We could beat both of these...... I'd fancy us against either.
Just need to sort tomorrow out :-)
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We could beat both of these...... I'd fancy us against either.
Just need to sort tomorrow out :-)
You can't be serious?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Semi serious. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by John Bunnell
Both those sides are beatable. They are horrible defensively and lack structure. I'd definitely fancy PSG to beat Inter.
I completely agree and thought the same thing watching it last night.
It is a shame we won't get there though, Odegaard will go missing again tonight and we'll lose on the night as well as on aggregate.
Nice to kick the day off on such a positive note, MM. Wd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo
Dunfries wasn?t up to much. Kept running up blind alleys and stalling for ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
They?re there for the taking. At the very least it should galvanise our lot to throw the kitchen sink at tonight?s game.
Belief, Belief?
How am I doing ?
It was more how the momentum totally shifted in the second half. Barcelona couldn't get a kick first half as Inter pressed them high and bullied them. Second half, Barca did the same to them and Inter totally wilted, seemed to have no idea how to kill the tempo or stop playing straight into the problem. And my word, Inter just do not seem to know how to defend a cross to the far post. Literally acres of space.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
And we've seen doubling up on Saka on an almost weekly basis. We've seen it done well, and seen it done badly. Last night Inter did it badly and didn't seem to understand it left gaps elsewhere.
Beatable. Doesn't mean we would beat them, obviously :-)
Or that we will get the opportunity....
Well, you don't know that, do you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo
You have every reason to expect it, but you don't actually know it :-)
Personally..... I think we have a decent shout. I'm in Anfield 89 mode. If we can stay in the game long enough at 0-0, you never know. And our record in big away games is pretty decent.
That said, PSG are the best side we have played this seaosn by some distance.
Possibly but I'm working on the 'can't be as bad as last time' and we still could easily have got something from that game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo
Can't agree with that- we could easily be as bad as last time :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
To be fair I don't think.we played that badly
They were very, very good for the 1st 25 minutes. Donna Summer needs to have a bad match.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
We need the ball. It is all about that. It is, if you will pardon the pun, Partey time :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
We are going, as they say, to get gubbed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Maybe if we get the fans to sing that ****ing awful North London song before the game?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:nod: just like that semi against Yanited?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
All blood and thunder.
Then Almunia happened.
We have a chance. Let's just cling on to that for dear life for as long as possible. I think we all know what is probably going to happen this evening, but it hasn't happened yet.....Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
My approach to tonight's game..?
Go on then, surprise me.
And then the minute something goes wrong, 'oh here we ****ing go again, why do i bother!' :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
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Originally Posted by Peter
Have you been spying on me?
:-D
5-1 to the Arsenal - written in the starsQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Well played, Luis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
We now have a scapegoat when the inevitable happens :fight:
I am a bit more relaxed, knowing that we ****ed it up in the 1st legQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
I was thinking that. I'm far less nervous than I was when went to Madrid with a 3 goal lead.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
In addition; we've got to the semis which is no mean feat. If we were to go out now it can't be used as a stick with which to beat the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
We've got a referee convicted of match-fixing too, which is nice. Not that the Qatar PIF would have any interest in bribing a match official.........Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Not sure about that. Jason Burt in The Telegraph has already written it'll be a failure of a season if we go out tonight.....it's sort of hard to argue that. Not a sacking failure (unless we **** up top 5), just we really should have won something failureQuote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Happy to be that, W - I'm right thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by WES
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.Quote:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
We do often seem a little dumb against offside lines, and barca's is pretty good.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Bunnell
Granted, in the first 5 mins or so, Gibbs slipped and gifted it to Park(?) who Almunia then dived past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
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.
He's a jinxing ****. And no mistake.Quote:
Originally Posted by WES
#getitinearly
I thought we laboured against Wolves in the first match of the season and carried on from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Who have we spanked this PL season - other than Man City? Palace? West Ham?
But to play without so many key players (and attacking ones at that - in a team already short of creativity) was a real issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
All of the below have been out for significant chunks of time.
Havertz
Jesus
Saka
Odegaard
Martinelli
Tomiyasu
White
Gabriel
Calafiori
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
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.