Twitter reacts to UEFA Champions League quarter-final draw
Friday, March 17, 2017
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Bayern München's players seem up for their tie with Real Madrid (the jury is out on their coach), Pavel Nedvěd comes out fighting, but there's no pleasing Gary Lineker.
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"Leicester, please!" the fans of most potential rivals seemed to be saying. "Anybody but Leicester, please!" replied players and coaches alike. We didn't have to wait long to find out who the lucky/unlucky team was ...
Kasper Schmeichel was happy enough ...
But some fans are just never satisfied ...
The second tie out of the bowl was ...
Two of Europe's most attacking teams put up a guarded response ...
That left Bayern München, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus. The Bianconeri's former striker Ian Rush, making the draw, was doing nothing to hide allegiances with a black-and-white striped shirt, but he may be less welcome on his next trip to Turin ...
The Bayern players (Merengues slayer Robert Lewandowski among them) certainly seemed to approve ...
As did coach Carlo Ancelotti, boss of Real Madrid between 2013 and 2015. His words, anyway. His face suggested otherwise ...
And last but certainly not least ...
Juve vice-president Pavel Nedvěd, for one, is not cowed. He never was ...