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I wonder if Liverpool legend Stevie Gerrard would have agreed to base advancement of his club to the Final on such a dubious 4th goal, facilitated by a Ballboy

ARG looking better than expected - maybe there is hope for Messi

Andrew M, can you define the meaning of 'GUFF'? Certainly nothing for Englismen to be proud of!

second half coming up

Messi delivered - 2 goals so far

let's just agree that Liverpool had much more intensity and physical play forcing Barca's pussies to concede 3 goals. I refuse to concede goal #4, it was an Aberration not worthy of deciding the CL. The fair result would have been to play a proper 2x15 min extension. All spectators were...

Messi, Messi, Messi!

definitely watching

what amazes me most about Argentina is that they can't find a decent goalkeeper. Last WC demonstrated that fact. If Alisson plays for Brazil I bet on them to win. He secured the CL for Liverpool (more than VVD). But if Messi scores ARG may still have a chance ...

now let's see how De Ligt and van Dijk will do against CR7.

I think MAtS' performance against Liverpool has not received enough attention during all this Valverde Bashing! He was rated one of the two top GK's of the Champions League, along with Alisson Becker, but did not show up when it counted at Anfield. While Alisson SAVED 4-5 goals (thereof 3...

Who was Liverpool's best player? I think the top Two were VVD and Alisson Becker. Alisson had his best performances at the end, saved Liverpool against Barça and kept a clean sheet in the final. Without Alisson, Barça would have scored the decisive away goal. Interesting fact: When Barça folded...

definitely no advertising for "the beautiful game". No outstanding performance by any player, except maybe for Allison Becker. Allison should be voted Liverpool MoM. He was decisive also against Barça, played far better than our MAtS.

awful match so far, hardly worth watching

depressing - would have been so nice to see Barça playing Ajax in the final. It still feels unreal that this could happen. Klopp was right - Barça had more goalscoring chances in Liverpool than at home. Some higher power arranged it this way ...

very strange to have a final where - both teams were underdogs until second half of semifinal return game and miraculously scored 3 goals to go through - no team won the domestic title this year and the past years - both teams represent England but have foreign coaches Given all that, can the...

There are many questions that should be asked after the Liverpool and Valencia disasters. Valverde cannot claim that he was surprised by Valencia's tactics, namely - to sit back and launch quick counterattacks, exploiting the space behind the (over) aggressive fullbacks - to always double-team...

Somebody has mentioned that Barça is reminding him of Argentina and I agree. When the team's tactic is to play all balls to Messi and hope he scores, the opposing team's coach has an easy time planning for te match: just block all lanes to Messi and block his shots. That's what happened at the...

I wonder how EV explains his decision at half time to replace Semedo with Malcom. Why not keep Semedo and replace Roberto (who played a bad match)? Not playing Semedo against Liverpool was an equally bad decision.

Having MAtS instead of Cillesen would have helped, but we should not blame Cillesen for the defeat.