Champions League 2020 - 2021

[mdmost 43001]

All that sweating you Chelsea fans did on the final Sunday was all for naught. ztejas probably blew out his o-ring. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by mdmost

[Captain Ron 12876]

If only CP had scored.

[Captain Ron 12876]

And on the other side

[mdmost 43001]

Don't look back in anger, Pep. 

[Firemans4Horn 18049]

4 minutes ago, MoJames said:

6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Congrats to the Russian petro state club on defeating the Abu Dhabi petro state club. 

Maybe next season John Henry.

The better team won. Pulisic won. Enjoy, celebrate. Winning in 2019 was one my life highlights the last few years. 

[mdmost 43001]

Ah, the runner up medals. The true prize of UEFA. 

[Firemans4Horn 18049]

 

[ztejas 43449]

10 minutes ago, mdmost said:

All that sweating you Chelsea fans did on the final Sunday was all for naught. ztejas probably blew out his o-ring. 

Yeah but now we don't have some asshole 5th club sneaking in too so it worked out the way it should.

Honestly that final match day was more nervy than this one. 

Edited May 29, 2021 by ztejas

[mdmost 43001]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Yeah but now we don't have some asshole 5th club sneaking in too so it worked out the way it should.

Honestly that final match day was more nervy than this one. 

If only Tuchel could play City every week. 

Seriously, guy did incredible work against City. Really broke down how to defend them and shut down their attack. 

[Napoleon 8679]

Someone had to hold Kante up in the back at the start of the celebration.

[ztejas 43449]

2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

If only Tuchel could play City every week. 

Seriously, guy did incredible work against City. Really broke down how to defend them and shut down their attack. 

You could tell within the first 10 minutes it was the same shit different day. We just give them fits. Did they have one shot on goal?

Looks like there was one. I think it was a bunny save by Mendy iirc.

Edited May 29, 2021 by ztejas

[Captain Ron 12876]

 

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

You could tell within the first 10 minutes it was the same shit different day. We just give them fits. Did they have one shot on goal?

Just 1.

[Napoleon 8679]

Agüero has lost:

-in the World Cup Final

-in the Copa America Final (at least TWICE, maybe three times)

-in the Champions League Final

That's a lot of crushing losses.

 

And Thiago Silva finally wins something!

Edited May 29, 2021 by Napoleon

[ztejas 43449]

Kate Abdo is still smoking hot and we can all celebrate that tonight.

[Bone3421 716]

Suck it city....

Congrats Chelsea

[Hagbard Celine 10864]

Rodri and Fernandinho have figured in 60 out of 61 games for City this season, either individually or as a pair. Why change the strategy so radically and use this system in a match of such huge significance?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/57296303

[C-Man 27227]

7 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

And on the other side

[Bruno Sardine 147]

19 hours ago, Napoleon said:

If you commit a foul that knocks a player out of a match like this, then the fouling player should be removed. Even if it is for a sub and not a red card, you shouldn't be able to injure a player and stay in.

Might we get a Pulisic sub?

I checked this thread and the one celebrating Chelsea’s victory, and was pretty surprised to see so little mention of the fact that a Chelsea player not only concussed, but broke two bones in the face of City’s best player.

https://sports.yahoo.com/bruyne-faces-race-euro-facial-104139938.html

I don’t have a horse in this race. But as much as I love the Horns, if we won something big but one of our players, in the process, showed himself to be a cheap-shot artist of the highest order (the Chelsea dude actually faked a head-to-head collision after delivering the blow with his shoulder) it would temper my enthusiasm. I would still claim the victory, but would accept and acknowledge the victory was tainted. Chelsea fans, apparently, not so much. But then this is English football, so...

[mdmost 43001]

Okay...then again Chelsea saved both English and European football. So it evens out. 

[Firemans4Horn 18049]

It’s called “take the L, pussy”. 
 

Ramos dislocated our best players shoulder and concussed our goalie in the CL finals. You get up, dust yourself off, and go again. 

[Bruno Sardine 147]

1 hour ago, Firemans4Horn said:

It’s called “take the L, pussy”. 
 

Ramos dislocated our best players shoulder and concussed our goalie in the CL finals. You get up, dust yourself off, and go again. 

Ramos is a good comp to the Chelsea guy. You can't dust yourself off if your shoulder is dislocated or your eye socket is broken. That was Myles Garrett-level scumbaggery. Ramos should have been banned for an extended period. The fact he wasn't helps explain what happened yesterday.

[Longhornfan1024 1707]

Ramos is a good comp to the Chelsea guy. You can't dust yourself off if your shoulder is dislocated or your eye socket is broken. That was Myles Garrett-level scumbaggery. Ramos should have been banned for an extended period. The fact he wasn't helps explain what happened yesterday.

Stop being a baby. Rudiger's foul was nothing like the Ramos foul. Ramos grabbed and went down on Salah's arm. Rudiger just stepped in front of KDB to stop his run. The injury was unfortunate but Rudi didn't throw an elbow, go cleats up, or anything of the like. It was a run of the mill strategic foul that sadly ended up in a player being injured.

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[Speedtrucker 2071]

Lol, Ramos did his job and had a hard play that resulted in a shitty injury but Ramos didn’t seek out that contact.

If Salah doesn’t hook Ramos then nothing would have happened. Instead Ramos rode that contact to the ground to make sure he didn’t let Salah go free.



And yeah I know a split second later Ramos locks down that arm as he’s losing his balance.

[Bruno Sardine 147]

17 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

Stop being a baby. Rudiger's foul was nothing like the Ramos foul. Ramos grabbed and went down on Salah's arm. Rudiger just stepped in front of KDB to stop his run. The injury was unfortunate but Rudi didn't throw an elbow, go cleats up, or anything of the like. It was a run of the mill strategic foul that sadly ended up in a player being injured.

