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0-2 already! Great start for Liverpool. Someone here on this thread must be particularly happy to see Salah score, too.
Watching Real Madrid-PSG myself. PSG up by one goal after 33 minutes. Don'y know about you guys, but I think PSG is a much more fun team to see play than RM.
Two words from here on: game management, game management, game management.
Must crush the life out of this and not give Porto a sniff to get back into it. The crowd will turn on 60 if just keep posession. Unfortunately we all know this Liverpool team is more than capable of spunking this up the wall so far from in the bag yet.
Liverpool playing well?
1-1 Real Madrid after penalty taken by Ronaldo. Kroos was fouled inside the penalty area. Didn't make much effort to stay on his feet there, though.
Never cared much for Real Madrid, so I hope PSG can make it to the next round.
3-1. No, no, no! Marcelo this time.
Looks like Liverpool didn't bother with game management.
Difficult to say how we'll do against a decent team given our defensive shortcomings but nobody going to fancy playing us that's for sure. I'd settle for any English team bar City in the next round.
What are the scores..been forced to watch a '50 shades of grey' double bill by my gal....at least there is champagne and we had a Domino's pizza.
Real Madrid-PSG: 3-1
Porto-Liverpool: 0-5(!)
At least there's some advantages being single, haha! Although, I'd probably go for a 50 Shades double bill over watching Ronaldo score two goals…
Also, pizza and champagne sounds like quite a combination. Recommended? :D
Honestly neither team impressed that much, but PSG will certainly feel hard done by. Yet it seems to be something wrong with the mentality of this PSG side. They always manager to bottle it somehow. Real Madrid om the other hand, and Ronaldo especially, seem to always have the necesarry luck on their side. Now he gets all the headlines after a penalty and an extremely lucky tap in. And don't give me the crap that it is "a great achievement to be on the right place at the right time". Every striker in the world knows he should be om front og goal when a cross gets into the box! The fact that he gets the ball is the result of terrible goalkeeping and a great dose of luck!
Real Madrid still seem vulnerable though. They were quite easy to carve open for PSG and they lost controll of the game at home. But I said the same thing last year... and the year before that... One expects Zidane's luck to run out at some point. But maybe it won't?
Anyway it is always nice to see PSG lose! Although I hoped another team would today...
Can't see it any other way than pure luck, there. The ball more or less hits him. PSG were way better than the score shows.
And now, back by popular demand here they are :)
Opta stats:
Liverpool registered the joint-biggest away Champions League knock-out win, equalling Bayern Munich's 5-0 win at Sporting in February 2009 and Real Madrid at Schalke in February 2014.
The Reds have scored more Champions League goals this season (28) than any other club.
This is Porto's heaviest-ever home European defeat and the first time they've conceded more than three goals in a home European match.
Liverpool are the first English side to score five goals in an away Champions League knockout match.
Mo Salah became the first Liverpool player to score 30 goals in all competitions in a single season since Luis Suarez (31) in 2013/14.
Liverpool have won four matches by five or more goals in all competitions this season, the first time they've achieved that since the 1985/86 season (five victories by that margin).
The embittered sentiments of a Barca fan!
It's hardly Real's fault that PSG have got no bottle and their keeper fumbles balls into Ronaldo's path. I notice you don't bring up PSG's slice of luck in the ball just happening to bobble into the striker's path for their goal?
As a Liverpool fan I've also bemoaned Utd's 'luck' over the past 20 years but it's actually a fallacy. Teams don't win leagues and European cups on mere luck. When you're down the bottom luck seems against you and when you're at the top it seems to go for you. But the real reason you're there is because you deserve to be there.
That said: how on earth does ZZ continue to hang onto his job?
Overall we played well and held our own against Derby. If Oliveira had not took such a poor penalty? We could have come away with all 3 points? But still happy with a hard earned point.
Oh, that must be frustrating! Three wins, one draw and one match lost in the last five, isn't too bad, though. The eight points away from play-off isn't too far, by the looks of it. Really close between the teams now!
Will be incredibly bizarre to see Arsenal play at the Jämtkraft Arena, with the capacity of 9 164. Östersunds FK is managed by Graham Potter, and have three English players in the squad.
From here on out, Östersund have played more attacking football, getting to chances as Arsenal have got more comfortable. Not what you want to see. Still, it's 0-2 at half-time.
0-3 Arsenal, Özil. Östersund pushing Arsenal a bit after half-time, so it's good to get that third goal before the hour.
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0-3 full-time. Uneventful last half hour, with Arsenal playing it safe, although not necessarily good. In added time Östersund was awarded a penalty after a Bellerín foul, but Ospina (captain for the day) made an easy save.
