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

[CryptoBuds]

The first match of Atletico Madrid vs Liverpool was competitive. But today's match is completely one-sided. I can see the reign of Liverpool from the beginning of the match. Atletico Madrid can not made any chance to attack. Atletico Madrid's gameplay has slowed down after Felipe was sent off. To get back on the truck they must attack, although it has the potential to concede more goals. But without counter-attacks, it is not possible to win or draw against a strong team like Liverpool.

[watergold]

The first match of Atletico Madrid vs Liverpool was competitive. But today's match is completely one-sided. I can see the reign of Liverpool from the beginning of the match. Atletico Madrid can not made any chance to attack. Atletico Madrid's gameplay has slowed down after Felipe was sent off. To get back on the truck they must attack, although it has the potential to concede more goals. But without counter-attacks, it is not possible to win or draw against a strong team like Liverpool.

athletico seems to have lost its way in the current game. and they must focus on defending so as not to enter more goals and this result will certainly make Liverpool firmly at the top of the standings.
On the other hand, this is already a win for Liverpool because it will be difficult for Atletico to catch up with a two-goal margin under these conditions.
because 11 v 10 is definitely a hard thing to win

[waelov]

Still, Shakhtar looked even better than Real at times, especially in the first half... By the way, today they scored their first goal in this Champions League!
Milan were also lucky that the ball bounced off a Porto player... Milan looked much worse today than when they played at home against Roma...

But in the end, Real Madrid was able to beat Shakthar back with the final score of 2-1 and it was still a good win and Shakthar sank further by one point, just waiting for the result of Sherrif vs Inter Milan this will be very tense and Inter Milan will definitely dominate the game this. Hopefully, Inter Milan wins with Sherrif.

When Real Madrid scores the ball, it feels for a moment that it is a second-class club, the transformations that Shakhtar makes by placing a player in every channel on the field to show disasters and double the poor organization. The last point. they stands in front of him with a naïve defense and a very traditional defensive midfielder.
Therefore, in front of the big teams, we will see Ancelotti relying on low defense and relying heavily on transformations because opening the field to high-quality players would be a scandal in terms of the outcome.

[ShowOff]

It looks like Milan is fully focused on Serie A as it has not won a single game yet in the Champions League group stages.It is most probably already out of any International competition during this year as it will be eliminated most likely in Champions League and its focus will be only Serie A this year.However the biggest obstacle they face this weekend in the local derby,if they win it most probably they are going to be crowned as Serie A Champions.It is a shame to see a name like Milan which has won several times the Champions league perform so badly this year.

They've been trying to get point in every match, but they haven't done well. AC Milan's strength seem to just disappear in the Champions League despite having never lost in Serie A so far. Now they will only focus on Serie A because there is no hope of qualifying even for the Europa League.

[CryptoBuds]

The first match of Atletico Madrid vs Liverpool was competitive. But today's match is completely one-sided. I can see the reign of Liverpool from the beginning of the match. Atletico Madrid can not made any chance to attack. Atletico Madrid's gameplay has slowed down after Felipe was sent off. To get back on the truck they must attack, although it has the potential to concede more goals. But without counter-attacks, it is not possible to win or draw against a strong team like Liverpool.

athletico seems to have lost its way in the current game. and they must focus on defending so as not to enter more goals and this result will certainly make Liverpool firmly at the top of the standings.
On the other hand, this is already a win for Liverpool because it will be difficult for Atletico to catch up with a two-goal margin under these conditions.
because 11 v 10 is definitely a hard thing to win

A boring and one-sided match we enjoyed. Liverpool controlled the entire game. Ball possession Liverpool 73% and Atletico Madrid only 27%. Moreover, Atletico Madrid could not make any goodattack. They made 3 shots in total. None of these were on target shots. We don't expect such poor gameplay from Atletico Madrid. If Griezmann had been in the squad, the gameplay at Atletico Madrid would have been more controlled. Griezmann scored two goals in the previous match against Liverpool.

[Minor Miner]

Georginio Wijnaldum's two goals in the first half gave PSG a 2-1 lead. Messi is not in the squad today due to injury. My expectation was that Neymar would play well today. Because he has not done so well so far this season. His performance in today's match is not satisfactory. However, the second half looks set to be even more competitive. Leipzig is playing very attacking. I think they will score in the second half too.

PSG is winning the match 2-1. But I didn't like the way they played. RB Leipzig are playing very well and they do not deserve defeat. Leipzig is ahead of PSG in ball possession. Moreover they have tried to attack more than PSG. Although I would not say that the attacks were very good. However, they made 16 shots, while PSG made only 7. The match was competitive. However, we did not see any good gameplay today from the 3 players of PSG's Forward, Neymar-Mbappe-Di Maria.

[LTU_btc]

Borussia 1:3 Ajax. Dortmund weren't able to keep positive result till the end and Ajax take deserved win. I would say that red card and penalty even with VAR review was questionable and it had big impact to the game.
Liverpool simply outplayed Atletico again and they already won group of death.
Seems that Sheriff dream come to an end. But they still have very good chance to go to Europa league playoffs.
Didn't watched Leipzig - PSG game, but can't say that I'm very suprised about result. PSG don't look impressive at all.
City and Sporting big wins is something more or less expected.

