cosmicway

Real are a disaster area after the tax scandals and so are Atletico. RM were horrible against Girona last Sunday (lost 2-1)

It is evident that Conte trusted the board more than he should. For instance the way he handled the Costa affair. He did n't really like Diego, he thought I can replace him in one day with a better striker. In the end he was left wanting and now he is helpless. The target seems to be to finish in the top four and the stage of 8 in the CL - at best.

Bakyoko and Luiz chase the right man. The third man is lost at sea. Against Watford it was Bakayoko who lost his way and they lost the open goal chance. Look at a similar situation PAO - Olympiakos Piraeus last Sunday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiLRGLJZepE

I see Roma going places this year. But is Roma the ultimate heights of this champions league ? What about Barca-PSG-Juve, also Bayern-Real (even though they seem to be faltering a little those two) ? We seem to be some light years away, a Wenger-like presence.

Amateur stuff. Rmember how the -good- Atletico were made to sweat against us back in 2014. This Roma team could have scored six if they wanted to.

Barca was hard done with in the year's of the Franco regime. Do you know that Di Stefano was captured at midflight and taken to Real Madrid's offices ? Then when Ferenc Pushkas asked for asylum, the generalissimo asked him to become a Real player ? The loss of the 1961 champions league under strange circumstances made matters worse. They 'll never get along.

Unhappy with the scoreline.

Rudiger's goal was like that of Iva against Benfica. Great job.

Interesting little affair. I don't understand why our defense became so fidgety in the second half - we even let one in. In the first half Everton were totally harmless and the same was true of Watford. Watford did score a fluke in the 46th minute but apart from that they were harmless in the first half. Then in the second half they nearly scored four against us. The same picture tonight and I wonder what is the explanation. Both Everton and Watford had good reason to try and press us in the first half but they just could n't. Then in the second halves it was different. Caballero had to make some Coutrtois ++ saves.

Those are ginger beers packaged in some fancy way.

What are those funny names they give to the league cup ? Carabao - carabio - mambo italiano ? I think we had better field reserves.

They 're not all low IQ types. Remember Enzo Francescoli of Uruguay ? Some do I believe. Fewer will remember Takis Nikoloudis, the Greek "Macedonian tank": - same style as Francescoli

Mistakes-mistakes-mistakes. In the 2nd Watford goal he lost his man - was running towards the stadium cantine.

Agatha Christie affair. Defense rattling. We won thanks to Bats.

got auf himmel

Utter dissolution.

He 's the one with the green teeth. Held us in other matches too.

Watford were harmless for 47 minutes then they find the eye of the fcukiing needle ! We have to play some serious football now. Their goalkeeper Gomez is world class.

I don't understand why Hazard was replaced immediately after he scored the equalizer. 15 minutes remained and it was going to be a push for the 4th. Hazard looked ok and Willian could have replaced someone else - if Antonio felt Willian could be of some use. Our attacking sting was cut down to 50% !

I don't think Roma are such a good thing in Italy.

We scored three. How many do we have to score ? 23 ? The midfield was useless and also Bakayoko. Roma for as long as they cared to play forward were creating dangers. In the first half too they had chances. They were shooting the balls straight to Courtois arms but they found many shooting positions.

Atletico proved useless today - it was false dawn.

yes we have no bananas

The strange thiing is Atletico could not follow our pace in that match. Never mind what the score line was in the various stages of the game, the Atletico players could not follow our players. And Atletico are not a side known for any lack of physique. Against City and Palace Chelsea became slow motion and the negative results were inevitable - especially with City.

Bats looked like a player of a match between 1968 veterans yesterday.