Champions League 2024-25

[FCBfan22]

Nobody can press on the entire pitch for 90 mins. PSG dropped their lines quite deep, but applied pressure in the last 30m well.

True, but a better attacking team gets at least one in the 2nd half.

 

[JamDav1982]

Rice was the best midfielder on park that second half. Even Merino was better than the PSG three probably.

 

[te amo barca]

That's generous.

He is. Only Dembele (who is not a RW these days), Yamal and Salah (who is a G+A merchant at this point) are better as right wingers.

Saka is not exciting to watch but he is incredibly strong on his feet, has a good shot and makes the right decision in attack 90%-95% of the time

 

[mc_lovin]

Arsenal's play in the final third kinda reminds me of a mid-tier national team. Slow passing, ballhoging and general unawareness what your teammate that has the ball is capable of and might do.

England. They are England.

 

[malvolio]

I almost fell asleep in the second half...

PSG didn't really show anything after the 30th minute, except for moments where there were probably offsides.

And Arsenal played as if they were winning the match.

They had like 3-4 big chances bar the goal. They controlled Arsenal pretty well.

 

[JamDav1982]

England. They are England.

And thrashed Real..

 

[iniestaGOAT]

It's over, got slapped around at home.
Will get spanked away, you see what PSG did to Liverpool at home

 

[Iniesta Ultra]

If you press P$G, they panic.

they're the most press resistant team itw

insert your shit pics

 

[jaype]

They could've continued playing for 90 more minutes and Arsenal still wouldn't score. Pathetic attacking

 

[te amo barca]

I think we can overwhelm and break PSG. Nothing incredible about that team.

 

[JamDav1982]

Vitinha, Neves and Ruiz move a lot to find the ball and are very fluid.

Which can lead to dominating it at times but also big gaps in middle to carry ball through when win it back.

Can imagine opportunities for Pedri/FDJ to carry ball or find Olmo fairly easily early if PSG play like that v Barca.

 

[mc_lovin]

He is. Only Dembele (who is not a RW these days), Yamal and Salah (who is a G+A merchant at this point) are better as right wingers.

Saka is not exciting to watch but he is incredibly strong on his feet, has a good shot and makes the right decision in attack 90%-95% of the time

His stats are quite good to be fair. But he never wow'ed me.

 

[malvolio]

I think we can overwhelm and break PSG. Nothing incredible about that team.

Same thing can be said about Barca. The problem with Bumsi's approach is that it's a high risk high reward style. If Benfica or Dortmund can put 3 past you then it's a coin toss vs a side like PSG.

 

[MonteCuler]

Arsenal knocked out Madrid, we can't ask for more

I mean, imagine if they pulled Madrid and QSG off in the same season. We'd have to send them one of la masia boys in gratitude

 

[FCBfan22]

He is. Only Dembele (who is not a RW these days), Yamal and Salah (who is a G+A merchant at this point) are better as right wingers.

Saka is not exciting to watch but he is incredibly strong on his feet, has a good shot and makes the right decision in attack 90%-95% of the time

And that was what he was doing wrong today IMO. He was ballhogging due to his strength to the point where he had 2-3 defenders on him. His teammates also didn't help by standing still watching him.