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

[Harkorede]

Semi finals looking likely to be the following:

PSG vs Man City
Real Madrid vs Chelsea

Possible PSG vs Real Madrid final with PSG winning their first CL? Will be good to see what happens.

I wouldn't rule out Bayern Munich, and neither is Liverpool chances of qualification far off. I'd still maintain the possibility of anything happen in the 2nd leg fixtures, for Bayern especially.

Yesterday's UCL game was quite interesting and it revealed a lot about both teams. Where we saw a Bayern Munich creating a lot of chances both not having the required finishing as Lewandoski was absent. Bayern dominated most part of the game having over 14 shots and 7 was on target but were able to convert only 2 into goals mean while, PDG on the other hand had only 5 shots of which, 4 was on target and they were able to convert 3 into goals. That's what we call efficiency on the side of PSG. PSG didn't come to dominate but to win the game and they did.
Its high time they focus more on Kylan Mbappe as the star player and keep Neymar Jnr aside. K. Mbappe has always been productive towards the team and has his effects in important games. Neymar too did well yesterday, creating the needed assist that lead to the goals. The PSG team was commendable yesterday but then this means, the PSG team should watch out for an angry Bayern Munich in the returning leg.

Amazing games yesterday, don't you think?
Chelsea showed an absolute supremacy over Porto and the semifinal is only 90' away, I don't see Porto posing a threat to them.
PSG and Mbappé keep on surprising me, even Bayern had to face the fact that PSG is a huge candidate for the title. Next game between the two teams' gonna be epic!

Mbappe has been phenomenal all season long, and the Balloon D' Or might not be far from his reach, should he keep up at this level.

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[kassex]

I am still sure that Bayern will go to the next round. It will be tough, there is a chance. Bayern Munich really missed Lewandowski. He would have scored a couple of goals.
In the Chelsea-Porto pair, in my opinion, everything is clear.
 Dortmund pleasantly surprised me and Manchester City disappointed me. I think Dortmund can fight for the next round and they can succeed.

And Liverpool needs to play more aggressively if they want to beat Real. If they play the same way as in the first game, then they will fail.

[Trofo]

I am still sure that Bayern will go to the next round. It will be tough, there is a chance. Bayern Munich really missed Lewandowski. He would have scored a couple of goals.
In the Chelsea-Porto pair, in my opinion, everything is clear.
 Dortmund pleasantly surprised me and Manchester City disappointed me. I think Dortmund can fight for the next round and they can succeed.

And Liverpool needs to play more aggressively if they want to beat Real. If they play the same way as in the first game, then they will fail.

I think Bayern is the only one with realistic chance to turn unfavorable result from first game in their favor. Bayern was much better then PSG an on another day that game would have ended with Bayern win easy. Probably even with handicap.

City is a machine and Real is giving their best performances in CL. Porto missed their chance in first game.

[Mistafreeze]

The second leg is Liverpool's last chance to qualify, but I think it will be very difficult. Real Madrid have already stepped one foot in the next round.

Liverpool qualification is not longer realistic for now, this is football anything can happen but in this case we are talking about a side who has been poor recently, Liverpool is not match fit to get any positive result from Real Madrid.

[DIA7]

I am still sure that Bayern will go to the next round. It will be tough, there is a chance. Bayern Munich really missed Lewandowski. He would have scored a couple of goals.
In the Chelsea-Porto pair, in my opinion, everything is clear.
 Dortmund pleasantly surprised me and Manchester City disappointed me. I think Dortmund can fight for the next round and they can succeed.

And Liverpool needs to play more aggressively if they want to beat Real. If they play the same way as in the first game, then they will fail.

I think Bayern is the only one with realistic chance to turn unfavorable result from first game in their favor. Bayern was much better then PSG an on another day that game would have ended with Bayern win easy. Probably even with handicap.

City is a machine and Real is giving their best performances in CL. Porto missed their chance in first game.

For me Bayern created a lot and missed certain chances, and perhaps the presence of Lewandowski and Gnabry would have made a big difference in the outcome of the match, especially in the second half, with the size of crosses and the number of intercourse passes, and the great advantage at the level of the periphery areas,
but playing with advanced defense and with these spaces behind the backs and two hearts of defense, and you face Neymar, Di Maria, and Mbappe are considered a difficult thing, as happened in the first and third goals. Argentine Di Maria's passes break the lines, and the Brazilian Neymar is a professor of receiving under pressure, and escaping from control by dribbling and excelling in the 1-on-1 position, while the Frenchman Mbappe has provided him with the required space, and he will take care of the rest in front of the goal, a triple impossible for any team playing the advanced defense system.

