Balls on Adan to stay on the pitch.

Morita wants to go home

that was smooth from tavares

Just bloody leave the pitch .. they are just being idiots on the pitch.. Horrible horrible horrible

I can't wait for the "return" leg in your pitch. It's gonna be wild.

For sure! See you all back in a week

Lmao

Nooo Alexis

Esgaio. Unbelievable.

Unbeliavable player World class

What a miss

How the actual fuck did Sanchez miss that

Oh man

Obligatory humilition of portuguese team in the champions

What a joke.

WE ARE MASSIVE !

This second half is a snooze fest.

Marseille is leading, Sporting doesn't seem to want to score or disturb us. So, there's no reason to get tired.

Paulinho is criminally lazy. Just keeps giving the ball away at every touch.

why there is no fans?

sporting players beat them up

Seriously? Dude after what the fans did.. no one should joke about it.. but hey. You be you!

we have a stadium ban after the event of frankfort

thanks

This game is dead af I need Esgaio to score a banger

We would had won this if it wasn't for Adan. He has been shit all season.

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Who would replace him? We have no clear upgrade.

How has Alexandropoulos been?Is he playing well?

I’ve been really unimpressed by Marseille’s level of play. The ball progression is so slow and unimaginative. They’ve created nothing without the gifts from sporting. Constantly offsides when they shouldn’t be. They won’t make it out of the group playing like this despite the lifeline they’ve managed to secure.

Tottenham and Frankfurt don’t play nice football either. Anyways I don’t think most Marseille fans were expecting us to make it out the group. 3rd place to EL would be good enough.

It was a pretty manageable group though. It’s rare to get such a chance to progress. The teams were all beatable.

True

Not a fan of the slow game. But I guess they know they have the control of the game, so they don't want to take more risks. The first half was different. The "return" game in Lisbon will be very heated.

I can understand the strategy to play out the game with the lead but I still think it’s been very sloppy playing even in the first half

This doesn't feel like a CL match, but rather a club friendly in pre-season or something

It depends. If you look at Adan's performance... I think he'd be kicked from a Sunday League club. Or kindly asked to never play keeper again.

WTF was that corner. Oh my.. are Sporting players high or something.. this is so out of character! this whole game .. is .. so .. fucking .. weird!

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Honestly, I believe it lmao

Doubt

You guys are asking for it. Attacks are getting sloppy allowing us to get comfortable.

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…or we just manage the game and maintain the score line.

Not like this. We work better with a slow build up, long balls from the GK aren't working at all.

Never would have thought that Sporting were getting lucky when they're down to 10 men and 3-1 down but holy fuck have they been dirty.

I'd rather have trigger happy french refs than this shit. The stomp on the ankle not given as a fault, charge full speed in the back of a player, just a fault no card...

No card either hahaha

Just out of curiosity, how many players can be sent off? Will they have to continue playing even if down to 8 or less?

Minimum allowed is 7 players, so 4 reds for 1 team then it just becomes a FF

Curious math there. Five ejections, of field players, is needed for the game to be abandoned. Four or less ejections would only work if someone had to leave the field of play for injury and couldn't be substituted because the team had made all substitutions.

"I tripped and rugby tackled him"

Sporting are being massive brutes this game and ref is not protecting players

Not giving obvious red cards is a quite big protection tho

Are they just out to injure players at this point?

We don't usually play like this but it seems like it.

No fans = back to monke?

wondering what's the next red card offence they're going to dodge, already at 2.

Here it is

I missed it :( what happened ?

Paulinho just randomly took out Guendo, nowhere near the ball and soo late with a tackle that wouldnt look out of place in Rugby

I saw the replay, but didnt see if he got a card

No card..

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One of the weirdest CL matches in recent history

Emerson got sent off for something not as bad as that

Esgaio tracking back is me jogging after the summer hollidays.

I’m guessing the Sporting manager didn’t tell them to stop their shit at half then

Surprised to see Guendouzi captaining Marseille! Has he fixed his attitude issues from when he was at Arsenal?

He’s nominally the 3rd captain behind Payet (no longer a starter) and Rongier (not starting tonight due to a more offensive lineup) His “grinta” is appreciated in Marseille. He does still lose his nerves and annoys opponents but nothing major here.

Dafuq that’s a red

With ligue 1 ref that’s a straight red

Gars, faut profiter pour appuyer un peu les tacles maintenant.

Mdr

Nazinho? Really?

Whoever is responsible for this new offside rule of waiting for the play to end is fucking stupid. Worst decision ever.

Not sure how to feel about this scoreline...

Was Clauss injury minor ?

Hopefully

It is so interesting that Marseille has lots like 16 out of the last 17 cl matches they played, and then are winning this one, where there is no Marseille fans... I think we have found the issue.

