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You?re back tracking here, MM. I preferred it when you went all out, shaming him for being a flakey, fancy dan pouvre, lacking ze mental strength.

100% right. I had to supress the part of my brain that was telling me Madrid and PSG had both done a good job of squeezing the space for Odegaard...

Also, Odegaard is not going missing in the big games. He is going missing in every game.

Eusebio was only Portuguese by colonisation (he was from Mozambique) so I guess the cheating wasn't in his blood :-)

He was that type of ref. Ludicrously fussy for the most part but also inconsistent. Trossard's booking was ridiculous. He then proceeded to let...

I know you're :fishing: Marv but the big name players often go missing in the big games because really good teams are rather good at designing...

I thought they got away with a lot of tactical fouling, especially in the first half as we tried to get back into the game. There was a period in the...

Hard to believe that ref officiated last year's CL final and last night was his tenth game in this season's competition, a record no of appointments...

I think we are just seeing why Odegaard didn't make it at Madrid. He doesn't have the mental strength for the world's biggest stages. He'll always...

I thought the ref was clearly looking forward to picking up his evelope full of dirhams. Dinar. Shekels. Whatever.

add in the space of half a season his longer leg grew a little AND his shorter leg shrunk a little. The increased differential meant that when he...

Not a popular opinion, but I didn't think Senderos was as bad as everyone else did. I thought he was ok in a deeper back four, but vulnerable if...

Wrong again - just checked, it was Eboue Campbell Toure and Cole in the final Pretty sure Senderos and Flamini played at the back during the first...

Hold on, was Senderos and Campbell in the middle - still, pretty shocking

True. Very odd. Real were pretty ****e, but Juve were on a serious ****ing roll when we played them. They fell apart in the first leg.

I was just looking at our knockout rounds in 2006 How in f*ck's name did we not concede in 6 games with Real Madrid, Juve and Villareal with a...

I was thinking about this during the game. I think the way PSG play tends to lead people to think they are ripping opponents apart when, in fact,...

Some football journos really do tie themselves in knots and love to write according to the scoreline and not the playing of the game. The Tele has...

Yes and no. Raya made a couple of good saves and they missed a couple of late chances (although both would have been tight on offside). We had a goal...

The pressing is why arteta waited so long to bring on nwaneri. I think he was worried it would give 20 minutes for psg to find as second. He seemed...

It's a good point re his pressing, finding creative players who are willing to press like that is not always easy. I think he's also hurt by our lack...

Agree, re MLS. He showed again last night that his future is in midfield. At the moment we can't afford to move him from left back but there will...

He is very good without the ball and is crucial to the press. Unfortunately, with the ball, he has been a passenger for a while now. He was awful...

Couldn't agree more. Early in the second half was screaming out for Arteta to make the change. Stunned into silence when he didn't at least take the...

Arteta should have hooked him much earlier. Perhaps the Captain tag affords him privilege. Stripping the armband may cause further damage to his...

He's not been awful, Pat, but he has been far too quiet far too often. He's good at keeping it, which should not be under-estimated, but he's stopped...