winner for FUCK'S SAKE

Bradley and Jones were superb tonight.

MacAllister also. Such a great player. That midfield is the best we've had in years.

there's no way this hilarious format is going to be used next season, right?

I very much hope it is but I imagine the big clubs will want rid of it.

congrats to tom d, ailsa, and celtic. am proper loving this version of city. a cf who cant be bothered to pretend to even occupy space to slow the opposition when city are defending coupled with a midfield that cant run turns out isnt a good recipe for defending transitions. who'd have thought it?

the only change id make to the format is the top 8 seeds should have to pick from 1st to 8th which team they play in the last 16. would create some proper grudges with teams feeling slighted and if the upset happens grief for the higher seeded manager.

the annoying thing is they're still going through. prob will have signed a new team just in time to draw liverpool in the next next phase.

xpost

RB Leipzig managed to get their first points in the competition by beating Sporting, Amorim's ruined two clubs in one go

Buendia has signed an extension at Villa and immediately joined Bayer Leverkusen on loan with option to buy

Ah-Ahli in for Duran

Arsenal in for Watkins

Possibly about to finally, finally hammer the Fuck Everything Sign Joao Felix For Some Reason button

And they need to beat Celtic in an hour with a half fit defence to be able to qualify for the last 16

Bit of a Season Finale vibe, in more ways than one

Al-Nassr in for Duran, excuse me

I expect them to beat Celtic, half fit defence or not.

What did I tell you?

Sounds like there was no need for alarm

When Rodgers' teams lose they tend to lose badly.

... but then again.

lol City. Want them to go out so badly.

Granted, if u lads can let us have the three points tonight (3-2 at half-time!)

next year's format will be based on how much money you got

hi again football lads and alike btw

Mad turnaround for Liverpool also but not so important for us I guess.

great to see you LBI

mad first half at villa park

NV <3

Bruges are a good team btw.

Classic penalty from future Arsenal centre forward, Watkins.

I'm so tired

All this man wanted was the most embarrassing winning scoreline in football

Great news, all the rich cunts are winning.

OK.

I am acknowledging the result of this football match

Still, at least Lille made the top 8.

Ah they pipped us on goals scored, fair play! Good side, very tricky tie in the conference league last year

hilbi

lbi elegy is this anything?

eyup deems :)

Excellent. Proud to be a Celtic fan.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/champions_league/article-14341433/fury-celtic-fans-prince-william-aston-villa-champions-league-match-taunt.html

Celtic fans are known to have chanted 'Michael Fagan sorry for your loss' and 'f*** the Coronation' when the Queen died.

LOL @ the comments.

No one is forcing them to live in the UK and there are plenty of flights to Dublin and many ferries to EIRE, so use your freedom of choice and go and live there. Note, behaviour like this is not tolerated in Southern Ireland.

spurs look a different side tonight, even at nil nil theres a massive difference in energy and general competence

Imagining the face of the kind of person who insists on contemptuously saying EIRE

Muy lord

Embarrassing to see Villa fans clutching their pearls about Celtic fans and their beastly chants

eire is a tell, whether from an irish person, a yank or a brit, and each in very different ways

two first goals for spurs youngsters tonight, thats nice

nice

There's something about the Eire word that always makes me wince. It's on loads of American crosswords tho. That's the post.

oh, southern ireland also ofc

look we wont get into it

id note theres a level of effort into picking the specific terms that brings that kind of sniping closer to love than ignorant indifference i guess

I wanted to imply that I understand the gentle obliviousness of USians but Jesus it's an ugly word over here and I used to collect a lot of football stickers

in fairness i dont think it was always

say since brexit i think maybe i started to notice a change altho ofc its been a busy decade maybe its tied in to other things a little earlier

well tbf the post-lockdown discourse has created some extra special dog whistles so who am i to say?

I've always quite liked Villa as a club but fuck their stupid fans singing "God Save the King" etc.

Austin Villa, as Neil Lennon kept calling them in the commentary.

a rare moment of pig-thick nationalism in football fandom

hate to see it creeping in

mad how big, fast and strong villa were. moved the ball well. will be a force for teams in the knockouts

Villa were already one of the most loathsome English clubs by proxy, now they are truly L**ds Utd level scum.

their tifo was club funded and produced apparently, which is a “peak EPL fan culture” beamer

Had to Google that.

that kane goal is actually criminal. not out the tie technically but massive ask to do anything in munich

We barely touched the ball for the first 70 minutes tbf.

Rodgers out (not really, that was mostly quite bearable but the last minute was inevitable)

Fucking Bayern fucking jammy fucking cunts. We should have won this game in the first half. No worries though for anyone else left in the tournament, they're fucking shite.

It's almost like we sold our best striker or something

Never not amusing seeing a Schmeichel let in a last minute winner.

sickener that

(xp) Yeah, fucking hilarious ya twat

engels, mcgregor, johnstone all immense. schlupp looked shaky early on but pocketed olise eventually. some shift from hatate. would have bet my house on daizen scoring that one flashed across the box

Aye, there's been some rubbish I've seen chatted on the social media today about how Calum McGregor doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as other Celtic captains. He's absolutely a big-game player and showed it there.

