Is the Champions League pointless? Critiquing European football

[Jimmy Higgins]

Liverpool advance the only way they know... barely, but only at the end. The outcome never seemed unknown once Mane scored. The loss to Roma was their first for the entire tournament. But 7-6 aggregate sees them through to Real Madrid in Kiev, Ukraine in late May.

 

[Shake]

And they kept City from clinching the EPL in a stunning 3-2 come-from-behind win!

And beaten by WBA, a team that had not won a game in their last 30 ? Funny old game.

To be fair, WBA were facing relegation and had something to fight for.

 

[rousseau]

Proof there is a God. The rain is keeping me from roofing our house tomorrow, so spending the afternoon watching the final it is.

What makes me particularly happy about this is that this year I've actually been following the tournament for a few months now, as well as listening to The Guardian Football Weekly.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

That game was just a large heaping serving of disappointing ‘What If?’ for fans of Liverpool. They belonged.

 

[rousseau]

That game was just a large heaping serving of disappointing ‘What If?’ for fans of Liverpool. They belonged.

Is it just me, or do star players always end up getting injured in games like this?

As soon as Salah was knocked out you'd almost want to call the game a bust. How meaningful is a win by RM when you've essentially cheated to win the game?

After that point it looked like Real legitimately won.. but eh, I'm tired of teams helping themselves win by knocking players out.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

But Real didn’t “win”. It was 1-1 on non-wtf GK moments. Regardless, this team is young and held on even going down 1-0 against Real. The goal (first) by Bale was insidious. When he went up for it I was thinking, “That’s too high to get good contact.” *sigh*

YNWA

 

[Underseer]

That game was just a large heaping serving of disappointing ‘What If?’ for fans of Liverpool. They belonged.

Doesn't England usually choke in international play? Why even get your hopes up?

 

[rousseau]

But Real didn’t “win”. It was 1-1 on non-wtf GK moments. Regardless, this team is young and held on even going down 1-0 against Real. The goal (first) by Bale was insidious. When he went up for it I was thinking, “That’s too high to get good contact.” *sigh*

YNWA

Yea you hate to see two conceded that way in a big game like this, but then if the royal fuckups didn't count we'd have to re-write the entirety of sports history.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

But Real didn’t “win”. It was 1-1 on non-wtf GK moments. Regardless, this team is young and held on even going down 1-0 against Real. The goal (first) by Bale was insidious. When he went up for it I was thinking, “That’s too high to get good contact.” *sigh*

YNWA

Yea you hate to see two conceded that way in a big game like this, but then if the royal fuckups didn't count we'd have to re-write the entirety of sports history.

That’s an option?! I’ll get an eraser!

 

[TSwizzle]

Real Madrid proved to be the better team. Even with a sub par performance from Ronaldo, they managed to carve out the win thanks to the depth of the squad. Liverpool just came up a bit short and definitely need a new goalkeeper. Or two.