It was quite the scene watching Real Madrid pick Liverpool to pieces last night… and once again, really highlighted the job we need to do this summer in the transfer market.
Madrid controlled the press, they were obviously extrememly efficient in midfield with Kroos and Modric pulling strings, and they moved the ball accurately at speed.
Who in our team, bar Xhaka on a very, very good day, could pick out Vinicius with a 2 yard advantage on Trent?
The most impressive part for me was how Madrid played around Liverpool and demoralised them. That really is the key to beating big teams with intelligent pressing, you play around them a few times early in the game and make them doubt themselves. Madrid did it with some beautiful one touch football and Klopp didn’t have an answer.
That sort of football from Arsenal can only really come when we have our best starting 11 out with the correct players in the right positions.
Arsenal need to start shaping our squad with players that can do things like the Madrid side can. An obvious statement, but if the direction we’re taking is highly technical, then we need highly technical players with the right physical attributes to be able to do that.
Currently, we have a good idea that can operate with certain players in the right mood. Take a few players our and we’re in a desperate situation.
We need more Smith Rowe like talents, his addition to the squad has been absolutely crucial. Without his intelligent running and quick passing, everyone drops a level. Odegaard is a fine player, but he was taken out of the Liverpool game with ease when there weren’t other creators around him
Technical means intelligence as well. I don’t believe for a minute Arteta didn’t have Trent down as a weakness, but he didn’t have players on the pitch that could execute a plan to take advantage. Madrid players don’t need a week to deliver on an plan, Liverpool don’t… Arsenal players aren’t smart enough to operate to a high level on short notice.
Auba and Lacazette don’t play well together, we have to give up that game and start playing the names that click on the pitch. If we’re playing Auba as the 9, we have to build technicians around him. We can’t try and have it every which way to appease the big names. It doesn’t work. Lacazette has good link-up play but limited threat in front of goal, Auba is deadly but won’t run the line or link-up. It’s a nightmare of our own making… but let’s be clear on Auba, he gave us the season we feared we’d have if he didn’t sign up for 3 years (no goal threat). Who saw that coming?
We also need to make decisions on the defence next season. If you need to be world class with the ball at your feet to survive in the Arsenal defence, let’s shape our squad that way and make sure we have players that are comortable playing a high risk game.
William Saliba is still very raw, he’s ony a kid, but his game is what we need from a centre back. He’s in the top 3 for ball recoveries, no one has run past him this season, and he can move with the ball at his feet. He needs to be in the four next season. What is the point in David Luiz next year? What is he preserving for us? If the coaching staff are looking at him, thinking he’s keeping us stable, and we’re 10th, it feels like they’re under-analysing the problem. None of the senior players are keeping us in the mix this year and none of them have a resale value. What’s more… the surgery… it’s a big fuck off siren… he’s old, fitness does not get any better. Old players that are injured all the time are not fun to be around at the training ground. Arteta can attest to that, not many people were huge fans of the man he was at the back end of his injury ravaged Arsenal career.
We should be experimenting for the future, not doubling down on a past that has had us 8th and now 10th or possibly lower this season. Calculate our unforced errors this season, look at the average age of where they come from, and you’ll find it’s probably over the age of 25. If you take even half those errors out of the system, we’re in the top 4 right now… but you have to have the guts to do that, and there are huge question marks over whether our coaching stuff is ruthless enough to make moves like that. If your most crucial players cost you the most points because of errors… then your squad is built to fail. The footballing equation can’t be ‘we play better with that person in the squad, but they regularly cost us games.’ That’s like building an electric car that thrills with 0-60 at 2 seconds… but regularly explodes and kills its passengers.
Arsenal will get to the end goal a lot quicker if we just do the difficult work now. At the moment, we’re the guy having one more beer before they hit the diet… we’re delaying the inevitable.
If there is one thing we’ve learned this season, it’s that players with a future to play for are far more hungry than those that don’t. Willian has no special qualities that are relevant to the now. David Luiz might be a great big game player, but if every 4 games he serves up a howler that costs us 3 points, what’s the fucking point? Our prestige names are fair weather. Who would I prefer as my #9 in a one on one with my house on the line? Auba. Who would I prefer over a 90… I’m not far off saying Martinelli this season.
Here’s the thing though, most of this post is directed at Arteta… it should NOT be that way.
‘He’s a bad manager but a good coach’ is something I hear at lot and I absolutely agree.
