Village Idiot

Mutch was hyped to have a breakthrough season this year, it's a decent gamble for a club like Palace.

Crystal Palace's shirt is close enough to ours so that picture disturbs me greatly.

Mino Raiola hawking Pogba despite signing a new contract three months ago. http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/transfer-zone/2015/01/29/8410682/pogba-will-leave-juventus-says-raiola Such a tosser

So the US lost? That 3-5-2 tactic looks a bit ill-thought, going off my (admittedly limited) knowledge of the personnel involved.

Juanfran has always been a terrible defender, has all the issues of the winger-turned-fullback breed. And yeah, I was thinking the same tonight. "What if Costa was on the pitch right now..."

Ansaldi was arrested by the Spanish police while he was travelling to the game, Atlético on a roll tonight

We'll get Getafe or Villarreal in the semis. Villarreal are the better team and have a small lead in the tie, but we have such a hard time every time we play Getafe... Espanyol are leading their tie comfortably, would love a Barcelona final.

Gabi must have actively tried to kill someone for his red, if that is only yellow. Oh, wouldn't surprise me.

Never seen anything like it: how was it not a red? I suppose the referee didn't want to get Atlético down to 9 men so quickly. But yeah, it was a blatant red, that.

Anyone know why? There's been some fracas in the tunnel to the dressing room, they say.

Piqué is again at a good level, but Mascherano is still not a natural CB despite doing his best, and Alves is still finished. And the less we talk about Mathieu and Vermaelen the better.

We're still comical at the back. While the other parts of the team are starting to perform like they should, no amount of confidence is going to conjure up a RB and a CB out of thin air.

The point of signing people like Neymar and Suárez was to make us harder to defend against, it looks like after 18 months we are starting to use the players well on that regard.

Ney

An entertaining Atlético-Barça game!

BAH.

It was Mascherano who blundered there.

Yeah, he probably didn't like watching that from the bench

Oh FFS.

That's what people say when a striker's shit and they want to clutch at straws. "Creates space for others" is another favorite of mine.

In 10 min. Beer on hand, pizza in the oven, different graduations of alcohol depending on the result available in the fridge.

Oblak; Juanfran, Giménez, Miranda, Siqueira; Gabi, Mario Suárez, Arda Turan, Raúl García; Griezmann, Torres Ter Stegen; Alves, Piqué, Mascherano, Jordi Alba; Busquets, Rakitic, Iniesta; Messi, Luis Suárez, Neymar Griezmann is on fire at the moment. Other than that I would be very cautiously optimistic. If we manage one goal I believe it will be enough.

He will be used as a non-impact sub, most likely.

Manchester United, the first club that punishes fans if they go far in the cups.

What? They suspend your ST if you don't buy games off it?