Club Brugge (H) - Wed 29th Jan, 20:00 | CL | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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supercity88 said:
The playoff draw is as per the below placings. So there's a draw to determine the two teams that play from the four positions. It doesn't matter if you've played before or are from the same country.

Game 1 17/18 v 15/16
Game 2 23/24 v 9/10
Game 3 21/22 v 11/12
Game 4 19/20 v 13/14
Game 5 20/19 v 14/13
Game 6 22/21 v 12/11
Game 7 24/23 v 10/9
Game 8 18/17 v 16/15

Last 16

The last 16 draw is then:
Winner of Playoff 1 v 1st/2nd
Winner of Playoff 2 v 7th/8th
Winner of Playoff 3 v 5th/6th
Winner of Playoff 4 v 3rd/4th
Winner of Playoff 5 v 4th/3rd
Winner of Playoff 6 v 6th/5th
Winner of Playoff 7 v 8th/7th
Winner of Playoff 8 v 2nd/1st

A slightly more clear version in terms of placing is:
  • 1st/2nd vs 15th/16th/17th/18th
  • 3rd/4th vs 13th/14th/19th/20th
  • 5th/6th vs 11th/12th/21st/22nd
  • 7th/8th vs 9th/10th/23rd/24th
We can go as high as 19th with a win and as low as 22nd I believe. That would mean a playoff against Feyenoord, Lille, Brest or Dortmund as things stand. Then a last 16 v Arsenal, Inter, Atletico or Milan.

Completely pointless to look at potential opponents right now as so much will change.

We just need to win and we'll go from there!
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We can finish as low as 23rd:
- Have to beat Brugge, so go above them.
- We'll finish above at least 1 of PSG-Stuttgart if we win.
Every other scenario isn't forced.

The only route we can't go down is:
1st/2nd v 15th/16th/17th/18th
Because as you rightly say 19th is the highest we can finish.
 
Kinkys Left Foot said:
Let's hope we can bring this home and maybe all that chest bumping, fist pumping, badge kissing over celebratory tubthumping last Wednesday will be like the memory of "attacking ships on fire on the shoulder of orion" and be merely tears in the rain.
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Dodge said:
Time to die.
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My location likes this.
 
Gray said:
That little word "IF".

last seaon I wouldn't have doubted the team, and anyway they would already have qualified.

That Feyenoord game showed just how fragile we have become.
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Fragile given the number of injuries particularly in midfield and defence. We are still paper thin. At PSG, we lost Dias at half-time. Stones is back now, but one injury could leave us in a perilous position.

By the same argument, if we get through, we have Dias, Ake, Bobb, Marmoush, Doku, Khusanov to come in. They won't all make it, some of our existing team will probably get injured but the weakest moment of City's season has probably passed. You never know though. Football can be very cruel. See Postecoglou's Spurs who have an unbelievable number of injuries, and still the media pile on the pressure.

Whilst I struggle to see City getting past Real Madrid or Barcelona or even PSG, in a two-legged tie, we could do it. Brugge first. This season is not done.
 
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Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I think, to be fair, human beings have always imagined space exploration, as long as they've been able to look up at the millions of stars…
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Look up Burbridge, Burbridge, Fowler and Hoyle, B2FH paper. That was written in the 1950s. That set the foundation for stellar nucleosynthesis. That is a defining paper that derived stellar nucleosynthesis and the origin of the elements. The most famous scientific photographs of our time are the Blue Marble, and the Pale Blue Dot. The pale blue dot was planned by Carl Sagan, precisely so you could better imagine the Earth embedded in the solar system and so that children could wonder with some level of understanding.

The first debris disk that was ever imaged was of Beta Pictoris. It was taken from the IRAS space telescope.

For much of our time on Earth, the stars and the planets were objects of wonder. The Arabs observed them, and charted their position on the celestial sky, Galileo who dared to report that the Galilean moons orbited Jupier and not Earth was imprisoned by the Catholic church for violating holy doctrine. It's not that long ago that astronomers turned huge telescopes to Mars and imagined that they saw canals. When the astronauts first went to the Moon, it was not known whether the craters on the Moon were impact craters or volcanic vents. The last century saw a step-change of our understanding of space and in that time-frame we left our planet.
 
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Might be a bit previous, but if we get to the last 16 are we at home in the first leg.
How is the home or away first in the quarter and semi final decided.
 
Academica said:
Might be a bit previous, but if we get to the last 16 are we at home in the first leg.
How is the home or away first in the quarter and semi final decided.
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The seeded teams get to play the 2nd leg at home for as long as they stay in the competition. If we were to beat a seeded team and replace them in the QF/SF then we would have the benefit of being home in the 2nd leg. So many permutations. Beat Brugge and go from there!
 
supercity88 said:
The seeded teams get to play the 2nd leg at home for as long as they stay in the competition. If we were to beat a seeded team and replace them in the QF/SF then we would have the benefit of being home in the 2nd leg. So many permutations. Beat Brugge and go from there!
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That makes it clearer, thanks. But what if we beat a seeded team and then meet another team who have beaten a seeded team. Not trying to be awkward, just wondering how it works.
 
Academica said:
That makes it clearer, thanks. But what if we beat a seeded team and then meet another team who have beaten a seeded team. Not trying to be awkward, just wondering how it works.
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Think I'm wrong in my previous post, although it's UEFA so who the fuck knows!

Based on the flow chart below, I'd guess that the higher seeded team would get the 2nd leg at home.

So say we finish 23rd and are drawn on the left hand side below. We win our playoff and then play 5th/6th. We win that too, but the other playoff winner below beats 3rd/4th in their last 16 game. As they beat a higher seeded team I'd expect they would be home 2nd leg. As I said, I don't really know for certain but it seems to be the most logical way of doing something this illogical.

Let's beat Brugge first and then we can look at the 2 teams we might play, wait for the draw and plot a route to CL glory!

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mexico1970 said:
Am looking forward to this game more than I should really considering my disdain for the chumps league and the circus that surrounds it. I think it's a must win and hopefully he gives all the new lads a run out so we can have a look see.
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Same here I think its because so much is onthe line, if we go out then it helps us try and get 4th if we don’t who knows we could win it, let’s face it, it’s not always the best team in Europe that runs it despite what the media try to say.
 
supercity88 said:
Think I'm wrong in my previous post, although it's UEFA so who the fuck knows!

Based on the flow chart below, I'd guess that the higher seeded team would get the 2nd leg at home.

So say we finish 23rd and are drawn on the left hand side below. We win our playoff and then play 5th/6th. We win that too, but the other playoff winner below beats 3rd/4th in their last 16 game. As they beat a higher seeded team I'd expect they would be home 2nd leg. As I said, I don't really know for certain but it seems to be the most logical way of doing something this illogical.

Let's beat Brugge first and then we can look at the 2 teams we might play, wait for the draw and plot a route to CL glory!

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Thanks, let's hope it's something we have to worry about in later rounds.
 
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