Champions League Last 16 Draw | City v Sporting Clube de Portugal

[eyalluvitt]

Lille will give Chelsea a Shock. Very athletic team. With a brilliant young Striker and a very good midfield.

Sporting not a easy tie for us, a very organised team. Pedro Goncalves is a brilliant player and Palhinha in midfield and Nunes whos a very good young midfielder.

Sporting are just Wolves in Green with slightly fewer Portuguese players

 

[jrb]

Yet lost 3 of 6 in group stage and battered a combined 9- 3 off Ajax.

They had top players missing in one of the games against Ajax. That aside, Ajax are a very good team and would give us a game. The top teams in Portugal aren’t pushovers.

 

[Gray]

Flights booked for £51. If restrictions increase and I can't go, I'll take it on the chin and probably see it as a financial bonus. If I can go, then the cost will be much higher with probably 3 covid tests

Do you know what the date of the tie is?

 

[Eds]

Let’s hope you’re right. But I don’t think it will be that easy.

6cm offside, as if the technology can be that accurate!

 

[Tevez City]

I want Lisbon or Salzburg so Pep can scout their talents.

I hope I wished for million dollar instead :)

 

[SWPISHOME]

Lille will give Chelsea a Shock. Very athletic team. With a brilliant young Striker and a very good midfield.

Sporting not a easy tie for us, a very organised team. Pedro Goncalves is a brilliant player and Palhinha in midfield and Nunes whos a very good young midfielder.

Id fancy Chelsea to go through, Having watched Lille a few times this season just watched them against Lyon on Sunday too they were poor. Crazy how they won the title last season to take such a dip this season.
Hopefully I'm wrong as I'd prefer Lille to go through.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Got to be happy with that. We pulled out Villarreal and I’d have preferred them, but Sporting (while decent enough) is a decent draw… and a very nice away trip if things are peeking up come Spring!

 

[cptaidan88]

Do you know what the date of the tie is?

CityExtra have said it is 15th Feb but the fact no one has corroborated it in 15 mins makes me sceptical enough to hold off booking the flights

 

[MAG]

 

[miguelsantos]

That is a joke of a league.

I can understand the train of thought behind this. Besides the top 3, the league isn't really that good but the question is you aren't facing the other teams.

Don't you question how portuguese teams make insane amounts of money from transfers? Dias, Ederson, Fernandes, Ronaldo, etc. They all came from this league and the players who are here now are the ones who are going to the top clubs to make an impact in the future. There are very good players here and I'm sure you'll see that in the matches against you.
Does that mean Sporting will win? Probably not, City is one of the best teams in the world and can destroy anyone. Does not mean there isn't talent here. The problem with the league is the size of the country, the fact that the tv revenue is not shared equally and the idiotic people who run it and have no idea how to make the product appealing.