Champions league final

CyrilEbokiPoh · Post by **CyrilEbokiPoh** » Sat May 31, 2025 5:11 pm

Huge game tonight in Munich. Great to see a resurgence of Italian football. But Paris look a very good side. And I like their manager. But personally hoping for an Internazionale win. I imagine their defence and structure will be too good with pace and excellent finishers on the break. Inter Milan have looked very good in recent years. Especially in Europe.

Prediction PSG 0-2 Inter.

ollieclarets8 · Post by **ollieclarets8** » Sat May 31, 2025 5:33 pm

Been impressed with Inter's counter-attacking so could be similar to the Barca game.

NottsClaret · Post by **NottsClaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 5:40 pm

I know PSG are one of those sportswashing oil nation clubs.. but they’re great to watch, in a way English clubs just aren’t any more. And it’s hard to not want Luis Enrique to have success. But then as said, something a bit nostalgic about an Italian club winning it.

Think I prefer there being no Prem sides in it.

CyrilEbokiPoh · Post by **CyrilEbokiPoh** » Sat May 31, 2025 5:53 pm

NottsClaret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 5:40 pm
I know PSG are one of those sportswashing oil nation clubs.. but they’re great to watch, in a way English clubs just aren’t any more. And it’s hard to not want Luis Enrique to have success. But then as said, something a bit nostalgic about an Italian club winning it.

Think I prefer there being no Prem sides in it.

Couldn’t agree more. The style of play in the premier league bores me to tears. I’m confident that Parker will be more akin to Dyche than Kompany though. Play to our strengths. Be resilient. Organised and aggressive.

Inter play a style of football that I prefer over the likes of city.

ecc · Post by **ecc** » Sat May 31, 2025 5:57 pm

Detest everything PSG stand for. The Qatari state, which owns them, have wrecked French football by chucking huge sums at the club for the last 15 years.

But I have to admit this current team plays good football and are too fast for more or less everybody.

Inter have done well this season and I hope they give them a match.

Exeterclaret · Post by **Exeterclaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 6:51 pm

CyrilEbokiPoh wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 5:53 pm
Couldn’t agree more. The style of play in the premier league bores me to tears. I’m confident that Parker will be more akin to Dyche than Kompany though. Play to our strengths. Be resilient. Organised and aggressive.

Inter play a style of football that I prefer over the likes of city.

All about opinions but I thought Dyche's football was dire for large parts of his tenure. Just can't abide the instinct to play it long first time every time.

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:06 pm

Don't mind who wins, just want an exciting game. Two good teams, as you'd expect.

Acerbi's story is worth a read.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 0910rn1mjo

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:09 pm

Inter fans singing about Blackburn...........with a Burnley shirt

https://x.com/TurfCastPodcast/status/19 ... 7977485350

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:18 pm

so for the above reason alone I've adopted Inter as my "Italian" team ! lol

Winstonswhite · Post by **Winstonswhite** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:22 pm

There’s no finer striker in the world than Lautaro Martinez when he’s ‘on’, IMO. But he’s not had his best season this year. Fingers crossed he’s on his game tonight.

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:23 pm

Exeterclaret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 6:51 pm
All about opinions but I thought Dyche's football was dire for large parts of his tenure. Just can't abide the instinct to play it long first time every time.

We didn’t.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:26 pm

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bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:27 pm

I’d love inter to win this. Billions pumped into PSG, and they STILL can’t buy the champions league. Long may that continue….

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:30 pm

So where i am in a small town in the heel of Italy they have put up a big screen in the main square , now it would be rude not to go .
So see how the craic is in 15 mins

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:33 pm

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 7:09 pm
Inter fans singing about Blackburn...........with a Burnley shirt
https://x.com/TurfCastPodcast/status/19 ... 7977485350

Well they do call us Interbred

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat May 31, 2025 7:40 pm

Pickles wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 7:33 pm
Well they do call us Interbred

Well liking Bread isn't a sin ... but as everyone knows "man cannot live by bread alone"

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:02 pm

Referee is István Kovács who refereed our home leg agains İstanbul Başakşehir in the Europa League

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:15 pm

PSG 1 up Hakimi

Score a goal in the Champions League final and don’t celebrate because played for opposition

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:23 pm

2-0 now

PSG well in control. From an Inter throw in the PSG corner to goal in seconds

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:23 pm

Di Marco needs to get better at Di Marking

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:26 pm

Need to get a grip here do Inter, get in the game, it's an awful, lethargic start from them and now they're deservedly 2 down.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:27 pm

seriously one sided game

jos · Post by **jos** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:30 pm

Tribesmen wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 7:30 pm
So where i am in a small town in the heel of Italy they have put up a big screen in the main square , now it would be rude not to go .
So see how the craic is in 15 mins

I imagine some of the locals may have left already.

