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

[citizen_maine]

They’ll move the Atleti game not ours.

Why?

 

[domalino]

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

They aren’t banned specifically from the emirates, they were banned for the next game for throwing flares at Lazio fans 2 weeks ago.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Why?

Because we have top fixture priority as titleholders.

 

[malg]

Both would be ideal, but given the choice would you take defence of the
Champions League or first team to win four consecutive Premier
League titles ?

4 in a row.

 

[VinceYoungisaBLUE]

Totally agree with @youngbob, I'd much rather have either Madrid in a two-legged tie. Looks like we'll have the two toughest games to the final regardless. We're going to have it earn it

 

[SebastianBlue]

Both would be ideal, but given the choice would you take defence of the
Champions League or first team to win four consecutive Premier
League titles ?

4 in a row all day long and twice on Sundays.

 

[CTIDANDREW]

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).

Two years ago that we shit ourselves for the last ten minutes of regular time in Madrid and threw it away.
Fast forward twelve months, and we played them off the pitch during the second leg and embarrassed them.

Call me crazy, but I think having the second leg at home may just be an advantage for us in this rivalry with Madrid.

 

[jimharri]

Why?

Best stick to the music association thread!

;-)

 

[citizen_maine]

Because we have top fixture priority as titleholders.

Ah right. I didn't realise that was in the rules

 

[domalino]

Both would be ideal, but given the choice would you take defence of the
Champions League or first team to win four consecutive Premier
League titles ?

Silly question. There’s only one answer when you remember Liverpool can’t win the CL if we fail.