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

[tyz]

I think ManCity and Bayern Munich got the easiest opponents. I expect a clear result in both matches and also no difficulties to get into the next round. For PSG against Real Madrid, I can't really decide. On the one hand, PSG should be the favorite, because the team is simply better overall, but PSG has not convinced the last few games while Real shows consistently good performance. The same goes for Inter against Liverpool. I see Liverpool slightly favored, but overall the game can go either way.

[CryptoBuds]

Sporting - Manchester City is another draw which is an interesting but an easy one for Manchester City. I said "interesting" because Sporting had a really good group stage. They had really strong teams like Ajax and Dortmund in their group, but their performance against Dortmund in both games helped them advance to this round. However, their next opponent is one of the favourites of the Champions League title now. In this situation, it really seems like they have no chance from now on. Manchester City would beat them in both legs and move on.

Sporting's performance on the group stage of the Champions League surprised everyone. Their performance was outstanding. But I still don't think the Sporting team is stronger than Manchester City. Manchester's squad is good, they are regular, and since their coach is Guardiola, their tactics are excellent. So I don't think Manchester City will draw against Sporting. My prediction is City will win by 1-0.

[Anguwa]

I think ManCity and Bayern Munich got the easiest opponents. I expect a clear result in both matches and also no difficulties to get into the next round. For PSG against Real Madrid, I can't really decide. On the one hand, PSG should be the favorite, because the team is simply better overall, but PSG has not convinced the last few games while Real shows consistently good performance. The same goes for Inter against Liverpool. I see Liverpool slightly favored, but overall the game can go either way.

Manchester city have the full assurance to secure a win because they far better than sporting CP, but this doesn't mean, it will be very easy for city to beat sporting, all I mean here is that Manchester city deserves the win.
PSG vs Real Madrid match looks very tedious and very difficult to predict, although many people believe PSG will win the match because of their quality players and team work, at the same time Real Madrid are also very consistent when it's comes to Champions League games, and Carlos Anceloti is very ready for the challenge, I predicted draw in the match.

[Ebede]

Lionel Messi will be facing old rivals Real Madrid for the 46th time but without wearing Barcelona's jersey for the very first time.
With their eyes set on the European trophy, they are aiming to win the thirteen times Champions League winner's.
Should the game end a draw or a possible win for the Parisians , I have tipped em as top favorite for the game.
Kylian Mbappe will be hoping to score once more after scoring a late assist from Messi against Rennes.

[dustboy]

Sporting - Manchester City is another draw which is an interesting but an easy one for Manchester City. I said "interesting" because Sporting had a really good group stage. They had really strong teams like Ajax and Dortmund in their group, but their performance against Dortmund in both games helped them advance to this round. However, their next opponent is one of the favourites of the Champions League title now. In this situation, it really seems like they have no chance from now on. Manchester City would beat them in both legs and move on.

Sporting's performance on the group stage of the Champions League surprised everyone. Their performance was outstanding. But I still don't think the Sporting team is stronger than Manchester City. Manchester's squad is good, they are regular, and since their coach is Guardiola, their tactics are excellent. So I don't think Manchester City will draw against Sporting. My prediction is City will win by 1-0.

Outstanding? With 3 wins and 3 losses, I cant say they were outstanding. They are better than Dortmund in scoring goals, that's why they are into the play-off round. Their defense is also not good during the group stage, conceded 12 goals in 6 games means 2 goals per match in average. I am sure Mancester City will be able to score more than 1 goal and maybe Sporting will also able to score one goal. I predict there will be a lot of goal in this match. 2-1 or 3-1 for Manchester City.

[herurist]

Sporting - Manchester City is another draw which is an interesting but an easy one for Manchester City. I said "interesting" because Sporting had a really good group stage. They had really strong teams like Ajax and Dortmund in their group, but their performance against Dortmund in both games helped them advance to this round. However, their next opponent is one of the favourites of the Champions League title now. In this situation, it really seems like they have no chance from now on. Manchester City would beat them in both legs and move on.

Sporting's performance on the group stage of the Champions League surprised everyone. Their performance was outstanding. But I still don't think the Sporting team is stronger than Manchester City. Manchester's squad is good, they are regular, and since their coach is Guardiola, their tactics are excellent. So I don't think Manchester City will draw against Sporting. My prediction is City will win by 1-0.

Their chances of moving on to the next phase are very small but not impossible.
Their opponents were quite good and one could say this might be a very different difference.
I feel if they want to qualify just relying on a draw in both legs and forcing a penalty shootout because indeed if they insist on attacking and playing openly of course this will only benefit the city.

[ShowOff]

Sporting's performance on the group stage of the Champions League surprised everyone. Their performance was outstanding. But I still don't think the Sporting team is stronger than Manchester City. Manchester's squad is good, they are regular, and since their coach is Guardiola, their tactics are excellent. So I don't think Manchester City will draw against Sporting. My prediction is City will win by 1-0.

