The only teams which were ever going to trouble PSG were the English teams.
They had a tough fight against Liverpool and then Aston Villa gave them quite a good fright.
They cruised through against Arsenal but still the point remains.
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Pity we didnāt really turn up in either leg against PSG, as had we had won that tie, we would have won the tournament.
Oh well: thereās always next year.
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I agree.
If we had recognised penalty takers on the pitch at the end of the second legā¦?
Like TAA and MacAllister replacing Nunez etc.
I honestly believe we woud have won No 7.
Meeting PSG at that stage, despite our performance in the group was incorrect from a seeding perspective.
Lot of variables, but the point remains. Aside from PSG, none of the rest would have remotely troubled us.
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I think this competition highlighted the problem with the football season in general. There were far too many games, 2 or 4 extra in this, and 4 international breaks in total?
It benefitted teams that had the opportunity to rest players and rotate. There have been plenty of pundits saying that we have a weak league or whatever, but the truth is that players of all teams have been knackered.
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Yes. The draws and the format was the reason Arsenal were out. Arteta is one of the most irritating characters in football right now 
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I still think the reward for finishing in the top 8 is to chose your position in the knockout phase.
I do agree that there needs some change and there needs to be more incentive for finishing top 8. We ourselves ended up facing PSG pretty early. But the continuous āwe were the best team in competitionā is very disrespecting.
Arsenal were not the best team. And it doesnāt matter if you had been the best team. The team that performs on that night is all that matters. I hope he continuous this attitude and they win nothing with this mentality.
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They had 5000 extra police in Paris for the night. Crowd control isnāt a thing in France. Itās smash them hard and fast and never ask questions not even after. But we know that oh so well!
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Itās the football we dream to see. For that football won last night. Isnāt it similar to what Slot is aiming for?
I would hope so.
Thank God they won. Would have burned the whole city down otherwiseā¦
Some years ago we had a teenage muslim lad from the banlieues staying with us for a couple of weeks to improve his english.
He was obsessed with this film and I sat through it with him. Grimā¦ it all seemed very familiar to him.
Anyway I have kept in touch with him over the last 25 years and he is an officer in the riot police 
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100 per cent I donāt think thereās been a better team [than Arsenal] in the competition from what I have seen, but we are out.
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Absolute bellend. He ā100%ā thinks Arsenal were better than anybody else?
Okay then 
Itās a poorly worded title but Inzaghi is actually considering his future at Inter, reliable sources even went as far to say that CL final might have been his last match for them. Considering the level of investment there during his time there, you could hardly blame him for not achieving more than he has, especially in CL (ironically, he lost two finals to sportswashing projects).
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How that article fails at all to mention first place drawing the winners in the knock out first up while Arsenal played PSV and Villa played Brugge
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Asking a midfield of Mrky and Chalanoglu to compete with that PSG midfield was elder abuse.
I get the aversion to praising much about PSG, but from a purely football perspective they are a lovely team to watch.
He still thinks he made the right decision, because that all looks like hard work and no self respective goal scorer wants that
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How many CLs have they lost out on because of their penchant for playing Mbappe / Neymar / Messi ?
It is a lesson football teaches us over and over again, and yet clubs with lots of money spend routinely refuse to heed it, treating their money as a short cut to a winning side.
This is still a very expensively constructed side. If you look at the players who typically start, the goalie was a free, Doue is home grown, and Ruiz was a comparatively cheap, but the rest are all expensive enough that any other club would have to carefully weight up how to fit it into their budget, and its the sort of signing PSG make over and over again no matter how many times theyāve failed.
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I think that is very much the wrong lesson. The way our season is structured, that last 16 round is simply scheduled during a busy time for English sides. This season is was especially challenging for us with a run of run of Villa (a), City (a), Newcastle (h) in the league and then PSG(a) over a 2 week span. We simply had the awful luck of coming up against our biggest challenge of the season during a moment when out season was incredibly acutely busy with important games and I just dont see the argument that being willing to drop points in October and November CL games by playing weaker sides does anything to combat that,
If there is a lesson to be learned for us, itās the luck of the draw can be a bitch. And maybe the PL can be dumb in how it reschedules games (see Mattyās point earlier)
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