You could be a good coder, doesn’t mean you’d make a good CEO. All the brightest young managers in world football have brilliant systems built around their weaknesses. Nagelsmann is not a manager, he’s a coach, and he’s surrounded by people that know how to extract the most out of him. Marco Rose will not be handling the vision of a Dortmund when he’s hired there. There are so, so few true managers in world football right now because it’s an outrageous amount of responsibility to bestow on someone. We bestowed that on a novice.
We should have a strong technical director running the show. Edu should be the bad guy making the tough decisions. Arteta should be able to shrug and say, ‘I just work with what I am given’… it is farsical that a 39 year old is given so much power for delivering so little.
But here’s the thing, you don’t want Edu running things, nor does Vinai, which is why he promoted Arteta. When that sort of weakness runs through the clubs leadership, it’s absolutely clear why we are where we are right now. Too many people are learning on the job. Edu and Arteta should not be sharing roles. The blending of swimlanes makes it hard to see who is doing what. Arteta should coach, Edu should be building the squad. That said, I’m not saying we can’t succeed. I’m just saying we’re building out an unsustainable model based on the hope that one person can do it all… that’s not future proof. Might not even be now proof.
This summer is going to be massive. All three of the leadership trifecta have jobs on the line. KSE are unlikely to foot another rebuild bill. We’ll have to make money before we can spend. We’ll likely have to improve the level of our squad on lower wages. We’ll likely have to move a historic amount of talent both ways and keep stability in the first team.
A huge ask. If they pull it off, then I’ll back the fuck away…
One way to make the summer a little easier would be to win the Europa League, more on that tomorrow night.
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Dare we hope to finish that high at the end of the season ?!
Too late again. Top 10 though.
Nice read.
We really need to start recruiting right. The right players for a system we plan to build on
Thanks groovedaddy
Scholarly piece by Devlin , thank you boss “ Well Matt, I am a bit frustrated at the fact that we might not know. Before Bournemouth came into the league, my answer would have been a resounding yes. But just like with Leeds, the level of the technical abilities of players has to be pushed to its limits for us to know their level. Also, its hard to judge for me because players bring different technical abilities to the table. An example would be Pepe, is he technical or not not? He is probably the most skillful, the best at… Read more »
” Real moved the ball accurately at speed.”
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That’s the key to play around their high press. We need to sign midfielders who has this capability.
A lot riding on the summer biz….
I’m not holding my breath.
C’mon Edu! Surprise me!!
Pedro
Ad hominems sure sign of a weak argument. I’m no Emery fan I wanted him gone but how one can be a fraud and the other a generational talent with a worse record makes no logical sense, the mental gymnastics needed to come to that conclusion is crazy. You gotta be in you’re 30’s now calling people virgins who disagree with your opinion, fucking sad.
Devlin is wrong on Jack Wilshere.
Off the cuff play can win matches but Jack Wilshere used to over-do it on far too many occassions and over-dribble and lose possession to the opposition. That is down to the overall intelligence of the player. Wilshere would come under the bracket of a player that would have probably benefited from more instruction. Not to straight jacket him but to improve his decision making.
I said before that Kroos still plays at a high tempo and work-rate.
He sprints towards his own keeper to receive the ball just outside his own penalty area to start moves off.
This means that the start of moves is quick, efficient and positive. It sets the tone straight from the off.
We need a mobile technical midfielder that can set the correct tone straight from first phase play. We don’t have one. We have Granit Xhaka. That’s how to beat an opposition press.
Doublethink, making bad faith arguments with shit data for Unai Emery then geting angry when you’re called out for it on a fan blog is sad.
Doublethink
Being 3 loses away of the worst season in 45 years is a very exceptional achievement I could call it “Generational”
Lose at home against Burnley, Wolves, Leicester and Villa. in the same season can be hail as Generational
7 wins out of 15 league games at home seems very Generational too.
It seems like Arteta is machine in achieve GENERATIONAL Records in detriment of the Arsenal.
“We should have a strong technical director running the show.”
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“strong and experienced”. Currently, not only we created more problems, like giving long and big contracts to Willian and Auba, we also mismanaged our young players: Saliba, Martinelli, Reiss Nelson and Eddie. Balo’s contract is still in the air. They don’t give us any confidence that they can do a good job.
