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@Ellis_ What are you talking? Unjted fans don't have the right to speak about ucl, lmao. Back to your cave

Mind you they played against Leverkusen and Sporting. I’m pretty sure if Chelsea, City & Liverpool played Leverkusen and Sporting they’d still be in the competition too. This guy is actually so insufferable.

@fmeetsdata @GameStateNarr They cheated with more rest days between ucl knock out matches

@GameStateNarr Plus a brutal schedule in league stage, both times.

Paths toward the potential 🔵 UCL final: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal ▪️R16: 🇩🇪 Leverkusen ▪️QF: 🇵🇹 Sporting CP ▪️SF: 🇪🇸 Atlético Madrid 🇪🇦 Atlético Madrid ▪️PO: 🇧🇪 Club Brugge ▪️R16: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham ▪️QF: 🇪🇦 Barcelona ▪️SF: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal 🇩🇪 Bayern ▪️R16: 🇮🇹 Atalanta ▪️QF: 🇪🇦 Real Madrid ▪️SF: 🇨🇵 PSG 🇨🇵 PSG ▪️PO: 🇨🇵 Monaco ▪️R16: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea ▪️QF: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Liverpool ▪️SF: 🇩🇪 Bayern

The UCL is hard to win. It’s always been. That loss yesterday it 11 years since Barcelona last made the finals. Before 2006, they went 14 years. They won it for the first time in 1992, thirty-seven years after the first European Cup game was played. Their best period remains 2006 to 2015 when they won it four times. That competition is so wicked that they may not win it again for another decade. It’s possible. Real Madrid went 32 years without a UCL trophy. Between 1966 and 1998. In that period, they won the league 16 times. Between 2003 and 2011, they made the semifinal only once. For context, Pep Guardiola didn’t make a single UCL final at Bayern Munich. It took him five years or so to make his first at Man City. He spent a truckload of money to achieve that feat. Consecutive quarterfinal exits in the hands of teams you’ll expect them to steamroller. Jose Mourinho won and became everything he could at Chelsea but he never made a UCL final with them. You know who did? Avram Grant. Roberto Di Matteo. Two coaches who can’t be heard near Mourinho’s level. If Arsenal make it to the semifinal, they’ll be the only English team in the semifinal for the second year running. Same Arsenal didn’t even qualify for the UCL for seven years. They’ve seen a final once. They’ve only gone as far as the semifinal three times. In Wenger’s 22 years at Arsenal, they made the semifinal only twice. The first didn’t come until nearly a decade after he joined. The Premier League had six teams in the UCL this season. Only one of them is likely to make the semis. Only two made the quarters. And that’s a league that spent £3.4bn in last summer’s transfer window alone. Diego Simeone has made the final twice and he hasn’t won it. He’s spent 15 years at Atletico Madrid. In that period, ATM have only gone as far as the semifinals four times. Simeone may yet leave ATM without winning it. It’s why Zidane’s achievements sits gently and pretty. He lived a charmed life. That achievement is rare. A league title rewards consistency, the UCL rewards a combination of too many factors, some of which are outside your control. My name is Rilwan, I love and write about football systems, memories and the depths behind the game. Follow me and repost if you want more of this.

@footballontnt Lmao, only bayern fans say so.

Less than two years ago, Vincent Kompany was relegated from the Premier League with Burnley… Now he's recognised as one of the best managers in Europe 🤩

@btc_charlie Bend it

Thoughts?

@FCBayern Lmao

90 minutes at the Allianz Arena is a long time.

@FunnyGooner that fluid football did not bring us to semi final of ucl

Whatever happened to our fast flowing fluid football from two seasons ago man?

@LeGrove Jesus the same, lmao. Have to sell in the summer

Gyokeres has been disastrous tonight. Can't control the ball, win duels, or play one-touch passes. Need something else to get a hold on this game. Kai or Jesus would be better here. Madueke not much better. Lost all his sauce.

@henrywinter cry?

That’s a push by Mosquera on Araujo. Soft but definite contact. Referee and VAR not interested. Arsenal fortunate. #ARSSPO

@markgoldbridge Lmao, no defense at all

5 goals in the first half! This standard and pace of football is putting the Prem to shame

@Nat_cfc Bayern or Real will stop them at semi, no if at all

If PSG win the UCL and France win the WC what stops Dembele from winning back to back Ballon dor?

@cryptorand no Ethereum?

Top blockchains by transaction volume, Q1 2026: 🥇 Solana: 25.3B 🥈 BNB Chain: 1.7B 🥉 Tron: 978M 4th Polygon: 711M 5th Aptos: 704M

@Squawka Cheated

📅 ON THIS DAY: In 2018, Manchester City won their third Premier League title in a record-breaking season:⁣ ⁣ ◉ Most league goals (106)⁣ ◉ Most league points (100)⁣ ◉ Most league wins (32)⁣ ◉ Most consecutive league wins (18)⁣ ◉ Most league away wins (16)⁣ ⁣ Centurions. 💯

@LFC Lol

We exit the Champions League. #UCL

@footballontnt No sportmanship, worst behavior

Cherki is always the main character 👤

@SirLeoBDasilva 5 core players injuried, what can we do?

Arsenal fans, we are avoiding the elephant in the room. Why does the team fall short in April and May? We thought it was about squad depth. But it seems not to be. What is the reason? Why can’t we go over the line?

@CFC_Janty Best team in London, all players are world class with very high ceiling

Okay jokes over now, this is actually concerning

@CredibleCrypto Bottom is in?

“Jump across the creek” 🦦 $ETH

@UTDTrey Lmao, united fanbase kept sucking citeh's d*ck for years, why shouldn't they laugh at you?

We celebrated your win yesterday like it was our win and you repay our support by spitting on our face Arsenal smash this clown at the Etihad

Two things bother me about the narrative building around Arsenal. First, we're told constantly that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. Fine. So what does it mean to be consistently fighting for the title in that environment? You can't celebrate the league's brutal competitiveness and then dismiss sustained title challenges as not good enough. Pick one. Second, and IMO this matters more, failure in elite sport is not losing. Luis Enrique said it. Many others have said versions of it. Failure is not trying again. It's accepting the ceiling. It's going through the motions. Arteta has never done that. Every setback has been fuel for the next attempt. The problem is social media runs on binary outcomes. Win or fail. Hero or fraud. No room for nuance. No room for the manager who rebuilt a club into genuine title contenders and is still hungry for more. Simeone has been at Atlético for over a decade. Two league titles, two Champions League finals. Still no European Cup. Nobody serious calls that failure. They call it one of the great managerial tenures in modern football. And I'm convinced that given 14 years like Simeone, Mikel will win more leagues than him. Arteta may or may not win the league this year. He may not lift the Champions League this year or next. But as long as he keeps pushing, keeps trying, keeps competing at this level, failure isn't what this is. Find another name for it By the way, if City wins the league, the achievement would of course be enormous.