Caption being checked by VAR: UEFA Leagues and Cups 2025-6

the ref in the spurs villareal game is giving himself a problem having booked 18 players in five first half minutes

is ch lge games on a thurs gonna be a regular thing going frwd or just this week?

Two incredible games today, neither of which involved Tottenham.

Eight goals in the second half of Juve-Dortmund.

Newcastle seem unable to sustain the madness with which they start these by games.

LOL Rashford, of course.

Haha. Rashford, Elanga, all good players if they'd only been given a chance at a big club before now.

I love how they're now giving more coverage to women's football, but it was still a shock to see man utd winning in europe, just for a moment before i realised "oh not that man utd"

Old Marcus is running riot.

Damn, he’s back.

Just needed an audience

Lennart Karl - 17 y/o proper regen wunderkind just scored a beaut against us.

just such a lazy fucking team, shameless lack of effort or interest in the basics

I know a season is not defined by a November performance, and lol Arsenal I know, but this Arsenal team are a different class tonight. Bayern have looked indestructible this season and we’ve made them look like chumps.

Declan Rice is honestly looking like the best midfielder in the world right now. He is everywhere, winning balls, chasing people down, dictating play, playing killer balls and of course, being a set piece specialist. I don’t know if we’ve had this good an all round midfielder since Vieira.

Slot out.

Liverpool 1 - 4 PSV

!

Seems crazy that Spurs were leading twice against PSG and still let in 5.

does it tho

having dodged the Maccabi Tel Aviv bullet, we now have seats at VP being ripped out and thrown around by uh Young Boys fans

this better not spoil my enjoyment of watching the Wolves in the flesh on Sunday

I feel somewhat for the Young Boys players, who did not sign up for literally any aspect of any of this and visibly just want to go home

ah no the fella off the bench didn't get the memo, but was also offside. No party for the inexplicable Swiss Violence Automatons

having dodged the Maccabi Tel Aviv bullet, we now have seats at VP being ripped out and thrown around by uh Young Boys fans

Talking of which...

Maccabi Tel Aviv 0 Lyon 6

carrying on from the pl thread...

sadly i think these games don't really tell you a lot. imo the bigger euro sides like real, and tonight inter, have some sort of institutional inability to disrespect another venerable big side, so they won't just rip into liverpool like prem teams have been doing all season. it's like the game must be sort of cosplayed as a serious and tight affair. i guess the format of the cl doesn't boost the urgency much either in this regard.

i'll fucking take it tho

Keown should be in a cage, not getting to commentate a second Arsenal game in four days

Do Aston Villa have an unsustainable reliance on lightly-caressed daisy-cutters, trundling low, low, inexorably to the right of the opposition goalkeeper's despairing dive?

huge "concentrating on the League" energy from City

You’re breaking my heart

Only tuned in for the half time whistle to go but Inter’s kit is HORRIBLE

Fuck it, abolish the Champions League, let EPL teams play each other in a new league - perhaps call it the English Premier League - and let everyone else enjoy themselves.

Trying to enjoy Benfica's win even tho it's Mourinho

Cracking 1st half between Monaco and PSG

Galatasaray 5 Juventus 2!

well, igor tudor had a good run.

Feel like you should be handing someone a resignation notice at the same time when you sub off your novice keeper 16 minutes in.

The good news is that they’ve managed to limit Atleti to four shots on target so far this half.

yeah not sure destroying a young player's confidence is the ideal move when the entire team is teetering on the edge

Just tuning in...whst was the idea there?

I thought that Osimhen disallowed goal shouldve stood. Maybe he thought Ibou had enough embarrassment for one day.

it absolutely should. by letter of the (bizarre) law the liverpool one should have stood as well apparently. it's a strange state of affairs, some terrible performances, could have lost by more, definitely still in the tie and may well win but the bigger picture is this team hasn't a hope of winning the cl.

Bayern look ludicrously good, even without Kane. At least Spurs aren’t alone in being embarrassed today.

