Will Lewandoski be back?

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Will Lewandoski be back?

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Most likely not, he will probably only get back for the last 5 games or so in the bundesliga. If we somehow get to the UEFA semis, then he will be back for that.

Looks like this tweet was deleted, what did it say?

Legal Custodian said:

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I hate Neymar so much. Didn't really do anything this match, just hate him in general.

PSG win 3-2. Will be incredibly hard to overcome next week in Paris.

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Well, PSG was involved in La Remontada

Legal Custodian said:

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Looks like this tweet was deleted, what did it say?

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It was a video of Pulisic's shot. Nothing ground breaking. Bet it had copyright issues.

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Screw PSG. Bayern Munchen will pull this one out of the fire even though we are down, what, 4 starters and a ton of backups?

Lewy
Gnabry
Sule (not too beat up about this one as he couldn't keep up with Mbappe)
Goretzka

Coman is doubtful
Marc Roca is out
Tolisso is out
Douglas Costa is out
Boateng is doubtful
Lucas Hernandez is doubtful

Freaking brutal.

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Sule (not too beat up about this one as he couldn't keep up with Mbappe)

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Not many can!

Goretzka is a big loss in the midfield for Bayern.

Coman is starting

Pulisic in the starting lineup again!

akm91 said:

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Pulisic in the starting lineup again!

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And now I have to do my duty as an American and watch Chelsea over the better match of PSG/BM.

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akm91 said:

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Pulisic in the starting lineup again!

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And now I have to do my duty as an American and watch Chelsea over the better match of PSG/BM.

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and now my watch begins

That layoff from Mbappe was almost a thing of beauty.

Neymar should really try being a swimmer after his soccer career with all the diving practice he has.

KCup17 said:

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Neymar should really try being a swimmer after his soccer career with all the diving practice he has.

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No effing joke

This game is so much fun

Alright, we have ourselves a match. PACKMAS!

Neymar, What a ****ing diver

What a goal by Porto.

The defending champs are out.

jeffk said:

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The defending champs are out.

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And don't deserve to be IMO.

PSG played well today and it was a pretty even affair, I'd even offer that today's match should've ended in a draw. But Bayern dominated the first match and were unlucky to have lost it.

But of course, that's soccer.

I'm so f'ing mad.

Yep. "Deserving" often has little to do with outcome. Soccer can be a cruel sport.

Hard to say any team that wins out over a two leg series isn't deserving of advancing. Was a great game today, can't say that Bayern deserved it more than PSG.

Today's Matches:

2pm--Borussia Dortmund v. Manchester City. (Dortmund, Paramount+). City lead 2-1 on aggregate.

2pm-Liverpool v. Real Madrid (Anfield, Paramount+). Real Madrid lead 3-1 on aggregate.

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Hard to say any team that wins out over a two leg series isn't deserving of advancing. Was a great game today, can't say that Bayern deserved it more than PSG.

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I would say both teams can be deserving of advancing, one might be more deserving than the other based on play. But the name of the game is to score goals and Bayern couldn't put it into the net despite dominating the stat sheet.

PSG played a much better match yesterday than they did the first leg and the match probably should have ended in a draw if I'm being honest. That first leg, was an incredibly disappointing result and the injuries really showed. Disappointing year after having one of the best years ever last year with 6 trophies. Injuries and Flick most likely leaving might turn the remainder of the Bundesliga season into a close one.

BM shot themselves in the foot with that stoppage goal in Leg 1 OR PSG won it on that stoppage goal.

Either way, they advanced.

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Aston94 said:

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Hard to say any team that wins out over a two leg series isn't deserving of advancing. Was a great game today, can't say that Bayern deserved it more than PSG.

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I would say both teams can be deserving of advancing, one might be more deserving than the other based on play. But the name of the game is to score goals and Bayern couldn't put it into the net despite dominating the stat sheet.

