I didn't realise he was on loan at Bayern. I asked my lad if he was on the bench and he said he was. I was somewhat surprised when he emerged from the Bayern bench.Didn't realise Coutinho was still actually a Barca player...though maybe not for much longer! What were they playing at tonight.
Think of the worst comedy defending and multiply it by 10. Playing out from the back by Barca was like the whole Death Wish franchise with the sequels they haven't made yet on top. At least Verstigen (Barca keeper) had a 100% pass completion stat.......to Bayern players. And that was before the whole Barca team disgracefully downed tools for the last 20 mins.Can't believe it. I've sat through the Athletico Madrid shaped shit last night and various other dull crap in Europe this week, and tonight gone out for a meal.
No surprise to me in the result, but I'm shocked at the magnitude of it. Hope there are some highlights somewhere.
Totally agree . Should have been scrapped. I still cant understand why its called what it is . Much preferred the "European Cup" format . But ifs another way money has spoilt the "beautiful game"This is now such an irrelevant competition.
Even fans of clubs in it will struggle to take any notice of these pointless matches.
Flat track bullies?
Surely not. Pep is the best coach on the planet, a veritable football god! That kind of man, with the resources to boot, cannot possibly have got it wrong.I thought Guardiola totally got his tactics and team selection wrong for this one. He lost this match still thinking about how badly they struggled against Lyon home and away last season. Essentially he was still focusing on those games instead of playing this one.
Surely not. Pep is the best coach on the planet, a veritable football god! That kind of man, with the resources to boot, cannot possibly have got it wrong.
That he has got egg on his face fills me with more amusement than his team getting beaten. Maybe he'll get it right next time around after another supermarket sweep of the world's best paid players. Failing that he might do better at PSG in a year or so.
Totally agree . Should have been scrapped. I still cant understand why its called what it is . Much preferred the "European Cup" format . But ifs another way money has spoilt the "beautiful game"
Absolutely. Most of the teams by the group stages are not champions and UEFA are reducing even further the number of places for actual teams who've won their own national league.
And a cup competition is, err, not a league.
The ultimate aim of the elite clubs is of course for them to all quit their national leagues and form a perpetual group of 16 to 20 of them in their own breakaway league. And it hasn't occurred to them just how insipid and unappealing that would be.