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

[DU18]

Juventus situation for the evening.

They have 4 strikers, 3 are injured 

Source: https://twitter.com/juventusfc/status/1443175833183662085

Juventus really have a very unfavorable situation right now, apart from their inconsistent performances earlier this season, Juventus also had to lose Alvaro Morata (hamstring) and Paulo Dybala (injury) in the match against Chelsea, whereas these two players were key Juventus players this season after the departure of ronaldo, the same fate too experienced by chelsea, kante (covid), Mason Mount (injury), Christian Pulisic (injury) and also Reece James (injury).
Even though both teams are in a limp condition, but the match will definitely run quite fiercely and I personally predict if chelsea will win in that match.

[CLS63]

Juventus - Chelsea is one of the nice games of the week seemingly. In my opinion, Chelsea are the favourite team in this game. Juventus have been struggling in general recently. They can barely win against even the weakest teams of the Serie A. And I don't think that there will be too much changing in this tough game against Chelsea. Maybe Chelsea lost to Manchester City by 1-0 last but I don't expect them to lose their game discipline here. They will be very eager to defeat Juventus even if they are going to play away. Therefore, I'm expecting Chelsea to win this game by at least one goal.

Taking into account that Dybala and Morata are injured and will miss the match with Chelsea, it can be assumed that Chelsea will at least play a clean draw. As I see from the odds, the bookmakers strongly doubt that Juventus will play at least a draw:
4,10 - 3,55 - 1,95
I wonder if the bookmakers will adjust the odds or is it already adjusted? Has anyone followed the history of odds changes in this pair?

Now I see the odds like:

Juventus : 3.75  Draw : 3.10  Chelsea : 2.18

Chelsea are still the favourite side of course. And I've just learned that Dybala and Morata both are injured and will not play in this game. This is a big loss for Juventus in their offensive line. I'm expecting them to have even bigger difficulties against Chelsea tonight. Chelsea will fight really hard for a win I believe but the probability of a draw is of course not low. Whatever happens, I'm pretty sure that Chelsea won't lose this game.

[Mahdirakib]

Well, our expectations doesn't always come out in football and this game has so many uncertainties about it. Both teams are really good, super good if you ask me. <snip> The odds might just be right, who knows...

My expectation wasn't wrong. PSG won the match by scoring two goals, where Messi scored his first goal in PSG kit. I had my bet on PSG at 3× odds and it was a winning one . The odds was proven wrong in several matches yesterday. Win of PSG wasn't surprising but the win of Sheriff against Real Madrid was unexpected.

Incredible! Sheriff have defeated Read Madrid away!
I actually had Sheriff to win on Superbru, too bad I didn't make an actual gamble on them since I spent a ton of money at other places. What a winning return that would've been.
Elsewhere - PSG beat City (I had that too), and LFC beat Porto (of course).

And how it would be when someone place a multi bet on these higher odds and win it! Someone placed a multi bet on LFC, PSG, Club Brugge and Sheriff win at Stake.com. And the outcome was like that

(BTW, this bet image is also posted by Stake representative in their ANN, see here.)

[panjul07]

Juventus situation for the evening.

They have 4 strikers, 3 are injured 

Source: https://twitter.com/juventusfc/status/1443175833183662085

Kean is the only available striker so I think Kean should maximize this opportunity to show that he is worth to be one of important players for Juventus.
If Kean is unable to do his job well, there is no other ways for Allegri except to rely on his midfielder such as Chiesa, Kulusevski, and Locatelli.
It is not good situation for Juventus obviously as they have to play without their main strikers against a team as caliber as Chelsea.

[abhiseshakana]

Tonight will be a great chance for Man U to take revenge for losing the Europa League final! And I think the Red Devils will take that chance at home! But to be honest, both clubs have been underperforming of late, so it's hard to decide a winner... It could be a draw!

Yes, Man United is not in good shape. 2 consecutive defeats against Aston Villa in the Premier League and West Ham in the Carabao Cup are proof that Man United's performance is dropping. The match against Villarreal will be tough because Man United will play without Harry Maguire who is currently injured, and Wan Bissaka who got a red card.

