Big games bring incredible pressure, and we've seen a lot of players in the past being wasteful in big games. The fact that Madrid took their chances and had a goal keeper who was able to keep his cool makes them worthy champions.
You have decided to go the completely opposite direction for some reason. They weren’t very poor ffs.Vastly different to 99 in 99 Bayern had some really chances, and really could and should have score more than one.
Liverpool didn't even score a single goal, nevermind, have that many if any overly good chances.
Real Madrid rightly were the better team on the night, and they deserved to win the trophy.
Liverpool were very poor on the night.
You have decided to go the completely opposite direction for some reason. They weren’t very poor ffs.
Please do explain how they were not poor, Real Madrid scored two good goals, one was incorrectly taken away, and Liverpool didn't score even the once, and never looked likely to do so.
So, I fail to see where the positives are for Liverpool from a purely playing perspective.
They did naff all.
It’s even more devastating when you lose a game you should have won easily.Call me old fashioned but every victory should be memorable and devastating for the losers
"What did he say?"
"Something about a job"
I did wonder, but I think it's just coincidence.Is it just me or is that Spanish clown throwing nazi salutes? That's a sure fire way to get punched in the mouth, Liverpool supporters or not.
If that’s your assessment after watching the game then there is no point discussing it with you as your tinted glasses are fecking welded on.
The media bias towards them is absolutely shameless. This has definitely also translated to refereeing decisions and points in recent years.
How the hell can a ‘reputable’ subscription-based magazine print something so blatant and bitter? The narrative of the nation wanting Liverpool to win a quadruple is being relentlessly peddled left right and centre.
If I go on the guardian app there are 6-7 articles about the fans trouble absolving Liverpool and none about the actual game they just got beaten in, deflecting away anything which might show them up as failures.
I turned on national news this morning and you have a fan and even an MP wheeled out to complain about the Parisian authorities and event organisers, then a picture of the bus and gushing over how well behaved they were in Liverpool in their minor trophy parade. Again nothing about the game they just lost.
It’s going to be difficult to try and fight our way back, against the tide of bias running right across the country.
He did enough so that Ancelotti didn't have to raise his eyebrow.I guess curtois' performance was only 'not disappointing' based on this.
He made one wonder save against Salah. Otherwise it would still be 2-1. But keep telling yourselves it was just a freak keeper performance that kept you from greatness.I guess curtois' performance was only 'not disappointing' based on this.
Even that was a "good" save arguably, it wasn't a freak of a save. If it goes in you're saying he could do better.He made one wonder save against Salah. Otherwise it would still be 2-1. But keep telling yourselves it was just a freak keeper performance that kept you from greatness.
Nope, no tinted glasses, no tint at all.
Just plain old commonsense.
Liverpool didn't do anything out of the norm, anything to extend Real Madrid in terms of creating chances that you would feel that a striker should be scoring.
The chances were ones that you would be disappointed in a top goalkeeper not saving.
Real on the other hand, did create multiple chances, and scored two very good goals.
So the evidence shows that it was Real Madrid that played well, controlled the game, and were the better side on the night.
The one on Mané was better. Those 2 were both very good/great saves, but there was nothing unreal about his performance - it was a great one, worthy of the occasion, and that a keeper of his caliber is able to pull off on a relatively regular basis. No doubt he'll become this mythical Lev Yashin like figure in scouseland though, as it fits their narrative, but whatever.Even that was a "good" save arguably, it wasn't a freak of a save. If it goes in you're saying he could do better.
"What did he say?"
"Something about a job"
Multiverse of madnessThey've invented alternative reality
Yeah good luck with this poster, it's like talking to a brick wall.Okay. I’m sorry but the bias against a Liverpool is far too strong for me. Madrid did far better at converting their chances and deserved it but to say Liverpool were very poor and controlled the game is guff.
What a shit article
The Athletic is very good actually. That article is a shower of shit though.The Athletic is a pretty embarrassing publication. Not sure why it has a reputation for anything else.
Absolutely. European royalty versus....Real MadridI think the best bit is the insinuation that Madrid are some plucky upstart who should have just been grateful to have the opportunity to play the mighty Liverpool.
They do have the biggest amount of worthy articles out of any English sporting media that I know of. But they do post some horrendous stuff from time to time and this is arguably the worst of it all.The Athletic is a pretty embarrassing publication. Not sure why it has a reputation for anything else.
Even that was a "good" save arguably, it wasn't a freak of a save. If it goes in you're saying he could do better.
What an odious little cretin this is.
Don’t forget moral victory’s also, they’re the most importantI thought goals win games not a popularity contest
City, PSG and Chelsea fans keep talking about Madrid's luck.
Well here is what Seedorf said about Madrid after the CL semifinal second leg:
"Real Madrid's mentality isn't something created in a year or two, or even ten. It's about coming to a club where you know you're a part of something much greater than yourself."
City, PSG & Chelsea fans need to ask themselves - why do players join us?