Good result, but Arsenal should have played better. Don't know if the artificial turf helped, though. Will probably play better on real grass next week.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/15/neymar-cristiano-ronaldo-psg-real-madrid-champions-league-super-clubs
There is certainly more than a smell of FIFA (the game) about the whole PSG project. It's as if they're put together by a teenager who thinks pulling of a rabona is the definition of a great player. And of course Real with it's cult of the individual has had their marquee player being on the front of the FIFA box for donkeys years now. The sort of people who would say a 30 yarder screamer is what football is all about and pick that as a better goal than Carlos Alberto in 1970.
Does anyone even actually support PSG? When I think of the great French teams (well I'm using the word 'great' quite loosely here) I think of St Etienne and Marseille in the 70s and 80s not a club that is barely older than me and despite all the gaudy expenditure is yet to make a meaningful dent at the business end of the CL.
As for Real well I guess they have their methods of sacking a manager every year (although not the most hapless one in living memory) and accruing all the best players like a playground bully and they get results but anyone could do that if they knew the King and government would underwrite their debts.
PSG has its established, local fanbase of course. But the tourists that combine their weekend trip to Paris with a visit at Parc des Princes, don't exactly bleed for the club...
In a way it is a victory for football if PSG yet again fail miserably! When the French league and PSG struck the deal with the Quatar investment fond years ago, it was supposed to benefit all of French football. So far that is far from the truth. Ligue 1 haven't improved, and it looks more and more like the privat obsession of the Quatary prince (oe whatever he is...). What they did this summer, spending 400 million pounds on two attackers and using dirty loopholes to evade the FFP regulations, was especially sickening. As you know, PSG didn't actually pay for Neymar. He bought himself out covered by funds directly from the prince's bank account. And Mbappe is only on a loan deal of course. The transfer will oficially go through next year. Clever, PSG, clever... (I can't believe Monaco actually agreed to such a deal. I would not be so cooperative...).
If there was any merit to FIFA they would sanction PSG already. But of course that will not happen... But at some point PSG will have to take economic responsibility for these transfers. And it might come back to haunt them. With modern regulations this cripples their opportunities for future investments in positions they are still vulnerable. One of their main problems is ironically what used to be Real Madrid's for over a decade: The lack of a proper defensive midfielder. For economic reasons they had to settle for Lassana Diarra this January. That is an inauspicious omen... Their defence is still very inexperienced (bar Alves... who is getting to old and was never a natural defender to begin with). Areola showed yesterday that he is simply not fit to be the goalkeeper of a CL "favorite". These problems are not easy to solve. They might have put themselves in a corner with the recent money splash dedicated to attack only. It could be now or never for them...
And I wonder what Neymar is thinking. Finally he is the star of the team. But if the team is not good enough to win the right silwervare? It is said he already considers a move to Real Madrid. Like if that would be easy! Not only PSG but also Quatar will do everything in their power not to part with their biggest prestige signing. If a signing is even slightly realistic, what would Real have to pay? 500 million? 600 million? As a Barca fan I would love it if they actually crippled their long term economy for just one player. It would never make sense! He could try to see out the contract of course if he is desperate enough. But with the Quatary prince looming over him? It would be one bloody affair, that's for sure...
Hm. So you agree luck is an important factor afterall?
15 games to so yeah that's true. Think that it is a big ask as we would need too many teams to consistently slip up for us to make it? Which I can't see happening?
Could be relying heavily on the form of the teams ahead, yes. At the same time, looking at the fixtures for the next month, you have Ipswich, Bolton and Nottingham Forest at home, and away games against Barnsley and Hull! The Wolverhampton game might be the toughest fixture – perhaps the only really tough one?
First goal – by Willian, came after 1:46!
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Giroud makes it 4! Hurts to see him in blue, but wish him all the best. Great player!
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4-0 in the end. Could have been 4-1, when Hull got a penalty, but Willy Caballero saved it.
According to OptaJoe, «Willy Caballero has saved five of the last eight penalties he has faced in all competitions». That's impressive!
I love your enthusiasm for a play off push but the Championship is such a lottery week to week, that you never know what to expect?
Norwich would be great to see in the PL, hence the enthusiasm! The lottery aspect of the Championship is an advantage, as well. :-)
Making the most out of VAR this weekend… What are they doing?!
Not the best way to try to sell a product to the public, state of the art tech for you :))
State of the art tech is not always 100% flawless. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.
It's the first time i've seen this error from VAR.
I was joking I am aware VAR has had relative success elsewhere, anything being trialed is bound to have teething problems.
Mourinho wasn't impressed with it.
We need VAR to stop Tottenham players diving. :)