2016-17 UEFA Champions League

SlickRic

Marcelo has been painfully sloppy the last 15 minutes.

ScummyMan

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

CR7 the best the was.

Take note Messi. That's how you step up when your team needs you

That's a load of brown in fairness. I'm about as big a Ronaldo fan as you could get, but to suggest Messi hasn't scored crucial goals for Barca is absurd.

SlickRic

SlickRic wrote: »

Marcelo has been painfully sloppy the last 15 minutes.

Nearly scored tbf

SlickRic

Casmeiro MOTM.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Muller has been ****e tonight.He has the first touch of a brick wall.

SlickRic

sReq | uTeK wrote: »

CR7 the best the was.

Take note Messi. That's how you step up when your team needs you

You're being ridiculous.

fyfe79

ScummyMan wrote: »

That's a load of brown in fairness. I'm about as big a Ronaldo fan as you could get, but to suggest Messi hasn't scored crucial goals for Barca is absurd.

Love can cloud one's judgement, Scummyman. :P

Andersonisgod

I don't like it but this Madrid squad is the best in Europe, and by a bit of a distance too. They spend more than other clubs, they get the best quality of players and depth. With a better coach they'd be unstoppable.

TheCitizen

Real can finish it here in the next few minutes. Bayern very unprofessional in their approach, basic errors costing them, surprising to see.

Zidane deserves a lot of credit
Top coach

ERG89

Madrid should be going for the kill here. Bayern down to 10 & have been horrible in the second half

Crackle

Leicester get out with a 1 goal deficit, a dodgy penalty decision going against them.

Interesting second leg ahead.

pudzey101

Ramos goal disallowed

SlickRic

Brilliant call.

Trigger

Vidal a lucky lad there, trying to drag the refs arm down..

Gooooooofffside

Dirty Dingus McGee

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Zidane deserves a lot of credit
Top couch

Not sure about that, I can't imagine he'd appreciate you sitting on him.

LuckyGent88

That's an absolute belter of an offside call by the linesman

spock.

Top class officiating.

Jayop

Andersonisgod wrote: »

I don't like it but this Madrid squad is the best in Europe, and by a bit of a distance too. They spend more than other clubs, they get the best quality of players and depth. With a better coach they'd be unstoppable.

I thought someone else had the most expensive squad ever assembled or does that title change between whichever club you're trying to detract from at any given time?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Not sure about that, I can't imagine he'd appreciate you sitting on him.

Corrected

~Rebel~

Oof! Looked a sure goal if he kept his feet!

GreNoLi

SlickRic wrote: »

Casmeiro MOTM.

Reminds me a bit of Emerson Fereira.

ERG89

Jayop wrote:

I thought someone else had the most expensive squad ever assembled or does that title change between whichever club you're trying to detract from at any given time?

He said Europe not Europa League

Andersonisgod

Jayop wrote: »

I thought someone else had the most expensive squad ever assembled or does that title change between whichever club you're trying to detract from at any given time?

Well Man Utd do have the most expensive squad ever, though I thought it was obvious that I was talking about Champions League clubs.

TheCitizen

. Bayern still just about alive

irelandrover

Jayop wrote: »

I thought someone else had the most expensive squad ever assembled or does that title change between whichever club you're trying to detract from at any given time?

He didn't say they spend more than all other clubs

Dirty Dingus McGee

Poor enough night from Ronaldo.

Just the 2 goals, 2 good shots on target and getting a Bayern Munich player sent off.

Apart from that his effort was pathetic tonight and I'm not sure he's worth having in the team to be fair.

Andersonisgod

Being avoided here and will elsewhere too but Ancelotti not being the most tactically proactive did cost Bayern tonight. Real were on top from the start of the 2nd half and something had to change.

The_Kew_Tour

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Poor enough night from Ronaldo.

Just the 2 goals, 2 good shots on target and getting a Bayern Munich player sent off.

Apart from that his effort was pathetic tonight and I'm not sure he's worth having in the team to be fair.

Think he should retire

Andersonisgod

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Poor enough night from Ronaldo.

Just the 2 goals, 2 good shots on target and getting a Bayern Munich player sent off.

Apart from that his effort was pathetic tonight and I'm not sure he's worth having in the team to be fair.

When one side lacks the ability to understand nuance or context in a debate in debases the debate to simple bickering. I'm better than simple bickering.

bucketybuck

The Golden Miller wrote: »

Just a quick question, a stupid one I know as the answer will be no, but has Ronaldo touched the ball yet or is he his usual anonymous self?

There were definitely two touches at least, possibly more.

