⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 winner - Real Madrid!

[Mr.Scott]

As I predicted yesterday, Atletico Madrid beat Manchester United. The match was not very entertaining, but that too was expected. But most of all I was surprised by Benfica, I don't think anyone expected them to win in Amsterdam, although Ajax played and looked much better. But I think the curse of Bela Guttman will come true again this season.

I don't know what the definition of entertaining is to you. Manchester United vs Atletico Madrid match was not a dull one. It was entertaining from beginner to the end. Botje teams played good football but Manchester United played better football and dominated from the start to the end of the match. It was really a bad night for them for them not to see the back of the net, even once.

Chelsea football club will join their England counter in the wining stage unlike Manchester United that could not qualify despite playing their best. Chelsea has two goals advantage already and that is enough advantage for a big club like Chelsea.

Indeed! A Hard Luck!
Atletico won the game however Manchester United truly gave extreme battle.
The energy and want to win was superb. Some of the time you don't have karma however I watched the players truly battling until end. Karma has it's cutoff, they have rode on karma on a few events yet not this time. However, changing managers not the answer to this team building rather a winning team is the big thing and it requires time. I wish Man United will bring in a good defender next season.

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[izsara]

Ronaldo played well against Tottenham, so, Manchester United was able to win. So many people expected Manchester United to win yesterday's match. But United was able to beat Tottenham only for Ronaldo. It is not always possible to win by relying on just one player. Tottenham were able to win against, so the United coach did not change his match strategy. Depends on Ronaldo. Ronaldo did not play well against Atletico Madrid so United lost. This is not surprising. There are a lot of problems inside the United team. This problem will not be resolved until the coach is fired.

Instead of highlighting the front line I'm more interested in highlighting the back line in this case.
they too often allow Atletico's players to attack freely in this case which makes it difficult for them to anticipate when they are close to the goalkeeper area.
The first goal that was disallowed occurred when a quick counter-attack was lucky the referee was still quite observant in this regard.
Renan Lodi's goal also occurred due to the same error that started from a counter-attack that failed to be anticipated properly at first

[Bloodseekers]

I was a little surprised by the results that Ajax got. They played better than Benfica, in fact they were able to control 69% possession throughout the match. Did 16 attempted kicks, but only 2 were on target and even then it didn't result in a goal. The disaster came in the 77th minute after Nunez managed to shake the Ajax goal net and made them have to accept defeat and must be eliminated from the Champions League.

That's a football match, no one can predict who will come out victorious before the final whistle is sounded. Everything can happen even if you control the entire match but if luck is not on our side, we will still lose. like what happened to PSG yesterday, many parties favored PSG as winners but ended up having to lose, even though we all know that PSG is full of star players. And I think that's where the beauty of football is.

[Barcode_]

In my memories, I remembered it was Villarreal which eliminated Atalanta in the last match of the group stage by securing the vital 3 points with a victory at the Gewiss stadium. I guess it is time for Juventus to show their home fans that Italian football clubs are also capable of producing good result in the Uefa Champions League, I think there is a high chance for Juventus to beat Villarreal by scoring more than one goal past their opponent today.

[BITCOIN4X]

Indeed! A Hard Luck!
Atletico won the game however Manchester United truly gave extreme battle.
The energy and want to win was superb. Some of the time you don't have karma however I watched the players truly battling until end. Karma has it's cutoff, they have rode on karma on a few events yet not this time. However, changing managers not the answer to this team building rather a winning team is the big thing and it requires time. I wish Man United will bring in a good defender next season.

Extreme fighting? I don't think it's appropriate to represent Manchester United's performance last night. Manchester United just tried to play well but they didn't manage to create many good chances during the game so they didn't score.

Atletico Madrid didn't win by chance either, but they did everything well with their defense and attack much more organized than Manchester United. Atletico Madrid deserved to win even though they were not the favorites in that match. Atletico Madrid's qualification to the quarter-finals was something that surprised me because they didn't impress in many games. Solid defense and good finishing earned them a win against Manchester United.

