It's all set up perfectly again for them. They must be rubbing their hands watching this unfold tonight. City out. Barcelona out. The two favourites to win the CL by pundits all round. Bayern Munich are looking strong but Madrid are stronger. A third CL in a row beckons but I think they need to get rid of Bayern in two legs. A one off final is too much of a lottery. Roma and Liverpool are outsiders to win regardless of the draw.
Champions League Quarter Finals (3rd - 11th April)
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Barca.
Please be Real v Liverpool I cant handle six times la
This worries me. I knew this would be the year for someone else to win the Champions league since all of real, Barca Juve and Bayern have been in decline.
66.66%.
City and Barça out. What a night
Feck me...imagine if Sevilla knocks Bayern out tomorrow
BallBag should be on suicide watch.....
Anyone starting to feel this is starting to look like the 2004 competition ?
Are you telling me Sevilla is going to win UCL?
I was more talking about them being former City players but sure.Don't forget Strootman and De Rossi. Have we gone back in time 5 years?
Other way around imho. We'd be your best shot. You're made to give us fits, for the same reasons you give fits to city: pace and aggression
Bayern can more easily match your aggression and have more overall quality
Rom are a horrible match-up for you, can outpress you and force you into the kind of game you're least comfortable with, and they know Salah. But you have slightly more quality than them, and are a better team overall
But i agree, i hope we avoid each other!
Man City should have crushed you on ability, but football's not like that. There will be no crushing at this stage of the competition for you.
You could well 05 it.
Cannot digest the fact that Liverpool are in the semis and barca are also knocked out. If they get Roma, they have a great chance to be in the finals. Please God do not let Liverpool win the cl.
First reaction was that Roma knocking Barcelona out increased Liverpool's chances, but maybe not. Hopefully Liverpool draw Real in the semi and Ronaldo sticks it to them.
That would be boring even for the Europa League
feck off that's my Gary Neville joke.
4/1 with the bookies now. 40/1 earlier in the season. They're favourites against Roma if the draw each other. Another couple of jammy refereeing decisions in the final and it's completely doable.
That's Smithy and Jimbo from Whythenshawe
Okay, now it’s getting ridiculous. I can agree that our CB‘s aren’t as fast as some 170cm strikers, but Kimmich is seriously fast and agile. He’s no Alves in his prime, but I would struggle to name a faster defender these days.
The last week has been like watching a puppet show implode after a blast of wind blew the puppeteer’s curtain away. There is the mechanism, laid bare. Still an impressive one, still good players. But the Pep Genius myth is dead.
That´s true, but Boateng has never recovered his pace after all the major injuries (in terms of length) and Hummels was never the fastest. They worked so brilliantly, because Hummels had the positioning and Boateng had the pace. Same reason why the Friedrich/Mertesacker combination worked for Germany. Now Bayern/Germany lack the Boateng pace element.
How's @FCBarca doing these days?
We play juventus tomorrow, don't fecking jinx it!
Liverpool to get Sevilla and Roma in the next rounds
Please be Real v Liverpool I cant handle six times la
How are Real Madrid not winning La Liga? It's incredible they can switch it up in the CL and look a class above but in the league be so far behind.
liverpool vs real madrid in the next round plzzzz
You will find most United fans rooting for you to win, behind Roma. A proper club who grew organically with their own money.
Haha!!!!
Betting companies will be rolling in it tonight
It was a kind of win-win situation
I blame Valverde. Where was Messi?
His face!
oopsWe won it for the fourth time against them at their ground in 1984. It was an incredible atmosphere but we done it.
You know Cristiano is going to score like 5 mins into the match and end all hopes of a comeback.
Poor coutinho
Roma have been quality whenever I’ve watched them in the CL this year. Completely battered Chelsea. They will hope for Liverpool in the next round.
Still trying to understand what made Man Citu a serious contender for the CL to begin with
Btw, there is a 200% chance the fans will sack Rome tonight
I feel the pair of you have completely missed the point.
The 4th best team in Italy beating the best team in Spain.
The 3rd best team (potentially) beating the best team in Italy.
Liverpool have now beaten City 3 times this year.
You're complaining about the single reason that the tournament is still exciting and relevant.
Leagues and Cups are completely different things. These sets of results hark back to when the European Cup was phenomenal to watch, before the cash-grab league element was added.
Would there still be more people rooting for Madrid because of Ronaldo? That’s the vibe I got in recent times. A lot of people also don’t want to go us too far ahead in regards to CL titles.