If we can hang on to Daizen past this summer, I'll be amazed.

Maybe I'm missing something cos there's no sound in here but that disallowed PSG goal is one of the worst var calls I've ever seen

absolutely joyless tho that does seem to be par for the course. thought we were even more fortunate with the konate incident.

this game reminds me a bit of when klopp's liverpool teams would take on some stately league leader in europe. psg look way faster and more athletic.

that said an undeserved goal seemed likely also - doesn't seem like it would take much pressure for liverpool to score.

the end to endness and the thing that it's a first leg just made it a stupider call imo, but yeah too ealry to say whether this impacts the tie

inevitable

Haha I knew it.

Alisson tho. That was prob the best goalkeeping performance I've ever seen from a Liverpool player.

Very Ireland in Italia 90 that goal

Maybe I'm missing something cos there's no sound in here but that disallowed PSG goal is one of the worst var calls I've ever seen

I wasn't watching the first half but technically it was semi-automated offside not VAR

This is how close the offside PSG goal was! pic.twitter.com/zP93yMAMPS

— Football Hub (@FootbalIhub) March 5, 2025

Haha the whole performance reminded me of Ireland of old.

xpost well that's clearly offfside. for years we've always wondered how many goals were being allowed that were marginally offside, it never felt right, at last we've sorted it

brilliant game again. konate always good for a howler, sad lol.

I feel like there's a Donarumma howler in this yet

i was thinking wtf has happened to him, i think of him as being really good from the euros but he looks well dodgy tonight.

that said psg look lethal on the counter. gravenberch has had a great season but looks like at top level liverpool still need a proper shielding number 6.

fuck it tho let's be honest only darwin is capable of winning this one

arne agrees

It is written

absolutely enthralling match. tho i am getting 2020 athletico vibes. just hope another pandemic isn't incoming.

quansah, yikes

Nunez and Curtis Jones? Why?

Alisson so close to saving that first one

Nunez and Curtis Jones? Why?

not sure why vvd wouldn't take the first or second one.

alisson is p terrible at pens, his one weakness. i think he saved one against madrid this season, was it? but struggling to remember him ever saving any besides that.

psg deserved it over two legs but liverpool would have gone through tonight if they had anyone besides salah who can score. i'd ship everyone out besides gakpo and salah, perhaps keeping diaz as a bench option.

Jota hasn't scored in the CL in 4 years

I really rate him but all the injuries seem to have taken their toll, he doesn't look right at all.

i'd ship everyone out besides gakpo and salah, perhaps keeping diaz as a bench option

beautiful

just to be clear i meant in the forward line, not the entire team :D

not sure I've ever seen a finish quite like Yamal's last night (at 1:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlshweWfPrE

idk thats one we've seen a fair bit imo?

late bending thwack, essien, gallas, di maria, gonzalez, et al

it's the technique that's weird, the way the ball travels doesn't seem to match the sort of dink backswing

yes, exactly

I fancied Bruges to actually get something out of this game - I think they're a really good side - but the sending off has put paid to that.

be nice if real got knocked out here

Of course.

ohhhhh that is such bullshit

i assumed they'd make him re-take it, what the fuck

nope. cunts

Real continue to be the jammiest bastards in world football.

How bizarre

🚨 They didn’t count Alvarez penalty 🤯🤯pic.twitter.com/rUHdkATpot

— KinG £ (@xKGx__) March 12, 2025

it does look like he hits it twice if you see the different angles. still find it weird they went to var tho.

Wouldn't that mean a retake though?

confess that i am not familiar with the rules here (is anyone?! i dont remember this coming up before). but it certainly feels like bullshit

Yeah like if a keeper comes off the line it's a retake so why not for this?

Not against Real Madrid in the Champions League obviously.

There was a fair challenge in the box against a Real player that got replayed about five times during extra time and it had me feeling very tinfoil hat.

It took them about 5 milliseconds to review that penalty and chalk it off.

Hate the cunts but I still hope they stuff Arteta in the next round.

They prob will.

Fuck Real obviously, but didn't this happen to an England player at some point? Feel like it was Beckham or Rooney. It wasn't in a shootout but was chalked off with no re-take.

Mahrez had a similar, if much more obvious, one a few years back

https://www.tiktok.com/@premierleague/video/7481255555814755606

lol

Scenes

Judge Bellingham repeatedly pulling the exact face you pull if a Declan Rice free kick is good

*Jood

There's a West Ham fan with me in the post-indoor-cricket pub and he doesn't know what to feel rn

Look, sure it's Arsenal but this couldn't have happened to a nicer team eh

Inter beating Bayern was sweet at least.

Declan Rice had never scored a free kick before tonight?! Wild.

The toppest of bins - booting Real Madrid back to La Liga

I hate to say it, but this PSG team might actually be quite likeable?

an incredible array of individual talents but none of them seem like cunts

Too young to be cunts yet.

