Only Spurs rush in: it's the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2018/2019 thread

Fuck yalls disinterest in this shambolic money laundering footy tournament! PSV are in it ffs, after ages. And we're in it to win it.

It's a special year, because the ILX Spurs massive will meet the ILX PSV massive. The latter is, granted, not very massive (it me). But we're off to a surprisingly good start this year. PSV won 0-7 from ADO last weekend, I can't remember the last time Spurs beat ADO by those numbers, if at all. Harr harr, but this is the CL 18/19 thread, since no one bothered to start one before me.

I will tell you all one thing: we will probably finish fourth in this diabolic group. But we have these two:

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Hirving 'Chucky' Lozano and Erick Gutierrez. A true bromance. Played together since they were 11 at Pachuca, Mexico. Now, finally, reunited at PSV. Guti played his first 20 minutes last Saturday, when PSV thrashed ADO 0-7. Guti came on, his first ball contact was delivering a 50 yard pass to his buddy Chucky. Five minutes later he scored like fucking Juninho could, a belter.

They, my friends, are ready. Show me what you've got.

These 17:55 kickoffs are an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

jim white couldnt believe it yesterday when it came up
"must be a mistake"

gl lbi!

fuck football

hard to judge PSG as opponents tonight - they choke evey year but Mbappe and Neymar on the other hand...

true but they usually do well in the group stage

ty nxd!

Matt DC otm abt the kickoff time obv. I'll probably miss the first 45 mins of the drubbing due to work lol

dier already playing shit loose balls across our box

aurier davies offside traps oh god

Making Inter look competent isn’t something anyone else has managed this season, so hats off.

ffs we should've scored twice already

this is nuts, we're daring them to press us five yards out

but are playing p well

we are flinging the ball away from ourselves thru aurier lamela and davies atm

ah well, it was good while it lasted. free kick messi one you don't save tho.

kane misses a good chance one on one and we look like we will give up a goal before ht imo

feisty game

aurier looks..

good

fuck eric dier now tbh

that feels like a bit of payback for Saturday

Bizarre goal that.

well
....as i said, payback for sat

fuck thats a good chance to give away

oh should not be off there

lamela looks at times unstoppable and at times awful

at times unplayable and at times unplayable

reading deems livecomms of a spurs game, you have no idea who's winning or how many goals there have been

but you usually know the ref is a cunt

Take it as read.

Can’t really begrudge a goal like that.

ahahahahaha fuck me

This felt very comfortable and now I'm absolutely shitting it.

Gah

you fucking cunts

winks came on a threw that game

inexcusable, far worse than juve

Poch out

Inter were fairly shit. They spent most of the match looking for Spurs players to be booked

spurs best performance this season but that was two shit goals to concede at any stage on any stage

love2too fight w/ Spurs for third place

oh we wont be fighting

neither will we tbh

Studge

Liverpool v much on dis ting

Who does Tuchel remind me of? An actor, prob, but I can't figure it out?

https://twitter.com/search?q=tuchel%20looks%20like&src=typd

Not a 2nd half team & neymar and mbappe have hardly broken a sweat yet

xp damn, didn't know that was a thing

think he reminds me most of the guy playing the wiz in seinfeld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRf_A07Elyw

PSG are a joke

Otm. Good for Firminho to get it

I came late and didn't know the lineups and spent much of the first half wondering if neymar or mbappe had even started

Fucking hell

Admire Barca's commitment to finding evermore embarrassing ways to exit the CL year on year. First Roma then LFC then whatever this is.

Loving the Thomas Muller Renaissance this season and the moving one of the best LBs in the world to CB because oh yes we just happen to have an even better LB sure he's a teenager but let's do it anyway.

No wonder Poch and Xavi said no thanks in January.

That was extraordinary to watch.

It's almost impossible to defend going back to the old Champions League format after seeing that. There'll be half as many games but twice as many people will want to watch them.

Last year's semis not exactly dull iirc

Last year's semis represented the single greatest moment of my football watching life but there's a specific drama and magic to 90mins of high stakes knockout football.

8-2, one simply loves to see it

Wooo! 1-0 Lyon.

City have all the possession but have created next to nothing.

Bayern's odds must be shortening by the minute

Finally can’t stick listening to Michael Owen any more, fingers crossed for a City humiliation and Owen to have his mic cut “accidentally”.

Have just informed it’s Steve Mc, point stands.

radio only here thank god

and there we go

Stunning tbh

lol Dembele, 2-1 Lyon

uh-oh here comes VAR

Surely it stands

it does!

Lyon really effective on the break. Can’t believe Pep hasn’t put Foden on yet, City have nothing through the middle

Jesus fuck Peter Walton sounds like hard work

lol

Sterloling

Amazing.

Stick a fork in them

lmaooooooo what a minute of football

Scenes

Glorious

Champions League delivering

The real blitw

i want interpol investigating the man city player who put it over the top from five feet

Waddle: "Lyon haven't played that well" (proceeds to list all the ways Lyon have played more than well enough)

I really like Raheem Sterling and he’s a great player and has had a good game but that was hilarious and fuck Man City

So it’s our « farmers’ league » against Germany now !

pep really can't help himself in the CL. always looking for a cute angle.
roll on the all ilf baaderonix vs jibe final

Lovely goal.

neymar touch for 2nd goal straight fire

Insane how the qualifying rounds for next season are taking place before the semis are even over. The competition has lapped itself.

Ah, how did Depay not score? Pretty sure I could have chipped the keeper from there.

Enjoyed the serge gnabry arjen robben tribute goal. Coutinho looked really good when he came on.

Flicked over to 5live after the game to hear Sutton and Dublin lambasting the Lyon forward for missing 2 chances which apparently one can't do "at this level" and separates out the really top strikers from the average whilst willfully ignoring the fact that the chance lewandowski missed that led to gnabry's 2nd goal was way worse.

Final should be tasty.

possible caveat: Lewandowski's 55 goals in 46 appearances this season

i sure hope it won't be 10 more years before lyon get back to the cl semis (but honestly their chances are low, they are nowhere near the level of the big money clubs... tbh i'd probably be happier to see them in the europa league where they stand a chance)and that if they do they can avoid munich. two semis lost 3-0 to bayern (ok in 2010 they lost 1-0 and 3-0).
anyways, i hope psg beat bayern on sunday, even if it'll mean my psg supporting friends become even more annoying.

picked psg to win this itt in february so guess i'll stick with them but there are probably more bayern players i like than psgers. neymar has been ridic good this knockout phase and maybe he'll sort his finishing tonight.

I winced when that Lewandowski shot hit the post.

steve mcmanaman is chronic

last 30 mins horribly bitty

the curious double sub for Bayern completely killed their momentum

love fouls me

You just know Lineker has been waiting 95mins to say "Herr Flick" with a smirk on his face.

Group A: Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid, Red Bull Salzburg, Lokomotiv Moscow

Group B: Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan, Borussia Monchengladbach

Group C: Porto, Man City, Olympiakos, Marseille

Group D: Liverpool, Ajax, Atalanta, Midtjylland

Group E: Sevilla, Chelsea, Krasnodar, Rennes

Group F: Zenit St Petersburg, Borussia Dortmund, Lazio, Club Bruges

Group G: Juventus, Barcelona, Dynamo Kiev, Ferencvaros

Group H: Paris St-Germain, Man Utd, RB Leipzig, Istanbul Basaksehir

chelsea jammy as ever. ronaldo vs messi. not the friendliest draw for man utd.