MD1990

Ronaldo really stepped up tonight after a poor spell for him.
Bale will be lucky to stay in the 11 been very poor last few months.

Corholio

Whatever about Real spending the 'most', they have had the major bulk of that team for quite a few seasons now. There is hardly any recent signings in that team and it shows. Money is always the easy way to knock Real when it's not the recent reality.

https://twitter.com/_FootyTalk_/status/852261517160361984

theoneeyedman

Munich in recent years have suffered from being too strong for the league they are in, and falling when they face elite teams from other countries. Having converted midfielders like alaba, martinez and even boateng is OK against mediocre teams but at the later stages you get caught our.
That said, they are only 1 behind, poor from Madrid who should have put the game to bed the way it went.

sword1

Duff is allergic to dumphy in commentary, don't blame him but he needs not to show it so much

CalamariFritti

Its not over yet. Penalty miss was huge. And Lewandowski was missed badly and Mueller hasn't really played well in quite some time. There's a better Bayern side in there.

Having said that Real were clearly better tonight and probably should have put the tie to bed. Only for Neuer it could happen been embarrassing.

Billy86

Same old Ronaldo, nowhere to be seen when it counts most. Typical bottler.

Tigerandahalf

Bayern could do with bringing Renato Sanchez into the midfield. They looked poor there tonight with Alonso and Vidal.

Madrid missed so many chances.

Is Varane or Pepe back for the return?
And Levandowski?

Billy86

bucketybuck wrote: »

There were definitely two touches at least, possibly more.

Yeah but apart from the two goals away from home against Bayern in the Champions League that turned the game from a 1-0 loss to a 2-1 victory... what else did he do?

Yeah, thought so. Bet you feel silly now.

~Rebel~

Billy86 wrote: »

Yeah but apart from the two goals away from home against Bayern in the Champions League that turned the game from a 1-0 loss to a 2-1 victory... what else did he do?

Built the aquaducts?

super_furry

He's a spoofer Bill! A SPOOFER!

Probably the hardest working player of his generation. Other players have had more talent and more natural skill, but no other player has worked as hard of making the most of what he has as Ronaldo.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Andersonisgod wrote: »

When one side lacks the ability to understand nuance or context in a debate in debases the debate to simple bickering. I'm better than simple bickering.

You're not.

pudzey101

Read somewhere earlier messi has never scored against buffon can anyone confirm this ? Might throw a few quid on Juve tomorrow think they are 16/5

The Talking Bread

Tigerandahalf wrote: »

Bayern could do with bringing Renato Sanchez into the midfield. They looked poor there tonight with Alonso and Vidal.

Madrid missed so many chances.

Is Varane or Pepe back for the return?
And Levandowski?

Not really. Sanches has had chances this season and is not using them. He should have stayed where he was for another season, maybe even two. He has struggled and has also been very indisciplined, possibly out of frustration.

To say that he should be in ahead of those two players is ridiculous!

Andersonisgod

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

You're not.

I am....

Jayop

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Well Man Utd do have the most expensive squad ever, though I thought it was obvious that I was talking about Champions League clubs.

How would that be obvious at all when you said Europe. That would either mean Europe geographically first or at a stretch clubs playing in Europe. You were talking through your trousers as usual and that was the weakest of weak excuses.

Andersonisgod

Jayop wrote: »

How would that be obvious at all when you said Europe. That would either mean Europe geographically first or at a stretch clubs playing in Europe. You were talking through your trousers as usual and that was the weakest of weak excuses.

We're in the Champions League thread, at the quarter final stage of the competition, obviously I'm not talking about Man Utd. If you really need me to break things down to their most basic level in future posts please do let me know and I'll provide that service for you. Andersonisgod leaves nobody behind.

Jayop

Andersonisgod wrote: »

We're in the Champions League thread, at the quarter final stage of the competition, obviously I'm not talking about Man Utd. If you really need me to break things down to their most basic level in future posts please do let me know and I'll provide that service for you. Andersonisgod leaves nobody behind.

Good lad, the next time you're in a premier league thread talking about the most expensive squad ever will I assume you mean only in the premier league then?

Waiting......

Andersonisgod

Jayop wrote: »

Good lad, the next time you're in a premier league thread talking about the most expensive squad ever will I assume you mean only in the premier league then?

Waiting......

If you want to take it that way then sure, because technically it would be true. If I specify it to mean that Man Utd currently have the most expensive squad of any football club ever in the history of football then you know what that means too, either way, the CL matchthread surely isn't the place to be talking about Man Utd after CL quarter finals.