Champions League Thread 2013/14

[Özim]

As long as the CL ends up in Madrid I'm happy.

[Özim]

Just as long as they don't nick our Europa spot.

Yup cos then my tears of joy will turn into anger and I'll have to change my plans for Thursday evenings.

At least if we win the cup we can be in the Cup Winners Cup instead.

[Ollie the Optimist]

why are united being called brave and heroic by the media when they just lost 3-1?

we drew 1-1 and got called specialists in failure and ozil was stealing a living/

[IBK]

United got further than us in their calamitous season before being dispatched by Bayern in much the same way.

[Ollie the Optimist]

United got further than us in their calamitous season before being dispatched by Bayern in much the same way.

you can't really compared the two though. look at who united played this season, look who we played.

[IBK]

you can't really compared the two though. look at who united played this season, look who we played.

A classic example of how we have been conditioned to excuse our team, Ollie. When the draw was made - OK it looked like we had the hardest job. But having done the hard work, as always we underperformed. In hindsight, Failing to match a Napoli team that we had destroyed at home got us what we deserved in terms of last 16 elimination.

This is a near perfect example of how Gooners have been conditioned to deflect searching questions as to where this team really is.

[Marc Overmars]

Atleti.

Hopefully they save football.

[IBK]

Atleti.

Hopefully they save football.

This. Any chance of us nicking their manager?

[Ollie the Optimist]

A classic example of how we have been conditioned to excuse our team, Ollie. When the draw was made - OK it looked like we had the hardest job. But having done the hard work, as always we underperformed. In hindsight, Failing to match a Napoli team that we had destroyed at home got us what we deserved in terms of last 16 elimination.

This is a near perfect example of how Gooners have been conditioned to deflect searching questions as to where this team really is.

I wasn't excusing our performances at all. We fucked up big time against napoli and lots of questions need to be answered for that however it still doesn't change the point that our group stage draw was a lot tougher then uniteds. Yes if we had won the group we might have got olympiakos and should have gone through if that happened but we could also have drawn some tough teams.

United in the champions league hadn't really played anyone of note until Bayern. Shakthar are a good team at home but the others weren't exactly brilliant. We had dortmund and napoli. two tough teams. Im not excusing our performances, they were not good enough, but to use united going one round further then us doesn't work at all as they aren't comparable

[IBK]

I wasn't excusing our performances at all. We fucked up big time against napoli and lots of questions need to be answered for that however it still doesn't change the point that our group stage draw was a lot tougher then uniteds. Yes if we had won the group we might have got olympiakos and should have gone through if that happened but we could also have drawn some tough teams.

United in the champions league hadn't really played anyone of note until Bayern. Shakthar are a good team at home but the others weren't exactly brilliant. We had dortmund and napoli. two tough teams. Im not excusing our performances, they were not good enough, but to use united going one round further then us doesn't work at all as they aren't comparable

Ollie - at the end of the day what matters is the last game. I don't think that we can be regarded as having done better than a crisis hit Manure in this years CL.