The Football.....

[Lonestar]

Yeah I agree with that was surprised how good MC were.I put a lump on them to win the league last season.I was a season out.Stopped betting now.

 

[ianrauk]

Juventus v Tottenham
FC Basel v Man City
Porto v Liverpool
Sevilla v Man Utd
Real Madrid v PSG
Shakhtar Donetsk v Roma
Chelsea V Barcelona
Bayern Munich v Besiktas

 

[ianrauk]

Barcelona do not like playing Chelsea so am happy with that.

The Real Madrid/PSG, both those I can imagine not happy. Hopefully should be a peach of a match.
Good draws for Citeh and Liverpool.
Juventus should see off Spurs
Man United should see off Sevilla

 

[ozboz]

Klopps decision to take Salah off was a strange one , There was no talk of any injury or whatever,
Maureen blamed the ref last time we beat them also , City were poor finishing in this game ,jI did wince a little when Zlatan came on , but looking at the bit he did I'd say he was not 100% ,I watched it in packed a pub in Twickenham , only 3 city fans , was some interesting banter !!

 

[AndyRM]

UK teams in Europa

Celtic v Zenit St Petersburg
Ostersunds v Arsenal

Good draw for Arsenal, less so for Celtic.

 

[ianrauk]

Was just checking out Chelsea-Barcelona CL head to head.
And it's pretty good in Chelsea's favour. Messi never scoring against the Blues.

05 Apr 2000 Chelsea v Barcelona W 3-1 UEFA Champions League
18 Apr 2000 Barcelona v Chelsea L 5-1 UEFA Champions League
23 Feb 2005 Barcelona v Chelsea L 2-1 UEFA Champions League
08 Mar 2005 Chelsea v Barcelona W 4-2 UEFA Champions League
22 Feb 2006 Chelsea v Barcelona L 1-2 UEFA Champions League
07 Mar 2006 Barcelona v Chelsea D 1-1 UEFA Champions League
18 Oct 2006 Chelsea v Barcelona W 1-0 UEFA Champions League
31 Oct 2006 Barcelona v Chelsea D 2-2 UEFA Champions League
28 Apr 2009 Barcelona v Chelsea D 0-0 UEFA Champions League
06 May 2009 Chelsea v Barcelona D 1-1 UEFA Champions League
18 Apr 2012 Chelsea v Barcelona W 1-0 UEFA Champions League
24 Apr 2012 Barcelona v Chelsea D 2-2 UEFA Champions League

 

[Dave7]

Yes, I saw that too, he came across as the football manging equivalent of David Brent.

It's all very well being passionate and emotional, but claiming things like Sigurddsson should have had a red card for his foul on Henderson (it was a harsh yellow in my admittedly biased opinion), getting so vehement about the penalty in the face of so many people's opposing views in the same room, then saying things like, "It's not fair", have about as much credibility as my tongue in cheek statement that Everton were robbed. Liverpool should have won, but they only have themselves to blame, not the ref.

As a red..........that was a very very soft penalty. BUT Lovren asked for it. He should never have given the defender that opportunity and to be fair to the defender, he took that opportunity well.
Klop IMO should have played the strongest side from the KO then made subs if/when we were 3 nil up. Cannot understand his thinking on that.

 

[ianrauk]

UK teams in Europa

Celtic v Zenit St Petersburg
Ostersunds v Arsenal

Good draw for Arsenal, less so for Celtic.

Ostersund are managed by an English chap iirc

 

[AndyRM]

Ostersund are managed by an English chap iirc

Yep, Graham Potter. The Beeb had a good article about him recently. Some job he's doing!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41902664

 

[J1888]

UK teams in Europa

Celtic v Zenit St Petersburg
Ostersunds v Arsenal

Good draw for Arsenal, less so for Celtic.

Rather them than Arsenal!

Still though, I read somewhere that they'd spent 70m Euros in the last transfer window, so I reckon they'll be pretty good

 

[Roadhump]

As a red..........that was a very very soft penalty. BUT Lovren asked for it. He should never have given the defender that opportunity and to be fair to the defender, he took that opportunity well.
Klop IMO should have played the strongest side from the KO then made subs if/when we were 3 nil up. Cannot understand his thinking on that.

I can understand your frustration, in your position I would be livid with Lovren.

BUT Lovren asked for it. He should never have given the defender that opportunity and to be fair to the defender, he took that opportunity well.

Sorry to nitpick, but Calvert Lewin is a striker. You could be forgiven for not realising that given his goal scoring record though, but he has been playing in a struggling side and if EFC's form improves I wouldn't be surprised if his goal scoring record does too, he looks a promising young prospect..

Klop IMO should have played the strongest side from the KO then made subs if/when we were 3 nil up. Cannot understand his thinking on that.

Neither can I. However, Liverpool may well have battered Everton if they had played the "Fab 4" from kick off, but who knows? With the amount of possession, they should have done so anyway, and even with the team Klopp put out, few (including me) would have been surprised if they had done. However, it's a funny old game and even though Everton defended stoutly and Pickford didn't have much to do, they played very poorly and were woeful in possession, as we got a 1-1 draw playing so badly, it makes me think Liverpool were lucky to catch us on a bad day

 

[ianrauk]

Burnley win tonight and they go 4th. And for the time being above Spurtz, Liverpool and the Arse.

 

[ozboz]

Burnley win tonight and they go 4th. And for the time being above Spurtz, Liverpool and the Arse.

Good win !
There's a young woman goes in one of the Locals around Richmond Center , she will be over the moon with that !

 

[Inertia]

Burnley win tonight and they go 4th. And for the time being above Spurtz, Liverpool and the Arse.

The receptionist in work will give me some stick in work tomorrow but I'm happy for her

 

[Lonestar]

As a red..........that was a very very soft penalty. BUT Lovren asked for it. He should never have given the defender that opportunity and to be fair to the defender, he took that opportunity well.
Klop IMO should have played the strongest side from the KO then made subs if/when we were 3 nil up. Cannot understand his thinking on that.

(Klopp)

Liverpool had 23 attempts and missed 20 of them.Everton with 3 and 2 on target.There's always a chance in a game that one goal not being enough anyway.

79%/21% Lovren is easily the scapegoat.