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

[Naida_BR]

After the 1st round of this Leg, I believe that most of the games didn't make it clear who is going to proceed in the next stage.
Next week will be again interesting and also good for betting, as most of the teams will try their best to qualify.

[joniboini]

After the 1st round of this Leg, I believe that most of the games didn't make it clear who is going to proceed in the next stage.

Well yea, it would not be fun to watch if there's a clear result before the 2nd leg, even though sometimes it could produce a miracle match like Liverpool Barca, Roma vs Barca, and so on.

Any match is interesting as long as every team gives it their all. That's what football should be about.

[Naida_BR]

After the 1st round of this Leg, I believe that most of the games didn't make it clear who is going to proceed in the next stage.

Well yea, it would not be fun to watch if there's a clear result before the 2nd leg, even though sometimes it could produce a miracle match like Liverpool Barca, Roma vs Barca, and so on.

Any match is interesting as long as every team gives it their all. That's what football should be about.

But we are still in Knockout face which doesn't have any clubs like Barca or Liverpool or Roma.
Yet, we are about to see great games which makes me excited even before the season starts.
I hope that games like that with strong anticipation about the results or future fixtures will happen during the whole season.

[bering]

But we are still in Knockout face which doesn't have any clubs like Barca or Liverpool or Roma.
Yet, we are about to see great games which makes me excited even before the season starts.
I hope that games like that with strong anticipation about the results or future fixtures will happen during the whole season.

Big teams will fight at group stage because the teams such as Barcelona and Liverpool finished the league with first and second position which mean they automatically goes to group phase and for now most of mediocre teams still struggle to reach group phase but i just noticed former of the champion Porto starting this season with third qualification matches

[slocker]

But we are still in Knockout face which doesn't have any clubs like Barca or Liverpool or Roma.
Yet, we are about to see great games which makes me excited even before the season starts.
I hope that games like that with strong anticipation about the results or future fixtures will happen during the whole season.

Big teams will fight at group stage because the teams such as Barcelona and Liverpool finished the league with first and second position which mean they automatically goes to group phase and for now most of mediocre teams still struggle to reach group phase but i just noticed former of the champion Porto starting this season with third qualification matches

Its not just that. There is list of countries with numbers, first 10 have 3 2 or 1 team in group stage draw rest have final as knockout and all below 15 place are in from 3 round start or they start from 1st round. Team from big 5 always have 2 clubs or more in group stage in CL.

[LTU_btc]

Tonight we will see second leg games of third qualifying round. And none of teams can be confident yet about reaching next round. Today I bet on Porto, Olympiakos and Rosenborg wins. And I made one risky bet - Dinamo Zagreb win against Ferencvaros @2.12. They are just better team. I also have no doubts that Ajax will reach next round.

[swogerino]

I think for me the most interesting match is Fc Kopenhagen vs Crvena Zvedia as the first leg has finished 1-1 and I think the stronger team is the Serbian team.They will try to attack tonight as they need a goal at all cost but the Danish team will try to defend and try the counter attack.I will bet on Crvena Zvedia and the odd is big.

[tomahawk9]

Forgot today was CL qualifying round, last week I was thinking of going for a parlay, just for fun I don't usually pay attention to this CL rounds, but oh well, guess i'll wait for the play-off.

Btw, half-time and Ajax 1 - 1 PAOK. Other results: Celtic 0 - 1 Cluj, and Porto 0 - 2 Krasnodar    What the hell is Cluj? LOL

[Harkorede]

Forgot today was CL qualifying round, last week I was thinking of going for a parlay, just for fun I don't usually pay attention to this CL rounds, but oh well, guess i'll wait for the play-off.

Btw, half-time and Ajax 1 - 1 PAOK. Other results: Celtic 0 - 1 Cluj, and Porto 0 - 2 Krasnodar    What the hell is Cluj? LOL

So many upset right now mate! I'm more surprised with Porto losing 2 - 0 at home to be honest, earlier today it was Apoel with over 4 odds, winning against Qarabag.

I'll just hope Celtic and Ajax will make it through, and I think Porto is done already.

[1982dre]

Come on Ajax. Put $100 on them. Hope they will also this years surprise in the CL. :-p

[klaaas]

Come on Ajax. Put $100 on them. Hope they will also this years surprise in the CL. :-p

2-1 ; )  
Went for Ajax as well. Nuts to see that they didnt manage to make any goal after the first one with the truckload of chances they had and a missed penalty. Lets see how they hold out the final 10 minutes.

[1982dre]

Come on Ajax. Put $100 on them. Hope they will also this years surprise in the CL. :-p

2-1 ; )  
Went for Ajax as well. Nuts to see that they didnt manage to make any goal after the first one with the truckload of chances they had and a missed penalty. Lets see how they hold out the final 10 minutes.

