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

[acdc]

so far there only 8 teams has been qualified ,

Barcelona
Manchester city
Bayern munic
RB Leipzig
Juventus
Real madrid
PSG
and Tottenham hotspurs

And it is well deserved.
To be honest I am a bit surprised to see RB Leipzig in this group of teams.
It is good to see this

RB Leipzig completely deserved.
This year, it was not Bayern or Dortmund that Leipzig was the most impressive German team. With a sharp and effective kick, Leipzig is sending messages to challenge the big guys in the Champions League.
I look forward to the next matches of RB Leipzig

[EdenHazard]

the rule is if there are 2 teams that have the same points then the ones above are the team that is superior head to head. Chelsea obviously will not qualify if they lose in the final matchday. They must win against lille to ensure their escape. Unless Ajax defeats Valencia, Chelsea just need a draw to qualify.

Yuppp , a win is a must.

They well play at home anyways .. should be easy but also shouldn't underestimate lille even though they are sucks at the group stage matches with only 1 point collected when they tied 1-1 against 10 men Valencia.
The group H is one of deadly excited group as actually all of the teams has an equal quality, not a group of death like in the group F Barcelona , inter milan and Dortmund... at least I can say this is the most high intensity group after the group F.

[kolonel_x]

I wish Dortmund or Inter Milan belonged to a different group. Group C or G looked easy for them as both teams deserved to qualify imo. But it is what it is. Of these two teams, I think Inter has the slight edge to proceed into the next stage. I also want to see how Conte fares against the other top European clubs after this group stage.

Both Inter Milan and Dortmund deserve to qualify to the next round.
In my opinion, I want Inter Milan to be qualified as Conte has made a great work this season.
Whoever is disqualified has great chances to win the Europa League title, along with the team that it is going to be disqualified from the Chelsea's group.

As long as the win against Barcelona surely Inter Milan will qualify even though Conte has done many things for Inter Milan at UCL, it's still not easy to break Barcelona so even though I played at the San Siro.
But in my opinion it is the one who blindly Inter Mistakes is competing in the first leg in the match itself losing against Dortmund 3-2.

[tranthidung]

Both Inter Milan and Dortmund deserve to qualify to the next round.
In my opinion, I want Inter Milan to be qualified as Conte has made a great work this season.
Whoever is disqualified has great chances to win the Europa League title, along with the team that it is going to be disqualified from the Chelsea's group.

If I have to say which team in that group deserve to be qualified for the next round, I would say all of the three teams deserve, Barcelona, Inter Milan and Borrusia Dortmund. Each team have their strengths and weaknesses but they are all good teams and their performances in the group with all their matches so far are well. I don't agree if one says Barcelona have outperformed Inter Milan or Dortmund or vice versa. Their performaces so far have nearly the same.

At the end of the final matches, their best and most lucky teams will get their spots for next round. I hope they will be Barcelona and Inter Milan.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

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Looks like your bet lost Chelsea winning at Valencia was  a though one. Sorry on your lost.

That's okay, it's a part of the system. The entire round gone bad for me. I lost money in City match because it was 1 - 1 draw, lost money in Liverpool match coz again 1 - 1 draw. So ultimately from CL round I did not make money except losing. A random bet for Flamingo actually recovered my lose though but it was not enough 😉

Can't wait for the next round and again I will be going with City and Liverpool in my bet-slips. Both playing away with Dinamo Zagreb and Red Bull respectively and no freaking idea about any of these home teams LOL.

Premier League rounds from tomorrow so gonna have a busy week end after all.

[snipie]

That's okay, it's a part of the system. The entire round gone bad for me. I lost money in City match because it was 1 - 1 draw, lost money in Liverpool match coz again 1 - 1 draw. So ultimately from CL round I did not make money except losing. A random bet for Flamingo actually recovered my lose though but it was not enough 😉

Can't wait for the next round and again I will be going with City and Liverpool in my bet-slips. Both playing away with Dinamo Zagreb and Red Bull respectively and no freaking idea about any of these home teams LOL.

