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

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I've been expecting it,    Bayern Munich leading Chelsea by 2 goals to nil,  there are still in 65 min still expecting more goals from Bayern  , Lampard did a silly mistake by playing James up front,  Willian would have been a better option,  because he will definitely disturb the defense.

It was a sad match to watch, my team got thoroughly outplayed and we got turned into a defensive team (something we all know it isn't our style of play). When I saw the lineup and barkley was in the starting eleven instead of Williams, I was furious and not surprisingly he didn't have any impact on the game. Lampard inexperienced cause him this match. The likes of Mount and Abraham wasted our chances on numerous occasions either by wasting the ball, not been at the right place to final the past or not been able to complete the final past.

We were lucky it was only 3 goals, it should have been more judging from the stats. This was the first time I'm walking out of a Chelsea game without watching to the final whistle. I left after the 3 goal was scored. I doubt we can even get a goal away with the way we played and jorginho isn't playing next match (due to yellow card suspension) hope kante will be fit before then.

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[kawetsriyanto]

Barca dominated the game with ball possession with 65% but shot 1 time on the target,

That's how Barca plays football, the ball possession should be for them but doesn't guarantee for the goals. I think modern football cannot determine from the ball possession, especially for the Barca squad currently.

Bayern got an easy win vs Chealsea, It was easy predictable

Yes, every football lovers already know that Chelsea won't have a chance to win with their current squad. Bayern Munchen has better players and experience in the Champions League. I assume Bayern will be one of the candidates for the winner this year.

[snipie]

That's how Barca plays football, the ball possession should be for them but doesn't guarantee for the goals. I think modern football cannot determine from the ball possession, especially for the Barca squad currently.

Barcelona after Neymar departure and especially Luis Suarez injury is another team. Their place and impact on the team general performance is obvious. Messi imo is struggling to find someone helping and understanding him..
And as you said ball possession is good but it doesn't guarantee a win if you cannot score..

[Chikito]

What are you guys watching tomorrow? Lyon vs Juve? Madrid vs City?

I am interesting watching Madrid versus City. we are know this classic match has ever people want.
Zidane has named a squad of 19 players for the meeting with Manchester City:

Courtois, Areola and Altube.
Carvajal, Militão, Ramos, Varane, Marcelo and Mendy.
Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, Valverde and Isco.
Benzema, Bale, Lucas Vázquez, Jović and Vinicius Jr

On Machester city team, Seems Raheem Sterling will return this match and Marco Asensio and Eden Hazard are both injured.
https://www.mancity.com/news/mens/real-madrid-v-manchester-city-need-to-know-63718141

my prediction, Real madrid will get winner.

[hd49728]

A "fun" statistic if you wanna consider it fun.

How many goals did he score vs Italians team in Italy? You know Italians defense are harder to beat.



Source: https://twitter.com/SandroSca/status/1232427478901231617

It makes stronger sense if we know that the quality of Italian defenders and of Italy clubs have fallen considerably in the last 2 decades. Despite of the fall of personal defender quality, the general quality of Italian defensive system has remained at good level (lower than before, but it is still good).

People talked too much about how many goals C.Ronaldo and Messi scored in the La Liga but they don't remember that in La Liga, matches tend to be very open, and more goals in all matches.

Once again, when C.Ronaldo transfered from Madrid to Juventus, people said he scored less than previous seasons because he has become older. It is only partially right and the rest part is the Italian defensive system of clubs here affected his total goals.

Messi, will all due respect to his talent, I believe he will score less goals if he play in Serie A, maybe half of what he does in La Liga. Clashes between Barcelona and Italian clubs prove that theory.

Anyone who watched the match between AC Milan and Barcelona in San Siro do remember how Alessandro Nesta neutralized Messi. In that match, Nesta is an old defender who stepped last steps in his career. I can not imagine how Messi can score if he has to face with Nesta, Cannavaro, Maldini, Panucci, Zambrotta in their best phases of their careers.

[Daniel91]

That's how Barca plays football, the ball possession should be for them but doesn't guarantee for the goals. I think modern football cannot determine from the ball possession, especially for the Barca squad currently.

