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Champions League 16/17

QuincyAbeyie

jones wrote:
Claudius wrote:
I love Johnny-come lately Barca fanboys. They've all been annoyed as hell that Ronaldo did what he did yesterday and they're facing elimination tonight. Hope Allegri does them in and ends their corrupt regime.

Funny that you mention Juventus and Real because they are two of the very few clubs who are even bigger bribing cunts than Barca

The irony in hoping that Juventus will end Barca's corrupt regime is almost too much. 😆

Anzac

UEFA CL is a farce this year.
RM last night,
Barca v PSG,
and the decision to go ahead with BVB v Monaco only 24 hours later,
and that's without counting the annual R16 farce from AFC.

jones

Real were the better team over both legs. Barcelona deserved going through as well given PSG's complete collapse

Dortmund shouldn't have played but it was their piece of shit CEO who said they could. Bar our embarrassing showing I can't complain too much, couple of great games and turnarounds and fucking Bayern are fucking out

Clrnc

Anzac has a point. The refereeing last night was shambolic and if Barca wasn't given that many goals, when would the PSG collapse happen? It won't.

goon

It's made for some thoroughly entertaining games though. The Monaco games have been great too.

It's a shame Atletico have gotten this far. The novelty has worn off and now they're just massive dullards.

Ricky1985

Yeah, Atletico are going to make one of the semi finals incredibly boring to watch.

Tony Montana

Ricky1985 wrote:
Yeah, Atletico are going to make one of the semi finals incredibly boring to watch.

Atletico v Monaco would be fun.

Swashbuckling v stalwart.

Shady

I'm sick of the arrogance and cheating of Bayern, Barca and Real. Thankfully it looks like that domination is about to be broken up. Just need someone to do a job on R.Madrid and we're good.

Mirth

I love how it's only been over a decade since they were relegated for match fixing and Juventus are some how seen as the 'nice guys' who don't 'cheat'. 😆

Claudius

Watching Dortmund. Which games are you guys doing?

Claudius

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
jones wrote:
Funny that you mention Juventus and Real because they are two of the very few clubs who are even bigger bribing cunts than Barca

The irony in hoping that Juventus will end Barca's corrupt regime is almost too much. 😆

There is a massive difference. Juve are accepted as cheats and have been punished sufficiently for their sins.
Barca, on the other hand, have pulled the wool over a lot of casual fans eyes with this 'more than a club' branding and tippy-tappy football, while underneath it all they are riddled with scandal.

Claudius

Mbappe has 23 goals in 50 senior games. WTF. 17 in his last 16 (or thereabouts). Just WTF is this guy?

arsedocmd

mbappe scoring again.

Klaus

Claudius wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
The irony in hoping that Juventus will end Barca's corrupt regime is almost too much. 😆

There is a massive difference. Juve are accepted as cheats and have been punished sufficiently for their sins.
Barca, on the other hand, have pulled the wool over a lot of casual fans eyes with this 'more than a club' branding and tippy-tappy football, while underneath it all they are riddled with scandal.

There are some nuances between the top clubs but they all come in the same colour. Mirth is right - it's a bit rich thinking Juventus will save Champions League by showing that being corrupt to the bone has absolutely zero repercussions in the larger perspective.

Thinking that European football has gone stale because everyone's doing the same thing is a valid thing though. Juve are tactically different from both the Spaniards and Bayern. I think it'd be a good thing for Europe at large if we got some diversity back.

Claudius

Dortmund tie is over. Mbappe, then Falcao. The number of goals these two guys score together is ridiculous

MistaT

Monaco's second goal was just beautiful.

Playing great stuff, and as a neutral it's great to see a team succeeding with a young star alongside Falcao (who I had written off as being done just a year ago)

Rex

Watching the Juve v Barcelona game. High quality football two days in a row now. It will be doubly depressing seeing the contrast this weekend when we play.

Mirth

Claudius wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
The irony in hoping that Juventus will end Barca's corrupt regime is almost too much. 😆

There is a massive difference. Juve are accepted as cheats and have been punished sufficiently for their sins.
Barca, on the other hand, have pulled the wool over a lot of casual fans eyes with this 'more than a club' branding and tippy-tappy football, while underneath it all they are riddled with scandal.

They were punished but that league has had to suffer a lot because of their actions which I don't believe they've sufficiently atoned for - and neither do a lot of Italian football fans. I think playing the moral high ground for any of the top clubs is a fool's errand. I want Juventus/Dortmund/Monacco to go further than Bayern/Real/Barcelona because it's more interesting viewing, it's cringeworthy to suggest it's in someway connected to a moral victory.

arsedocmd

at least barca have a principle on the pitch and aim for entertaining attacking football always. I don't understand this dislike towards barca against the other big clubs, especially when there's real madrid right around the corner.

goon

Watching Dortmund against Monaco has put me off the idea of Tuchel taking charge here. They've looked dire going forward and flakey as fuck at the back.

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