[Archived] Champions League 2012/13

[K-Hod]

A couple of contentious goals for Bayern, granted I've only seen the second half- but Bayern looking very impressive!!

I can feel T4E going ape at my comments from here!!

[T4E]

I can't bring myself to go ape at all, Bayern are unbelievably good. There's been signs of this happening to Barça, Real Madrid seem to have figured them out and the better teams seem to all be figuring it out. Just nowhere near good enough defensively to be able to keep a team this good out when plan A isn't working.

Bayern - Real would be a pretty decent final to watch, suspect that's what we'll get.

[thenodrog]

I love the application of the Germans and if they could just manage not to continually 'work the ref' by diving and playacting the Bundesliga would be the football to watch.

[Salgado Is A Hero]

Great result tonight. Bayern were quality. And Gotze will be their next season as well.

Wouldn't mind an all-German final tbh.

[DE.]

Bayern were incredible tonight, they knocked Barcelona out of their stride very early and they never really recovered from it. Messi didn't get a look in, reminded me of his performances for Argentina... subdued.

[cn174]

Bayern were just awesome tonight, attacked loads down the side and Barca couldn't deal with it. Can't see them getting back into this tie.

But on the same day they've been typical Bayern and let the news about Götze transferring from Dortmund to them leak out. Can't think that the timing was anything but deliberate.

[RibbleValleyRover]

Fantastic performance by Bayern. I love watching Schweinsteiger play and he and Martinez did not disappoint tonight, completely bossed that midfield.

[T4E]

Great result tonight. Bayern were quality. And Gotze will be their next season as well.

Wouldn't mind an all-German final tbh.

Götze is a great signing, they just keep getting better.

The irony is on a night they showed how to play against the tika taka style, at the end of the season they'll bin their coach for a guy that will want to play exactly that way.

[dave birch]

Barca just don't have a defence.

Under pressure, their defence panics big time.

[jim mk2]

Wonderful to see Barcelona dismantled so comprehensively. I've never liked their possession football which quite frankly bores me to tears.

Won't be tuning in to the final though as the prospect of arrogant Germans celebrating victory is too much to take.

It's bad enough them dominating the European economy without them lording it over European football too.

Come on Real.

[Gally]

I love the application of the Germans and if they could just manage not to continually 'work the ref' by diving and playacting the Bundesliga would be the football to watch.

For me, it already is.

£15 a match at the top teams, safe standing, fan representatives on the board and if this season is anything to go by, the quality difference isn't too much behind England (top are probably even better). When you think of the kind of things that fans complain about in Britian, Germany seems like the promised land.

[thenodrog]

Wonderful to see Barcelona dismantled so comprehensively. I've never liked their possession football which quite frankly bores me to tears.

Won't be tuning in to the final though as the prospect of arrogant Germans celebrating victory is too much to take.

It's bad enough them dominating the European economy without them lording it over European football too.

Come on Real.

Don't Real effectively dominate the footballing economy though?

[Amo]

Wonderful to see Barcelona dismantled so comprehensively. I've never liked their possession football which quite frankly bores me to tears.

Won't be tuning in to the final though as the prospect of arrogant Germans celebrating victory is too much to take.

It's bad enough them dominating the European economy without them lording it over European football too.

Come on Real.

Sounds like someone's jealous of ze Germans.

[Guest Norbert]

I'd rather the Germans than the Spanish Government or the Catalan government and their glory supporters and nancy boy fashionistas.

[T4E]

*Bavarians

[Guest Norbert]

Bavarians are Germans too. Some may think themselves as 'different' to the North, but they're all Germans really.

And I didn't know where else to put this, but Kevin Davies is going to Canada to join up with a manager no-one can spell correctly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22277985

[gumboots]

Actually they are all German speaking but the north Germans are very different from the bavarians. It's like trying to compare Scots to the people who inhabit the strange area around London.

[Guest Norbert]

I know the German is different, but they're all German really.

[Salgado Is A Hero]

Either way that was some goal by "Lemondowski" to quote the illustrious Paul Merson.

[Tom]

Glad we got Kalinic instead

[gumboots]

I know the German is different, but they're all German really.

Not just the German but the whole way they think - the mentality is very different in the south from in the north. People around Hamburg are much like us whereas i can;t get my head round Bavarians. They were saying on TV last night that Dortmund is closer geographically to London than it is to Munich and i suspect characterwise it's the same.

[DE.]

A humbling couple of days for Spain.

[T4E]

Real are getting an absolute pasting from Dortmund. Now 4-1, Lewandowski with all 4.

Bavarians are Germans too. Some may think themselves as 'different' to the North, but they're all Germans really.

Just like Spanish and Catalans then.

[Guest Norbert]

Maybe they're throwing the games to get another EU bailout! Didn't realise it was 4-1 until I checked a minute or two ago.

Re T4E: That's probably an accurate comparasion, but the Catalans/Bavarians as different to the main nation state as Swahili speakers or the Maori.

Who cares, the Germans/Bavarians/Box heads are beating two overblown clubs in Europe.

[Stuart]

Glad we got Kalinic instead

I thought it was. I was trying to remember if this was the guy we were linked with. He was "too good" for us, wasn't he?