The team played the best game of the season. Even without guys like Rebic, Leao, Calabria, Tomori and Maignan. It shows you how important this is the for the players. And I'm with them. I want us to pass! Let's beat Liverpool and hope that Porto don't win. Cos that would send us through.

If it wasn't for that first game against the anti-football mofos we'd be one foot in the KOs now.

That game's conditioned the rest of this group, sad to say

I don't know if we can beat Liverpool. What we need to do against them is just play counter attacking. Playing them as we did in the first game will lead to a loss. Hopefully Pioli learned from that

Look, I'm not saying that I don't want us through now that the opportunity is there.

But that 2nd game against these cheaters hurt our chances big time. And I really do not want to drop into the EL. That would hurt our chances at the title

And with Napoli now practically out of the picture (imo based on the Osimen and Anguissa injuries). We need to make sure to keep Inter at arm's length, because they are starting to find their rhythm under Simone, and unlike us, they don't have half their squad perpetually out with injury

And speaking of which, it makes this win even sweeter. F*ck that mofo Simeone and his anti-football team!

Problem is, getting f@cked over in that game and then in the Porto game where the goal should not have stood (even if we were p!ss poor), leaves us in a situation where even if we play a massive game against Liverpool and win, it's still not in our hands. If Porto win against these mofos, who let's face it, are pretty terrible, then we still end up not making it. Which makes that 2nd game even more panful than it was on the night. As it's the difference between staying in or going out.

Still glad that Pioli did not risk starting Leao and Zlatan here. Sassuolo at the weekend is just as big imo

Now that Giroud probably has a hamstring problem, we're down to just Zlatan and Pellegri (forgot he was even part of the team for a moment)

Yes, that game fucked us over. But we should have done better vs Porto. I don't understand why we didn't play like this against them, with intensity and conviction. We could have earned at least 4 points and we'd be through.

Well first game against them we were absolutely decimated, had no bench either

Plus I think they're a trickier side for us in general with the way they play. While Atletico it was pretty clear in the first game that we matched up much better against them. Had that game remained 11 v 11, we would have played them off the pitch that night as we were much stronger than we were today personnel wise.

Even the 2nd game against Porto, we still had a lot of injuries and had players like Theo and Diaz just returning from Covid who looked off the pace.

Not having Rebic either makes it much, much worse. I don't care that much about Giroud, but like you said we only have 40 year old Zlatan and Pellegri.

Worst case scenario we'll play Leao CF with Alexis and Messias on the flanks.

Speaking of which, man, what a massive game did Alexis play tonight! He was everywhere. Ran like a damned man, won a shitload of balls, and made very few mistakes.

Brahim was also really good, just lacked that final touch.

And Messias man, what a story his! At 30 absolute debut in the CL and scores such an important goal. Only 3 years ago he was playing in Serie D.

Everyone was great tonight. After that defeat against Fiorentina and the minimal chances to pass, I never imagined we'd pull such a performance. We completely dominated Atletico at home. 58% possession, 14 shots v 6, 526 passes vs 386. Total dominance!

Yeah, everyone was on point tonight. Alexis in these types of games reminds me why he deserves to be starting atm and why he got that extension. Always shows up in the big moments and gives so much to the team

Messias on the ball still looks so sloppy and slow though, I have to say, hopefully it's just him needing to work his way back to match fitness


Romagnoli was also great which leave a bit of a bitter taste in the mouth as I still don't understand why he was not used against Fiorentina. Should have never dropped those points against them

Messias just needs minutes. The guy has impressive qualities and it shows. He'll give us a great hand from now onwards.

And yes, Romagnoli was massive tonight. Both him and Kjaer completely annulled their strikers.

Man, if only we didn't have all these injuries...

I will watch the match tonight.

So happy to see us winning.

Not sure about Diaz. What's all that "glue" and connecting come to? Poor finish, poor final touch. Well, I'm not a fan of Diaz, I'll admit. Hakan was a better player in every way, I'm not gonna let my mind being clouded by his childish and disgusting behavior after he left us.

Yes, as I said, he has to improve that final touch. But he was uncontainable last night. The Atletico players kept fouling him because there was no other way to stop him. He's worked a lot on his physicality. Despite being so small, he doesn't go down easily.

I personally really like him. Like Leao, he tends to switch on and off during the game, but his desire and work rate are really contagious and to be admired.

Capanoglu I couldn't stand when he was with us, now I don't even wanna see his ugly face. And don't get fooled by a couple of good games. He did that with us too. When the team plays well (which Inter are doing), he looks good, but as soon as the team starts to suffer, he disappears completely. Prior to the derby he was collecting a shitload of 5's in ratings. Crap player.

Giroud out for a month.

This is 2020/21 all over again. Injury after injury, always on emergency, never a fully fit squad. Just ridiculous.