CyrilEbokiPoh · Post by **CyrilEbokiPoh** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:31 pm

Well PSG Are simply too quick and too good.

CyrilEbokiPoh · Post by **CyrilEbokiPoh** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:33 pm

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 7:09 pm
Inter fans singing about Blackburn...........with a Burnley shirt
https://x.com/TurfCastPodcast/status/19 ... 7977485350

One of the lads in the video has wrote a novel about Burnley, in Italian. Published soon. There’s a preview online now and he along with several others in the video attends many Burnley games.

Poulton-le-Claret · Post by **Poulton-le-Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:49 pm

Such a one sided half, PSG have made Inter look ordinary

CyrilEbokiPoh · Post by **CyrilEbokiPoh** » Sat May 31, 2025 8:51 pm

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 7:09 pm
Inter fans singing about Blackburn...........with a Burnley shirt
https://x.com/TurfCastPodcast/status/19 ... 7977485350

Not a true story. It’s a fictional novel based on some Burnley brothers during the time of the falklands war.

jos · Post by **jos** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:14 pm

I’d be a bit miffed if I had a seat behind one of those massive flags!

Taffy on the wing · Post by **Taffy on the wing** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:23 pm

Doue is an incredible player!

Bosscat · Post by **Bosscat** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:24 pm

jos wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:14 pm
I’d be a bit miffed if I had a seat behind one of those massive flags!

Just been sayong the same

CoolClaret · Post by **CoolClaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:29 pm

NottsClaret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 5:40 pm
I know PSG are one of those sportswashing oil nation clubs.. but they’re great to watch, in a way English clubs just aren’t any more. And it’s hard to not want Luis Enrique to have success. But then as said, something a bit nostalgic about an Italian club winning it.

Think I prefer there being no Prem sides in it.

Agreed with everything you said here.

Hate the Qatari state, but bloody love watching PSV - especially Kvaratskhelia and Doué.

They are everything you'd want in a football team; skilful and play fast, dynamic football - superb.

claret wizard · Post by **claret wizard** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:34 pm

jos wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:14 pm
I’d be a bit miffed if I had a seat behind one of those massive flags!

Bet they don’t have a safety certificate.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:34 pm

Taffy on the wing wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:23 pm
Doue is an incredible player!

Doue v Yamal for the Ballon D'or for the next decade

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:34 pm

PSG looking like going to score an every attack

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:37 pm

wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:34 pm
PSG looking like going to score an every attack

Always the likely winners but I wasn’t expecting this

ksrclaret · Post by **ksrclaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:39 pm

It just shows how football is a team sport above everything else. PSG were nowhere near with Messi, Neymar, and Mbappe, but they look unstoppable with lesser names and 10x more work rate.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:42 pm

Rio Ferdinand talk some absolute shite.

Bordeauxclaret · Post by **Bordeauxclaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:43 pm

Inter look like they’d struggle to give Southampton a game tonight.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:44 pm

Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:42 pm
Rio Ferdinand talk some absolute shite.

“A victory for football”

RVclaret · Post by **RVclaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:44 pm

Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:42 pm
Rio Ferdinand talk some absolute shite.

Doesn’t he just.

Thankfully it’s his last TNT Sports game tonight, although I’m fearing he’ll pop up on BBC or Sky.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:44 pm

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:37 pm
Always the likely winners but I wasn’t expecting this

I was expecting it to be closer, but Inter have been chasing shadows all game

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:46 pm

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 9:44 pm
Doesn’t he just.

Thankfully it’s his last TNT Sports game tonight, although I’m fearing he’ll pop up on BBC or Sky.

God I hope not.

karatekid · Post by **karatekid** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:48 pm

Inter started too negatively . You can’t invite PSG on and try to catch them on the break.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:51 pm

Ref showing Inter some mercy by blowing dead on 90mins

CoolClaret · Post by **CoolClaret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:52 pm

The most one-sided final I can recall for a long, long time.

Looked like a PL giant playing a newly promoted Champ team.

4:20 · Post by **4:20** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:54 pm

Arguably the most one sided final in Champions League history.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:55 pm

That's what you call a world class team

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Sat May 31, 2025 9:58 pm

Remember when Mbappe left to go and win the Champions League

Tribesmen · Post by **Tribesmen** » Sat May 31, 2025 10:02 pm

jos wrote: ↑
Sat May 31, 2025 8:30 pm
I imagine some of the locals may have left already.

Very strange really as about 1/5th of the crowd were on the PSG side and fireworks went off at full time .

giveusaB · Post by **giveusaB** » Sat May 31, 2025 10:04 pm

France will take some stopping next year with most of this squad to choose from!