Where the hell did this Monaco team arise from? They've actually got some tidy players.
Champions League Round of 16 (14th Feb - 15th Mar)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
They've been around for a few seasons now, they knocked out Arsenal in 2015.
Remember when the Champions league was full of quality teams that would lock horns and shut each other out over two legs?
Bayern's decimation of Barca followed by Real's decimation of Bayern a rat later was a tactical watershed in Europe.
It does matter that he is behind Aguero, you can only be offside if you're ahead of the player making the pass.
Have you only just started watching football?
I knew they were building over the years but I guess they were always in PSG's shadow and a bit away from making a mark in Europe again.
They are great to watch.
Think both sides, whichever goes through, exit tournament at next round anyway. Neither can defend for toffee, and john stones is an embarrassing example of a CB
Have any of the Bluemoon tarts called the ref a rag yet? Or had a moan and whinge about various pundits not agreeing with them? I still cannot get my head round the fact that the users over there are grown adults. Behaving like petty kids, unreal
Have any of the Bluemoon tarts called the ref a rag yet? Or had a moan and whinge about various pundits not agreeing with them? I still cannot get my head round the fact that the users over there are grown adults. Behaving like petty kids, unreal
Well you will wondered it very well then, to the point I thought you were serious.
Embarrassing !
Re read the rules
That was my mistake, obviously needed to brush up on my reading
Then there's these two
I think Monaco have blown it. I can't see them winning by two clear goals. City on that showing, will be out in the next round.
Monaco will score out there, so will City. I cant call it at 5-3... 3-3 id have absolutely fancied Monaco. I could see both sides going through, and then out at the next round
Yeah that's my goof
Defo. City are a level below Juventus, Bayern, Madrid. PSG i dont think will win it either. Bayern v Real or Juve for me in final
Agreed. At 2-3 they had a chance, but they just imploded.
Sorry but it is basics.That was my mistake, obviously needed to brush up on my reading
Then there's these two
It's like asking why a boxer doesn't just knee him in the balls.
At 4-3 you would fancy them but the balance of power is with City now.
I have tried, but i just do not rate Sterling either, said it before. I just think hes meh. If i was Pep id be replacing him in the summer, if i could get a world class winger, in a heartbeat
Like I said, it was completely my mistake for forgetting one of the nuances of the rule, I wasn't taking issue with that. It's unnecessarily cnuty responses that made me laugh
The only reason I mentioned it is because a ref screwed me for that very reason in a game a few weeks ago, and he was adamant I was in the wrong. Turns out I shouldn't have believed him after all!
Manchester City. Entertaining Europe.
That could have gone either way, but in the end fitness played its part. Monaco looked absolutely goosed in the last 20 minutes and it cost them a great result. I just read somebody talking about the pace of Monaco and using it as a slant against the power we talk about in the premier league, but it's the physicallity of the PL that makes it different, and I thought the difference in fitness levels were evident after an end to end game.
Oh fecking hell, just seen the result on the news, fair ruined my evening. Bunch of fecking cnuts
Let's do away with defenders, make football 7-a-side and just have games like that all the time.
Ridiculous from both sides and the referee. I need a lie down.
Ridiculous from both sides and the referee. I need a lie down.
Well Stones certainly is...
Tbf someone did bite an ear.About time, tbf. You lot were stinking up the joint pre-Pep, especially last season's dull run to the semis.
Entertaining all right. But maybe not in the sense you mean it.
Last thing I'd do as Pep is sell Sterling. Sane and Sterling have both been excellent, and at 21 and 22, will likely stay on the flanks during Peps entire tenure.
That ref was a total tit. He loved getting in the players
'S faces and booking them.
Pretty much this. I hope we don't see too many games like that even though it is entertaining if it happens from time to time. I do like to see goals but if I watch CL knockout games I'd like to see more quality than this. It's a bit embarassing to watch.
As an Italian I am pretty a limited football brain and only can see 0-0 1-0 1-1 ... what happened?
Easy to forget how young and inexperienced this Monaco team is. Most of them should learn from this. However I was really disappointed by Sidibe, thought he'd do a bit better than that.
Monaco fitness levels are really good for Frances's league but not against a PL top team, they collapsed at the endAs an Italian I am pretty a limited football brain and only can see 0-0 1-0 1-1 ... what happened?
Yeah, I was saying to my Dad that a lot of them are under 25 in that side and haven't got much CL experience, their heads went after City's 4th. Sidibie was fine in attack but was playing like he was on ice defensively at times.
As an Italian I am pretty a limited football brain and only can see 0-0 1-0 1-1 ... what happened?
Surely, it is against the rules to score more than two goals!
Just saw the second half unfortunately and it looked like one of his worst games I've seen.
Raheem's a funny sort of player. He's not as bad as some would have you believe and he's having a great season but he's far from being the finished article.
Take tonight: he gets in the right position for his goal and stays onside when it was very hard to do so, fantastic; plays that great ball through to Aguero for the second, a constant threat when he has the ball. His stats speak for themselves as well - that's 9 goals and 14 assists in 33 appearances.
But in little moments you still see the work he has to do to truly reach his potential. He can't strike it that well yet and probably never will, he can't trap a ball if it's coming at him in the air or at any sort of speed, and every once in a while when he needs to flick it on or just keep it tight it'll bobble away from him and he'll lose it.
But the fact is he's 22 and has more than enough time to correct these sorts of mistakes. The same goes for Stones who looked a little lost tonight at times, but he's also a young lad playing in the biggest game of his life (his first CL knockout tie remember). Only time will tell with either of them but Sterling's certainly showing promise right now.
Yeah, of the two fullback's on show Mendy outshone him considerably.
Stones is one you should replace though. I think, albeit the player rejected it, you would have been more solid with Laporte. Tonight was another in a long line of your fans not happy with Stones, and the money paid. I think if hed cost say 10-15m, it wouldn't appear so bad.