GWT: Champions League - League Stage

Corto

Faceless Man
Sep 28, 2005
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Braavos
I know the schedules of the teams are hilariously different (PSG facing basically top team after top team, while Brest beat up on Sturm, Salzburg and Sparta, and still have very winnable games vs PSV and Shaktar to go)... But watching the table and seeing PSG at 4 pts, RM at 6 and City at 8 is silly.

Dinamo Zagreb somehow beats BVB tonight and they're at 10 lol.

Any league tables where everyone doesn't play everyone are just stupid.
But hey, UEFA got more matches. Sure, you get 4-0 and 6-0 matches every round and noone cares about most of the matches (as far as neutrals go)... But money!
 

Evilo

Registered User
Mar 17, 2002
63,588
9,456
France
The second yellow was the ref starting to play advantage and then remembering it was a second yellow and thus he’s supposed to stop play immediately and not play advantage.

Diving into a challenge like that is going to get you a yellow 4 times out of 5 in todays game, even if you barely touch the player.
But as I said destroying someone's ankle from behind gave Leimer 0 card.
 

Savi

Registered User
Dec 3, 2006
9,372
1,971
Bruges, Belgium
I know the schedules of the teams are hilariously different (PSG facing basically top team after top team, while Brest beat up on Sturm, Salzburg and Sparta, and still have very winnable games vs PSV and Shaktar to go)... But watching the table and seeing PSG at 4 pts, RM at 6 and City at 8 is silly.

Dinamo Zagreb somehow beats BVB tonight and they're at 10 lol.

Any league tables where everyone doesn't play everyone are just stupid.
But hey, UEFA got more matches. Sure, you get 4-0 and 6-0 matches every round and noone cares about most of the matches (as far as neutrals go)... But money!

Don't worry this format is just an excuse for UEFA to expand to 10 matches within a year or two, then to 12, 14 and so on until next decade when it will become a full on super league
 
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hatterson

Registered User
Apr 12, 2010
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But as I said destroying someone's ankle from behind gave Leimer 0 card.
I'm not saying the ref was good or consistent, I didn't watch enough of the game to really comment on that.

I rewound to see the second yellow because it was a big moment. I also saw Mueller stomp someone's good and not get called for a foul so that wasn't great.
 

cgf

FireBednarsSuccessor
Oct 15, 2010
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w/ Renly's Peach
I know the schedules of the teams are hilariously different (PSG facing basically top team after top team, while Brest beat up on Sturm, Salzburg and Sparta, and still have very winnable games vs PSV and Shaktar to go)... But watching the table and seeing PSG at 4 pts, RM at 6 and City at 8 is silly.

Dinamo Zagreb somehow beats BVB tonight and they're at 10 lol.

Any league tables where everyone doesn't play everyone are just stupid.
But hey, UEFA got more matches. Sure, you get 4-0 and 6-0 matches every round and noone cares about most of the matches (as far as neutrals go)... But money!

Still don't understand how this is any different from the old format. There were blow out matches every round back then as well. Now at least we don't have dumb groups that ensure a mediocre team advances, or that a top team will have to play EL :dunno:
 

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