However, crowd behavior will be an advantage for Man United and I think Man United definitely doesn't want to lose 3 times in a row. If Man United can put pressure on Villarreal early on, then they will most likely win this game.

[Cnut237]

Man United is not in good shape.

I've said it a few times, but I'm not sure Ronaldo was a great signing. He will certainly add goals, but he's not the sort of player who is fully involved for 90 minutes. If you are wanting to be a top team, then you cannot afford any weaknesses. Man United had weaknesses, and signing Ronaldo won't reduce them. He adds to the team, but not in the right area.

[CryptocurencyKing]

Shakhtar and Inter drew 0-0 but both teams had their chances to score. Inter had couple of chances right at the end of the game. notably it's 3rd 0-0 draw between this teams in a row.

I have to say that Inter Milan were very average out there in terms of finishing off chances. They had many especial opportunities and they were very wasteful. One thing about this competition is that, you have to pick up your points because you don’t know your next results. the same time.  Shakhtar dominated possession, pushing all forward throughout the second half and had Skriniar made a miraculous block on Pedrinho from a yard. They’ve only gotten a point now from two games. They need to scale up because Sheriffs is on top and not looking like dropping points anytime soon.

[kayiboyu]

Tonight, Manchester United vs Villarreal match could be a really interesting one. Because these two teams played against each other in the Europa League final in the last season. And Villarreal were the side to win in the final game and reach the Europa League title. Now, we see these two teams are in the same group in the Champions League. What a coincidence! Manchester United are the outweighing side of course and I think that they will be victorious.

[ropyu1978]

Last night I just focused on watching my proud team Liverpool, last night Liverpool's fast game made all the loyal spectators very entertained, and last night we loyal fans celebrated a fantastic victory, because Liverpool were able to beat Porto with a score of 5-1, we will wait for the next game to face Atletico Madrid I'm sure Liverpool will be able to beat Atletico Madrid.

[OcTradism]

Yes, PSG played well. It needed patience to execute perfectly. Some of the  PSG players especially Donnarumma, Mbappe, Idrissa, Verratti were very superb in the game.

Veratti help PSG to escape the pressing pressure from Manchester City. He helped PSG did not totally lose control in midfield and Pep even has to say compliment to Veratti. That match help PSG to get more confidence to win Champions League in this season. Now they can begin match in Champions League with the strong belief that they can win top clubs in Europe.

Real Madrid - Sheriff match ended by a very shocking result. Real Madrid lost to their opponent by 2-1 home. This must be a very embarrassing loss for them as Sheriff are not even a hard opponent. Real Madrid actually dominated the match from the start to the end. But still Sheriff benefited from their few goal chances and somehow managed to win here. Their goalkeeper especially was great and had a big role in the win. And their second goal was also marvelous.

One of two goals frm Sheriff was scored by Yakhshibaev, a player from Asia, in Uzbekistan. Benzema scored an equalizer for Real Madrid but it is not enough for them to come back and get three points. The late goal from Sheriff makes the shock result.

About Yakhshibaev, he is a player from U23 Uzbekistan which won the U23 tournament years ago. He is the most successful player from that U23 squad. Uzbekistan is a strong national team in Asia. They have a player who plays for AS Roma in Serie A, Eldor Shomurodov

[CryptocurencyKing]

In fact I just heard this season about the Sheriff. I think Madrid can win easily, this is bad. Madrid made great possession of the ball but lost the scor. Madrid doesn't seem to have the creativity to damage the Sheriff's defense. With 3 shots on target Sheriff was able to make two goals, more effective than Madrid with 11 shots on target only 1 goal.

This match showed that Real Madrid's defense is much weaker this season. There is no much stronger team in LaLiga, so it is not clear how weak Real Madrid's defense is. Sheriff Tiraspol made just 4 shots, of which they scored 2 goals. The sheriff has attacked 62 times while Real Madrid has attacked 159 times. Then Madrid was defeated. They have to take steps to strengthen the defense from now on. Otherwise, they will not win any match in the next round.

