Real Madrid vs Schalke was so good, a match of the season contender I think. Schalke were so unlucky not to go through to the next round, I can't see Real Madrid breaking the Champions League winners curse this season.

Still think it's comfortably between Madrid & Munich.

Even worse for English teams this season with almost certainly now no teams in the last 8...

Jose Mourinho needs a reality check.

 

Shocking.

Poor effort from the English teams all round really (tho I fancy Arsenal to qualify still). It's funny to see Chelsea loose, tho I do wonder if it will dampen our UEFA coefficent.

 

Oh the irony of Chelsea complaining about time wasting :lol: Chelsea looked tired and laboured. I don't even think they would win the League this year if they had half decent competition. Awful tactics from Mourinho, I never get why with so many good attacking players he plays such mind numbling boring anti-football. I backed Chelsea to win and as soon as they scored I cashed out because I always saw PSG scoring if Chelsea scored.

Costa is being found out recently also tbh.

 

Trust Luiz being the person ensuring that Chelsea are knocked out the champions league.

Costa is being found out recently also tbh.

 

Trust Luiz being the person ensuring that Chelsea are knocked out the champions league.

 

Your whole team has. Hazard aside, the Chelsea team isn't that great. It's just solid. Fabregas can't impose himself anymore, he did the same at Barca, first 10 games he's unstoppable and then he's annonymous. Chelsea only have themselves to blame. Parking the bus against 10 men, absolutely ridiculous tactics. Diving, play acting, and then created nothing with a man advantage. Chelsea got what they deserved tonight. Mourinho getting slated everywhere and rightly so.

Chelsea are a dead ringer for Don Revie's Leeds team.

Chelsea are a dead ringer for Don Revie's Leeds team.

If they were like Don Revie's Leeds (and some other teams from that era) but playing under today's laws, they would finish every game with eight or nine players.

If they were like Don Revie's Leeds (and some other teams from that era) but playing under today's laws, they would finish every game with eight or nine players.

 

Obviously a modern day version, but there are some uncanny similarities!

The remaining last-16 matches are played this week. Anybody predict an English team will go through? :lol:

 

Lots of people still assume Arsenal will go through and have written off Monaco, in spite of the first leg. Admittedly, Arsenal are in their best form of the season but Monaco have an impressive defence.

Don't Monaco have the best home defence in the CL this season?

 

Huge ask for Arsenal to go there and 3-0 (or 4-1) but they are still by a mile Britain's best chance of QF representation, don't think Man City have a prayer.

Think Arsenal have a good chance tbf. Man City... it could go either way, really depends on what formation he goes for, because they need some sort of control otherwise Barca will just run ragged.

Monaco will know they are to concede no more than 2, and that's assuming they don't score themselves. Arsenal's mindset will surely be to just go full out attack so it still really could go either way.

Arsenal out then, in the most "Arsenal" way possible :lol:

They played a fantastic match. Some really great football. Giroud, Ramsey and Cazorla all did superb jobs. Of course it was never going to happen after that first leg disaster, but with 13 wins from 15 matches we're at least primed now to get the FA cup and keep hold of third place.

Arsenal are, in a very roundabout way, looking like having another very Arsenal-like season.

Again the damage was done in the first leg for Arsenal.

 

 

It would have been a thrashing if Manchester City didn't have Joe Hart in goal last night.

 

For the second time in three seasons, there'll be no English team in the quarter-finals. What does this say about the Premier League?

 

 

Not a lot, just one of those seasons. Football is cyclical, what about those years where the German teams were nowhere & also the times where Italian teams dominated. English teams are still a force in Europe it probably won't be long before several are regularly getting through to the QFs.