Means nothing to me.
If Bayern had needed to win the game, they would have. This is like papering over the cracks with value brand loo roll.
Means nothing to me.
If Bayern had needed to win the game, they would have. This is like papering over the cracks with value brand loo roll.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Good effort from the lads. WTF was Arteta thinking in the last few minutes??!! Shit freekick and kept fouling. So stupid.
Positives for me were Kos and Flappyanski.
Our midfield and attackers were a bit shit though.
i think we can def guarantee 6th spot with that lot coming in.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
I see where you are coming from - but I would temper this by their amazing record both in terms of home defeats and of goals scored. The tempo was slow, yes, but Bayern are a top top team and playing at home in front of 68,000 fans. We are undoubtedly a mediocre team, but taking this game in isolation, I am prepared to cut our back 5 some slack for their efforts.
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
The defence played well. There were no major individual mistakes which makes a change. Expected Fabs to flap at a corner or butter fingers up a shot or two but he didn't. Some good tackles from the defence and no crazy mix ups with positioning.
i agree with that. i think it is far too easy to say that if bayern wanted to hammer us they could've. well given how professional and clinical those fuckers are, my guess is that they sure as hell wanted to pound us again. they obviously expected it to be easier and started with the wrong mentality and our organised defence kept them outside of our box for most of the game. i'm also convinced that they for two years they have had their fair share of dodgy performances yet always had enough to roll over the opposition, no matter who they are, so of course we deserve credit for a victory there. teams start games with the wrong approach, as we all know from our experiences, and the point is to take advantage of that, which we did. it is still bayern, no set of mugs, so a 3-0 win no matter what their performance is bloody hard task no matter who it is.
we fucked up in the first leg, pure and simple. the start of our second half at the emirates and our more organised approach show that we could and should've made more of a game of the first leg, which is where we messed everything up as usual.
people are right to say we should be turning up in the first leg/half of ties, that is obvious. we've all seen that pain this year. but if the team do as, and if not better, than expected, then i think it's fair to still give credit where it is due. otherwise we never will and everything, absolutely everything, becomes bitter, sad and an absolutely horrible experience. pretty pointless to. football is supposed to be fun in part.
Fair enough in terms of the way we defended, though on another day, they could and should have had a few themselves. Don't forget they were also short of three world class players.
I'm not necessarliy criticising the game itself, but in the whole context, it is pointless to herald the team for what will surely be another false dawn.
Why do they deserve my praise? They'll get it if they start putting that kind of effort in consistently. I've always said, as long as they try, I'm behind them. But doing it once we've already been pasted isn't good enough.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
There were, we just weren't punished for them. Perhaps not as bad as some of the mistakes we've made but there were some, a few clearances which fell straight to a Bayern player, etc.
I am going to post my reaction to the score as I havent seen the match yet.
First I would like to say well done to the lads for putting a bit of pride back into the club (I do not know who played shit so the message goes to the whole team), I hoped that we would be able to put in somewhat of a credible performance and we seemed to have done that.
However, as with the season as a whole we did ourselves no favours in the first leg and until we can stop being a walking brain fart of a club, things may never change.
I said at the start of the season that even if we won every trophy available I would consider the way we prepared for the start as a failure, the selling off and failure to replace key members of our starting eleven handicapped us beyond repair. How a team can go into a four front season with one recognised striker (some doubt Giroud is even that and Walcott was still plying his trade out wide come season start) is ridiculous.
We must learn, whether its the board, manager or team. . .until we cease with putting ourselves at a disadvantage the trophyless seasons will continue.
Glorious failure
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I think the shape of the team was better, Bayern only managed to get in behind us once and that was with Mullers clever backheel to set Robben free. Other than that we mainly limited them to pot shots from outside the box.
Overall though I do believe Bayern would have moved up a gear if they were facing a better side or if they weren't already in a commanding position.
We scored from the only 2 attempts on target we had, it was an efficient performance rather than one filled with quality.
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