Source: Men in Blazers — Premier League humbled in Europe, nightmare nights for Spurs and Chelsea goalkeepers, and Champions League second legs: European Nights 03/17/26
Duration: 38 min
Manchester City vs Real Madrid tactics
I do like the fact that Pep Guardiola is the only manager in the world, possibly in football history, who loses games because he's too clever.
Premier League vs European style
The Premier League has become almost a wasteland for open play; it's trench warfare as football. And suddenly last week we saw face the creativity, the spontaneity of opponents like Valverde, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia, Griezmann. These teams looked shell-shocked, flat-footed.
Bodo/Glimt European success
Most of European football is now designed so that it can't happen [a team like Bodo/Glimt reaching the quarterfinals]. And what Bodo have done is amazing. They've now beaten, in order, Manchester City, Atletico Madrid away, Inter Milan at home, Inter Milan away, Sporting at home.
Premier League European performance
It might be that this is what we have now for the next five or ten years: the Premier League is without question the strongest league in the world... but once they run into the absolute elite continental teams, the playing field is much more level.
Erling Haaland form
Is this a Haaland problem or is it really a larger systems problem for Manchester City? It does seem like Pep can't quite square the circle of playing all of his new signings and keeping the big man fed within that system.
Antonin Kinski substitution controversy
I think it's the wrong call [not to comfort the goalkeeper]. But there was a lot of sympathy for Kinski because what he went through was so obviously harrowing that it hits something in your core.
Champions League predictions
The sole English representative in the quarterfinals will be Arsenal, who will win, I think, quite easily against Bayer Leverkusen. There you have it. It is written.
Goalkeeper psychology
I think if you talk to goalkeepers, they tend to be very, very good at putting setbacks behind them. That ability to look back and think 'that bit has finished, I will now move on' is a psychological trait that they either have, or what enables them to do well in goal.
Real Madrid squad management
I think it can't be a bad thing [having Mbappe back], but you are right, Rog, that in that game against City, what you saw was a balanced team. It was a team that Arbeloa could name because Bellingham wasn't there because Mbappe wasn't there.
Liverpool form
Liverpool had the decency to go to Galatasaray and play in exactly the same way as they did when they went to Galatasaray earlier this year with exactly the same outcome. There was a great tweet from someone complaining that TNT sports had accidentally shown the game from September again.
