Watching Inter and Barcelona

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Originally Posted by John Bunnell

Well if a miracle happens and we get to the final I am happier playing Inter than Barca. We melt against teams that can play a high line and quick 1-2 passing as good as Barcelona. I don't want to hear about how we've done against City & Liverpool. This Barca team are different.

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We do often seem a little dumb against offside lines, and barca's is pretty good.

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Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

That's unfair. I feel like the rest of us about Manuel but the **** up in the 2nd, home, leg was young Kieran Gibbs slipping. In the first leg, though we lost 1-0, MA had his best game for us and pulled off 4 or 5 Spunky at his best saves.

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Granted, in the first 5 mins or so, Gibbs slipped and gifted it to Park(?) who Almunia then dived past.

Almunia then let a free kick in from 45 yards. I mean, FFS!

Almunia had a decent game at their place. Even a stopped clock...and all that.

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Originally Posted by WES

Well played, Luis.

We now have a scapegoat when the inevitable happens :fight:

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He's a jinxing ****. And no mistake.

#getitinearly

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Originally Posted by Peter

Our league form has been poor all season and we have hugely under achieved.

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I thought we laboured against Wolves in the first match of the season and carried on from there.

Who have we spanked this PL season - other than Man City? Palace? West Ham?

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Originally Posted by Peter

It will be a failure. But the failure is in the league, not the champions league. As Rich says, semifinals is pretty good. Our league form has been poor all season and we have hugely under achieved.

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But to play without so many key players (and attacking ones at that - in a team already short of creativity) was a real issue.

All of the below have been out for significant chunks of time.

Havertz
Jesus
Saka
Odegaard
Martinelli

Tomiyasu
White
Gabriel
Calafiori

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Originally Posted by Rich

But to play without so many key players (and attacking ones at that - in a team already short of creativity) was a real issue.

All of the below have been out for significant chunks of time.

Havertz
Jesus
Saka
Odegaard
Martinelli

Tomiyasu
White
Gabriel
Calafiori

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They have. And then there have been periods where all our main players were available, we were fielding a very strong starting XI and still dropping points.

The injuries have made things harder, but we haven't been at it all season. He needs to rethink some of our tactical work. Too often we are too slow and too conservative in our play. And it gets worse when we get in front.