Barcelona after Neymar departure and especially Luis Suarez injury is another team. Their place and impact on the team general performance is obvious. Messi imo is struggling to find someone helping and understanding him..
And as you said ball possession is good but it doesn't guarantee a win if you cannot score..

Barcelona have a lot problems and conflicts this year and it's obvious that this negative atmosphere influence team.
They also made some big mistakes in the beginning of the year and now don't have enough attackers what is not serious for such club.
Messi can't save them every time and they are not team.

[ampere]

What are you guys watching tomorrow? Lyon vs Juve? Madrid vs City?

If we exclude Juventus and Lyon fans, well the rest of the world will watch Real Madrid VS Man City game 
Seriously it is more interesting, more competitive and harder to predict. Both teams have fluctuated performance. I see City odds bigger but playing in Madrid could have an influence too. Fingers crossed!
For Juventus, well they could secure a ticket like Bayern in tomorrow game imo

To be frank, either for banter reasons, or to make jests. A lot of people are eager to watch Guardiola vs Zidane.
Because the Onus is on Mancity to qualify, which is strange.

There are speculations Guardiola will resign, if he fails to progress advancely in the champions league, and that alot puts lots of pressure on City.

Zidane has been quite unlucky since his madrid return, with injuries to almost all members of the squad this season. He is under pressure too because his signings have been injured and irrelevant when fit.

It will be a match of banters

[Slow death]

SSC Napoli - FC Barcelona ( 1 - 1 )



unbelievable.

ball possession:

Napoli: 33%

Barcelona: 67%

what is the purpose of having great ball possession if can't score many goals? Napoli played very well

Chelsea FC - FC Bayern Munich ( 0 - 3 )



Chelsea conceded many goals and the situation became very complicated for chelsea

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Barcelona have a lot problems and conflicts this year and it's obvious that this negative atmosphere influence team.
They also made some big mistakes in the beginning of the year and now don't have enough attackers what is not serious for such club.
Messi can't save them every time and they are not team.

If there is a conflict, it certainly affects the team and makes the team no longer consistent as before, Barcelona is indeed a top heavy club, but if you conflict like this the players cannot overcome it, maybe this is all due to the selfishness of Barcelona's superiors themselves.
In addition, Luiz Suarez did not play because this injury condition could also affect the Barcelona game on the field, we know that suarez is the spearhead of Barcelona which is highly relied on.
Against Napoli alone missed a goal first and it made a hard-earned goal back.

[leea-1334]

Gnabry scoring goals and a team from London getting wrecked...deja vu!  

Congrats to Bayern fans, surely it feels good to know that your team's already in the quarter finals (:
And Barca struggling to beat the worst Napoli of the last 10 years  

What are you guys watching tomorrow? Lyon vs Juve? Madrid vs City?

There is now way they'll be able to score 4 goals in Munich.

And there's no way Bayern won't score a couple of goals...IMO this is over.

I actually do not know Napoli from ten years ago but I think they still have a good squad I mean Dries Mertens is still a really tough player and the team has not lost its skills just the form and the way they play,,, because of politics. The worst Napoli of the last 3 years for sure.

I am watching City and Madrid of course;)

[kawetsriyanto]

It makes stronger sense if we know that the quality of Italian defenders

All football lovers know that Italian clubs have always the best defenders, especially in the era of AC Milan and Inter Milan as two strong clubs in the world. I still remember Milan squad in 2008/2009, when they have Nesta and Maldini as solid defenders. While Inter has Lúcio, Samuel, Zanetti, and Maicon in 2009/2010. These defenders contributed to achieving the treble-winners at that time, the Mourinho era.

I can not imagine how Messi can score if he has to face with Nesta, Cannavaro, Maldini, Panucci, Zambrotta in their best phases of their careers.

Messi indeed will be hard to pass through the defenders. But luckily Barcelona has Iniesta and Xavi at that time that always created chances for their attackers to score. So, there is always a chance for Messi to score.

[hd49728]

I can not imagine how Messi can score if he has to face with Nesta, Cannavaro, Maldini, Panucci, Zambrotta in their best phases of their careers.

