Bit of an odd game, both sides have forgotten how to play football.
Six hundred goals! SIX HUNDRED!!! 😳
And what a finish?! Unbelievable! The greatest player ever?
Yes. No question.
Yeah I’d say so Binners. That many goals in the 1950s would be exceptional, let alone now!
Harsh scoreline on Liverpool this but you gotta take your chances.
If you’re a 30 goals a season striker then you’re something special. He’s got 48 so far this season, 12 in the champions league. And he does it week in, week out, year after year
Incredible!
Odd that he and Barca haven’t been on it in the Champions League for a few seasons - until this one obvs.
and there have been 30 (or 40, or even more) goals/season strikers but they seem to be out and out strikers. Andy Cole for example, was a predator pure and simple but Messi creates, dictates, conducts, manipulates, AND scores goals.
Messi must be from another planet, rarely fails to deliver. Saw him live a few times and almost its freaky what he does with a football.
I really enjoyed the game & my team were spanked. Barca were brilliant.
Absolute ambush/rope a dope - If lfc had scored in the second half when they had them under pressure maybe their heads would have dropped?
But Messi, oh my gosh what a free kick. Perfection.
&! I though it was a mistake to bring on Origi when Alexander-Arnold has been a consistent provider of assists all season.
Always next year , but you never know...
😉
I find it really hard to be unhappy after what was mostly a brilliant performance from them, plenty of chances, plenty of the ball, plenty of great play... but a 3-0 stuffing... feels a bit unfair, but that's the game.
I was laughing at the commentary, "messi really shouldn't be scoring from there"... I'm not exactly sure what Allison could have done differently ! It was simply a stunning free-kick.
Onwards to the next one !
Just wondering when it stopped being pronounced as the ‘new-camp’ and became camp-now’?
About the same time as Terry 'Enree became Thierry Henry
I was laughing at the commentary, “messi really shouldn’t be scoring from there”… I’m not exactly sure what Allison could have done differently ! It was simply a stunning free-kick.
That's exactly what I thought about that comment. There's not a keeper on the planet could have got to that, it was so perfectly placed
Stunning...
Thought starting Wijnaldum in place of Firmino showed up Klopps lack of confidence in Origi, Sturridge, Shaq etc. I wonder if they’ll look for another forward in the summer to rotate a bit more.
Barca will struggle to cope next week given the unique atmosphere, famous Euro night etc etc. Scousers to win 4-0. Andy Cole was an out and out striker at NUFC then his link up play improved dramatically at OT. Very few if any penalties too.
Too much to do I think. Be different maybe if Salah had made it 3-1.
You're not coming back from 3 down to Barca no matter how much self-mythologising you want to do 😉
Well the race not to finish third or fourth is hotting up. Spurs down to nine men and very, very lucky it’s not eight. Dier should have been off too.
On present form I fully expect us to draw with Huddersfield, Chelski get nowt, or a point, from the Watford game and Arsenal to lose to Brighton
All incidental, of course. It’s going to be interesting to see how Liverpool do tonight against Rafa. And Leicester won’t be an easy game for City either
I think if the tie between Liverpool and Barca had been closer, there was a chance the could have concentrated on that and slipped up against Newcastle, as things stand I don't really see that happening now.
I don't really know why everyone thought Bury was the toughest challenge before the end of the season last weekend, I always thought Leicester was the real last hurdle, still without a midweek game, I expect city to win but it is still a potential banana skin.
3rd to 6th god knows what is happening, it has just gone crazy.
Pressure is on spurs now, last game of the season against an on form Everton is very losable.
I can see them losing to Everton but it not really counting for anything as everyone else drops points too. That seems to be how it's going. 3rd and 4th spots going to the 2 squads who are slightly less rubbish and can just about be bothered to actually turn up
Difficult to see anything other than the same two-horse race next season, so far off the pace are everyone else. In fact, carry on playing like they've finished this season and they're going to be looking over their shoulders to Wolves, Everton and Leicester
It would actually be good binners for the top 6 club to be challenged. Depends how much money Chelsea and Man U chuck about as to whether they’ll get near Liverpool and City.
What a finish that was!
This is a blinder of a game!
Don’t think the Liverpool defence has looked so rattled this season (Messi excepted, obviously)
Hope Salah’s ok. This doesn’t look good 🙁
another Newcastle-Liverpool borefest I see......
Epic. Can’t fault Liverpool’s spirit - so many late goals over the season. You never know!
