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[leea-1334]

My luck ran out, I thought I was doing well but 2nd half of this playoff did not do much for me,,, so I slipped down one position.

I should not complain however,,, the idea was not to take any more penalties.

How you guys at the top manage to get no penalties and stay strong is amazing enough, now you have to risk a little bit and try to gain big advantage

Initially it is luck - in the first few rounds we all aim for something at least a bit risky. If those hit and you're well positioned, you just play a bit more carefully.
In this instance I went with 6 unders - I expected close games and the odds did not reflect that. So far I won 1 and lost 2, not the best idea in retrospective but at least I avoided penalty once again.

Very strange too, I went for No Goals option thinking in the same stream as you, that in these type of rounds,,, you must be having half of them very careful and close games, but nothing like this happened!

[Trofo]

OK, the Bodo damage isn't that terrible to my ranking.
Both buwaytress and mia have hazardous picks for today as well, so I hopefully return back to the top.

How you guys at the top manage to get no penalties and stay strong is amazing enough, now you have to risk a little bit and try to gain big advantage

Initially it is luck - in the first few rounds we all aim for something at least a bit risky. If those hit and you're well positioned, you just play a bit more carefully.
In this instance I went with 6 unders - I expected close games and the odds did not reflect that. So far I won 1 and lost 2, not the best idea in retrospective but at least I avoided penalty once again.

That is my mission now, avoiding penalties. Every round I place 4 points in risky choices and 2 points in what I consider sure things. Idea is to finish without penalties and hope they will drag all the people in front of me down until I enter into the money Top positions are out of my reach but maybe 6th place isn't that far.

[LTU_btc]

The same red card that saw them obliterated in the first leg, I'm not watching really, but I'm very curious to understand if it's Juventus playing very well or it's just Galatasaray being an awful team today, because I don't understand how difficult it can be to hold your lines having 2 goals advantage and an extra man advantage as well if you were able to score 5 goals against the same opponent just about a week ago.

I also didn't fully understood what happened in this pair. I didn't watched this game in full, switched only after Juve scored 2nd goal. And it didn't looked that Juventus is with 1 man down at all. But in extra time it was already a bit different story. When you play 120, not 90 it already makes difference. Well, at least they were fighting till the end, not like Inter.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

PSG cost me a winning accumulator by conceding in injury time to 10 man Monaco, the lazy ********.

Shame for Juve to be honest, really heroic effort by them but maybe just a step too far in the end.

All attention turns towards the draw for the last 16 tomorrow.

[notblox1]

So it is official now, in round 10 I managed to get only 11.45 points, and I played it more safe than I should have. 
Everything was going fine until MD8 and MD9 that messed up my mojo and I played different strategy in this round.
Now I have mission impossible, moving from 18 place in leaderboard to the top, and not much rounds left until the end of the season.
Nice job mia for jumping on first place above Mafia. 

[KTChampions]

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I wonder if Real Madrid vs. City will happen again? On paper, the probability is 50%, but in reality, it's closer to 99%.

"Ah shit, here we go again" meme 

Real Madrid/City vs. Atalanta/Bayern

PSG/Chelsea vs. Galatasaray/Liverpool

Newcastle/Barcelona vs. Atlético/Tottenham

Bodø/Sporting vs. Leverkusen/Arsenal

Once again, the paths are highly unbalanced. Arsenal is already in the semifinals, and Real/Bayern/City will be battling it out to see who is the only worthy team.
PSG/Chelsea/Liverpool are in the same boat, but I'm happy about the PSG-Chelsea game, there's some continuation of the story here.
The remaining four look like a battle of those who are too bad to be considered top, but too good to be considered average.
Bodo and Sporting reached the 1/8 of the dream.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

So we get Galatasaray in the last 16. I feel like we need to take revenge for that pathetic 1-0 loss to them in the group stage. They got a very soft penalty early in the game and held on. They will not be so lucky this time.

Unfortunately we got the tougher side of the draw. Arsenal tor example have a much easier route to the semi finals.

[KTChampions]

So we get Galatasaray in the last 16. I feel like we need to take revenge for that pathetic 1-0 loss to them in the group stage. They got a very soft penalty early in the game and held on. They will not be so lucky this time.

Unfortunately we got the tougher side of the draw. Arsenal tor example have a much easier route to the semi finals.

After the Juventus - Galatasaray game, it seems to me that Liverpool has a free pass to the game with the winner of PSG - Chelsea. Galatasaray played a very cowardly game and it turns out that in the two-legged tie they simply have no chance. I thought that thanks to their dominance in the Turkish championship they have a killer instinct and a champion mentality, but apparently I was wrong, I think they will fall apart against Liverpool.

[cryptofrka]

So we get Galatasaray in the last 16. I feel like we need to take revenge for that pathetic 1-0 loss to them in the group stage. They got a very soft penalty early in the game and held on. They will not be so lucky this time.

Unfortunately we got the tougher side of the draw. Arsenal tor example have a much easier route to the semi finals.

In theory looks like a great draw, but in reality the path to the final is much easier in the lower part of the draw.
After Galatasaray it is PSG/Chelsea, and on paper that is winnable.

The semifinal across 2 games in our current state is not. It will be one of Real, City or Bayern - not sure which one is worse.

All in all - I'll take short-term easy opponent - God knows we need it now.

[darbitmobilerecovery]

If you want to hear my opinion i think this was a complete mess of a draw, most of the strong teams goes to one side and in the right one we have to power teams like Barcelona and Arsenal which are gonna reach the semifinal  if nothing strange happens with them.

Real Madrid Manchester City again? For real? Are broadcasting fixing the draw?

For our competition anyways this can help to see a lot of goals maybe.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

If you want to hear my opinion i think this was a complete mess of a draw, most of the strong teams goes to one side and in the right one we have to power teams like Barcelona and Arsenal which are gonna reach the semifinal  if nothing strange happens with them.

Real Madrid Manchester City again? For real? Are broadcasting fixing the draw?

For our competition anyways this can help to see a lot of goals maybe.

Here’s a stat I saw earlier - The teams on the left side of the draw have won the trophy a combined 31 times. The teams on the right side of the draw have won it a combined 5 times. The 5 times were all Barcelona. Seriously, none of those other bums have ever won it. The right side of the draw is like a Europa League draw.

[buwaytress]

Just to confirm that the winner of MD10 is none other than the magnificent buwaytress. Faced with the cheating hands of cryptofrka, and the ill will of everyone else, I overcame great odds and intense pressure to take the fight to the top.

See you all in two weeks.

So we get Galatasaray in the last 16. I feel like we need to take revenge for that pathetic 1-0 loss to them in the group stage. They got a very soft penalty early in the game and held on. They will not be so lucky this time.

Unfortunately we got the tougher side of the draw. Arsenal tor example have a much easier route to the semi finals.

Long as we got Wirtz and Eki all fit, and an actual back four... I think we'll be good in this route. 7 games! We can do it!

Once again, the paths are highly unbalanced. Arsenal is already in the semifinals, and Real/Bayern/City will be battling it out to see who is the only worthy team.

Yeah, as LFC pointed out, only one past winner on that side of the draw. Arsenal will be the happiest of the English... a rare chance in modern era to go for a double? But the draw doesn't look nice, for sure. PSG Chelsea does look good, but I wonder if the Parisians found their peak last season and may never come close again.

All in all - I'll take short-term easy opponent - God knows we need it now.

I don't know, I feel like I would have preferred this version of Atleti, yes it's a low block Simeone special, but we've also found it very difficult against even lower block teams. Like you said though, the right bracket isn't just easier on paper, I think skill-wise, actually is easier.