Arsenal vs Paris St Germain - 29.04.2025 - KO 20:00 GMT

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

That utter twat who made at least two big saves in the match?. Raya is probably the only one of them (with Lewis-Skelly as well) who comes out of this with any credibility

Actually Trossard did his best considering he’s not a striker

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Trossard was dogshit.
Since the Strop (what is the code for 'tm' these days? It's ruining my posting, lol) he has been fucking awful when he's started games. Best example of an impact sub we've had in years.

He's not a striker but he should know the basics of football by now - like when to run into the box instead of standing in the midfield, how to receive a basic pass, how to pass the ball out quickly to evade danger, etc

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

I don’t believe this was all about momentum as such, I just feel like we hit a ceiling tonight. We’ve shown for most of the season that while we are difficult to beat, we aren’t actually very good and desperately need better players in certain positions if we are ever going to get over the line and win a trophy.

Every dog has its day and maybe Real Madrid was that day for us. Deep down we all know the second leg of this is beyond us even though it’s still close. I would be stunned if we somehow found the courage and quality to turn it around.

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Yeah I agree with this. We have been way too Jekyl and Hyde this season, in PL we haven’t even properly challenged Liverpool, they won that title months ago.

We have done well in CL, but last night we more than met our match, for the first 25 mins they had us chasing shadows last night, they completely dominated, it was painful viewing.

PSG are a very good team at home, I honestly rate our chances at 10% Yes we will likely score over there but I think they will score minimum 2 goals.

I was really disappointed with our performance last night, we were poor pretty much all game, they were decent in spells.

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Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club

I feel the same.

They gave zero fucks about the Palace game and then levels were dropped too far to be able to raise them again for this game.

Mind you using hcz's analogy, I did think that the fans were drawn into almost comical silence, by the lame, hafl arsed performance against Palace - and that in turn made it more difficult to get the atmosphere up to high levels for last night.

Had we beaten Palace, that would have been a spring board to continue the 'high' and maintain the winning attitude.

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I think the fans simply came in expectant and much like the team, were rather shell shocked after the early goal and couldn’t raise it once it became apparent PSG had full control. We haven’t demonstrated much in terms of powers of recovery this season, when we go a goal down it usually means we aren’t going to win.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Should have smashed them. Trossard and Odegard with sitters.

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Which were both well saved. Shearer, who knows a thing or two about scoring goals, praised the 'keeper. There was no suggestion from him that they were weak shots.

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No wonder Villa wrecked them.

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:lol: Yeah, they "wrecked" them 3-2, having lost 3-1 away. You know PSG went through from that tie, right? That's why it's us against PSG, not Villa
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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

We may have come in it to with better sharpness. We didn't show professionalism and you just can't turn it on like a tap when you want.

You told me it wouldn't matter because we drew in previous games prior to Real Madrid.

That went real well.

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I didn't tell you anything. I just pointed out - as did others - there are multiple examples, including the Real games, where we dropped silly points in games and then went on to win the subsequent cup games. 92/93 was another example - we drew before the Spurs semi-final, we lost both games before the cup finals. There are other examples.
I'm not saying momentum isn't important in football and of course I'd rather we'd beaten Palace, I just don't buy that a better performance and result there would necessarily have meant a better outcome last night. Correlation famously does not equal causation.
Let's face it, PSG are a much better side than we play most weeks in the PL - they humped Liverpool who have been better than us this season and despite a bit of a scare they got past Villa too. We weren't that bad last night, we were just playing a very good side. The first 20 minutes we looked overawed but we played our way in to the game and but for an offside and a couple of good saves we could have got a better result. Could have been worse too of course. I don't think this tie is over yet. PSG clearly favourites but it would be insane to give up at just 1-0.

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

I admire your optimism but we are out

We had to go there with a lead, we certainly couldn’t afford a deficit. It plays into their hands. To repeat myself We are out

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I am an eternal optimist so I'm not ready to throw the towel in just yet.
But I said that about the title and we know how that went :haha:

1-0 is...less than ideal but with Partey back...I dunno, we only have to score a goal and then it all gets interesting.
Head says you're right, heart says...well, you never know!

Just reading an article about how shit the tifo was. A laughable effort really considering the club turned down a supporters group who had designs of their own.

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Originally Posted by Letters

I am an eternal optimist so I'm not ready to throw the towel in just yet.
But I said that about the title and we know how that went :haha:

1-0 is...less than ideal but with Partey back...I dunno, we only have to score a goal and then it all gets interesting.
Head says you're right, heart says...well, you never know!

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There’s a Roy Orbison song you should listen to

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Sometimes you just have to admit you weren’t anywhere near the level of your opponent and this was one of those nights for me. They were much sharper and confident than us, popping the ball around with ease and making us look like statues.

Conceding so early definitely rattled us, if we had weathered that early storm then we may have grown into it but after that we just looked distinctly average because the gameplan had gone.

Saying all that though, we still forced a couple of good saves and on paper 0-1 is hardly a disaster. Pressure is all on PSG to finish it off in front of their fans.

Probably ends in tears for us but let’s fucking leave it all out there. Don’t want another limp dick effort like we saw in the Bayern second leg last year.

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Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn

There’s a Roy Orbison song you should listen to

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In Dreams? :cool: