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[Megadrive Man]

I'm still yet to see Cavani have a good game.

 

Hopefully the rumours of him going to United are true.

[El Rojo]

Brilliant take and finish from Martinez. 3-1 Porto.

[magicrat]

Suarez walks through PSGs defence

[FanchesterCity]

Wouldn't object to Porto winning the entire thing. They won't but it would make a change.

[Jairzinho]

Great goal. The man is a genius.

[Ginny]

Suarez there. Beautiful

[FanchesterCity]

Walking through a defence is very poor form.

He dances through most.

[Denny Crane]

The treble on for Barca I bet Suarez misses us...

 

Oh that Barca coach who finished 7th with Roma (although he did have Borini) now on for the treble.

 

More evidence that maybe coaches are not as important as we like to make out.

[Trumo]

It's not all that surprising to see Bayern losing. Their competitive edge will have been dulled slightly by their Bundesliga dominance for one thing. The other is Guardiola's away record in the knockout stages. Despite his reputation for high pressing, dominance of possession and attacking football, he sets his sides up to dominate possession but not lose in away legs, banking on his side going all-out or doing enough at home to get through instead. He is much more pragmatic than he's reputed to be.

 

2008/09 - 3 draws: 

Lyon 1-1 Barcelona (Last 16)

Bayern 1-1 Barcelona (QF)

Chelsea 1-1 Barcelona (SF)

 

2009/10 - 2 draws and 1 defeat:

Stuttgart 1-1 Barcelona (Last 16)

Arsenal 2-2 Barcelona (QF)

Inter 3-1 Barcelona (SF)

 

2010/11 - 2 wins and a defeat:

Arsenal 2-1 Barcelona (Last 16)

Shakhtar 0-1 Barcelona (QF)

Real Madrid 0-2 Barcelona (SF)

 

2011/12 - 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat:

Leverkusen 1-3 Barcelona (Last 16)

Milan 0-0 Barcelona (QF)

Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona (SF)

 

2013/14 - 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat:

Arsenal 0-2 Bayern (Last 16)

Man Utd 1-1 Bayern (QF)

Real Madrid 1-0 Bayern (SF)

 

2014/15 - 1 draw and 1 defeat (if Porto hold out for the win tonight:

Shakhtar 0-0 Bayern (Last 16)

Porto 3-1 Bayern

[Jairzinho]

Barcelona haven't got out of 2nd gear here.

[Jairzinho]

Megs.

[magicrat]

And again from Luis

[niallers]

Fuck off Suarez,rubbing our noses in it,being as good as he is. The talented bollix. Sigh.

[FanchesterCity]

The lad's class. No denying it.

 

How Chelsea got 50m for Luiz (or whatever the price was) is beyond me.

[magicrat]

Walking through a defence is very poor form.

He dances through most.

He danced through that time, Nutmegging that clown Luis in the process, Brilliant

[KevieG]

Fucking depressed now for the night. 75 million bargain.

 

I love that mad bastard.

[Baltar]

That Suarez chap is pretty darn good.

[FanchesterCity]

Lifeline for PSG

 

Edit: who am I kidding. They're fucked.

[Jairzinho]

Lifeline for PSG

Haha.

[El Rojo]

At least we didn't waste the money we got for him. That would have been a double blow.

[niallers]

It's utterly utterly depressing to know we had him scoring for fun for us and now we've our top league scorer on SEVEN,YES SEVEN league goals.

[Special K]

Still can't believe we didn't get a 9 figure sum for him

[Strontium]

Still can't believe we didn't get a 9 figure sum for him

 

We were able to put a figure in the profit column, and that's Numberwang, I mean, that's Moneyball.

[Dr. J]

Fuck you, Luis, I'm over you (sob).

[Special K]

We were able to put a figure in the profit column, and that's Numberwang, I mean, that's Moneyball.

At least we used the money well.....