Champions League Last 16 Draw - RB Leipzig

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Frankfurt had a small old town when I went a few years ago but nice enough.
Rough around the station though.

Have they not got some wannabe hoolies knocking around? Could do without another kick in after those cowardly twats at Sporting Lisbon.
 
Tbilisi said:
Frankfurt had a small old town when I went a few years ago but nice enough.
Rough around the station though.

Have they not got some wannabe hoolies knocking around? Could do without another kick in after those cowardly twats at Sporting Lisbon.
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Ah they're like most German fanbases, mental in the stadium but unless you've a rep or go looking for trouble it's unlikely you'll see it.
 
Dodgy Gangster said:
Only to armchair soccerball fans tuning in between games of FIFA22 and Jake Paul fights
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What an absolute crock of shit. The Premier League is the biggest money making racket in football, it's a bastardised offshoot of our English top division but we still relish winning it year after year. Do the people banging on about Uefa's "corrupt cash cow" not see the irony in this? There are two major honours in club football for the biggest teams, two that are regarded as the benchmark: the domestic league and the European Cup. If you look back at the truly great teams of the last few decades, all of them will have a European Cup and a domestic league; won either as a double, or within a season or two of consecutive league wins. That's the reality. We've only won one of them. It's high time we won the other.

Burying your head in the sand and pretending our failures in it are insignificant is a classic defence mechanism.

And by the way, I haven't played FIFA in about twenty years and have no idea who Jake Paul is. But I'm now at the point where I want to see us lift this trophy before all others.
 
Blue and true said:
What an absolute crock of shit. The Premier League is the biggest money making racket in football, it's a bastardised offshoot of our English top division but we still relish winning it year after year. Do the people banging on about Uefa's "corrupt cash cow" not see the irony in this? There are two major honours in club football for the biggest teams, two that are regarded as the benchmark: the domestic league and the European Cup. If you look back at the truly great teams of the last few decades, all of them will have a European Cup and a domestic league; won either as a double, or within a season or two of consecutive league wins. That's the reality. We've only won one of them. It's high time we won the other.

Burying your head in the sand and pretending our failures in it are insignificant is a classic defence mechanism.

And by the way, I haven't played FIFA in about twenty years and have no idea who Jake Paul is. But I'm now at the point where I want to see us lift this trophy before all others.
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You seem to equate commercial success with corruption which isn’t the case at all with the PL. In fact the outstanding worldwide commercial success of the PL is down in no small part to the purity of the competition and the very clear meritocratic nature of it. The English top flight, however it’s been branded has maintained the same format and conditions for decades. Each team plays the other home and away and the team that accrues the most points wins the league. It’s never changed other than a reduction in the number of competing teams. Entry to the PL is meritocratic and has had only one minor change in decades

Contrast this with the clusterfuck of made up ever changing rules and regulations that bastardise the CL. Pre qualifying, various arbitrary qualifying criteria all based not on a meritocracy but on money, extra places awarded arbitrarily, spurious coefficients, spurious seeding processes, teams from the same country kept apart, one group stage, two group stages etc etc etc

It’s utter shite and the very antithesis of the pure sporting competition that is the PL and that’s why the overwhelming majority of City fans would prefer to win the PL
 
Teams we can draw:

PSG
AC Milan
Inter Milan
Club Bruges
Frankfurt
Leipzig


Teams we can't draw:

Bayern Munich
Real Madrid
Napoli
Porto
Benfica
Liverpool
Chelsea
Tottenham
Dortmund
 
Blue and true said:
What an absolute crock of shit. The Premier League is the biggest money making racket in football, it's a bastardised offshoot of our English top division but we still relish winning it year after year. Do the people banging on about Uefa's "corrupt cash cow" not see the irony in this? There are two major honours in club football for the biggest teams, two that are regarded as the benchmark: the domestic league and the European Cup. If you look back at the truly great teams of the last few decades, all of them will have a European Cup and a domestic league; won either as a double, or within a season or two of consecutive league wins. That's the reality. We've only won one of them. It's high time we won the other.