Think you may be right Pedro. Disappointed to hear that Tierney is out for 6 games, this time knee ligaments. He’s not having surgery but the problem with ligaments is once damaged they never get back to what they were. Let’s hope it’s just a strain then. Next season we really do have to sort out these injuries that we keep suffering from. Soares is an able replacement but any team that wants to be successful needs to be able to play their first-choice players more often than not. Take Liverpool, their team last season was the ultimate in consistency,… Read more »
Pedro your still banging the its not artetas fault drum. If he was just the coach like Emery or Freddie for his few games then he gets more protection. But he demanded more power, he gets the players he wants for the most part. Maybe he doesn’t have the control that Wenger had but he has a lot more than Emery. I’m not an emery cheerleader he had to go because he appeared to lose the dressing room, but most of those players have moved on now, maybe he should have been backed rather than those players. Artetas record is… Read more »
There has to be relationship between the number of times mr Ebening is mentioned and how bad results are for Diet Pep
yes Real Madrid were technically excellent last night as always but what was also very evident is what big, fast, direct and hardworking team they were, who dominated Liverpool Physically. both in attack and defence More Invincibles than latter day Wenger . Just compare Benzema to Lacazette !!!!
AFC Forever “Also worth sayng that those who wanted to pair Ceballos with Partey, as part of the never-ending anti-Xhaka agenda, just don’t get it. It’s about the sum of all parts and we have nobody in the squad who can do that Xhaka role as well as him. ” No you don’t get it. We have been asking for better midfielders including Xhaka for ages. If you think this team seriously improves next season with Xhaka still an integral part of it you are crackers. He is a Europa League level player. Shame on you for implying that all… Read more »
Emery inherited a poor squad and just as he started to make some progress he lost Welbeck, Bellerin and Holding to long term injuries and his only Jan reinforcement was an injured Suarez. Arteta has been spoilt player wise in comparison.
Asoa, I wholeheartedly agree with your point. However in order to make that kind of sprint football a manager has to be willing to relinquish control. A manager has to accept that most of his work has already been done during the training and game preparation. The only interaction he should have during the game is to instruct change of tactics or personnel, not instruction every play step by step. Which is exactly what Arteta does. Micro-managing to the level of instructing to whom to pass. Remember the ESR and Saka goals that were the result of quick, instinctive interchange… Read more »
Any team that seriously competes in midfield against Arsenal and presses high up and puts pressure on our current midfielders then we are in trouble and that includes Granit Xhaka.
It doesn’t happen in every match but these games come along and we see the outcome. They melt. Ceballos or Xhaka. The only thing Ceballos showed previously over Xhaka was that he could engineer himself out of the press on occasions but not evident against Liverpool and previously he was playing with fire in attempting this on occasions when he shouldn’t have.
the job we need to do this summer in the transfer market.
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Pedro,
Let’s look at the players we’ve signed since Wenger was sacked:
The Shit:
Torreira
Sokratis
Lichtsteiner
Pepe
Runarsson
Willian
The Average:
Partey
Gabriel
Soares
Mari
Luiz
Guendouzi
Leno
Saliba (who knows?)
The Good:
Tierney
Martinelli
So in a nutshell, out of 16 signing only 2 are good.
Not very encouraging!
I don’t understand why people think Saliba would want to play for Arteta. Fact is Arteta shat on Saliba and made his judgement on him based on 1 friendly. Yet by all accounts he’s had a good season out on loan, being one of the better players in the team. Truth is I’d give Arteta fuck all to spend as his judgment on players are awful and he hasn’t a clue. 18 months in , 50 premier league games managed, yet the twat still doesn’t know his best back 4.
The people running Arsenal don’t have the slightest clue what they’re doing
@Danny
Yet Martinelli and Tierney weren’t even Arteta’s signings. So far majority of arteta’s signings have been poor to say the least
Thank you and goodnight
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True which means even more reason to worry!
Using words like bad faith and shit data mean nothing if you don’t have a counter argument, if win percentage over a 50 game period is shit data, what would you consider good data? Yeah let’s all pretend that we didn’t want Wenger to leave after winning a trophy because it suits my agenda. I’m annoyed because I didn’t expect you the owner of a pretty succesful blog that I’ve been visiting for years to resort to namecalling like a 12 year old keyboard warrior, if that makes me sad then so be it.
I could’ve added to the list are 3 loanies (loonies…..)
Completely Shit:
Suarez
Just Shit:
Ceballos
Good:
Ødegaard
Well I guess one out of 3 ain’t bad……
Up for Grabs now
Well said Arteta s time is up. He has not had the fans face on to attend to he is getting away with it big time.
The buck ends with him, he is a control freak and the players look pissed off with it .
He clearly has favourites and that cannot happen as it crates bad feelings amongst the players.
Madrid showed us how far away we are, as I have said look at Leipzig playing and remind me who the manager is.
