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

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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.

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.

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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