Hoping for a Napoli win now, would even bear with Real winning it again. Anything for City not to win it, and also Chelsea, Milan and Bayern not to win it after first wish happens…shit, 4 out of 8 teams in the quarters are teams I absolutely don’t want to see winning it (at least Milan is not going to, that’s one I’m confident about).
Edit: oops, thought this was the post-match already…
On 82 minutes we had a free kick near the touchline just inside the RM half. Did we play it forward? Did we feck. Konate? played it about four yards back into our half to Fabinho who was immediately put under pressure and played it out of play right where we’d had our free kick. That just about sums us up at the moment.
My sense is that keeping Salah is another instance of the error we made not rebuilding the midfield aggressively last year. Klopp’s tenure at a club seems to falter when his loyalty becames a liability instead of perhaps the best thing about him. At some point, rebuilding is necessarily a ruthless process.
Well, Bayern is a rival in CL trophies, so yes, it bugs me…Milan is so catchable if we win one more we are joint second…to me it’s really great to be able to boast being in top two European teams of all times.
Boasting being top three is pretty cool too, and Bayern is threatening to make it a quartet company… Not into that to be honest
In fact I’m only bothered about Chelsea due to where I live if it wasn’t London I wouldn’t be bothered. They were the lesser of the two against Man City.
We caused our own loss in the first leg. But the ref still needs to get mentioned here.
Milner shimmies to take two Madrid midfielders out the play, and for the only time in the game we have an open field with Madrid’s backline backtracking. Gets a take one for the team type foul, and no yellow.
The cynic in me thinks that the VAR performance at the end was just a farcical show for UEFA to feign no bias for Madrid.
I understand the reasoning in that, just don’t see it that way. Salah’s case is irrelevant of our rebuild in my opinion, and you don’t just sell one of your most proven guaranteed goalscorers and club legend, just because theoretically it affects your rebuilding.
As for last summer, we hadn’t brought Gakpo yet, Mane had just left, Nunez would probably need some time to settle (never mind the not having any guarantee he would have worked for us), and Jota was out injured. Would have been really buffling to see 2 of our legendary front three leave in the same time…doubt it would have made any difference in getting Tchouameni or affect the Bellingham situation either…
Personally I’d love Bayern to draw City and oust them, and have Madrid in handy just in case. But if it’s the draw you prefer and City is out, works for me just fine.