Live Match Discussion 2015/16

[slink]

Arsenal would still qualify, countries can have 5 teams qualify now if they win the Europa League. Spain had 5 teams in the Champions League this year with Barca, Real, Atleti, Valencia and Sevilla.

 

[Trips]

When was it Spurs dropped out for Chelsea? Was it when they won CL or Europa?

 

[Alan]

CL, I think.

 

[YoungWolf]

Champions League. I was in a Spurs pub that night, needless to say the landlord wasn't best pleased!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Klopp will be on to something if he addresses a few key areas. They're pretty good going forward now. Need a keeper, at least one centre half to go with Matip, a left back (Moreno is hopeless) and something different in central midfield as all of Can/Henderson/Milner/Lucas/Allen offer very slightly different versions of the same thing.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Sakho ending up on the winning team after that triple shambles just shows football makes no sense sometimes.

 

[Freddeno]

sakho is aggressive and good on the header..otherwise unpredictable and not good positionally...Lovren is just slow and have ZERO technique and control of a football..Skrtel is unfortunately still an upgrade on both...they need to get some decent CB:s in, but so do Man C. I would search in south america and eastern/middle europe personally..for me Koscielny is nr one in england before Smalling, kompany good when not injured..Leicester have benefitted from a very good innermidfield of Kante and Drinkwater but Morgan has grown into the season big time. Ohh, forgot Alderweireld and Van Dijk too...probably a few more i forgot

Edit: Scott Dann in a poor Palace sometimes, Winston Reid when ontop of his game

 

[Alan]

Klopp will be on to something if he addresses a few key areas. They're pretty good going forward now. Need a keeper, at least one centre half to go with Matip, a left back (Moreno is hopeless) and something different in central midfield as all of Can/Henderson/Milner/Lucas/Allen offer very slightly different versions of the same thing.

I thought Lovren was exceptional tonight. Granted I wasn't high on him even with Southampton but he was very good tonight and has been for the last few games from what I've heard.

Matip on a free is still an unbelievable deal.

 

[big mean bunny]

I am trying to think what it was (possibly either BT sport or the Guardian podcast) but a while back they were talking about how the Spanish league only had 2 strong teams. They've just had 3 in the champs 1/4 and 3 in the Uefa 1/4. Compared to our 1 and 2 respectively. Haven't seen hardly any Spanish footy since I got rid of Sky Sports. Who would you have as favourites for the Uefa now?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Sevilla

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Play like they did in the second half last night and Liverpool will take some stopping.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Defend like they did and they could easily get dicked.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Agreed.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Manchester City will meet Real Madrid in the semi finals. It couldn't get any tougher.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

They could've got Bayern.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Or Barcelona's conquerors...

All as tough as each other I suppose.

 

[Nando]

I'd rather face Real than the other two.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

In the last 16 Champions League games they've played at home, Atletico have kept a clean sheet 13 times and only conceded four goals in total. They're absolutely rock hard to play against.

All tough games but I'd have handpicked Real if I had to. They'll always give you a chance, I mean they quite regularly have Pepe and Marcelo as the left hand side of their defence with Ronaldo in front of them.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Ronaldo can beat teams on his own. Manchester City are not that great at the back, and I have no idea how they will be able to keep Ronaldo quiet.

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Leicester based referee Kevin Friend has been taken off the Stoke City v Tottenham game.