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

[W Jr.]

Congratulations Chelsea!

  Both teams had a great game. Manchester City conceded a goal when caught off guard. Although they tried very hard to make up for this goal, they were not enough. N'golo Kante and Mount played great in the Chelsea team.  Manchester City lost in their first final match. Paris SG and Tottenham have experienced this before.

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[cryptofrka]

I did not expect this but fair play to Chelsea. They were better yesterday and are worthy winners.
They lost only one game in the whole Champions League, to Porto at home, conceding in the 94th minute when they have already secured further progress.

They conceded only 4 goals in 13 games, huge respect to both Lampard and of course, even more Tuchel.

Guardiola will be left with criticism again, his team selection was again quite unorthodox and way too offensive for a game like this.

[Avirunes]

Congratulations Chelsea!

  Both teams had a great game. Manchester City conceded a goal when caught off guard. Although they tried very hard to make up for this goal, they were not enough. N'golo Kante and Mount played great in the Chelsea team.  Manchester City lost in their first final match. Paris SG and Tottenham have experienced this before.

That was bound to happen when you don't have holding midfielder. I also thought it was a smart lineup but defense was so sloppy in the first half. They were surprised by the Werner's pace and focused on him and forgot to check Havertz properly. Still it was wierd to have no striker otherwise they would have answered properly. Chelsea undoubtedly deserved it. Guardiola pays it off for overthinking like he usually does.

[Karartma1]

My bet was, again, not correct  (2-1 for ManCity).
At least I had fun with my friends watching the final. Two exceptional teams, really, but I must finally admit that Tuchel's a magician. The way he even conceived this game was great and never forget he took a team that was almost done and brought it to the top of Europe.

[decodx]

I enjoyed watching Chelsea play. I think they're well deserved the title and they've been an entertaining side to watch in this competition.
I think they made the right choice to get rid of Lampard. Tuchel was the best signing that Chelsea made.

[jakdanyel]

I enjoyed watching Chelsea play. I think they're well deserved the title and they've been an entertaining side to watch in this competition.
I think they made the right choice to get rid of Lampard. Tuchel was the best signing that Chelsea made.

I agree with you on Lampard. Because I think they wouldn't have achieved the same thing with him. Because the team were not playing this much good then. After Tuchel has come, everything has changed about the team. The players started playing much more dedicatedly. I think that Tuchel is one of the really good managers.

[MusaMohamed]

I agree with you on Lampard. Because I think they wouldn't have achieved the same thing with him. Because the team were not playing this much good then. After Tuchel has come, everything has changed about the team. The players started playing much more dedicatedly. I think that Tuchel is one of the really good managers.

I think Lampard had a happy night and he also feel happy with his sack because it brings the second Champions League cup to Chelsea. It is a club Mr Frankie loves deeply so he will wish the best for this club.

He or Tuchel bright the Champions League to the club, it is not a really big matter. The matter is Chelsea has an amazing night and join the big clubs. The second cup will be a beginning to join Legendary clubs in Champions League. If they win three cups, they deserve to have a spot in list of legendary clubs.

[MusaMohamed]

Manchester City played very defensively. A team like Chelsea, who are very good at counterattack, can't win by applying defensive tactics against them. Despite having such an experienced squad, Manchester City has lost only because of poor tactics. Congratulation to Chelsea and Tuchel. The done this great job.

Poor tactics from Pep but not only this. Kante is the best player of the match and he broke the tactics of Manchester City.

He became a second Makelele for Chelsea and he has some better skills than Claude Makelele. Joe Cole admitted that fact after the final.
Pep again was beaten by a moment as same as Torres in the semi final between Chelsea and Barcelona. This time, it was made and finished by Kai Harvertz.

https://youtu.be/Nzn8poWu-a4

[Daniel91]

I believe Pep messed up here by underrating Chelsea a team that had defeated Man City convincingly twice this season, he started the match without a defensive midfielder and a natural Striker thinking the tactics will work having adopted the tactic to win many matches in EPL, with the introduction of Fernadinho and Gabriel Jesus in the second half City began to press Chelsea hard unfortunately Chelsea were resolute and defended I congratulate Tuchel for a job well done and cheering his players during the match and all the Chelsea players and fans.

Pep messed up his team in important matches in Champions League.

Cogratulations for the second Champions League for Chelsea. Kai Harvertz is a little bit lucky in that goal. If the goal had bounced strongly in opposite direction of Kai's movement, he would have not scored that goal. But that counter attack is great and Chelsea deserve that goal and the cup.

