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***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19

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Brilliant.

I'd there was any justice in the world, those jammy bastards Madrid wouldn't come anywhere near a CL for at least a couple of decades after all the luck they've had over the past few years.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
Solari looking like a really dud appointment.

Not that a better coach would have necessarily had them performing at world-beater level, but he's absolutely brought nothing new to the table, tactically or otherwise. Already everything looks very stale. And that's before you broach the topic of the fact that he's basically gone to war with several major players.
 

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It's a bit baffling how they've managed to rack up 4 CLs in 5 years, while being relatively ordinary in league play for long stretches.
 

sledger

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It's a bit baffling how they've managed to rack up 4 CLs in 5 years, while being relatively ordinary in league play for long stretches.
Well, having an elite ATG player at his absolute peak who relished big matches and scored 50+ goals a season probably explains a lot of it.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Solari looking like a really dud appointment.

Not that a better coach would have necessarily had them performing at world-beater level, but he's absolutely brought nothing new to the table, tactically or otherwise. Already everything looks very stale. And that's before you broach the topic of the fact that he's basically gone to war with several major players.
Stale has been the perfect word to describe Real Madrid for years. Ronaldo turning on God mode for Champions League knockout games has papered over an awful lot of cracks.

Their lack of really big signings in recent years has been mystifying, 10-15 years ago they would have stopped at nothing to make Mbappe a Real Madrid player, for example.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
Well, having an elite ATG player at his absolute peak who relished big matches and scored 50+ goals a season probably explains a lot of it.
Having referees in their pocket has helped. There's been so many bad decisions in knockout games over the years that have coincidentally almost all gone their way.

You could see it last night with the VAR review for the 3rd goal, the assistant was desperate to find anything to justify disallowing the goal.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
If you like omens, this is now the 3rd time Ajax have beaten Real Madrid at the Bernabeau in the Champions Cup/Champions League. Previous occasions were 1973 and 1995 - Ajax won the competition in both years.
 

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Stale has been the perfect word to describe Real Madrid for years. Ronaldo turning on God mode for Champions League knockout games has papered over an awful lot of cracks.

Their lack of really big signings in recent years has been mystifying, 10-15 years ago they would have stopped at nothing to make Mbappe a Real Madrid player, for example.
Splashing out on Courtois was weird. Navas was better.
 

Niall

International Coach
Is Bailly injured or has Solksjaer simply had enough of his ****?
Trying to save face by pretending to be injured. He was played out of position, but ****ing hell he was so bad. He's one of those players that the internet have hyped up way to much over the years, just a gaffe machine. Smalling for all his flaws is actually a better defender.

PSG clearly superior side so should still come through easily enough, but what a sloppy performance so far.
 

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