[KTChampions]

The last call for Milan Today, they have only 1 result and it needs to be a win.
-snip-

Milan: sir yes sir!
Milan after 6 minutes: 0 - 1 Porto
Odds for Milan are right now @4.1 and for Porto @1.85, seems promising!
Generally a team that score fast will accept goals later so might Milan score or Ibra save them? Or just neglect CL and focus on Serie A..

So, Milan still scored his first point  a little late, but the funniest thing is that in certain options Milan can even get into the playoff stage. I am inclined to assume that in the next round Atletico will beat them and this is where Milan's torment ends. Even if they get into the Europa League, they will most likely play there with a reserve lineup, since in Serie A they are doing super well.

[Trofo]

Borussia 1:3 Ajax. Dortmund weren't able to keep positive result till the end and Ajax take deserved win. I would say that red card and penalty even with VAR review was questionable and it had big impact to the game.
Liverpool simply outplayed Atletico again and they already won group of death.
Seems that Sheriff dream come to an end. But they still have very good chance to go to Europa league playoffs.
Didn't watched Leipzig - PSG game, but can't say that I'm very suprised about result. PSG don't look impressive at all.
City and Sporting big wins is something more or less expected.

I watched multicast so I saw bits of all games. Ajax was my favorite from the start and I expected them to break Dortmund even sooner. It was a harsh red card for Hummels and maybe a weak penalty for Dortmund. Yes they can both stand but I am quite sure that some other ref would not award them.

Besiktas was missing lots of players and Sporting had easy job tonight. PSG - Leipzig was a great game and it could have ended as win for either of them. Maybe it is most fair that they took one point each. Brugge was very good before City broke them in last 20 minutes. I have a feeling they will take some more points in this group.

[Silberman]

Firstly, I am not sure that Pep Guardiola would have returned to Barcelona in its current state. Guardiola is already used to working with clubs that have high ambitions and these ambitions are backed up by a good financial condition. With all due respect, the current Barcelona, with all its problems, hardly fits this definition. Barcelona now needs an anti-crisis manager in the current difficult conditions and Guardiola does not have serious experience working in such conditions without any guarantee of a successful outcome. The club's management is also unlikely to bring such guarantees, so there is hope for the arrival of Xavi. Another question is that Javi does not have such experience either and there is a serious chance to ruin his coaching career. Therefore, many questions remain.

I don't think any coach can help Barcelona at the moment.
Barcelona is in a big financial and organizational crisis and needs urgent changes, and financial help from a new sponsor.
This is not something the coach can handle but the club management.
Barcelona must give up its big ambitions and focus for the next few years on saving the club financially and preventing the club's bankruptcy.
If the club's management asks the new coach for results, while the club is currently in chaos, this will not be possible and any coach will simply burn out in these impossible circumstances, including Xavi.
The current reality of Barcelona is that this season they are far from titles in both the Spanish Championship and the Champions League, and the club's management will have to understand this as soon as possible and dedicate themselves to saving the club and the future of the club.

Barcelona is in a very difficult situation, not only this is about the money, even if they sold all their good players for a good price if the results begin to be incredibly poor then they are going to lose the international fans and they will be left only with the local fans which are not going to be enough for them to rebuild their team and finances, so they need to somehow raise their income substantially while also keeping the costs low while not suffering as much on the field, something incredibly difficult to do.

[Yogee]

... To get back on the truck they must attack, although it has the potential to concede more goals. But without counter-attacks, it is not possible to win or draw against a strong team like Liverpool.

The manager must have realized there's no chance to level or score a goal so he decided to minimize the damage. It was a smart choice since they are still in a position to finish second. Goal difference could be the difference come matchday 6.

Next match will be against Milan while Porto to face Liverpool.

[blackened515]

Ajax played an awesome match against Dormund. From losing in the first half, to winning the match full time. They made a massive come back in the second half and probably scored 3 goals, which enabled them to achieve 3 points against Dormund in an away match. Although, Dormund had a red card in the first half, and also Haaland didn't play the match, this made the match more tough for Dormund to win. And they ended up losing with 1-3 score.
A great winning from Liverpool, I never expected them to win with clean sheet, I literally thought, Atletico Madrid will score, but Liverpool performance was indeed impressive. While Atletico Madrid ended the match will 0 shot on target, very surprising.

[coinlocket$]

Milan is almost out to have a small chance they need to beat Atletico with 2 goals of advantage and hope for a bad result of Atletico with Porto.
Inter recovered from the bad start of the group stage and now they just need some draws to get the access to the final stage.

Borussia is also in a delicate spot.

[Ratash]

The last call for Milan Today, they have only 1 result and it needs to be a win.

The leaderboard is the following.

Liverpool 9
Atletico 4
Porto 4
Milan 0

The game is the only one that will start at 18.45 CET.

It seems that milan did not take advantage of the win of liverpool today against atletico and they only managed to take one point after being behind in the first half which was a disaster with 8 goal attempts for porto and only 2 for milan but the second half was better they managed to equalize but it was not enough and their chances are really slim they need to win their last two games and wait for the other results.

