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

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.

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

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