Champions League 24/25

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He was creating chances left right and cemtre and but for Sommer he'd have scored at least one

More that he was often doing exactly the same thing so Sommer could get set.

The one time he did do something differently and just leathered it straight on, it hit the post. Bit unfortunate there.

But not the others.

[Niall_Quinn]

If cynicism could be converted into electricity there's enough on here to power the national grid, can't you all just watch and enjoy instead of trying to turn everyrhing to shit?

But they are SHIT teams. Hyped to the moon. Can't you grasp that from the scoreline? If you mean it was funny watching them thrash about - yes, it was, very entertaining. 10 out of 10 for the comedy and slapstick - no argument there.

[Niall_Quinn]

He was creating chances left right and cemtre and but for Sommer he'd have scored at least one

Yeah. Seen it before. A Real or Barca hyped piece of shit. Don't tell me you haven't seen that before? Don't know why we worship the Spanish game. Maybe the same reason we worship the worst coach in the history of football, the man who killed football, Pep Guardiola.

[Letters]

By the way, I thought VAR worked well last night.

[Mac76]

Yeah. Seen it before. A Real or Barca hyped piece of shit. Don't tell me you haven't seen that before? Don't know why we worship the Spanish game. Maybe the same reason we worship the worst coach in the history of football, the man who killed football, Pep Guardiola.

He was part of a Spain team which in the Euros beat England, who maybe you think play 'proper football', completely disorganised huffing and puffing with a moronic lump of beef up front getting lucky goals bouncing in off his backside

I know which I prefer

[HCZ_Reborn]

Pretty sure Guardiola didn’t invent Tiki-Taka either

It’s an extension of what was already being played by Rijkaard and style Barca played under Cruyff

Also Spain certainly didn’t play Tiki Taka football in Euro 2024, was far more direct.

I like Yamal, explosive pace, excellent ball control

I don’t think NQ particularly admires the football Southgate had us playing. I think he has a romanticised view of football that was played in the 1980s, early 1990s and the mixture of countering and highly technical football we had under the earlier years of Wenger.


I think he makes the mistake of thinking slow sideways passing is a necessary component of “pep ball” rather than a consequence of other teams making sure that attacking teams are denied space to play in.

[Letters]

I like Yamal, explosive pace, excellent ball control

I'm not understanding the Yamal hate on here, he looks bloody brilliant.

I don’t think NQ particularly admires the football Southgate had us playing. I think he has a romanticised view of football that was played in the 1980s, early 1990s and the mixture of countering and highly technical football we had under the earlier years of Wenger.

I don't understand what he was seeing last night. For pretty much everyone this was a brilliant spectacle. Does he actually prefer the 1-0 to the Arsenal dirge of the mid 90s? I'm struggling to understand what he actually enjoys

[Letters]

Yamal cost them the tie?

That's pretty reductive in a tie that had endless twists and turns and 13 goals - Barca were only ahead in the whole tie for about 5 minutes and they wouldn't have gone in to last night's level were it not for Yamal's contribution in the first leg.