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Birdy

Senior Member
Let's get a few things straight from this game:

1) Bayern paddled thoroughly PSG tonight.
Not only 20 something shots against 6, but an xG scoreline of between 3.7 and 4.3 in most models for Bayern and 1.6-1.7 for PSG.
EyZme29W8AgFAHw

And if you specifically look at big chances:
Bayern had 6 huge chances, and many medium ones
PSG had 3 big chances, two medium ones (Mbape's last goal was one of them)

So it means if Lewa was playing instead of that fellow Choupo Moting, and if Navas was not saving for his life tonight, a 5 or 6-3 would have been more likely.

2) I get why Bayern is important to not win another CL and advance further from Barca in the list, while PSG 1 will be insignificant.
BUT I don't get:
- Preferring RM to win another phony one instead of Bayern who at least play an admirable super-attacking football.
- Then ask yourselves has ever Bayern won a CL without being unquestionably the best team in Europe (at least the last 20 or more years)?
No! 2013 and 2020 they were by far the best team in Europe.
Ask the same question for RM, for Chelsea 2012, for Liverpool 2005, and many other examples further in the past

3) The way the brackets are set if PSG eliminates Bayern it will only favor City.
I don't think PSG can eliminate City.
But Bayern can.
Plus, in a possible final vs RM both Bayern and City can annihilate them. PSG, unfortunately, will bottle in such a possible final

EDIT:
Bayern - PSG was the best game of footy this season, and it is only a QF, with City waiting to play against the winner in the SF
while on the other hand the bald shaman Zizou enjoys a depleted Liverpool and then a newbie Chelsea

There should be a way that will make that 'luck of draw' stop once and for all.
 
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Joan

Well-known member
A rare sort, but I like Bayern. And also like to see various 'projects' fail. But these are personal preferences.

Regarding PSG: really admirable team. Mbappe and Navas are carrying them forward.
 

te amo barca

Blaugrana al vent
Let's get a few things straight from this game:

1) Bayern paddled thoroughly PSG tonight.
Not only 20 something shots against 6, but an xG scoreline of between 3.7 and 4.3 in most models for Bayern and 1.6-1.7 for PSG.
EyZme29W8AgFAHw

And if you specifically look at big chances:
Bayern had 6 huge chances, and many medium ones
PSG had 3 big chances, two medium ones (Mbape's last goal was one of them)

So it means if Lewa was playing instead of that fellow Choupo Moting, and if Navas was not saving for his life tonight, a 5 or 6-3 would have been more likely.

2) I get why Bayern is important to not win another CL and advance further from Barca in the list, while PSG 1 will be insignificant.
BUT I don't get:
- Preferring RM to win another phony one instead of Bayern who at least play an admirable super-attacking football.
- Then ask yourselves has ever Bayern won a CL without being unquestionably the best team in Europe (at least the last 20 or more years)?
No! 2013 and 2020 they were by far the best team in Europe.
Ask the same question for RM, for Chelsea 2012, for Liverpool 2005, and many other examples further in the past

3) The way the brackets are set if PSG eliminates Bayern it will only favor City.
I don't think PSG can eliminate City.
But Bayern can.
Plus, in a possible final vs RM both Bayern and City can annihilate them. PSG, unfortunately, will bottle in such a possible final

damn m8 you are busy cartwheeling hard for Bayern :lol:
 

KingLeo10

Senior Member
Birdy, the "football fan"

aka the lad cartwheels for the strongest team in a given season and then lectures others that he has superior football understanding and knowledge

real fucking easy to do that...how about growing a spine and supporting one team through thick and thin.
 

Horatio

You're welcome
You can't fault PSG for that. It is quite a young club, it is normal to be a bit childish. Consider it as some charming and refreshing trait.

Although I prefer Bayern to win it between those two, I agree that it is refreshing to have clubs with different attitudes in the footballing milleu.
 

te amo barca

Blaugrana al vent
Birdy, the "football fan"

aka the lad cartwheels for the strongest team in a given season and then lectures others that he has superior football understanding and knowledge

real fucking easy to do that...how about growing a spine and supporting one team through thick and thin.

Man is a gloryhunter and he doesnt realize that
 

Birdy

Senior Member
real fucking easy to do that...how about growing a spine and supporting one team through thick and thin.

I do: Barca...
That's why I suffer the last many years.

@te amo
Bayern is a team that I traditionally dislike.
I am not blind though -> Since Flick took over they play arguably the best football in Europe (on par or even better than City)
 

cracken

Member
Let's get a few things straight from this game:

1) Bayern paddled thoroughly PSG tonight.
Not only 20 something shots against 6, but an xG scoreline of between 3.7 and 4.3 in most models for Bayern and 1.6-1.7 for PSG.
EyZme29W8AgFAHw

And if you specifically look at big chances:
Bayern had 6 huge chances, and many medium ones
PSG had 3 big chances, two medium ones (Mbape's last goal was one of them)

So it means if Lewa was playing instead of that fellow Choupo Moting, and if Navas was not saving for his life tonight, a 5 or 6-3 would have been more likely.

2) I get why Bayern is important to not win another CL and advance further from Barca in the list, while PSG 1 will be insignificant.
BUT I don't get:
- Preferring RM to win another phony one instead of Bayern who at least play an admirable super-attacking football.
- Then ask yourselves has ever Bayern won a CL without being unquestionably the best team in Europe (at least the last 20 or more years)?
No! 2013 and 2020 they were by far the best team in Europe.
Ask the same question for RM, for Chelsea 2012, for Liverpool 2005, and many other examples further in the past

3) The way the brackets are set if PSG eliminates Bayern it will only favor City.
I don't think PSG can eliminate City.
But Bayern can.
Plus, in a possible final vs RM both Bayern and City can annihilate them. PSG, unfortunately, will bottle in such a possible final

EDIT:
Bayern - PSG was the best game of footy this season, and it is only a QF, with City waiting to play against the winner in the SF
while on the other hand the bald shaman Zizou enjoys a depleted Liverpool and then a newbie Chelsea

There should be a way that will make that 'luck of draw' stop once and for all.

Why are you not accounting for PSG's absentees? you don't think missing the two midfielders who can string a pass together hampered their ability to build counterattacks?

Paredes would've had a field day setting up Mbapp? and Neymar with all the space that Bayern left behind.
 

KingLeo10

Senior Member
I like how City, who've never made it past the QFs under Pep and have been blown out by Spurs, Lyon, and Monaco...would annihilate RM while PSG who made the final last season, just beat Bayern in Germany while missing Verratti, Marquinhos, Icardi, and Paredes are the surefire bottlers...

Outperforming xCW by a landslide.
 

Richard.H

Senior Member
I like how City, who've never made it past the QFs under Pep and have been blown out by Spurs, Lyon, and Monaco...would annihilate RM while PSG who made the final last season, just beat Bayern in Germany while missing Verratti, Marquinhos, Icardi, and Paredes are the surefire bottlers...

Outperforming xCW by a landslide.

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