I see one more thing from the final, Timo Werner is still very lack of confidence and can not play as a striker. It is a big surprise that how Werner lost all of his finishing skills and confidence in one season.

I disagree with the claim that Pep underestimated Chelsea.
On the contrary, after two consecutive defeats by Chelsea, Pep decided to experiment and completely changed the strategy and concept of the game from Manchester in the final.
Obviously the Manchester City players didn't do well in that experiment and Chelsea, especially in the first half, were much better and deservedly won.
Pep does this every time a crucial game is played for Manchester City, gives up on his original plan and strategy and changes everything, and every time Manchester City loses such important games.
He simply complicates and thinks too much and it turns out that it is not the same to play with Messi and win trophies with Barcelona or play without Messi.

[Barcode_]

I think a lot of gamblers lost their bet in the match between Manchester City and Chelsea. To be honest, I did not expect Chelsea to be able to beat Manchester City, I was thinking the best Chelsea could do was to force a draw upon Manchester City and get the game into extra time or penalty shootout to decide the winner for the trophy. But Chelsea did played well against Manchester City to win the match and I believe the next English Premier League season will be much more intense as Chelsea are improving a lot with Thomas Tuchel in charge.

[laohe628]

At first, congratulation to Chelsea, you deserve the champion. By the way, i think Chelsea should thanks to Pep Guardiola change lineups, Guardiola always Guardiola, changing lineups for key games all the time. It cannot be denied that he is a master tactician, but he screwed up every time. Haha, giving up double defending midfielders and without striker...

[Pulsar77]

I agree with you on Lampard. Because I think they wouldn't have achieved the same thing with him. Because the team were not playing this much good then. After Tuchel has come, everything has changed about the team. The players started playing much more dedicatedly. I think that Tuchel is one of the really good managers.

I think Lampard had a happy night and he also feel happy with his sack because it brings the second Champions League cup to Chelsea. It is a club Mr Frankie loves deeply so he will wish the best for this club.

He or Tuchel bright the Champions League to the club, it is not a really big matter. The matter is Chelsea has an amazing night and join the big clubs. The second cup will be a beginning to join Legendary clubs in Champions League. If they win three cups, they deserve to have a spot in list of legendary clubs.

There is an interesting fact that Chelsea have won the Champions League second time in a row after changing their manager. The first championship was in the 11/12 season. Di Matteo was brought to the manager position. And many people were thinking like "Ok, that's it.". But they became the champions.

Now we've seen another manager change and here we are. Chelsea managed to become champions with Tuchel. 

[Ebede]

Few weeks to the UCL finals, I believed and predicted that Mancity will win. But few minutes to the final when I saw the line up, it became obvious to me that Chelsea will take the day.
Tuchel came up with a strong midfield and a natural striker.
Mancity in the other hand came up with strong midfield without a natural striker. I was shocked Guardiola came up with his well mastered tactics by all.

It is therefore very important that when gambling, we should wait till the eleventh hour to know the formation of the club, form of the players, weather, mentality of the team for that day's match. I lost my money but I have learnt my lessons.

[Bitinity]

Interesting fact this year, duo Manchester lost on Final Game. Manchester United defeated by Villareal in Europa League Final few days ago and today we see Manchester City defeated by Chelsea in Champions League Final. Both duo Manchester were favorite to win the Final game but the result says the opposite. Would be nice to see the UEFA Super Cup between Chelsea and Villareal in the next few months. Who will win? It is hard to predict  

[Ebede]

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he started the match without a defensive midfielder and a natural Striker thinking the tactics will work having adopted the tactic to win many matches in EPL.

This is my point and a very clear point. All lovers of football and good analysts saw it coming. Guardiola stocked with his usual tactics that is being known in EPL.
England football is very difficult because no tactics lasts more than one season without other coaches knowing how to defile it.
Take instance from Conte, when he introduced the 3man defense in Chelsea, it gave him the league title for the year. Next season he was faulted.
Guardiola's 3man unnatural striking has been mastered in England.
Assuming he played the final with a Spanish or Italian club, it would have worked for him.

[W Jr.]

Congratulations Chelsea!

  Both teams had a great game. Manchester City conceded a goal when caught off guard. Although they tried very hard to make up for this goal, they were not enough. N'golo Kante and Mount played great in the Chelsea team.  Manchester City lost in their first final match. Paris SG and Tottenham have experienced this before.

That was bound to happen when you don't have holding midfielder. I also thought it was a smart lineup but defense was so sloppy in the first half. They were surprised by the Werner's pace and focused on him and forgot to check Havertz properly. Still it was wierd to have no striker otherwise they would have answered properly. Chelsea undoubtedly deserved it. Guardiola pays it off for overthinking like he usually does.

