Mark Langdon

Yeah, that first half an hour from Barcelona was breathtaking, really.

Because even in the first minute, they nearly scored through Luminium out.

And you do have to almost be perfect when you're chasing a 2-0 deficit away from home.

You need to just make the most of those opportunities.

And they didn't.

I felt that, like I say, that first half from Barcelona was everything that you would want to see from kind of Hansi Flick's point of view in terms of he gets criticised for the way that they defend and I think that did cost them over the course of the two games.

But the advantage to playing like that is that you win the ball back really high and you get Lumi and Jamal in dangerous positions and...

Ferenc Torres and Firmin Lopez and Dani Olmo, just the movement of them is difficult to handle and it was a magnificent performance but in that first half I felt like Atleti got to grips with it more as the match wore on until they panicked late on but the first 30 minutes of this game was just brilliant and the scenes of Diego Simeone just...

He does it all the time, but telling everyone to calm down while running around like a lunatic, he would just never be beaten, for irony.

I would like to see his distance covered, because he may well have reached the levels of Cancelo or something like that.

Anyway, Mark?

Yeah, that...

point there Lars makes about the kind the fatigue factor coming into this stage of the season obviously PSG play usually a very high tempo and I think Luis Enrique I don't want to get into the kind of Farmers League debate about Ligue 1 but I think Luis Enrique has built a team now that is able to play at sort of peak performance for like two months or three months of the season and it coincides with the matches that are the most important we've

Saw it last year where PSG didn't seem that bothered about the first half of the campaign and came alive second half of the season.

They've done it again.

They're able to postpone matches at weekends to give themselves full preparation for Champions League.

games which is something that just isn't afforded to other leagues and that kind of Barcelona have been involved in a quite tight title race they've had injuries so that there is potentially something in that what Lars is saying just about that freshness I think Bayern because they're so dominant in the Bundesliga

they're able to not risk Harry Kane at the moment.

He's not always playing in the league games because he's been just carrying a slight injury.

Whereas if maybe he's playing in a league where the title is much closer, say he's playing up front for Arsenal, you'd have to play him because the three points are just absolutely massive.