That’s football not the crap we play.
@Spanishdave
Forget Madrid showing us the way. Fulham gave Liverpool a scare at anfield where they completely dominated at least 70 min of that game. We’re going backwards under Arteta no matter how much spin we put on it.
How quickly things can change in football. Before the Arsenal match TAA was getting criticized for his form/play, he plays Arsenal…”Southgate doesn’t know what he’s doing, TAA is WORLD CLASS!”, and then he plays a team that can actually pass out of midfield…TAA gets exposed. From what I can gather, playing against Arsenal is not a good barometer for how great a player is….because everyone looks good against us!
Arteta may be a good coach, but how does that account for his tactical ineptitude and choice of players? If he’s only a coach, then he doesn’t have the vision thing to be a manager. Also a good manager needs to be very good psychological judge of character and motivation, given that his squad will vary hugely in terms of individuals and their needs. Obviously we are not party to what goes on behind the scenes, but it is hard to see any evidence of that. As you rightly say, whatever Arteta is, and a year later we still don’t… Read more »
Mark s
Dont be silly its clear taa is a world class talent.
He is a world class attacking full back not a defender dont judge him by a centre backs yardstick
Cheer up lads, the worst is yet to come. Unless we say byeeee to Arteta.
Edu must go… Followed closely by Arteta.
There must be consequences for this season. That’s how a big club operates.
Word on the street is that Overmars is on his way.Is this the DOF we need?
The league games are all dead rubbers now, all the eggs are in one basket again with the europa. Yes there’s a few million here or their for where your final position is in the league but its not like we are going to jump from 10th to 5th is it. As others have said arteta doesn’t know his best back line, he doesn’t know his best midfield and the front line is all over though the show. He’s not ten games in trying to find the right balance. He’s had time, just as long as Emery. And there’s still… Read more »
Pedro No-one disputes that Arsenal should experiment with younger players. I would venture to suggest that is precisely what Arsenal have been doing over the last two and half years with introduction of Guendouzi, Saka, Nketiah, Martinelli, Nelson and Willock all of whom were teenagers when they played in the first team. Of these Saka and Smith-Rowe have proven to be players good enough to play in starting lineup. Martinelli seemed to be a huge talent when if first turned up, but has proven accident prone since then. The others have not looked in the same class when they have… Read more »
I omitted Smith-Rowe from list. So we have played 7 teenagers in last 2.5 years.
Danny. Listening to Martinelli a few weeks ago he was saying that despite him being told by the medics all was ok he was still in pain. There were undoubted glimpses of raw talent and exceptional talent but just like many many players that suffer an injury recovery quite often leaves player short of the levels they previously attained often that can be the loss of a yard or two of pace or as big a worry is the player cant mentally get over the injury. Tierney when he plays is the business but his injury record is a worry… Read more »
Looks like tomorrow we’ll start with a front 4 of Auba, Ode, Esr and Willian. Saka will probably be at LB since that position is very important in the way we attack and Cedric tho a capable LB is just kot like good enough for that role.
+ It has to be noted that Saka’s G+A numbers have dried up after that little purple patch. Doesn’t mean he is not a good attacker, just that it may be better for him to start at LB. Some of his best performances have come in the LWB position
Madrid controlled the press, they were obviously extrememly efficient in midfield with Kroos and Modric pulling strings, and they moved the ball accurately at speed.
Who in our team, bar Xhaka on a very, very good day, could pick out Vinicius with a 2 yard advantage on Trent?
Pedro are you trolling us here with that comment?
Kroos and modric were being written off as old and past it a few months back, now they can outshine klopp and his midfield, something we couldn’t do Saturday.
Xhaka can’t even move himself accurately and at speed, let alone the ball.
Tierney out for possibly 6 weeks, thanks to fuckin’ Scotland for playing him in all their 3 matches – 270 minutes, especially against Faroe Islands.
Ødegaard also apparently injured……
Whatever the final score tomorrow, the main thing is not to concede an away goal, if we do then we’ll be fucked, that’s the disadvantage of playing the first tie at home.
So it took pedro some painful mistakes by shit luiz and good performances by saliba in Ligue 1 to understand that saliba is better than luiz. When most of us pointed this out to him last October he was just shit talking back to us.
How long before pedro comes around on Arteta problem and prove all of us were right from the beginning? may be by season end?