[teddybear]

I think it'll be a low scoring affair just like last time but the odds on Atletico seems pretty juicy to me. United does have better quality players and lineup but I can sense a possible upset here. Would be an interesting watch.

Predicted Atletico might win. It was more about how juicy the odds on it and worth the odds the bet was. Paid off. Don't think there'll be any upset today. Chelsea and Juve should be going through into the next round. Juve - Villareal might be another low scoring affair but an interesting watch.

[tokeweed]

Ronaldo played well against Tottenham, so, Manchester United was able to win. So many people expected Manchester United to win yesterday's match. But United was able to beat Tottenham only for Ronaldo. It is not always possible to win by relying on just one player. Tottenham were able to win against, so the United coach did not change his match strategy. Depends on Ronaldo. Ronaldo did not play well against Atletico Madrid so United lost. This is not surprising. There are a lot of problems inside the United team. This problem will not be resolved until the coach is fired.

I didn't watch the match but looking at the stats, I feel like this is the fault of bad tactics on the part of the manager.  The line up says he played the no. 9 role but why did Ronaldo mostly played at the left flank?  And it seems like he wasn't even drifitng to the middle...  His heat map shows this and his stats says he had zero shots on and off target?

And I was sooo confident my bet for Ronaldo anytime goal scorer at 2.85 would hit.  Lolol.    Sucks cos I don't think it's his fault, just bad tactics as said.

[Pokapoka124]

Indeed! A Hard Luck!
Atletico won the game however Manchester United truly gave extreme battle.
The energy and want to win was superb. Some of the time you don't have karma however I watched the players truly battling until end. Karma has it's cutoff, they have rode on karma on a few events yet not this time. However, changing managers not the answer to this team building rather a winning team is the big thing and it requires time. I wish Man United will bring in a good defender next season.

Extreme fighting? I don't think it's appropriate to represent Manchester United's performance last night. Manchester United just tried to play well but they didn't manage to create many good chances during the game so they didn't score.

Atletico Madrid didn't win by chance either, but they did everything well with their defense and attack much more organized than Manchester United. Atletico Madrid deserved to win even though they were not the favorites in that match. Atletico Madrid's qualification to the quarter-finals was something that surprised me because they didn't impress in many games. Solid defense and good finishing earned them a win against Manchester United.

Manchester United couldn't play yesterday, for the first time, Christaino Ronaldo didn't have a shot in a UEFA champions league match. Ronaldo was literally invisible. Whilst bunch of United players were average, Frederico Rodrigues was quite outstanding. Overall, Athletico were a far better than Manchester United and are well deserved winners. Same goes for Benfica against Ajax, although most bookmakers favored ajax before the game.

[fzkto]

I wonder if Lille can repeat yesterday's success with Benfica today. Although I don't believe Chelsea can lose with a two-goal lead either. As for the second match, I'd like Juventus to win, but Villarreal look just as good. Here the chances are equal and I expect the same minimum score as in yesterday's games, or maybe even a penalty shootout.

[Pokapoka124]

It was such a shocking night for Ajax and Manchester United. I really didn't give any chance to lose for Ajax here. It was like a miracle to me. This is football of course and everything can happen. But Ajax have always seemed to be a very strong team in their home matches. In fact, they played really good here but somehow couldn't score even one goal. Benfica were struggling a lot and didn't find many chances as well. They had only 4 shots in total and 1 of them was on target. And still, they managed to win this by 1-0 and advanced to next round. And as for Manchester United, they were the victim of their defense problems once again and this cost them the Champions League.

Manchester United and Ajax both lost yesterday. It may  come as a shock to many fans because Ajax is believed to be a team with strong football culture but critically looking at the Benfica team, I think they are leveled with Ajax. Moreso, this Benfica were impressive all round. They could contain the Ajax side and score that crucial goal to win the match.  

