UCL Quarters

guinness77 said:
Inter should be giving Sommer a bonus after that match but Yamal is something else. I hope he can maintain this throughout his career but to see a player his age with the kind of poise, pace, boot and dribbling skill he has is absolutely insane. Especially at the highest level of levels already. Sommer flat out robbed him twice and that’s not including the crosses and the fact Barca’s offense primarily flows through his right side of the pitch. They know it’s coming and he still makes it work anyway, that’s boss shit right there.

That match was up there with Spurs/Ajax, Pool/Barca and Real/Chelsea. I could do without the theatrics and whining but that was football at its finest and most dramatic.
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Inter and Barca put on the most entertaining back to back games that I have ever seen. Inter, while no poverty stricken club, does not have the resources of the other semifinalists.

Mildly rooting for Inter for a couple of reasons. One as a serie A fan growing up, I like to see it do well.

But more importantly, as a Napoli fan
(because of my immigrant parents), Inter advancing continues to put more focus for them in winning Champions League as opposed to the Serie A title.
 
Bizarre if they win it post Messi-Nyemar-Mbappe-Ibra-di Maria-Canavani (I'm forgetting a few surely?). They were the better team again today, although Donnarumma came up big and what if Saka had not missed that open goal? Final will be close. My guess is Inter but I wouldn't bet on it.
 
TX Redman said:
Bizarre if they win it post Messi-Nyemar-Mbappe-Ibra-di Maria-Canavani (I'm forgetting a few surely?). They were the better team again today, although Donnarumma came up big and what if Saka had not missed that open goal? Final will be close. My guess is Inter but I wouldn't bet on it.
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Arsenal had 2 if not 3 golden opportunities they missed in the first 20 minutes. Any one of them would have taken the air out of the building.

Once they weren't converted I had a bad feeling and a few minutes later PSG struck.

Lunatic Arsenal fans will scream for Arteta's head. That's ridiculous. But that said I'm concerned about the dynamic between him and Berta and the chess pieces on the board not matching his style.
 
TX Redman said:
Bizarre if they win it post Messi-Nyemar-Mbappe-Ibra-di Maria-Canavani (I'm forgetting a few surely?). They were the better team again today, although Donnarumma came up big and what if Saka had not missed that open goal? Final will be close. My guess is Inter but I wouldn't bet on it.
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It certainly helps that PSG probably has the best goalkeeper in the world (at worst second) who has yet to even enter his prime. Donnarumma makes up for many deficiencies in other areas.

There are a couple of side stories as well.
Gigi was given is first call up to the Milan senior team at 16, by its coach at the time, Inzaghi, who now coaches Inter.

Another is, playing for Milan and also being a fan growing up, he must have a certain level of sports hate for Inter.

Finally, he wants to stick it in the French press’s ass one more time. He is their punching bag. Part of it is cultural, as Italians and French do not always see eye to eye. But moreso he is a product of his own greatness. Any mistake is magnified, especially when this is not one of the great PSG teams.
 
Moose said:
Arsenal had 2 if not 3 golden opportunities they missed in the first 20 minutes. Any one of them would have taken the air out of the building.

Once they weren't converted I had a bad feeling and a few minutes later PSG struck.

Lunatic Arsenal fans will scream for Arteta's head. That's ridiculous. But that said I'm concerned about the dynamic between him and Berta and the chess pieces on the board not matching his style.
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Speaking as a Spurs fan, please sack Arteta! The Donnarumma save was immense so early in the match and Saka’s miss was gigantic because there was so much time left. I honestly think he was shocked the ball got through Donnarumma because he had grabbed almost everything else.

I’m sure most of the free world rooting for Bodo/Glimt later but COYS. Be the most ironic season making it to a European Cup final in this year of all years.
 
kranmars said:
It certainly helps that PSG probably has the best goalkeeper in the world (at worst second) who has yet to even enter his prime. Donnarumma makes up for many deficiencies in other areas.

There are a couple of side stories as well.
Gigi was given is first call up to the Milan senior team at 16, by its coach at the time, Inzaghi, who now coaches Inter.

Another is, playing for Milan and also being a fan growing up, he must have a certain level of sports hate for Inter.

Finally, he wants to stick it in the French press’s ass one more time. He is their punching bag. Part of it is cultural, as Italians and French do not always see eye to eye. But moreso he is a product of his own greatness. Any mistake is magnified, especially when this is not one of the great PSG teams.
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If he doesn’t make that spectacular save against Odegaard and, even worse, comes off due to a hand/shoulder injury, PSG would have been done.
 
I really enjoyed both world class quality matches. Only got into soccer about 20 years ago when my daughter was playing and was very good. Enjoy watching the premiere league without a dog in the fight.

