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Hmm. I remember you declaring with supreme confidence that Chelsea were a superior team to us. :) As for the players of Barca and Real. Yes, maybe Carvajal is better than Alves (because he is much younger, prime Alves was worth 6 Carvajals) and Modric and Isco may be better than our own...

The point here is not to make sweeping and generalized conclusions from isolated games. Neither 2009, nor 2013 mean very much in the grand scheme of things. But anyone who doubts that Messi can cause havoc for Bayern Munich is frankly, a bit insane! I mean, if Ramos and Carvajal could do it...

Other than the 2013 first semifinal (when he has way off 100%) Messi has excelled against German clubs whenever he faced them. He did not play in the 2nd leg, but you seem to forget that. The second leg in 2009 was a dead rubber, and Barcelona took it very lightly as we were being chased by Real...

Stuttgart played the CL in 09/10 because in the Bundesliga season of the 08/09 they finished 3rd, only 3 points behind Bayern and 5 behind champions Wolfsburg. Spain has sent countless of small clubs in the CL in recent years (Osasuna, Celta Vigo, Real Sociedad, Villarreal, Sevilla, Malaga...

Our results versus German clubs: 2005/6 Barcelona - Werder Bremen 3-1 Werder Bremen - Barcelona 0-2 2006/7 Barcelona - Werder Bremen 2-0 Werder Bremen - Barcelona 1-1 2007/8 Barcelona - Stuttgart 3-1 Stuttgart - Barcelona 0-2 Barcelona - Schalke 1-0 Schalke - Barcelona 0-1 2008/9...

Well, Messi faced Bayern twice in his life, one was the drubbing of Bayern by Barca, and the other was the drubbing of Barca by Bayern. Our win was far more spectacular btw :barca scarf: without scrappy goals or dodgy referee goals. We also faced Stuttgart and Leverkusen in recent years. Both...

Wait what? Messi annihilated every German side we ever faced including Bayern, except that freak semifinal of 2013. Moreover, this hype over German football is getting tedious. La Liga has been far and away the top league in the past 6-7 years, and Spain NT has achieved far more than the...

Neymar was immense against City. If we exclude his poor finishing that is, but then again, all our players were bad at finishing the other day.

Fuck. PSG having it all their way, when we need them to be under pressure. How incompetent could Lyon really be? Losing to a 10-man side, only scoring a penaldo etc....tstststs. This is not very good for us.

Yes, they have been extremely poor in France, for example last night, they were rescued by some atrocious refereeing. But this may be down to them not ascribing great importance to their league, and focusing everything on the Champions League. I would say that we have significantly improved...

So OK, let's not obsess over particulars. How good do you think Bayern are, in relation to Barca/Real, if let's say the Clasico duo are worth 100 points each. What would the appropriate evaluation of Bayern then be?

No, it actually does, all three-four of the Bayern chances were split-second-who-gets-to-the-ball-first instances (except the tame effort by Gomez from an angled position that Casillas saved) Overall it was a finely balanced tie exactly as I remember it to have been. A one-sided tie was like...

1. If I am completely wrong, please point out to me the clear-cut chances that Bayern created in that second leg. Honestly, I am all ears and eyes. 2. So playing a title-decider against your biggest opponent (and one of Europe's Top 3 sides) right between two CL semis, while your opponents have...

The fact of the matter, is that Bayern Munich did not create a single clear-cut goal-scoring opportunity* in that game, and that is that. You also fail to address the point I have been making about the Clasico in between the CL semis of 11/12, while Chelsea and Bayern both were having...

Just went back and found some highlights of that semi on youtube. The Real Madrid penaldo was a clear handball, but it was also unintentional as Di Maria's cross/shot was very powerful and the Bayern defender was not far away. I would not whistle that penalty if I were the ref. The Bayern...

No, I do remember pretty well, and what you are saying is at least inaccurate. The bias accusation that you hurl against me, I can just as easily use against you. If you have any good highlights of that game, then I would be more than happy to review them. You seem to remember very well that...

Pep should have rotated right before the Inter way game, instead he fielded a full strength team versus Espanyol away late on a Saturday night ( a game we still could only draw) Of course Pep could not know that we would have to drive all the way to Milan by bus, but still. The reason why...

1. Their strength in depth matters little if we are at full strength. That factor simply will not come into the equation. What you need to examine first is the respective starting XIs of the two teams. Are they better in that department? 2. Their league is not shit in the slightest. In fact...

I fear that player. He can skin our defenders at will I am afraid.

One of those random and crazy statistics that don't mean very much I feel.