Champions League Draw Barca 18th Feb (H) & 12th Mar (A)

Re: The round of 16 Champions League (Merged)

blinkblue said:
Champions2012! said:
https://twitter.com/UCL_fraude

That twitter account is claiming we'll be getting Barca.
They're claiming the draw is rigged.

He just posts loads of scores and then deletes the incorrect ones. Easily done.


I would not even be outraged and shocked if he did call it due to rigging though, that imo is the sad part.
 
Re: The round of 16 Champions League (Merged)

TCIB said:
blinkblue said:
Champions2012! said:
https://twitter.com/UCL_fraude

That twitter account is claiming we'll be getting Barca.
They're claiming the draw is rigged.

He just posts loads of scores and then deletes the incorrect ones. Easily done.


I would not even be outraged and shocked if he did call it due to rigging though, that imo is the sad part.

Aye. Although I can't even remotely see every player in the CL going along with it as would have had to happen to get ever]y score correct.
 
Re: The round of 16 Champions League (Merged)

I wouldn't mind Paris Saint- Germain . I would say they are the weakest top team .
 
Re: The round of 16 Champions League (Merged)

baildon blue said:
I wouldn't mind Paris Saint- Germain . I would say they are the weakest top team .
Yeah Paris who I think we have a better midfield than, and midfield is where it is won and lost. Or Dortmund who have a lot of injuries and a few are long term, one for the season. Still a very good side but I'd rather face them two than anyone else.

The one team I really don't want is Atléti. Their style of play is everything we struggle against but they have excellent players who play in that way, not average mid table Prem players. Plus they've played Barça twice this season and were the better team over the two games that were both draws, and they were excellent in a 0-1 win at Real Madrid.
 
Re: Who would you want in the round of 16? (Champions League)

MillionDollarDream said:
bugsyblue said:
greasedupdeafguy said:
Atletico Madrid are probably the weakest out of the sides who will win the group so them.

You are so wrong.

Why are people so high on Atleti this season? Cool first XI and David Villa sometimes on the bench but after that they are a very young side. Nicked a 1-0 against Madrid but they are on a balance of shouldn't overlook but boarding on overrating them because they've gotten off to a great start.

They've played some pretty average ball some games and had a real stinker against Zenit in CL.
They'd already won their CL group by week 4 and left most of their best players in Madrid, never mind on the bench. A 18 year old who'd only played ten games came on in the second half.
 
Re: The round of 16 Champions League (Merged)

Not reading all the thread - has anyone sussed how it's decided who plays which weeks?
 
Re: The round of 16 Champions League (Merged)

Vic said:
Not reading all the thread - has anyone sussed how it's decided who plays which weeks?

No but we could be at a disadvantage because of the Rags. The 2nd available week for the first leg falls just before us going to OT, I can imagine the Rags won't want to play that midweek so we may get shunted there. It may well come down to the TV pairings, if they are the same as the Group Stage then we may well play the same week as United, particularly as they are group winners and we aren't so would play home/away at the same time, as would Arsenal/Chelsea, so "conveniently" for TV the current pairings work.

Last season Barca/Real, Bayern/Dortmund, United/Arsenal & Juve/Milan played alternate weeks, That was true of the year before for Real/Barca, Chelsea/Arsenal, Bayern/Leverkusen & Milan/Inter, so it's obvious that pairings are kept/rejigged depending on whether all the teams from that country made it through the groups. With England's pairings now worked so "conveniently" regarding home/away, I imagine we'll play the same week as the Rags and as a result I reckon we may play the first week. There may be a fight over it however as I reckon neither Arsenal nor Chelsea will want to play their 2nd leg in the week 4 which is what they'd have to do if we played week 1 as Arse have Spurs and Chelsea away that week.
 

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