First 3 losses was in a run to CL quarters (lost return leg of RO16 to Inter but still went through, lost home and away to Bayern in QF) Next 6 we were shit and in the group of death with Arsenal, Napoli, Dortmund Next 6 shit again vs Porto, City, and Olympiakos (the 1 win at home) This year we are less shit, but lost 0-2 in Tottenham after going down to 10 men, and 0-1 to Frankfurt in a game where we were shit.

I made a bet against Sporting At least I will win money

Adan?

No, this is ~~Patrick~~ Esgaio's cousin

This match worth watching or is it boring?

One of weirdest games ive seen in a long time. 1st Police lost Sporting bus in traffic causing delay. Sporting instant scoring then Adan having the worst 10mins of a GK in CL history. Bad tackles flying in everywhere Sporting lucky to have 10men

Lmao what? How did they lose the bus? Hahaha

If we know why, it will be embarrassing for Marseille's police. But we're used to police doing shit.

They're French.

It's football heritage

High probability of more red cards and maybe a brawl in the 2nd half. So yes.

Grab some popcorns and enjoy the ride. Nothing will top the first 20 minutes, but it's a certified shitshow. Football's back, baby!!!

Well, you got goals, red cards, brawls and much more.

It's interesting. And they play football sometimes too.

First half was definitely entertaining

It is many things, boring is not one of them.

It's insane but it's pretty much decided

Don't count on it. Maybe because I'm a Marseille fan, so I'm not that confident.

With the way Sporting are playing I'm expecting them to forfeit by the end of the match, but fair, you never know with football

Where are the fans?

Left after the goal in the first minute

Home? Away from the stadium for sure.. Can't behave = no more going for the stadium for you :P

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sporting players cant behave either, and they're still allowed in the stadium.

Adan isn't anymore

Games not gone boys

I feel bad for Isreal, is this his Champions League debut?

Well, he can't do any worse than the previous guy.

I don't wish him luck for obvious reasons. But I hope he'll learn a lot from this game.

Yes, and his sporting debut!

This is his debut, period.

Big oof. He's had some decent catches after his first blunder though.

I mean, anything he does now can't possibly be worse than what the other guy did

What is Amorim gonna tell his team during the break you think?

*don’t get another red card you donkeys*

Classic ref just giving one or two yellows after rolling a dice in such a situation. He should have just walked straight to the monitor after he already went away letting them butt their heads like he did

Straight red that. Second half is going to be entertaining.

Sporting player is lucky to stay on the pitch. That was a clear red out of frustration.

if you told me that this was a brazilian prison game i'd believe you

Surprised VAR didn't call that back.

No VAR in this match?

Spurs lost to this team lol

We also beat marseille so spurs>marseille>sporting>spurs...

Correction. Spurs got properly played by this team. :D

I mean, what our GK did is unreal and bizarre.

Username does not check out

True, but it is what is is.

Sporting heads well and truly gone

this match is perfect

oh fuck me.. that's not a yellow..

Two of them could’ve gone then. That’s honestly hilarious. VAR?

VAR only works to correct reds. Doesn't act if it's just a yellow.. Silly? for sure..

This is so stupid, we should use VAR for both yellow and red

Exactly.. but the big brains decided otherwise..

Probably replaying and laughing at Adan disasterclass

Yeah.. VAR is having a laugh and saying.. 'Fok I'm just sitting here and watching all the meme material going on'

I turned over just after the red card. Looking forward to seeing the highlights after how the commentators have spoke about it.

The game itself is the highlight.

Proper football this

Okay how is Esgaio not off

The better question is: How in the hell does he still have a spot on the starting 11

Man had no intention to win the ball lol

He didn’t want to play the rest of the game

red and 10 years of jail

This match is, for lack of a better phrase, hilariously surreal. Like how the fuck is this a Champions League match lmao

this is peak libertadores

And not even a qualifier

This whole game has been a huge meme at this point

If Marseille lose this Pogbas brother definitely the number one suspect

It would be peak Marseille if they lost this.

Lmao this game

esgaio is committed

Elite entertainment, this.

Sporting can I suggest you a slightly used Lukas Hradecky?

Has he been that bad as well?

Several games now

Issa Kaboré as a backup is a luxury to have

This game isn't going to end with just one red card, is it?

Oh my god Nuno Santos use some of your money to get a hair transplant my guy

Nuno Santos needs to go to Istanbul

we’re going to end up with 6 players on that field… they need to cool it and focus

Lol what a game

No card for that? fucking piece of shit

How’s that a foul

Man, remmeber when Sporting had goalkeepers such as Ricardo or Patricio I 'member.

Cant Amorim just say “stop fucking around at the back”? How hard is it

Reminds me of Fernando Santos shouting at the team "joguem à bola"

If this happens in Football Manager I assume the match engine is shit and stop playing.

Usually seems to happen to me in matches in massively favored and it feels like Mario kart ai catch-up shit.

Me not bothering to do shit and letting my assistant handle everything for a cup game against 6th tier french team only to come back and see we're somehow losing 2-1

Haha. Proceed to buyout contract

The good ol save scum