The Road to Nowhere: 2021-22 Champions League

[beak]

Enjoying Brugge, and all.

[The_Purple_Cow]

Four for Haller. Ironically all five goals have been scored by the two players Ajax fans love to hate. They are going to have to re-think their opinions.

[Jah Womble]

Haller has four now.

I think the ECL record for one match is five, no? I know Messi managed it and maybe one other player?

[Sporting]

Also (half) watching the BT goals show, but missed why Sporting's "second" goal was disallowed. Any clues?

I think offside

[multipleman78]

Glenn Hoddle said he caught that half volley on the rise, which made it harder. Can you catch a half volley any other way? I thought if ball was travelling downwards it was just a volley.

One helluva strike regardless.

[Jah Womble]

Nkunku now has a hat-trick for Leipzig at the Etihad.

Some game. (Emphasised by Cancelo making it 5-3 as I was typing.)

[multipleman78]

Paolo Maldini still looks fit enough to play.

[Ray de Galles]

A bizarre goal for Porto bizarrely disallowed for a non-existent (as far as I can see) handball.

[Discordant Resonance]

Vinicius looks to have won it at the death for Real.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Phew.

[ursus arctos]

Vinicius looks to have won it at the death for Real.

This was almost inevitable given the pattern of the match and history of the two clubs

[Gangster Octopus]

A bizarre goal for Porto bizarrely disallowed for a non-existent (as far as I can see) handball.

Not just me then.

[Sunderporinostesta]

Bruges look good. The 14yr old white kid upfront especially, excellent hold up play for a 12yr old who actually looks about 9yr old.

[Sporting]

Not just me then.

I didn't understand why either

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Haller has four now.

I think the ECL record for one match is five, no? I know Messi managed it and maybe one other player?

Luiz adriano of shaktar I think.

[Sporting]

Vinicius looks to have won it at the death for Real.

Rodyrgo.

[Sporting]

A bizarre goal for Porto bizarrely disallowed for a non-existent (as far as I can see) handball.

I've watched again and there was a handball.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I'm finding the missing "St." in the thread title hard to bear.

[Ray de Galles]

Yes, same here.

[john the revelator]

I followed the BRU-PSG match feed on lequipe and was surprised to see a tweet from Didier on the game - after 30 minutes, he flagged how weak PSG were in defence and commitment.
https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/matc...sg-live/527043

I didn't expect a national coach to be commenting on club games - sort of political minefield to be normally avoided.
Would that be a false flag?
He even compared the match to France Hungary.
On top of that he has loads of tweets about theVoice - all seems weirdly incongruous - if a false flag, then I would have expected lequipe to detect that

https://twitter.com/DidierDescha?ref...-live%2F527043

[Discordant Resonance]

Yes, same here.

But then there wouldn't be any alliteration.

[Nocturnal Submission]

But then there wouldn't be any alliteration.

A small price to pay. Or change it to "Steps to St. Petersburg" or perhaps "Steppes" for the full LOLZ, though someone with a degree in soil science would probably chip in to point out some geographical inexactness.

[ad hoc]

But then there wouldn't be any alliteration.

Path to Petrograd would have been better. Or Line to Leningrad

[Ray de Galles]

Also, there are lots of Petersburgs, none of which I can imagine staging the CL Final.

Though that link claims that Saint Petersburg is somethings known as Petersburg but I've never encountered any evidence of that.

[ad hoc]

Not sure if the LRB gets linked to in the football forum much, but here is a good piece by Paula Erizanu on Sheriff Tiraspol who face Real Madrid tonight https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/sept...eriff-tiraspol