Champions League first leg leaves residue on Domestic leagues

If you had a great mid week of Champions league football then chances are the positive effects have dusted themselves over your domestic league weekend.Lets review the big clubs. If you won on Tuesday or Wednesday like Liverpool,Barcelona and Roma,then you continued your good form and had success this weekend.

If you lost this week or tied in the Champions league then your frustrations continued.Arsenal,Inter,Real Madrid and Chelsea all failed to win in domestic league competition.

Man utd and Barcelona played their games against the sisters of the weak so i should temper my judgements. But they still slaughtered top flight clubs.
I include Man united and Lyon as part of the winning group because it was a positive result for Man Utd for the dramatic way it finished the game and the importance of the away goal. Lyon proved they can swim in deep waters and will still take heart from the result.Lyon also won 2-0 beating Metz.

So what have learned? Well it is anecdotal but if your a big club and win and don't spend your ensuing days justifying a poor champions League performance then you will allow the momentum of positive results continue to work for you. If you performed poorly we know how self doubt,distractions and intensified pressure to reverse fortunes perpetuate themselves.In the end Momentum is the big MOE for a reason.