Match Reaction vs Marseille

[Letters]

That was one of those ones which could have been but ended up being

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Almost forgot.

Chesney

Where he took it round their attacker.

You have to love his confidence.

how good is it to see a GK of Our's shout and sort out his defence.

[Dog Toffee]

Its the greeks who will be tricky we have to win both games to top the group now

We dont have to win both games to top the group. We Already are top and if Marsellies drop points, a draw and a win could put us top.

Im quite happy with last night in terms of keeping a clean sheet, that part of our game is far more important than scoring goals so in that sense we did well. Shame we didn't win but nothing to be to bothered about, Marsellies are a great team and 4 points from them is good enough. Confident we can win the group, as we have to to avoid an 'sods law' Barca tie.

Edit- Its a shame Koscielny might not be playing if Vermalean and Mertz get a good partnership, because he's improving greatly, but its a good decision to make now we seem to have 3 good CB's.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's probably better we'll have to fight to the end to top the group. Look at last year where we thought it was going to be a breeze. Complacency set in.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

We dont have to win both games to top the group. We Already are top and if Marsellies drop points, a draw and a win could put us top.

Im quite happy with last night in terms of keeping a clean sheet, that part of our game is far more important than scoring goals so in that sense we did well. Shame we didn't win but nothing to be to bothered about, Marsellies are a great team and 4 points from them is good enough. Confident we can win the group, as we have to to avoid an 'sods law' Barca tie.

Edit- Its a shame Koscielny might not be playing if Vermalean and Mertz get a good partnership, because he's improving greatly, but its a good decision to make now we seem to have 3 good CB's.

He will play in the EPl i think merts will be for the CL and TV5 won't be dropped as he needs games but like you say its good for AW to have a headache over which CB to pick.

Well if we beat Dortmunt and Olympiarcos(sp) gan grab something in france then were through and group winners.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

It's probably better we'll have to fight to the end to top the group. Look at last year where we thought it was going to be a breeze. Complacency set in.

Agree. if we can show the fight after going 2-1 down at chavs we will be fine.

[Cripps_orig]

Ditto Letters. The performance was pretty boring to watch, but not too bad. We used to be reknowned for these/keeping a clean sheet - but secretly admired all the same!

Like I said on the other thread, Saturday was bound to raise expectation for yesterday, going forwards - but a similar performance was unlikely, particularly given our use of a rookie striker.

It makes me smile that some people seem to think that we should be steamrollering the second best team in France last season- when we are still recovering from a start that saw us concede 3 points to a team with only 6 overall in our league this season.

If this was still last season then you'd have a point but Marseille are far from the 2nd best team in France this season.

[Niall_Quinn]

We should have steamrollered Marseilles, tbh.

[IBK]

If this was still last season then you'd have a point but Marseille are far from the 2nd best team in France this season.

Didn't know it was May 2012. Have I been caught in a wormhole or something?

[IBK]

We should have steamrollered Marseilles, tbh.

Oh yes - just like we did in France. Tbh.