PSG away Wednesday 5th March 8pm

[SB]

Why? He's as slow as **** too.

Better goal to chance ratio & doesn’t give away stupid FK’s.

[SB]

Sums it up pretty well.





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[Buzzo]

Love the automated offsides

They don’t even use real footage to explain - just fire in a couple of cartoon characters to paint the required picture

[DerKrampus]

Now I know why supporting a **** club can be such a thrill!

When was our last smash and grab result?

[SB]

Love the automated offsides

They don’t even use real footage to explain - just fire in a couple of cartoon characters to paint the required picture

Well we have clowns doing ours

[Irishnev]

Now I know why supporting a **** club can be such a thrill!

When was our last smash and grab result?

Like being managed by Mourinho

[Pablo]

Sums it up pretty well.





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They battered us but look how many of their shots are from outside the box! They barely had a shot in front of goal. We defended brilliantly.

[Cerbie]

I bet he was over the moon he travelled across the Atlantic to see the match


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[Doc_Piptorious]

They battered us but look how many of their shots are from outside the box! They barely had a shot in front of goal. We defended brilliantly.

They still had ten shots taken inside the box so they were not short of clear cut chances.


What did make me laugh last night was when after the game misery guts Hamann said on Irish tv probably the only accurate things he said all game when saying that if we had a lesser keeper in goals that we would have lost.



Straight away the lead presenter, Joanne Cantwell, jumped on the comment like it was a diss against Kelleher and she threw in a line that was something along the lines of "You saying the Man from Cork is a lesser keeper" that had me both punching the air and howling with laugher when Didi had a bit of a glazed look and seemed uncertain what to say for a moment.



As an aside I think Cantwell is a cracking sports presenter be it for footy, GAA or Rugby. Very articulate, quick witted, has obvious knowledge of a number of sports and of course is an ex sports person herself so understands what it feels like to be part of a team as well.

Really like how she is able to throw in little wry comments without ever letting things descend into non stop banter.

[danperkins]

Even the botox can't hid Becks devastation.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Think if one game can be used to highlight the importance of something we once had and need again it was last night's game.


PSG, on both flanks, showed just how effect it is to have two pacy full backs sitting behind wingers with genuine pace.


Time after time their full backs would camp on the centre line, or in our half, and then be there to facilitate their wingers.


We had zero pace on our flanks (or anywhere up front) until Nunez came on.

[danperkins]

Yeah saying this last night, we just couldn't handle their pace, pace absolutely everywhere and add intensity to that, we just couldn't handle it. Mo and Diaz are quick but not speedsters, Trent and more so Robbo really couldn't get to grips with their wingers or their fullbacks. Watching Robbo these days is painful. It is a real problem and hopefully more energy in the midfield can help mitigate that threat.

[baitman]

When the winger came straight at robbo he was able to put a block in most of the time.
Trouble was when the ball was played into space behind robbo he looked like he was running in wet concrete.
Once we went to a more compact "turtle" formation (shields up) there was less space for their wingers to cut through.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Robertson was the more unlucky of our FBs last night for me as he was up against the PSG flank that has blistering pace.

PSG's left flank is quick, but their right flank is another level again for pace.


He had Hakimi and Dembele coming at him all game long and Diaz was not doing an awful lot of effective tracking back and neither was Diaz enough of a pace threat to force Hakimi to sit a bit deeper so that Roberston only had one player to contend with.


What was very interesting last night is how we fared against a team that was set up very much in a Klopp style and that was full of really good players in their prime.

Yes we relied on a Doc P tier performance from Alisson, but we did see how a Slot team would go in terms of tactic and formation against a faster team that presses like mad and that holds possession well.

Put a bit more pace and physicality into our starting XI last night, specifically in both FB positions and on one of the wings, and I think we would have weathered the storm better and been far more of a threat on the counter.

Would go as far as to say if Bradley and Gomez were fully fit and they started at RB and LB, that we would have been better able to build from the back.

[baitman]

The psg fan noise must be on a tape, it didn't change at the time when we scored... fake.