Magic Lamps

For sure. They have choked everytime at some stage of CL under Pep until this season. For sure they are due another bottle job. This is why i dont doubt we will create chances en masse. I am just afraid we will be too incompetent to convert them. I am afraid TT has no idea what a pen master Willy is. And if they tried 20 pens in training and they all were scored, surely Willy was not in goal. We will surely lose any shootout with Mendy in goal

I am quite sure we will lose as well but for the slimest of chacnes this might end well I will still watch. Even if there is just 1% chance it is worth witnessing it live IMO. I am a calm and reserved guy usually but when Drogba scored that pen in 2012 (traumatized from JT's miss I fully expected himto miss) I roared into the night until my whole block was awake. I will never in my life forget that night of celebration. A 1:100 chance of living such a night again is good enough for me. this is a final and fianls are usually closer than when the teams would meet in the league. Our team will be nervous but so will City. I can totally see this going to pens again....not optimistic cos TT already said that either Kepa or Mendy will probably be between the posts for the shootout and Ederson is a beast in shootouts....I think we are even more underdogs than in Munich, back then we had Big Pete, Drogs and Lamps who we knew would always turn up but all the situations you mentioned we were favourites and it suffocated us,maybe the underdog role suits us better here

The did it with Bale. Always depends on how desperate they are to get rid of him. If they view him as deadwood they might even subsidize some of his wages. But I also doubt we would go for him. No palyer is exempt from pressing under TT and I also don't think Eden would get away with his attitude in training now.

lol contrary to most ppl I always thought he was overrated as a player, despite that short-lived trend of ex-players thinking it is fashionable to praise the ginger dwarf. Even worse pundit tho.

Nah only loan him if anything. They must be taking the piss if they think anyone is still gonna pay 40m for an ageing Hazard.

It their owners fault. That dire Chinese company has even less respect for the traditions of football and the fans than the Americans. A bit of a prelude to what happens if China continues their appropriation of western culture

Of the likely prospects in bold, I think I like Lacroix and Bastoni the most. Of Tapsopa I have never been really convinced. He might be tall but he is neither particularly strong nor fast. Decent overall but neither physically nor tactically outstanding. We all probably remember him getting absolutely mauled by Lukaku last year but it does not even take a Lukaku to dominate that lanky fella. Lacroix is definitely the more accomplished player rn, heart of the 2nd best defence in Bundesliga. N'Dicka on the other hand has stagnated. He plays on the left of rankfurts back 3 mostly and I don't think he has stood out from hinteregger and ilsanker who both are rather average defenders. Frankfurt conceded 53 goals and should have conceded more. It needed a stellar year from Silva and Kostic for them to compensate their leakage. About Bastoni, I think he is a very natural defender with good awareness of space and runs. Maybe similar to Christensen and likewise weedy so hopefully he fills out but when you look at his wrists and ankles he does not really have much potential to put on a lot of muscle mass. Romagnoli we all know is probably the closest to the finished product. Süle for me can still become a top CB albeit he does not have that much time after that ACL. I don't think he is perma-damaged tho. His physical recovery has been going well. The problem has been his confidence is shot, he lost a bit of pace (hopefully for him just temporarily like with Zouma) so he has been committing way too many mistakes. Bayern fans are super impatient with him and want him gone. The Bayern board want a fresh start and a more mobile, modern pair of defenders, building their defence around Upamecano and Hernandez, so there will be no place for Sple. He will need another year to fully recover so he would definitely be a gamble but I can totally see it coming off. It is a turnaround bet but if it comes off he might he can be a special player. no other defender has this combination of size, strength, pace (if he gets it back), awareness, tactical nous,composure and technical ability. It depends what we want from our new CB. We already have 5 cbs, 3 are at the perfect age, 2 are rapidly ageing so we need an heir or two. So we could either say that Rüdi, Christensen, Zouma are our new backline for the years to come then we would look at two young guys coming through the ranks and eventually compete for their places or we want to instantly have an upgrade over them once Thiago and Azpi are no more. In the first case we would probably best sign Lacroix and look at Guehi or some other academy product. But more likely, in the second case we would look for an experienced classy defender like Romagnoli or Varane.

That's why I won't watch them celebrate. The second our last chance is gone, I will turn off the game and directly switch to a netflix documentary about wildlife in Uganda. I got mates over and it will be super embarrassing but I will consequently switch the conversation towards mongooses, the african painted dog and spotted hyenas pretending fuck all has happened and pull this through for the remainder of the night.

I actually think we will get a ton of chances and half chances with their high line and our pace but we will sure as hell botch most of them with the final ball or penultimate ball. Mount will spray the ball out wiede instead of playing it through, Havertz will undercommit on the force of his shots and passes, Werner will be offside and miss his shots, taking the ball to impossible positions, Pulisic will try doing everything on his own and shoot the ball over.

Maybe... Arteta might be shit but he has 2 small title wins in a time where we have 0 And TT is a good coach but is terrible in finals.

ManUre without a title for 4,5 years. Nothing since that lousy 2017 league cup and since Mou left. Lets us pls not become such bottlers....

imagine waiting till the 120th min to make your subs for the pn shootout and then lose it bc of thier goalkeepr Ole is such a noob. Has Villareal by the balls in the 2nd half of regular time, has decent offensive players on the bench to finsih them off but he is like... "nah i will save my subs another 75mins maybe we get to a shootout" 😂

De gea has not made a single save in the entire final over 120mins and shootout 🤣

I think he should be on the bench but i am not sure he is sharp enough not having played for ages + i dont think TT is the kind of guy to swap in the 3rd goalie.

sevilla, real, atleti, barca are the worst. all 4 are back. I dont like having too many spanish sides in cl anyway. PL needs to stay on top. But next year a big season for spanish clubs drops out of the 5 year ranking so PL should start with like 10k points gap

the only bad thing about this is there will be even more useless spanish sides who just dive and foul all day in cl next season.

A win for the clear underdog here gives me more hope for our final. according to bookie odds, ManUre were even clearer favourites than City vs us.

ManUre barren run makes ours more bearable

congrats villareal

de gea in your fuckin face

de gea so deserved.

rulli cant save one but he sure knows how to find the top bin

de gea is an absolute disgrace.

rulli should have saved 3 at least

wtf how did he not save shaws murmelball