[BALIK]

Despite having so many star players in the squad, the PSG team does not seem strong. Their performance is still weak. Despite having skilled strikers like Neymar Mbappe and Di Maria, they cannot play well. If Messi was not injured, maybe PSG could have attacked something better today. However, I am completely disappointed with Neymar's performance. We haven't seen a better performance from Neymar this season. Neymar should be more diligent. He has played very well in the Brazil team this year but so far he has not been successful in the PSG squad.

[LGD2Business]

Dortmund scored from the penalty while they were one man down, but they couldn't escape the defeat with goals in last minutes. After this result Ajax guaranteed to complete the group as the leader, 4 wins in 4 games.
Sporting CP played a comfortable match at home. A cheap penalty changed the course of the game, and the tide changed as a head-to-head match was played. Although Palhinha committed three yellow card fouls, he finished the match without receiving a card. Josef de Souza's red card was the wrong decision. Sergei Karasev managed a very bad match.

[nikola22]

Inter have finally broken the dead lock, all I need is for them to secure the win and PSG to win as well...

Ajax are playing their worse game of the season in the UCL so far this season, I would have fancied them to cause an upset tonight, but it looks as though that wouldn't happen, despite having a man advantage over Dortmund, but Dortmund are doing a great job, being very disciplined at the back.

it was just the matter of time when Inter scores the first goal. the luck for Sheriff is over and now group D looks as it should be: 1st spot Real Madrid and 2nd Inter. I think the teams finish the stage on these positions.

[D-law]

Ronaldo just scored the second goal in extra time.

2-2 between Atalanta and United, gonna be hard for Atalanta now qualifying for the final stage.

Yep end of the match goals that might still keep Ole at Man United. Ronaldo is back to being a star. He scored two goals, the result was quite good. Today all the Man United players seem to be working so hard. If looking at the shot statistics they have the same number of shots on goal.

Ronaldo has proven to be a star. 2 goals against Atlanta to end the game in a 2:2 draw despite the pressure. Manchester united fans would be a bit relieved with the performance even though it's not the best but it's better than what it used to be. Manchester is ready for the championships league kudos to Ronaldo for the great salvage to night. Atlanta needed a straight win while a draw was enough for united and they got it.

Shit...... Gaddamit.
You shouldn't have said that about Ronaldo,I guess you're new to football for saying that.
Manchester expected a win although but things didn't go as planned at times.
Manchester United has never lost in Italy or an Italian side in Italy, I knew from the start we'll get a point out if this game.
Duvan Zapata was brilliant you know,too much energy he's got..... Ronaldo will always remain the best in the world.

[AndySt]

Ajax played an awesome match against Dormund. From losing in the first half, to winning the match full time. They made a massive come back in the second half and probably scored 3 goals, which enabled them to achieve 3 points against Dormund in an away match. Although, Dormund had a red card in the first half, and also Haaland didn't play the match, this made the match more tough for Dormund to win. And they ended up losing with 1-3 score.
A great winning from Liverpool, I never expected them to win with clean sheet, I literally thought, Atletico Madrid will score, but Liverpool performance was indeed impressive. While Atletico Madrid ended the match will 0 shot on target, very surprising.

Ajax and Liverpool also secured their way out of the group in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League with their victories. Hummels' removal caused a lot of questions, considering that Antony himself stepped on Hummels' foot. Therefore, this fact may slightly explain the comeback that Ajax made. Atletico Madrid failed to score a single point in the matches with Liverpool, which looks quite surprising and has already complicated Atletico's struggle to get into the next stage of the Champions League and allowed Porto to reach second place in the group. Also, Milan still had chances to continue the fight, but still the draw with Porto greatly reduced these chances.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

Despite having so many star players in the squad, the PSG team does not seem strong. Their performance is still weak. Despite having skilled strikers like Neymar Mbappe and Di Maria, they cannot play well.

They have not too good form from Ligue 1 to Champions League and their wins are not too convincing like in the past. They have more troubles in Ligue 1 in the last and current seasons. Are their players distracted too much to Champions League and lack of ambition to win more Ligue 1?

In Champions League, they did not play as well as expected after some good transfers.

If Messi was not injured, maybe PSG could have attacked something better today. However, I am completely disappointed with Neymar's performance. We haven't seen a better performance from Neymar this season. Neymar should be more diligent. He has played very well in the Brazil team this year but so far he has not been successful in the PSG squad.

I don't expect much from Messi because he does not really adapt to his new players and vice versa. About Neymar, he was unprofessional during the holidays after Coppa America and when he came back in PSG, his body has too much fat that is not good. This bad form of his body affects his performance so far.

Dortmund scored from the penalty while they were one man down, but they couldn't escape the defeat with goals in last minutes. After this result Ajax guaranteed to complete the group as the leader, 4 wins in 4 games.

Impressive Ajax! Will they return to be a big surprise in Champions League as 4 or 5 seasons ago with De Ligt, De Jong, Ziraych? This club from Netherlands are always good with young blood.