Champions League - QF: Real Madrid, SF: Arsenal/Bayern, (H) for 2nd legs

[jimharri]

No Bayern Fans allowed at the Emirates due to a UEFA ban following an incident vs Lazio in the Group Stages.

Bayern fans banned for the away leg for throwing fireworks. Might tip the balance.

Yep for sure. Apparently the Bayern fans threw fireworks onto the pitch at Lazio, hence the ban.

Champions League - QF: Real Madrid, SF:Arsenal/Bayern, (H) for 2nd legs

That’s nothing. The rags' fans are banned from attending ANY European games for the rest of the season. And potentially next season. And the season after that…

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[kinkyblue]

Don't book anything reports from Spain saying 1st Leg could be different week due to Athletico game.

Didn’t we have similar before? Think Chelsea played in Madrid day before us

 

[Mayor West]

Ffs this competition is so bloody boring, same teams every year.

 

[domalino]

He'd start a row in an empty phone box.

Now; far be it for me to suggest that we use shithouse tactics in the first leg to provoke him and Bellingham into getting yellow cards; perish the thought.

This is why I don’t care so much about the order of the legs.

If we don’t get the home advantage in the second leg, we’ll have the advantage of 90+ minutes to target those players with the crowd pushing the referee to give them yellows (away teams get ~33% more cards, IMO crowd factor is a big reason).

 

[SebastianBlue]

Don't book anything reports from Spain saying 1st Leg could be different week due to Athletico game.

They’ll move the Atleti game not ours.

 

[beermusic]

Didn’t we have similar before? Think Chelsea played in Madrid day before us

They did

 

[MCFC1993]

Bayern fans banned from attending the Emirates game. Odd one.

Almost worse for Arsenal in a way. Having away fans gives the home fans something to feed off of.

 

[domalino]

Ffs this competition is so bloody boring, same teams every year.

I find this complaint so odd, yes, clearly the best teams in the world every year are going to play each other when you’re down to the last 8/4 teams.

It’s like tennis fans complaining about seeing a Nadal-Federer final or cricket fans whining about how often we play Australia.

 

[Vienna_70]

Ffs this competition is so bloody boring, same teams every year.

That’s what happens, when so much prize money is swilling around for the teams that reach the latter stages of the tournament each season.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Almost worse for Arsenal in a way. Having away fans gives the home fans something to feed off of.

That is my thought, as well. Reckon the prawn sandwiches will take more focus than the match without the away section there to get the Arsenal fans to look up every now and then.