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, Pedro, and start aiming at RM levels of excellence. What we saw yesterday was why the player many think is the best and most talented playmaker on Arsenal right this minute,Odegaard, doesn’t make their roster. RM could win the double( CL, and La Liga) and no one would be surprised. That said, if you don’t think we had the players capable to expose, or at least try to, Trent Alexander Arnold’s weaknesses as a poor defender , not to mention the slow Philips and the rookie Kabak, then I don’t know what to… Read more »
Tierney is a quality player, but he is not the smartest. Similar to Wilshere. He goes into challenges where he can hurt himself.
Agreed Pedro Promoting Arteta to a Manager looks like a very bad decision. We need someone like Rangnick in that role. We should nab him before he embarks on another long term project like Red Bull. Having a tough- talking DOF who is capable of making hard decisions and take the flak from fans temporarily makes a huge difference. It even takes some pressure off the Head Coach’s shoulders. So many examples spring to mind. Perez, Rangnick, Levy, Txiki ( first at Barca, now at City), Zorc, Ruminegge, etc. One very important quality all of these guys share is they… Read more »
Dream
Agreed. He need to learn when to not go all in
“Listening to Martinelli a few weeks ago he was saying that despite him being told by the medics all was ok he was still in pain.”
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WOW! That confirmed my suspicion. Our medics are crap. Luiz had head injury and they said that he was OK. They approved Partey to start and costed us losing him for a few weeks. Why they let an unfit Saka to play against West Ham, etc…
Tierney needs to evolve as a player to prolong his career or face football extinction.
Wilshere comes to mind here but also Ox to a certain extent.
You can be physically aggressive and still stay on you feet and avoid unnecessary challenges.
Tom
Tierney is currently walking on water. Every thing he does is praised by fans and media. “Arsenal have missing passion like this for a decade”. They won’t care if he consistently gets hurt.
“Up until now Edu hasn’t really convinced me but he has had bought some good players and cut a lot of dross in the 2 TW he headed. Is he the man we need? I’d prefer Rangnick. Does he warrant sacking? Not yet but if Rangnick wants to come I’d sack him in a heartbeat. Does he deserve another TW? Yes“ I pretty much agree with this. Last summer was far from an ideal scenario and perhaps you can offer that up as influence for the overall poor window – we fired Raul and had a truncated covid-summer where a… Read more »
Imo, Arteta’s handling of Martinelli has been absolutely appalling.
Give the kid a sniff and stop all this crap.
Preferential treatment of other player’s consumes Arteta’s thought process.
Odegaard is equally confused.
A good medical department should have a record of the physical health for every player. They should advise the coach who is in the red zone.
RM playing their home games on their training pitch in a 6k capacity stadium is a major advantage for them btw.
It totally altered depth perception for players not familiar with it.
Meanwhile Pool lost their home advantage with the pandemic.
Again with the “we must win the EL” Narrative. 1. We’ve never won it 2. 2 finals botched 3. A better manager in Wenger failed. 4. A more experienced manager in Emery failed. 5. There are better teams than ours in the tournament on both sides of the bracket 6. Arteta has never been in this “must win a trophy” position before. 7. The only players in our squad who have actually won The EL. The only ones who knows what it takes are Luiz and Willian. You can’t put ultimatums on people who have never done what you’re asking… Read more »
Dullard supporters turn a blind eye to the car crash season under stop-gap novice
London gunner-I agree with you, I think TAA is a world class fullback. I was being a bit sarcastic. My main gripe is that things seem to be either “fantastic” or “dumpster fire terrible” when it comes to football and its fans. Pedro has pointed out before that traffic on this site goes way up after we lose. Football fandom is a marathon…not a sprint…unless you’re a Citeh fan from the last 10 years…that has been a sprint.
It is clear what we have to do this summer. Purge as many senior players as we can. sell of young players that haven’t made the grade that have had enough chances so far. sign young players for our neccessary positions. That means No new contract for Lacazette, Elneny or Luiz. bellerin had got to go. Sell of Nketiah and willock if the right offer comes. Try and Negotiate a contract termination with old Willian. Give chances to Martinelli, Azeez, Balogun ( If he signs), Saliba and may be Mavropanos. But we all know what arteta is going to do.… Read more »
But according to Arteta , Willian can be a very important players for us in next 2 months ,apparently. Yeah so far he’s been a great signing Arteta. Def worth keeping him in the first team squad then. Even though their are better players than him. If Nelson had been given us much game time as Willian, I’m prettt sure we probably would of seen and got better use out of Nelson than we have Willian. This is why Arteta won’t make it as a manager as he’d rather cut off his nose to spite his face.
