[Match Thread] FC Bayern Munich v.s. Arsenal F.C.

Whew good from Gabriel to make up for tomi's slight mistake there.

Fuck the ref

How did the officials miss that touch by defender and goalkeeper. That was a clear corner.

SAKA JUST CHIP IT MAN

Overthinking what to do. He needs to give into that killer instincts.
- tbf it would've been offside anyway but, the mental boost at least woulda been immense.

I'm hearing away fans 🥹🥹🥹

oh damn you can hear our guys in a fucking european stadium that's rare.

Our away fans are always the loudest
- yeah but you still really shouldn't be hearing away fans in Europe lol that's an indictment on Bayern more than anything.

Ngl kinda need us to win this game, I've got a lot of shit to get done today and it'll be easier if it starts off well 🤣

Look at that smoke

Its hard to see. Lol
- For us, likely not as bad on the pitch

Definitely patience wins this one

No corner?!

fuck

Let's hope we stay at the same level in the second half.

We did disrupt their rhythm a bit so I like to see more of that

This game is really reminding me how fucking good that Bayer Leverkusen side is rn. Like Bayern aren't quite at their normal levels yes but they're still a very good side.

I just love seeing Rice drive forward, pull a bunch of players then slide a diagonal ball so we can move forward.

The game is opening up. Maybe good for us.

imma be honest that lino's been paid off

idk why people seem to be nervous about that gabi defending lol, it was pretty clean from my perspective.

I wasn't nervous about the defending, but it looked like he went to play it back to Raya who had made a run out. Which could have been bad if it was more towards goal
- Reminded me about the Saliba own goal thing a bit but I was like "nah this is Gabi he's passed it behind"

We are doing good again.

HOLY WHEW

don't want half time rn ngl

Same. I'm afraid it'll be like Villa half time, loss of all momentum
It'll go past added time that way

Øde yelling there were 2 touches. Refs don't want to see either.

I'm getting last season PTSD

nah that was not offside wtf that's a penalty for the pulldown

Refs don't want us to win, easy as

it's always fun going to Europe and hearing a bunch of chants in another language that sound just like "huy huy huy" cuz you don't understand it

I think they were definitely chanting Havertz over and over again because of his role for the German national team

Jorginho coming off is a surprise.

Potentially decisive pass? Overhit.

CL extra time reminds me of PL extra time of old

I know it doesn't look good, but I didn't see us doing as well as we have in the CL this season, which is a pretty good positive.

I expected this to be a tough game.

I assumed this would be a blow out. I'm still kinda happy with this tbh.
- Same

bit early cuz fuck it we ball

Looks like Kai was instructed to stay up front and not do any of that false nine stuff

I think Trossard deserves to start, but whether it's tactics or teamp setup, he seems to do better coming off the bench going at a tired defence.

Trossard is much better off the bench.

Real Madrid score!

just now popping up on my stream, that's a pretty fun goal lol.
hala madrid
- @Astrealix @ironeaglebird and City should have scored just now. off the post and far post miss

Tomi off for Eddie? Well, we either score 3, or concede three.

you really don't save those tbf, what a header

We've got 10 minutes to do something here. Let's make it happen.

whoever it was that mentioned villa, this is your fault /j

Don't know what you're talking about... 👀

Well damn. At least it wasn't too embarrassing

Honestly, it's a good point

Be really cool if we could capitalize on some of this pressure :(

Flashbacks to Villa
- :( :( :( :( :(
- need one in before HT

how's that gone bayern's way

I was wondering when the home bias was going to start showing
I don't know, but I feel like this ref deserves a job in the PL

HOW IS THAT NOT A CORNER

Because refs are born without eyes, it's tragic really

Here comes Trossard

Bayern are twats eh?

Surprised Bayern got the first yellow, ref has been blowing the whistle everytime we touch a Bayern player.

Unclench for 15

Welp

and now KdB has equalised. ffs lol

Makes their form in the league worse maybe?

Awww Havertz if only that got back

I shouted for Benny to shoot, my bad

And City just equalized. Of course.

It is City...
- And we're Arsenal. We can beat Granit Xhaka's understudies, surely.

cmon let Raya score it

even the fucking ball boys being cunts wtf

Eh, that I can't get too mad about. Not like ours don't do the same thing

Well, each time a shit decision like that goes against us, we lose 2 minutes of the game. So it makes perfect sense why they'd do it like this.

Also looking forward to there being like 3 minutes of added on time, despite Bayern wasting about 10 in the past 15 minutes alone

Why in the world were we letting Sane get so deep?

There should be statistical analyses done on how it's possible for a foul to be called against us in the box pretty much every time we have a set piece

Been pretty bad at defending crosses today

In retrospect, it makes perfect sense. Narrative says Arsenal are good at set pieces, so we just make it as hard as possible for them to score from set pieces. Brilliant.

FOUR MINUTES ROFL

Where are their yellow cards?