I'm 100% not worried about Manchester City this season in the last 16 vs Sporting. Manchester City will fulfill its mission to win the game from Sporting "though it's not that easy".

I predict that Manchester City will win the game by more than 2 goals in the first leg vs Sporting. But a draw was not expected for this match because we both know that Manchester City have had a very impressive performance this season. It would be absurd if I had to think it was a draw, but anything is always possible.

[Ebede]

Pep Guardiola won't take this game for granted, as he wants to win this game with clean sheets as they did against Norwich.
Thsy haven't kept enough clean sheets in this Champions League campaign.
Although Sporting Lisbon are unde-dogs that will fight tirelessly for a win here... They have a good home record lossing just one in the last five Champions League game's at home.

[nurilham]

I am really waiting for the match tomorrow between PSG vs Real Madrid.
Although It may be harder for Real Madrid to defeat PSG,, they should play their best.,
But in this case, Maybe PSG has a higher chance. PSG has stronger attackers and seems all the attackers are in good condition to show their best. While in Real Madrid, although Benzema is ready to play after getting injured yesterday, I don't think he will play with 100% his best. With this situation, PSG should have a bigger chance to win and qualified for the next stage. Moreover, it is in PSG home. So, I predict PSG will win 3-1 tomorrow.

[Ebede]

I am really waiting for the match tomorrow between PSG vs real madrid.
Although It may be harder for Real Madrid to defeat PSG,, they should play their best.,
But in this case, Maybe PSG has higher chance.

They should be with Vinicius junior and without Karim benzema.
They failed to score in their last game and I'm not convinced they can still score here as well
Messi or Mbappe should score a goal in this game.
Sergio Ramos will be absent, an interesting game tomorrow.

[Newlifebtc]

I doubt of Manchester City can win comfortably tomorrow, they played very well during the week.
We saw Sterling scoring three goals in the game.
I have this feeling there will be a big loss tomorrow against them... prediction should be over two goals .

[AndySt]

I am really waiting for the match tomorrow between PSG vs Real Madrid. Although It may be harder for Real Madrid to defeat PSG,, they should play their best., But in this case, Maybe PSG has a higher chance. PSG has stronger attackers and seems all the attackers are in good condition to show their best. While in Real Madrid, although Benzema is ready to play after getting injured yesterday, I don't think he will play with 100% his best. With this situation, PSG should have a bigger chance to win and qualified for the next stage. Moreover, it is in PSG home. So, I predict PSG will win 3-1 tomorrow.

Quite a bold forecast Although I also believe that there is some advantage on the side of Paris Saint Germain, another question is how this advantage can be realized in practice. In any case, Paris Saint-Germain must be won at its home stadium in order to feel calmer before the second leg, or at least not to lose. By the way, Benzema's participation in the match is still in question and most likely a decision will be made immediately before the match based on the results of pre-match training. Benzema himself wants to take part in the match, but the decision will be made jointly with Ancelotti. By the way, there is information from GFFN with reference to L'Equipe that Pochettino can lead Real Madrid if Ancelotti does not fulfill the tasks for this season.

[Newlifebtc]

I am really waiting for the match tomorrow between PSG vs Real Madrid. Although It may be harder for Real Madrid to defeat PSG,, they should play their best., But in this case, Maybe PSG has a higher chance. PSG has stronger attackers and seems all the attackers are in good condition to show their best. While in Real Madrid, although Benzema is ready to play after getting injured yesterday, I don't think he will play with 100% his best. With this situation, PSG should have a bigger chance to win and qualified for the next stage. Moreover, it is in PSG home. So, I predict PSG will win 3-1 tomorrow.

Quite a bold forecast Although I also believe that there is some advantage on the side of Paris Saint Germain, another question is how this advantage can be realized in practice. In any case, Paris Saint-Germain must be won at its home stadium in order to feel calmer before the second leg, or at least not to lose.

I'm also bold enough to say the the league 1 giants will sure be the winner's of this game.
My prediction should be the host winning at home with two goals to one.
If Madrid fails to win here then there will be trouble for them in the second eg of this fixture.

[Coyster]

Manchester City would beat them in both legs and move on.

Absolutely correct, there isn't going to be any upset in this game, sorry to Sporting fans, but that's just what it is. City are way too fired up to mess things up in the round of 16, they got prolly the easiest draw amongst the big teams, so they just have to send a message to the other CL contenders that they mean business.

City are my clear favorites for the CL title this season, after losing to Chelsea last season, I'm pretty sure the boys from Etihad would want to take it one step better and finally win that title that has eluded them, they have all it takes to do that this season, and imo, the only team that could stand in their way is Bayern Munich.

