GWT: CL Matchweek 4

[Deficient Mode]

Savic sent off as well. What a dumb second yellow. Both teams down to 10 for the end of the game.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Barca can't beat Olympiakos?

 

[Deficient Mode]

Barca, Juve, Atletico all end with only a draw.

Atletico in almost as much trouble as Dortmund now. They have to win their last two matches AND hope that Qarabag can take points off of Roma and more likely Chelsea.

 

[MrFunnyWobbl]

Barca, Juve, Atletico all end will only a draw.

Atletico in almost as much trouble as Dortmund now. They have to win their last two matches AND hope that Qarabag can take points off of Roma and more likely Chelsea.

Thanks Bosz

 

[ViD]

CSKA played a horrible game at home losing to Basel and now they win away after first conceding a goal.very hard to understand this team sometimes

 

[ViD]

CSKA is gearing towards a record-two losses at home and two wins away

Just need to beat United B squad

 

[Peen]

We f***ing sucked.

Yet we are going to make it to the r16. We have months to improve and get back on track.

we've played much worse than our standings in the league and group indicate

 

[BKIslandersFan]

Barca can't beat Olympiakos?

That was a courageous performance by the Greek side.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Chelsea's defensive performance tonight summed up:

Perotti doesn't get nearly enough credit for how good he is

I've always admired how he takes his penalty kicks.

 

[Edo]

We ****ing sucked.

Yet we are going to make it to the r16. We have months to improve and get back on track.

we've played much worse than our standings in the league and group indicate

Chelsea have always played worse than their standings indicate. What else is new?

 

[Nalens Oga]

That Forrest kid on Celtic is pretty good. Bayern need a new back-up righ-back, Rafinha isn't good enough.

 

[maclean]

Watched the whole Roma-Chelsea game last night, wonderful stuff. As exciting as the first one but with a more feel-good ending

Only saw the highlights of the others but was impressed by Celtic's hungry showing against the giants, though of course we know they're not really the Bayern we've been used to. Hats off to Olympiakos for holding off Barca. Pity Basel let that promising start slip away.

 

[Deficient Mode]

Interesting

 

[Savi]

Barça were garbage. They have these games with a mindset of "relax, we'll win without having to actually do anything". Could have taken a giant step towards winning the group, and instead you f*** it up.

Kurzawa with 3 goals now.
Not bad for a LB.

He played more like a LW though. I think the Anderlecht manager summed it up perfectly after the game. You have to keep putting out fires everywhere when PSG attacks you; you can put out 3 or 4, but you won't be able to put out the fifth. That's basically what Kurzawa did. His positioning was fantastic.

 

[Evilo]

Thing is, he was awful even offensively this season. So at least, if he gets his confidence up on that part of the pitch it'll help him.
He was great last season to start the year (on fire I might say) and then he got injured. Never found his groove back, always with a slight injury, and this year, he was terrible. On both ends.
Alves and Kurzawa are two extremely talented FB that indeed play winger in possession.
Still impressive to score 3.
PSG now has 17 goals scored, 0 against, 12 points from their first 4 matches.

 

[Savi]

And Anderlecht are on pace to have one of the worst campaigns in the history of the CL. Lost every game, goal differential of 0-15

Kind of surprising they are this bad, considering how solid they were in Europa last year. Even forced Man Utd into OT.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Thing is, he was awful even offensively this season. So at least, if he gets his confidence up on that part of the pitch it'll help him.
He was great last season to start the year (on fire I might say) and then he got injured. Never found his groove back, always with a slight injury, and this year, he was terrible. On both ends.
Alves and Kurzawa are two extremely talented FB that indeed play winger in possession.
Still impressive to score 3.
PSG now has 17 goals scored, 0 against, 12 points from their first 4 matches.

How has Berchiche been?

 

[Evilo]

Average defensively, average offensively. Backup really.
He positions himself well, but can't make the last pass.

 

[Evilo]

And Monaco opens the scoring at Besiktas.
They have to win.

 

[Evilo]

Tielemans makes a rookie mistake in mifield and Jorge fouls Quaresma in the box. Penalty for Besiktas.

 

[Evilo]

Tielemans makes ANOTHER amateur mistake in midfield, Besiktas almost scores...

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Thinking Spurs lose 2-1 today.

 

[Evilo]

Besiktas unbearable to watch. Guys rolling all over the place over absolutely zero contact. They're trying to win time ever since they tied the game.
And the ref is falling for every rolling player, mostly because of the loudness in the stadium.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Oh god. Trippier is starting.

Bench looks really impressive though, even if Wanyama and Lamela are still out.

 

[Evilo]

1-1 final score, Monaco could (should?) have won the game, but Tielemans' mistake proved costly.
Going to be hard to go through now. Win remaining two games and see.

In any case, one must talk about the reffing in Turkey. It's always the same shit. Refs only call huge fouls against home teams and always call the slightest (and sometimes even phantom) touches by opposing players. Which leads to more brutal fouls by home players. Here we had Quaresma kicking Raggi from behind for zero reason, only got a yellow. One of many examples (Tosic/Pepe had two or three only by themselves).