And another penalty. ;-) all is fine again. Let's see what the next round brings

[buwaytress]

@Harko wow. I bet against Celtic in the first leg, thinking cluj would pull the upset at home but damn, these sure things really do falter. Rodgers left but not his mark it seems. Lots to catch up for Scottish football and now another season to wait. Shame.

Too bad I wasn't betting. Quite a few shocks... Porto fought back but wow Krasnodar whoever you are =/

[LTU_btc]

Wow, what crazy gameday with so many goals scored
Dynamo Kyiv 3:3 Brugge. 2 red cards and 2 goals scored on injury time. Brugge goes further.
Porto 2:3 Krasnodar. Probably biggest sensation tonight. 2 early goals of Krasnodar send Porto to knockout.
Ajax 2:3 PAOK. Just a great match. Ajax dominated, but it was very tough game for them.
LASK 3:1 Basel. Another sensational win of LASK which eliminated Basel.
Copenhagen 1:1 Crvena Zvezda and after penalty shootout Zvezda goes to the playoff stage. Probably it was longest penalty shootout I ever saw.
Celtic 3:4 Cluj. Another crazy game. Celtic had posession and more shots but level of their game isn't enough to beat Cluj. Cluj deserved to go further.
Wow, and main competition didn't even started yet.

[Harkorede]

Come on Ajax. Put $100 on them. Hope they will also this years surprise in the CL. :-p

2-1 ; )  
Went for Ajax as well. Nuts to see that they didnt manage to make any goal after the first one with the truckload of chances they had and a missed penalty. Lets see how they hold out the final 10 minutes.

Some many twists and turns today, Lol! I wonder how tensed fans of these teams would have felt today, Ajax turned the tie on its head, and were able to qualify for the CL play offs, Celtic despite taking 2 - 1 and 3 - 2 lead still lost the game to Cluj, Porto left it a little too late by going 3 - 0 behind in the first half but they did fought back and were within 1 goal of equalizing which could have seen them advance too. Now to what I consider the craziest match of the night Copenhagen vs Red Star Belgrade, imagine your team and an opponent playing 11 penalties each scoring and as well losing after each other.


EDIT: LTU_Btc beat me to it 😏

[tomahawk9]

Yikes! Wtf Porto? And Celtic, a well-known club in Europe with a lot of history in the football world, just got KO'd by Cluj, a low-tier club from Romania...CFR Cluj...This is beyond embarrassing for Celtic 

Anyways, play-off round:

(source)

I'm thinking maybe a parlay with 'Ajax-Olympiacos-Slavia Prague' all to win in the 1st leg. Any thoughts?

[Naida_BR]

Come on Ajax. Put $100 on them. Hope they will also this years surprise in the CL. :-p

2-1 ; )  
Went for Ajax as well. Nuts to see that they didnt manage to make any goal after the first one with the truckload of chances they had and a missed penalty. Lets see how they hold out the final 10 minutes.

And another penalty. ;-) all is fine again. Let's see what the next round brings

I am so sad to see a team like Ajax, need 3 penalties to qualify from a newbie team.
This is not the way it should. But, apparently UEFA wanted more Ajax to proceed than PAOK. Ajax is more profitable club and can bring more money to the UEFA from TV broadcasting etc.
I hope van der Beek to get transferred to another club. Ajax doesn't seem to play good football this season.

[slocker]

Last night matches got some surprises I must say to mentioned above. It more and more from every single season so far that we will see some club beat obvious favorite and win or pass in next stage. However this is becoming something that is normal and it will be every new season, from my point of view this is interesting.

@LTU_btc: For penalties in Copenhagen Red Star game I watched 5-6 years ago African Cup of Nations semis I thing, in the end it was decided in 16 round of penalties.

[Daniel91]

Last night matches got some surprises I must say to mentioned above. It more and more from every single season so far that we will see some club beat obvious favorite and win or pass in next stage. However this is becoming something that is normal and it will be every new season, from my point of view this is interesting.

@LTU_btc: For penalties in Copenhagen Red Star game I watched 5-6 years ago African Cup of Nations semis I thing, in the end it was decided in 16 round of penalties.

I think it's normal that at the beginning many clubs experience difficulties because many new players,  no time to prepare team etc.
Personally I enjoyed match between Ferencvaros and Dinamo tonight.
Great victory for Dinamo and really can't understand how is possible that Dinamo didn't beat them already in Zagreb 😁

[buwaytress]

Well, some of these upsets were some how predictable, I kean I did bet on Cluj before but anyway so happy to see Mignolet contribute already so quickly haha although I don't know if letting in 3 goals was really a good contribution haha!

@toma sounds like a good parlay but only if at least 6/1... I would go for Cluj and Bruges parlay... But always closer to the games first to see odds!

Anyone actually backing Chelski tonight for a Europa winner to beat a Champs League winner? I am so making sure I have the tv all to myself for another Reds trophy =p