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Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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I'm finally getting out of my tedious meeting and we're already underway in the two CL matches tonight. Here's the team news out of Madrid tonight:
Real Madrid: Navas, Nacho, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Modric, Kroos, Casemiro, Isco, Benzema, Ronaldo.
Subs: Casilla, Bale, Hernandez, Lucas, Hakimi, Asensio, Kovacic.
PSG: Areola, Dani Alves, Marquinhos, Kimpembe, Yuri, Verratti, Lo Celso, Rabiot, Mbappe, Cavani, Neymar.
Subs: Trapp, Thiago Silva, Di Maria, Meunier, Diarra, Draxler, Pastore.
Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
I'm off home to enjoy the festivities. See you in a tick!
I home at the half hour mark just in time to see Ronaldo squander a huge opportunity. Areola with a tremendous save.
Mane and Mo Salah have put Liverpool 0-2 up in Porto. The English clubs continue to do well.
GOAL! Rabiot scores the all-important away goal!
The Bernabeu has just gone stone quiet as Neymar flicks on to Rabiot. All he had to do from that point on is to side foot home his fourth in the campaign.
Oh - Cavani is inches away from notching a second goal.
This result would put the cat amongst the pigeons in our PPP game. After all, Gooner, Red Devil, Red Dragon, UWS and Simon all picked them.
WOW! What drama! Just moments after Areola denies Benzema, Tony Kroos is pulled back in the box. Penalty!
Ronaldo to take....
Scores! His 100th goal for Real!
1-1!
Peep peep! That's half time in a breathless Bernabeu. Real have leveled the scoreline but they'll still need to push forward for goals in the second half now that PSG have the away goal.
We're back on at the Bernabeu for the second half.
Lovely Zidane spin from Marcello. The coach would approve.
As it was in the first half, Real are taking the game to PSG. The French side are merely trying to punk Real on the break.
Oh - just as I was typing that, PSG broke with pace and Neymar fed Mbappe who hit Navas with his shot.
Really poor from Benzema there. He had a chance to burn Dani Alves one on one but elected to try to cross - over the bar and out.
Sadio Mane has scored another to extend Liverpool's lead to 0-3.
Monkey Boy Bale replaces Benzema who's had a disappointing match.
Wow - Bobby Firmino has added a fourth goal for Liverpool. They are flying!
Oh - great block by Sergio Ramos there from the corner. That was a sure second goal for PSG.
PSG seem to just be turning the screw now, trying to finish off this tie.
Oh - what a chance there as Yuri smashes a cross shot right along the six yard line. Dani Alves was nearly in on that one.
GOAL! Ronny knocks home Real's winner! Not sure he knew much about that but it doesn't matter. A priceless goal.
Mane has his hat-trick and Liverpool are 0-5 up! Over and out for Porto.
GOAL! Real have turned this one around. Marcello with a deflected effort in there. At 1-3, this tie has a completely different complexion.
Draxler tries one from distance. High, wide and 'horrible.
Mane’s haul is the first European away hat-trick in Liverpool’s history that hasn’t been scored by Michael Owen. How about that, then.
That's that, then. Real left it late but they run out 3-1 winners. At 2-1, PSG were still in a good position. They'll now need a 2-0 win without conceding in order to go through.
Liverpool meanwhile have romped it. I'm loving that the English are playing really good attacking stuff rather than the usual boring CL caginess.
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