2021-22 UEFA Champions League

PSG players have no shame, the way they cheat and over react when tackled.

city are as bad.

2-1 City. Jesus turns it around. PSG struggling down their left side.

Can sent off for Dortmund. Looking bleak for them.

Poch could be a free agent sooner than later.

I wonder would he really want to move from one circus with the PSG owners to another with the Man U owners.

Gabriel Jesus is absolutely stealing a living at Man City.

Think that they are not out, all will rest in a home game with Atleti as it stands AFAIK.

They offered SFA tonight though, really poor, Liverpool in 2nd gear and are lording it all over the pitch.

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In the 88min Milan finally do something with the all the ball they had. A cross from Keisse and a header from Junior Messias (a squad player on loan from Crotone with only 2caps for Milan) give Milan a 1-0 win and leaves Porto on 5 with Milan and Atleti on 4 in the group of death

Brian Kerr being controversial, but topically so, at the end of the show there.

"Real Madrid were fine. They didn't need Benzema to get them out of jail." !!!!

Has any team won the CL 'proper' after winning all of their group games & knockout games?

Bayern did do it in 2019/2020 but the latter stages were reduced to one leg & neutral stadiums.

It's possible for Liverpool, Ajax & Bayern to do it this season.

He makes the team worse by scoring goals and helping them advance to the next stage of the Champions League? That's a novel take. In the Premier League, he has played 9 games so far under United's worst coach of modern times and has 4 goals and 2 assists, in a run of fixtures that featured 5 of the last season's top 7 sides (make that 6 wiith Chelsea to come at the weekend). Let's see how the rest of his season fares. Not every team requires players to run around like headless chickens.

Think of what his teams could have accomplished without him holding them back with all those goals...

The framing of that question is designed to minimize the crucial contribution that his goals made to holding off an excellent Inter side under Conte.

Better question would be how is Juve's season looking this campaign without him?

Footballs not that simple

For instance im a Liverpool fan Jota scores more goals than Firmino but Liverpool are a better team with Firmino playing over Jota

Yes Ronadlo gets a goal but how many attacks s break down how many times do teams play out because he cant close

Bruno Fernandes hasnt had a shot on target since October, the balls not getting held up or won back high enough for him to have the same. Impact as he did pre Ronaldo

Ronaldo scores goals he always willl but he causes your team a structural problem at his age now, Especially since United cant afford to be a man down

He had the least, sprints of any Forward in the Prem this season, He certainly comes with, issues

Look at the games against Liverpool & City, United got murdered because they plaued with a man short due to is work rate

No coincidence Bruno didnt start the other night, Carrick knew having both in the side gives u massive problems off the ball

Also Ronaldo has to take the free kicks despite being useless at them. Commentators get all excited like it's a penalty as we wait through his convoluted rugby out half routine only to see the ball slammed at the wall

Proper clubs do not buy a player you have loads of excellent cover already for just to stop him possibly joining the local rivals.

yes Ronaldo’s purchase is going wonderfully for man utd. They just sacked the manager they awarded a contract to in the summer and are 12 points off top in the league after 12 games. Champagne corks should be popping.

Fairly unjustifiable picks (in a sporting sense) by RTE/TV3 there selecting the Pool and MUFC games - can't even claim its chasing 3 points to win the group as first place is already guaranteed.

Porto v Atleti is the clear (and indeed only) standout tie on the Tuesday, but there's multiple groups to be decided in Wednesdays games including straight shootouts between Atalanta v Villareal, Salzburg v Sevilla, and Barca needing something from their trip to Munich.

Milan vs Liverpool with a lot on the line for Milan is very different to United vs Young Boys with little at stake.

I'de have Bayern vs Barca over United but Wednesday isn't exactly full of games I would be jumping out of my seat to watch either

The rare Real vs PSG over United vs Quarabag would be nice but unlikely sadly.

On top of ratings you have the problem of pundits being clueless to anything not PL

Liverpool weren't on Irish TV in GW5. Because they had already qualified. Man City - PSG was shown jnstead. So they do actually chose the bigger games, when a team is already qualified sometimes.

They wouldn't do it 2 GWs in a row though.

Maybe VM were contracted to show the Man Utd match before qualification was guaranteed.

And to be fair, I have to issues with TV providers showing what should be the better game, over a traditional well watched team, when qualification is already secured.

That's absolutely brilliant from Mbappe there.

No crowd in the Leipzig - Man City game. It's really off putting, hopefully we don't see European football go back to that crap.