UEFA Champions League 2018/19

[ozleicester]

Credit to Liverpool... amazing result and what a crowd

[Gamble92]

53 minutes ago, Goober said:

Can’t be arsed with blind/deluded arguments like this.

 

Messi should leave the best/biggest club in the world, the club where he’s been all his life, to go and score 50 a season in Germany cos Barry from Lincoln isn’t impressed enough by his 600 goals for Barcelona

 

 

The best club in the world dont throw away 3 goal leads. 

 

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[FireFox]

Barca just didn't attack or create much at all? Some credit goes to Liverpool for controlling the game, but it felt like none of the Barca players really wanted it. Alba was no better than Chilwell, and I'd expect Ricardo and Albrighton to do better on the right side than whoever Barca had there.

 

Hopefully Ajax can save us from Spurs and Liverpool.

[Leicester_Loyal]

8 hours ago, StanSP said:

Vidal was their best player defensively in the first half

 

Was he? I just saw him give the ball away numerous times which led to him and Barca having to defend again.

 

If Messi doesn't have a good game, Barcelona don't really have many others players to take control of the game (against the big opposition). They used to have Xavi, Iniesta and even Neymar in recent seasons to take control or score a goal, who do they have atm? Countinho? Dembele? Even Suarez has had a pretty poor CL season, he's only scored 1 goal. All they needed tonight was 1 goal ffs!

 

Alba, Roberto and Lenglet were all horrendous too.

[Walshy5]

Liverpool are the biggest bunch of cheats going yet everyone seems to turn a blind eye!

[TheUltimateWinner]

Poch comes out with some weird things  

 

 

[Footballwipe]

5 hours ago, FireFox said:

Barca just didn't attack or create much at all? Some credit goes to Liverpool for controlling the game, but it felt like none of the Barca players really wanted it. Alba was no better than Chilwell, and I'd expect Ricardo and Albrighton to do better on the right side than whoever Barca had there.

 

Hopefully Ajax can save us from Spurs and Liverpool.

Yep, utterly hopeless. Take out the emotion of the comeback and the crowd etc. and in reality that was a routine 4-0 win for Liverpool, akin to playing a mid-table PL side. Comfortable and simple, always in control. Barca created barely anything, they were proper shown up. Seems like the PL could start to be pushing La Liga's European dominance if things carry on at this pace.

[ARTY_FOX]

why do the media think all anyone wants to here is some scousers singing you’ll never walk alone? 

[RussianFox]

26 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

Yep, utterly hopeless. Take out the emotion of the comeback and the crowd etc. and in reality that was a routine 4-0 win for Liverpool, akin to playing a mid-table PL side. Comfortable and simple, always in control. Barca created barely anything, they were proper shown up. Seems like the PL could start to be pushing La Liga's European dominance if things carry on at this pace.

They barely won 3-2 against Newcastle, who's lower-mid-table at best.
"Routine 4-0 win" is more akin to playing someone like Huddersfield or Brighton... or this Barcelona side, of course.

Btw, most of their (Barca) first-XI players rested before this game, didn't they? While Liverpool played vs Newcastle just 3 days prior to this game.

In theory it should mean Liverpool players should have been tired and Barcelona players should've been fresh and fast. But there was only one team on the pitch yesterday.

[Finnegan]

Barcelona are a team in transition, you can't really expect them to replace Iniesta, Xavi, Neymar and Co in the blink of an eye. They've spent a few years now trying to work out what their next team is going to look like. 

 

I think Frenkie and Arthur will be a big part of that moving forward but then they're going to have to solve the Messi problem. 

 

They've been poor on the road in Europe for a few years really. This was nothing new. 

 

Also, let's give credit where its due here and be reasonable, Liverpool and Man City are comfortably the two best teams in Europe this season. They're in incredible form, setting all kinds of records, I don't think there's any shame in losing a tie by one goal to them. 

 

Let's be fair, if City hasn't inexplicably melted against Spurs they'd probably be contesting the final together. 

[z-layrex]

I just don't have it in me to be pleased for Liverpool, they're too annoying. I hate that song so much.

[Guest Col city fan]

11 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

That's not my fight, I rate Messi as the better footballer and Ronaldo the better goalscorer. My point is, should the greatest of all time and captain of his side be overseeing an absolutely humiliating display? This was his to win, his to draw level with Ronaldo, be the team to end Real Madrid's dominance of the champions league, he had all the motivation to do so and he didn't have the impact a player who is considered the greatest of all time should have imo, no leadership, no touch of class. 

