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They were missing more players than we were..

Yes isolated bad results can happen but needs to prove to be isolated and not a trend. Xavi is beaten with that stick because his European win rate is like 40% or something.

The league is hard to win, we should concentrate here first.

Those are things that happen in high pressure CL games though... be like saying "Inter would have won this if Acerbi didnt fall over and miss an easy clearance". Thats why it is not as easy to predict as you always claim and worse teams frequently make progress.

No team is really in such great form, and we are picking ours up, we could go to the final if we get a good draw.

It's such a shame because Inter are much better than they are last year, and could have been a good watch and a top contender for the trophy, but they've gone out to dark arts and experience. Agree about Atleti not having any chance either. Their style can't consistently win games vs top...

Extra time rules favour them a lot because their team never seems to get tired.

Atletico are not that great, but they are a very intense and gritty team to play against, and if you let it get out of control it can be difficult. City also struggled to get past them and actually got saved by a clear penalty not being called. Inter did too much running today.

Inter let it get too transitional, Atletico were much better physically prepared, Inter were on fumes from 60 minutes.

We arent doing that because we dont have experienced options, were doing it because they are the best available. We have Kounde, Araujo and Inigo for CBs... not playing with Cubarsi because we are desperate and all out of CBs or something. Moot argument.

Seeing these two play, I'm baffled why we are so convinced we can't be good enough to compete for the CL. All this shows you is anything can happen in the knockouts and the perceived gap can narrow significantly.

Another 'bum' who wasnt worthy of Xavis management and a Valencia level attacker succeeds somewhere else.

Depay has been impressive.

Inter are playing their usual positionless game but havent been able to control the transitions, it has been transition after transition all game, so the defenders especially are covering huge amounts of ground to get back. They dont have great control despite playing a decent game, their fluid...

Inter team is very very tired. Lucky to get to ET there.

Its because mainstream media sources, as usual, seem to think the only teams that exist are either in England or Madrid and Barca.

They aren't really a dark horse if you have been following them, they are 16 points clear in their league and have dropped points 4 times all season. They are actually just a firm contender for the CL and easily a top3 team in the CL objectively.

Inter have made B tier signings because they cant sign the best. Its just hindsight and rose tinted glasses to claim these were always insane transfers. In reality the likes of Darmian, Sommer, Thuram coming were due to the absence of money and needing cheap options and they have just made it...

Its not really hard, most of their players are well known veterans who have been available for cheap for a while, its just because if we considered bringing players like Darmian and Sommer and others here you and other fans would talk about how terrible our recruitment is, Xavi has nothing to...

Inter, again, clearly the better team, which is what you'd expect seeing their league positions.