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

[hd49728]

Atalanta vs Valencia - The surprise package for this season, I expect Atalanta is surprise Valencia and proceed on to the next round

Your predictions mostly match with mine, except for the match between Atalanta and Valencia. Atalanta has very successfully performed in their first season in Champions League (after their another most surprising ending at the 4th position in the Serie A last season). Nevertheless, Valencia is a big club and has lots of experience in Champions League as well as Europa League, the top leagues in the Europe, I meant. They will know how to set up traps and beat Atalanta. Another disadvantage of Atalanta is their limited player resources that will do affect their general performance in some most important period of this season (injuries, exhausted physiscal fitness, and so on).

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[Naida_BR]

Atalanta vs Valencia - The surprise package for this season, I expect Atalanta is surprise Valencia and proceed on to the next round

Your predictions mostly match with mine, except for the match between Atalanta and Valencia. Atalanta has very successfully performed in their first season in Champions League (after their another most surprising ending at the 4th position in the Serie A last season). Nevertheless, Valencia is a big club and has lots of experience in Champions League as well as Europa League, the top leagues in the Europe, I meant. They will know how to set up traps and beat Atalanta. Another disadvantage of Atalanta is their limited player resources that will do affect their general performance in some most important period of this season (injuries, exhausted physiscal fitness, and so on).

I don't think that Atalanta is going to proceed more in the tournament.
They have made an amazing performance so far but know out games require experience and Valencia has more of that.

[TopT3ns]

Today Flamengo will play in FIFA CLUB  WORLD CUP against Al Hilal, is there no promo gues scorrect score like last time 

[hd49728]

I don't think that Atalanta is going to proceed more in the tournament.
They have made an amazing performance so far but know out games require experience and Valencia has more of that.

They might win but the odds is very low. Everything can happen in sports. Valencia is stronger certainly but they are not too strong to 100% win over Atalanta. All teams can be beaten by the other weaker teams. Like last season, no one thought Tottenham could beat Manchester City. There is odds for that but I bet on Valencia.

[Lucas*]

Many big games in Champions League Draw will be played, Liverpool the winner of the last title of the UCL will face a Atletico Madrid in a hard game. Also Bayern Munich will face Chelsea with an advantage for Bayern due to the youngest team of Chelsea and they don't have experience for those games, and another big game Manchester City will face Real Madrid, in this game we can't predict who will be the winner, both teams are volatile in their games. PSG will face Dortmund in one of the best games, both teams have one of the best attacks in Champions League, it will be an exciting game.

[Daniel91]

Atalanta vs Valencia - The surprise package for this season, I expect Atalanta is surprise Valencia and proceed on to the next round

Your predictions mostly match with mine, except for the match between Atalanta and Valencia. Atalanta has very successfully performed in their first season in Champions League (after their another most surprising ending at the 4th position in the Serie A last season). Nevertheless, Valencia is a big club and has lots of experience in Champions League as well as Europa League, the top leagues in the Europe, I meant. They will know how to set up traps and beat Atalanta. Another disadvantage of Atalanta is their limited player resources that will do affect their general performance in some most important period of this season (injuries, exhausted physiscal fitness, and so on).

I don't think that Atalanta is going to proceed more in the tournament.
They have made an amazing performance so far but know out games require experience and Valencia has more of that.

It's true that Atalanta playing for the first time in CL and don't have experience but they already learned a lot this season in CL.
They lost first 3 matches in the group but passed their group as second.
They showed quality and stability already and they never give up.
I'm sure that they will be motivated a lot in the match against Valencia so I think that they have 40-45% chances to win.

[swogerino]

Inspired by @LTU_btc, here are my predictions

Dortmund vs PSG - PSG is still red-hot... A combination of Mbappe, Neymer, Cavani are just going to tear Dortmund's defense into shreds

Real Madrid vs Manchester City - 50/50 draw. I will give it to Real Madrid. City are far from their best form they showed last season unless they turn things around before Feb

Atalanta vs Valencia - The surprise package for this season, I expect Atalanta is surprise Valencia and proceed on to the next round.