[Cnut237]

Manchester United and Ajax both lost yesterday. It may  come as a shock to many fans because Ajax is believed to be a team with strong football culture

I like this quote, I think it's quite revealing that when Man U and Ajax lose, the surprise is that Ajax lose. No-one is surprised that Man U have lost.

Man U have some great individual players, but are not a team. They look disjointed, and rudderless, just a bunch of 11 strangers who happen to wear the same colour shirt. Pit them against a good team, and they will struggle. The answer is probably a permanent rather than temp manager, and then getting in players to fit into a team, rather than just players who are individually gifted but don't fit together properly. I think they can write this season off now, they are out of the Champions League and have little hope of qualifying for next season's competition... Man C, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal will take the qualification spots.

[Pokapoka124]

Manchester United and Ajax both lost yesterday. It may  come as a shock to many fans because Ajax is believed to be a team with strong football culture

I like this quote, I think it's quite revealing that when Man U and Ajax lose, the surprise is that Ajax lose. No-one is surprised that Man U have lost.

Man U have some great individual players, but are not a team. They look disjointed, and rudderless, just a bunch of 11 strangers who happen to wear the same colour shirt. Pit them against a good team, and they will struggle. The answer is probably a permanent rather than temp manager, and then getting in players to fit into a team, rather than just players who are individually gifted but don't fit together properly. I think they can write this season off now, they are out of the Champions League and have little hope of qualifying for next season's competition... Man C, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal will take the qualification spots.

The Manchester United team is broken like shattered glass. They need a manager who can pick up the pieces and put them together or replace the glass. I'm beginning to see Ralf Rangnick as a victim here, Manchester United have been falling apart before he came to the club. It is amazing Arsenal who had a bad start to the season made top 4 and Manchester United didn't.

[Magicalking]

The truth that most Manchester united fans don't want to admit is the club fell off the moment they didn't support their best manager after Sir Alex Ferguson. Sacking Mourinho and backing the players was a huge mistake, it enforces the 'brat' culture that was breeding in the team. So much so that we Ronaldo joined the team, he complained about young players not wanting to take correction and learn.

[borovichok]

In my memories, I remembered it was Villarreal which eliminated Atalanta in the last match of the group stage by securing the vital 3 points with a victory at the Gewiss stadium. I guess it is time for Juventus to show their home fans that Italian football clubs are also capable of producing good result in the Uefa Champions League, I think there is a high chance for Juventus to beat Villarreal by scoring more than one goal past their opponent today.

Juventus will win this game am very sure of that though is football and anything can happen, juventus has the experience and the squad advantage over their opponent Villarreal,and they are also playing at home,in recent games juventus has improved their performance and are now picking up point in the Italian league. Vlahovic has proved so far that he is a good signing for juventus am counting on him to score more than one goal today.

[Magicalking]

Next match Juventus vs Villareal i think both of teams have equal chance went to quarterfinal it because they playing draw for the first leg but as a host Juventus will be the favourite especially during champion league this season Juventus very strong for home ground matches with 3 times win and never lose and i wish Juventus will playing better and don't do again some mistakes such as first leg match and for bet option i have no doubt bet for Juventus win

Juventus are easily the favorite for this tie but this is football and anything goes. Beyond qualify for the quarter finals, Juventus need this win to build confidence going forward. Villarreal will hope to join the rest of the Spanish side that have qualified. Personally, I can't see Villarreal scoring except from penalty, free kick or big mistake from these Juventus defenders like they did in the first leg.

[asus09]

The truth that most Manchester united fans don't want to admit is the club fell off the moment they didn't support their best manager after Sir Alex Ferguson. Sacking Mourinho and backing the players was a huge mistake, it enforces the 'brat' culture that was breeding in the team. So much so that we Ronaldo joined the team, he complained about young players not wanting to take correction and learn.