PSG played a much better match yesterday than they did the first leg and the match probably should have ended in a draw if I'm being honest. That first leg, was an incredibly disappointing result and the injuries really showed. Disappointing year after having one of the best years ever last year with 6 trophies. Injuries and Flick most likely leaving might turn the remainder of the Bundesliga season into a close one.

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Agreed, both teams can be deserving of advancement, especially when it comes down to away goals like this one did, or extra time and pks.

As a neutral I thought both games were great and would have been happy if either team had advanced. I am not a Neymar fan, so we will have another round of watching his dives, but PSG were deserving of their advancement.

Always a problem when a club has a dominate player like Lewandowski and he gets injured. As much as you try and be multi-dimensional and have multiple threats, when a talisman like that goes down it makes it tough on a team.

Here's to hoping that at the end of the day we will have 2 Americans in the Semifinals. Hopefully will be Dortmund but who knows.

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Always a problem when a club has a dominate player like Lewandowski and he gets injured. As much as you try and be multi-dimensional and have multiple threats, when a talisman like that goes down it makes it tough on a team.

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I was curious about this and looked it up. Lewandowski is responsible for 43.75% of all goals for BM.

I started thinking, this has to be the highest % right, so losing him hurts the most for goal scoring? So I looked up the top 10 (12) with ties goal scorers in all competitions.

Lewandowski 35
Ronaldo 25
Messi 23
Silva 23
Mbappe 21
Luakaku 21
Haaland 21
Benzema 19
Salah 19
Suarez 19
Kane 19
Moreno 19

This is sorted by % of team goals are by the goal scorer.

Moreno 44.19%
Lewandowski 43.75%
Ronaldo 40.98%
Messi 38.98%
Silva 38.98%
Suarez 36.54%
Kane 36.54%
Haaland 36.21%
Benzema 35.85%
Salah 35.85%
Luakaku 30.43%
Mbappe 29.58%

Just means losing your top goal scorer, it's hard to replace them, especially in 2 matches.

Great start from Dortmund, hoping to see them advance as they should already be ahead anyway.

Not to mention losing Gnabry, Goretzka, and Sule (all starters) for pretty much both matches (Sule and Goretzka were first half subs in the first leg after injuries). Just can't come back from that.

Definitely looking for PSG to get trounced in the semis. Not because of sour grapes, it has more to do with not wanting Neymar to have success in anything in life.

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Always a problem when a club has a dominate player like Lewandowski and he gets injured. As much as you try and be multi-dimensional and have multiple threats, when a talisman like that goes down it makes it tough on a team.

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I was curious about this and looked it up. Lewandowski is responsible for 43.75% of all goals for BM.

I started thinking, this has to be the highest % right, so losing him hurts the most for goal scoring? So I looked up the top 10 (12) with ties goal scorers in all competitions.

Lewandowski 35
Ronaldo 25
Messi 23
Silva 23
Mbappe 21
Luakaku 21
Haaland 21
Benzema 19
Salah 19
Suarez 19
Kane 19
Moreno 19

This is sorted by % of team goals are by the goal scorer.

Moreno 44.19%
Lewandowski 43.75%
Ronaldo 40.98%
Messi 38.98%
Silva 38.98%
Suarez 36.54%
Kane 36.54%
Haaland 36.21%
Benzema 35.85%
Salah 35.85%
Luakaku 30.43%
Mbappe 29.58%

Just means losing your top goal scorer, it's hard to replace them, especially in 2 matches.

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Good data. Those teams, even though they are top clubs, will all struggle without that leading scorer. Curious what all their records are with and without that lead scorer on the pitch.

City gets a gift of a penalty (possibly legit but just super unlucky for Dortmund either way) and goes up a goal on aggregate.

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City gets a gift of a penalty (possibly legit but just super unlucky for Dortmund either way) and goes up a goal on aggregate.

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Yeah, that was very unfortunate. Dortmund has every right to be pretty miffed at the officiating through these two games.