Atletico vs Liverpool - I think the defending champions will go past Atletico who are far from convincing this season. They barely score more than 2 goals and won't be a match for high scoring Liverpool

Chelsea vs Bayern - Bayern Munich will eliminate Chelsea especially if they come out on the day they want to score 4 goals plus

Lyon vs Juventus - Juventus will go through. More Champion's League goal scoring records awaiting Ronaldo in both Rounds

Tottenham vs Leipzig - Given that Mourinho is now in charge, Spurs will go further.

Napoli vs Barcelona - Barcelona will go through, Messi will inspire them. Ancelotti would have had a chance maybe if he was still the manager since he is very experienced in the Champion's league.

This is a good selection and I am tempted already to place a bet for who will qualify based on these predictions.I think they will be the teams moving forward but I am also a bit skeptic about this Champions League stage going on without surprises.Most probably there will be at least a surprise result and I think this one will be Leipzig going further.

[Coyster]

I can't remember the last time we saw this calibre of games in the uefa champions league round of 16, every match is indeed a must watch and only few games can actually be predicted, that's if there is any.

All the English teams face tough opponents, I see people writing off Leipzig against spurs, but they are a very decent team and if spurs are to progress against them, they must be at their best.
City vs Real is my match of the round of 16, City should win, but madrids experience in the UCL could prove decisive, pep needs to win this, he can't afford to fail in the UCL this season again, and at least not this early(round of 16)

[cryptofrka]

Also really happy with LFC drawing Atletico, over 2 games we are clear favorites. Atletico was a great defensive team with a huge threat going forward, now it is just a good defensive team already tired of Simeone and his gameplan.
They will be hard to break down but we will break them down and when we do, the tie is over.

[akmal1984]

When do we have the round 16 table? I'm super excited. I think Liverpool is an early favorite. Strong performance and is also proving it in EPL.

Not too strong either, the proof they lost at home to Napoli. And only draw at home. This shows that in the Champions League it is really difficult to guess and competition is far stronger than domestic competition. Liverpool are a strong team this season, but the Champions League is not the English league.

[EdenHazard]

Chelsea vs Bayern - I like to watch Lampard's Chelsea, but they aren't ready to eliminate Bayern yet

Everyone underestimate Chelsea under Lampard as not ready, one thing you should know that everytime you got underestimated.... there's a bigger motivation to prove that everyone wrong , this is football though. 
A team with odds @5000 won the premier league in 2015-2016, leicester city.
A team with odds @50 to win UCL in 2012 , chelsea they did it underestimatedly.

What else could possibly turn unexpected?

Leipzig to win UCL? Why not?
This is the underdogs year!

[watergold]

When do we have the round 16 table? I'm super excited. I think Liverpool is an early favorite. Strong performance and is also proving it in EPL.

Not too strong either, the proof they lost at home to Napoli. And only draw at home. This shows that in the Champions League it is really difficult to guess and competition is far stronger than domestic competition. Liverpool are a strong team this season, but the Champions League is not the English league.

In the champions league there are many things that change, for example in the domestic league, only I am not strong, but when I play at UCL, their ability is out and able to subvert other big European teams, so it is indeed difficult to guess especially in the form of victory.
See later Liverpool game will the game draw or lose we can see the proof later.

[Ulven]

Not too concerned about Liverpool’s CL draw. Atletico were a great team 3 or 4 years ago but not now, Griezmann & Godin left, they’re not doing that well in La Liga.

Jurgen’s red machine will roll on into the 1/4 final again.

Real vs City will be an interesting two games.

Atlético definitely lost the services of griezmann and godin, Despite that he plays a beautiful football. And I think qualifying for this match will be through a penalty shootout.

Of course, the Real match will be fun, We have two months enough for the wounded to recover and for the soul to return to the team. This will put Real Madrid in competitive roles.

[tokeweed]

Chelsea vs Bayern - I like to watch Lampard's Chelsea, but they aren't ready to eliminate Bayern yet

Everyone underestimate Chelsea under Lampard as not ready, one thing you should know that everytime you got underestimated.... there's a bigger motivation to prove that everyone wrong , this is football though. 
A team with odds @5000 won the premier league in 2015-2016, leicester city.
A team with odds @50 to win UCL in 2012 , chelsea they did it underestimatedly.

