2023-24 UEFA Champions League

Bloody hell, could easily be 2-1 to Inter just in extra time alone! Plenty of chances cropping up.

All the sh*thousery and cynical fouling going on makes we want neither teams to win

Not to put too fine a point on it, buy I'd be surprised if this is the last of this incident. Nowadays, is it acceptable to fondle another persons genitalia like that?? Sexual assault in any other environment, hardly acceptable just because it's in a stadium surely??

He's clearly a terrific striker - but really does seem to have a mental block on the big occasions. Reminds me a lot of his buddy and former strike-partner Lukaku. Both had horrendous world cups for their countries missing a tonne of big chances, both missed big penalties in European shootouts this season (Lukaku got lucky that Roma beat Feyenoord regardless), and neither stepped up in the CL final last year when it really mattered. Their respective records on the big occasions are really poor, even in their most barnstorming of seasons.

Basically both flat track bullies who will be great across a league season and score plenty of goals against fodder, but will go missing at the sharp end of things. There's still value in that, as long as you know what you're getting.

What a stupid post. kiwior and Jorginho have been playing in the last few league games where Arsenal have been hammering teams in the league. Suddenly you suggest it's "cautious" to be playing them. Nonsense

I absolutely disagree they were conservative selections although I dont think Arsenal played well on the night and Porto stifled them very well.

Kiwior plays left back which means White inverts as opposed to Zinchenko inverting when he plays.

Jorghino playing offers control and allows Rice freedom to play much further forward.

its not much different to what you might consider a more attacking lineup.

Read the other day that next years CL draw is so complicated that uefa says it has to be done with a computer.

To do it manually like the usual way, would take 4 or 4 hours.

So I guess the ties will just be churned out of a pc? So not open to fixing!

If it was an open draw, it wouldn't.

Not excusing him from missing it at all, just thought it was an interesting observation was all.

tbh a computer program is probably less open to fixing than a manual draw. There's a load of ways a human draw can be rigged, whereas a computer program produced draw is done with software that can be verified before and after to ensure its programming is legit. Anything untoward will still be there for all to see after the fact, whereas heated or cooled balls or any of that sort of carry on is harder to show later.

I'd fancy them to beat Dortmund and give them a decent shout against Barcelona and PSG but that's as far as I'd go. Seventh favourite seems about right to me...

That Atleti shout wasn't a bad one now. Could see them in the final.

Other half of draw very tough.

And whadya know

I'm on Griezman e/w for competition top scorer so apparently somebody up there likes me...