Champions League 2018-Round of Two

As a Royalist Fascist bastard I can only congratulate Real Madrid, my second favourite team. But where to start with thatā€¦

Started well but could never keep that tempo up.
Salah going off fucked them up completely, not even his goal threat but the out ball he gives and the movement.
More dark arts from Ramos, the Iron Mike of European football. A warrior, every team needs one. Love him.
Thought Trent and Robertson had good games. Milner played well, Mane the pick of them.
Firminos touch was cat. An unbelievable amout of ball just handed over to Real.
Karius, donā€™t know where to start. All Iā€™ll say is this, if it takes a hundred million of the Coutinho money, they need to get a decent keeper in.
Baleā€™s first goal was unreal. Great intelligence to try a pot shot on Karius as well for the second one.
CR7 did fuck all.
Liverpool had absolutely nothing on the bench, no plan B. Once they didnā€™t score early on there was only one winner.
Bad form to leave Karius on his own but i donā€™t blame them really :slight_smile:

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The one in a million goal that was an exact replica of a goal they scored in the qtr finals

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Salah is a coward

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Iā€™m nodding in agreement here.

Feels very strange looking at Real Madrid here. They rarely look like a team that would go dominate European competition for three consecutive years, but they just seem to always find a way to get over the line. Looked a complete shambles in the second leg against Juventus and were out-played for long spells against Bayern, as well as being miles behind Barcelona domestically yet here they are, lifting that cup yet again.

He must have learnt that at Roma.

ā€œif you exclude bales wonder goal the result would have been betterā€

Niki Quaid is

https://twitter.com/MikLFC/status/997474098589716481?s=19

Good stat spotting

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That was childā€™s play for Madrid after what they had faced in the previous rounds.

Liverpool really went through the competition without facing a genuine contender until Madrid. Has Klopp brought them as far as he can?

The bottom line is playing the type of football Klopp does will only get your so far, itā€™s so frenetic and demanding of the players, in a game of that magnitude against a side like Madrid who possess that quality and ruthlessness.

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Be a long trip home now. :cold_sweat:

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Great day for you and Paul Anthony McDermott.

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Getting messages from Wembley from a clutch of cchas and my father in law. Looks like they had a great day

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Think of poor Jackie Cahill facing into a ten hour drive. I hope tipp get hammered in the hurling to compound the mans misery.

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Yerra, all isnā€™t lost. Ask Robbie Hennelly how it feels.
Heā€™s one useless tosser all the same. I wonder has Eastern European punting expert @Copper_pipe any insight into the maschinations that went onā€¦

This Real Madrid set up and whole club is bizarre. The manager could leave, Ronaldo is basically saying heā€™s going to leave and the man of the match bale is saying he might leave too. All on the back of three champions leagues.

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