Luis Enrique PSG was leading 5-2 and decided to bring on an attacker for an attacker instead of defending the lead.
Was he planning on scoring 7-2 against Bayern Munich or what, now he has blown away 3 goals lead to 1.
Arteta in that position will bring in a defender to stabilize the game and protect the 3 goals lead.
@TouchlineX So a manager who expects a high level of performance and effort will effect the players negatively? Then most of the worlds work force must be negative at this stage.
🚨💣 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: Some members of the Real Madrid board have concerns that appointing José Mourinho as the new head coach could turn into a “Xabi Alonso 2.0” situation.
There are fears within the club that Mourinho’s demanding approach and high expectations could negatively impact the players.
Even though, the Portuguese is the leading candidate as Florentino Perez is ‘crazy’ for his return.
@centredevils@FabrizioRomano Let them loan him for another season. Just renegotiate from United side also. They must buy him for 40 million afterwards.
🚨🚨🌕| NEW: Manchester United are insisting on the €30m buy option; otherwise, Marcus Rashford will return to the club and assess his situation, with Barcelona continuing to push to renegotiate his loan rather than trigger the buy option. [@FabrizioRomano]
@TouchlineX When players and their egos are more important than team and where the team is going, things will always fall apart. No matter who you are, if you can't be subbed, because you are to important in your own eyes then you are the problem.
🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥: In October, Real Madrid were beating Barcelona to go 5 points clear at the top of La Liga, but this is the day it all went wrong for them.
• They had only lost 1 game in all competitions by then, and were in a good position in the Champions League.
• Xabi Alonso subs out Vinicius during El Clasico, who starts screaming as he walks off the pitch.
• "I'm leaving! I'm leaving! I better leave this team!"
• Since then, the relationship between Xabi and the dressing room was broken, which led to his sacking months later.
• Real Madrid hired Arbeloa, who got knocked out against a third division side in his first match, by Bayern Münich in the Champions League and could go 11 points behind Barcelona if they win today.
• Now they find themselves in the exact same position as last year: trophyless, looking for a new manager, and with no clear option to move forward.
@jaredwright17 This can quickly become a free for all now. The next time the outcome will however have a totally different outcome. That is if you go with the way these different panels opperate.
Latest on Luke Morgan's dogshot on Ethan Hooker:
"The citing officer involved reviewed the incident and found that it did not meet the red (or yellow) card threshold." (via Independent Media/Mike Greenaway)
The incident was never reaching the red card threshold, but to say that it wasn't a yellow is frankly absurd.
@TheBallZoneX I would advice him to leave if I was Madrid in any case. His attitude will be the end of Madrid. Him wanting to leave if Mourinho is appointed just shows he wants things his way and does not want authority over him.
@UtdTony1 People don't seem to understand that being "better" means nothing if you lose. What matters is whether you win or not. United were better in the areas where it mattered. They took their chance and defended well to keep Chelsea out.
🎙️🚨 Jamie Carragher; Chelsea was a better team than Man United, they wanted to play but Man United was sitting at the back waiting for a counter to attack.
Today it works for them again, it has always been working for them mostly against big six, since Micheal Carrick took over the job.
But can he go far with this style of play next season no, no he will get exposed and punish for that.
I don't see them playing good football they just sit back defending all the time.
If you play like this in champions League next season, teams like PSG, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, will punish you with that.
But I still don't see them giving him the job permanently 🔴 💣
@FabrizioRomano Chelsea were dominant from minute 1 till the end. Where it mattered they were nowhere however. That is what matters at the end. Not how dominant you were.
@scrumming_ten 7 and 1 is offside just looking at this photo. The offside line is the tryline. Anything infront is offside. Seen numerous penalties given before, because players has a hand infront of the tryline even though the feet are behind the line.
@Dreamchaser4132@thepaulwilliams You're wrong.....
Reading from the wrong part of the laws.
21.12: If any part of a defending player is in in-goal, that player is considered to be in in-goal, provided they are not also in touch or on or over the dead-ball line.
Refs out there.
Is touching the try line offside, when the try line has become the offside line?
I always thought it was like the touchline
ie touching it means you've crossed it?
I know a guy who got married on the day of the 2019 Rugby World Cup final!
When I called him out later he said, "I didn't think we'd be in the final."
As they say in Pretoria, "Swak, ou!"
Look what he missed!
@scrumming_ten So a team must lose home games, because people don't watch the games at tje stadium? Let them play home if they qaulify. They would deserve it after all.
The only negative thing about the Lions making the URC QF is that their stadium attendances will become an issue in the Champions Cup
Their Champions Cup home games should be played as double-headers at Loftus with the Bulls