[mv1986]

PSG is well prepared? I wouldn't say so. They really need to step up their game if they want to win against Real Madrid first. Last season PSG didn't really deserve to reach the next round against Bayern Munich to be honest. I think that Liverpool and Manchester City will be the strongest contenders for the CL title this season.

PSG should probably play a little better. But the situation in Real Madrid is not good yet. They don’t have them in their best form. They have had a lot of trouble scoring goals in the last few matches.
Bayern Munich have a good chance of winning the title. This team is strong in all respects. The bonds between the players on their team are excellent. Manchester City are the favorites every season but can't win the title. It looks like we'll see the same thing this season.

I agree that Real and PSG will be close race as they aren't the world class teams they could be.

Regarding Bayern Munich, I am not so sure about what you say here. They have demonstrated several times this season that they can have total blackouts. If there is just one blackout in the champions league in one leg, it's game over. To me it is very uncertain whether they can manage to deliver outstanding performances on a constant level. They couldn't do that in the Bundesliga, they couldn't in the DFB Cup, and we will see whether they can against stronger teams in the CL.

[blue Snow]

I doubt of Manchester City can win comfortably tomorrow, they played very well during the week.
We saw Sterling scoring three goals in the game.
I have this feeling there will be a big loss tomorrow against them... prediction should be over two goals.

The city is different from MU, when they won with many goals, they possibly will get lost or draw in the next game. the one factor to make them difficult is they have under pressing by the owner to get target as Champions League Trophy. If I can guess the match tonight is The City win with 2 goals. the bet 70% the city win, and only 10% for Sporting, the rest is a draw.

[bering]

Less than 24 hours again there will be big match between PSG vs Madrid seems both of teams in the good shape although Madrid match result yesterday only draw against Villareal but statistics showing Madrid had good records during met France teams on European competitions with 13 win and 1 lose however i so confused to predict which teams will be the winner of this match because they are strong teams and the favourite and for bets option probably i would like to pick over 2.5 goals because hoping they will playing attacking each other

[hahay]

Less than 24 hours again there will be big match between PSG vs Madrid seems both of teams in the good shape although Madrid match result yesterday only draw against Villareal but statistics showing Madrid had good records during met France teams on European competitions with 13 win and 1 lose however i so confused to predict which teams will be the winner of this match because they are strong teams and the favourite and for bets option probably i would like to pick over 2.5 goals because hoping they will playing attacking each other

Also, in terms of head to head we will get a good record for Real Madrid who can dominate the win and previously I was sure Real Madrid would win. But considering the recent results, I'm starting to have some doubts about Madrid's performance, which is basically their key players, mostly older players. This of course might be a bit of a weakness although indeed, there are many PSG players who are no longer young but with the good results obtained by PSG recently, it looks like PSG will take full advantage of their home factor in this first leg.

[Juggy777]

Less than 24 hours again there will be big match between PSG vs Madrid seems both of teams in the good shape although Madrid match result yesterday only draw against Villareal but statistics showing Madrid had good records during met France teams on European competitions with 13 win and 1 lose however i so confused to predict which teams will be the winner of this match because they are strong teams and the favourite and for bets option probably i would like to pick over 2.5 goals because hoping they will playing attacking each other

Also, in terms of head to head we will get a good record for Real Madrid who can dominate the win and previously I was sure Real Madrid would win. But considering the recent results, I'm starting to have some doubts about Madrid's performance, which is basically their key players, mostly older players. This of course might be a bit of a weakness although indeed, there are many PSG players who are no longer young but with the good results obtained by PSG recently, it looks like PSG will take full advantage of their home factor in this first leg.

@hahay in the draw Benzema was out injured so that was a big loss for Real Madrid as he’s a valuable player, and according to media reports he might just make it to the squad to face PSG.

Although my first impression was that these two sides would try and attack a lot, but now I feel that if Benzema doesn’t start then Real Madrid might have an defensive approach to this match, and this is just my personal intuition as I have seen Real Madrid depend on Benzema a lot in this season.

[asus09]

Sporting - Manchester City is another draw which is an interesting but an easy one for Manchester City. I said "interesting" because Sporting had a really good group stage. They had really strong teams like Ajax and Dortmund in their group, but their performance against Dortmund in both games helped them advance to this round. However, their next opponent is one of the favourites of the Champions League title now. In this situation, it really seems like they have no chance from now on. Manchester City would beat them in both legs and move on.

The chances of sporting victory are very slim, but sporting is able to provide resistance, because at the last meeting of the two teams in 2012, sporting only narrowly lost 3-2, many media predicted a 73% chance of winning Manchester city, while the prediction of sporting victory was only 10%, predicting a draw 17%, according to my prediction, Man City will win with a score of 2-0, in the first leg later. Even though playing at home to Sporting, I am optimistic that Man City will be able to win against Sporting.