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

[tbct_mt2]

Italy already locked down their nations. Serie A has been postponed till new announcements from Italy's President and FIGC. With the rising infected cases of SARS-Cov-2 in German and the Europe, I have a bad imagination that all leagues will be postponed soon, and not excludes the Champions League.

It is hard to solve such big stuff but health is the first priority in any case. Maybe after the second legs, Champions League will be delayed.

[FlamingFingers]

Leipzig Vs Tottenham Hotspur tonight,  what's your prediction as regards this match
Can Tottenham turn things around? I think if they play good tonight without conceeding much, I think an away goal might be in their favor
Out of the four English team in round 16 only Manchester City looking good to qualify for the next round

[Naida_BR]

Valencia - Atalanta game is going to be very interesting tonight.
I want to see how Valencia is going to react in the first game score 4-1.
Personally I don't think that Valencia is going to qualify. Atalanta is going to play full defensively and try not to concede any goal.

[casperBGD]

Valencia - Atalanta game is going to be very interesting tonight.
I want to see how Valencia is going to react in the first game score 4-1.
Personally I don't think that Valencia is going to qualify. Atalanta is going to play full defensively and try not to concede any goal.

i do not think that Atalanta will play defensively, or to be precise, i think that they cannot play like that, due to their team composition, it would be better for them to play offensively, but do think that Valencia has some chances to pass through, although they play on closed stadium they will try to pull it through, will not be easy, but it is ninety minutes and Cheryshev provided some hope with late goal in Bergamo, so 3:0 is enough to pass through

[Chikito]

Leipzig vs Tottenham Hotspur tonight,  what's your prediction as regards this match

Game statistic of team

RB Leipzig
Game: 25   
Win: 14   
Draw: 8   
Lose: 3
3rd on Bundesliga Classement

Tottenham Hotspur   
Game: 29   
Win: 11   
Draw: 8   
Lose: 10
8th on English premier.

RB Leipzig has the chance to be a winner because has good statistic and playing at home. at the same time, hotspur players were injured like Son and Kane. also, they have a bad stat on Liga. my score prediction is 1-2 for Leipzig

[tomahawk9]

my score prediction is 1-2 for Leipzig

Never underestimate Mourinho 

<...> Maybe after the second legs, Champions League will be delayed.

Actually, there are some rumours floating around saying that the CL could be suspended^[1].

We already have some games that will be played behind closed doors, (Barca vs Napoli, PSG vs Dortmund, Bayern vs Chelsea), the next logical step would be the competition to be suspended. I honestly don't know what i'm gonna do if everything starts getting suspended, i might actually lose it 

1. https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/10/uefa-considers-suspending-champions-league-europa-league-due-coronavirus-12374941/

[DeathAngel]

Tonight is possibly a night of the least interesting last 16 games -

Leipzig vs Spurs (1-0 1st leg)
Valencia vs Atalanta (1-4 1st leg)

Leipzig should do the business & Atalanta already have one foot in the 1/4 finals.

[casperBGD]

Tonight is possibly a night of the least interesting last 16 games -

Leipzig vs Spurs (1-0 1st leg)
Valencia vs Atalanta (1-4 1st leg)

Leipzig should do the business & Atalanta already have one foot in the 1/4 finals.

from my point of view, both pairs are far from resolved, and Spurs have good chances to pass through, while Valencia also has some chances, but i agree that chances are low, it would be a surprise to see them in QF

[ampere]

Tonight is possibly a night of the least interesting last 16 games -

Leipzig vs Spurs (1-0 1st leg)
Valencia vs Atalanta (1-4 1st leg)

Leipzig should do the business & Atalanta already have one foot in the 1/4 finals.

Tonight is one of those nights that you wonder exactly what is gonna go wrong

Leipzig vs spurs is a very open match with either teams still at 50/50 chances to qualify.
Where as Valencia has mountain to climb to go to the next round if they can score 3 unreplied goal.

I root for an atalanta and spurs qualifications tonight

[Coyster]

Leipzig vs spurs is a very open match with either teams still at 50/50 chances to qualify.

Leipzig has the upper hand Imo, definitely not 50/50 for me, they came to England and beat spurs, getting themselves a very important away goal, they have one foot in the quarter final, they just need to complete the job tonight.

I am not giving spurs any chance at all in this game, their recent performances has been far from impressive and I'm tipping Leipzig to win this second leg, completing a clean sweep, home and away. If this happens, Mou will come under real criticism, if he/spurs can't win a round of 16 game against Leipzig, then why did spurs sign him?

[tokeweed]

^  Yup definitely.  Leipzig is going thru.  Spurs got key players injured and aren't looking like they were last season and the couple one before that under Poch.

I think they'll need a couple transfer windows to get themselves fighting for some silverware again imho.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Looking forward to Liverpool vs Atletico tomorrow. Alisson is out injured but Henderson & Robertson come back in, I expect us to line up something like this -

4-3-3

Adrian

Trent
Gomez
VVD
Robertson

Fabinho
Henderson
Wijnaldum

Mane
Firmino
Salah



Really hope we do it, going to be tough but we’ve battered much better teams than Atletico.

[FanEagle]

There is no way Liverpool will let the same mistake happen again. I know premier league has been seen "not so great" recently because of top heavy fighting and so forth but the reality is it is still premier league and Liverpool just lost one game recently (weirdly) and that's it for the whole season there, they are one of the best teams in the whole world right now and even though the complacency has been getting bigger and bigger because they have been beating everyone, I am sure the last champions of the champions league who has one loss in premier league will not just give up and lose.

