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#4,926
#4,926
volball625 said:
I don't expect him to play the second leg. Have to hope we can advance without him. Very worried about the back line situation. Either start a inexperienced Bartra, one of our DMs, or Adriano who is a LB.
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You guys should be able to advance even without him. You've got two away goals in hand, and for all the gnashing of teeth over the back four, it really wasn't THAT bad in the first leg. One of PSG's goals was an incredibly lucky deflection and the other flat out should have been disallowed because Ibrahimovic was a couple yards offiside.
 
#4,927
#4,927
What worries me is that we basically become Spain's national team when Messi is out. And they aren't exactly incredible scorers. They also use two defensive mids
 
#4,930
#4,930
Godfatha said:
Dortmund is in deep doo doo.
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The officiating during the final 10 minutes of that game was an disgrace to soccer. Malaga had a player offside on the goal that gave them the 2-1 lead, and then Dortmund had AT LEAST 5 players offside during the course of their final goal. I counted for sure 4 players behind the last defender on the initial cross, and then the goal scorer was behind everyone when the ball was played in his direction before he tapped it in. What a pathetic job by the refs.
 
#4,933
#4,933
milohimself said:
Still couldn't have asked for a more dramatic finish. I had money on Malaga though
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Thanks refs, for not enforcing the rules to ensure a crazy finish.

Seriously though, the end result was as it should have been. Thankfully the illegitimate goals canceled each other out.
 
#4,935
#4,935
bleedorange0037 said:
The officiating during the final 10 minutes of that game was an disgrace to soccer. Malaga had a player offside on the goal that gave them the 2-1 lead, and then Dortmund had AT LEAST 5 players offside during the course of their final goal. I counted for sure 4 players behind the last defender on the initial cross, and then the goal scorer was behind everyone when the ball was played in his direction before he tapped it in. What a pathetic job by the refs.
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Just continuing the trend of horrible officiating throughout this CL. Both offsides were blatantly obvious, especially the Dortmund one. That one had the feel of a basketball ref's makeup call.
 
#4,936
#4,936
Godfatha said:
Just continuing the trend of horrible officiating throughout this CL. Both offsides were blatantly obvious, especially the Dortmund one. That one had the feel of a basketball ref's makeup call.
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I don't disagree, but bleedorange is still right. If both goals had been correctly disallowed, then Dortmund would still be going through. At least the result is still correct.
 
#4,937
#4,937
Godfatha said:
Just continuing the trend of horrible officiating throughout this CL. Both offsides were blatantly obvious, especially the Dortmund one. That one had the feel of a basketball ref's makeup call.
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It takes a special kind of bad officiating for literally half the outfield players to be offside on a given play, yet the goal is still allowed. I'd be surprised if I ever see that again.
 
#4,938
#4,938
milohimself said:
I don't disagree, but bleedorange is still right. If both goals had been correctly disallowed, then Dortmund would still be going through. At least the result is still correct.
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True, the end justifies the means at this point. The correct team went thru.

I expect Barca to go through tomorrow and hope Bayern does, so it should be a German Spanish showdown. Does the seeding in the semis work that you won't have teams from the same league playing each other or is it completely random?
 
#4,946
#4,946
volball625 said:
Good luck today boys. Looks like we will need to hold serve without Messi today. Got a bad feeling.
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I feel good that you will advance. There's still a lot of attacking talent in your side plus you've got the two away goals.

We have to get an away goal. We get that and Juve would need four to advance against statitistically Europe's top defense.
 
#4,947
#4,947
Godfatha said:
I feel good that you will advance. There's still a lot of attacking talent in your side plus you've got the two away goals.

We have to get an away goal. We get that and Juve would need four to advance against statitistically Europe's top defense.
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Always nervous going into second game with Bayern when they hold a lead. They seem to find a way to make it interesting. Hoping for a crush but not holding my breath.
 
#4,948
#4,948
hohenfelsvol said:
Always nervous going into second game with Bayern when they hold a lead. They seem to find a way to make it interesting. Hoping for a crush but not holding my breath.
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Me too. Hopefully we learned a lesson from the Arsenal loss. I see Juve winning 2-1 today but that will be enough for us.
 
#4,950
#4,950
No team has ever came back from a 2-0 road loss besides Barcelona three weeks ago. I think yall will be ok. If Bayern and Barcelona advance, should be a rocking semis.
 
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