Guinness, if I'm not mistaken, you are a Tottenham fan ? One of my favorite teams to watch was the Gareth Bale teams with (Berbitov) ? before he left !
 
rnd 78 cba said:
I really enjoyed both world class quality matches. Only got into soccer about 20 years ago when my daughter was playing and was very good. Enjoy watching the premiere league without a dog in the fight.

Guinness, if I'm not mistaken, you are a Tottenham fan ? One of my favorite teams to watch was the Gareth Bale teams with (Berbitov) ? before he left !
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The Robbie Keane/Berba/Darren Bent/Defoe Spurs was when I started seriously following Spurs myself. Being Irish (and German), took a liking to Keano from the 2002 WC and the rest is history. My favorite player since I’ve been around is Ledley King, I wear 26 in my men’s league but how can you not love Bale? Prime Bale was the best I’ve had the luxury of watching week in-week out.
 
I don’t know where else to put this but all that Spursy crap, bottlers, lads, it’s Tottenham, Son (and Kane) warra trophy, when a new player sign for Spurs “must be retiring from winning trophies…” all that, all that…gone today. Wasn’t pretty, I don’t care, I’ve been on the moon for like 4 hours now. A European trophy and Sonny with a million dollar smile on his face, I damn near cried. Coys
Oh and my two boys…Van de Ven with a legendary clearance and Cuti Romero with his shithousery. They were far from the only ones (Brennan Johnson and Pape Sarr had excellent matches as well) but I love both them and hope we find a way to keep Cuti. Champions League helps.
 
Jose Mourinho on Tottenham winning the Europa League:

“Tottenham play Champions League and of course for Mr Levy, the millions the Champions League gives, for him it’s the best news. For the fans, the players and Ange, it’s a title.”

Haha, love the guy
 
guinness77 said:
Jose Mourinho on Tottenham winning the Europa League:

“Tottenham play Champions League and of course for Mr Levy, the millions the Champions League gives, for him it’s the best news. For the fans, the players and Ange, it’s a title.”

Haha, love the guy
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As he's got older he makes me laugh more and more.
 
As much as I hate psg you gotta give em credit. They took Inter to the woodshed and gave them a first class whupping. They got on them early and never let up, those two goals in the first 21 minutes were well deserved and set the pace, Inter never recovered.

My only consolation is somewhere Mbappe is grinding his teeth and consoling himself by counting all his money.:cry: And then he has to look forward to next season when vinicius will be back again.:D
 
Inter does not have the money of most of the top teams and it showed as they ran out of gas, and were given a beat down.

They had to play their first team all season because they were in a battle for the scudetto until the final game. Plus they had two of the most physically and mentally exhausting games in the CL semis. But in the end, the better team won for sure.
 
Inter was old and slow. PSG was shot out of a cannon.
Props to Enrique. PSG was a shell of this back at the end of '24. They really turned it on from January on. Kvara was a shrewd January signing.
 
sirvoo said:
My brother is a big Spurs fan and he is PISSED they sacked Ange. Curious your thoughts on it?
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Lol, this is a family site, so I can’t put into words what I’d like to.

I vented yesterday on a Spurs board I post on. I just don’t get how you kill the (for once) vibes by sacking a guy the players seem to love and a guy who just (finally) won this club a trophy, and a major one at that. At least let him start the season with a healthy roster and support him with a good transfer window and if the league results don’t change, THEN you sack him. Now, we’re instantly Spursy again and we’re Daniel Levy’s Tottenham again. Those 16 days were a blast, sigh. Also, any manager brought in (I’m assuming Thomas Frank) has to not only win over the players and the supporters, but has to deal with Levy and ENIC and, pretty much, win immediately. There will be no grace period.

The ironic thing is I almost changed my avatar after Bilbao, but it’s as fitting as ever unfortunately after yesterday.
 
guinness77 said:
Lol, this is a family site, so I can’t put into words what I’d like to.

I vented yesterday on a Spurs board I post on. I just don’t get how you kill the (for once) vibes by sacking a guy the players seem to love and a guy who just (finally) won this club a trophy, and a major one at that. At least let him start the season with a healthy roster and support him with a good transfer window and if the league results don’t change, THEN you sack him. Now, we’re instantly Spursy again and we’re Daniel Levy’s Tottenham again. Those 16 days were a blast, sigh. Also, any manager brought in (I’m assuming Thomas Frank) has to not only win over the players and the supporters, but has to deal with Levy and ENIC and, pretty much, win immediately. There will be no grace period.

The ironic thing is I almost changed my avatar after Bilbao, but it’s as fitting as ever unfortunately after yesterday.
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Almost exact same sentiments my brother had this AM when we spoke about it. A ton of injuries and they had only signed 1 senior player this past season from what he said. Meanwhile he had been developing some promising young players too.

If they weren’t happy with the Prem results why not sack him during last season? Makes little sense they let him take them to the promised land and after all that show him the door. Classic Levy!
 
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