I believe it's customary to identify a scapegoat in these situations

[Classic Jorge]

I'm not going for Per or Flamini, both too obvious imo.

Theo :nod: that's the rat

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Classic Jorge]

I think I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about that.

Mind you, he did do some good things like fill back in for the clearly dead Ox and also holding the ball up. Theo was just a spectator, I almost wanted to swap the paraplegic Ox back on.

[Rich]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Berni]

you always blame the guy who's not here :nod:

[IUFG]

[Berni]

to me before' and then complaining that they're being put under too much pressure and that work is really stressful right now.

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

throws. I spoke to the ref about it. Called him all sorts.

[Jake]

[Brentwood]

A better team/player would have created a chance out of that (as indeed Barca did to us)

We had a couple of efforts on goal, including a good header by OG

In summary, Ox is to blame

[Rich]

[redgunamo]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

decisions when it was game over. The bent ones tend to do that to have statistics backing their fairness.

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

Then, having secured a mystifyingly good deal, he reverts to his customary mediocrity.

[Jake]

The worst decisions were in the first half, mainly in Barca's favour but some we got lucky with. All the ones like Coquelin harrying Messi and winning it, or Busquets cleanly tackling Giroud - they just broke up any flow in the game and it was ****.

Classic CL ref tbh.

[redgunamo]

[Jake]

[TRENT COLTON]

Per is starting to fade. Flamini can be a useful squad man, but we've needed more than he's capable of giving. Theo? As always he's either quite useful or really, really awful. Someone said he's losing his pace. Can you imagine how bad he'll be if he can't even run quickly?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

No need for scapegoatery.

Though, now you mention it the following are all c**ts in no particular order:

Giroud
Mertesacker
Giroud
Flamini
Theo
Giroud
Giroud
Chamberlain

And I will add Ramsey for departed slain brothers who cannot put forward their own opinions.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Also, people were really having a go at Mesut for some reason, I thought he had a decent game.

[Classic Jorge]

Ball eating c**t

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

We were given a goal kick when Cech stopped Suarez in the the first half, clear corner with the 5th or perhaps 6th official stood watching them from about 2 yards away.

[Classic Jorge]

Who, lets all be honest here, is just about the finest defensive footballer of the last decade.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I do not mean that in a nasty way Maurice, I trust you understand that.

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Thing is, as you suggest, when you see that they have a midfield player who is better than any midfield player at our club, yet they play that midfielder in defence then you know it's going to be tough.

Different class.

[Classic Jorge]

Shabby Alonso and Mascherano :myword:

The only thing that could have improved it was the addition of gareth barry.

[Jake]

The whole only cutting inside thing could do with a bit of shaking up.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Giroud helped out well defensively but i thought his play going the other way was ****. He'd win the ball and hold it up only to pass it to one of their lot. Welbeck looked better in 20 minutes than Giroud did for 70.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Mascherano less controversial of course as our reported interest was at the time of the convoluted ownership of him and Tevez.

Alonso we were just saving up for something else.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[eastgermanautos]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

Defensively, I thought we did ok for large parts of the game. We seemed to lose discipline once we conceded the first goal.

Unfortunately, we were not particularly good on the ball all night yet, we caused their backline problems, which tells its own story. It does make it feel like we missed an opportunity.

[Bergkamp's Brain]

:-)

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[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Got told off as kids were present.

I did laugh after a while.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]