Approximately eight years after the departure of Alex Ferguson and left the coaching chair, Manchester United has changed several coaches but unfortunately none of the coaches have been able to give Manchester United the title, even though they brought in star players but they are very difficult to get. get the title, even this season. they can lose the chance to get tickets to champions league, because their position in the domestic league is inconsistent, maybe they need a coach equal to Alex Ferguson, I think they only managed to get the title, they should bring in a coach like jorgen klop.

[Sterbens]

The truth that most Manchester united fans don't want to admit is the club fell off the moment they didn't support their best manager after Sir Alex Ferguson. Sacking Mourinho and backing the players was a huge mistake, it enforces the 'brat' culture that was breeding in the team. So much so that we Ronaldo joined the team, he complained about young players not wanting to take correction and learn.

A hard blow will make Manchester United young players learn many things that selfishness and not wanting to be evaluated are their biggest mistakes. Playing is like losing your identity. Look at the Manchester United players who are difficult to manage, playing erratically also shows that this club is not doing well. And also for PSG, who left earlier as a big club, which failed in the Champions League, was a crushing blow. That it is not only classy players that a club needs but mentality and perseverance. Everyone has a lot to learn from Benzema and his friends who play very neatly team performance, and don't blame each other. That's what makes Real Madrid can survive until this second.

[hahay]

In my memories, I remembered it was Villarreal which eliminated Atalanta in the last match of the group stage by securing the vital 3 points with a victory at the Gewiss stadium. I guess it is time for Juventus to show their home fans that Italian football clubs are also capable of producing good result in the Uefa Champions League, I think there is a high chance for Juventus to beat Villarreal by scoring more than one goal past their opponent today.

Juventus will win this game am very sure of that though is football and anything can happen, juventus has the experience and the squad advantage over their opponent Villarreal,and they are also playing at home,in recent games juventus has improved their performance and are now picking up point in the Italian league. Vlahovic has proved so far that he is a good signing for juventus am counting on him to score more than one goal today.

Even though Juventus have Dusan Vlahovic as a dangerous striker but for me, Juventus will not be easy even though in this second leg they will play at home. Winning with a gap of 2 goals is still possible, but I think it is a difficult achievement because Villarreal are not a weak team. So I personally believe this match will still be difficult for both teams but indeed, Juventus have a better chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals.

[naira]

Next match Juventus vs Villareal i think both of teams have equal chance went to quarterfinal it because they playing draw for the first leg but as a host Juventus will be the favourite especially during champion league this season Juventus very strong for home ground matches with 3 times win and never lose and i wish Juventus will playing better and don't do again some mistakes such as first leg match and for bet option i have no doubt bet for Juventus win

Juventus are easily the favorite for this tie but this is football and anything goes. Beyond qualify for the quarter finals, Juventus need this win to build confidence going forward. Villarreal will hope to join the rest of the Spanish side that have qualified. Personally, I can't see Villarreal scoring except from penalty, free kick or big mistake from these Juventus defenders like they did in the first leg.

Juventus against Villareal of course I really hope that Juventus can be seeded at least by a score of 2-1. In terms of quality, both have different characteristics. Instead, Juventus' conditions were more optimal than usual. Then followed by Chelsea vs LOSC will end in a thin for the anti-match. Still trying to pay attention to Chelsea's unstable performance due to several problems. But Chelsea can certainly handle it well.

[panjul07]

Even though Juventus have Dusan Vlahovic as a dangerous striker but for me, Juventus will not be easy even though in this second leg they will play at home. Winning with a gap of 2 goals is still possible, but I think it is a difficult achievement because Villarreal are not a weak team. So I personally believe this match will still be difficult for both teams but indeed, Juventus have a better chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals.

Dangerous striker without great passes will be something useless, in fact it is their current main weakness.
I'm not sure if Dybala will be able to play or not, but I heard that he was on training session earlier this week so if Dybala can play today then it will be a good situation for Juventus.
Talking about what to bet, I think Juventus to win is great option although I'm not sure about it.
Maybe both team team to score is a better choice since the defense of Juventus is not that great lately.