REF BEING IN THE WAY OF THE PASS WHAT THE FUCK

ARSENAL SPECIAL

Should have worn out Neon Zebra kit

Someone fix the record, it's skipping again

This isn't great... if they don't get cards Odegaard is going to get pinballed around until he's forced off

Tomi works his butt off to get back

The commentators continually beat the drum of "Arsenal and set pieces", but I can't actually recall us scoring off of a set piece in the CL yet.

Our set piece goals have really slowed down.
- teams caught up to us

Are there no rules as to which half of the pitch is watered in HT?

Apparently only our final third is being watered rn

That's some underhanded shit right there. 😒
I don't think there are specific rules behind the watering in general. I could be wrong?

Martinelli centre forward hive where you at

they literally just mentioned how he's only scored 1 in the last 10 games lol
- I know in part it's cause of the system but he could still do better lol

Good attempt from Ødegaard that. Neuer should be saving that better though shouldn't he.

Tomi is basically midfield

Tomi and Dec interchanging flank/pivot

Oy....

FOR FUCK'S SAKE ARE YOU KIDDING ME OF COURSE

Dang over hit crosses are so disappointing. I always perk up and then deflate. Lol

wearing my mccabe away kit today btw, wonder if it can transfer the energy from our win against Bristol City to this game XD

if it were still 0-0 there would have been a minimum of 8

no there wouldn't, CL use the old rules
- I'm just being sardonic, four minutes is still low under the old rules I would say

Tomiyasu has not been great today. Not that many fullbacks will be good against Sane tbf.

Kiwior struggled as well

Red card to Declan for kicking the ball after the flag went up.

If you know you know

Dang I think my stream is like a minute behind. So I will see all your groans or screams of Raya if we score. Lol

get a better stream XD

cut back or nothing

Same old Arsenal. We take 5 years to progress 5 meters up the pitch, and as soon as Bayern get it they're in our box. Fucking pathetic.

Why not just whistle for the foul before we even take the corner? Might as well. Fucking refs

that wasn't a good challenge lmfao

holy shit musiala

I think I know who our MOTM will be xD

Omg what happened I can't watch/listen
- Shot on goal hot the post. It wasn't as bad as the one's against Villa, but still a chance for Bayern
he might be staying on for these ratings yea xd

Gabriel and Saliba look like they have improved from last week. We just needed a couple more people to do the same.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Interesting sub

Dubai buff expired it's feeling like December now

Well fuck.

FUCK that would have been nice

Very Attacking. Substituing on all the attackers. Arteta plays this like I do FM

OOOOOOOOOOOOOF

Kai looks a little frazzled tonight. Hope he can pull through it.

Wtf Kai

Looking better again. Very much comes and gos in who's dominant in this game. Very tough opposition.

COYG!!!!

Jeez Decs

Saka gets the ball

Saka beats his man

Love_to_see_it.jpeg

Assanal failed to build up through the press and are now letting Bayern have the ball

jesus man

World's newest superhero!

Ben White warra switch

FUCKING FUCK

Cmon Bazza!

Are we actually doing this XD
- As an Aussie, how can I not? :)

If Wayne gets called Wazza, wouldn't Benjamin be called Bazza

As it should be
- Benny Bazza, you heard it here first

What a shot that was from Musiala.

yellow for the arm yeah

WHEW

We'll be fine. Trossard is massively clutch.

I honestly don't love that we've been as reliant on him in the CL, but if anyone can pull something out of the hat it's him

I'm back! With a much more stable stream :)

Let's hit them quick guys

Another soft Foul for very little, to no reason...

Well we looked like we might score! What other choice did he have?

Great save

Fucken hell, lol

Reffing in this game hasn't been that good in my opinion

Agreed especially that one linesman
It's been godawful, not just "not that good"

it's weird watching us be the team sitting back and letting things happen more

Just feeling each other up lol

what a shot from Sane there, didn't know the Germans had a space program.

Didn't know Gabriel Jesus and Stina Blackstenius were related

spin masters

Just keeping letting them loop the ball over the box, no need to worry

Leggo!!

I can't think of any possible subs.

If you say Tross I wanna know why

I can't give you any sound statistical reasoning, I'm not that knowledgeable. But, from past occasions, I feel like he gives us fresh legs, he has an eye for goal and can make runs into the box/get into good positions.

Well, we're donutting now. I'm starting to get a really bad feeling.

Trossard second half?

Probably around 65?min

Who do you put in if Øde needs to be subbed off now?

Vieira, methinks.
- Same, I don't think we really have anybody else who is a closer replacement

Oooh a booking

How is that a freekick, my god

I don't mind that one tbh, I mind the one that didn't got given when we tried to counter lol

When was the last time we won an aerial duel in the final third? Seems just yesterday everyone was excited about Havertz' and Jesus' jumping abilities

Why are we passing it so SLOWLY?!

how's that a goal kick?

hola

I sure hope that was just Tomi showing off...