Other Games 2014-15

[Rudy65]

Be interesting to see what impact this season has on the UEFA coefficients. At the moment England, Germany and Spain have four CL places, with Italy on three.

If Juventus get past Dortmund and four of the five Italian clubs left in the Europa League get through, we might find that Premier League teams are battling for third rather than fourth at some point in the next couple of years.

That would be amusing

[Rudy65]

Jose is a busted flush.

Matic was blowing out of his arse after 10 mins

[Dave]

Carragher eulogising now. They don't get it any of them. The league isn't competitive because all the top 4 teams have all the best players. They don't need to try too hard in this league because it's an unlevel playing field. To be better in Europe you need your domestic league to be more competitive.  Reap what you sow.

PSG have even less competition in Ligue 1 than Chelsea do in England. There isn't a single team with even a tenth of PSG's budget in France.

Quite. How competitive it is has nothing to do with it. Juventus are strolling Serie A, Bayern are 11 points clear in the Bundesliga and that's before you even start on how much more money Real and Barcelona get over the rest of Liga BBVA.

[Villa in Denmark]

Jose is a busted flush.

Matic was blowing out of his arse after 10 mins

Matic would have been better off playing football than risking public obscenity charges.

[Monty]

Carragher eulogising now. They don't get it any of them. The league isn't competitive because all the top 4 teams have all the best players. They don't need to try too hard in this league because it's an unlevel playing field. To be better in Europe you need your domestic league to be more competitive.  Reap what you sow.

PSG have even less competition in Ligue 1 than Chelsea do in England. There isn't a single team with even a tenth of PSG's budget in France.

Quite. How competitive it is has nothing to do with it. Juventus are strolling Serie A, Bayern are 11 points clear in the Bundesliga and that's before you even start on how much more money Real and Barcelona get over the rest of Liga BBVA.

And yet, while Juve and Bayern are fair points (though Roma made it much tougher for Juve last season than Bayern have had it for a while now), PSG are second in a close three-way fight for Ligue 1 while neither Real nor Barca are currently Spanish champions.

But I think you're right that, essentially, competitiveness of league has little to do with it, although Bayern obviously switched off mentally in the league after winning it in October or whatever last season, and couldn't switch back on in time for Real Madrid. That was an unusual case, though.

[django]

Fingers crossed they crumble and blow their lead in the Premier League now too.

Villa staying up and winning the F.A cup, Mourinho blowing the title, and Man U failing to qualify for europe would be marvellous.

[Rudy65]

Fingers crossed they crumble and blow their lead in the Premier League now too.

Villa staying up and winning the F.A cup, Mourinho blowing the title, and Man U failing to qualify for europe would be marvellous.

Bloody hell, you forgot WBA also being relegated!

[OCD]

Be interesting to see what impact this season has on the UEFA coefficients. At the moment England, Germany and Spain have four CL places, with Italy on three.

If Juventus get past Dortmund and four of the five Italian clubs left in the Europa League get through, we might find that Premier League teams are battling for third rather than fourth at some point in the next couple of years.

That would be amusing

Even more so if we can get ourselves to the point of winning the UEFA cup in the next few years and taking one of the Champions League spots off one of the 'elite'.

[john e]

Fingers crossed they crumble and blow their lead in the Premier League now too.

Villa staying up and winning the F.A cup, Mourinho blowing the title, and Man U failing to qualify for europe would be marvellous.

Bloody hell, you forgot WBA also being relegated!

And Liverpool not making top 4 as well

[PeterWithesShin]

Be interesting to see what impact this season has on the UEFA coefficients. At the moment England, Germany and Spain have four CL places, with Italy on three.

If Juventus get past Dortmund and four of the five Italian clubs left in the Europa League get through, we might find that Premier League teams are battling for third rather than fourth at some point in the next couple of years.

That would be amusing

You just know we'll finish 4th as soon as they change it!

[richard moore]

I left looking at the scores on the BBC website once Chelsea went 2-1 up so am absolutely delighted at the outcome. This has made my footballing week after our two wins. I think it is well documented just how much I despise those classless, soulless shits

[richard moore]

Jose is a busted flush.

Matic was blowing out of his arse after 10 mins

I never thought he was all that to begin with to be honest

[Des Little]

Happy days. I fcuking hate Chelsea.

[lovejoy]

Graeme Souness has just really launched into the Chelsea cheating tonight, epitomised by Costa running 50 yards to join in the "protests" about Ibrahimovic's tackle.

He's probably my favourite pundit.

[nick harper]

What a player Veratti is in midfield. Ran the game with 10 men and moved the ball around brilliantly.

One of the best 10 men performances I think I've ever seen.