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Pressure and atmosphere got to Leverkusen. Abject penalties. Leno is a a very good penalty keeper and made an unbelievable save from Koke. Calhanogolu, Kiessling and Toprak took awful pens. Calhangolou especially tried to be too clever. Someone who strikes the ball like him should just hit it in...

Unlucky, but also a typical way for Arsenal to go out with a valiant display. Has to be said that Monaco were very nervous and shot themselves in the footb, but they got threw. Not sure with Wenger's team selection, but Welbeck did get an assist for the first goal and Ozil played the key pass...

LOL. Suarez was playing for Liverpool. He carried that Liverpool team to second and had many big games. Now he is playing for a better team he has scored against Atletico and City. I wouldn't bet against him scoring against Madrid. In his first game against Madrid he got two assist. At the Nou...

Well actually Mourinho has not spent his entire managerial career being defensive in the big games. He is the manager that went toe to toe with Barcelona at their peak in 2010 and won 3-1. When he feels he has an inferior team like he did last season and early in his Madrid he career he was...

What has being the best technically got to do with anything? Lukaku still has the potential to be a world class striker despite his lack of technical ability. It was not a comparison about their ability, but their continual poor choices in the clubs they joined. Both of them should never have...

I can see De Bruyne causing a big fuss and trying to leave this summer. He has no patience and don't think it's the right time for him to move. Should at least stay another season at Wolfsburg and see how things are after the Euros. Like Lukaku though he is too desperate for the big time too soon.

Interesting, but if a bid has been made then it usually means that the player wants to come and has given an informal nod to City.

I agree with this. Fifth is about right for them, but fourth would be a good season. Let's see where they come. I don't think Tottenham/Liverpool are particularly strong at the moment, but they do have a lot of young players that should keep on improving. Kane, Erikson, Bentaleb, Sterling, Can...

For a Premier League team Bale is just too good to turn down. Needs to have his ego checked a bit and start tracking back again, but he is a world class player. Madrid fans want rid and he is not worth the money he will go for, but sometimes you have to overpay. Madrid will only sell if they...

I agree with a lot of this, but you are overpraising British talent. Barkley has had a far easier route to the top of football than Yaya. Barkley did not have to leave home as a teenager to a different continent and play in a completely different league. Nor did he have to learn several...

True to a certain extent, but Fabregas even at the start of the season was going miss in the big games. Mourinho is unfairly being lambasted as being too defensive in the big games this year. This is not really the case. It's in the City games and the second half of the United game where has...

If Stuttgart do down then someone should snap up Werner. He has so much potential, but needs to start playing behind the striker. If Pep continues to play a 4-2-3-1 with Rode in the team then hard to see anyone troubling Bayern in the CL even. As long as he keeps it simple they are just too...

Haven't had the time to reply so will give a general answer. I have never thought Yaya was just a 'defensive midfielder not worth 25' million, but that was the general consensus. Nor did I particularly rate Pastore, but he was the new big playmaker. The 'bigger' player is not always the better...

Only Aguero out of them was a very big name and even then he was still not at the top level nor even the biggest young striker. Benzema was still the biggest out of the youngsters and there were still the likes of Villa/Zlatan/Etoo (who would make a shock move). Arguable that Higuain was a...

My fault I meant my post addressing why PSG are exempt. However, arguing about how a couple of other teams get through it ie PSG by being based in Paris and Porto being at the mercy of agents( and not that successful apart from when they did have a number of Portugese under Mourinho does not...

Thiago Silva has been world class and can still be. There is a reason Motta has been the defensive midfielder for 2 different CL winning teams. Why exactly would you take Matic over him? David Luiz when he focuses in a big game is better than either Terry of Cahill. Maxwell not great, but again...

Said it before, but Chelsea in many ways are not stronger in the big games, because Fabregas for all his quality goes missing in the big games which just kills them. David Luiz like he showed today might not be the sort of player to win the league, but when big games come across he is a star...

No the low level of the Premiership has been obvious for some time. I have seen Palace teams almost as good as this struggle to make the play offs at the low level and at the top level English clubs have done very poorly in Europe. This is not a knee jerk reaction, but what has been obvious for...

PSG are a rare situation, because they are Paris, which is arguably the most glamorous city in the world. I have said this years ago, but PSG due to the attraction of Paris can attract the highest level players that City cannot. City have progressed a lot due to winning the league, but they...

He is the worst pundit by far on SKY. Never does any research and is always proven wrong. He was criticising Terry for losing to Thiago Silva in the air. Everyone knows Silva is a monster. That apart PSG are an incredible team at set pieces with the likes of Motta, Silva, Luiz, Zlatan (I know he...