Arsenal should've had a great chance of winning their group this season, considering the poor domestic form of the best team in their group. Dortmund are currently in the relegation zone in the Bundesliga and have won twice as many Champions League games as they have in the league. They've also scored more goals in their four group games than they have in their ten league games.
As many pundits have said, Arsenal were tactically naive, if not plain stupid, when 3-0 up. Who's that down to? Wenger. For all his success, it's a long time since his tactics didn't diminish the ability of his players. How many times have they come up short in the past 10 years because of his blind spots over tactical weaknesses - not least teams running behind their high defence or the failure to have a ball winning/holding midfielder in the team?
Currently 3-0 down at home to Brentford. Maybe Stuart Neanderthal Pearce is getting found out at long last ??
Hopefully someone will be left on the field at the end to turn off the lights. Man City's ineptitude in the CL is one of the more interesting ongoing stories. But it would be so much more fun if it were Chelsea.
City are benefiting from having one dominant team in their group. 2 draws, 2 defeats, yet only 2 points behind 2nd place! They can still do it but Bayern Munich (h) and Roma (a) looks a tall order
I have read that Ronaldo wants a bigger contract when the present one runs out. He is supposed to be on $80 million this year with wages and perks. What do they do with their money?I would have thought 80 million would pay the wages of most of the Spanish League. It's all beyond me.....I wonder how many people in Spain are existing on minimum wages,and I don't mean footballers!
If any footballer deserves that kinda of money, it's him. The guy is a marketing machine off the pitch and a goal scoring machine on it.
He's the shiniest pane on the shop window of the biggest sports club in the world which brings in x hundred million a year in revenue. They wouldn't pay him that much if he wasn't worth more than that. Probably much more.