Burying your head in the sand and pretending our failures in it are insignificant is a classic defence mechanism.

And by the way, I haven't played FIFA in about twenty years and have no idea who Jake Paul is. But I'm now at the point where I want to see us lift this trophy before all others.
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It’s not done Arsenal any damage
 
Dodgy Gangster said:
You seem to equate commercial success with corruption which isn’t the case at all with the PL. In fact the outstanding worldwide commercial success of the PL is down in no small part to the purity of the competition and the very clear meritocratic nature of it. The English top flight, however it’s been branded has maintained the same format and conditions for decades. Each team plays the other home and away and the team that accrues the most points wins the league. It’s never changed other than a reduction in the number of competing teams. Entry to the PL is meritocratic and has had only one minor change in decades

Contrast this with the clusterfuck of made up ever changing rules and regulations that bastardise the CL. Pre qualifying, various arbitrary qualifying criteria all based not on a meritocracy but on money, extra places awarded arbitrarily, spurious coefficients, spurious seeding processes, teams from the same country kept apart, one group stage, two group stages etc etc etc

It’s utter shite and the very antithesis of the pure sporting competition that is the PL and that’s why the overwhelming majority of City fans would prefer to win the PL
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David El Mago Silva said:
Teams we can draw:

Inter Milan
Club Bruges
Frankfurt
Leipzig


Teams we could draw:

AC Milan or Salzburg
PSG or Benfica


Teams we can't draw:

Bayern Munich
Real Madrid
Napoli
Porto
Liverpool
Chelsea
Tottenham
Dortmund
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We could be doing with a couple of the English teams getting knocked out in the next round. Ruins the competition when we end up facing them and play like shite. Then go on to hammer them in the league. Fucking annoying.
 
As it stands:

Guaranteed 1st Place
Bayern Munich
Chelsea
FC Porto
Manchester City
Napoli
Real Madrid
Tottenham Hotspur

Guaranteed 2nd Place
Borussia Dortmund
Club Brugge
Eintracht Frankfurt
Inter
Liverpool
RB Leipzig

Qualified, Place Undecided
Paris Saint-Germain
Benfica

Teams still in contention for Champions League knockouts
1 of: AC Milan or FC Salzburg

Europa League Knockouts (3rd)
Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen
FC Barcelona
Sevilla
Shakhtar Donetsk
Sporting CP

Out/Could get Europa League
Dinamo Zagreb
Juventus
Maccabi Haifa

Teams that are out (4th)
Atletico Madrid
Celtic
FC Copenhagen
Marseille
Rangers
Viktoria Plzen
 
Tbilisi said:
Frankfurt had a small old town when I went a few years ago but nice enough.
Rough around the station though.

Have they not got some wannabe hoolies knocking around? Could do without another kick in after those cowardly twats at Sporting Lisbon.
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There is an element, but for the most part they're a good bunch. They travel in big numbers though so I reckon there would be bigger problems at the home game to be honest.

If we do get them, avoid the Sachsenhausen area (other side of the river), on matchday in particular.

Also the Irish bar opposite the station will be an easy target so I'd avoid that too personally. Think that was attacked the night before we played in Hoffenheim.
 
Bruges is a lovely place fucking long walk back to the centre after the game but a beautiful city to have a beer and chill
 
Final Standings:

1st
Bayern Munich
Benfica
Chelsea
FC Porto
Manchester City
Napoli
Real Madrid
Tottenham Hotspur

2nd
AC Milan
Borussia Dortmund
Club Brugge
Eintracht Frankfurt
Inter
Liverpool
Paris Saint-Germain
RB Leipzig

3rd
Ajax
Bayer Leverkusen
FC Barcelona
FC Salzburg
Juventus
Sevilla
Shakhtar Donetsk
Sporting CP

4th
Atletico Madrid
Celtic
Dinamo Zagreb
FC Copenhagen
Maccabi Haifa
Marseille
Rangers
Viktoria Plzen



PSG drop to 2nd on away goals scored in the group (Benfica scored more, including a last minute 'winner*' tonight).

*The goal won them the group.
 
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