A dark day for football, but at least we can all laugh at Mbappe.
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Once PSG got on a roll , it was difficult to stop them this match.
Iām not a fan of their owners but the football that was on display was unbelievable.
Like Enrique as well.
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Not really.
Our league and schedule caught us off. We faced PSG at the wrong time.
PSG had the liberty of sleepwalking through the league and could keep their team rested and fit for the CL.
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Yeah we didnāt even get the so called advantage of skipping the playoff round because we had two league games scheduled in. One perhaps was unavoidable but one could easily have filled. Wednesday in May.
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Happy for Enrique from a football point of view, itās well deserved, PSG played some of the best stuff in Europe this season.
Itās nice to see different winners and itās also one club less with CL complexes! They did it without any megastars, I think Nasser has learned a lesson or two this season.
Itās incredibly hard or almost impossible to plan to win the CL. Some of the big projects won it when they least expected it.
Inter certainly better than what they showed tonight, but it felt like the end of the season domestically has hit them hard.
Plus, itās not a great side in a number of positions, theyāre getting old and need to think about the future. Lost a lot of key matches and finals in recent years.
They can be solid, hard to beat, tricky in knockout competitions, but PSG were just too good for them. Especially the work off the ball, incredibly difficult the game back into their half.
Now we have a summer blockbuster lining up:
PSG v Spursy.
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Always rated Luis Enrique very highly as a coach.
This win probably gets him into the elite category now.
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 