Guardiola is a successful manager. No one can deny this. However, they are unsuccessful in their match against Chelsea. Tuchel prepared Chelsea so well that they beat Manchester City in the final. If Timo Werner had evaluated the positions, it might have even been different. Kai Havertz's first goal in the champions league led them to the championship. My two favorites -Europa League and UCL- both lost. I was thinking that 2 trophies could come to Manchester, but no trophy came to Manchester.

[Jackl87]

Few weeks to the UCL finals, I believed and predicted that Mancity will win. But few minutes to the final when I saw the line up, it became obvious to me that Chelsea will take the day.
Tuchel came up with a strong midfield and a natural striker.
Mancity in the other hand came up with strong midfield without a natural striker. I was shocked Guardiola came up with his well mastered tactics by all.

I really believe that guardiola is one of the top football coaches on this planet maybe even the best, because so far every team that he coached and even the individual players of the team became better. But when the big and important matches come his teams somehow can't really deliver. It was the same at bayern munich where they were eliminated 3 times from the champions league even though they were the better team and now the same with ManCity. I think sometimes he is overcomplicating stuff and always wants to do something special on top for big matches, but i guess most of the times less would be more here.

[jakdanyel]

I agree with you on Lampard. Because I think they wouldn't have achieved the same thing with him. Because the team were not playing this much good then. After Tuchel has come, everything has changed about the team. The players started playing much more dedicatedly. I think that Tuchel is one of the really good managers.

I think Lampard had a happy night and he also feel happy with his sack because it brings the second Champions League cup to Chelsea. It is a club Mr Frankie loves deeply so he will wish the best for this club.

He or Tuchel bright the Champions League to the club, it is not a really big matter. The matter is Chelsea has an amazing night and join the big clubs. The second cup will be a beginning to join Legendary clubs in Champions League. If they win three cups, they deserve to have a spot in list of legendary clubs.

Yes, the most important matter is of course Chelsea's winning the title. And it is totally a deserved one. They must be very proud of themselves for making it. To be honest, my favourite team in this game were also City. It was a shocking result for me. 

[tyz]

Congratulations Chelsea!

  Both teams had a great game. Manchester City conceded a goal when caught off guard. Although they tried very hard to make up for this goal, they were not enough. N'golo Kante and Mount played great in the Chelsea team.  Manchester City lost in their first final match. Paris SG and Tottenham have experienced this before.

That was bound to happen when you don't have holding midfielder. I also thought it was a smart lineup but defense was so sloppy in the first half. They were surprised by the Werner's pace and focused on him and forgot to check Havertz properly. Still it was wierd to have no striker otherwise they would have answered properly. Chelsea undoubtedly deserved it. Guardiola pays it off for overthinking like he usually does.

Guardiola is a successful manager. No one can deny this. However, they are unsuccessful in their match against Chelsea. Tuchel prepared Chelsea so well that they beat Manchester City in the final. If Timo Werner had evaluated the positions, it might have even been different. Kai Havertz's first goal in the champions league led them to the championship. My two favorites -Europa League and UCL- both lost. I was thinking that 2 trophies could come to Manchester, but no trophy came to Manchester.

He ist successful on national league. No doubt. But he has repeatedly failed to win anything internationally for 10 years with top teams. He gets all the players he wants at ManCity, has spent more than a billion on players over the last few years and has always failed in the semifinals. Now he has made it to the final for the first time in 10 years and fails miserably again.

Even during his time at Bayern, he won everything nationally. But with a very well-rehearsed team, he messed up every time in the semifinals. The same thing happened at ManCity. Remember, before Pep took over Bayern in 2013, the club was two times in a row into the CL finals (2012,2013) where they won in 2013. With almost the same team he failed again and again.

He probably only works internationally in Barcelona. That's why he should go back to Barcelona and rebuild the club there. Then maybe he can win the CL again.

[Smartvirus]

So London would be blue again! I couldn't express my joys yesterday after Chelsea won the UCL title ahead of Manchester City. Trust me, it was so unexpected at a time before kick off. All I could have hoped gor was for Chelsea not to be humiliated by the citizens and the game should be played like a finals with 2 top teams contesting instead of a Chelsea 0- Manchester City kind of score line. No, that would have been so unappreciated but, Chelsea went ahead to prove my fears wrong and shame Pep and his tactics.  That was a wonderful assist from M. Mount to Kyle Havertz and he finished it beautifully. Congrats to the team, they did us proud.