14-3-19 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
UEFA CHAMPIONS
LEAGUE LAST 16
BARCALONA 5-1 LYON agg
5-1
MAGIC OF MESSI
Suarez plays a one-two with Messi, feels contact from
Denayer and goes down. It was a silly and needless challenge from Denayer, however
much Suarez made of it, and a clear penalty.Messi dinks a slow-motion penalty
straight down the middle. Lovely. That’s one of the slowest Panenka I’ve ever
seen.
Suarez beats Marcal superbly on the edge of the area to move
through on goal. He could score himself but instead slides the ball to the left
for Coutinho, who walks it in from seven yards.
A left-wing corner led to a game of head tennis in the Barcelona box
until the backpedalling Tousart took the ball down smartly on his chest and hit
a precise volley past ter Stegen from 12 yards. That’s an excellent finish.
Messi scurried 40 yards down the inside-right channel and
clipped a low ball across the area with his right foot. It was missed by
Busquets at the near post but ran perfectly for Pique, who backed up the play
and slid the ball into the empty net.
Messi received a sharp pass from Busquets 40
yards from goal, turned and hared into the area. Then he dummied to shoot,
sending Denayer and Marcelo off to attend to the wrong fire in the process, and
came back inside to hit a low right-footed shot that went through the right
hand of Gorgelin and into the net. He should have saved it, but the trick from
Messi to beat the two defenders was erotica itself.
Messi has made two and scored two. He leads another
devastating counter-attack, running 40 yards before easing an angled pass to
the left for Dembele, who sweeps a low right-footed shot through Gorgelin.
MY
OPINION
This shows the ability that
Barca have to destroy a team and a game. They seems to be a bit of disappointment
in the French game from the start. Messi has shown that he has got the real potential
to be seen as the icon that he is
BAYERN MUNICH 1-3
LIVERPOOL agg 1-3
MAGNIFICENT MANE
Nothing seems to be on when Liverpool’s in-form man tries to
make something of a long ball forward from Van Dijk. But he manages to
outmuscle Rafinha and lever himself into position on the left of the Bayern
area. All of a sudden there’s trouble for Bayern, who could have done without
Neuer racing off his line. Mane controls brilliantly before spinning adroitly
to open a yard of space. The question now is whether he can dig out a finish
from an awkward angle - and he can, scooping a left-footed shot into the empty
net to give Liverpool a precious advantage!
It all comes from a straightforward ball over the top
from deep from the back. Robertson hasn’t tracked Gnabry’s run and that leaves
him in trouble. Gnabry speeds into the area from the right and hammers a low
cross-shot into the six-yard box. It bounces off Joel Matip’s shins and into
the net, leaving Alisson helpless.
The ball was swung in from the right by James Milner and
there was the towering Virgil Van Dijk leaping highest in the Bayern area. He’s
too big and powerful for his markers in red and Neuer can’t do anything about a
thumping header into the bottom-right corner!
Divock Origi finds Mo Salah on the right and the Egyptian
uses the outside of his left foot to send a cracking cross towards the far
post, where Mane heads his second of the night past Neuer. That should be
that.
MY
OPINION
Liverpool have made it 4 English
teams from 4 in the Champions League as this seems to be a disaster for the German
side. That one piece of magic to make it 1-0 for Liverpool in my opinion was
what made the huge difference.
THE 8
TEAMS IN THE DRAW ARE
Clubs:
Ajax (NED)
Barcelona (ESP)
Juventus (ITA)
Liverpool (ENG)
Manchester City (ENG)
Manchester United (ENG)
Porto (POR)
Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)
Ajax (NED)
Barcelona (ESP)
Juventus (ITA)
Liverpool (ENG)
Manchester City (ENG)
Manchester United (ENG)
Porto (POR)
Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)
Its an open draw
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