Soft penalty for Arsenal. At least, this ref isnt having their corner shenanigans.

Fede Valverde had scored once in three years in the CL until today. City seem to have fallen apart.

third goal was a beaut

Got to love it.

Never mind that though, come on ye Superlaget!

Bodø/Glimt continuing to do well! (yes I had to c&p that)

EPL teams shipping goals left right and centre. Good to see.

Coefficient is going to take a battering.

The Glimt three up from the first leg.

Playing your second string keeper and losing 5-2 away from home when they have a nightmare seems to be very fashionable at the moment.

Could potentially see Glimt getting a result over two legs against either Leverkusen or Arsenal too.

City glass jaw always a thing. Bodo another thing that people keep trying to understand but mostly failing. What are they smoking up there?

Bodo Glimt might have met their match.

Sporting have had 31 shots so far and still ten minutes to go.

Into extra time. I cant see Bodo getting a result out of this one.

Rosenior gotta be unhappy to managing in such a vintage season for the Worst Manager of The Year award

club world cup champions in action tonight I see

Bodo spanked, maybe pundits in Scotland can stop banging on about them constantly now.

Eze scored a beaut, absolutely spanking it from outside the box, on the half volley

Newcastle joining in on the ‘being 5-2 down’ act.

Ramsdale is so crap

lol, go for double figures, lads.

This is great.

All this talk about Prem teams being too strong for the rest of the CL goes to show how useless of a barometer this new CL setup with its pile of largely pointless games in the league setup is

corners, eh?

Beautiful passed corner.

Hockey style the ball can't go above the waist maybe should be the rule.

Slot has managed a 5-0 half there, bet all the Reddit morons are blaming him for this being level

it's galatasaray. people are blaming him for the team playing shit for half the season.

don't fuck it up don't fuck it up don't fuck it up

lol it's mad how i've been feeling the exact same. no faith this season.

it's nice seeing them happy at least for a change.

there's no better EPL team to watch than Liverpool in this mood

The opposition have just wilted tbf. PSG will roast us alive.

It'll be an awesome tie and not so easy to call imo

i mean it's a big statement performance for sure.

teams hoping to win the conference league next year will have taken note.

We can get into the CL next year by winning the CL this year, it's been established now

Seems straightforward, we should just do that.

👍

Cracking game between Real and Bayern

Watched that second half, was fantastic fun. Bayern extremely unruthless with their many 4-on-2s in the box mind

Slot out

so toothless. the subs made us worse. formation fairly mad. before the subs it felt like we might sneak away only losing 1-0 but a very good second goal.

i like ekitike but he was absolutely dire this evening.

If we don't win the second leg then he's fucked. And we are very unlikely to win the second leg. Could easily lose it by a few goals. Grim.

PSG must be kicking themselves they didn't get 4 or 5 though.

definitely. i don't expect us to win really but score the first goal at anfield and it would get very uncomfortable for them.

Igor Tudor is available

would be unfair given spurs may need him again before the season is out.

The other day I actually saw a Celtic podcaster seriously discussing Igor Tudor as the next Celtic manager.

So it goes

Weirdly felt like Liverpool getting back into that was a possibility for a decent bit of the second half. Just no real composure or good decision-making up front.

Totally outclassed. Final ball was always lacking last night.

ALTHOUGH I still havent heard a proper reason why the ref overturned that penalty decision with that foul on McAllister. It was a bit soft yeah but theyre always given.

McAllister threw himself in front of the defender who didn't make a challenge of any kind

it was a good decision

Good to get a neutral perspective.

if you legitimately think that's a penalty, dare i say it, game's gone

There was contact on the heel but it was fairly soft. I was more surprised at the way VAR worked procedurally in a different way to the Prem but that's more a technicality.

in general would say Liverpool have been remarkably unfortunate this season, but I say this as a fan of some long-forgotten lower-league outfit who finds the idea of sacking someone a year after winning the EPL when their team is still in the Champions League qualification spots so laughable as to be unreal

Obviously they'll wait till next season then sack him.

the injuries are just so depressing but we've been more shit than unfortunate. last night I think Kerkez was playing at number 10 by the end, after two right backs got injured again. ekitike gone just as Isak returns etc. mainly tho I think the game evolves fairly quickly and one season when a calm and more static approach was effective does not mean that will work the next. considering last night was the typical game where you need to get the crowd going and break the opposition with intensity, the slot version of this team just can't build that head of steam. partly some of the new signings but more to do with bigger established players falling off a cliff formwise.

also mamardashvili on backpasses genuinely reminds me of packie bonner's routine terror when the rule first came in.

