Yeah saw that one. Awesome haha.Real draw PSG...perhaps there is a God.
But I think Chelsea often have a better chance against Barca than many other English teams.
clearly he shouldn't have a bottle of milk thrown at his head, but Mourinho is an abnormally sore loser. Should stay out of telling others how to celebrate, especially given his history.
While i agree it was stupid going in city players were going mental screamjng shouting banging walls hell there is photos if the team throwing confetti around the room
Yeah unfortunately that is the situation but you certainly have a fair chance. I think you are a bit of a bogey team for Barca. And that loss against West Ham puts the pressure back on for securing top 4.Yeah, we have held our own against Barca on quite a few occasions. Plus iirc, Lionel Messi still hasn't scored against us in the CL. I sure hope that we can continue that streak.
But I still can't believe how profligate we were against Hammers in the weekend. They had a good defensive organisation but Morata really should have scored from Kante's pass from inside the penalty box in the 2nd half plus he also had a chance to put one past the goalkeeper when he out-jumped a WHU defender after a cross from Zappacosta came in from the right. He didn't even manage to keep it on target and he basically only glanced it and it went wide. Should have at-least tested the goalkeeper from that range. Those misses in the ATM home game (Matchday 6 in CL Group Stage) also proved to be costly as we nao hafta square up against Barca in the Round of 16s whereas we could have faced Shakhtar instead. We hafta put our shooting boots on or Liverpool or Arsenal could leapfrog us to secure the final 2 CL spots.
To be fair, they've just defeated their only competitors, and their fiercest local rivals, at their stadium.
Yeah saw that one. Awesome haha.
Neither team can afford to be knocked out in the last 16, itll be interesting to see ifadrid get out of their funk against PSG or if PSG end up going out against the defending champions. Either outcome will probably have some repercussions for the losing manager.
Yeah unfortunately that is the situation but you certainly have a fair chance. I think you are a bit of a bogey team for Barca.
And that loss against West Ham puts the pressure back on for securing top 4.
clearly he shouldn't have a bottle of milk thrown at his head, but Mourinho is an abnormally sore loser. Should stay out of telling others how to celebrate, especially given his history.
Was that the game where you had 4 penalties turned down? If so it was the biggest refereeing joke I can remember. Arsenal also had one really obviously bent ref against Barca. Unfortunately those episodes and the Barca player's reactions complaining when they lost one foul and diving etc made me think much less of them.Yeah. We tend to raise our game against Barca. While they have won some of the head to head games fairly, we were totally robbed of the chance to take revenge against MUTD back in '09. The officials went to extreme lengths to safeguard UEFALONA. It was a f**king disgrace. Ballack and Drogba lost it during the match and also after the game. Never seen favouritism and partiality in a top European fixture like that before. It was heartbreaking for me. From that day onward, I have hated the sight of Barca players. The revenge in 2012 wasn't enough. I want to see more pain inflicted to Barcelona. It's a useless vendetta but I can't get myself to get over it.
Up till then you were keeping yourself nicely just slightly above the real battle where Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal were fighting over 4th. Now you're going to get properly dragged into it and a double header against Barca might make it tough to win the league fixtures around it. More exciting for neutrals at least.Maybe I'm just being too pessimistic but we have a nice, prolonged run of fixtures throughout the holiday period where we play mid table clubs but we're off to a bad start and that doesn't bode well. We lost 3 crucial points against Wet Ham. Can't afford to let that happen again.
Pretty good draw all round for the English clubs although I doubt all will make it through but still by and large it couldnt have been much better if you could pick. Spurs and Chelsea obviously have the trickiest ties but at this stage there are few mugs left at some point your going to have beat someone decent to progress if you want to win the thing. The Madrid v PSG game is also a massive one, really hard to call that one both pretty similar in a lot of ways, all about attackers and defending is sort of an afterthought. One to watch closely thats for sure.
It could be a huge aggregate score over 2 legs. t:
Reasonable draw in ECL for us (Liverpool), could have been worse, I would expect us over two legs to engineer a win, and given it's a straight race for 2nd or 3rd now in league and FA Cup is such a lottery these days, it's our only real stake at a trophy this season, if we are to win anything. Would prefer a higher league place as poss and an FA cup (which is more achievable) but 3rd and a CL win would be grand, if waaaay tougher.
I'll settle for 2 5-5 draws and then a penalty shoot out.Ha yeah has the potential for that but then that can sometimes lead to major disappointment but lets hope for a goal fest anyway! PSG's front line has got more than enough to damage Madrid after what Spurs did to them but then if Madrid sort themselves out you wouldnt bet against them either.
If it were United that celebrated that way Mourinho would already be under lock and key with several players in the gulags.
I doubt many other managers than Mourinho would make a huge deal about it.
Also, this is the sort of attention Mourinho brings to your club. Same happened at Chelsea. It really shouldn't come as a shock to Utd fans.
Yeah they are meeting too early for whoever goes out. Real' fault for finishing 2nd in their group.
Was that the game where you had 4 penalties turned down? If so it was the biggest refereeing joke I can remember. Arsenal also had one really obviously bent ref against Barca. Unfortunately those episodes and the Barca player's reactions complaining when they lost one foul and diving etc made me think much less of them.