Champions League 2017/18

[FC B]

This psg side is stronger then last year when they beat barca 4:0 in paris, thing is we could read comments before this tie how zidane is a luck merchant and how its over with that, how cr7 is finished, but he scored today again important goal, and how psg is top contender for CL title


Cant you wait at least when real go out of CL with that comments? Fact is, zidane is great tournament coach with great squad, they have mental edge over everyone in this competition, today zidane left modric and kroos on the bench, thats some confidence, they just cant get embaressed in this ompetition like barca can, even if they play like shit they cant lose with 3:0, or 4:0 results, they have great formula for CL and barca should copy that, nothing wrong in that

Unlike EV, Zidane is a smart coach who knows what is the importance of rotating and resting and acts accordingly.

They will win it in that scenario...

Up until now it is repeating and there are just two opponents left for them until their 3rd consecutive final, some of which would be easy pray for them.

Hope the team is pumped for our game vs Chelsea. They're gonna be better than PSG, that's for sure.

I just hope EV's excessive conservatorism won't knock Barca out of CL starting with the second leg vs. Chelshit.

 

[serghei]

Agreed, still, had they put 3 past us at half time in our latest match nobody would've been surprised, they since became masters of the same tactic implemented by Mourinho almost a decade ago as the only option to counter Barca's stellar game back then and they've manage to perfect it to perfection I dare to say but even so they should've never got past Bayern last season based only on football arguments. CL is a ko tournament which differs greatly from a domestic league.

Being clinical with your chances is one of the most important things true. There's clearly not much between us and Madrid at our best. They have some superiority in some areas, we have in others. Of course, in games like these, the more clinical side is bound to have an advantage. Both teams will create chances, both teams will be 100% pumped up in an eventual CL tie/final. The difference will be in the details and inspiration on those nights.

It's not like with Pep's Barca when you knew that if we play our best level, we'd beat any team. Our best level might not be enough now.

 

[serghei]

Unlike EV, Zidane is a smart coach who knows what is the importance of rotating and resting and acts accordingly.


Up until now it is repeating and there are just two opponents left for them until their 3rd consecutive final, some of which would be easy pray for them.

Unlike EV, Zidane doesn't have anything to fight for except the CL. It's like a parent who only has one child to take care of, and another one who has twins and they're a nightmare to deal with.

Which one has a harder job in your opinion?

 

[FC B]

Being clinical with your chances is one of the most important things true. There's clearly not much between us and Madrid at our best. They have some superiority in some areas, we have in others. Of course, in games like these, the more clinical side is bound to have an advantage. Both teams will create chances, both teams will be 100% pumped up in an eventual CL tie/final. The difference will be in the details and inspiration on those nights.

It's not like with Pep's Barca when you knew that if we play our best level, we'd beat any team. Our best level might not be enough now.

Yeah it's on tactics so much these days between the two and more to individual performances than it used to be. There is indeed not much between the two at their best but their collective game is basically the same for years for them, almost a decade of perfecting it while Barca's style continued to weaken and chance more or less with each manager we had since Pep left.

 

[Slevinn]

Last year we ruined QSG's mental state for the next 20 years.

Small club.

 

[serghei]

Yeah it's on tactics so much these days between the two and more to individual performances than it used to be. There is indeed not much between the two at their best but their collective game is basically the same for years for them, almost a decade of perfecting it while Barca's style continued to weaken and chance more or less with each manager we had since Pep left.

Hmm, I'd say that Madrid don't have a distinctive style like we do. They've kind of played in all sorts of ways. They play like a standard great team, so of course they have more weapons in their arsenal while not being as specialized in a brand of football. It can be debated if it's better to have a philosophy of playing or it's better to be free of that stuff and have the flexibility to alter the style to the point that it's not distinctive at all, or revolutionary in any way.

 

[Morten]

We didnt play Kroos and Modric, and even then they posed no real threat.
We are not a great side this season, PSG are just weak and thats that.

 

[KingLeo10]

We didnt play Kroos and Modric, and even then they posed no real threat.
We are not a great side this season, PSG are just weak and thats that.

you got more than enough to beat europe's rest. I think only us and maybe jupp's bayern can challenge. city would fold to inexperience.

 

[FC B]

Unlike EV, Zidane doesn't have anything to fight for except the CL. It's like a parent who only has one child to take care of, and another one who has twins and they're a nightmare to deal with.

Which one has a harder job in your opinion?

Clearly Valverde with the harder task, he has to fight full throttle(in his conservative view) in La Liga till the end (just like he did in Copa up until he reached the final), which translates into more tiredness and injury risk of our players due to little to no rotation.
Moreover, Zidane knows exactly why rotation of players is essential, whom to trust from his players (unlike EV), whom to play and precisely what to do with his players and tactics giving his experience in latter stages of CL he has and that Mierda has virtually a decade of playing basically the same football he proposes as opposed to EV which is pretty much a coward by comparison, he is still relatively new at Barca and has much less experience with latter stages of CL.

 

[serghei]

you got more than enough to beat europe's rest. I think only us and maybe jupp's bayern can challenge. city would fold to inexperience.

I think City would benefit from the tactics Madrid use at the moment.

 

[Horatio]

Guess we won't hear from Lutece and Jair Ventura for a while. Too bad.

 

[KingLeo10]

Guess we won't hear from Lutece and Jair Ventura for a while. Too bad.

their annual hibernation period of march - august begins

 

[serghei]

Guess we won't hear from Lutece and Jair Ventura for a while. Too bad.

To be honest we're not too friendly (guilty of this myself) towards PSG. If they were trolls they'd be here, so at least they're not.

 

[Horatio]

To be honest we're not too friendly (guilty of this myself) towards PSG. If they were trolls they'd be here, so at least they're not.

Never considered Jair Ventura a troll honestly. He genuinely believed in PSG's potential.
Lutece FC had a slight identity crisis of not knowing wether he supported Barca or not.

 

[serghei]

Never considered Jair Ventura a troll honestly. He genuinely believed in PSG's potential.
Lutece FC had a slight identity crisis of not knowing wether he supported Barca or not.

Yea, me neither.