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Spursy. What the fuck was that wall 🤣 Probably be a couple more goals yet, PSG are rattled.

If we want 40m we need to play him for him to score some more goals I think. 100% agree. He’d probably have scored at least 5+ goals if he had played the amount of games Timo has I think. Only fault of Tuchel so far for me. Putting that much faith in Timo ahead of him or Giroud who I think would have contributed more than 2 goals and 4 assists in nearly 20 games.

Great goal and been deserved by City. PSG havent started. City keep this up theyll score another goal or two.

Personally if City had Aguero on they’d have scored twice. The Foden chance and Bernardo Silva chance. PSG been better team but again they gave the ball away 2/3 times in poor areas and with City’s press it will happen again.

Not necessarily, would be like saying Pep not plying a CF makes him pragmatic though. It depends on the context and how the team approaches the game hugely. Being pragmatic is more than just selection of players, its about how the team approaches the game. Pep played Javi Martinez as a false 10 at Bayern a certain amount of times, particularly one that stands out was v Dortmund in a 3-0 win. Did that make Pep or Bayern pragmatic? No. Playing a back 3 with wingbacks has both offensive and defensive quality. Look at how they stretch the game, we always have the spare man out wide. Was same with Conte. I agree CHO gives more on the right maybe than James and Azpi offensively but wouldn’t go to say that we were pragmatic v Real. We went for the throat the first half an hour and should have been out of sight. No pragmatism there for me. Also on Jorgi and Kante both are not purely defensive midfielders, yes Kante isnt Kevin de Bruyne but he does contribute in the other half for sure. The amount of dribbles and break aways he does for this team is huge, but no one mentions it. Its only tackles or giving the ball away. Mateo Kovacic carries the ball well also up the pitch which is hardly a defensive action. I am not expecting them to turn into Messi and set up 3 goals in a game or whatever but there are attacking players and two wingbacks who should be trying to arrive and make the difference in the final third at times. Maybe Pochettino’s line up is more offensive than Tuchel’s on paper but you have to remember, PSG scored 337 goals under Tuchel. That was in 127 games that is 2.65 goals per game on average. If we had a fit and firing CF and Werner wasnt scared of scoring we would have at least another 7-10 goals under Tuchel at least. This team is unfortunately short in some areas.

Yes he might of got a lot against the smaller teams but hows that an issue? A lot of Fabregas’ asissts for us were against smaller teams also but it helped because more or less he was a flat track bully for us and we needed to break down teams that sat behind the ball. But we needed that. He did some things in bigger games also but we have dropped more points v smaller teams than big teams with Tuchel. Theres more games v smaller teams than bigger teams so I dont see the point really, plus Lukaku is also more clinical than you give him credit for and has scored in big games. He would have scored the chances we made last night. And Italy a piss poor league? Please, it is much stronger than people claim. Ronaldo has scored less in Italy than he did per season for Madrid. Italian league is one of the toughest leagues for CFs to score because its so tactical and defensive. I believe that if you can score goals in Italy you can score anywhere. You mention Salah he is the prime example.

Name sounds familiar, sure there was talk of Arsenal looking at him last summer but whether it was just talk or not nothing materialised. I suppose it is a risk but I like what I have seen from Andre Silva. I think for the right club he would be a bargain, he looks like hes going to continue to get better unfortunately it will probably be the likes of a Dortmund who sign him as he suits their model it they lose Haaland or an Atletico maybe.

Have to disagree with this completely. Conte has shown what a little bit of coaching can do to a player like Lukaku. He’s one of the best CFs in the world. He was a top PL CF also at United, the goals dont lie. Yes he wasnt as complete a player but United lack a 15-20 goals a season number 9 and he was that. I think people forget that he scored 42 goals in 94 games. As well as 87 goals in 166 games for Everton. Yep 100% agree. Lets see next season how he does. He doesn’t strike me as an impact sub either.

I knew someone would throw the Werner comparison in or Luka Jovic but they’re all different players Silvs is more of a proper number 9 than Werner. Hes also had the big move that didn’t work out at Milan (like Jovic at Real) and by sounds of it has rebuilt his career very well. Much more of a lowkey signing but wouldn’t say he’s a massive risk, 42 goals in 68 games in Germany and Spain for teams that werent the top top teams either in Frankfurt and Seville also is impressive all things considering. Werner’s goals came in a team everyones expected to be up the top end and fighting for CL, Frankfurt are well Frankfurt some seasons they do well and overachieve some they dont do well. I think someone else will get him in all fairness, (Dortmund maybe if they sell Haaland? Just seems their style of buy). I don’t think we are bold enough to move for him, or that after the Werner situation that we will be in a hurry to sign another attacker from Germany anytime soon. I do think whoever signs him and if for a fee of that or less, may have stumbled onto a very good deal. He reminds me of Morata slightly but a bit different, bit more physical a bit stronger, good in the air, good finisher and links up well.