What else could possibly turn unexpected?

Leipzig to win UCL? Why not?
This is the underdogs year!

And everybody prolly forgot the history between these two in the CL.  Remember when (and where) they faced each other during the 2011/12 final?  Lololol.

[Naida_BR]

Atalanta vs Valencia - The surprise package for this season, I expect Atalanta is surprise Valencia and proceed on to the next round

Your predictions mostly match with mine, except for the match between Atalanta and Valencia. Atalanta has very successfully performed in their first season in Champions League (after their another most surprising ending at the 4th position in the Serie A last season). Nevertheless, Valencia is a big club and has lots of experience in Champions League as well as Europa League, the top leagues in the Europe, I meant. They will know how to set up traps and beat Atalanta. Another disadvantage of Atalanta is their limited player resources that will do affect their general performance in some most important period of this season (injuries, exhausted physiscal fitness, and so on).

I don't think that Atalanta is going to proceed more in the tournament.
They have made an amazing performance so far but know out games require experience and Valencia has more of that.

It's true that Atalanta playing for the first time in CL and don't have experience but they already learned a lot this season in CL.
They lost first 3 matches in the group but passed their group as second.
They showed quality and stability already and they never give up.
I'm sure that they will be motivated a lot in the match against Valencia so I think that they have 40-45% chances to win.

Yep, they have around 40% chances or less.
They are knockout games and many are going to say that in knockouts everything is possible to happen, but in my opinion these games need experienced players that can handle difficult situations such as those when the team is behind in the score.

[JeromeTash]

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The reason i picked Atalanta is because they are the underdogs of the round just in case Valencia try to underestimate them 
Underdogs sometimes love pulling some surprises. If i recall very well Atalanta gave Juventus very hard time in their recent match in Seria A. Anyway, in Football, anything can happen.

[EdenHazard]

Chelsea vs Bayern - I like to watch Lampard's Chelsea, but they aren't ready to eliminate Bayern yet

Everyone underestimate Chelsea under Lampard as not ready, one thing you should know that everytime you got underestimated.... there's a bigger motivation to prove that everyone wrong , this is football though. 
A team with odds @5000 won the premier league in 2015-2016, leicester city.
A team with odds @50 to win UCL in 2012 , chelsea they did it underestimatedly.

What else could possibly turn unexpected?

Leipzig to win UCL? Why not?
This is the underdogs year!

And everybody prolly forgot the history between these two in the CL.  Remember when (and where) they faced each other during the 2011/12 final?  Lololol.

69 days to go till this match and so far the bookies set chelsea @3.8 to win at Stamford Bridge... damn this crazy good odds to bet now! while Bayern munich @2.1 , the risk is worth taking.
Besides the history says it all , look at both situations ... chelsea and Bayern munich both in not good form , Bayern munich rarely to lost 2 games in a row in Bundesliga and they even fall down to 5th position by now.
Chelsea also lost 2 games in a row in epl , nearly approached the second place they slipped to lost 9 points in 4 games.

[Furious 7]

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The reason i picked Atalanta is because they are the underdogs of the round just in case Valencia try to underestimate them 
Underdogs sometimes love pulling some surprises. If i recall very well Atalanta gave Juventus very hard time in their recent match in Seria A. Anyway, in Football, anything can happen.

In the champions league everything can happen Atalanta is not the best club in Serie A league but when in the champions league the appearance is definitely different and will be more impressive because this is a prestigious battle so Atalanta will put out strength in his team squad.
And Valencia is a balanced opponent with Atalanta so this game will be so interesting.

[coinlocket$]

In the champions league everything can happen Atalanta is not the best club in Serie A

In not the best but they are one of the best.

They are on the second spot for points from January to December 2019.




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[snipie]

In the champions league everything can happen Atalanta is not the best club in Serie A

In not the best but they are one of the best.

They are on the second spot for points from January to December 2019.

Facing Valencia is one of the best pick someone could get in this league! comparing to Liverpool vs ATM or Real vs Man City or even Bayern vs Chelsea... those are the best games by far, anything can happen!