REAL MADRID v MANCHESTER CITY

Citeh 1.5 to qualify, incredible. Fancy them tonight too but the fact they don't need to win makes one more hesitant.

RM players-half of them on next yellow card miss next
GAME
Not sure if the ref has been bribed yet!!!

yea btts has to be the bet

is the forum slow to load for anyone else? also we should use this for the Arsenal-Bayern game as well, no point having two threads

think Bayern are more dangerous than people think, they have nothing left to lose and still have a lot of first class individual players like Musiali, Gnabry (players like to score against their old clubs), Kane who's score 14 times against Arsenal, Muller, Sane, Coman etc, think Arsenal's price is short really.

fancy Madrid to get a result, this is not the same City team last year, more defensive fragilities, look more vulnerable, don't have Walker to go up against Vinicius where he normally does well, Madrid on a long unbeaten run at home, 31 matches

You having a larf
Bayern have a terrible defensive problems
Can see Arse stuffing them
3 nil

Utter shyte that, as late as the quarter finals, there are still games kicking off at the same time

Especially annoying as these are far and away the best 2 ties, as Barcelona have not been top of anyone's bill since Messi left.

what's the alternative though, can't have a 5.30 KO for such a big tie, can't have one after 10pm

is the forum slow to load for anyone else?

Fine here, but I was having a few lag problems a few weeks back on all sites. Rebooted the modem and all the issues went away.

Harry Kane 2 shots on target @ 3.15

Arsenal could have kicked off 6:45, Madrid 9

There are lots of alternatives to the crap way football is organized.

Confine international football to June/early July, end league seaons last week of April, play CL knockout rounds when everything else is finished in May.

9pm here is 10pm in Spain

Foden to score @4.5

I know, I don't think it's a problem for them.

I vaguely remember when Portsmouth were in Europe they played a Spanish team and it kicked off 11pm our time

grealish to score

Jack only scores when there's a total eclipse?

A Spanish night out doesn't start before 10pm

11 pm
Actually

thought he had his best game of the season admittedly v villa, but no kdb to start and i think he'll see the ball alot

I've gone for BTTS in Doncaster - Walsall match

who's on vini ?  whoever it is gonner get blown away

3.0 City now, incredible

goal

1-0 Arsenal Saka

1-1 !!!

b0000000000mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

both teams to score

22222222222 -1 !!!!!!!

Huge miss Ben White ffs

Comedy night in Madrid

1 - 1 !!

Arsenal 1-1 Bayern

Gnabry

Ha, that shut 'em right up.

Raya not too good there

ex GUNNER

2-1

was that your carrier pigeon dragon !?!?

Fireworks or ISIS?

Pen Bayern

Kane to take it

1-2 Kane pen

1-2 Harold of the Kanes.

Raya ffs moved to one side and fell over before Kane touched it

Great pen though.

He had 80% of the goal open

turnaround time

Foden (the player that England should "build their team around") up against a decent side, goes AWOL. What a surprise!

Pep wants Foden on the right wing to stretch the Madrid back 4

Think foden will be given a freer role in the 2nd half

Apr 9, 2024 -- 8:35PM, tobermory wrote:

He had 80% of the goal open

Well yeah, he sent the keeper the wrong way.

people thought Arsenal would steamroll Bayern

backed Madrid at 4.8   greened up at 1.65       still think Madrid will win

City need to bin Bernard
Bring on that fella that makes jr look a snail

no creation without KDB

Stones kovtic
Bit negative

the latter not good enough for an elite team

Oh dear, Zinchenko is a huge liability.