Origi is coming on like Ole for late winners
No finger nails left. Good of Rafa to give us a goal start. 🙂
Wonder if Jurgen fancies a cheeky bid for Rondon?
A good stat for you as he’s starting for a rare a rare time today
Sanchez has cost us 5.6 million quid per goal 😳
I’m guessing Messi’s 600 for Barca average out a bit cheaper
Utd were truly awful today. Gutless, classless, clueless.
In fact they were so bad I wonder if some of the players have a valuation clause in their contract that depends on whether Utd are in the CL. Easier to leave if it costs your new club £30m less isn't it.
There isn't a single player I'd be sad to see the back of. Except maybe Rashford, McTominay, DeGea and...well that's it really.
It’s absolutely unbelievable how bad we are! Another pathetic, half-arsed, spineless, gutless performance, with everyone just casually jogging about like they’re having a nice kickabout on the park. You were playing for a champions league place you gang of overpayed, bone idle *s!!!
We need to get shut of the *ing lot of them and start from scratch! Not one of them is fit to wear the shirt
Edit: Ashley Young - Club captain - just said “I can’t fault the effort or the attitude...”
WTF?!!!! I think you’re on your own there you delusional donkey! You were playing Huddersfield, not Barcelona, and you couldn’t manage 3 points, FFS!!
So, Ole out? Has he really done any better than Jose since he came in?
The problem isn’t the manager. The problem is the whole culture of the ownership and management of the club, which is clearly not fit for purpose
The latest nonsense is that they’re supposedly bringing Rio Ferdinand in as technical director? WTF? Seriously?!
Absolutely clueless!
He did for a bit but then it’s back to business as usual- hard to disagree with Keanes comment that these players will thrown any manager under the bus.
The running of Chong and McTominay showed what labels of effort are required but the majority just CBA.
Binners- I agree completely. Apparently Ed gave Martial a contract for £250k/week but they’ve only offered Rashford £200k. No rhyme or reason to anything.
I’ve been thinking about the last truly good signing they made and it was Van Persie. No signing since has done anything.
On present form I fully expect us to draw with Huddersfield,
called it...
i just looked up Huddersfield's recent stats. In their preceding 4 games, they conceded an average of 3.75 goals per game. They hadn't picked up a single point since February. Fair play to Utd, they really are finding new ways to bollocks it up!
Gary Neville seems to have got it nailed for the last few games. His comments today...
"Nothing about this United team I like at all. They're just awful. They're a despondent group of people."
"Solskjaer is smiling at them, they're that bad. Look at them. Just awful. This isn't a team at all."
Just wondering when it stopped being pronounced as the ‘new-camp’ and became camp-now’?
When the English speaking commentators realised that calling it New Camp was in fact incorrect. It’s always been Camp Nou, only the English speaking commentators were too dumb / too patronising to realise it. It’s a bit like Park Goodson, Trafford Old or Road Elland.
...speaking of which, trust us to finish the regular season on a whimper, against the worst team in the championship.
Bodes well for the playoffs.
Frank-Lampards-Derby-County up next. Ok we beat them home & away, with or without the supposed advantage of watching them train, during the season, but they’re coming off a win against WBA, one of the highest scoring teams in the division. They’ll be well fired up for it.
MOT
Leeds ‘doing a Leeds’ again?
Speaking of which #Emeryout is presently trending on Twitter. Relax folks... that’s the next 15 years of callers to 606 taken care of with Arsenal fans returning to their favourite topic. Getting shut of their manager 😂
I think Emery has done ok to be fair. Not much money spent and a squad in decline, to maintain contact with the top 6 was a decent start. Win the Europa League and they’ll get in the Champions League. Sarri too has got top four although his job looks tough next year, if he’s kept on, when Hazard leaves and (hopefully) the transfer ban is upheld.
United though...so was the winning run when Ole took over just the usual new manager bounce? Woodward just can’t get it right can he? Caved to the pressure in giving him the job, why not wait until the end of the season to decide? The rebuilding job is so huge it needs a more experienced manager in my opinion.
that’s the next 15 years of callers to 606 taken care of with Arsenal fans returning to their favourite topic. Getting shut of their manager
Well at least he has managed a full season, which is more than Moyes did when replacing Ferguson, despite the united fans constantly prattling on about how they give managers time.
God I am nervous for tonight, I am even contemplating not watching, unless we get a couple of goals early on, I just won't enjoy it. Win tonight and I think that's it, Liverpool's final day is tougher than ours, but it is a real test tonight.
Looking a bit nervy!