La croqueta
Conveniently forgetting the need to win the FA cup last season in point 6 🤔
Can chelsea win the champions league?
Arseblog tactics column about Slavia Prague doesnt make for a good read . Xhaka is in for a tough time. I sure hope we are up for it.
I guess Torr must be feeling quite lonely in Madrid. He is just on loan there and hardly plays. I suggest we keep him in the squad next year and provide him with more love and caring. Let him feel more at home. We can also offer him vacation time back home. He could still be converted to a useful member.
“Can chelsea win the champions league?”
No.
RM and Bayern are still my favorites.
City might be bookies favorite but the pressure and Peps tinkering is against them.
What the RM game also showed last night is what a terrible fit Auba would’ve been for them, so like with Ozil, Arsenal again negotiated against themselves and some rumor in awarding him that fat contract.
Graham
Martinelli has been getting a sniff, literally.
Spudik
City is run by a billionaire who spends big money unlike Arsenal.
That is a shocker from Neuer. Mbappe doesn’t need a helping hand. He is devastating with out giving him a finish he fluffed at.
habesha
mbappe is a generational talent but he often finishes like that. just smashes as hard as he can without any finnese directly at the keeper. He isn’t messi like rolling on a pinpoint into either corner
Very punchy article Pedro . There are two decisions that need to be made . Edu is nowhere near good enough to be TD at a club with Arsenal’s problems and aspirations. On the playing front I just cannot accept Xhaka as some sort of top midfield player’ not perfect but on his day ‘. There is no day with Xhaka he has had less than ten excellent games in five years. He is a liability not helped this season by Partey’ being very underwhelming . Arsenal’s future is ESR, Saka , KT3 , Saliba, Gabriel , Martinelli and Azeez… Read more »
London gunner
Yeah his finishing is a bit of a hit and miss. He finishes worldies sometimes too though. Remember the third of his hatrick at Camp Nou? Just sublime.
This is just a fascinating game so far. I feel sad watching it though seeing how far we are from a really too team. The football is like an improved peak wengerball.
Top team*
Bayern’s high line getting exposed here.
Told you fuckers Bayern aren’t winning it this year.
Raheem speaks you listen
#Raheemknows
Mount’s half turn and shot was nice to watch. Chelsea 1 – 0
I want to like Arteta, but there are aspects of his coaching that are disappointing –in particular, when it becomes abundantly obvious that something is not working it doesn’t get addressed. The tipping point for me will be Thursday evening…if Auba plays and plays as a left winger!?
I find the argument compelling, that if a player is so good that you pay him the club record salary then you build the team play around his strengths not his weaknesses
2-1
Honestly this is a great game to watch. So much quality. Bayern look a much lesser team without Lewandowski though.
Muller
Raheem
Your predictions don’t look so hot right now. Bayern have dominated entirely even with out their best player. They look like Machines. And I think they will go through.
#Raheemknows
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#Uh-oh 😀
Hahaha How is everyone…? God I hope Pedro doesn’t write a column tomorrow comparing us to Bayern or PSG… we are so far away from CL levels..it’s not even funny.
Muller looks like he has been in a street fight. Blood streaming down his neck.
Muller is a real og
Wow Kylian Mbappe what a finish.
Your back in there Radio… hahaha Great game of football,
What did you say?
Bayern might go through it winners of the competition don’t concede 3 at home in the quarters.
And PSG also have players missing.
Anyway PSG 3-2 up
#Raheemknows
Well with Bayern missing Lewandowski.. I call it even.. This feels like a final.
If Lewandowski is back for the 2nd leg I still would fancy bayern even with a deficit. They are too good. They are also missing Gnabry. It will be a different game. Bayern win anywhere. They are that good. PSG have just been good at taking their chances tonight.
Midwest
Yeah I’m enjoying the football.
Sane isn’t quite cut out for Bayern is he? I’ve watched quite a few of their matches this season. He’s a bit too languid not enough ‘dawg’ like they say in boxing.
Isn’t gnabry bayerns best player after Lewandowski and muller?
So he is quite the miss
Seems like Bayern have had about a million opportunities…in the last 10 mins.. just can’t break through that last bit. Trying to walk it in the net almost.
Gnabry has been fit sometimes this season but only made the bench. Bayern aren’t what they were last season.
If Pep can stay calm City should win it this year and that’s the first time I’ve tipped them to do it.
Bayern have had some good opportunities but i think the score line is a fair reflection of the game.
PSG have had the best clear cut chances and pocctino has set up psg game tactics of counter attacking to a tee