Bet for Napoli and PSG  too
While Man City will be confortable, Liverpool will get hard moments to keep the first place..
Best games gonna be Bayern vs Tottenham and Inter vs Barcelona. Juve, Ajax games are also goods and unpredictable tho

[Bitcoin_Arena]

That's okay, it's a part of the system. The entire round gone bad for me. I lost money in City match because it was 1 - 1 draw, lost money in Liverpool match coz again 1 - 1 draw. So ultimately from CL round I did not make money except losing. A random bet for Flamingo actually recovered my lose though but it was not enough 😉

Can't wait for the next round and again I will be going with City and Liverpool in my bet-slips. Both playing away with Dinamo Zagreb and Red Bull respectively and no freaking idea about any of these home teams LOL.

Be careful thou. From my experience, most teams that have already qualified like Manchester city tend to relax  in the UCL as the focus on the domestic league and start fielding their Junior players. Draws and losses will soon start becoming a common thing especially away from home

[Trofo]

Can't wait for the next round and again I will be going with City and Liverpool in my bet-slips. Both playing away with Dinamo Zagreb and Red Bull respectively and no freaking idea about any of these home teams LOL.

Be careful thou. From my experience, most teams that have already qualified like Manchester city tend to relax  in the UCL as the focus on the domestic league and start fielding their Junior players. Draws and losses will soon start becoming a common thing especially away from home

I am quite sure RB Salzburg will have plenty to say in game vs. LFC. They will play their attacking football and if LFC isn't on their absolute best or decides to rotate some players they could have big problems.

Guardiola said that he will come with his strongest team to Zagreb. He said that they must do it in that way in order to be fair towards Shaktjor and Atalanta. We shall see if that is the truth or just something he had to say and then he leaves half of team at home because of "injuries".

[cryptofrka]

I am quite sure RB Salzburg will have plenty to say in game vs. LFC. They will play their attacking football and if LFC isn't on their absolute best or decides to rotate some players they could have big problems.

Guardiola said that he will come with his strongest team to Zagreb. He said that they must do it in that way in order to be fair towards Shaktjor and Atalanta. We shall see if that is the truth or just something he had to say and then he leaves half of team at home because of "injuries".

Agreed about the Salzburg game, I'm really not happy that we need to get something from that game. Salzburg is a team on steroids, they also have decent quality players there.

About Dinamo - City, their 3rd team is a little bit worse than their 1st so I feel Dinamo has basically no chance there.

[Daniel91]

I am quite sure RB Salzburg will have plenty to say in game vs. LFC. They will play their attacking football and if LFC isn't on their absolute best or decides to rotate some players they could have big problems.

Guardiola said that he will come with his strongest team to Zagreb. He said that they must do it in that way in order to be fair towards Shaktjor and Atalanta. We shall see if that is the truth or just something he had to say and then he leaves half of team at home because of "injuries".

Agreed about the Salzburg game, I'm really not happy that we need to get something from that game. Salzburg is a team on steroids, they also have decent quality players there.

About Dinamo - City, their 3rd team is a little bit worse than their 1st so I feel Dinamo has basically no chance there.

Liverpool lost great opportunity to finish job with Napoli and now they will have very difficult match with Salzburg.
Regarding match between Dinamo and Manchester,  if I remember well,  before Dinamo they play with Arsenal and after with ManU so no way that Guardiola will send the best team in Zagreb.
Still,  it will be very difficult match for Dinamo.

[Red_Evil]

That's okay, it's a part of the system. The entire round gone bad for me. I lost money in City match because it was 1 - 1 draw, lost money in Liverpool match coz again 1 - 1 draw. So ultimately from CL round I did not make money except losing. A random bet for Flamingo actually recovered my lose though but it was not enough 😉

Can't wait for the next round and again I will be going with City and Liverpool in my bet-slips. Both playing away with Dinamo Zagreb and Red Bull respectively and no freaking idea about any of these home teams LOL.

