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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.

Reports we are gonna get 32 m euro for xirle. A good 10m more than what we paid for him. Board once again bossed it in the market. Revenge on Wob for only getting 22m for kdb BTW schurrle s agent has just left the vfl headquarter

I hope we got the extra money we held out for

Once agian it is bullshit that the Cuadrado deal depends on Schürrle leaving. WE can easily afford him without anyone leaving. FFP does not mean that when you buy a player someone has to leave for the exact amount 2secs later. EVen if we were those 26m on the downside we still would have the summer transfer window to sell Schürrle. which is why we have the leverage in this deal.

Tough match against a miserable opponent who will for sure turn up for this. They will park an airplane carrier and two lorries. If we score early and they have to open up, this can be a thrashing. If we don't score in the first half it will get frantic.

that is why i put the in there.

Don't worry. City will get absolutely smashed by Barca.

HOw come we even talk about this one. Sure, everyone would love him here, but has he even been linked with us by a remotedly reliable source?

he could still come to the bridge with Manchester City in a CL quarter/semifinal

Given the circumstances us being tired and missing 2 of our 3 offensive key players here, scoring at all against a well organised City defense was the best we could hope for. The Clattenburg-Courtois co-production goal we conceded was unnecessary. After that all we could aim for was a draw. Jose got it. Don't blame him for his conservative tactics here. They were sharper than us and we lacked creativity. Kudos to Zouma. I thought it was to early for him, but he appears to be the first young player to break into our defense since JT.

1-1 better than nothing. courtois cost us 2 points today. effective bus parking tho

come on ruben make yourself immortal

cahill the worst DM ever