Champions League - Matchday 1

You’d want your head examined to have gone to that.

Fairly shite obviously. Thought Brown was good, Sinclair started well. De Vries looks dreadful. Offside trap tactic was suicide.

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He was okay but it was men against bhoys. :cry:

Arsenal dodged some bullets tonight, nice to get a result in that type of game for a change.

Didn’t even bother tuning into that paddling last night. It was inevitable.

We needed a central midfielder (or two) in that transfer window and got none. Instead they ended up with a right back signed before the deadline in there.

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The champions league is pleasant viewing this year . Liverpool and Man Utd not in it and Celtic getting pumped . The three branches of British sporting imperialism in Ireland .

That UEFA formation was wrong, pal. Gamboa played right back in a 5-4-1. Brown and Bitton were overrun in the middle with Roberts and Sinclair on the flanks. The back 5 were dragged all over the place but we needed another body in central midfield. De Vries was muck too - 7 goals from 9 shots on target.

No panic bhoys. The munchies games were always going to be a europa league shootout. Keep the faith

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Saw the goals just there.

Words cannot do justice to how bad a keeper De Vries is. He should have saved about 5 of them. He is flat footed and a pussy.

The first Messi goal was shocking, he should have been standing up to it. The free should have been a routine save, he let Suarez take a ball down inside the six yard box and volley it home.

Fucking hell. If we had a decent keeper we would probably have came out with a respectable 3-0 defeat.

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Bitton not tracking Messi for the second goal was unforgiveable. My patience is wearing thin with him

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the kraut will fcuking humiliate the jock no marks mate . Twill be carnage .

‘Fucking’

Juve have been class.

Lovely free kick from Mahrez.

Great start from Leicester.

Real Madrid losing at home to Sporting 1-0.

Kuuuuun.

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Just tuned into a live stream of Real Madrid v Sporting Lisbon.

Martin Tyler is commentating over a telephone line. :clap:

This competition has been on the wane for year but it’s turning into a complete irrelevance at this stage.

Time to return to straight knockout.

The Europa League is a far superior competition.

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Doesn’t get interesting until February…far too many shite teams in it.

Shit is a bit harsh but the gap between the big teams and the smaller ones is huge now. Most of the teams playing each other have a player that cost more than the opposing side’s first XI.

It probably is harsh, but picking the qualifying 16 or even 8 teams is far too academic.

The group stage is a joke-shop.