BENNY AND TOMI PUT PEN TO PAPER
What are you doing Friday" That’s right. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER FINAL DRAW.
Feels sexy, right"
That is a very nice collection of top tier clubs. No Qarabag for us. Just pure heritage clubs that’ll have American gooners crying off sick for sure.
For me, the who do we want and who do we NOT want lists are very simple.
DO NOT WANT:
Manchester City: They are the strongest team in the world and we do not have a particularly great record against them over the last 10 years. Though cup games are not that bad – league games are bad. Very bad.
The counter-point to the fear here is that the one team Pep doesn’t want is Arsenal. We have had their number this season. Arteta puts extra on City games, and they will know the jeopardy involved in losing to Arsenal. Weirdly, I think it would be far worse for City to lose in the QF than for Arsenal. We have nothing to lose because we’ve never won anything major…Â they carry the bigger rep and when you are the king, you cannot lose a public power struggle to a young princeling because all your power dissipates. Atleti: No. No. No. No. This is not a peak Atleti side, but it is a technically gifted shit-bag iteration that can turn anyone over with the darkest of dark arts. Inter Milan has been on fire, they defend like monsters, and they were easily beaten by the Spaniards. I want a nice quarter final, not one I’ll need therapy to get over.
DO WANT:
All the teams that will come to play fo...
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