FT: Atleti 1, Barça 2 (aggr 3-2). We're out of the Champions League after a good effort thwarted by having players sent off on both legs of the tie.
*muffled swearing*

Maybe we should start paying refs...

(Alt text: four photos, showing five instances of Barça players being sent off in Champion League matches)

Football is stupid.

5 minutes (plus whatever gets added) to score one goal and drag this to extra time, so we can suffer more.

If someone mentions 'VARcelona', I'm going to set them on fire.

Min 79: Eric García sent off, straight red card. Barça down to ten men. Again.

Oh, so *this* is a potential red card but those other fouls against us in the first half weren't. Right.

I don't trust us not to concede in the normal time left, extra time would just kill me, I'd rather not think about it.

Someone else is bleeding, but it's an Atleti player so we don't care.

Rashford and Granpa Lewy in for Ferrán Torres and Fermín. We're going for the goals, I see.

We're doing well and trying hard, but we have half an hour to score twice and not concede any more goals, which is not an easy feat for the team currently.

We're going to see what VAR says... and no, it's offside and disallowed. Still 1-2 (3-2 aggr).

Min 54: GOAL FERRÁN!!!! 1-3 (3-3 aggr)

HT: Atleti 1, Barça 2 (3-2 aggr). Our hopes for a remuntada are battered but not dead, like Fermín after taking a boot to the face.

Damnit. Min 30: Atleti score. 1-2 (3-2 aggr)

Min 24: Ferrán scores! 0-2 (2-2 aggr)
Also, poor Fermín is pretty battered by a boot to the face.

Min 3: GOAL LAMINE YAMAL!!! 0-1 (2-1 aggr)

Last time I turned on TV, saw Cubarsí being sent off, then turned off the TV again. But let's be honest, 0-2 is not the worst result we could have had after playing a whole half with ten men, and the remuntada is possible if not likely, so... here we go again!

Investigations into this phenomenon continue...

No, but I do! A little dose of schadenfreude might get us to stop crying about all the team injuries.

Is it better to win a title through talent, hard work and determination, or because your hated rival completely shat the bed at the wrong moment? Much to ponder...

5 weeks out for Raphinha after picking up an injury during the international break. So, we're fucked (CL semis, crucial Liga matches, etc), all so Brazilsky could roast the shit out of him for 90 minutes.

Wow. Who woke up Liverpool? Is this the new trendy thing, to wait until the second half of the return leg to start playing?

Sport are saying 2-3 weeks out for Joan García.

I mean, knowing Lucho, you raise a valid point.

Alt-text: two photos, one of Luis Enrique and one of Fermín, both of them celebrating goals in a Barça kit.

A black cat, curled up on our lap.

We want to watch something other than Bayern-Atalanta now, bc yikes, but our boss says we're not allowed to get up to change the channel.

A Qatar Airlines ad came on, and Rio Ferdinand looks better than David Beckham, words we never thought we would type. Beckham needs to cool it with the fillers.
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FT: Barça 7, Newcastle 2 (8-3 aggr). It's like a different team came out to play the second half than played the first 135 minutes, but whatever, we'll take it, anything for an injection of morale.

Joan García is sitting down and holding his calf. Szczęsny ready to be subbed in.
Please, Football Gods, let it not be anything serious.