Champions League Thread 2016/2017

[No Fixed Abode]

Oh I agree anything might happen, but (on current form) Monaco should make light work of City.

Chelsea

[genome]

I'm kind of glad City didn't go through. You know Leicester would've ended up drawing them and going out in a massive anti-climax.

[Hendo]

Oh I agree anything might happen, but (on current form) Monaco should make light work of City.

I would agree with that. City should come out of their slump, plus reinforcements could come in during Jan.

I suppose it wasn't light work, but over the two legs Monaco were far better.

It's gr8 that the only English team left is the non-glory boy team. Plus Chelsea and Man U didn't even qualify.

Yep, fair play to Monaco. Totally deserved it.

Both teams a total shambles at the back. All City had to do was not concede twice so Pep leaves one of their more solid players on the bench

[No Fixed Abode]

I suspect Man City will spend in excess of £160m this summer again.

[No Fixed Abode]

Atletico v Leicester City.
Bayern v Real
Juve v Barca
Dortmund v Monaco

[tmesis]

Ballot now open for 5500 general sale tickets for the final in Cardiff.

Prices at £60, £140, £275 and £390!

[double d]

40 tickets just applied for with different names and details.

[tmesis]

Could be expensive if all 40 come up in the ballot though. I don't think you can cancel tickets you don't want (although you could flog them, I suppose)

[Ascotexgunner]

Should the PL have 4 places?......English clubs have been massively rubbish for years now.

[Winston Smith]

Should the PL have 4 places?......English clubs have been massively rubbish for years now.

Not that far off it now tbh. We are only 2.5 points ahead of Italy in the coefficient ranking and are due to lose 2 more points than them at the end of the season.

http://www.worldfootball.net/uefa_country_coefficients/

Can't be arsed to work out how many points us and Italy have got so far this season as you get points awarded for every match won but we have been quite sh*t. If Juve won the CL and Leicester & MU both lost their next games and went out things could be interesting

[BR0B0T]

Should the PL have 4 places?......English clubs have been massively rubbish for years now.

err are you high?

2015-16
Man City SF
Chelsea/Arsenal (last 16)

2014-15
last 16 for Arsenal/Chelsea/City
not great

2013-14
Chelsea SF
United QF

2011-12
Chelsea Winners*

2010-2011
ManU -finalists
Chelsea QF
Spurs QF

2009-2010
ManU - QF
Arsenal - QF

2008-2009
ManU - Finalists
Arsenal SF
Chelsea SF

2007-2008
ManU - Winners*
Chelsea - finalists
Liverpool - SF
Liverpool - QF

2006-2007
Liverpool - finalists*
Chelsea SF
ManU SF

[No Fixed Abode]

Should the PL have 4 places?......English clubs have been massively rubbish for years now.

err are you high?

2015-16
Man City SF
Chelsea/Arsenal (last 16)

2014-15
last 16 for Arsenal/Chelsea/City
not great

2013-14
Chelsea SF
United QF

2011-12
Chelsea Winners*

2010-2011
ManU -finalists
Chelsea QF
Spurs QF

2009-2010
ManU - QF
Arsenal - QF

2008-2009
ManU - Finalists
Arsenal SF
Chelsea SF

2007-2008
ManU - Winners*
Chelsea - finalists
Liverpool - SF
Liverpool - QF

2006-2007
Liverpool - winners*
Chelsea SF
ManU SF

Liverpool won the CL in 2004/2005 m8.

[BR0B0T]

Should the PL have 4 places?......English clubs have been massively rubbish for years now.

err are you high?

2015-16
Man City SF
Chelsea/Arsenal (last 16)

2014-15
last 16 for Arsenal/Chelsea/City
not great

2013-14
Chelsea SF
United QF

2011-12
Chelsea Winners*

2010-2011
ManU -finalists
Chelsea QF
Spurs QF

2009-2010
ManU - QF
Arsenal - QF

2008-2009
ManU - Finalists
Arsenal SF
Chelsea SF

2007-2008
ManU - Winners*
Chelsea - finalists
Liverpool - SF
Liverpool - QF

2006-2007
Liverpool - Finalists*
Chelsea SF
ManU SF

Liverpool won the CL in 2004/2005 m8.

cheers

[Winston Smith]

It is only current + 4 previous seasons that decide whether you are good enough to get x amount of places.

14/15 season Italy got a load more points than us. if you just count the last 3 seasons points then Italy are running ahead of us. If we don't start outperforming them in European comps then in 2 years they will get 4 places and we will get 3

[No Fixed Abode]

I don't think it'll happen. We're on a bit of downturn in European form but we have some top coaches in the Prem now - and I'll think we'll come good just in time.

[stealthpapes]

Should the PL have 4 places?......English clubs have been massively rubbish for years now.

err are you high?

2015-16
Man City SF
Chelsea/Arsenal (last 16)

2014-15
last 16 for Arsenal/Chelsea/City
not great

2013-14
Chelsea SF
United QF

2011-12
Chelsea Winners*

2010-2011
ManU -finalists
Chelsea QF
Spurs QF

2009-2010
ManU - QF
Arsenal - QF

2008-2009
ManU - Finalists
Arsenal SF
Chelsea SF

2007-2008
ManU - Winners*
Chelsea - finalists
Liverpool - SF
Liverpool - QF

2006-2007
Liverpool - finalists*
Chelsea SF
ManU SF

There was a rather neat diagram of countries in the quarter finals - English involvement markedly drops after c. 2009.

And in any case, UEFA have a method for tracking it that also includes everywhere else.

In 2011-12, England was top of this table. They are now third.

[genome]

False third

[Winston Smith]

Explosion as the Dortmund team bus was on the way to the stadium. Bartra taken to hospital.

[No Fixed Abode]

Juve 3 - 0 Barca

I suspect Barca will do enough diving to get through in the next leg..