Mainz and Dortmund was the only time that one of his teams have played this gunho football your expecting but also his first two teams as a coach. At Mainz they were very much in the mould which Dortmund were but of a lower quality with the same defensive instability, conceding a lot of goals. Its clear hes wanted his teams to tighten up, the structure is better here and was better at Paris, hes clearly evolved as a manager but this notion that he is playing pragmatic football baffles me. We don’t sit with 11 men behind the ball grinding teams down. We press, win the ball back, are the team that is looking to make things happen with the ball. If we took 2/3 chances last night you wouldn’t be complaining or saying about being pragmatic. Or if we were more productive in the final third in several games with him. It was a European away game as well, that way we played is the best way to be I would say in these sort of ties, we didn’t go and open ourselves up a lot and we were very solid in top of having the best chances. Honestly what more do you want? Swear your complaining for the sakes of it. I remember that PSG game, Neymar missed about 3 sitters and again PSG dominated the ball. Hardly defensive, just because they didnt score the two goals to the 90th minute. Honestly do some research instead of plastering wild accusations based on a line up 😂 If you seen the game or the highlights you’ll see PSG did more or less everything but score until they did score in the 90th min & stoppage time. And only like 2 offensive players? I swear your over exaggerating and its only succeeding in making you look daft. I will make a prediction now. With the right signings in the summer, I think we will be the closest team to challenge Man City next season.

I would take a bet on Andre Silva. We were linked when he was at Sevilla, he’s kept improving and now has 42 goals in his last 68 games over the last 3 years. Maybe not the biggest name but certainly an improvement on what we have. Maybe not even a top top CF but someone who has quality that would be an improvement for sure. Apparently Dortmund, United, Atletico, Arsenal, Barca all linked with him for £35 million.

I hope your not referring to Werner being top class in that first comment. Because he is near hopeless.

At the end of the day, Tuchel has to watch because if he continues to count on him and he keeps missing or scoring once every 15 games, ultimately it will be the managers head on the block if it leads to a down spiral in results/games not being won. Not at that point yet but more big chances missed that would have swung this tie from just over 50% with the away goal to 75-80% in our favour IMO.

Im sorry but what? I am baffled. Honestly, what did you watch 😂 One of our best players again.

Hand ball? What the Varane (I think it was Varane) one? Obvious? Jesus that was never going to be given as a penalty.

Aye draw isnt the worst result. Could be on aye. Honestly should of been 2/3 goals up basically would have killed the tie though.

Well games fizzled out. Good job Rudi looks alright. Fair to say, if we dont go through next week, we really will only have ourselves to blame. How many chances did we have? Could have been 2/3-0 up very easily before their goal. Not surprisingly, Timo Werner big chances missed again. Not to say he will solely be to blame obviously that would be harsh but the scoreline would of been more comfortable if he did his job. I dont think we will have a better chance against Madrid when Ramos and Mendy return to boost their backline. I dont think they will go with a 3 at the back either. Refs been alright tbf. Bit card shy maybe with Marcelo but hardly been that bad. Cant say refs heavily influenced game. Hasn’t disrupted the flow of the game either.

Yeah. I think that’s how it works. Used to be 3 yellows and you missed a game. Now they wipe them after quarter finals and can only miss final if sent off in the semis 2nd leg by looks of it. “Yellow cards accumulated in UEFA club competitions from the beginning of the group stage were wiped out upon the completion of the quarter-finals. All players left in the competition now have a clean slate. That means a single yellow card for a player in one leg of a semi-final cannot lead to them being suspended for the final should their team qualify.” also states here. ”By wiping cards after the quarterfinals, the only way a player misses the final is via a red card. ” https://www.google.com/amp/s/the18.com/soccer-news/when-are-yellow-cards-wiped-champions-league-2021%3Famp see above

The rules are now I think if your sent off in a semi final first leg you miss the second leg only. You cannot miss the final unless sent off in the second leg of semis. I think.

Eden coming in for Real. Ziyech and Reece for us.

Chilwell. Waken up. Dillydallying there on the ball before realising fuck all was on. How many fouls is Marcelo getting away with?

Tbf the idea was ok, not so bad there but he really should be taking it first time. Much better positioned to put it across the GK I think. And means the CB cant get closer. Just shows his confidence/ability/decision making.

Are they though? I dont think his movement has done anything really. The only havoc hes wreaking is limiting our passing options in the final third as his runs are not great runs. He is going side to side more than in behind.

I know he missed some bit chances in Germany but he should be ironing that out of his game naturally as he gets older. May I remind you he is 25. Not 18. Those sort of chances don’t always come around every week in the PL or a CL semi final so he has to do better. And if not then is this really the sort of player to drive us on and improve our team? Even before people were saying his runs off the ball were digging him out as it stretched teams. His runs are infuriating 9 times out of 10, it hurts my head sometimes watching them. I would say its ok to have a bad game but after his game v West Ham, you’d think yeah surely he will be at it to a degree. But no.

Aye but look at some hes missed this season. A non professional footballer with one leg would probably have scored half of them. That is the harsh reality.