Champions League 23/24

[El Gato]

Been a better team

Won as should have

Probably ought to have led earlier

Neuer might as well give half his salary to Lunin if they want a quality successor

 

[serghei]

Or Carlos Alcaraz beating Djokovic in an open final?

It can happen, and the funny thing is it's gonna be pretty close, and Madrid is gonna get it by 1 goal or 2 max.

 

[Morten]

Some of them, yes
But it's again another important decision that goes unjustly in favor of Madrid in a crucial knockout CL moment

"Some of them", you mean those in the box, right?

Anyway, moronic decision, but this likely wouldn't have been a goal.

 

[Birdy]

Been a better team

Won as should have

Probably ought to have led earlier

Neuer might as well give half his salary to Lunin if they want a quality successor

First time in how many years you take a qualification where you have been a better team
But again with REF help and some voodoo stuff in Vinicius shot

 

[El Gato]

Aye been a better team. And won all others.

Anti-Barca

Lovely

Couldn't have wished for a better evening

Actually no - could have been better if Xavi signed extension ahead of the game

 

[Horatio]

Couldn't have wished for a better evening

Lies. She could have told you yes

 

[companyofcules]

We won't. Neither will Bayern or Pool or whoever else at this point. I'm a firm believer in the impact of psychology in high leverage games.

The mental weight of facing a 14 time champion does half the job for RM, where even randoms like Joselu score a brace against Bayern and Manuel Fucking Neuer in the last mins of a CL SF.

This is just a delusional way of hyping the fascists. They beat runners because they blend tehnical ability with physical ability. Our club is not built to do that since it was a small club in terms of money before EU created a market for us.
The club is built to create tehnical football and team football to compete the 1 v1 football proposed by Milan, Real and Bayern, especially Real in La Liga.
If we take La Liga from when Cruyff introduced the sistem to the pandemic collapse Barcelona changed the dominant team of Spain even with Real and Atletico being on a referee life line.
While in UCL the success is much smaller being a cup that ultimately depends on individual output.
Barcelona was only in 2011 and 2015 in a position to surpass Real but failed due to management and the influx of oil in PSG, City, Chelsea that made all the luck and strategies be irrelevant.
Barcelona can't beat the runners or the catenaccio if they aren't dominant since the team is about tehnical ability and team effort rather than individuals. Because our individuals are usually good at controlling games not killing games and this ponies are easily routed if they aren't dominant since they lack long range ability heading, stamina etc.
Real Madrid is physical enough to resist but being spanish is tehnical enough to dazzle the runners and they tend to buy great individual players. It's a match made in heaven against the runners and catenaccio but not so much against Barcelona.
Now after the pandemic collapse of Barcelona they are superior to us too.
BTW Tuchel made a great job and his changes were sane to reinforce the result but the quality wasn't there.Kane made a decent game but is way too static and a predictable finisher to wage a war of space vs Real or to help the defense.
Sadly Real is way more an elite team than Bayern

 

[ZenI]

Everyall, chill the f out... RM was far better, it was not about the Polish ref etc. RM deserved it and got it rightfully. Now we only hope for a Dortmund miracle...

 

[companyofcules]

Msny teams humiliated Real in UCl but their strategy is way more good than others for a cup. Now introduce the hype and some help from refs and the predictions are realities.
Post pandemic Real has the best team by far except for the number 9. The coach is mediocre in a tactical level but a great human manager and strategist that fits that blend of physical and tehnical football. City and the EPL are a joke, Bayern is a clown show not german enough, not tehnical enough not defensive enough. Tuchel and Pep did good but Real is way too stacked and has an experienced Italian trained to use every individual asset of a team. It's not impossible to beat them but you need to be very good at what you propose.
Tiki-take with grelish or rock football with Kane is just clowning.

 

[companyofcules]

As for BVB their only hope is to drive Real out of air and profit from every ball in the box like a psychopathic german team. I don't see it because they have some big holes in the team but given the Italian isn't some tactical genius to just kill games from the start they have a slim chance.

 

[jamrock]

Did something happen at the end of the game? I tapped out after 90 minutes

 

[companyofcules]

We will win UCL after we get the stadium, we get a huge coach and a huge talent in attack. It's our way. As for La Liga, I still think is more important than CL and we need to recover the Franco 19 titles of Real.
CL is just a cup, we are getting in the mental trap of Perez and the tabloids. Is not that much important and for us to totally dominate it we need no oil or oligarchs in Europe. You can't dominate if your successful ideology can't buy you the best players for your not pragmatic style.
City and PSG made it impossible to pounce on the success. Just imagine young Aguero at Barcelona, Verratti etc.

 

[jamrock]

saying the ref made a mistake.

 

[Horatio]

saying the ref made a mistake.

Our boy de ligt got robbed of a goal

 

[jamrock]

Our boy de ligt got robbed of a goal

Those sons of bishes.