Skyfall:UEFA Champions League 2015/16

lucky deflection, bah

What's the general verdict on Zidane at this point?

he kinda gets away with having them play more defensively than another manager would cos he's zidane imo

they look p structured though i thought roma ripped them apart when they met and should have scored 2 or 3.

look p comfortable atm but the game seems so lifeless compared to last night

luka always good for at least one "ooh modric" from me per game. that pass was the first.

for all the service he's getting this half aguero might as well not be on the pitch (i thought the same about griezmann last night tbf)

spurs should buy xhaka, he'll be suspended enough to job share with dier

they're not even very good

xhaka post was meant for the prem thread, sorry

i was talking about rmad, spurs could beat 'em

that was "oh modric" with a different inflection

this is some insipid shit from city, sleepwalking their way to defeat

de bruyne to the centre, sterling wide, yaya off i guess

if city somehow fluke an away goal and get to the final then proceed to play with the same lack of intensity vs atleti they will get taken to the woodshed by those assassins.

on comes the best manchester based teenage striker of the season.

City are dire. They look like they don't give a shit.

this may be the worst half of football by a team chasing a goal that would send them to a final that i've ever seen. come on throw the kitchen sink at it you fuckers.

nicely done on sterling there, heh heh

modric has been ace tonight

good riddance. trash worthless performance by city.

hope atleti win this.

me too but then hope no team from madrid wins for the next 50 years

well at least nobody can seriously argue that pep won't massively improve city after this.

For about 60 minutes I thought City was playing to a plan and they had another gear and then it became obvious that nah

Terrible

getafe 2024 ftw

Atleti's revenge narrative probably the best final pairing imo

'mon el cholo

Real Madrid (4-3-3): Navas; Carvajal, Ramos, Pepe, Marcelo; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo. Subs: Casilla, Nacho, James, Lucas Vázquez, Jesé, Isco, Danilo.

Atlético Madrid (4-4-2): Oblak; Juanfran, Godín, Savic, Filipe Luis; Saúl, Gabi, Augusto, Koke; Torres, Griezmann. Subs: Moyà, Tiago, Correa, Lucas Hernández, Carrasco, Partey, Giménez.

Aw man i wish it wasnt my girlfriends birthday tonight because i really wanted to watch this. I dont know whether to try and avoid the internet and watch it early morning or just enjoy from afar and catch highlights

O god this Alicia Keys bullshit is terrible. American tv surprisingly made the right call and cut to commercial

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!