 

I was watching Messi closely from about 60 ish minutes in

He was literally (apart from one mazy run) walking and not even coming for the ball. I swear he looked like he’d given in

Amazing from him and a team that only needed a single goal to realistically go through.

Their apathy was hard to fathom?

[Rusko187]

Missed the match but caught that corner... such intelligence in the heat of the moment to do that.

 

Thank goodness TAA is English, really does have a bright future ahead of him.

[Vacamion]

On 01/05/2019 at 20:53, Vacamion said:

 

[...] there will be loads of the usual guff spouted about atmospheric Anfield games under the lights having some sort of bearing on the eventual outcome. 

 

Then for the 2nd leg we can look forward to Barcelona scoring twice in the opening 10 minutes and Liverpool's daytripper crowd being quieter than a bank holiday morgue. 

 

[...] 

 

 

"Mystic Vac" with his usual prescience.. 

 

 

 

[Guest Col city fan]

22 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

"Mystic Vac" with his usual prescience.. 

 

 

 

You definately can’t become a pre-cog Vac

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, Col city fan said:

I was watching Messi closely from about 60 ish minutes in

He was literally (apart from one mazy run) walking and not even coming for the ball. I swear he looked like he’d given in

Amazing from him and a team that only needed a single goal to realistically go through.

Their apathy was hard to fathom?

He always does this. However, when he scores a few goals like the first game then it doesn't matter to people. When things aren't working out this looks obvious.

[foxy boxing]

Unbelievable performance by Liverpool, truly amazing but the Barcelona players were a disgrace for such a prestigious club, although quick thinking from Alexander Arnold for the Barcelona players to switch off like that. I believe the competitiveness of the Premier League is helping our teams in Europe because other leagues are just not as strong and teams like Barcelona and Juventus and Bayern find it hard to raise their game against tough determined opposition which they don't have in their own leagues.

[Samilktray]

3 minutes ago, foxy boxing said:

Unbelievable performance by Liverpool, truly amazing but the Barcelona players were a disgrace for such a prestigious club, although quick thinking from Alexander Arnold for the Barcelona players to switch off like that. I believe the competitiveness of the Premier League is helping our teams in Europe because other leagues are just not as strong and teams like Barcelona and Juventus and Bayern find it hard to raise their game against tough determined opposition which they don't have in their own leagues.

The top 2 are 20+ points clear of everyone else. What’s competitive about the premier league 

[StanSP]

 

 

[Dan]

Saw that picture and convinced it was going to be something about Pele scoring all 7 goals in a 4-3

[Fox92]

6 hours ago, Walshy5 said:

Liverpool are the biggest bunch of cheats going yet everyone seems to turn a blind eye!

Same applies to Man City.

[Nalis]

I'd accept a really boring 0-0 tonight.

[Leicester_Loyal]

6 hours ago, Walshy5 said:

Liverpool are the biggest bunch of cheats going yet everyone seems to turn a blind eye!

It's the hypocrisy of it all that annoys me. Last night on BT Sport Steve Mcmanaman was moaning about Suarez diving around, claiming diving is ruining the game and 'you wouldn't get that in the English game', yet Salah has been the worst diver in the Premiership this season. They've also had numorous dives from Mane, as well as Fabinho which has gained them set pieces that shouldn't have been given. It's hilarious that they can't just admit it like other sets of fans, I can quite happily admit Maddision dives, as does Vardy occasionally, but they literally think they're playing by the rules, while bemoaning the fact that Man City have outspent them with 'dirty illegal oil money'.

[Dan]

22 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

It's the hypocrisy of it all that annoys me. Last night on BT Sport Steve Mcmanaman was moaning about Suarez diving around, claiming diving is ruining the game and 'you wouldn't get that in the English game', yet Salah has been the worst diver in the Premiership this season. They've also had numorous dives from Mane, as well as Fabinho which has gained them set pieces that shouldn't have been given. It's hilarious that they can't just admit it like other sets of fans, I can quite happily admit Maddision dives, as does Vardy occasionally, but they literally think they're playing by the rules, while bemoaning the fact that Man City have outspent them with 'dirty illegal oil money'.

Last night he took the piss. I shouldn't let it bother me but all it is doing is fueling an agenda. That little rant about how what Suarez was doing is bad for the game yet you know for a fact when he was at Liverpool it would be "craft" or "clever". I just can't be doing with bias. It'll be the same tonight as well which'll make the inevitable Son pair of worldies all the more unbearable.

[Christoph]

Barca rely too heavily on Messi. There was a point when there must have been about 4 players in the box and rather than just cracking it in goal they pass it to messi. Barca are going to be ****ed once messi leaves.