Kane could have had a straight red there

Refs love kane

think Bayern are more dangerous than people think, they have nothing left to lose and still have a lot of first class individual players like Musiali, Gnabry (players like to score against their old clubs), Kane who's score 14 times against Arsenal, Muller, Sane, Coman etc, think Arsenal's price is short really.

fancy Madrid to get a result, this is not the same City team last year, more defensive fragilities, look more vulnerable, don't have Walker to go up against Vinicius where he normally does well, Madrid on a long unbeaten run at home, 31 matches

my pre match look at these games going well so far

Apr 9, 2024 -- 7:10PM, SirNorbertClarke wrote:

Foden to score @4.5

Good work

2-2 city

Madrid need Vinicius to step up

Christ what a goal that was from Foden

Arsenal being schooled here. Amazing how quiet the crowd have been since their team went behind.

Foden to score @4.5

Another cracker.

Some finish again

2-3 city

City v Bayern semi

blimey. glad I didn't bet on this.

2-2 aresenal

All of us frantically flipping from one game to t'other

2-2 Trossard

Scorcher...

Havertz done nothing tonight

Arteta has outsubbed Tuchel, if that's a word

Man City at their best are on a different level to everyone else really

3-3 madrid

Absolutely bonkers night of goals.

Walsall grab a 93rd minute consolation goal at Doncaster  2-1 ...

Millwall beat Leicester 1-0.

Our man Deptford on the bubbly as we soeak.

Why isn't Haaland playing?

Is Foden knackered?

OMG

No pen????

Nah, Saka trailed his leg for the contact

Cheat.

Well done referee.

Apr 9, 2024 -- 9:50PM, maleuk01. wrote:

Why isn't Haaland playing?

Because he's shyte and Pep is close to giving up on him?

Highly biased analysis. That's not a penalty.

Looked for that penalty & come right unstuck.
WD ref.

In real time I thought it was going to get given. Wouldn't have been overturned had it been given. But defo looked for it and right decision imho.

Think Haaland is a great finisher, but tonight he was just a bystander, should be charged an admission fee.

Some great goals in the game tonight though.

watched the rm v city game and thought city were a bit flukey, need walker back in the return they were ripped to bits down that side at times

WTF were Man City wearing to the game last night ,jeans and a baseball jacket.

Ha ha trousers up around the ankles they looked like fancy dress

Apr 9, 2024 -- 7:17PM, tobermory wrote:

I know, I don't think it's a problem for them. I vaguely remember when Portsmouth were in Europe they played a Spanish team and it kicked off 11pm our time

you're saying they kicked of in Spain at Midnight then! ?

there was a backlash years ago in Spain against late kick offs, and it drew low crowds

Sure it was Portsmouth?



23 October 2008     Braga Portugal     3–0    England Portsmouth     Braga,Portugal
20:15 UTC+1     Aguiar 8'
Rentería 46'
Alan 87'     Report         Stadium: Estádio AXA, Braga
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Darko Ceferin (Slovenia)

27 November 2008     Portsmouth England     2–2    Italy Milan     Fratton Park, Portsmouth
20:05 UTC+0     Kaboul 62'
Kanu 73'     Report     Ronaldinho 84'
Inzaghi   90+2'     Attendance: 20,403
Referee: Serge Gumienny (Belgium)

4 December 2008     Wolfsburg Germany     3–2    England Portsmouth     Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg
20:45 UTC+1     Džeko 3'
Gentner 23'
Misimović 74'     Report     Defoe 11'
Mvuemba   14'     Attendance: 21,015
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

17 December 2008     Portsmouth England     3–0    Netherlands Heerenveen     Fratton Park, Portsmouth
19:45 UTC+0     Crouch 40', 42'
Hreiðarsson 90'     Report

Yesh, it was Portsmouth, though the game was in Portugal not Spain.

Not the Braga group game, but the round you had to win to make the groups.

2 October 2008
22:35
Vitória de Guimarães Portugal    2–2 (a.e.t.)    England Portsmouth
Douglas  19'
Alves  32'    Report    Crouch  105', 111'

extra time too, lol

Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp:
"By the time we got back to the hotel it was two in the morning and we have another big game on Sunday. Can you get another game out of those players?

"This competition takes an awful lot of your players. Unless you have got a big squad, it's a big problem."