Messi indeed will be hard to pass through the defenders. But luckily Barcelona has Iniesta and Xavi at that time that always created chances for their attackers to score. So, there is always a chance for Messi to score.

I known it but I meant Messi surely can score many goals than many other forwards or strikers but he would have not scored more than 500 goals like he has done if he built up his career in Serie A.

I can not forget how he felt angry after Nesta made a tackle and took a chance to score a goal within 5 to 8 meters from the goal. He was very angry and dumped his fist on the pitch repeatedly.

The defensive techniques of Nesta, Maldini and Canavaro deserved to be called as The art of defense. It comes from their talents but somewhat contributed and grown up by many excellent forwards in Serie A at the period, the gold era of Serie A. I can recall Roberto Baggio, Gabriel Batistuta, Ronaldo de Lima, Christian Vieri, Fillipo Inzaghi, Hernan Crespo, Alex Del Piero, F. Totti. Even Vicenzo Montella was considered as a normal forwards and only had a spot on substiute list of AS Roma.

[tokeweed]

Gnabry scoring goals and a team from London getting wrecked...deja vu!  

Congrats to Bayern fans, surely it feels good to know that your team's already in the quarter finals (:
And Barca struggling to beat the worst Napoli of the last 10 years  

What are you guys watching tomorrow? Lyon vs Juve? Madrid vs City?

There is now way they'll be able to score 4 goals in Munich.

And there's no way Bayern won't score a couple of goals...IMO this is over.

Real vs City ofc.  The winner of this match up would end getting to the finals imho (or at least it's how I feel.  Lol).

Lyon vs Juve is a lock.  Juve's obv progressing...

[swogerino]

I won my ticket yesterday with Bayern to win and Barcelona double chance.I saw live the Barcelona game and maybe Barcelona was a bit lucky because in the second half Napoli created better chances.In the first half Napoli played 100% defending and the game was boring.

For tonight I am playing two double chances Juventus and Real Madrid as I think it might also be a winning ticket and the odd is near the 2 level.

[$crypto$]

I won my ticket yesterday with Bayern to win and Barcelona double chance.I saw live the Barcelona game and maybe Barcelona was a bit lucky because in the second half Napoli created better chances.In the first half Napoli played 100% defending and the game was boring.

For tonight I am playing two double chances Juventus and Real Madrid as I think it might also be a winning ticket and the odd is near the 2 level.

I know Real Madrid and Manchester City are an interesting match to be honest. It's my first time seeing this match in CL tonight. I'm sure in this match there will be a difficult win, but Manchester City is able to pass it so that the victory will side with mancity, betting on the match. This is pretty sure with a score of no more than 2-1 victory for Manchester.

For Juventus, I really want to see Ronaldo play whether he will be the main point of his attack, we know in Serie A he always scores goals and tonight might score for Juventus victory.

[Furious 7]

In tonight's match I will believe that Real Madrid will win the match with Manchester City. El Real players have a strong determination in tonight's match will continue to press Manchester in Bernabeu, I just saw sports news that Ramos will improve the quality of his game in the match. this and will not charge fans in his own home so I will also bet his fullest for Real Madrid.

Even though Manchester is not an easy opponent they still have to be careful of their opponent's movements.

[swogerino]

I won my ticket yesterday with Bayern to win and Barcelona double chance.I saw live the Barcelona game and maybe Barcelona was a bit lucky because in the second half Napoli created better chances.In the first half Napoli played 100% defending and the game was boring.

For tonight I am playing two double chances Juventus and Real Madrid as I think it might also be a winning ticket and the odd is near the 2 level.

I know Real Madrid and Manchester City are an interesting match to be honest. It's my first time seeing this match in CL tonight. I'm sure in this match there will be a difficult win, but Manchester City is able to pass it so that the victory will side with mancity, betting on the match. This is pretty sure with a score of no more than 2-1 victory for Manchester.

For Juventus, I really want to see Ronaldo play whether he will be the main point of his attack, we know in Serie A he always scores goals and tonight might score for Juventus victory.

