always wondered, why are Ajax 18/19 included in dark horses, but Spurs 18/19 aren’t? bc I’ll be completely real, no one EVER expected us to reach the final (or even get out of our group that season). also worth noting we knocked out prime City that same year.
🚨‼️ These are some of the most intriguing Champions League dark horses from recent times:
· Porto 03/04: Champions against Monaco, with Deco and Ricardo Carvalho in their squad
· Schalke 10/11: Semifinals elimination against Manchester United, with Manuel Neuer, old Raul Gonzales and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
· Monaco 16/17: Semifinals elimination against Juventus, with young Kylian Mbappé and Radamel Falcao
· Ajax 18/19: Semifinals elimination against Tottenham; legendary team with Tadic, Ziyech, Neres, De Jong, Van de Beek, De Ligt and Onana
· FK Bodø/Glimt 25/26: They are on an amazing streak, beating Manchester City and Atletico Madrid in the league phase and dispatching Inter Milan from the playoffs ⁉️
heard too many posts on this, but surely SOMEONE has the balls to take up with @FA_PGMOL how we’re reffed, bc the contradictions in decisions are ridiculous, and yet somehow we’re on the receiving end EVERY SINGLE TIME. for a club with so many fans why does nobody speak up??
if a ‘Big 6’ goes down it will break the whole concept of the ‘Big 6’ completely, something which I think is a large factor in City’s charges not being looked at as seriously as they should be
the fall off after that 2nd goal was disallowed was monumental, first half actually looked a little promising compared to what we’ve been used to just unfortunate that the second half was League One quality
📉 Thomas Frank has the 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗧 win rate of any 'Big Six' club manager in the history of the Premier League:
🇵🇹 Nuno Espírito Santo — 50% win rate
🏴 Frank Lampard — 43%
🏴 Kenny Dalglish — 42%
🇩🇪 Ralf Rangnick — 41%
🏴 Mark Hughes — 40%
🇦🇺 Ange Postecoglou — 40%
🏴 Roy Hodgson — 35%
🇵🇹 Rúben Amorim — 32%
🏴 Graham Potter — 31%
🇩🇰 Thomas Frank — 27%
🚨🎙️Thomas Frank on whether he’ll be in charge of NLD: “I'm convinced I will still be in charge. I understand the question and easy to point to me but it's about the whole club.”