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freak goal. great work from the fullbacks tho. don't le tthem back in the game now

ivanovic is s such a beast. what a goal

Remy coming on 61 mins too late

Remy. a striker at last

we are our own worst enemy once again. and wtf do Drogba, Ramires and Courtois on the pitch? Neither should have started IMO

when willian is your best player on the pitch you know your team is not playing well

the ref is helping them a bit, but not as much as we do

william aiming at the net-stick. he really loves to hit woodwork

now there is villa's airplane carrier. good job, guys. you could have had it easy, but that is not the way we roll

Now this is a completely different match. they are fired up now. Drogba has to come off. should never have started

it was coming. sure they would break their duck against us. Drogba might be of use now at last.

say what you want but Courtois has been shaky since the pool game. This time it really was a fumble. Drogba's performance is Torres-like today

As expected Villa are turning into Real Madrid. Actually we make them turn into. at least we already have the lead

another fumble by Courtois. Good thing we still have cech.

Villa are playing high. No parked bus. Remy would have field day

average start but nice goal. good work by willian and oscar, both using the dynamic instead of overthinking it and letting defenders recover. Seems quadrado lit a fire under their asses.

Kane reminds me of Thomas Müller. Similar statue and technique. No clear strength but no real weaknesses either. Both also possess that hard working attitude and hunger.

That is the thinking behind, but is Drogba reallymore suited to breaking down a parked bus? Drogba might be more of an aerial threat, but Remy is very good in the air, too. Apart from that Remy is excellent in one touch finishes and volleys which could come in handy.

This. But exams might not even count. I had my final highschool exam the morning after our cl 2nd round match vs Napoli. I chose to watch the game. Could barely sleep afterwards being so pumped. Really underachieved in the exam. No regrets though.

IMO the current Munich side are a bit better than the one Kagawa raped but the point stands. KDB and Kagawa both were agile and clever enough to expose Bayern's greatest weaknesses. They have always wanted to control the opponent with their passing and high block. They are like machines with precise commands. Intelligent players who move the ball quickly and spot the spaces they leave behind can easily exploit them and counter attack them to death. Hazard did that in the super cup, KDB did it last week and Kagawa did it in 2012. Especially players like Boateng who are good but not overly intelligent can't react when they get found out.

Weidenfeller indeed climbed the fence to speak with the fans. But I guess their topics were rather about how to avoid relegation than selling Reus. There are no sources in whatever langauge indicating that Weidenfeller said anything about Reus in that particular situation.

Top bloke. Has impressed whenever he has played. Had a good world cup and an even better ACN. Also seems to be a decent person off the pitch. Never complained about us loaning him around without ever giving him a chance. Further he is said to be charitable like many African footballers are.

Maybe our fiercest opponent this season is fatigue. Especially in CL this will be a major factor. Effectively only 19 of the 22 players of our senior squad will play at all. On paper psg are worse than last season and we are a good deal better. We shot ourselves in the foot last year but dominated them for most of the time in both legs. I expect us to advance though we should consider the toll every stage we advance to will take on our fitnessand chances for the BPL. IMO we should make sure to win the league first and rotate up to CL quarterfinal. That will give us time until April to sela the league. If we are still in the CL then, go for it.

dislike that. He is homegrown and a very good LB. Luis is already 29 and not really that much better than Bertrand in a few years we will have the same problems all over again having to pay 20m+ for an established left back cos we got none of our own. I hope we got at least a decent fee for him.

I hope not. 21m for an average player. Not really better than piazon or atsu.