Champions league and Europa league thread (General)

Right, but what I said is correct, a 1-0 is not good enough to guarantee to advance.

They gotta aim for a 2-0 victory

 

Or beat them again in a penalty shoot out.

 

Messy 1st half so far. No real flow to the game

 

If they can't at least get a 1-0 result now they dont deserve to play CL his year

 

Crossbar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Same old stuff against Portuguese teams. Like juniors against experienced pros.

 

2 bad shots by Vertessen. Right at the keeper

 

The coaches of Portugal are really good. The one of Sporting CP did also a post-graduation course on a university.

Pundits during half time very annoying and simple.

 

They couldve played till tomorrow morning and still wouldnt have scored.

We always seem to have bad luck against Portuguese teams.
Remember Cocu hitting the crossbar in 2006??

 

Very disappointing result from PSV but they just don’t deserve CL football. They aren’t that good of a team.

Zahavi is old and slow. He notches chances and shouldn’t be a striker on any top team in any decent league. How Bruma still gets minutes is beyond me. I don’t know one thing he does good. Zero ball control and no iq. So painful to watch. Schmidt is so smug and thinks he is so much better than he thinks. Can’t stand the guy. Love Madueke and the guy is a serious talent but he hasn’t shown up in either big game. Gakpo is a good game but that was about it. Team was way too slow but can’t blame them with a manager like Schmidt and a striker like Zahavi up front.

 

At the moment of playing he was clearly not offside. But who knows where UEFA freezes the frame.


At 7:30 (in case you can see it).

PSV had about three big chances this game. They have only themselves to blame. For about 110 minutes over both ties they had the upper hand (2nd half in Lisbon).

On the other side though; PSV had a few more young players in the team than Benfica. Sometimes that showed, like the moment where Madueke loses the ball on a dangerous position and starts a Benfica counter-attack. Could have been fatal. Over both games Benfica had basicaly three chances and scored twice.

It's the same old story:

Moest hier nog aan denken. Heb de data tegen Portugese teams niet, maar gevoelsmatig zijn die cijfers vergelijkbaarhttps://t.co/M9DkDYdNeU

— Pieter Zwart (@PieterZwartNL) August 24, 2021

Benfica has however also a twice as high budget as PSV. Here it is explained why:
https://www.vi.nl/pro/waarom-benfica-twee-keer-zo-groot-is-als-psv

 

AZ game tomorrow wont be on TV: https://www.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=392848

But you can watch for free on AZ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AZAlkmaar

 

Btw, it would have been an advantage for PSV if there had been three subs rather than five/six.

 

Here a picture. On the moment of playing he is behind the ball.

 

Disinformation???

 

In the USA they live in an alternative reality, created by Fux/Faecesbook/etc.
Just to show how dumb these people are a screenshot of a post today:

Koeman showed him a list of future contenders for the RB position = Dutch came after him hard

 

The chance for a club with squad value less than 500M Euro to win is very very small....Very likely 1 of the 10 clubs that is over 500M Euro in squad value will win. Anything else is considered a Cinderella story.

Group 1: Chelsea, Villarreal, Man City, Atletico Madrid, Bayern, Inter, Lille, Sporting Lisbon.

Group 2: Real Madrid, Barca, Sevilla, Juventus, PSG, Liverpool, Man Utd, Dortmund.

Group 3: Ajax, RB Leipzig, Atalanta, Porto, Zenit St Petersburg, Benfica, RB Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk.

Group 4: AC Milan, Wolfsburg, Young Boys, Malmo, Dynamo Kiev, Besiktas, Club Brugge, Sheriff Tiraspol

 

Ajax got Sporting CP and Dortmund so far. Not a bad draw! Group A squad value is ....gigantic!