CHOULO19

Said so since last season when everyone was hyping him up. Imo, he doesn't have the discipline to be a top player, not on the ball, not off it, not in his general conduct on the pitch.

That's not really fair. Yeah there was a few pessimistic posters, but those are practically the ones that were pessimistic even before the first leg. The vast majority were very positive and half the posts in the prematch thread were "Believe" and "We can do this" and "Napoli 2012".

Alright, can we get back on topic please? Take it to the JT thread.

Dibs on this one!

@1:10

Cazorla saying that Arsenal lack a winning mentality: http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/santi-cazorla-could-leave-arsenal-unless-he-gets-claws-on-a-trophy-9248323.html

Reached his 8th semifinal as a manager becoming the most in history to reach that stage as a manager after surpassing Ferguson (7).

Never mind, I just did (yes, I realize I wrote knock instead of knocked but I'm too lazy to change it )

That is true but only for domestic competitions. In European matches the capacity is decreased a bit as far as I know.

I think that is the most we can have because the capacity for the CL is less than that for the EPL and other games if I'm not mistaken. Something about UEFA regulations.

Thibaut has had some "below 80" matches this season as well. He's not made as many mistakes as Petr has this season but he's a rough patch of a few consecutive games where he looked very shaky and error prone. That's why from the start I did not want Petr sold even if we do recall Thibaut. He's the best young keeper in the world and I have no doubt that he will be one of the best if not the best keeper in the world but he's still just a kid, we don't know how he will react to the transition to the EPL and he might need time to settle.

That's what Jose said after the match but he was obviously guessing. We need to wait for the scan today.

That's a pretty good idea. I hope Jose does it because we can't throw Ash in a CL final when he hasn't been on the pitch for months.

Frank.

Someone get this guy checked. It cannot be normal to make all the running he made yesterday and still sprint in the 94th minute to close a player down!

By far his best game in midfield. Played with heart yesterday, lots of heart.

He's by no means one of the big names we have or the best player around but he's certainly had his moments here at Chelsea in the past 16 months. Fantastic attitude and a model professional. Plus, now we don't need to buy a CB in the summer. Just throw Ba in there Did really great in defense in the last few minutes.

I thought he was the catalyst in the first half. After Hazard went off you could feel a couple of players getting their heads down but Oscar getting on the ball, beating players and winning a few FKs in dangerous areas really lifted the lads and the crowd which created that spell of pressure from which the first goal came. He really loves playing in the CL.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mxjn5_reaction-mourinho-on-psg-win_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1mxlw6_reaction-ba-on-psg-win_sport

Yeah would rather face Madrid in the final rather than over two legs.

Sent off yesterday for two bookings. Boro finished the match (and scored) with 9 men.

Crespo

I'd be happy with avoiding Madrid.

And to think we almost got Debuchy instead!

In my defense, his sentence was very badly structured. So blame his grammar