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I reckon Puel will have acknowledged that this would be a gruelling game with such a long trip and a hot stadium with a very hostile crowd. He put out a side with the intention of not getting beaten while saving as much energy as possible, and it worked. A point and a clean sheet away at such a place is really not a bad result at all.

Pierre coming on. 15 mins too late IMO.

Would have expected at least a couple of camera shots of the away fans though. None so far.

Not heard a peep from our fans on my stream as yet.

I bought one this morning and the most recent purchase history I have on my account is from 2013 (been using our company's corporate account since then). I spoke to somebody at the ticket office yesterday to confirm that this would make me eligible and it went through absolutely fine.

Not sure how you work that one out. He had his arm tucked in to his chest and was turning away from the ball when it hit him from very close range. When you consider the rules these days say there has to be a deliberate movement of the arm/hand towards the ball, I reckon the ref got it absolutely right.

Carving them open time and time again. Their defence is an utter shambles.

Who was the player that was done for drink driving a couple of years ago?

Who the hell is Claude Lundekvam!?

Don't go on sale to members until 9am tomorrow, apparently.

True. But in this case, Long quite obviously wasn't impeded trying to get to the ball. He knew he wasn't going to get to it so he tried to buy a penalty by falling over in front of the incoming slide instead. Ref got it absolutely right IMO.

Nope. It was a clear dive and the ref got it spot on. Long got a very heavy first touch (imagine that!) and realised he wasn't going to get to it before it went out of play, and you can see on the replay he was quite blatantly off his feet and going to ground well before any contact was made. The disallowed goal though - that's another matter. Redmond was quite clearly onside watching the replay.

FFS - That was onside. Bad call from the Lino.

Inter 0-2 down now!

He's having a very typical Shane Long performance really... Being a proper nuisance to the defenders, making intelligent runs and getting himself into really good attacking positions, then completely going to pieces when he has to actually do something with the ball.

Inter losing!

What's he done wrong then? Played a couple of delightful balls from set pieces so far.

Seeing as we got knocked out in the qualifying round last year, technically he's right.

I was wondering how much longer we would have to wait for the customary dodgy back pass from Yoshida.

Matt Le Tiss?

I don't think we've got any worries there Steve. I was expecting to get one through our company's corporate box but I have now been told we can't have them because of the high demand.

Disgracefyl from the officials. Blatant foul on Long right in front of the lino, then a stupidly harsh penalty.

I think we've looked a fair bit better since Hojbjerg came on.

Great finish from Koscielny, but anywhere else on the pitch it would have been a FK for a high boot.

That was his first goal for England after 36 attempts. 36 shots, 1 goal (which a decent PL keeper would have saved) = a terrible record whichever way you look at it.