@realsandmansays Even with us, we never again fielded a team as good as the one that lost on the Garcia ghost goal, but we won the CL with a team a year past the hill and another on the back of Tuchel building that defence in the middle of a season.
@realsandmansays Honest answer is just shit happens in one-off games tbh. KO competitions are so random. Their 100-pt team is still the best of the Pep era, imo.
@realsandmansays Not really tbh. It's not that linear. They were the better team that day and were unlucky not to win. They followed up by doing progressively dumber things for a few years and drifted further away. Things only really changed last year.