Champions League & Europa League 2015-16 Thread - Page 28

On November 05 2015 06:31 Stratos_speAr wrote:
Hah Bayern and Olympiakos score at the same time, in all likelihood dooming Arsenal.

On November 05 2015 06:39 Stratos_speAr wrote:


It makes a huge difference because all that needs to happen is Olympiakos to get one point OR Arsenal drops one point in either of the last two games. If Olympiakos hadn't won, Arsenal could draw one of the next two games and would at least have a mathematical chance at advancing. Now they are required to win both, and they have to win against Olympiakos by either more than one goal or by at least 3-2.

On November 05 2015 06:42 Pandemona wrote:
Yum, got bit emotional at end! Stand up for the special one for the 5th time of the game ending in mourinho wife in tears behind him and mourinho looked emotional!!

COME ON CHELS!! TURN IT ROUND NOW

On November 05 2015 06:39 Stratos_speAr wrote:


It makes a huge difference because all that needs to happen is Olympiakos to get one point OR Arsenal drops one point in either of the last two games. If Olympiakos hadn't won, Arsenal could draw one of the next two games and would at least have a mathematical chance at advancing. Now they are required to win both, and they have to win against Olympiakos by either more than one goal or by at least 3-2.

On November 05 2015 08:17 Liquid`Drone wrote:


arsenal have home match vs zagreb, olympiakos has away match vs bayern. Olympiakos will lose, and if Arsenal can't beat Zagreb at home when their life depends on it, they don't deserve to move on. Either way, one of these two games having any other result than home victories would be a major upset.

And assuming that all goes as expected in those two matches, Arsenal has to win the final game against Olympiakos regardless of how Olympiakos vs Zagreb played out today. I mean, there's a difference in that now Arsenal needs to win by a scoreline that isn't 1-0 or 2-1, but even if Zagreb - Olympiakos was a draw, Arsenal would have to win both final games anyway. And as I outlined in an earlier post, even if Arsenal had beat Bayern, they would also have to beat Olympiakos in the final game. From a cursory glance, today's matches looked very important, but the way this group has played out, it was all going down to the final arsenal-olympiakos match barring two big/huge upsets today.

On November 05 2015 11:27 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I think with the exception of this match vs bayern (and honestly, I dunno how much of the loss should be attributed to arsenal being poor or bayern just being that damn good) and the league cup match (where they didn't seem to give a damn - their squad is too thin to compete in every tournament anyway), arsenal has been playing really, really well lately. Like, still clearly below the barca bayern real trio, but their past 5 important games (vs united, watford, everton, bayern and swansea) had them 5-0-0 with 13-1 goal difference.

I'm not arguing anything for Chelsea, but other than PSG, I don't think any of the current #2 teams look much better than Arsenal atm. Not really arguing that Arsenal has been better than Atletico, Valencia, Roma and Juventus either, but certainly around the same level (and certainly not worse than all of them. ) like maybe if I were to make a tier of the #2s right now it'd go like PSG > atletico > arsenal/valencia/roma/juventus > chelsea/eindhoven

On November 05 2015 11:27 Liquid`Drone wrote:
I think with the exception of this match vs bayern (and honestly, I dunno how much of the loss should be attributed to arsenal being poor or bayern just being that damn good) and the league cup match (where they didn't seem to give a damn - their squad is too thin to compete in every tournament anyway), arsenal has been playing really, really well lately. Like, still clearly below the barca bayern real trio, but their past 5 important games (vs united, watford, everton, bayern and swansea) had them 5-0-0 with 13-1 goal difference.

I'm not arguing anything for Chelsea, but other than PSG, I don't think any of the current #2 teams look much better than Arsenal atm. Not really arguing that Arsenal has been better than Atletico, Valencia, Roma and Juventus either, but certainly around the same level (and certainly not worse than all of them. ) like maybe if I were to make a tier of the #2s right now it'd go like PSG > atletico > arsenal/valencia/roma/juventus > chelsea/eindhoven

On November 04 2015 21:00 shell wrote:


I was in the stadium and we didn't hate on Galatasaray.

People were pissed at the referee, like always.. lol

It was a good game, we score two lame goals but could have score loads of beatifull goals.. important thing was we got the WWWWWWWW

On November 05 2015 16:49 bObaZ wrote:


You're really putting Valencia/Roma/Eindhoven above Porto and Benfica?

Benfica is not that good right now but Porto is playing way better than Valencia/Roma/Chelsea/Eindhoven.

Also Zenit is really strong this season.

Why do people always forget about the Portuguese teams?

On November 05 2015 21:25 Liquid`Drone wrote:


I'm actually just disregarding Porto and Benfica because yes, they are good, so good that they are #1 in their groups. I was only comparing teams that are currently #2 in their groups. Same with Zenit.

On November 05 2015 18:07 Djagulingu wrote:

I was talking about the amount of empty seats in the stadium lol

I have never seen this many empty seats in a Galatasaray match before

I was damn pissed at everybody who takes his paychecks from Galatasaray (except for Muslera ofc). Crossing to Yilmaz's head all game long against Jardel and Luisão, not being able to cross the midfield with the ball for 30 minutes, Oztekin missing a stupidly easy goal at 90+2... well, you didn't deserve the win half as much as we deserved the loss. I wish we lose the remainder of the games and get eliminated, then Hamzaoglu gets sacked, then we actually get some good players and a good coach too. Everybody looked fuckin useless to me that game.