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

Who do you want in the Quarter Final?

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Alfie Budd said:
Big difference between previous seasons and this time round is Bellingham. Whatever you might think of him, he’s a threat.
Hopefully Pep will have a plan for dealing with him.
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He's a difference but ,haven't taken much notice but last time I looked v Leipzig he was playing as a 9. He's a very good player but not sure he's a bigger there there than Benzema was.
 
Control over 180 minutes should be sufficient to contain occasional bursts from Bellingham or V Jr. I'm happy that we will play the bigger teams over 2 legs. As the result I think we have a better chance to win CL than PL this year, of course hopefully both or all three of them.
 
Ric said:
Never like to see players get injured, but sounds like Courtois has suffered another bad knee injury in training today so there’s no chance of him playing against us.
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Big miss for Madrid. He was amazing in the second leg last season. One of the best goalkeeping displays I can remember.

It would have been 7-0 if not for him!
 
ilrm said:
Back on the forum after nearly 6 months.
Sad what could have been an awesome Final is now a Quarter Final.
Anyways - our season has been fairly meh despite us leading by 7pts.

Aug/Sep -
Season ending injuries for our starting CBs and GK.
Very lackluster, leggy, slow and pedestrian performances.
Huge gaps in midfield put pressure on DM and backup CMs. Bailed out by a brilliant Jude and lucky that our opps couldn't score.
Vini & Rodrygo play too wide and Jude regularly drops deep which means for large periods of the game, opposing CBs are unoccupied.
The 3-0 loss against Atletico was our true level.
Took us two months to learn the new diamond formation.

Oct/Nov/Dec/Jan -
Solid 3 months of good football.
Midfield had learned to become compact.
No more kamikaze-style runs by fullbacks - one always stays back to make a midfield 3: generally Mendy-and 2 out of Kroos/Tchou/Modric/Cama.

Feb -
The team goes back to playing lackluster football. This season Carlo has not been rotating the team well and it shows with some of the injuries and leggy performances.

Mar/Now -
Solid start to the month with a 4-0 victory. Hopefully this is the beginning of an upcycle.

Going forward:

Madrid....................City
Osasuna (A, 10th)...... Newcastle (H, QF, 10th)
Bilbao (H, 5th)..........Arsenal (H, 1st)
............................Villa (H, 4th)
............................Palace (A, 14th)
....................RM v City
Mallorca (A, 15th)......Luton (H, 18th)
....................City v RM
Barca (H, 3rd)..........Tottenham (A, 5th)

You are the favorites but you also:
  1. have a greater mental/physical exhaustion of being in a 3-way title race compared to us.
  2. have 2 challenging games with little rest before the first leg and even Luton will fight like hell before the second leg.
  3. 2 extra games before the first leg.
  4. are somehow less scary than last season. Haaland/Alvarez/Silva look a level below this season. The only player who has gone up a level is Foden.
I'd say the ties are 52-48 in favor of City.
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I thought Bilbao were playing the Cup Final on the 6th?
 
bridgeno1 said:
I do find it hilarious a lot of folks on here assume City will play Bayern in the SF! Bayern are playing against the Premier League leaders not the Rags! It will be a close tie but I reckon Arsenal will be favourites as they'll cut that Bayern midfield to shreds. I'd expect Bayern to score a few goals too but they are so lightweight in the middle.

In the City/Madrid tie City will pump Madrid.
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Arsenal went to penalties with Porto. I'd say Bayern were hot favourites.
 
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