It’s strange how the quality is split between the CL and Europa. In the CL I can only see two teams who could give Man City trouble: Real Madrid and Arsenal. In the Europa there are also two teams who could do likewise: Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen.
It is what it is, but we could definitely beat most of the remaining CL teams, and even with the hardest draw, it’s down to the toss of a coin as to who wins, and I’d be backing the mighty reds.
I’d add Inter to one of the favourites group. Right now, they look better than Bayern, for example. Last year’s finalists and sometimes these sides have a few years when they keep coming back. Like we did a few times under Rafa and Klopp.
Excellent camera position at the Parc des Princes. In so many moments you see 20 outfield players what they’re doing. One of the best I’ve seen in football.
Wouldn’t rule out Inter, they were the better side in that final and arguably look a stronger outfit this season but I have a feeling this is Bayern’s competition to lose.
How do PSG play this drab of football with the players they have. Such half arsed laboury.
I thought Enrique was known for playing decent football?
Even without Neymar, without Messi…a change in manager, a highly respected manager in the game, they still haven’t transitioned out of the “Give us the ball and I’ll show you who’s the flashiest player in the squad” mentality.
Flick over to Bayern to see them almost scoring the team goal of the tournament, what a goal that would’ve been had Musiala not skied that.
Christ did Barcola score that counter for their 2nd? Looked like it was Mbappe running onto the end of his heavy touch, electric. Beautiful from Dembele to set it all off.
Between the 2 away sides today, they’ve had 26 shots and 0 on target
Wild that the red card is considered in anyway controversial. He missed the ball by a mile and stamped down on the lad half way up his shin. All the “controversy” points to is how fucking stupid the convention is that allows a defender to maim an attacker because it didnt stop them getting off their shot.
Lazio will likely regret not putting a hurt on Bayern, having a man advantage for a decent amount of time with a 1-0 lead in Rome and getting nothing more is a missed opportunity.
Bayern have been in this position before. Lost first leg or drew and then went down 1-0 early on only for them to spend the next 80 mins just booting the ball into the box