Great Atletico vs Barca second leg btw.
DOGSO red cards in both legs. Live by the high line die by the high line.
Damn!
sigh…
Damn!
(I had hoped for a long and grueling campaign in the Champions League to degrade Lamine Yamal’s performance in the World Cup, now that falls on Julian Alvarez, Thiago Almada, Gio Simeone and the rest of the Argentinians in Atletico, well at least Griezmann is there too, and Dembele in PSG)
Barca’s system is just insane. Crazy high line with not particularly athletic CBs; it’s wild they’re as good as they are.
Well, a big trophy like the CL title can be a big booster and motivation for individual players for a WC tournament, despite the physical effort. So what do you prefer? Disappointed and demoralized players with some fewer games played or those with the confidence of having won a great title? It’s still in the cards for Atletico.
The problem is that the most likely result is exhausted, disappointed and demoralized players because they’ll probably lose the final.
Bayern goes from 2-1 on the first leg to 6-4 on aggregate, with two goals in 89’+. The match started with Neuer trying to pooch a ball at 40 seconds and having it come back for a goal, and rumbled on from there.
So glad to be through.
What do you think are their chances against PSG? I think this season, it’s a 50-50 game.
I haven’t watched PSG enough to know. But the more open the game, the better Bayern’s odds (in my opinion).
It will be an open game, I guess. Both teams are not known for parking the bus. Probably there’ll be many goals, again.
Even as an Arsenal fan I’m not looking forward to Atletico v Arsenal. There will not be a lot of goals.
Yeah, I also expect a rather tactical game there, not a spectacle like Bayern-Real or probably Bayern-PSG.
Historical event: at the moment, Marie-Louise Eta leads her first game as the first female head coach ever not only in the Bundesliga, but in all five big European leagues, for Union Berlin.
(and of course she and the club got hate mail and posts after this was announced 
)
To be precise, she is Union Berlin’s former Under-19 coach, was appointed interim manager last week after Steffen Baumgart’s dismissal and will lead Union Berlin until the end of the season before transitioning to the women’s side. She is
to coach a men’s side and began her tenure with a loss against VfL Wolfsburg, the club sponsored by Volkswagen. I wish her more luck in future games. They are currently placed 11th, six points clear of the relegation. The bottom of the table is awfully close.
You are a Mönchengladbach supporter, right? Good luck against Mainz tomorrow, otherwise it looks like trouble. But if you win you could jump five or six places up! That’s how close together the teams currently are.
Yeah, that was implied.
Yes, VfL Borussia is my club, that’s why I was doubly disappointed about Union’s defeat, first because I had wished Eta a better start, and second because Wolfsburg are one of our closest rivals in the battle about relegation. If we win tomorrow, it will have been a good match day, but if we lose, a horrible one.
Reminds me of Lionel Scaloni, now she only needs Lothar Matthäus to say she can’t direct traffic, let alone a club and the win the Champions League.
Arsenal and Tottenham looking ever closer to their respective dreaded fates.
Gunners in real danger of bottling yet another title chance, and Spurs looking just as relegate-able as ever.
I dare not ask what a draw after a last minute penalty kick awarded against you feels like. Köln, Mönchengladbach, Hamburg and Bremen, places 12 to 15 in the table, all have 31 points, five clear of St. Pauli, 16th, in relegation with 26 points.
BTW: Hamburg, Cologne (Köln) and Hamburg used to be real Bundesliga heavyweights. Bremen perhaps not so much, but still some history and tradition. And look where they are now.
Hey! This is my second team you’re talking about, and they are only in relegation playoff. I have every confidence they can defeat whoever’s in BL2 position three.