GWT: Champions League - League Stage

[S E P H]

I did call Raya a 70 million Euro goalkeeper.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

4 different coaches same story Barca and the CL continues. What a curse.

they need a therapist for this competition.

 

[Brunkmeister]

Oh look, Osimhen was available and we can't score again...

Arsenal's away record in the CL has been shambolic.

He wouldn’t have scored either since there was no creativity out there today. Öde is badly missed.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

4 different coaches same story Barca and the CL continues. What a curse.

they need a therapist for this competition.

Nah. It was Ter Stegen that lost them the game today. It was over after minute 10, not worth putting the effort that required overcoming a good Monaco side. The logical thing was to sub your most important players and call it a day. Instead they played all game long. Ter made another mistake and still lost the game.

I like the effort but this will cost more injuries. League title is up for taking while Madrid is playing like crap

 

[cgf]

Rose switching back to the 4-4-2 was a mistake. The 3-4-3 they’ve been experimenting with in the buli would’ve given them better support in the areas that they got run over. Especially given how poor Vermeeren was.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Nah. It was Ter Stegen that lost them the game today. It was over after minute 10, not worth putting the effort that required overcoming a good Monaco side. The logical thing was to sub your most important players and call it a day. Instead they played all game long. Ter made another mistake and still lost the game.

I like the effort but this will cost more injuries. League title is up for taking while Madrid is playing like crap

Ya but that’s been happening a lot. One person just self emulates in this competition far too often. Whether it’s MAtS yesterday or Aruajo vs psg.

Madrid won’t win the league. It’s Barca’s for the taking. I ain’t worried at all. But they need to do well in this competition just for their own psyche

 

[S E P H]

League title is up for taking while Madrid is playing like crap

They're only playing like crap until Bellingham comes back.

 

[luiginb]

They're only playing like crap until Bellingham comes back.

He came back against Stuttgart, they still played like crap. Bellingham doesn't do much for defense (anymore, he used to be very good at it) or creativity

 

[S E P H]

He came back against Stuttgart, they still played like crap. Bellingham doesn't do much for defense (anymore, he used to be very good at it) or creativity

I thought he was out for more than a month? He already returned?

 

[cgf]

I thought he was out for more than a month? He already returned?

He played this week against vfb

 

[sabremike]

Last night was as good a performance from Celtic as they've had in Europe for a while. I know it was just Slovan, but they also went through a few playoff rounds and are the champions of their country, so 5-1 is nothing to turn your nose up at. Great atmosphere too, particularly second half.

Arne Engels is a baller.

IT'S COMING HOME TO PARADISE!!!!!

 

[LOGiK]

I've always enjoyed the CL through the years.... but I've gotta say... they did their absolute best to destroy it and it worked, this time, for me.

So many things wrong with it from top to bottom.
What's wrong with these cretins running things.....

 

[cgf]

Curious why that is. I’m intrigued to see how this new format plays out.

 

[Chimaera]

I actually am ok with some of it. More matches is dumb, but it’s kind of interesting for now

 

[JoVel]

I don't want to hate on anything new by default. There were a lot of absolutely useless games, or even groups in the previous group stage format, which should be reduced here.

 

[Evilo]

The CL was a putrid format. Full knockout stage was way better. Unseeded too.

 

[LOGiK]

Curious why that is. I’m intrigued to see how this new format plays out.

Why they ruined it for me?
Pot 1 teams playing 6 matches against weaker teams. No real worry to win the matches against pot 1 teams.
Too many games.
Weird confusing draw.
Pots.

Things that ruined it for me in no particular order.

 

[cgf]

Why they ruined it for me?
Pot 1 teams playing 6 matches against weaker teams. No real worry to win the matches against pot 1 teams.
Too many games.
Weird confusing draw.
Pots.

Things that ruined it for me in no particular order.

Which pot 1 team doesn’t play at least 2 games against another top side to make this any different from groups in the past

 

[LOGiK]

Which pot 1 team doesn’t play at least 2 games against another top side to make this any different from groups in the past

Difference they added a set of games with a pot of teams that can hardly compete against pot 1 first teams and giving pot 1 _more_ games against less-pot'd teams.

It basically shows the discrepancy and how absolutely one-sided, ridiculously unfair, no chance, whatever you'd want to call it, a big club has compared to the bottom qualifying champions league teams.

_That_ is what really struck me about it. It is forever going to be the big top 10 mega corp teams over and over and over and over. More games to get to the same results? That is so boring. Little teams legs will wear to nubs long before a big giant team.

 

[gary69]

Milan/ San Siro has been stripped of hosting the 2027 CL final, as they couldn't quarantee that stadium development wouldn't hamper the final.

Too bad, it would have been nice ending of an era for the stadium

New host should be announced next May/June.

Champions League: Uefa re-open bidding for stadiums for 2027 final

 

[Evilo]

Luis Enrique has disciplined Dembele for reasons we don't know. He won't go to London.

 

[Chimaera]

Stuttgart!

 

[cgf]

After Chabot had to shut down a 2-on-3 with Rouault, Millot opens the scoring off a Mittelstadt cross.

 

[cgf]

Chabot couldn't stop that one from getting to Nübel

 

[gary69]

Kaarinen with pretty much perfectly accurate free kick to equalize for Sparta.