They were really good. I haven't seen Villa fully under the cosh like that this season outside of playing a whole half with ten away at Newcastle

They’re excellent. Sometimes Dembele will absolutely run riot but, when he has an off night, Kvara, Doue and Barcola can pick up the slack. For whatever reason, Madrid seem much more heavily reliant on Vini.

lamine yamal pass & goal from last night still kinda blowing my mind

after the ansu fati situation i was somewhat skeptical of the hype around yamal insofar as barca was in the dumps and just so obviously desperate to anoint some teenager as the heir to messi. but yamal is actually the goods

this was the goal of the night though

🔵⚫️ The assist from Marcus Thuram, the finish from Lautaro Martinez. Class. 😍🤝 pic.twitter.com/PNnL9UioC8

— EuroFoot (@eurofootcom) April 9, 2025

up until this year i also kinda hated raphina, just seemed like a selfish player to me, too often looking to score w/o enough skill to consistently finish, but he's really turned that on its head this year. there have been matches this season -- including yesterday and the last classico -- where yamal-lewandowski-raphina look as dominant as messi-suarez-neymar, which is really wild to say. they easily could have had 6 or 7 goals yesterday

Who's this Marcus Rashford fella then?

fucking hell this match

That uhh duhh I'm not sure what to do with the ball act he pulled immediately before effortlessly skinning two players and setting up a goal...delightful

Never not amusing seeing a Schmeichel let in a last minute winner.

― Piedie Gimbel, Tuesday, 18 February 2025 22:02 (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

You see, last night in the immediate aftermath of Villa losing, I could have posted that it's never not amusing watching Emi Martinez cry but I was aware that there are Villa supporters in the thread - unlike what this dickhead posted when Celtic went out to Bayern.

Feck!

"Its coming home" is what I overheard at the bus stop last night

You live in Barcelona?

Milan

I wish!

lol

Meanwhile at Old Trafford, United are losing to a 10 man Lyon

From 2-0 to 2-4 :-O

Yeah...Amorim isn't it

Probably waste at least another season him though

Hold on though

Crazy.

Alright maybe he can stay

Wtf

this is the stupidest game

Incredible that a team battling relegation could win the Europa. All the other fans will be right behind them on this journey!

Two sides battling relegation could find themselves in the final.

wtf did i just watch

I guess part of the broadening of the CL involves making it fucking easy for someone to win the Europa and get the newly added CL place.

crazy stuff but we were bailed out by a soft red card and a soft pen there

Well somebody's playing Bodø/Glimt in the semis as they've just beaten Lazio on penalties.

tbf if you play one good game in a hundred and luck is with you then you'll be a man my son

This PSG side are so good.

the commentator saying that the tribute to the Pope would be at all the semis this week got me checking to make sure Rangers got knocked out in the quarters, that would have been an awkward minutes "silence"

A lot of bad calls from this ref so far

Awesome. Come on ye Inter.

Crazy game.

What a game. Yamal most exciting player in world football right now.

Holy smoke what an exhibition (of shit defending lol)

Loving Rooney's goonerbaiting this week. And he barely mentioned that tifo.

Barcelona's high line is the kind of thing that loses you big CL games when it gets this far in

Asking for trouble

Dumfries having another stormer

For some reason I can only get a stream of the Irish coverage and I keep thinking Kenny Cunningham is saying yer man instead of Yamal.

Haha. Another great game.

lmao

didn't see that one coming lol

this match looks great, anyone know of a good streaming website by any chance?

How is this competition so insane?

Some Tardelli shit from Frattesi there. Amazing celebration.

Reminded me of Fabio Grosso in 2006. The finish and the celebration.

That is an outrageous save

Unbelievable

exhausting stuff

wonderful

Has Odegaard just taken Donarumma's hand off or something

Don't get TNT's obsession with having the affable Fletch-Coisty pairing suddenly interrupted by an extremely unlikeable 1990s centre back you didn't realise was there

Yes, two summarizers is completely unnecessary.

lol, even in audio, keown manages to seem a skulking, malevolent presence

I feel like it's still worse when it's Ferdinand but...is it?

Ballondoor

(xp) Either is terrible, at least Keown doesn't say very much.

Terrible header by Partey

wonder how much that VAR cost PSG

Ridiculous

lol money down the drain

Did it hit his hand? Yes.
Was his hand extended away from his body? Yes.

Weird that Hakimi didn’t seem to notice it, tho. Terrible penalty, after all that.

https://i.postimg.cc/3NZRpCKy/IMG-0511.jpg

He didn't even seem like he was looking at the ball tbf to him. He had a poor game generally, as an aside.

Some brilliant players in this PSG side. Arsenal a bit blunt really, Arteta reminds me of Rafa Benitez

i mean it was technically a penalty, but it did feel like a strange decision. no-one seemed to notice or care. not that matters, arsenal have looked limp over both legs and deserve to go out. arteta out and he can take his silly lightbulb and artful dodgers with him.

We deserve this.

Just look at them. What a deluded set of fans pic.twitter.com/kIwMrHWnmI

— Fred Mba (@amunahouse) May 7, 2025

lol

He misread the signs. Every time a pope dies, the 100% Best team in the Champions League has been English, not necessarily the eventual winner