UEFA Champions & Europa League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [7th - 9th December2021]

[fez]

Can you guys delay your stream a little bit please....

 

[fez]

God I love Bailly. Got up like an absolutely boss there after his tackle.

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

1-0 Bayern, Barca on their way out

 

[Shamikebab]

Greenwood playing very well so far

 

[fez]

1-0 Bayern, Barca on their way out

Think it will be the first time in a crazy long time that Barca have fallen into the EL. 20 years to be precise.

 

[Shamikebab]

Have Barca ever been in the Europa League? Surely not?

 

[Pigeon_Killer]

2-0, game over.

Barca in the Europa League.

 

[Robbo]

1-1, van de Beek error there, but a good finish

 

[Kenai]

Pick that out, Henderson no chance

 

[adam cool dude]

Out of nothing.

 

[mid_gen]

AWB not doing himself any favours....awful so far.

 

[fez]

AWB not doing himself any favours....awful so far.

He really has been. Hes lazy, has a poor touch and no positional awareness. Unless he has a massive change of attitude and ability he will be gone I reckon. He got away with it under Ole but he won't under Ralf.

 

[Robbo]

Not a great half but should probably be at least 2 up. Team looks a bit disjointed as you'd expect.

He really has been. Hes lazy, has a poor touch and no positional awareness. Unless he has a massive change of attitude and ability he will be gone I reckon. He got away with it under Ole but he won't under Ralf.

Yep, AWB has looked very laborious - and we know he's got very little technical ability...

 

[Mekrel]

Some of these players aren't doing themselves any favours tonight. AWB has been shocking, Lingard has been pretty poor too and that was poor from VDB. Mata has been moving the ball about pretty well, but in general, the team have looked sloppy.

 

[Shamikebab]

Lingard has clearly already checked out mentally. We should offload him in January if we can and get a kid on who will at least try.

 

[mid_gen]

Some of these players aren't doing themselves any favours tonight. AWB has been shocking, Lingard has been pretty poor too and that was poor from VDB. Mata has been moving the ball about pretty well, but in general, the team have looked sloppy.

I'm cutting the forward players some slack as they're new and haven't played together....most of their problem is communication and anticipation, which is understandable.

AWB is just executing badly. Poor touches, gave the ball away initially for the goal.

 

[fez]

Some of these players aren't doing themselves any favours tonight. AWB has been shocking, Lingard has been pretty poor too and that was poor from VDB. Mata has been moving the ball about pretty well, but in general, the team have looked sloppy.

We have always looked utter crap outside our first XI when we make wholesale changes because there is no identity to the club. Teams like City and Liverpool don't struggle so much because everyone at the club from the youth team through to the first XI know how the team plays and what each position does.

Both Shaw and AWB look rather lost when they are not being asked to do very simple things or to play quick one or two touch football.

 

[Shamikebab]

I thought Shaw has done pretty well so far.

Was always going to be a tough game with this lineup, we've got a midfielder in defence and three players who mostly play 10 on the pitch. Was never going to be a clean sheet.

 

[Shamikebab]

This ref has made some dodgy, dodgy calls. Gives a freekick for a player falling over.

 

[Droolinggimp]

Shocking reffing tonight. That was clearly nothing.