Champions League Semi Finals (30th April - 8th May)

Wow!

Never, ever, write Spurs off. With Pochettino we have more heart, more desire than our critics give credit for.

And hats off to Lucas Moura … our most recent signing and worth his weight in gold.
 
What does this mean for the Nation's League Finals? The CL final is 5 days before the England-Netherlands semi-final.
 
Liver_bird said:
feck sake wanted Ajax not spurs. Ajax leave huge spaces, Spurs are a bastard to play against.
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I got ripped apart for saying this pre-match, but you would have ripped Ajax to shreds, completely torn them apart.

First 30 would have been competitive, but on the counter you would have 100% have destroyed them. The trophy was basically 90% yours if you got them in a final.

It's still massively in your favour and you're big favourites, but I do definitely think we're a tougher game for you, particularly if Kane is back in time and we're at full strength.
 
Fecking media training. Ten Hag's first words; we had a great run In proud blabla. Feck off with that, punch the journalist in the sack and storm out of there.
 
GlastonSpur said:
Wow!

Never, ever, write Spurs off. With Pochettino we have more heart, more desire than our critics give credit for.

And hats off to Lucas Moura … our most recent signing and worth his weight in gold.
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Congratulations, fella.

Enjoy every minute of it and for the love of all that is holy, vanquish the Vermin in Madrid, ta.
 
Oh well. Last post of the day so time to congratulate the Spurs fans. Going to be a long day tomorrow.

pauldyson1uk said:
CL Semi Finals , English football at its very best , showing the rest of Europe how we can play football.
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Wait, what? You’re kidding, right? Be dominated for at least two, if not three halves out of four, score a goal out of a freak communications error incident and end up doing mostly long balls on Llorente and throw everything including the keeper at the enemy goal in despair, that is the best you can do in the EPL?

How many English players were even fielded? :confused:

AJ10 said:
So CL this season
PSG bottled it.
Ctiy bottled it.
Barca bottled it.
Ajax bottled it.

And now we have a final featuring klopp a weatherman who bottles finals vs spurs who have a thing for bottling.

What a final, the winner will be the one who doesn't bottle it..... this time.
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Unless they keep missing penalties forever after a goalless boring final...
 
PoTMS said:
What does this mean for the Nation's League Finals? The CL final is 5 days before the England-Netherlands semi-final.
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Portugal - Switzerland is the day before days before (only Shaqiri affected?). It's at the same time as all the other international fixtures so players involved in both will likely decide.
 
Treble said:
If Chelsea and Arsenal make it to the EL final, would this be the first time all 4 teams in the finals to be from one league?
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Pretty sure Spain did it recently enough off the top of my head...Real - Atletico and Sevilla - Valencia (guess) maybe?

Edit: no I’m wrong, it’s never happened before. Spain had 3 in 2014 & 2016 but no country has had all 4 finalists
 
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Cheech Wizard said:
It would be criminal if they allowed you guys to sneak in through the back door because of a English teams triumph in this.
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You know what was Criminal?
Having to spend 5 years not having English teams participating in the European Cup.
 
Congrats, Spurs. I really liked Pochettino’s post match interview. “Thank you, football” with tears in his eyes.
 
SquishyMcSquish said:
It's still massively in your favour and you're big favourites, but I do definitely think we're a tougher game for you, particularly if Kane is back in time and we're at full strength.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Kane normally start slowly after he has a break? Obviously he had that well known record of not scoring in the first month of the season for quite a while, and from memory he normally struggles when he first comes back from injury.

I'm wondering if you'd actually be better off if he doesn't make it. Or is perhaps only an option off the bench.
 
FigmentOfYerImagination said:
Wait, what? You’re kidding, right? Be dominated for at least two, if not three halves out of four, score a goal out of a freak communications error incident and end up doing mostly long balls on Llorente and throw everything including the keeper at the enemy goal in despair, that is the best you can do in the EPL?

How many English players were even fielded? :confused:



Unless they keep missing penalties forever after a goalless boring final...
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hahahahaha oh man and I got accused of sounding bitter after the first leg!


You got completely outplayed in that second half, and in the second half of the first leg you were outplayed as well. It was an even tie, we had serious injury issues which have held us back but still, here we are.

If you can't handle the long balls to Llorente, why not? It's Ajax's fault if you can't deal with football that way, football purists are so silly.

The best the EPL can do is an all English final after both teams staged incredible comebacks, and probably an all English Europa League final too. By far the strongest league in world football now.
 
ctp said:
No, while Sevilla won both finals, it was not against Spanish teams.
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Sevilla won one Europa League (think it still was called UEFA Cup) against Espanyol. It was a hell of a final.
 
Seems right that the team who knocked out favourites City should reach the final.
 
PoTMS said:
What does this mean for the Nation's League Finals? The CL final is 5 days before the England-Netherlands semi-final.
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Can't see England doing much with that quick turnaround, they should've pushed that back another few days or go back to playing CL final midweek.
 
'Five minutes before the end, nobody in the stands had the lake, when Jan Vertonghen headed on the crossbar and...'

Dutch posters, is this an idiom? (it's from de telegraaf)
 
FootballHQ said:
Can't see England doing much with that quick turnaround, they should've pushed that back another few days or go back to playing CL final midweek.
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Or reschedule the dumb Nations League final … it's the same corporation and surely they want to maximise viewing figures for sponsorship because it's obviously all about the money these days, not the football.
 
Vidyoyo said:
Yep, this if the original sentence:

Vijf minuten voor tijd had niemand op de tribune het meer, toen Jan Vertonghen op de lat kopte en de rebound...
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Had niemand op de tribune het meer:

People in the stands couldn’t cope anymore.

Meer = more (or lake :))
 
SqueakyWeasel said:
Nothing I hope. Great to see two English clubs in the final. Hopefully in the EL final too.

Who would you be tuning in to cheer on if it were United v Spurs :confused:
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I meant as in how me praising Pochettino somehow got turned in to some generalization about Liverpool fans:lol:

And Spurs, but mostly because I like Poch and their project. If it was you v City, I’d cheer on you.
 
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