Obviously the Defense is not really poor, but no club will lose their best center backs in one season. They Militao is a young defender and he’s improving well. Alaba is not a pure center back. Ancelotti is trying to give him a new role by introducing him at the center of the back. He will take time to master there, although he played there in Bayern sometime before his departure to Madrid. The last goal from Sheriff Tiraspol was a thunder strike. You don’t expect any Goalkeeper or a defender to have stopped that. Since Ancelotti came to Madrid, Casemiro has been very poor and I don’t know why. Maybe he has not been alone in the midfield without his suited duo of Modrić and Toni Kroos. It might take time for Ancelotti to integrate the new signings into the team.

[KTChampions]

Real Madrid 1 - 2 Sheriff
What?! I thought it was easy money, but this ending just kills.

the match that I think is one of the unexpected matches because I made a prediction that real madrid can win easily against this team but in fact my prediction was wrong.
even real madrid is not like real madrid usually and very bad in playing in this match.
on the other hand the sheriffs played quite impressively and even they were able to maximize the chances and mistakes made by the madrid defenders.
I really respect this team

I hope this small (and for a team like Real is big) series of failures will lead to the fact that in the next match the odds for the victory of Real will be unreasonably high and it will be possible to make a profitable bet (recently, such a situation was with Barcelona, when in a home match with an outsider the odds were 1.5 and it was really easy money).

[mrongoz_imut]

Tonight, Manchester United vs Villarreal match could be a really interesting one. Because these two teams played against each other in the Europa League final in the last season. And Villarreal were the side to win in the final game and reach the Europa League title. Now, we see these two teams are in the same group in the Champions League. What a coincidence! Manchester United are the outweighing side of course and I think that they will be victorious.

I also agree with you, although in last year's europa final Vilareal was defeated by Vilareal, but I am very sure that tonight's meeting manchester united is able to avenge them, and is able to bring home the three points, and I am also very sure that manchester united is able to step into the round big 16..

[Bilgent]

The game of the day seems like Juventus v Chelsea. It can be a boring or exciting game. But I would like an exciting one actually. Juventus seem weak now as Dybala and Morata are not going to be able to play in this game. They can have big problems as for scoring. If Chelsea manage to score first, I think that there is no way they will concede a goal from Juventus. Chelsea have one of the best defenses now. Juventus can't score a goal to them that easy. Chelsea can win this game.

[KingsDen]

As I've said many times Real Madrid have problems with their defence, the defeat against the Sheriff proved that the loss of Ramos and Varane was
very influential. Real Madrid need to sign good defenders in the next transfer window, if the attacking team has difficulty scoring goals, it will be
dangerous for Real Madrid. Especially against teams that play defensively and rely on counter-attack, Real Madrid often have difficulties. But I appreciate
the ability of the Sheriff's coach, in two games in the Champions League managed to win and keep the Sheriff top of group D. Hopefully Real Madrid's
defeat against Sheriff Tiraspol makes Carlo Ancelotti realize that Real Madrid need to buy a new defender.

Real Madrid does not have a failed defence. Infact if Marcelo, Alaba, Eder and Cavaja are all available and in good form nobody will say they are weak. Maybe the only problem is the attacking mindedness of Marcelo and Alaba.
So, let's face the reality. Real Madrid's loss does not show that they have a week defence, it should show that Sheriff has a good attack. Let us see if Sheriff can sustain their form because any club that wins Real Madrid in UCL is good enough to contend.

[Joca97]

The game of the day seems like Juventus v Chelsea. It can be a boring or exciting game. But I would like an exciting one actually. Juventus seem weak now as Dybala and Morata are not going to be able to play in this game. They can have big problems as for scoring. If Chelsea manage to score first, I think that there is no way they will concede a goal from Juventus. Chelsea have one of the best defenses now. Juventus can't score a goal to them that easy. Chelsea can win this game.