I would suggest to you and anyone else before placing a bet on Manchester City that when Real has played at home in such important phase of the Champions League rarely have lost even against much stronger and experienced team in Champions that Manchester City.I think Real Madrid will win tonight but I am playing it double chance just to make sure.

[Naida_BR]

I won my ticket yesterday with Bayern to win and Barcelona double chance.I saw live the Barcelona game and maybe Barcelona was a bit lucky because in the second half Napoli created better chances.In the first half Napoli played 100% defending and the game was boring.

For tonight I am playing two double chances Juventus and Real Madrid as I think it might also be a winning ticket and the odd is near the 2 level.

I know Real Madrid and Manchester City are an interesting match to be honest. It's my first time seeing this match in CL tonight. I'm sure in this match there will be a difficult win, but Manchester City is able to pass it so that the victory will side with mancity, betting on the match. This is pretty sure with a score of no more than 2-1 victory for Manchester.

For Juventus, I really want to see Ronaldo play whether he will be the main point of his attack, we know in Serie A he always scores goals and tonight might score for Juventus victory.

I would suggest to you and anyone else before placing a bet on Manchester City that when Real has played at home in such important phase of the Champions League rarely have lost even against much stronger and experienced team in Champions that Manchester City.I think Real Madrid will win tonight but I am playing it double chance just to make sure.

I don't think that Real is going to lose this game against City.
They are going to try to keep the 0 goals on the defense in order to get an advantage from this home game. I think that Under is a safer bet for this game.

[FlamingFingers]

I've been expecting it,    Bayern Munich leading Chelsea by 2 goals to nil,  there are still in 65 min still expecting more goals from Bayern  , Lampard did a silly mistake by playing James up front,  Willian would have been a better option,  because he will definitely disturb the defense.

It was a sad match to watch, my team got thoroughly outplayed and we got turned into a defensive team (something we all know it isn't our style of play). When I saw the lineup and barkley was in the starting eleven instead of Williams, I was furious and not surprisingly he didn't have any impact on the game. Lampard inexperienced cause him this match. The likes of Mount and Abraham wasted our chances on numerous occasions either by wasting the ball, not been at the right place to final the past or not been able to complete the final past.

We were lucky it was only 3 goals, it should have been more judging from the stats. This was the first time I'm walking out of a Chelsea game without watching to the final whistle. I left after the 3 goal was scored. I doubt we can even get a goal away with the way we played and jorginho isn't playing next match (due to yellow card suspension) hope kante will be fit before then.

Chelsea might score when to go to Munich,  but I don't think that they will qualify,  they don't have the type of players to play with top elite clubs in champions league,  they should had loose their last match in champions league group stage and qualify for Europa league spot .

Barkley and James should not have started the game,  luckily Cabelero was good enough to make some decent saves,  if not,  it would have been more than three goals

[casperBGD]

I won my ticket yesterday with Bayern to win and Barcelona double chance.I saw live the Barcelona game and maybe Barcelona was a bit lucky because in the second half Napoli created better chances.In the first half Napoli played 100% defending and the game was boring.

For tonight I am playing two double chances Juventus and Real Madrid as I think it might also be a winning ticket and the odd is near the 2 level.

I know Real Madrid and Manchester City are an interesting match to be honest. It's my first time seeing this match in CL tonight. I'm sure in this match there will be a difficult win, but Manchester City is able to pass it so that the victory will side with mancity, betting on the match. This is pretty sure with a score of no more than 2-1 victory for Manchester.

For Juventus, I really want to see Ronaldo play whether he will be the main point of his attack, we know in Serie A he always scores goals and tonight might score for Juventus victory.

I would suggest to you and anyone else before placing a bet on Manchester City that when Real has played at home in such important phase of the Champions League rarely have lost even against much stronger and experienced team in Champions that Manchester City.I think Real Madrid will win tonight but I am playing it double chance just to make sure.

I don't think that Real is going to lose this game against City.
They are going to try to keep the 0 goals on the defense in order to get an advantage from this home game. I think that Under is a safer bet for this game.

i think that Real will win the match with Manchester City, they are better team at the moment, and will win at home, but it will be difficult to pass through after second match...