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Very mature performance from Madrid. Kept the space around the box to a minimum and their CBs dealt very well with anything coming into the box. Feel a bit sorry for Bilbao as they've been the most entertaining side in the tournament. Hope they win the Spanish Cup because they deserve a...

Slightly odd game, was Schalke v Bilbao. Schalke were the better team for about 70 mins, were in control of the game and made a decent number of chances, especially working the ball down their right side. Their coach must be going mad, because having set his team up nicely and pressing Bilbao...

Ridiculous that Athletic Bilbao only won both legs by a single goal. If Llorente had played the whole game tonight they surely would have scored at least four and giving Man Utd the hiding they deserved. Thought there was some rubbish decisions from the coaches in City-Sporting. Mancini went...

Wasn't missed here. Rafael was slated on TV during and after the game. Jones and Evans also took a fair bit of stick for both going for the same high ball earlier in that move.

Martinez, Muniain Llorente and the RB (can't remember his name) are good. The other players are probably being made to look better than they really are because the system is working so well. That's not to say that those other players aren't alright players, though.

:agree: Pretty incredible to get a team with relatively few really talented players playing like that. Goes to show that getting players who understand how to move on the pitch is far more important than getting players with great technique. You just have to look at Athletic going to Old...

They're worth watching.

Thought Athletic v Lokomotiv was a really good game. Nice mix of good attacking play, good defending and some cracking hard tackling. Bielsa's ability to get a team with limited ability to be able to work the ball and break down packed defences is really impressive. If only they had one or...

Zauri is such a bad player. Lazio may well have got something out of that game if they'd had a Radu-Lulic left side, instead of that Zauri-Candrev abomination. Falcao is awesome, though.

Like all EL games, one can't know what will be worth watching until the team line-ups are known. Valencia can finally face what, judging by what the English have been saying in the last few years, is they most daunting game in the world for a southern European team: away to Stoke on a cold...

Birmingham aren't in the EPL. The play in the Championship - the second best league in the world.

Yeah, Man Utd don't have the squad to win this if they aren't really focused on it. City reserves could have a good go at it, though.

Too hard to predict. It'll be someone who does badly in the league between now and February so decides to focus on this.

:agree: Won't happen, though.

Celtic aren't as good as you make them out to be.

Lazio: Bizzarri; Cavanda, Diakite, Biava, Lulic; Ledesma, Cana (Gonzalez 53); Cisse, Hernanes (Zampa 73), Sculli; Kozak (Klose 85) About 50/50 between first picks and backups.

Juve's scouts, on the ball as ever, have just recieved a tip off that Josip Ilicic at Maribor is someone worth checking out.

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First goal was a beauty: Video is inverted, but you get the general idea.

They certainly played like a Bielsa team, but that's the first time I've seen them this season. They seem to have started the season slowly, so don't know if this was a one-off or the team starting to understand what Bielsa wants. PSG made it easy for them, though, by allowing them an extra...