Atleti are second in the league, 7 points behind FCB
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Atleti are second in the league, 7 points behind FCB
Fair play to Liverpool I say.
I hope tgey go out next round or lose in the final but thet deserve some credit. To precail over City without Can and Henderson in the second leg is some feat.
We are better I think but need to show it
I suppose it is fine margins but we need to just do whatever it is that shows our progress.
If as looks a 3rd consecutive season in the Champions League is secured a logical next step is a trophy alongside and not instead of is it.
I hope tgey go out next round or lose in the final but thet deserve some credit. To precail over City without Can and Henderson in the second leg is some feat.
We are better I think but need to show it
I suppose it is fine margins but we need to just do whatever it is that shows our progress.
If as looks a 3rd consecutive season in the Champions League is secured a logical next step is a trophy alongside and not instead of is it.
In Greece and Turkey just about every team sport gets reactions like that to be honest.
Yeah it might be called having an easy draw:
2018 CL Campaign
(Qualification vs Hoffenheim who are 7th in league 29 points off top) 1 win and a draw off Spartak Moscow; Two wins against Maribor; A win and a draw against Porto; Sevilla two draws; And two good wins against City
Wins 6
draws 1111
Until they met City in the competition, Sevilla where the hardest team they have faced who are currently 6th in the League 18 points behind Madrid (who we beat and are 4th) but 33 points off top!).
We played current CL Champions (multiple) Real Madrid, Juve finalists in 3 of the last four CL's currently Top of the League (19 points ahead of Roma who have just knocked out Barca) and BVB (one point off 2nd and were unbeaten yet to concede a goal when we played them).
Wins 5
draws 2
Loss 1
All with every single game played away from home too!
What exactly is there to learn from a team that we have out played and spanked this season?
That's the point though, you don't see those scenes in other countries watching basketball, just a handful of places. You do get those scenes in every country (I'll stick my neck out and say in the US, it all looks a bit fake there) when watching football.
If the second goal would have correctly stood, then going in 2-0 could have been a different story.
It’s fine margins, luck like this that make football.
I always said I wanted us to draw a Liverpool type group, avoid the big names until the latter stages. You only have to perform to your best a few times.
Most people wanted the big ties.
Look how it’s worked out for Liverpool. Always coming out the group.
City probably their hardest game so far yet not completely unknown entity. They have beaten them before.
Now they have a decent chance of winning it.
If they do, nobody will remember the easier route they had.
As the draw went, we would have gotten Real again.
It’s fine margins, luck like this that make football.
I always said I wanted us to draw a Liverpool type group, avoid the big names until the latter stages. You only have to perform to your best a few times.
Most people wanted the big ties.
Look how it’s worked out for Liverpool. Always coming out the group.
City probably their hardest game so far yet not completely unknown entity. They have beaten them before.
Now they have a decent chance of winning it.
If they do, nobody will remember the easier route they had.
As the draw went, we would have gotten Real again.
What about our EL campaigns in 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 where we have NO QFs between them?
Would it be fair to say Poch has massively underachieved in Europe 3 previous seasons prior to this one?
What about them? We rightly prioritised the league which was far more important to the club. Liverpool were totally out of the running of a top four place, nothing to play for. With us we still had the possibility of getting top four (in all of those seasons), which we achieved with the exception of 14/15, Poch's first season. Also worth noting that we were beaten by Florentina who where flying in Italy at the time and we were stuck between a rock and a hard place having made it to League Cup final where we where playing Chelsea on 72hrs latter!
But though all of this you seem to be taking anti-deprecents over them getting knocked out of both anyway, why? What's the point in that? You live in a dark cold place mate. If you want to beat yourself up on Liverpool getting kicked out of two competitions knock yourself out.
Yes toy are right, my error.
They are the reject CL side in EL. Woolwich are different, they are already shite but need the back door.
Although Liverpool are getting uncomfortably close to actually winning this fucking thing, it's not quite action stations yet as they have had basically the easiest route to the semi-final possible, and have just been fortunate to face a Man City team who are finally exiting their extremely long purple patch. I'm hoping that once they play a team with proper Champions League pedigree they'll come unstuck. Realistically it needs to be in the semi-final though, because the final being just one leg makes it a lot more of a coin toss. I dunno if I'll be able to watch a CL final that features Liverpool. Or indeed any TV or the internet for a week beforehand.
Last night the pundits were saying "No team left wants to face Liverpool". I wonder how true that is, and how much it's just the English media talking up the one English club left. These pundits seemed pretty confident all five English teams were going to go far, so it's obvious a lot of it is them knowing what the audience wants to hear rather than it being a measured opinion about what is going to happen. Surely the team left no one wants to face are Real Madrid. I reckon Real winning the competition again is a very tall order, but they are surely definitely getting to the final. By the way, I can't bear Real Madrid, they represent a lot that I cannot stand about football - but when a foreign team wins the CL it's very easy to just ignore it's happening.
Roma's result last night was far more impressive than anything Liverpool have achieved in the CL this season. I don't expect any of the Liverpool lovers to admit this, but it's clearly true.
Last night the pundits were saying "No team left wants to face Liverpool". I wonder how true that is, and how much it's just the English media talking up the one English club left. These pundits seemed pretty confident all five English teams were going to go far, so it's obvious a lot of it is them knowing what the audience wants to hear rather than it being a measured opinion about what is going to happen. Surely the team left no one wants to face are Real Madrid. I reckon Real winning the competition again is a very tall order, but they are surely definitely getting to the final. By the way, I can't bear Real Madrid, they represent a lot that I cannot stand about football - but when a foreign team wins the CL it's very easy to just ignore it's happening.
Roma's result last night was far more impressive than anything Liverpool have achieved in the CL this season. I don't expect any of the Liverpool lovers to admit this, but it's clearly true.
Does anybody see a shock tonight? Got a weird feeling Sevilla might do something no idea why as theyre inferior bu just a hunch might have a £10er on them
I think Juventus could lose 3:0 again. Not that I'd put money on that result.
honestly mate. I think they're shit and I'm devastated we didn't ruin them
Hopefully we'll have learned our lesson to not be intimidated next season. Juventus are extremely unathletic. If a team runs at them as much as possible they collapse.
And we are that team !!! I gotta let it go I guess ....
I’m quite resigned to the notion that Liverpool and Woolwich will somehow win the 2 competitions. It’s spursy in a messed up way
I think they'll both get to finals and lose. I'm happy with the thought of that.
Ideal scenario