Haven't seen the game and not sure I'll bother now, but starting Salah on the bench in what was always likely to be his final CL game for Liverpool then bringing him on and taking our in form striker off at 31 minutes in just looks kind of desperate, idk, sure there was a plan there, but it didn't work.

the in form striker suffered a season ending injury...

oh that's just great

if he's snapped his achilles it could be a good portion of next season too

Im hearing hes out for 9 months

It's horrible for him, heard a few different places describing it as the worst injury in modern football. Decent chance he won't ever be the player he was :/

Crazy stuff in the Bayern Real game

Imagine, there are people out there watching Arsenal v Sporting right now.

Absolutely mad game, Bayern Real. Almost feel like if the goals keep going in at this rate it goes from classic to anomaly or like wtf are you doing lads type scenario.

Tho that's not a concern really.

The more I watch this the more I think PSG would wipe the floor with either.

If I was Camavinga I would simply not return to Madrid

Weird how both the ref and Camavinga both initially seemed to have forgotten he was booked ten minutes earlier.

Diaz not great at one on ones or whatever but that goal is one he's scored for Liverpool a few times, even with the deflection.

Oof what a goal

Classy stuff from Real

That was an amazing game - both halves, for different reasons, settled by a moment of absolute idiocy from a Real player. Beautiful

the casual brilliance of that Olise goal

Amazing.

he should have taken it into the corner

lol at Guler sent off at least a minute after the final whistle

Really hope the

Other Madrid finally win this thing

aren't you literally an arsenal fan

Just armchair follower and only watch a game now and then. I'll be pleased if we closed the title down but I'm not attached to a team.

Don't really care who wins it as long as it's not Arsenal.

you really gonna allow PSG like that

Need to see some PSG fan socials before they get anywhere near

it's nice that we've got four different countries represented in the semi-finals again.

Bologna are the best team I've ever seen who cannot defend anything at all

over this tie they've conceded a corner played to feet in their six yard box, and then tonight switched off so catastrophically from saving a penalty (OK they defended that) that Lucas Digne has an assist from a throw-in to his name

Villa's first tonight was liquid football though tbf

it's hard to hate this PSG team

I really enjoy this Bayern team and it’s honestly delightful to see them pulled to pieces. Not over yet though.

What a game.

brilliant from Diaz, some great finishes in this

That was one of the best games Ive ever watched

PSG gotta feel disappointed though

It does feel like these two teams are pointing a way for football

only for the clammy hand of arsenal to etc

There will definitely be more towel action in the game tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSDWq6HsJE

Arsenal pic.twitter.com/Qs5qRbUQrU

— Zito (@_Zeets) May 5, 2026

Hell yeah

I still have lingering affection for Arsenal stemming from a long FM09 save, but found that difficult to maintain while watching Arteta sprinting up and down the touchline in the last few minutes of this match.

Myles Lewis-Skelly’s parents, Marcia & Paul, giving him a standing ovation as he leaves the field. ❤️👏 pic.twitter.com/GeazbGWVwg

— afcstuff (@afcstuff) May 5, 2026

Arteta is a goon and i will have to play nice if we win the double. Still won't like him tho.

might be a few goals again

the ref who didn't sent Anderson off for Forest last week is doing some very Special reffing here I see

consistency, etc but a penalty for getting the ball booted at you by your own player would have been extremely harsh

it was more the "why on earth did PSG get a free kick for the first handball" tbh but yeah, the rule is what it is for the later one I guess

yeah the first one was indefensible

well that was a much more disciplined performance from PSG

Olise looked out of sorts and Kompany looked out of ideas

https://thetattooedbookgeek.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitledgf.gif

Football Issues Correspondent Dale Johnson getting ready to tell you why the decision you're mad about is technically correct

not really he's clearly a figment of Nult's imagination in some vaguely Fight Club-adjacent way

Kompany looked out of ideas

― Number None, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 22:01 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

When he was Burnley manager, they played the same way every week, made the same mistakes every week and got beat the same way every week.

