Roma v Barca Champions League
One of the great comebacks in Champions League! Down 4-1 on aggregate, Roma blanks Barca 3-0 to advance to the semis. Any soccer fans who didn't see the match, try and find a replay tonight. You won't regret it.
Also, turning into a good year for my teams. Michigan in the NCAA Final, Roma in the CL Semi's first time since 83-84...Michigan football you are up next!
I think it tops last year simply because you expect Barca to comeback. Only other CL game comeback that was as great, and that I can recall off the top of my head, was when Deportivo came back from 4-0 to knock off a great AC Milan team in 2003/2004.
Yeah Gerrad was a beast in that game.
Barca has been a machine this year. Impressive showing for a Serie A club.
Their weakness at the back finally bit them...in the ass?
What a match! I hope Roma carry that passion into this weekend's derby.
A shocka! Stunning result there. And who expected Liverpool to destroy unstoppable Man City?
For sure going to watch the replay tonight. With this win today Roma prevents Dortmund from getting 10 millions euros from Barca.
Any Barca fans care to explain the decisions made by Valverde today?
Well for starters, Di Francecsco went with a formation that Roma has barely played at all this season..3-4-1-2. I am sure Barca was not remotely expecting that because we almost always play a 4-3-3. Also, we fielded our most physical line up. Roma players were hammering Barca all match. And De Rossi pretty much shut down Messi.
Almost always played a 4-3-3 with a false nine or 3-4-3 under Louis Enrique. Valverde has mostly played this team in a 4-4-2.
I'm a Barca fan, so this was a tough pill to swallow, but kudos to A.S. Roma. Huge win for a Serie A team that is tied for fourth with rival Lazio many many points behind Juve but still managed to knock off a superpower team.
Roma is one creative midfielder away from truly competing for the Scudetto. We play great against better teams who push forward and give us space. In Serie A, lesser teams will drop 11 behind the ball and we dont have the creative mid to unlock it. But agaist teams like Barca, Athletico, and Chelsea who wanted to play with us..and we held our own this CL.
April 11th, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^
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April 11th, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
This is a really good explanation.
The qualification for international tournaments adds extra excitement/anxiety to the season. If your team is out of the race for the league championship, you're still anxiously watching to see if they finish top 4 and make Champions League, etc.
There's also relegation. The bottom few teams will be relegated to the lower league -- e.g., Serie A to Serie B. (Or you could be Juventus and be relegated for rigging matches.)
The best way to get into European soccer is choose a team, become a fan, and just go from there. Don't be a bandwagon Yankees fan though -- i.e., no Barcelona, Juventus, Real Madrid, Manchester, Chelsea, et al.
Something that took me a couple seasons to get used to when I started following European soccer.
April 11th, 2018 at 10:22 AM ^
As a Bayern fan, I am absolutely delighted by this. Now lets just hope Sevilla doesn't pull off a similar upset today!