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This is true and would be applicable here except that the aggregate score was tied when, somewhere around the 75th or 80th minute, Vidal was sent off for what replays showed to be an obviously clean tackle. Reduced to 10, Bayern hung on for another 25 minutes or so but toward the end of the...

No doubt, but his team is unjustly reduced to 10 men and he is in extra time, so I have some sympathy for him.

Bayern fans must be livid.

Holy shit. He was a yard offside. Hard for the officials to see that though, with Alaba or whoever that was on the left charging back. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Is this the goal to send Real through to another <a...

Wow. Shambolic own goal by Ramos, and then Vidal sent off for ... a clean tackle. WTF.

Me too. I love a guy like that, who can line up as the 9 or out on the wing and be equally effective. I tend to agree with the first two points. On Sakho, it's just a question of how damaged his relationship with Klopp has become. No question that if Klopp is willing to take him back, he...

Very. I wonder if Klopp will take him back. Klopp sure seemed to like him last year, before the summer falling-out. I seem to remember reading in the fall, just before the summer transfer window closed, that Klopp hadn't entirely given up on Sakho but he wanted him to go out on loan and prove...

Really tough run-in, but Spurs look unstoppable right now. Kane is back, Danny Rose should be coming back soon. Don't see why they can't keep it up. By the way, what an embarassment of riches Spurs have at fullback. Rose and Walker are surely 2 of the top 5 in the league, Trippier has...

I think I agree with all of you. Milner has been great at left back this year. Absolutely not a weakness. I was worried about how he would do against pacy right wingers, but he and the team have managed to cope just fine for the most part. Still, Milner is 30 and can't be a long-term...

It sure does. Imagine this scenario: (1) Man City beats Man U and finishes strong to take third place; (2) Liverpool finishes strong too, but Man City have a game in hand on them, so Liverpool finishes in fourth, one point behind Man City; (3) Man U finish 5th but win Europa League; then (4)...

Yeah, Coutinho was ill and struggling from halftime onward, Klopp said. Gutted by that result. No margin for error now, if LFC wants to hang on to that top 4 spot. (Well, realistically, there probably is SOME margin for error because Arsenal and Man City and Man U have tough upcoming games...

Yep, good weekend for Reds' top 4 chances. At least for the moment, they control their own top 4 destiny. But these injuries are worrying. There won't be many attacking changes to make on Wednesday. We can throw on some of the young guns if necessary, but we will be completely out of...

Agree with most everyone. Altidore is a good target player, and it makes sense to play him as such so that Dempsey can make runs off of him. I tend to agree with Bruce Arena that playing these two up top, with Pulisic and Nagbe on the wings, Bradley as a #6 (i.e. the deepest-lying midfielder...

I was thinking about the "OMM system" more over lunch. The more I think about it the more I like it. Maybe use Gyasi Zardes, whenever he gets healthy, as one of the front 3, and then move Nagbe into one of the CM positions. He'd be as good as Wijnaldum has been in that position for Liverpool...

OMM, if your question is whether this is a valid soccer tactic, absolutely it is. A frenetic high press is how Jurgen Klopp took Dortmund to the top of the Bundesliga, and he is the guy who bought Pulisic and brought him to Dortmund. I think it's a really intriguing idea. I love the idea of...

Ugh that was ugly. Balance of the team not right. Huge gaps in midfield. Jermaine Jones ... I had no idea you could play 75 minutes of soccer while actually in REM sleep. Everyone in the front 6 looked tired except Pulisic and Nagbe, who were both fantastic. Great skill and composure by...

Nice! I missed Friday's game, but that all sounds great. I completely agree about Eder: I appreciate that he is a hard worker, but he is just not an elegant footballer. As some of these young guns like Belotti come into their own in the next couple of years, Italian football is going to be in...

Yeah the Dutch are in a bad way. It's weird because they have a decent number of quality players. They just lack star power, other than Robben. Somebody has to step up and be a leader on that team at some point. As an LFC fan, I'd love it to be Gini Wijnaldum, who has really convinced me in...

What a performance. Everybody was outstanding, but those Pulisic assists to Dempsey were particularly great. With that kind of quality in the attacking third we will always be threatening. It was really exciting and encouraging to watch.

Yeah, Stoke seemed to be trying to make a name for itself as a renovator of guys who were famous for being talented youngsters but didn't quite pan out: they picked up Bojan and Shaqiri and Ibrahim Afellay, and I did think they were poised to push for the Europa League places. Certainly they...