Yeah we need a reward to keep playing like this, if we get an equalizer before 60´ minute I can see them start shaking and us pressuring more and more.
Didn´t look like handball to me, back of the elbow near his body.
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Far from over, but we need to make the most of this possession. Did a good job to pin down Dortmund from the get-go, but no real clear chances to worry them. They’ll be fine to sit back and hit Haaland up top all game.
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Yes de Jong is smart in looking for the right space in these games, we are playing towards the goal right, just not the right deliveries.
Munir and de Jong, I agree.
Nesyri and Ocampos out. the latter has been limping as well. And Munir can do well on the left.
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We had 7 shots with 1 on target and 66% possession. If only champs league was a dance contest then we’d win it
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2 for 2 for the home side. Kind of shows you the difference.
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With pride and passion and energy, but with no real danger as @ddadogba mentioned. So that doesn’t count for much when after we take the foot off the pedal to take a break, most of the players look like 60 year old couch potatoes and not professional footballers in the extremely demanding 4-3-3.
We desperately needed a goal in the first half to continue believing in the second, and the approach is to score as much as possible, but it seems that we simply can’t. Dortmund have younger, more ambitious players that don’t necessarily have the experience but they have the strength and energy to eliminate us this time. If we score early in the second half there might be a slight chance but I highly doubt it, because even if we bring on Oliver nothing much would change, or maybe it will I don’t know.
Bayern would score at least 4 again against this Dortmund tonight. They seem a pathetic counter-attacking team (at least tonight in the first half) that everyone will toy around with in the quarters. But if we go through does it really make any difference? It won’t, we will just get thrashed again and again by the likes of Bayern, City, PSG etc.
This current set of players simply doesn’t have what it takes to perform the tactics of Lope in the 4-3-3. Last season’s EL mini tournament was an anomaly and it caught many teams off guard, but we also had Banega, Reguilon and a Super-Navas who were crucial to us winning the trophy. This season we didn’t have any of them, end of the cindirella story.
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Yeah I agree totally. Not enough quality when it matters. Only one shot on target in the first half when you need to score 3 goals just isn’t good enough I’m afraid. For all the possession and openings we created we had no end product.
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We been great up until final 3rd and it seems nobody wants to take that shot, few times it has happened and seems En-Nes has a confidence issue because he looked for a pass instead of looking for the goal net…
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Im seeing him more as a gigantic neanderthal maybe something went wrong with the insemination of his mother and they created something prehistoric, but doesn´t really matter, top class striker.
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That’s what you get for pissing about passing the ball across your own goal when they have players lurking, we do it time after time
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Hard to answer, but he´s is still holding back and playing like half capacity, I just can´t believe he´s gotten this much worse in a year. It has to be a fitness thing.
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Dortmund looking to wrap it up in the 1st 10mins
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It’s incredible how little they need to score and look at us…
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There you go game over
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Unbelievable. But so easy.
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He just did that… 
Too much power. 
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He’s playing a mans game against kids.
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Dortmund allowed to push our player off the ball yet again
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Bono weak again
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