Obviously it is a much much higher calibre of player at Bayern, but idk that season at Burnley makes me suspicious that he is in over his head

after the season they've had, basing a criticism like that on a one-goal defeat to the scariest footballing machine of recent times is frankly an astonishing and terrible knee-jerk

Oh I am not saying I am rational

if your lot calmly put PSG away I will allow you to restate it

We lost to them last season iirc but at least it’s not fucking Harry Kane, who would have inevitably scored 2 hat tricks to avenge Spurs’ relegation

Tyre of which would have been penalties he dived to win.

...three, not tyre ffs

Bayern look like a team full of basketball players, Kompany definitely has a type

really interesting tactical conundrum posed by this one, should I go to bed mad now or in three hours

pretty sure your boys can hold off shakhtar

so help me I will put my foot through ILX and send you the bill. do not try it

Putative England no 10 is a right handful tbf

have gone to the Bricklayers as usual on a Thursday and there's one screen not showing Palace so I've been treated to at least five minutes of replayed head trauma

looked away to an ILM thread and missed Villa's goal

good improvised celebration by watkins. give me more bandages. ahm a mummehhhhh

a big decision goes Villa's way? and it's the worst big decision we can ever get?

truly the greatest night of user biscuits' life this

Deforestation.

rayo vallecano heading to their first final in their entire history

xp there's a villa pun there too

hahahaha local elections not the only massacre tonight

sudden spike in Google searches for "how to get travel package refund from mob boss" in the East Mids

hopefully not enough time for Jadon Sancho to assist three opposition goals this time out

Emi Martinez? Injured? at this stage of the game? with Villa in possession? 😥

as predicted, I'll be going to bed bright red and screaming

Sigh

rayo vallecano heading to their first final in their entire history

― nxd, Thursday, May 7, 2026 3:43 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe they can afford to give their players hot showers!!! lfg rayooooooooooo

argh make it stop

ex-pros stop confidently predicting the manner of our victory ffs

make it stop

fuck!

yeah but emery

Freiburg seem like a cool little club.

it's a nice town to visit

signed up for HBO Max £4.99 to see the game

Signed up to the pub

i wouldnt advise winning tbh

it doesn't seem like beating a small co-op homegrown players antifascist team using predatory subprime/richest man in Egypt money would be particularly ethical tbh

Martinez injured? at this stage of the warmup? with Villa in wait this isn't funny

Cash shouldve got a red there

This is almost as exciting as last year's final so far

Oof. Some finish

Oof. And again

worldies worldies worldies

now would be a good time for us to cash in on Buendia. he often struggles to affect games and from a PSR point of view- I'm a fucking wank

the 5'7/Football Heaven protocols are very clear

I think John McGinn is my favourite non Arsenal player of the past couple years

there's a few very arsenal things about him alright

can't forgive Buendia for ruining that masterpiece

Well this was a thriller

My son Theo (11) did a "Freiburg, who are they?" in the Accrington Stanley voice, I'm sorry, my fault.

5th Europa League for Emery

I was 12 last time we won something, I thought I might cry but I mostly just feel unreal

grats to villa and all who sail in her apart from breaking us up twice a year i like the club v much

I look forward to our performance against City on Sunday eclipsing the disgrace Southampton have brought upon the English game by several orders of magnitude

southampton punished pretty brutally for deploying untrained idiots with prehistoric technology to no discernible positive effect

pgmol unavailable for comment

ayooooo