I will probably be banned for this but... Footie Thread

[pino]

Watching on Danish tv

[pino]

Messi 1-0

[odykas]

Barca is mediocre though

[pino]

I agree ody, although with a man down, City's playing better now

[odykas]

Meanwhile, Leverkuzen is beeing punished by PSG: 0 - 4

[pino]

CL over for City !

[steveaki13]

I know people are moaning about how poor Barca were all over the place.

However they still won 0-2 away to City.

I think Messi played almost a defensive game today. He came even deeper than normal and was in his own half a lot.

Maybe with the wide Camp Nou pitch and the grass shorter they will play better.

[Storm]

I think they played well enough for an away game...the commentry was harping on how they haven't won away matches in England and in general for the last few yrs in the knockouts....patient posession game which basically kept ManCity attackers out of their own game and then when the oppourtunities came as they had to they took it. A mature and smart performance if not a typical slick one. I sort of think though that having Pedro on might have caused even more problems.

[Brown, Jon Brow]

Was is a penalty?

Looked like me that contact first happened just outside the box.

Rash challenge anyway.

[Mintexmemory]

Was is a penalty?

Looked like me that contact first happened just outside the box.

Rash challenge anyway.

The tackle was clearly outside of the box, both players slid on into the box but the foul had already occurred - poor linesman error but then I didn't hear Pellegrino crying that Arsenal should have had a penalty and had a perfectly good goal disallowed in the 6-3 game at the Etihad. In much the same way that the Liverpool tirade against Howard Webb overlooks the numerous times Gerrard, Suarez and (before them) Michael Owen have managed to hoodwink the ref. What goes around, comes around.
Which brings me to the hope that the Gunners don't wait to be 3 goals down before they start playing against BM tonight.