Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

If a male pundit came out with one of their list of stock quotes like "Her first touch was bad there" they'd be accused of sexism and slung out.

 

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino given touchline ban by FA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47452207

 

****ing good point. i didn't watch it (****ing obviously), but that's just typical of the age we live in

 

ffs, if there was men on the panel it would only have been jenas and phillis neville.

really want to listen to both those cretins waffling bollocks.

 

Real Madrid: How Champions League holders crashed out against Ajax
For the first time since May 2015 - a run stretching 46 months - Real Madrid are out of the Champions League.
They have a remarkable record since the start of the 2015-16 season, in which they claimed the first of their three successive titles.
Real Madrid in Champions League since start of 2015-16
Played Won Drawn Lost Goals for Goals against
47 32 8 7 112 50
Real's CL results since start of 2015-16: WWDWWWWWLWDWDWDWDWDWWWWWLWWWDLWWWWWLWDWWLWWWLWL
Real had reached at least the semi-finals in every season since they were knocked out in the last 16 by French side Lyon back in 2010, in Cristiano Ronaldo's first season with the club.
So what has gone wrong? Too much to sum up in one paragraph, but obviously losing the goals of Ronaldo has been a major problem.
This year, Real's top scorer in Europe was striker Karim Benzema with four - some way off the pace of Bayern Munich's Robert Lewandowski (eight), Barcelona's Lionel Messi (six) or Ajax's former Southampton forward Dusan Tadic (also six).

• 'I didn't sleep' - Former Real boss Lopetegui on his brief tenure

'The end of an era' - reaction at home and abroad
Spanish newspapers AS and Marca went into overdrive at the full-time whistle, with several articles calling for the exits of manager Solari, president Florentino Perez, and numerous players - including Gareth Bale - who are "many of them in an undeniable end of cycle."

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Zinedine Zidane won three Champions Leagues in a row before leaving last summer. Was he on to something?
Captain Sergio Ramos - who missed the game through suspension having been booked deliberately in the first leg - watched from a box while being filmed for an upcoming documentary. Now a must-watch...
Spanish football journalist Guillem Balague on BBC Radio 5 Live: "Just wait until the summer! There are big big problems at Real. One of the top players, one of the captains at Real, said that they only need to play well for four games a season to win the Champions League. That attitude in the long term is a massive problem.
"It's the worst defeat at home in their European history. There was resignation from the fans - they just went home without making any noise.

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"Here lies a team that made history: humiliating end of an unrepeatable cycle."
"They cannot compete in the market like they used to; they stopped getting Galacticos in 2014 and the squad is thinner and thinner. Who would you say is a superstar in this team? Everyone has disappointed.
"Gareth Bale did not start, which is frustrating him big time, but they do not see him as one of them. When he has been given the responsibility he hasn't shone but he won't shine if he's only given 15 or 20 minutes."
Former Manchester United and Real Sociedad boss David Moyes on BBC Radio 5 Live: "Real needed this game tonight, but they were well beaten. It should have been by more. A lot of people will be wanting to know what is going to change at Real Madrid. It is the end of an era.
"Cristiano Ronaldo left over the summer and you'll now be looking at a Luka Modric, maybe a Toni Kroos or Sergio Ramos leaving. It would not surprise me if there is a complete change at Real Madrid in the summer.
"I think they are something like 25-30 goals down on what they were last season. That is because of Ronaldo's goals. But I still don't think you expect to go to the Bernabeu and win the way teams are doing at the moment. That title - the Galacticos - is not there at the moment.
"But they have a strong president and club and I'm sure they'll already be thinking about how they rebuild to get back to where they have been."
BBC commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball: "It's a truly seismic result in terms of European football and possibly the end of an era.
"This Real team have won four of the last five Champions League and they have been humiliated on their own pi
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47463849

 

"She's got the touch of a rapist" wouldn't go down very well tbf....

 

2 matches so will be back for our game at anfield

@astro your consipiracy theory please?

 

The second game is the game at Anfield they don't have a game next weekend.

 

do they not?

Nice one.

is this due to FA cup? thier opponent is still in then...

@pj @Tobes whats your conspiracy theory on this one then.

 

It’s shown you can have an empty suit at Anfield and get a point. See Sam for proof

 

I recall fat sham sitting up at anfield with his feel our in the old dugout with is really worn old brown shoes chewing gum like nobody's business for west ham were he got his 0-0 way back before the new main stand was built.

0-0 draws from rubbish teams is a feature but when you play 3 no 6s its no shock alisson has nothing to go do and gets 17 clean sheets and our CBs look heros with 15 goals conceded all year.

 

So Poch beingnbanned wil have no influence.

 

Brendan Rodgers' wife and child 'hid' as Bearsden home burgled
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-47469652

 

cos spurs are a defensive team and ****... obviously it won't have any .

 

Jose Mourinho proud to hear Real Madrid fans chant his name after Ajax defeat
Mourinho is Real's first choice to takeover, says former president Ramon Calderon
https://www.skysports.com/football/...-madrid-fans-chant-his-name-after-ajax-defeat

 

Pochettino Banned for Anfield Tie

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Mauricio Pochettino will have to watch Liverpool’sPremier Leagueclash withTottenhamlater this month from the stands, havingreceiveda two-match touchline ban from the FA.

The Argentine was also fined £10,000, after confronting referee Mike Dean following Spurs’ 2-1 loss atBurnleyon February 23.

The Reds host the north Londoners on March 31, in what is likely to be one of the most pivotal remaining fixtures in the title race.

Liverpool need every little boost that they can in the run-in—Pochettino not being able to dictate matters from the dugout is an undoubted positive.

 

Are you getting #excuseinearly in case it goes wrong.

 

Won't make a difference if he's on the touchline or not

 

0-0 in a Merseyside derby is definitely a sign of Klopp "feeling the pressure" and not the fact that Everton's season revolves around getting a #bigpoint against us

Complete coincidence that last 5 of the last 6 Merseyside derbies have been draws after 90 minutes like, this is all about the title race

 

Man Utd: de Gea, Bailly, Smalling, Lindelof, Young, Andreas Pereira, Fred, McTominay, Shaw, Lukaku, Rashford.Subs: Romero, Rojo, Dalot, Garner, Chong, Gomes, Greenwood.