Paul Watson

You know, that was really, for me, the danger leg, because you're going to a stadium where I think they've never, Atleti had never lost to an English side in a Champions League knockout at home.

So, you know, this is a really daunting tie.

And I think really the credit to Arsenal for the way they weathered that, that they came away disappointed to only have got the draw was,

I think it then put this huge pressure on Atleti because they were only really going to be able to play the way they played.

And it relies on those little moments, those little sparks from Griezmann or Alvarez or someone to do something great.

magical and it didn't really happen for them that said there were some moments like I think you know we talked about this game being perhaps not the edge of the seat kind of game and it wasn't it didn't have that feel of like your stomach plummeting as an Arsenal fan I'm not an Arsenal fan but you know I didn't feel like Arsenal fans were sitting there with their stomach plummeting every minute or something there weren't an abundance of chances but there were those moments and you know there's when Simeone got through and was sort of bundled down Griezmann's

penalty shout you know all of these things could have been the moment so i don't look at it and say well i don't think atleti played particularly badly or managed the game particularly badly the only point this decision to change things up so massively just at the point that they seem like they were catching a kind of flow atleti to to suddenly um make those changes and sort of change the whole the way they were playing seemed seemed slightly counterintuitive to me

And so was Simeone.

Last night, Simeone was so far down the line at one point, I thought he was going to take a throw in.

I don't know if you saw, this is a bit of a tangent, but did you see there was a non-league game and someone took a photo that was on Twitter where both teams had been relegated and there was this shot that was just magic because every single player on the field was on their knees in that kind of we've been relegated pose.

Platoon way, brilliant.

There was a bit of that here, wasn't there?

Because also, what was so weird about this game is that Man City ended up grabbing what should theoretically be a kind of

there should be some sort of relief and joy in scoring a last-second equaliser, and I'm sure there is.

But they must be gutted because, you know, this is an enormously costly result.

It may be basically the death knell for their title ambitions.

And Everton must be gutted too because they looked... I mean, there's no way they should have won this game, Everton, really, by rights.

I mean, for the first, like...

i don't know how many minutes they barely got out their own box it just looked like it was going to be a really typical sort of man city win so um nothing in this game made any sense really even beyond the fact that actually um ilman and jai basically had three or four other chances that didn't go in it could it was just a game that made zero sense but yeah left both sides absolutely gutted

It's like a motivational speech, that, Barry.