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Ref is so biased

Alonso is so useless in building attacks. All he does is pas sthe ball back to hazard in a worse position than before

Btw could Christensen have feigned a head injury there dor their goal? Play would have stopped

It is such a shame. We are not really good at anything. We are mediocre in defending, wasteful in attack. Horrendous in midfield, untidy on the break.

The naturalness with which willian buried that one is kust mind boggling usually he would blast that over

also Barca triple-marked Eden at every opportunity and he still got through to the byline a couple of times. Willian had much more freedom as a consequence. Furthermore, the support for our wingers on either side are Alonso and Moses. Both rarely beat their men and bascially all they do is deliver the balls to their winger somewhere near the sideline. I hope that until the return leg Morata recovers some form. Having three pacy players with confidence to worry about might be too much for them to handle

the best thing about Mourinho specials is that they heavily rely on the opponent's wastefulness like in midweek where sevilla squandered like 8 clear cut chances. All we have to do to stop a game becoming a Mourinho special is to take our chances. Not our strength, admittedly; but we might have a lucky day from time to time.

He is such an annoying babbler. Why does he have to talk about Madrid every week. let him rot in the u18 until his contract runs out when he is not signing that new contract Luckily there are so many good goalies out there, who might not have the same control of the area as courtois but are better on the line. and most importantly are top professionals. Alisson Becker, Jan Oblak, Donnarumma, sergio rico, heck even Butland could do a job and would be good for our homegrown quota. Then are Trapp and Leno. Plus in Bundesliga where traditionally the standard of goalkeeping is highest in all top leagues there are tons of very good non-german goalies like Hradecky and Gulasci. Might even pounce on the one of Neuer and Ullreich who loses out at bayern next season. The most important reason however if we were to lose Courtois to Real this summer was setting a dangerous precedent. Hazard might follow and maybe other top performers.

5 days rest should be sufficient for all players from today to be fresh. Go all out to win this and then tank the city game with an academy side i would say

One final thought. We created loads of breaks. But we were unable to finish them off, the final ball was untidy and played with too much haste. We will get these chances in the away leg too. If we manage to be more clinical we will win.

Yeah and thank fucknhe cant play vs us. Would have ruined our gameplan if they had any danger from deep

Yeah and thank fucknhe cant play vs us. Would have ruined our gameplan if they had any danger from deep

There is still a narrow chance we quality in the return leg via the away goals. that would be sweet albeit improbable. The thing is in the away leg we are the ones who have to score now so it will be really dangerous not to allow them too much space. However if Messi has a day off even worse than today or picks up an injury, we are favourites. They are an absolute shadow of their glory days, only that badly aged front 3 other than that Paulinho, Rakitic, Umtit, Aleix Vidal etc are no better than our very own Moses, Fabregas, Alonso horror show.There is no doubt our vintage sides would have wiped the floor with this lot but it might also be a valid point that we did not quite achieve the same as our similarly weak 2012 side managed against their vintage class of 2012

They really were. They still got the quality to play it perfectly when it counts and they got the space but if we had been more attentative in that one situation where christensen makes that blunder adn also azpi goes to ground to early we would have won this game quite comfortably. If they repeat this performacne at City they will get hammered.

Coutinho is cup tied and there is a reason why they left dembe out - he is not up to speed like morata

That is not because spurs and us are from london but because we got decent opposition whilst the other english team drew some bunches of clowns that have no business playing cl

we can take pride and strength from this for the two games in Manchester. I think we can take at least 3 points from there.

Same old barca always cheating

Cakir is such a clown

Bullshit. They have now idea what to do. Without christensens gift they woult not have scored in century. We have had all the chances and bad luck not to be multiple goals up.

Drinkwater will come on too

The ref is so weird

No they are not but we are a team in transition and they are a well oiled machine. Still we have been the way better side

Willian figure out your nose ffs

Well was great while it lasted but this team does not have what it takes to defeat even a bad barca side. Still gave them a good fight.