Skyfall:UEFA Champions League 2015/16

First 30 mins of Lazio-Leverkusen was superb, the last 15 mins merely okay except for Calhanoglu almost scoring from the right touchline 50 yards out.
Owen Hargreaves has a massive crush on Jonathon Tah, who has been admittedly excellent. Wendell also p impressive at LB for Leverkusen tho impulsive enough that he probably was lucky not to pick on a 2nd yellow card just before half-time. Candreva has been good for Lazio, who still have Klose at CF rounding keepers like it's 2002 but hitting the post unfortunately.

MEMPHIS! MEMPHIS IS THE RONALDO NUMBER TWO

haha. i don't know about that but his second was p sweet

just saw bender's fizzer against the post, oof

memphis' first was the better goal tbh, great juggling solo effort. watching it muted while listening to a radio stream of forest-charlton quite disorienting

just seen the 2 goals from memphis. v sweet.

Also BT's red button coverage isn't in HD.#FirstWorldProblems

CSKA look good on the break. Conceded early and missed a penalty but Doumbia just danced past the Sporting keeper to equalise.

Mauricio with a scandalous 'tackle' on Bellarbi. Only a yellow somehow.

Keita Balde with a v impressive goal for lazio, strength, speed, finish

leverkusen had one wrongly chalked off earlier

papadopoulous studs up over the top on his own teammate!!

Celtic up 2-0 over Malmo in the first 10 minutes of the first leg tie at Parkhead.

Valencia-Monaco was p good stuff. Valencia won 3-1 but Clattenburg blew a clear penalty call that would have given Monaco the chance to equalise when it was 2-1.

Ended up 3-2, with both of Malmo's goals coming from Celtic flop Berget. The second Malmo goal came with the last kick of the ball. At 3-1 progress would be close to guaranteed. Now going over there with the slimmest of leads and with a horrendous defensive record so far this season.

Celtic up 2-0 over Malmo in the first 10 minutes of the first leg tie at Parkhead.

;_;

Celtic are terrible.

Watching Leverkusen - Lazio and Son isn't playing, apparently he's on his way to Spurs which should please mizzell. Guess that means they've given up on Beharino I dunno.

Calhanoglu is so good

Lol and then he scores

Is it just me or does Rooney have no idea how fast he is(n't)?

Constantly tries to beat players for pace ending up nowhere

Woah, and on comes ravel Morrison.

Lev have completely dominated this but one Lazio goal would be enough to send them through

Lovely break by Lev, unselfish square by Brandt,finish by bellarabi. 3-0 beautiful.

misssssss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_37qG2WDUxw

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Group A: Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk, Malmo

Group B: PSV Eindhoven, Manchester United, CSKA Moscow, Wolfsburg

Group C: Benfica, Atletico Madrid, Galatasaray, Astana,

Group D: Juventus, Manchester City, Sevilla, Borussia Monchengladbach

Group E: Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Roma, BATE Borisov

Group F: Bayern Munich, Arsenal, Olympiakos, Dinamo Zagreb

Group G: Chelsea, Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Maccabi Tel-Aviv

Group H: Zenit Saint Petersburg, Valencia, Lyon, Gent

Man City group is p sweet. As is Barca's. Chelsea got the best draw but I guess that makes sense as they were seeded #1. Memphis back to PSV already.

group f there is in the order that it will be in when the ties have all been played

Watching Leverkusen - Lazio and Son isn't playing, apparently he's on his way to Spurs which should please mizzell. Guess that means they've given up on Beharino I dunno.

Calhanoglu is so good

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ack, this move me makes me anxious. i love son, though haven't seen much of him since he joined leverkusen, but spurs have been burned through so many promising young players. spurs' twitter using the hast tag here comes the son is an inauspicious start, imo. calhanoglu had some tough words for him leaving.

man u team for tonight: De Gea; Darmian, Smalling, Blind, Shaw; Schweinsteiger, Herrera; Young, Mata, Memphis; Martial

looks like a decent attaking side, what the hell is this lvg guy doing?

where young, mata and memphis will actually play i'm not sure

It's Mata at #10, Memphis left, Young right apparently

excited!

God speed NN, looking forward to this too obv :)

Young is playing right because our worst player, Brenet, is a right-footed left-back -_-

have you watched Memphis in the league at all this season? Curious if you have any insight as to why it hasn't quite happened for him yet

That means only blind is sort of out of position, wtf is going on?

Xp lbi!

Herrera's out of position too tbf. I don't really like him in a midfield two

Hey guys! Go-to place, this right here. The draw for this group pulled me back in :)

NN: I think he's not quite gelling because he's just not as good as he will be someday. You've seen his touch of individual class in those goals against Brugge alone, but he still needs to learn a helluva lot. At PSV he lost possession a lot, but it didn't matter because he could score two brilliant goals nearly every game. At ManU, in the PL, not so much.

