So do City though, and their defence is rank bad.
So do City though, and their defence is rank bad.
The defence is, broadly speaking, pretty decent. However as a unit they're prone to massive lapses in concentration or organisation which costs us tight, important games. I don't know that I rate Maguire much as a leader.
Sevilla were lucky not to concede goals in that flurry after half time but then we were probably lucky Sevilla played in exactly the sort of way that suits us with lots of space to gallop or pass into. Even if we had better options off the bench I doubt it would have come with more of a plan from Solskjaer beyond "keep playing quickly and hope we find a way through."
I think he's probably something of a motivator manager (for example, the impact he appears to have had on Martial's attitude) but who doesn't have the nous to mitigate against flaws or come up with that much of a plan beyond "plug better players into the attack and hope they figure it out."
Pretty decent, yeah.
They've all got massive strides to take to be very good defenders. Maguire is skinned too often for a top defender, lindelof gets the basics wrong too often, AWB can't actually play football and Williams is a kid learning. Still needs a couple in there and a proper centre mid instead of that twat Pogba.
Yeah we could do with not letting Wan-Bissaka do anything outside his own half / penalty area.
Maguires main issue is that he's not a top defender.
That's a forever meme
Where’s the pouty lad used to play for Tottenham?
Eriksen.
How I've missed watching an Antonio Conte team...
Oh, I forgot Ashley Young's a Serie A player.
Lukaku's second just then, dear lord. And they fucking binned him off so that useless Rashford can play
@Mellberg who is gonna play in net for Villa?
I'm a twit
Depends who's fit. Heaton and Steer both have ligament injuries and are first and second choice respectively. Nyland's in until they're sorted, but Heaton did his in January so should be back for the start of the season.
This VAR business' failings...it's offside if Mbappe scores but cause it's saved PSG play on from the corner without intervention
Only Neymar wants them to bottle it.
Leipzig have got their shape all wrong, can't press at all so it's piss for PSG. This is what happens when you wear trousers too short for you and no socks, Julian, you monstrous bender.
That was horsehit by Mukiele.
Slips over and complains from the ground playing everyone onside.
I can't wait for Bayern to make Neymar cry in the final.
Here comes Mr. Upstate New York to turn things around again.
Dire Maria doing the business yet again.
Just had a rare moment of being a completely boring statto cunt and checked the last set of semis with no English, Spanish or Italian clubs. 90/91. Marseille, Spartak, Red Star and Bayern.
Now you know.
I hope PSG scud Bayern in the finals assuming Dembele doesn’t do the business
All aboard the Bayern hype train.
While the entire enterprise is despicable, it has been quite funny to watch people coming to terms with the fact that having Neymar and Mbappe might counter the whole 'French teams always bottle it' thing.
Neymars the best player on the planet and it's a shame he's such a massive knob.
Best player on the planet? Brav, this ain't FIFA, the fucking malnourished cunt ain't got shit against proper players and competent refs and is a stain upon the sport.
Stats have made you care too much about Papa Bouba Diop regens being fucking average and making 800 10m sprints per game.
Neymar is actually better at football than any one else. The sheer talent you have to have to make mid-table professional footballers look like it's Sunday league is immense.
He could have been Michael Jordan and he absolutely fucked it.
Not really sure about this Neymar chat but I'd quite like PSG to win it if they play Bayern, doubt they will though, most of their side is pretty wank for however many hundred bajillion whatevers it cost to assemble. Obviously they'd win 1-0 against Lyon in a dreadful shitfest, which would be distressing for all concerned.
Just a reminder that Ronald Koeman scored 239 goals in 685 games, playing primarily as a centre-back.
Also, a little less known, Fernando Hierro scored 102 in 439 games for Real Madrid, although he did play some games in midfield early on in his career.
In the 1991-92 La Liga season, Manolo won the Pichichi with 27 goals. Hierro was second with 21, Stoichkov 3rd on 17 and Koeman 4th with 16.
#DefendersWhoScore
Yeah, Koeman's goal records was mad.
That's probably the sort of thing Pep hopes for when he gets to the "hard on for centre-mids in defence" stage of the Guardiola Boom-Bust cycle but forgets that it's uber-organised wankers like him turning football into a grinding borefest that makes it impossible.
Where those set peice goals? I'll run a compilation and report back
26 freekicks and 46 penalties for Barcelona.
That still leaves nearly 1 in 4 from open play. I know there were liberos and things in those innocent times, but still.
Winning goal in the dream team European Cup final and then top scored in the Champions League 2 seasons later as well.
I hadn't appreciated how long his managerial career has been. Definitely not a binman.
He was definitely slamming them in from range. His goal compilations is full of scorchers. I was thinking, he was just going to score headers at the back post every game because of his size.
He's such a fucking blowbag.
What do you disagree with?
The illusion that the whole game isn't solely about money now rather than just two big bad clubs.
He's a blowhard cunt in general anyway.
That wasn't his point though. Have you watched it?
Also, those Arab cunts aren't in it for the money, you fucking mong.
If a pundit said that in UK they would not go on TV again, at least for a rights holding broadcaster. The truth is bad for business.
Other than being able to lol at Neymar/the French I don't really have much problem with PSG, but it is disingenuous to say that all successful clubs achieve their success in the same way. There's money and then there's limitless money.
Bayern are just as bad for their domestic football environment as PSG, probably worse.
There's probably nothing really in it, but I think it's interesting that the final is likely to be contested between two teams who sometimes lack for (cliché alert) 'battle-hardened match-readiness' in the normal knock-out swing of things (due to their noncompetitive domestic environments) - an issue that the restart has sort of erased.
Ooooooh he said the fuckin S word.