UEFA Champions League 2012 - 2013 Thread

Advantage Malaga??

Malaga have shown that they're more than able to compete at this level but you'd still have to fancy Dortmund to beat them at home I think.

If Malaga had nicked it 1-0 tonight, then they'd have had a good chance.

We'll see anyway, an early Malaga goal would make it interesting.

Absolutely no way they can prove those yellow cards were deliberately sought.

Of course they were, Alonso's was for kicking the ball away in the last minutes of a 3-0 victory, and Ramos' for dissent. They didn't need to timewaste and I'm sure they weren't wound up enough to provoke dissent. Not that I see anything wrong with it, it's just clever.

The difference then was that the cards they sought were red, not yellow, and there was an elaborate pantomime surrounding them. Dudek, instructed by Mourinho, left the bench to pass a message to Casillas who then communicated the orders to the two players. Proving that the cards had been deliberately sought was simple. Not so this time.

I like Barcelona, love the way they play and some of their players, but they can't keep running to UEFA whenever they don't get the result they want. It seems to be either the pitch or the referee.

This.

If they'd won 2-1 I'd imagine they wouldn't have complained about the referee.

Yeah, but they didn't win because of a comically offside goal.