***Madrid v Champions CL Semi Final Official Match Thread***

[Beefymcfc]

Ps. What a piss-take, 1800 tickets for an 80,0000 capacity stadium. What’s that, just over 2% of the stadium.

Ducking hate Real, always cheating football. Remind me of the Rags and Dippers.

[carl_feedthegoat]

Result not bad, but what the fuck is Pep playing at, his non use of subs is getting to be a serious issue, players on yellows, players exhausted, but no subs, unbelievable.

saving them for Saturday?

You know JC, that thought crossed my mind, I wonder if Pep is saving a nucleus of a team for CL and one for PL? Could be you know.

Leaving Gundo on was shocking management as he became a liability and it could of cost us big time.
He got away with it but PeP did not manage this game well at all.

Haaland could have and should have been taken off as he was shite ( for the second game running) for Alvarez and Foden should have come in for Bernardo.

As I said , we got away with it.

[gmercer1]

Can we get Tiatto back to fuckin snap Rüdiger in two? Would pay good money to see that guys career ended.

I’ll put in as well mate. A horrible dirty player who gets away withi it all the time.

[Nick]

1) bernabau - embarrassing tourist stadium
2) Madrid- cheating cunts
3) ref poor but half expected to fuck us even more
4) pep not making subs - joke! In that heat, with our games. Could have pushed for a winner with foden and mahrez. Now it will be a straight blow by blow.
5) wholesale changes Sunday puts the 3 points at risk

[Original Dub]

Horrible heat, horrible team, horrible ref.

Incredible result.

Fuck you Madrid. You're getting fuckign spanked in manchester

[Nick]

Result not bad, but what the fuck is Pep playing at, his non use of subs is getting to be a serious issue, players on yellows, players exhausted, but no subs, unbelievable.

saving them for Saturday?

You know JC, that thought crossed my mind, I wonder if Pep is saving a nucleus of a team for CL and one for PL? Could be you know.

Leaving Gundo on was shocking management as he became a liability and it could of cost us big time.
He got away with it but PeP did not manage this game well at all.

Haaland could have and should have been taken off as he was shite ( for the second game running) for Alvarez and Foden should have come in for Bernardo.

As I said , we got away with it.

Wtf? What nucleus? Lol. This is our best 11.

[CTID Hants]

Can we get Tiatto back to fuckin snap Rüdiger in two? Would pay good money to see that guys career ended.

If Danny isn't available, we can always call Bellamy and his golf clubs

[blues2win]

Big shout for Ed and Walker.

[Mase]

Can we get Tiatto back to fuckin snap Rüdiger in two? Would pay good money to see that guys career ended.

If Danny isn't available, we can always call Bellamy and his golf clubs

Bellamy could use the money by all accounts. A trio of Bellamy, de Jong, Tiatto being brought on in the 89th minute when we’re three up would be nice.

[blues2win]

Tintin got official MoM.

[rosbif cuisson 'bleu']

Can we get Tiatto back to fuckin snap Rüdiger in two? Would pay good money to see that guys career ended.

If Danny isn't available, we can always call Bellamy and his golf clubs

Bellamy could use the money by all accounts. A trio of Bellamy, de Jong, Tiatto being brought on in the 89th minute when we’re three up would be nice.

Haha Slapshot

[Harry Dowd scored]

Result not bad, but what the fuck is Pep playing at, his non use of subs is getting to be a serious issue, players on yellows, players exhausted, but no subs, unbelievable.

saving them for Saturday?

You know JC, that thought crossed my mind, I wonder if Pep is saving a nucleus of a team for CL and one for PL? Could be you know.

Leaving Gundo on was shocking management as he became a liability and it could of cost us big time.
He got away with it but PeP did not manage this game well at all.

Haaland could have and should have been taken off as he was shite ( for the second game running) for Alvarez and Foden should have come in for Bernardo.

As I said , we got away with it.

Wtf? What nucleus? Lol. This is our best 11.

It’s the only explanation for non use of subs, the starting 11. our best team, but Gündoğan was on a yellow and fucked, Bernardo the same, Foden and maybe Alvarez as well should have been on

[Beefymcfc]

Ancelotti’s rattled.

[blues2win]

Wio screaming with delight in the BT studio when Vinicius scored.

[Harry Dowd scored]

This off the beeb :

Pep Guardiola didn't make a single substitution tonight.

It is the first time that's happened in a Champions League semi-final since Sir Alex Ferguson left an unchanged side out against Carlo Ancelotti's AC Milan in 2006-7.

[Nickyboy]

We absolutely battered them in the home leg last season and missed loads of chances to kill them off before it even got to the second leg.

Same performance again but Haaland on the end of them and we will win comfortably.

[nottsblue]

Do none of Peps army of back room staff ever point out that we are flagging and can make changes?

And it’s hardly as if we haven’t got absolute bangers on the bench who can change games with moments of magic and quality.

That could easily have ended in defeat. Or an injury as tired players pick up knocks more so than fresh ones

[johnny crossan]

This off the beeb :

Pep Guardiola didn't make a single substitution tonight.

It is the first time that's happened in a Champions League semi-final since Sir Alex Ferguson left an unchanged side out against Carlo Ancelotti's AC Milan in 2006-7.

another record smashed

[Nickyboy]

Foden and Alvarez for Gundo and Grealish last 10/15 mins and we would have won that tonight

[Beefymcfc]

This off the beeb :

Pep Guardiola didn't make a single substitution tonight.

It is the first time that's happened in a Champions League semi-final since Sir Alex Ferguson left an unchanged side out against Carlo Ancelotti's AC Milan in 2006-7.

I was hoping for changes but understand why Pep kept them on. The game was so fast and tight that changing players may have affected the set-up, even for a couple of minutes can change the dynamic when Real are pushing for at least the win.

From their demeanour it looked like they knew they needed at least a win, hoping for at least 2 goals start going back to ours.

Personal opinion but I think we did really well and will be very happy with the scoreline.