This is the same team that lost to Barcelona 3-0 last year and beat them 4-0 in return, so I doubt they will just go out there with "hmm we may lose this one" mindset and just give up, they will fight tooth and nail to get to next stage.

[tyKiwanuka]

Leipzig vs spurs is a very open match with either teams still at 50/50 chances to qualify.

You should grab all your money and place a bet on Tottenham to qualify then for odds of 6.80+. Looks like tremendous value

I am not giving spurs any chance at all in this game, (...)

You should grab all your money too and bet on Leipzig to qualify. Sure 17% in 90 minutes is very good

^  Yup definitely.  Leipzig is going thru.

That is the most likely scenario, yes. Nevertheless I think the to qualify as well as the ML odds are too low for Leipzig. While Tottenham surely is not looking very good at the moment, Leipzig didn't impress me in their last two showings as well. I will start with betting on Tottenham to qualify, maybe loading up more, when/if Leipzig manages to get to 1-0 and see what I can do inplay from there. Leipzig are no worldbeaters and they struggled a lot in their home games during group stage (2-1 Zenit, 2-2 Benfica, 0-2 Lyon). Tottenham definitely has a shot here - maybe Leipzig will crush them, but lets see.

[Ulven]

Leipzig Vs Tottenham Hotspur tonight,  what's your prediction as regards this match
Can Tottenham turn things around? I think if they play good tonight without conceeding much, I think an away goal might be in their favor
Out of the four English team in round 16 only Manchester City looking good to qualify for the next round

I do not think the city has officially qualified for the next round yet, Because Real Madrid has a coach who can bring down the city club. So the city must work hard as needed. We saw a match that Madrid fought in Classico!!!

As for the Tottenham match tonight, I don't think it will achieve a satisfactory result for the fans, sorry!!!

[panjul07]

^  Yup definitely.  Leipzig is going thru.  Spurs got key players injured and aren't looking like they were last season and the couple one before that under Poch.

I think they'll need a couple transfer windows to get themselves fighting for some silverware again imho.

Totenham is in very bad performance on their last several matches including in EPL. Some important players are still unable to play, what Mou can do on this 2nd leg and try to qualify for the next round ?
Mou is still Mou, although I cant say that he is not the "special one" anymore but I think he will try his best to bring Spurs to the next round.
I'll take the risk to bet on Spurs to win the match only (not betting them to qualify).

[Slow death]

today's games are too complicated to predict.

RB Leipzig - Tottenham

I am very undecided whether I bet for this game or not. RB Leipzig is at an advantage, but in the last two games they had two draws which could be a good if tottenham were a team that scores many goals, unfortunately it seems that the tottenham is going through a bad phase. I predict a draw for this game ( 1 - 1 )

CF Valencia - Atalanta

this is a game that if i place a bet i prefer to risk the option "both teams score". But I think Atalanta will win this game

Mou is still Mou, although I cant say that he is not the "special one" anymore but I think he will try his best to bring Spurs to the next round.

unfortunately he doesn't have much he can do, unless the RB Leipzig players decide to play very badly to the point of scoring own goal

I'll take the risk to bet on Spurs to win the match only (not betting them to qualify).

if you hit your bet:



 

[webtricks]

today's games are too complicated to predict.

RB Leipzig - Tottenham

I am very undecided whether I bet for this game or not. RB Leipzig is at an advantage, but in the last two games they had two draws which could be a good if tottenham were a team that scores many goals, unfortunately it seems that the tottenham is going through a bad phase. I predict a draw for this game ( 1 - 1 )

CF Valencia - Atalanta

this is a game that if i place a bet i prefer to risk the option "both teams score". But I think Atalanta will win this game

Strange predictions!

For the first game, Leipzig is clear winner for me. I agree that they had a tasteless draw against Wolfsburg but Timo was on the bench for 2/3rd of the game. We have to agree that he is the game changer for Leipzig, all their tactics revolve around him. And it's Champions League we are talking about! Leipzig won't leave any force to beat limbless Tottenham. I predict 3-0 win for RB.

Second game, I agree Atalanta is on beast mode. They have already scored 70 goals in league! Only Bayern Munich and PSG have scored more in top 5 leagues so far this season. But Valencia is unbeaten at home this season. No team has been able to beat them at home (not even Barcelona). It will be interesting match to see. Being a LaLiga admirer, I will be supporting Valencia for this fixture. Let's see if they can bridge the deficit of 3 goals or not.

[tomahawk9]

That is the most likely scenario, yes. Nevertheless I think the to qualify as well as the ML odds are too low for Leipzig. <...>

ML @1,54 isn't too shabby, a friend of mine added it to a multi with Valencia vs Atalanta - BTTS @1,50 (plus a La Liga game to make it a 3 fold).

About Spurs, a lot of people are expecting them to get KO'd but, I wouldn't rule them out just yet. Being 1-0 down isn't exactly a big advantage for Leipzig, Spurs could get lucky and get a penalty just like Leipzig did in the 1st leg, and all of sudden, we're back to square one since aggregate score would be 1-1. From there anything can happen...

[tyKiwanuka]

ML @1,54 isn't too shabby, (...)

I do think so, but I can understand, if/why people think different. Just not a fan of betting on a team that does not need to win. Will be interesting to see, which approach Tottenham will have. I would expect them to sit back for like 75 minutes, to not give Leipzig (and especially Werner) any space. They have 90 minutes to make that one goal. A goal for Leipzig wouldn't be that bad for the Spurs, but knowing Mourinho, he will not take any risks.
That is why I like the under 2.5 too. Leipzig doesn't have to score a goal and Tottenham doesn't have/want to open up for a long time, so I think we will see a boring game deep into the second half, where both team neutralize each other in midfield.