[Raflesia]

I am still sure that Bayern will go to the next round. It will be tough, there is a chance. Bayern Munich really missed Lewandowski. He would have scored a couple of goals.
In the Chelsea-Porto pair, in my opinion, everything is clear.
 Dortmund pleasantly surprised me and Manchester City disappointed me. I think Dortmund can fight for the next round and they can succeed.

And Liverpool needs to play more aggressively if they want to beat Real. If they play the same way as in the first game, then they will fail.

I think Bayern is the only one with realistic chance to turn unfavorable result from first game in their favor. Bayern was much better then PSG an on another day that game would have ended with Bayern win easy. Probably even with handicap.

Well, many think that in other matches Bayern Munich will win but do not rule out this possibility that this could turn around and be disabled in other matches, I am sure Bayern loses because there is no Lewandowski up front so goal directors are difficult to do if not Lewandowski who often scores goals his.
But I see Mbappe's madness also looks very good I admit this was an extraordinary match where PSG was able to suppress Bayern.
Opportunities are still realistic in both, PSG will survive and Munich will continue to attack fully.

[condoras]

I am still sure that Bayern will go to the next round. It will be tough, there is a chance. Bayern Munich really missed Lewandowski. He would have scored a couple of goals.

Big teams like Bayern always have chances to win a game but if PSG plays like yesterday I don't see them in the next round. TBH, maybe it's PSG time to (at least) get to the final. Most likely this team will not be the same next season...

[Jackl87]

Semi finals looking likely to be the following:

PSG vs Man City
Real Madrid vs Chelsea

Possible PSG vs Real Madrid final with PSG winning their first CL? Will be good to see what happens.

That would mean that 3 out of 4 teams of the semifinal would be owned by billionaire sheikhs or by an billionaire oligarch. I don't really like that development because those teams have a clear competitive advantage over all "normal" teams that have to manage their funds responsibly (i admit though that Real Madrid isn't doing that either  ) and i hope to see at least bayern in the semi finals. Porto would be great too but i doubt that will happen.
Financial Fairplay is a joke and should either be completely abandoned or modified in a way that those billionaire hobby clubs are on a level playing field with the rest.

[tyz]

Bayern Monaco deserved to not only draw the game but to win the game.
PSG got destroyed in ball possession, shoots, and missed goal.

It will be a fun second leg next week.

Agree with you. Bayern was the better team and should not have lost it. PSG did not play dominantly. Bayern can therefore still advance even if they conceded three goals at home, which is a big burden for the second leg. But if they play like they did yesterday, without making the big mistakes in defense, they could still make it to the semifinals.

[dishku]

The second leg is Liverpool's last chance to qualify, but I think it will be very difficult. Real Madrid have already stepped one foot in the next round.

Liverpool qualification is not longer realistic for now, this is football anything can happen but in this case we are talking about a side who has been poor recently, Liverpool is not match fit to get any positive result from Real Madrid.

Agreed with you there is very rare chances of Liverpool especially against Real Madrid. If Real Madrid would get succeed to end the 2nd leg match as draw than it will move to the next round. Liverpool is not in good shape so that there is more high chance of Real Madrid to move to the next round.

[ingiltere]

I thought Bayern could grab a win at home but they lost the game. Especially conceding 3 goals at home hit them hard. Now even 0-2 win will not be enough for them in second game. They were pretty dominant in the first match despite the score, I expect a great game again. Only if they had Robert Lewandowski things would be very much different.

[aesma]

Yesterday there was a lot of talk here in France about the PSG-Bayern match, so today when not hearing anything (didn't look for the results), I thought PSG must have lost, so I checked and no, they won. I guess it must have been a modest win, or that people don't want to jinx it, still remembering the remontada by Barcelona some years ago.

[jaberwock]

Beautiful game yesterday between what I consider the best teams in Champions League actually,Bayern and Paris.The game should have ended like 10-3 for Bayern with all the occassions they had but the goalkeeper of Paris was the hero of yesterday night.Paris with the counter attacks and Mbappe which looks unstoppable won the game yesterday.Now they have made a huge step toward further qualification.

I wouldn't really agree with you.
This was in any case one of the best matches in the Champions League ever, and in impossible weather conditions, but the final result should have been, in my opinion, 3:3 or 4:4 and by no means 10:3 for Bayern.
Mbappe was simply unstoppable and I think he showed that he is currently the best player in the world.
Everything is still open here, and Bayern also still have a chance to advance to the semi-finals, but it will be very difficult for them in Paris.

