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Schalke a hardly the yardstick tho. They are an excuse of a football team and the club is in chaos every other year. They got a board that is just as incompetent as ours but with less money. It is testament to the abysmal level of bundesliga that they make it to the CL at all.

The obligatory pen gift in that fixture

Lolz Kante signed a 5 years extension in November. For 400m he can leave

Did not see that coming. Reduces our chances to keep Hazard even more. Had hoped for a Mourinho comeback There.

after that shameful performance I hope everyone sees now that Sarri still is and always has been a fraud and needs to be gone asap. Those 3 wins in a row mean fuck all and the only way to get CL is still winning EL cos we are not gonna get anywhere in the league with such a plague of a manager and board.

you are right I only just noticed that the ban will be upheld during the appeal, which is quite rigged. Really makes me wonder why the board did so little business in january. We definitely have to make CHO and Hazard stay and let them walk in a year. Maybe we can offer them a huge pay rise to make them extend for one year with the promise to let them go for a decent fee. The club really is run by amateurs

Those were some big ifs tho, we are not gonna sell Hazard without replacing him. Kante alone is worth as much as the better half of their squad. And they only got 19 players in their senior squad so far. For sure they are gonna run out of steam at some point. Give them EL and they would really struggle. How many teams have played for the european places in one season and struggled with relegation in the next. This league is so strong and the competition never sleeps.

on a different note arsenal lost 3-1 in rennes

zappacosta's crossing is absolutely torrid

This is how RLC and CHO can really hurt teams with their pace and directness. Should both start

even on the 10th replay a breathtakingly beautiful freekick. Well done, we really can not complain for a lack of freekick goals this season. I remember we used to go seasons without one

I can see this too. Salihamidzic really fluffed his lines by spreading his intentions in public like an amateur. I hope we sell CHO to Dortmund, Leverkusen or some other team that is not Bayern but might hurt them a bit.

we have to win EL anyway. Idont think Tottenham or Utd will win the CL. It will be Barca, atletico or City for sure. but just out of interest, what happens if Spurs/utd finish 5th and win CL, we finish fourth and neither us nor Arsenal win EL. Will it be 5 English teams in Cl then again?

Oh dear VAR has changed the game drastically, not sure if to the better. Makes ot less predictable for sure

True. Ole has massive balls to do so (even if those two were anonymous), Sarri has wrinkled tobacco knots

massive respect to RAshford tho to take the responsibility and convert with the nearly perfect penalty. I really hate how Utd are producing players like this whilst we never give ours as much of a chance. When Rashford had his debut he scored 2 goals in the EL. When a chelsea player does that he will be sat on the bench next game.

this. Always rooting for English teams in CL,, esp with a top 4 finish in the balance

as sad as it is Buffon is really letting himself down wrt CL. The stupid pen vs Real at the last minute last season + the spill on the rashford shot today. PSG go out deservedly. Mbappe was poor today as was most of their team. I hate that Utd got a decent manager again.

He is clearly widening his body surface with a very unnatural movement of his arm+he is looking at the ball before moving his arm in the direction of the ball before turning away. Clear pen IMO

Clear pen IMO but without VAR no one would have spotted it. One time VAR came in correctly. English teams riding their luck in Europe this season much

Real Madrid have always had generations of average players in between the galacticos. Remember the like of Salgado, Drenthe, Diarra, Huntelaar before and now they got Nacho, Vazquez, vallejo, llorente, diaz

Tadic caps his world class performance today with a beauty. One of the all time best performances I have seen at this stage

Dortmund are as shit as us taking their chances, they are out for sure.

Come on Ajax, one more goal will kill the tie

Varane would have been the more obvious choice then still. Modric IMO despite being a super player has never been a real leader like he is made out to be.