Sid Lowe
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Another round which they would have had to play before anyway.
So I do think there is a slight risk of us allowing ourselves to believe that not finishing in the top eight is somehow, wow, you're out.
It's just a knockout round of the Champions League, which you will probably win.
So what I mean by this is I'm not saying I don't like the format.
But I think we probably shouldn't allow ourselves to believe that it's more dramatic than it really is, if you sort of mean.
And I think if you're a big club, you have to do something horrendously wrong to get knocked out.
And he said something very interesting, I thought, after this game.
He said that he feels more free, looser in the way that he plays in the Champions League.
And I really enjoyed the way that he said it, not just what he said.
He said, you know, in the Champions League, it's normally just one-on-one, me against one man.
And there was a kind of a pause, and he sort of thought about it.
He said, well, not normally one, it's normally a couple.
But that's fewer than it is in La Liga.
You know, I feel like I've got people I can run at, people I can try and take on.
And when he's on the kind of form he's on yesterday, there are moments where you think, wow, they...