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At a time last season people believed Kante was finished. He has really turned up to shut up the critics.

Nice one Emerson. Our attackers need to learn from our defenders.

Mehn our attackers need to be lethal and ruthless. We should be up by 3 or more goals

Ibime:
He's definitely got some elements of Ozil. . . the lackadaisical element

lol.

Wrong thread.

I wonder what the scouts saw in this Havertz guy. Media says he is like ballack and ozil. Lol what a fallacy.

Ibime:
Azpi is a lucky boy

very Lucky. Carassco made the most of it but most refs would give a penalty nevertheless.

Nice one. Atletico can't attack mehn. Nice counter. Kudos to Havertz for that interception.

What a crazy gw. 4 players not playing, two injured in the first half. Double captain fail. Thank heavens for defence. Shaw and Cancelo delivered big. 39 points with Salah to play. I might even win a H2H.

Happy birthday Prophet Skimpledawg. More anointing.

Benzema Alerts. Lethal striker.

Captain KDB on the beat. 82 points and wins in all H2H

This Juve team has the potential Sha but their coaching is poor.

KingAlabi:
Remove his penalties and please tell me the midfielder with most goals contribution in the Europe top 5 leagues

Lol I can't count the no of times I have made the above statement to defend Lampard. One of the reasons I like Bruno is his similarity to Lamps in terms of effectiveness and stats.

McCarthy is being benched now? Kwp played and is in line for a bonus point including cleansheet but he is on my bench. What a bad way to begin.

This is the third all-English final - and second in three seasons - in the Champions League.

In 2008, Chelsea lost 6-5 on penalties to Manchester United in Moscow after the match had finished 1-1 after 120 minutes.

Eleven years later, Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid in the last final to be played in front of a capacity crowd.

If City beat Chelsea, they will become the sixth different English club to be crowned champions of Europe after Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea and Aston Villa.

City are the ninth different English club to reach the final after Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Leeds United, Arsenal and Tottenham.

The last English team to win their first final was Aston Villa in 1982 against Bayern Munich.

Roland17:
Hmmmn. I see the direction and onus of your argument and I have to agree with it. Messi is definitely a Legend in football, that I can agree with.

No vess!

Lol I would never have taken you for a Ronaldo fan.

oyetpel:
A lot of people are signing him now, me inclusive.

You can't go getting goals each match and go under the radar.

But he will start regressing now, that's for sure.

And boy did he regress. Rodgers said he is out for like 6 weeks. What a useless transfer.

Matchday is tommorow.

Crazy game week. All the guys I transferred out performed better than those I transferred in. Furlong> Shaw, DCl> Werner. Wouldn't have done the latter if I was sure he was fit and he wasn't playing away at anfield.

Ibime:
Shey man go soon start reason this Lingard for FPL?

Him plus Barnes. Low key dropping the points.

I thought Sterling would be benched sha. Sold him for Son. My love story with him continues.

afrodoc2:
It is actually 13 Roland Garros for Nadal. Federer is my G.O.A.T too for the beauty of his game and for the balance in his titles. He has very good records in 3 of the 4 slams (5 or more wins in 3 of the 4 slams) unlike Nadal and to a lesser extent Nole who spammed us with just 1 slam.

Damn 13 out of 20! Roland was the no 1 boogey ground for Federer no thanks to Nadal. He lost four times in the final to him. Kudos to Nadal he was more than a rival.

Almajirihunter:
Nadal for me, if Novak reaches same slams with them then definitely him, guy’s broken almost all records just the GS records remaining now.

Yeah. Djokovic has the records on his side. Two career grand slams I think. I think he would surpass.

afrodoc2:
Nadal and Djokovic will most likely surpass Federer in grand slam titles. Which of them will be number 1 will most likely depend on health.

Federer has stopped winning titles, Nadal has 1 guaranteed title a year and Djokovic has 1 guaranteed title as well.

Nole is 2 titles behind Nadal but 1 yr younger. So COVID willing Nadal surpasses Roger this year at Roland Garros and Nole then starts chasing Nadal. Whichever of the 2 maintains health and fitness will be the last man standing.

Exactly. All those finals Federer lost coming back to haunt him. 20 out of 31, though admittedly Novak 18 in 28 is almost as worse arithmetically. Nadal has 20 in 28, 12 of which came from Roland Garros. Federer is still GOAT as far as I am concerned.

TEAM PREVIEW
It's an all-English Champions League final - but will it be Manchester City or Chelsea who will be crowned champions of Europe on Saturday?

Premier League champions City are looking to win the prestigious competition for the first time.Chelsea, European champions in 2012, have beaten Pep Guardiola's side twice in the league and FA Cup in 2020-21.p to 16,500 people will be allowed inside Porto's Estadio do Dragao ground to watch.

Both sides have fully fit squads to choose from, although City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan looked like he took a minor knock in Friday's training session after a collision with Fernandinho.

"I know exactly the way we want to play, with who we're going to play and I'm not going to bother them much," Guardiola said.

"It's an incredible experience to be here. I know exactly what I'm going to tell them. The guys who are anxious and nervous, I will tell them that's normal.

"I'm pretty sure we have to suffer to win the final. It's nice to say enjoy it but sometimes it's not possible. You have to be resilient and adjust."

City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne said: "If you win, you're a hero. If you lose, you're almost a failure. Coming to this stage is incredibly well done by the team but if you don't win it's something you don't want to experience.

"It's been one of the goals of the club and the players. Being able to be there tomorrow [Saturday] and to perform on the highest stage in the world is something of a privilege."

City's Spanish boss Guardiola is looking to win the Champions League for a third time after steering Barcelona to triumphs in 2009 and 2011.

Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel is seeking his first Champions League success. Last season, the German took Paris St-Germain to the final, losing 1-0 to Bayern Munich.

"I have full trust that everybody wants it," said Tuchel. "It is about hunger and always on the highest level in sport it comes down to how bad do you want it? I have felt us very concentrated, focused and disciplined in the build-up this week.

"It's always tough to play against City, Bayern or Barcelona when Pep is on the sidelines. He creates huge belief and success and has a huge winning mentality.

"Maybe in the moment they are the strongest team in Europe, in the world, and they have built a huge gap between us in the league but we closed the gap for 90 minutes in Wembley and closed the gap again in Manchester."

The final will be decided on the day, with 30 minutes of extra time and then penalties if required.

Each side will be allowed five substitutions, with a sixth permitted for each side if the final goes to extra time.

Tuchel said: "The penalty shootout [in the Europa League final] was fantastic in terms of quality from the takers. I don't think I have ever seen something like this - 20 penalties in a row with no miss and so well taken.

"We have identified the guys who should take the penalties for us but I don't know who is in the end on the pitch so we need to be well aware but if we go to penalties we go in together and out together."

The video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used, while City have been designated the 'home' team, which means they will play in their traditional sky blue and white colours.

This year's final will air in over 200 countries around the world, with the opening ceremony taking place about 10 minutes before the biggest game in European club football kicks off.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/57268064

Well Sevilla are bottlers in the UCL themselves Sha.

Wow Dortmund has really surprised me.

BlueMann:
See as dem carry Leeds dey play

Leeds have been very poor. I don't get the obsession with playing out from the back when they aren't comfortable with the style. They would survive this season but without better reinforcement or change in style then a relegation fight might be what they do next season.

Rudiger was low-key having a above average game before his dose of calamity.

We need to try and dictate play and not let Sheffield's press break us up.

Oh Foden you could have done this last match now.