Be careful thou. From my experience, most teams that have already qualified like Manchester city tend to relax  in the UCL as the focus on the domestic league and start fielding their Junior players. Draws and losses will soon start becoming a common thing especially away from home

Yeah, maybe Guardiola will play a backup player with very few minutes played. because before facing Dynamo Zagreb, City had to play the Manchester Derby. in this match, the main players will definitely play all out, and when UCL arrives the main player might be rested by Guardiola. They need to prepare for the next match. 3 days after playing at UCL, City will be facing against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium

[webtricks]

so far there only 8 teams has been qualified ,

Barcelona
Manchester city
Bayern munic
RB Leipzig
Juventus
Real madrid
PSG
and Tottenham hotspurs

And it is well deserved.
To be honest I am a bit surprised to see RB Leipzig in this group of teams.
It is good to see this

RB Leipzig is doing awesome this season. It is currently third in Bundesliga (above Dortmund and Bayern  ) and just 1 point shy of top positioned - Mönchengladbach. But we can't deny the fact that Leipzig got very easy group. With Zenit, Lyon and Benfica on its side, I wasn't amazed that RB Leipzig made it to Round of 16. However, there is a chance that RB Leipzig still doesn't qualify for next round if Lyon beats it in next match and Zenit wins its match. Group G is the closest group in terms of stats.
Now suppose if both Lyon and Zenit wins next match with 1-0 scoreline then table will look like this:

RB Leipzig : Wins: 3    Losses: 2    Draws: 1    Goals Scored: 8    Goals Against: 7    Goal Difference: 1    Points: 10
Zenit :        Wins: 3    Losses: 2    Draws: 1    Goals Scored: 8    Goals Against: 7    Goal Difference: 1    Points: 10
Lyon :         Wins: 3    Losses: 2    Draws: 1    Goals Scored: 8    Goals Against: 7    Goal Difference: 1    Points: 10 

I wonder who will qualify in this situation. 

[AakZaki]

everybody underestimated inter milan in that match , conte prove they are all wrong, sweet winning! although the final match could be a disaster for intermilan to disqualified from the competition, barcelona never be easy opponent for anybody but again when inter milan get underestimated they turn into a beast mode immediately , this season is really different for nerazzurri with conte in charge.

i know everbody also feel upset on the liverpool match against napoli , they are giving away 1 point to napoli easily, almost lost.

so far there only 8 teams has been qualified ,

Barcelona
Manchester city
Bayern munic
RB Leipzig
Juventus
Real madrid
PSG
and Tottenham hotspurs

Do not be too quick to say RB Leipzig will qualify for the last 16 of UCL. in this Group will definitely compete all out because what I know in the first leg of RB Leipzig lost to Lyon at home with a score:
RB Leipzig 0-2 Lyon
Zenit 3-1 Benfica

while in the deciding round on December 11, RB Leipzig will again compete against:
Lyon vs RB Leipzig
Benfica vs. Zenit

If Lyon and Zenit win more than 1-0, then RB Leipzig will Game Over.

[DaveWave]

everybody underestimated inter milan in that match , conte prove they are all wrong, sweet winning! although the final match could be a disaster for intermilan to disqualified from the competition, barcelona never be easy opponent for anybody but again when inter milan get underestimated they turn into a beast mode immediately , this season is really different for nerazzurri with conte in charge.

i know everbody also feel upset on the liverpool match against napoli , they are giving away 1 point to napoli easily, almost lost.

so far there only 8 teams has been qualified ,

Barcelona
Manchester city
Bayern munic
RB Leipzig
Juventus
Real madrid
PSG
and Tottenham hotspurs

Do not be too quick to say RB Leipzig will qualify for the last 16 of UCL. in this Group will definitely compete all out because what I know in the first leg of RB Leipzig lost to Lyon at home with a score:
RB Leipzig 0-2 Lyon
Zenit 3-1 Benfica

while in the deciding round on December 11, RB Leipzig will again compete against:
Lyon vs RB Leipzig
Benfica vs. Zenit

If Lyon and Zenit win more than 1-0, then RB Leipzig will Game Over.

Nothing is 100% but chances are high for RB Leipzig to qualify. RB Leipzig was expected to win that game with Lyon at Red Bull Arena but luck was not there that time. In the rematch Lyon will have the chance to prove their early win was for real. And this time Lyon will have its home crowd.

