Match Reaction - Dortmund

[Özim]

We only got the 2nd goal on 86 minutes



Of course not, that would mean giving us some credit.

We were a sh*t side last season so no credit deserved, fortunately we've improved a lot this season, that's what spending a bit of money on quality does though.

[Penguin]

Spot on. Arteta lacked leadership and organisation skills to get the team going. Flamini is superb at that.

No coincidence as soon as Flamini is out we lose.

At least that settles that debate.

Arteta was one of our better players last night.

[Nayan]

Yeah, no not really they never looked like they were going out, at 2-0 I don't think we even had a shot.

They just didn't turn up, they commented on it recently saying it was a very odd match and it was, didn't feel like a competitive CL match.

it was a full KO champions league match. Whether you think Bayern Munich 'turned up' or were tottenham in disguise, or whether they looked, felt, smelt, tasted or provoked some other sensory perception on your part to the effect they were never exiting the competition is irrelevant. Arsenal played away in the champions league against a major team and in a pressurised situation and won a match over 90minutes plus stoppage time. Ergo they are both in theory and empirically capable of doing so again. QED.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Yeah, no not really they never looked like they were going out, at 2-0 I don't think we even had a shot.

They just didn't turn up, they commented on it recently saying it was a very odd match and it was, didn't feel like a competitive CL match.

A team that gave up a two goal lead to eventually hang on scraping through on away goals never looked like going out?

Have a word with yourself.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Maybe they took Barca more seriously, after all Barca had already turned around a big deficit in a previous tie.

More conjecture based on nothing but bias from a guy we've seen next to bugger all of since the Villa match.

[Munchies]

Dortmund fans smashed up the stands

[Özim]

A team that gave up a two goal lead to eventually hang on scraping through on away goals never looked like going out?

Have a word with yourself.

Yeah they were hardly hanging on, like I said we never even had a shot after going 2-0 up did we.

People can be as deluded as they like about this result, but it wasn't representative of the quality of the teams, I don't take it seriously as I know they were in a different league to us, good result, but in reality pointless result.

[Özim]

More conjecture based on nothing but bias from a guy we've seen next to bugger all of since the Villa match.

Hardly, Barca had already made a great comeback so it's very feasible Bayern felt they had to be up for this, Barca after all have swept all aside all that's been put in front of them in recent times. We on the other hand have been a joke in European circles, a team who bottle it when it matters and never win a thing but play pretty football, a tram incapable of winning a knockout tie against top opposition.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Yeah they were hardly hanging on, like I said we never even had a shot after going 2-0 up did we.

People can be as deluded as they like about this result, but it wasn't representative of the quality of the teams, I don't take it seriously as I know they were in a different league to us, good result, but in reality pointless result.

There is nothing deluded about seeing exactly what happened. Bayern made it through on a technicality - the slimmest margin possible as they cowered to corner flags desperately wasting as much tme as they could. Barca were subsequently murdered in both legs.

That 'pointless result' has been followed by some of the best and most prolonged set of good results this Club has seen in many years. And it is a key reason why we've seen next to fuck all from you all season.

[Master Splinter]

Why.

Do.

You.

Bother.

?