8 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Tottenham were very good ( urgh ) but Real Madrid were poor, especially at the back. Maybe this group of Madrid players have reached a point now where they don't feel as motivated as before. 

Tottenham have outplayed them twice in a row now, they will probably feel like they can win it after these two performances. Hopefully the usual Tottenham bottlers show up when it really matters.

they did the old José/Chelsea 2012 technique against a struggling RM. When they face us/Juve, you'll see the usual bottlers :)! Just look at our game against us and the game agaisnt manure and you'll see why they won't win against a more defensive team. The only team though that plays more offensive and could absolutely batter them is PSG... but it looks like PSG could hammer anyone in the UCL this season!!! Terryfying ... 

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Not convinced Spurs have 'arrived'. 1 offside goal, 1 deflection and poor finishing from Real made that 3-1. I'd fancy us against Real if thats how they play and with those breaks. 

14 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Tottenham were very good ( urgh ) but Real Madrid were poor, especially at the back. Maybe this group of Madrid players have reached a point now where they don't feel as motivated as before. 

Tottenham have outplayed them twice in a row now, they will probably feel like they can win it after these two performances. Hopefully the usual Tottenham bottlers show up when it really matters.

Re Madrid, I heard somewhere recently that 4 years was quoted as a generation in football teams (think it was quoted as being from SAF) and they have won the CL three times in a row so perhaps their four years is up and they need to rebuild.

Charlie Nicolas having a moan that Jack Wilshire wasn’t called up to the England squad but Rueben, Tammy etc. were. Blokes played about 30 seconds of football the past five seasons...

Spurs look superb, sure they've struggled a bit but I can't see them finishing outside the top 4, they've definitely surpassed Arsenal for me. The Premier League seems to get harder and harder each year, I doubt we'll ever get a team winning back to back leagues again for a long time. 

Real might be a bit past their recent peak but it's fair to say that Spurs' result wasn't a fluke. They have done well, especially as they've had the issue of adapting to Wembley where things hadn't generally been smooth for them.

It's no doubt a tough league but I wouldn't be shocked to see City win it back to back or even thrice. They really do look good and with the finance and determination of a rich Arab state behind them it's hard to imagine that they'll just sit back at the end of this season and do nothing to improve their team and squad. They'll take some serious stopping on the next few seasons. You could almost feel sorry for Spurs in that they're reaching their best level for decades and are kind of on a par with us, United, surpassed Spurs and Liverpool and suddenly City make the jump to light speed. Spurs could well have nothing to show for their efforts in two or three seasons time.

On 11/2/2017 at 10:06, TheChelseaBlues said:

Not convinced Spurs have 'arrived'. 1 offside goal, 1 deflection and poor finishing from Real made that 3-1. I'd fancy us against Real if thats how they play and with those breaks. 

They're quite clearly the second best team in the league.

I think saying otherwise is just tribal nonsense.

5 minutes ago, startedwithglenn said:

They're quite clearly the second best team in the league.

I think saying otherwise is just tribal nonsense.

They've been 2nd best for 2 seasons running

1 minute ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

They've been 2nd best for 2 seasons running

Yes, though they did finish 3rd one of those 

31 minutes ago, startedwithglenn said:

Yes, though they did finish 3rd one of those 

Same position they find themselves in now. Time is a flat circle

I really do want an English team to win the Champions' League this year, about time our honour is restored, just hoping it's us. 
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Why you would want Liverpool to win anything I don't know.

can't understand anyone here wanting Liverpool to win the CL - we'd never ever ever hear the end of it

Not been impressed with Zouma so far today, getting beaten easily.

6 hours ago, ManXunited said:

On 11/1/2017 at 23:21, TomCFC85 said:

I really do want an English team to win the Champions' League this year, about time our honour is restored, just hoping it's us. 
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Why you would want Liverpool to win anything I don't know.

I don't want them to win anything, just prefer them to win something over the others.

Thought I would watch swansea and see how Tammy abraham plays. 

Swansea are truly awful. They are comfortably the worse side in the prem this season. I feel sorry for Tammy tbh, there is working with scraps, then there is working with Carroll, ayew, and dier! 

He's done fantastic to get in the England squad, but I can't but feel he would've been more prolific if he had gone to Brighton, who have 2 or 3 players that can actually put a decent ball in the box! 

Tammy did okay with the little service he got, the set pieces were utterly awful from Swansea and so few chances created for their strikers.

57 minutes ago, big blue said:

Thought I would watch swansea and see how Tammy abraham plays. 

Swansea are truly awful. They are comfortably the worse side in the prem this season. I feel sorry for Tammy tbh, there is working with scraps, then there is working with Carroll, ayew, and dier! 

He's done fantastic to get in the England squad, but I can't but feel he would've been more prolific if he had gone to Brighton, who have 2 or 3 players that can actually put a decent ball in the box! 

Abraham also does a fabulous mourning of lost football match   

Liverpool have done virtually nothing and are 2-0 up, because West Ham are so poor.

Watching Bayern at Dortmund and my lord, in terms of defensive strategy Peter Bosz makes Brendan Rodgers look like 2005 Jose.

salah has scores two now, was surprised when he was sold, thought he was a good player

12 minutes ago, luckywerthers said:

salah has scores two now, was surprised when he was sold, thought he was a good player

Out of the players we let go, he has surprised me the most. He has developed into a really good player, and a he has a great goal scoring record. 

6 minutes ago, big blue said:

Out of the players we let go, he has surprised me the most. He has developed into a really good player, and a he has a great goal scoring record. 

Think he is like every other Dortmund/Monaco player, a system player. Stick him in a tactical team where he has to do more than press high up the pitch& he will look average.

1 minute ago, ducavis said:

Think he is like every other Dortmund/Monaco player, a system player. Stick him in a tactical team where he has to do more than press high up the pitch& he will look average.

If he is scoring 10 goals in 13 games, you can't have many complaints  

25 minutes ago, big blue said:

Out of the players we let go, he has surprised me the most. He has developed into a really good player, and a he has a great goal scoring record. 

Strange thing is from what I've seen he isn't really a clinical finisher as well, maybe he'll improve but at the moment it seems he's got the Cavani syndrome, great scoring record but loads of chances missed as well.

7 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

Strange thing is from what I've seen he isn't really a clinical finisher as well, maybe he'll improve but at the moment it seems he's got the Cavani syndrome, great scoring record but loads of chances missed as well.

I said the same thing to one my Liverpool supporting mates, he seems to fluff a lot chances, but he must be doing something right to find himself with so many goal scoring opportunities.