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Maybe. I will confess that once upon a time I was naive enough to think it was just a matter of chance that Roy Williams hurt so many people when he tackled them. Then, over the course of time, I came to realize - as did the NFL itself - that in fact he knew exactly what he was doing. Honestly, I know nothing about the player in question's history. If this is an outlier then it certainly gives credibility to your perspective. 

[G650 14256]

4 hours ago, Bruno Sardine said:

Maybe. I will confess that once upon a time I was naive enough to think it was just a matter of chance that Roy Williams hurt so many people when he tackled them. Then, over the course of time, I came to realize - as did the NFL itself - that in fact he knew exactly what he was doing. Honestly, I know nothing about the player in question's history. If this is an outlier then it certainly gives credibility to your perspective. 

Did you actually watch it? At worst it was like a blocking foul in basketball.

 

It shouldn't even have been a card imo, a maybe not a foul.

[MoJames 8244]

I checked this thread and the one celebrating Chelsea’s victory, and was pretty surprised to see so little mention of the fact that a Chelsea player not only concussed, but broke two bones in the face of City’s best player.
https://sports.yahoo.com/bruyne-faces-race-euro-facial-104139938.html
I don’t have a horse in this race. But as much as I love the Horns, if we won something big but one of our players, in the process, showed himself to be a cheap-shot artist of the highest order (the Chelsea dude actually faked a head-to-head collision after delivering the blow with his shoulder) it would temper my enthusiasm. I would still claim the victory, but would accept and acknowledge the victory was tainted. Chelsea fans, apparently, not so much. But then this is English football, so...

[Captain Ron 12876]

On 5/30/2021 at 7:55 PM, G650 said:

Did you actually watch it? At worst it was like a blocking foul in basketball.

 

It shouldn't even have been a card imo, a maybe not a foul.

Even if you remove the injury aspect of this, "not a foul" is silly, probably even the saying no card. That was completely off the ball contact that stopped Man City's ball progression. Rudiger wasn't the last man, but had de Bruyne gone past him, he was going to have space to operate and with a good first touch potentially have a break on the keeper or start a scoring opportunity. And if you watch it again, KDB was playing a give and go with the intention of beating Rutiger, Rutiger smartly didn't let him go around with intentional contact.

It was 100% a "professional foul" designed to stop the City move and the card was completely warranted given the situation.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

Anyone who's every watched Pep's City team knows that "professional foul" is Fernandinho / Rodri's job. 

I won't lose any sleep over it happening to them.

[ztejas 43449]

On 5/30/2021 at 11:28 AM, Bruno Sardine said:

I checked this thread and the one celebrating Chelsea’s victory, and was pretty surprised to see so little mention of the fact that a Chelsea player not only concussed, but broke two bones in the face of City’s best player.

https://sports.yahoo.com/bruyne-faces-race-euro-facial-104139938.html

I don’t have a horse in this race. But as much as I love the Horns, if we won something big but one of our players, in the process, showed himself to be a cheap-shot artist of the highest order (the Chelsea dude actually faked a head-to-head collision after delivering the blow with his shoulder) it would temper my enthusiasm. I would still claim the victory, but would accept and acknowledge the victory was tainted. Chelsea fans, apparently, not so much. But then this is English football, so...

Shit happens. If it makes you feel any better I was sad to see KDB have to leave the pitch. If we're going to talk about that we should also acknowledge that Chelsea lost Silva to injury in the first half. We then had Christensen step up and play great defense in his stead. Both of these teams are deep with some of the highest payrolls in football - KDB is out, tough shit, next man up. You don't award cards based on whether or not an injury happened. Guys get injured on non-card fouls all the time. 

It's not like City was chugging towards a victory with KDB on the pitch anyway. It was already 1-0 and he was being neutralized about as well as you can neutralize someone like that. Was dominating Atletico and Real tainted to get there? 

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

You don't award cards based on whether or not an injury happened.

Everton has entered the chat

[Longhornfan1024 1707]

56 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Shit happens. If it makes you feel any better I was sad to see KDB have to leave the pitch. If we're going to talk about that we should also acknowledge that Chelsea lost Silva to injury in the first half. We then had Christensen step up and play great defense in his stead. Both of these teams are deep with some of the highest payrolls in football - KDB is out, tough shit, next man up. You don't award cards based on whether or not an injury happened. Guys get injured on non-card fouls all the time. 

It's not like City was chugging towards a victory with KDB on the pitch anyway. It was already 1-0 and he was being neutralized about as well as you can neutralize someone like that. Was dominating Atletico and Real tainted to get there? 

It's a yellow because he wasn't making a play for the ball, but rather stopping KDB's movement to prevent him from continuing the play.  That's a foul and a yellow card, but it's not dirty.  

[kingkoopa6 8350]

Felt a lil dirty. But it is what it is. 
 

[midtown 3345]

Let's not forget Rudiger was the one who lied about being the target of racist remarks at Spurs.

[sidis 9828]

i have zero rooting interest in the outcome of the game because i don't hate, nor really like either team in general.  but that game was fucking boring after about the first 15 minutes.

[TexArcher 37774]

 

If you think these are the same thing, your opinion is wrong.

Rudiger got in a guy's way.  Yes, it's a foul, and I'm fine with a yellow, and I'm sorry KDB got hurt in the process.

Sergio Ramos is a filthy bitch who knew exactly what he was doing by judo trip tossing a guy while pinning his arm.

The former is a natural football play (albeit a foul), and the latter is dirty as fuck.

Edited June 22, 2021 by TexArcher

[Captain Ron 12876]