[watergold]

everybody underestimated inter milan in that match , conte prove they are all wrong, sweet winning! although the final match could be a disaster for intermilan to disqualified from the competition, barcelona never be easy opponent for anybody but again when inter milan get underestimated they turn into a beast mode immediately , this season is really different for nerazzurri with conte in charge.

i know everbody also feel upset on the liverpool match against napoli , they are giving away 1 point to napoli easily, almost lost.

so far there only 8 teams has been qualified ,

Barcelona
Manchester city
Bayern munic
RB Leipzig
Juventus
Real madrid
PSG
and Tottenham hotspurs

Do not be too quick to say RB Leipzig will qualify for the last 16 of UCL. in this Group will definitely compete all out because what I know in the first leg of RB Leipzig lost to Lyon at home with a score:
RB Leipzig 0-2 Lyon
Zenit 3-1 Benfica

while in the deciding round on December 11, RB Leipzig will again compete against:
Lyon vs RB Leipzig
Benfica vs. Zenit

If Lyon and Zenit win more than 1-0, then RB Leipzig will Game Over.

This match must be the right concentration for all clubs, because in this final qualifying match many have to defend completely so that the club qualifies for the last 16 because the points they have are still lacking and it depends on this week's victory.

Bacelona vs Inter Milan
Lyon vs RB Leipzig
Ajax vs Valencia

in those 3 matches they will give a good performance.

[coinlocket$]

Bacelona vs Inter Milan

This is a 40m € match for Inter.
Do we already know if Barca will play with full strength or with full low-value players?

Knowing Barca they will play with the best team possible but who knows.

[Furious 7]

Bacelona vs Inter Milan

This is a 40m € match for Inter.
Do we already know if Barca will play with full strength or with full low-value players?

Knowing Barca they will play with the best team possible but who knows.

Inter Milan must be win in this Wednesday game because it is life and death indeed Barcelona is not an easy opponent even the tough team Lionel Messi and his friends.
And Inter Milan must win if they want to qualify and I think Dortmund must win too and this is really tense for Inter and Dortmund.

[Lucius]

Yeah, maybe Guardiola will play a backup player with very few minutes played. because before facing Dynamo Zagreb, City had to play the Manchester Derby. in this match, the main players will definitely play all out, and when UCL arrives the main player might be rested by Guardiola. They need to prepare for the next match. 3 days after playing at UCL, City will be facing against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium

Common sense tells us that MC is very likely to play with a B team, not just because they secured the top spot, but because they have very important games in the domestic league (and they lose at home 1-2 MU). But I think they are too behind Liverpool (14 PTS), and that this year dream about becoming a champion has almost no chance.

Guardiola says that they will play with a full squad in Zagreb, just because this would be fair to Shakhtar&Atalanta, but I think this is just something that every coach would say in such a situation. I don't think anyone wants to risk the injury of a valuable player in a completely irrelevant game for the team. Considering that Dinamo lost only 0-2 in first game and that they need to win in this game, the motive is certainly on the hosts' side.

[Red_Evil]

Yeah, maybe Guardiola will play a backup player with very few minutes played. because before facing Dynamo Zagreb, City had to play the Manchester Derby. in this match, the main players will definitely play all out, and when UCL arrives the main player might be rested by Guardiola. They need to prepare for the next match. 3 days after playing at UCL, City will be facing against Arsenal at Emirates Stadium

Common sense tells us that MC is very likely to play with a B team, not just because they secured the top spot, but because they have very important games in the domestic league (and they lose at home 1-2 MU). But I think they are too behind Liverpool (14 PTS), and that this year dream about becoming a champion has almost no chance.

Guardiola says that they will play with a full squad in Zagreb, just because this would be fair to Shakhtar&Atalanta, but I think this is just something that every coach would say in such a situation. I don't think anyone wants to risk the injury of a valuable player in a completely irrelevant game for the team. Considering that Dinamo lost only 0-2 in first game and that they need to win in this game, the motive is certainly on the hosts' side.

Yeah, this match is an important match not only for Zagreb but also for Atalanta and Shaktar Donetsk. but if indeed Guardiola downplayed the main players of Man City and it would be a difficult match to Zagreb. and if that happens I'm sure Atalanta will qualify for the next round

[coinlocket$]

Valverde said that with Inter his team can use some less relevant players...

This will make Dortmund very happy I guess...

This match Inter-Barca is a game for 40-50m €.