This game can really go either way in terms of goals.Favorite in this match for me is Chelsea because Juventus lately are in a bad form and are still looking to bounce back.They bounced back with a few wins but i think that still isnt enough to win against the current champions of Europe.

[$crypto$]

Tonight will be a great chance for Man U to take revenge for losing the Europa League final! And I think the Red Devils will take that chance at home! But to be honest, both clubs have been underperforming of late, so it's hard to decide a winner... It could be a draw!

Yes, Man United is not in good shape. 2 consecutive defeats against Aston Villa in the Premier League and West Ham in the Carabao Cup are proof that Man United's performance is dropping. The match against Villarreal will be tough because Man United will play without Harry Maguire who is currently injured, and Wan Bissaka who got a red card.

However, crowd behavior will be an advantage for Man United and I think Man United definitely doesn't want to lose 3 times in a row. If Man United can put pressure on Villarreal early on, then they will most likely win this game.

This should have been a pressure for Manchester United to go to Villareal from the start even though they were without Harry Maguire and several other players, but I'm sure this performance can go well as long as Ole Gunner really gives a good strategy.
Villareal was a tough opponent in the previous competition which made Manchester United lose and now the Red Devils have Ronaldo in it at least this can prove that he can raise players to win, and is no longer a losing streak.

[ziyaaa]

The game of the day seems like Juventus v Chelsea. It can be a boring or exciting game. But I would like an exciting one actually. Juventus seem weak now as Dybala and Morata are not going to be able to play in this game. They can have big problems as for scoring. If Chelsea manage to score first, I think that there is no way they will concede a goal from Juventus. Chelsea have one of the best defenses now. Juventus can't score a goal to them that easy. Chelsea can win this game.

This game can really go either way in terms of goals.Favorite in this match for me is Chelsea because Juventus lately are in a bad form and are still looking to bounce back.They bounced back with a few wins but i think that still isnt enough to win against the current champions of Europe.

I also don't have a very clear opinion about this match. But I think like Chelsea are a little closer to obtaining a nice victory. Juventus can have a tough time here even if I'm aware that they started winning in their league. They will be deprived of some of their important attacking players and this can make things difficult for them. I think that they will try to secure a draw in the worst case. Because they know that Chelsea are much stronger than them. I see a draw at the end of this match.

[Altryist]

Veratti help PSG to escape the pressing pressure from Manchester City. He helped PSG did not totally lose control in midfield and Pep even has to say compliment to Veratti. That match help PSG to get more confidence to win Champions League in this season. Now they can begin match in Champions League with the strong belief that they can win top clubs in Europe.

One match is not enough to draw such conclusions, but PSG definitely played very well. Besides Varetti, I would like to mention Donnaruma's excellent play. Attack City was as energetic as ever, but Donnaruma made a lot of saves. PSG is looking really good now.

One of two goals frm Sheriff was scored by Yakhshibaev, a player from Asia, in Uzbekistan. Benzema scored an equalizer for Real Madrid but it is not enough for them to come back and get three points. The late goal from Sheriff makes the shock result.

About Yakhshibaev, he is a player from U23 Uzbekistan which won the U23 tournament years ago. He is the most successful player from that U23 squad. Uzbekistan is a strong national team in Asia. They have a player who plays for AS Roma in Serie A, Eldor Shomurodov

The Sheriff never ceases to amaze me, I thought that Real would beat the Sheriff without any problems, but the Sheriff once again proves that they are in the Champions League group stage for a reason. The victory over Shakhtar could be called an accident, but a number of victories, including the victory over Real Madrid, can hardly be called an accident, this is a natural and well-deserved result.

[Yogee]

I felt like liquidated from the results last night hehe and I'm pretty sure it happened to a lot of people too. I completely got it wrong with PSG vs Man City but that's a lot tougher match to call than Real Madrid vs Sheriff at Santiago Bernabeu.

No choice but to move on and bounce back in the next games. Who else is thinking of a Bayern Munich and Man United parlay? Both teams will play at home.