I think 10-3 was just exaggeration to say that Bayern had a lot of chances but PSG GK played such a great game that he won the game for his team. If you ask me I agree with that statement, sure Mbappe is a great player and I do agree that he definitely helped the team to win but I think goalkeeper was a lot better than Mbappe or anyone else, his saves were the reason why they were playing this well, plus when you get scored so much so quickly usually that means your offensive players give up as well, you just start accepting a loss and that is why GK saving goals is a big deal.

This is why I believe we are talking about the keeper and not about the goals. That 10-3 wouldn't happen of course, even with a semi-decent second league keeper you will at least save few of them, but it was obvious that it could have been 3 or even 4 goals very easily unless keeper didn't play like a superstar.

[Mr.right85]

sure Mbappe is a great player and I do agree that he definitely helped the team to win but I think goalkeeper was a lot better than Mbappe or anyone else, his saves were the reason why they were playing this well, plus when you get scored so much so quickly usually that means your offensive players give up as well, you just start accepting a loss and that is why GK saving goals is a big deal.

That's the thing about football, not all the players on the pitch are much appreciated even though they played more, your position on the pitch determines how much acknowledgement you get. Being a striker of forward has already put you on the part of being glorified as a match winner being an offensive player and they completely neglect those of you making the forward look better at the back like, the defenders and the goalkeeper. Bayern were at there best but, they just weren't on point on their game plan.

That aside, Chelsea had an interesting game too and from the look of it, its as though Porto is already done for. They played a good game though at Porto but they had a hard time creating the necessary chances to net a goal. Porto needs to work on there defense more, I think that was were the major erros were coming from. It was a good game on a general.

[kawetsriyanto]

From the start I was sure that Chelsea would win.

I also think the same as you from the beginning, the quality of Chelsea players is much better than Porto players. We are not talking about the popularity of the players, but the difference is clear once we see how they play on the field. Chelsea proves us by scoring 2 goals in the first Leg without conceded goals, it is in Porto home. I can say that Chelsea will be easier to win in the second Leg because they will play at their home.

[joker_josue]

That aside, Chelsea had an interesting game too and from the look of it, its as though Porto is already done for. They played a good game though at Porto but they had a hard time creating the necessary chances to net a goal. Porto needs to work on there defense more, I think that was were the major erros were coming from. It was a good game on a general.

I can't agree here.
FC Porto was superior on the field. Chelsea only managed to make 3 or 4 strokes.
The difference was even in efficiency. Chelsea took advantage of the two opportunities they had, due to the embarrassing mistakes of the FC Porto players.

I also believe that Chelsea will move forward in the competition. But in the last game, he was not the best team.

[AndySt]

From the start I was sure that Chelsea would win.

I also think the same as you from the beginning, the quality of Chelsea players is much better than Porto players. We are not talking about the popularity of the players, but the difference is clear once we see how they play on the field. Chelsea proves us by scoring 2 goals in the first Leg without conceded goals, it is in Porto home. I can say that Chelsea will be easier to win in the second Leg because they will play at their home.

In football, anything can happen, but Chelsea really look like the favorite given the rule about the advantage of two goals scored away. As far as I know, the second leg will not be played in England, but in Seville, as well as the first leg, so it will not be any easier because of the home match. But as I said, due to the fact that the first match was considered a home match for Porto, the Portuguese will need to score at least two goals to transfer the game to extra time, and if Chelsea score one goal, then three goals at all.

[Joca97]

That aside, Chelsea had an interesting game too and from the look of it, its as though Porto is already done for. They played a good game though at Porto but they had a hard time creating the necessary chances to net a goal. Porto needs to work on there defense more, I think that was were the major erros were coming from. It was a good game on a general.

I can't agree here.
FC Porto was superior on the field. Chelsea only managed to make 3 or 4 strokes.
The difference was even in efficiency. Chelsea took advantage of the two opportunities they had, due to the embarrassing mistakes of the FC Porto players.

I also believe that Chelsea will move forward in the competition. But in the last game, he was not the best team.

This is a big away advantage for chelsea i dont think porto has any chance in the second leg even they are a better team on the field
A big team like chelsea wont let this go easily plus any goal they score porto must score more

[joker_josue]

Chelsea will surly not let any chance for porto in the second leg and i believe they will not play the defensively and the will try to score rapidly...porto already did a great ucl season and the fans will not be sad whatever the result

Clearly! FC Porto has already gone further than all the bookmakers foresaw. Although internally he is not having a good season, in the Champions League he had an excellent performance.

[babo]

Chelsea will surly not let any chance for porto in the second leg and i believe they will not play the defensively and the will try to score rapidly...porto already did a great ucl season and the fans will not be sad whatever the result

yes, in fact I won the bet
the return I bet again for chelsea
Porto have suffered a lowering of morale and know the superiority of the opposing team.. of course
I don't think they will watch the second game, it promises to be boring