Champions League 2019-20: The Final Countdown

[coremiller]

Bayern are pressing super-high which is making them vulnerable in behind but they're also forcing a lot of dangerous turnovers. Will they keep pressing like that all match?

 

[Jimy Hendrix]

If I'm Kimmich, I have a few more hard nudges in store for De Jong after he bought that one.

 

[aichtal]

Wow!

 

[Kliq]

Great work by Bayern, wonderful finish by Perisic. Great game to watch, glad I broke down and got All Access.

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Surprisingly tame effort from Messi there. Nobody is better at curling that one into the far corner.

 

[McBride11]

Wowie. This game is awesome

 

[coremiller]

Another bad turnover in the deep in the Barca midfield and Bayern convert it. Barca seem unprepared to handle the press.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Tomorrow's winner may have something to say, but after watching the first two quarter finals it's hard not to think this game is effectively the championship.

 

[coremiller]

WTF are Bayern doing? They are giving Barcelona so much space in the attack!

 

[coremiller]

Oh man Gnabry just ended Pique's career.

 

[Kliq]

Barca isn't organized and Bayern is too ruthless. This kind of feels like Brazil vs Germany Vol. 2.

 

[aichtal]

Bayern has flexed on these guys for like 10 minutes straight

 

[Morgan's Magic Snowplow]

Bayern are killing Barca down the left. Perisic is in the middle of everything.

 

[Kliq]

Geez, it should have been 4!

 

[McBride11]

Im surprised Lewandoski didn't bury that TO

 

[Jimy Hendrix]

It's like everyone is on amphetamines except for ter Stegen who seems extremely drunk.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

I guess you can't fault Lewandoski for taking the chance but that was a tap in if he lays it off.

 

[McBride11]

This is a blood bath

 

[aichtal]

Too good this year. Relentless

 

[coremiller]

This makes me feel a little better about the utter beatdown Bayern gave Spurs earlier this season.

 

[ElUno20]

Stop the fight, please

 

[Kliq]

Can Miroslav Klose come on to bag a few late goals?

 

[McBride11]

Barca needs to change their shape or players. Bayern's wings are just running up and down at will

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

Oh, look, Messi is playing in the game.

 

[Jimy Hendrix]

Real Jordan Rules foul there for Messi

 

[Kliq]

ter Stegen putting the "Who is Germany's No. 1 keeper?" argument to rest today.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

There was just a wide view where Barca had the ball in the back and pretty much the entire team was just standing still at midfield.

 

[coremiller]

There was just a wide view where Barca had the ball in the back and pretty much the entire team was just standing still at midfield.

Yup. No plan for working the ball forward. It's a bad sign when you're out of ideas inside 40 minutes.

 

[McBride11]

There was another shot a minute ago that had like all 20 field players in a 30 yard box, no one spread wide, and Suarez not even attempting to get back onside

 

[Kliq]

Bayern are still playing pretty loose at the back so there is a glimmer of hope that Barca can still turn this around, but I suspect Bayern will eventually revert into a less aggressive scheme with a multi-goal lead.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

There was another shot a minute ago that had like all 20 field players in a 30 yard box, no one spread wide, and Suarez not even attempting to get back onside

I think Suarez was offside on the Barcelona goal too and didn't make much of an effort not to be, but the ball didn't go to him.

 

[coremiller]

Totally agree with this;

View: https://twitter.com/Zonal_Marking/status/1294361392041152516


Not clear at all what the plan was or what they are trying to do.

Semedo is also having a shocker.

 

[McBride11]

Totally agree with this;

View: https://twitter.com/Zonal_Marking/status/1294361392041152516


Not clear at all what the plan was or what they are trying to do.

Semedo is also having a shocker.

I haven't followed as closely over the past few years , but isn't Vidal a box to box or attacking mid? Has Barca used him on the wings much. IIrc he was always central for Juve

 

[McBride11]

Nice finish by Suarez

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

This one seems unlikely to end 11 v. 11.

 

[coremiller]

Barca's best chance is probably to get Boateng or Davies a second yellow.

 

[coremiller]

Holy shit Alphonso Davies.

 

[Kliq]

The MLS system produced a youth player who could star at Bayern and rip apart Barcelona and the guy is fucking Canadian! Ugh!

 

[Jimy Hendrix]

I feel like that soul snatching was cosmic payback from the Bayern backline for what Messi did to Boateng that one time.

 

[CodPiece XL]

That was ludicrousy bad and good at the same time.

 

[McBride11]

Holy shit Alphonso Davies.

Never seen a LB with those moves. And he is 19

 

[coremiller]

Also amazing that Bayern scored on a pass from a one fullback to the other inside the six-yard box while up 4-2.

 

[coremiller]

They might not let Semedo back on the bus after this. He's been that bad.

 

[Jimy Hendrix]

This'd be a great time for one of those trademark Coutinho screamers, for the laughs.

 

[Vinho Tinto]

Coutinho in. Never thought I’d see Bayern display mercy.

 

[coremiller]

Coutinho in. Never thought I’d see Bayern display mercy.

That's not mercy, that's twisting the knife.

 

[Kliq]

The sick thing is that Lewandowski has been pretty bad and missed a couple chances he usually buries.

 

[Vinho Tinto]

Nelson Semedo is getting flayed.

 

[DennyDoyle'sBoil]

He's off

 

[McBride11]

I like this ref, he shows his emotions and it is pretty funny