UEFA Champions League/Europa League 13/14/15 September *** Spoilers ***
- Thread starter Cosimo
- Start date
Soldato
- Joined
- 7 Feb 2004
- Posts
- 9,510
Oh well. 1 - 1 away in a place that only conceeded about 9 goals last seaosn isnt too bad. I hope they bring that sort of passing with them to our home game.
Soldato
- Joined
- 17 Jun 2010
- Posts
- 12,495
- Location
- London
Anyway yes, a bit gutting to concede so late, but it was a wonder strike and it's a point away against the current Bundesliga champs, which was on paper probably the hardest fixture our of the 6 we'll play, and we did it with hodge-podge midfield with a lot of new faces (and a bit of luck). It'll do.
Also Barca nearly always start slowly in the group stages - not the first time they've drawn at home. They generally do enough to win the group without looking 1337, then look more dangerous with each game.
Also Barca nearly always start slowly in the group stages - not the first time they've drawn at home. They generally do enough to win the group without looking 1337, then look more dangerous with each game.
Last edited:
Didn't they lose 2-1 to Rubin Kazan last season?
a big thank you to Chelsea, Marseilles, Huddersfield and Carlisle for making me a nice £102 off £10 tonight 
Starting the season on £5, missed a few weeks betting but made £142 off my starting £5 so far, not bad considering i generally only place £5 bets (tonight was a bit of a one off placing £10)
Starting the season on £5, missed a few weeks betting but made £142 off my starting £5 so far, not bad considering i generally only place £5 bets (tonight was a bit of a one off placing £10)
Caporegime
- Joined
- 21 Nov 2005
- Posts
- 41,305
- Location
- Cornwall
Barcelona are paying the price for wasting money on players they didn't need in the summer whilst ignoring their weakness at the back. Playing Biscuits or Mascherano with an out and out defender is fine, playing them together not so much.
I think it was something like he couldn't prove his age and he didnt want to take bone tests or something? or was that another brazilian?
I posted this last week....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-man-recommended-Manchester-City-Robinho.html
Oh no Hughes just go and spend 24m on Lescott/18m on RSC and 14m on Bridge!
Torres assisted both goals tonight so he didn't do too badly.
He almost scored one as well. Strange game, we achieved nothing in the first half and only got going in the second. It was a good one from David Luiz. It was still not a satisfactory performance but things will improve. Anyway we have 3 points in the bag and that’s all that counts in this competition. I see that Genk and Valencia drew which is even better. The Man U game on Sunday is going to be very interesting.
Last edited:
Caporegime
- Joined
- 12 Mar 2009
- Posts
- 26,776
A bit gutting to concede so late but it was a pretty special goal, the free kick was cleared and it was unfortunate to land right at the feet of an opposition player. Amazing finish from the Polish guy as well, Szczesny could only watch it, absolute quality finishing. I'm happy with a point away against the reigning Bundesliga champions though, we were shocking for large parts of the match and I'm a bit annoyed that we seemingly tried to defend for virtually the entire second half when we don't have the players or system to do so.
Just got home from Stamford Bridge.
Booooooooooooooring.
Here's my standard picture of where I stood
http://twitpic.com/6khntg
Booooooooooooooring.
Here's my standard picture of where I stood
http://twitpic.com/6khntg
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
Shocking, goal coming from Song conceding a freekick...... I'd never ever have guessed that would happen 
Crap performance all told, if Dortmund could finish at all we could have ended up on the end of another thrashing, and they weren't particularly good. Benny I think I saw make one great pass, playing Sagna into space, who then decided to waste all the space with a crap pass half a second later, aside from that he was almost completely useless.
I don't think we'd have trouble getting through to the knock out stages, I said that last year for Spurs, its not a big deal, getting into the champs league through league position is significantly harder than getting into the knockout stages. Problem is if we keep playing as badly as that we won't be in the champs league next year, maybe not even the Europa.
I'm wondering financially, whats better, 6 champs league group games either way, but getting knocked out in the first knockout round, or going into Europa and going a few rounds?
We need to pick up our game quickly, very quickly. RVP should be commended, but for that tackle we most likely wouldn't have scored all night, good workrate, but we can't rely on a crap pass from a CB< or a ridiculous goalkeeper to win/draw us games, we actually have to play better.
Wilshire can't come back soon enough, RVP was so insanely isolated most of the game with smeg all service as per usual, we just don't have enough quality going forwards nor people who can control the game, infact, I don't think anyone we have in midfield(without Wilshire fit) is able to dominate a game and push us forwards and break up attacks.
Crap performance all told, if Dortmund could finish at all we could have ended up on the end of another thrashing, and they weren't particularly good. Benny I think I saw make one great pass, playing Sagna into space, who then decided to waste all the space with a crap pass half a second later, aside from that he was almost completely useless.
I don't think we'd have trouble getting through to the knock out stages, I said that last year for Spurs, its not a big deal, getting into the champs league through league position is significantly harder than getting into the knockout stages. Problem is if we keep playing as badly as that we won't be in the champs league next year, maybe not even the Europa.
I'm wondering financially, whats better, 6 champs league group games either way, but getting knocked out in the first knockout round, or going into Europa and going a few rounds?
We need to pick up our game quickly, very quickly. RVP should be commended, but for that tackle we most likely wouldn't have scored all night, good workrate, but we can't rely on a crap pass from a CB< or a ridiculous goalkeeper to win/draw us games, we actually have to play better.
Wilshire can't come back soon enough, RVP was so insanely isolated most of the game with smeg all service as per usual, we just don't have enough quality going forwards nor people who can control the game, infact, I don't think anyone we have in midfield(without Wilshire fit) is able to dominate a game and push us forwards and break up attacks.
Soldato
- Joined
- 17 Apr 2007
- Posts
- 23,162
- Location
- stat city
Dissapointed in Dortmund. Can't believe they only scored 1 goal... the goal they did score though makes up for it. Beat that.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 12 Mar 2009
- Posts
- 26,776
They couldn't finish for toffee last night, so many clear cut chances were created by the likes of Goetze and Kagawa, Grosskreutz missed a sitter as well. And was it me or did Schmelzer look a bit like a chubby baby?
Just got home from Stamford Bridge.
Booooooooooooooring.
Here's my standard picture of where I stood
http://twitpic.com/6khntg
It was until David Luiz scored the first goal but who cares as we're already leading the group. The Shed looked half empty to your right. Was that because Bayer didn't take up their full allocation of tickets?