Champions League 2021/22 - Another Magic night in Madrid from the Kings of Europe

[the_man_himself]

Ajax gone. Bit annoying

[Ralphie]

Man City will 100% draw Benfica

[Aertel220]

Be great for Liverpool to draw Benfica after the turn their U23 team did for us in the build up to the 2019 Champions League Final. A mighty sound gesture at the time.

[FlakeAway]

And payback for 06 at the same time.

[Aertel220]

Simao and Luisao bring back bad memories. Simao seemed to be linked to Liverpool for years but never made the move.

[Iggy]

Andrew Beasley 💙

[Aertel220]

Adel Taraabt playing for Benfica? Neil Warnock will be a proud man watching him in the Champions League round of 8.

[Mac]

Good for Atletico to knock out a team with Ronaldo in it #smallvictories

[Cheasty]

David Moyes and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer succeeded where Alex Ferguson, Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho and Ralf Rangnick failed.

[Ashman]

Solskjaer beat PSG so an asterisk

[Cheasty]

Football isn’t that hard to understand.

@Cheasty

In the battle between systems and individuals, systems will nearly always win. If you have a gifted individual who doesn’t work, a Messi or Ronaldo, you’d want to make damn sure you have a team and a system which does the work to compensate. And I don’t think Manchester United, or PSG for that matter, have that at all.

@Cheasty

Poch has even bigger structural problems to navigate past than Solskjaer. A forward line of Messi, Mbappe and Neymar is pure poison in terms of trying to implement a system. And Poch is a systems manager. I think PSG will ruin Poch. It’s no wonder he wanted out of there in the summer.

What Manchester United have is a huge squad with huge quality. But they have no system, a weak manager and huge, untouchable egos.

[Raylan]

Morata with a back-post header straight at the keeper. Villareal had probably dominated possession up to this spell

[StoneCold]

Chelsea scum should all be carded for that gamesmanship.

Also how did Jorginho not see a card there. A clear case of arm to ball

[Cheasty]

It feels very zeitgeisty that Chelsea should crash out tonight.

[Raylan]

Villareal content to kill the clock and try and catch Juve with counters. Lo Celso has looked most likely to create something for them. Good contest so far

[StoneCold]

Humble pie for Gerry Armstrong after slating Pulisic’s performance 2 minutes ago

[Raylan]

Penno Villareal surely

VAR awarded

[Raylan]

Szczeny should have stopped that

[Raylan]

Juve definitely going out now

[Raylan]

Another penno for the Submarines

3-0, 4-1 on aggregate