UEFA Champions League 2018/19

[LegendofLondon]

Sp**s and Utd are weak as **** in CL.Yeah,only Liverpool can do something.Still,first favourites are Juve,Barca and Real.

Bayern should be added to the favourites as well. Unfortunately though, my bet is on Liverpool.

 

[Notorious Big]

Bayern should be added to the favourites as well. Unfortunately though, my bet is on Liverpool.

I won't put them this time tbh.They have new manager and some players are too old now.They always feel short against Spanish teams in recent seasons.

 

[Toby]

I won't put them this time tbh.They have new manager and some players are too old now.They always feel short against Spanish teams in recent seasons.

Agree.
The moment he starts scoring big again, Lewa will have his head in transfer business again.
Robben and Ribery injury plagued and just too old. I think Ribery did great in a CL KO game las season, but looked absolutely knackered after 60 minutes.
They lost some serious experience with Vidal and Rudy.
No fullback backups after Bernat has left and Rafinha is injured.
Coman injured already, Gnabry injury prone - that leaves them awfully thin on the wings.

Goretzka, Süle and Sanches, who seems back on track, are good talents but they won't carry the side to a CL title.
Boateng just went public to criticize the hierarchy for a lack of support. That fire will burn over the course of this season.

Hummels and Müller are absolute worldclass when on fire, but they can just randomly get out of form and struggle to find it again, although Müller has looked good under Kovac so far - seems he just needs that little extra touch from his managers.
Kimmich is just as suspect defensively for Bayern as he was for the German NT at the WC.

That leaves them with Thiago, James and Neuer as absolutely reliable top performers. If it clicks and the bulk of their squad stays fit in the crucial times of the season, they might go far. But right now they're already down to 15 fit players.

Kovac will give them a coherent system and he'll make them work hard and fight - and it will get them another Bundesliga title. But the CL is too far fetched. I even think the DFB Pokal is up for grabs. The individuals who can make a difference on the pitch and pull you to finals are either too young, too inconsistent, too old or too injury prone.

Even with all the quality in their squad, this just shows how good you have to be on all fronts - individual quality, management and tactics, squad depth, overall play - to reach a big european final, if you can rule out Bayern as serious contenders.

 

[Fewtch]

Ready for VAR to f*ck us over next season

 

[ThlRama]

VAR is ****, I hate it.

 

[<<reed>>]

Will we see VAR in the Europa League as well?
Asking for a friend.

 

[NieThePiet]

hoffenheim is already leading against City

Juve against Young Boys too.

 

[rich 1990]

hoffenheim is already leading against City

Juve against Young Boys too.

You and Krengon should chat about your jinxing.

 

[rich 1990]

Aguero looking sharp tonight.

 

[rich 1990]

Savage talking about penetration is enough to put you off your fish fingers.

 

[krengon]

Aguero has started this season great, constant danger..

City looks vulnerable at the back, but they are also easily creating chances so think they’ll win this comfortably in the end

 

[A_G]

Rashford in the starting XI? You know what that means

Spoiler

 

[Rex Stone]

Rashford in the starting XI? You know what that means

Spoiler

Brutal

 

[krengon]

Disgusting how protected Sp**s are..

 

[rich 1990]

Disgusting how protected Sp**s are..

Don't worry. Their stadium won't be ready.

That attitude wouldn't please Eriksen or Kane too much either.

 

[rich 1990]

****ing lucky City there.

 

[<<reed>>]

How is it not a pen?

 

[Rex Stone]

Do we want City to get knocked out? I know we’ll end up getting them in the Europa.

 

[krengon]

ffs that's **** defending

 

[Sanchez11]

Do we want City to get knocked out? I know we’ll end up getting them in the Europa.

This is my concern