Apparently Cristiano('s penalties) can't drag Juventus on his own while whenever we get knocked out our best player gets scapegoated.
As our dear Paranoidandroid would say, levels. And big thanks to Pep and his team for taking out Madrid. You never know with them if they will find a way. And it was about time Zidane got knocked out after riding all that luck in his previous stint as Real manager.
Fortunately it was a mostly confident display tonight from Barcelona, winning 3-1 against Napoli. Nothing extraordinary but the team lacked even this level of performance throughout the season. Good set piece for the opener, Leo magic for the second goal, puzzling VAR ruled out another, while the captain won the penalty too which Suarez converted. 13 consecutive appearances in the Champions League quarterfinal now and due to the current circumstances, it's going to be over 7 years since the last time Barca lost a Champions League game at Camp Nou. 36 home games unbeaten. The last club to come out victorious here is the one we will face in the quarterfinals in Lisbon on Friday, Bayern. I just want to see good attitude and fight, given the respective states of the two teams, expecting a victory over them is totally unrealistic. But it's nice how an obviously declining La Liga has more clubs in the last eight than the Premier League, with Real not being one of them.
Having a packed CL schedule in August of all months feels so weird. Like having empty stadiums isn't bad enough. And it might take a while to return to normal. The virus has spiked up again over here, at one point playing tonight's game against Napoli at Camp Nou was in doubt. We pulled it off though, hopefully without any consequences.