No doubt that it will come, but he really needs time to get used to the PL I think. Time you're rarely granted in the PL.

tv3 commentary a full second ahead of picture you fuckkkkinnnnngggnnnngggg cuuuunnntttssss do your fuckinnnnnggggnnnnngggg jobbbbssss

hows that not a penalty/red

RIP Shaw

Xp never a pen

Dutch tv refuses to replay the incident bcz of how bad it looked :(

it's a red card tackle anywhere but in the box, reckless as to how he hit the opponenet and out of control of his momentum

that is absolutely devastating

poor lad

I've seen the replay and haven't seen anything awful ito angle of leg or anything tbh

tv3 just confirmed another camera angle won't be shown...... fuck

Horrific...

not able to watch this on my feeble connection but shit, i'm gutted for him

I've seen it again

It's 100% a red card. Completely reckless and out of control

Yeah, saw the replays myself now. Terrible tackle, red card.

25s ago20:22

35 min: I’ve just seen a still of the aftermath of Luke Shaw’s clash with Hector Moreno and I think it’s safe to say the poor lad’s ankle is badly broken. If you’ve a strong stomach, you can probably find a picture of it on Twitter. Probably better just to take my word for it, though.

yeah, fuck that :(

Had to be. Shame though.

Caught myself choosing third rate tennis over this, but that's done now. And my gf isn't having her birthday... Such an unattractive bill. Rooting for Atleti.

Xp lol. I read a piece earlier that adding Alicia Keys was done mostly to attract more US viewers.

is mark clattenburg the collina of the '10s or something, he's ubiquitous

the savic defectives.

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 January 2012

lol

atleti are pretty bad
they look like an english team playing 442 in an early 2000s champions league game

yeah i'm very disappointed in bayern still tbh

https://i.imgur.com/iAycaL7.png

huge, if true

lol

they have played roma wolfsburg man city iirc? pretty shit set of teams but take nothing away from them etc etc

Griezmann only one looking like doing anything for Atleti

godin burnett

yeah i'm very disappointed in bayern still tbh

― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:21 (17 minutes ago)

this is what i was saying about two games vs one, they knocked out two teams better than real madrid but in a single game the tactical advantage is reduced

they begin having to score at least once in 90/120 vs 180/210 so the defensive/attritional paranoia that animates them in a psychological as well as tactical sense is sort of neutralized; no away goals rule

So Torres is still shit after all?

not really he's been playing fairly well in la liga but with madrid playing deep there's not a lot he can do

atleti 433 now probably so should be competitive

Oh fuck.

lol griezmann looked almost sorrowful beforehand
so easy to fuck with even good penalty takers if the goalkeeper can carry off the tom o'bedlam routine, especially if they are either a penalty specialist or have already saved their penalties
very good value booking

Athleti look much better this half.

yeah
niguez, koke, griezmann, carrasco is a really good attacking midfield
something they didn't have two years ago

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=pepe%20%22don%27t%20like%20to%20see%20that%22&src=typd

aha!

Praying for pens

yeah

Real win on pens. 121st minute winner would be so much better.

navas has 9/29 saved, oblak 7/24 so not a lot of difference
oblak has saved 2/3 since he has been at atletico, vs messi and muller

long day, Atleti so much more imposing in the 2nd half of real time, down to the audio coverage now

they are in atleti time now tho

I hope Clattenberg's learned the Spanish for 'your mother is a whore'.

juanfran is a more competent attacking wingback than had been suspected

than will have been suspected by less seasoned liga bbva viewers

torres needs replacing by correa unless the latter is useless (maybe idk)

it took pepe 110 minutes to get booked, it's like a new beckett play

New Beckett play

lol / lol xp

As John Hartson would say, it's looking like pels.

find it almost impossible to envisage torres scoring a penalty

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Don't think I ever wanted a player to die as much as Pepe. This is really bringing out he worst in me.

Thank you babby Jesus for the pens

Feeling not sorry for Loltorres already

you weren't here but i called that miss

that's disappointing but some consolation from the notifications

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Can't believe Pepe never got yellow carded for his play acting. Don't like to see that ever

if ever, if ever a situation called for a panenka, that was it

Anything on the telly tonight?

oh look one of barca and real won

They've turned the tellyvoff in the pub, I wanted to see Gareth Bale announced as player of the match by BT Sports viewers.

big risk from zidane picking young lad to take the first peno and leave ronaldo last. if kid missed and they lost 4-3 on pens they'd be calling for his head. 5th pens are prob not taken half the time but i suppose ronaldo knew it could be the one for glory

Real having their open top bus printed up with 11 Times Champions or whatever and rolling through the streets of Madrid within nine hours of winning the trophy in a completely different country is some next level shit.

they know a thing or two about making buses run on time, true