I've seen the Mascherano replay a few times and it doesn't look like he even touches him, let alone "hacks him down".
Edit: I've just watched it in .25 on YouTube, Di Maria shoots with his left foot and then after he shoots Mascherano maybe gets a slight touch on Di Maria's right foot. 100% not a penalty.
Still coming to grips with the result :done
Dybala > Neymar :banderas
Marca's "0% chance of Barca turning the tie around" :banderas
Raul saying "Only Madrid are capable of comebacks like that" :banderas
Veratti apparently having less touches than MATS despite 91% of the game being played in mid pitch / PSG's final third :banderas
Pointless quoting me on that til United are out. Losing to a team in Turkey isn't particularly something I'm arsed about, the performance wasn't great but I can't say I'm surprised. Fenerbache counter attacked well but spent most of their time kicking us and diving about, happy to have this fixture out of the way.
Notice none of this garbage posting happens with any other team, even before Mou joined United always copped shit. Seb posts more about United than Barcelona and we have the most negative fans on here in the history of the universe (that includes me occasionally), it's just embarrassing all round really.
Once again, there's still two games left, United aren't out. We won't be the last team to lose a game in a hostile atmosphere to a counter attacking team with everyone behind the ball. It also won't be the last game where we dominate the ball but do nothing with it, that's the only negative from this game.
We'll win our last two games. You'll see. You'll all see....
Notice none of this garbage posting happens with any other team, even before Mou joined United always copped shit. Seb posts more about United than Barcelona and we have the most negative fans on here in the history of the universe (that includes me occasionally), it's just embarrassing all round really.
I doubt anyone on here watches Barcelona regularly except Goku, much less talks about them, especially with Fitbabox slowly dying. What would be the point in posting about them when no-one would even read it? My time is much better spent laughing at Mourinho's failings ique2
Poch with with that starting line up, trying to rotate for the league...
That was Brendan Rodgers in 2014 levels of a pathetic approach to the champions league. Mind you he has form for this, as we saw in the Europa league last season and with Saints in cup competitions.
That narrow formation he's using at the moment really is the shits. Doesn't help when the players don't press (which should be a benefit of rotation). Needs to stop lining Spurs up like that.
Rose and Dembele at the kick off for the second Monaco goal :woytf Professionalism/10. The team defending for that goal was generally pathetic and it wasn't the only example in the game. Lloris saved Spurs from a hiding.
Are Spurs going to be playing their Europa League games at Wembley? Because that would be utterly hilarious. Even seeing them tuck their tails between their legs and trot off back to WHL would be great tbf :bosque
LEICESTER by comparison have had a completely different attitude... through as winners of the group! Yeah it's a relatively poor group but it's still impressive in their debut CL campaign. First time they conceded in the competition tonight too.
I honestly believe they're giving this competition everything while just doing the bare minimum to get by in the league. The contrasting results/effort/performances suggest as much. Can't say I blame them either. There's no guarantee they will ever qualify for this competition again, whereas they've won the premier league and that's as good as it's ever going to get for them in domestic league competition. Just doing enough to finish lower mid-table would be fine if they can have a real crack at going deep in Europe, as much of an :silverc as that might be.
They can concentrate on trying to finish top six, or winning a domestic cup, in future seasons when that's a fair priority. It only becomes an issue if they look in serious relegation trouble, but there are so many poor teams in the prem that they can have a bad season and still stay up. Good luck to them, I hope they can get a plum draw in the next round.
At the start of the season I think every Utd fan would have taken two cup wins and Champions League Football. Granted most would assume that means a top 4 finish but I'll take it. Don't think we were as far off City and Liverpool as the table suggests. Obviously not good enough to get top 4 but I don't think Liverpool played far better than us this season. We're good enough to be competing with them teams whereas under Van Gaal we were lucky just to be finishing 5th and there was never any hope of improvement. That's the key takeaway. Hope. We underperformed in terms of results but in terms of performances we were just some half decent finishing away from being 3rd/4th.
Great defensive performance on the night. Back 4 were all impeccable. Smalling's been trash this season but he was intercepting everything tonight. Darmian probably had his best game for us. Pogba and Henry Mike were both horrible and because of that Rashford never got a look in. Dying at everyone on crutches and Zlatan hobbling around getting mad at prople ruining his pictures. The 3 trophies thing is a bit embarassing but anything that motivates the players I suppose.
I would disagree with the 3 trophies thing, we had the chance to win 5 and won 3 of them, no shame in showing that. As long as we don't call it a treble like that plastic Liverpool one then I'm fine.
Great set of ties there, very exciting. Shame the 6PM & 8PM start times don't kick in til next year.
Atletico vs Leicester - Should be straightforward for Atletico. They're always very hard to beat over two legs. Griezmann and Gameiro are both in boss mode right now as well. Dream draw for them. Leicester were lucky to avoid Barca, Bayern and Madrid as they would have all put 4 or 5 past them at home but it's still a bad draw for them. Winning this tie would be a monumental achievement for Leicester.
Dortmund vs Monaco - Should be a shit ton of goals in this tie and a real shame it's going to clash with one of the below two ties. I fancy Dortmund as they have the better players and will exploit Monaco's defence, and they've already shown more than Monaco anyway in this competition by topping Real Madrid's group.
Bayern Vs Madrid - Madrid have been shaky for a while and Bayern are simply a better team. Thiago and Lewandowski are both in supreme form recently and I expect goals from both in this tie. Glorious to see Madrid get this draw after year's of strolls to the semi finals. If they win this tie Zidane deserves enormous credit as like Jet I have Bayern as firm favourites for winning this tournament.
Juventus Vs Barcelona - Like the other two Spanish teams Barca have dropped a level this season and although they have the second leg at home (100% win rate under Lucho at home in the CL), I think Juve's defence will be too much over two legs, even for MSN. Juve do have the king of bottlejobs up front though so if they can get a goal in Italy then it will be a very close tie, but I think Juve edges this. They and Bayern are the favourites for me and the two teams I wanted to avoid.
Yeah that's right I have all 4 teams with the home/away disadvantage going through :hmm:
Would be interested to see who everyone else has going through.
Bunch of B-tier Europa League ties (especially when the best teams all avoided each other) can fuck off after this JUICY draw.
Juventus are a far better team than Barca at the moment and they deserved the convincing scoreline. They're the best team i've seen Barca play against this season.
Dybala, Pjanic, Sandro, Buffon all fantastic.
They were a bit lucky that Barca didn't get an away goal though which would've kept the tie very open - Suarez and Iniesta both fucked up glorious chances off of Messi's brilliance - bar him and ter Stegen (faultless on the goals) the whole Barca team was dreadful.
Filthy fucking team Juve are though, they were kicking lumps out of Barca particularly in the first half - hope they don't go all the way, rooting for Bayern now.
In the currant climate of high definition everything, what the fuck are those pictures? It's like someone has tried filling the picture on Paint but just ended up with random dots.
xG stands for expected goals. This is calculated based purely on shots taken. The dots are the spots where the shots were taken. Each shot is given a score between 0 and 1 based on the likelihood of scoring. Probability of scoring is assigned by tabulating historical data.
Central close zones will have higher probabilities. Probabilities also decrease with the number of defenders between the shot and goal. Light pink dots are scored goals while the other two colours represent the jersey colours of the teams (usually).
This isn't a sure-fired way to calculate chances of victory. Normalized xG is often used to track league performance by bookies and analysts, but that doesn't become available quickly enough so I posted these.
pulled these off of here. He usually has rough xG's up the fastest. Take a glance through the rest of the ucl games from this week if interested.
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