2013-14 Uefa Champions League

Rezident

Baffled that Irish tv insist on showing Man Utd even when Bayern are playing City in a cracking match. Yet another spectacular fail by Irish TV. This is why I don't really watch TV anymore.

snowblind

delija_sever029 wrote: »

thats gonna be weird,when is draw for 2nd phase on?

Monday

delija_sever029

Not many options left than...they play league matches for the weekend

GTR63

3-2 to City, they certainly defend like a Guardiola team anyway, why did he take off Gotze when he was doing well.
Lol at Quinn saying Barca were all at sea.

jamescd

And a 2nd string team no less, against a strong Bayern team. Incredible stuff

Dempsey

GTR63 wrote: »

3-2 to City, they certainly defend like a Guardiola team anyway, why did he take off Gotze when he was doing well.
Lol at Quinn saying Barca were all at sea.

Carrying a knock going into the game i think

delija_sever029

Am i the only Utd fan supporting Bayern here?

GTR63

Dempsey wrote: »

Carrying a knock going into the game i think

That'll explain that but why Mandzukic for Shaqiri when you need a goal. Baffled by some of this, I expect him to take off Kroos next for Rafinha so he can put Lahm in midfield

monkey9

Rezident wrote: »

Baffled that Irish tv insist on showing Man Utd even when Bayern are playing City in a cracking match. Yet another spectacular fail by Irish TV. This is why I don't really watch TV anymore.

All about the ratings!

snowblind

footballitalia ‏@footballitalia 1m

There is a problem with playing #GalatasarayJuve tomorrow - more snow is predicted... #UCL

that would be the only reasonable date to play. I'm sure most arenas would be able to sort that amount of hail/snow out and proceed with play, I wonder what consequences this can have

klose

Ribery has been awful

Digitalism

GTR63 wrote: »

That'll explain that but why Mandzukic for Shaqiri when you need a goal. Baffled by some of this, I expect him to take off Kroos next for Rafinha so he can put Lahm in midfield

Looking to stop city getting that all important 4th goal.

Johner

Anderlecht down to 8 men. Olympiakos missed 2 penos and scored 1!

GTR63

Digitalism wrote: »

Looking to stop city getting that all important 4th goal.

By bringing on a winger, okay.....
Martinez looks a totally different player now, devoid of confidence and Mandzukic seems to begetting the cold shoulder before Lewandowski has even arrived.

citytillidie

Last 16

Seeds
Manchester United FC (ENG)
Real Madrid CF (ESP)
Paris Saint-Germain FC (FRA)
FC Bayern München (GER)

Unseeded
Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER)
Galatasaray AŞ (TUR) / Juventus (ITA)
Olympiacos FC (GRE)
Manchester City FC (ENG)

Europa Leage
FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR)
Galatasaray AŞ (TUR) / Juventus (ITA)
SL Benfica (POR)
FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)

AdamD

English teams away in Germany in 2013:
Bayern 0-2 Arsenal
Dortmund 0-1 Arsenal
Schalke 0-3 Chelsea
Leverkusen 0-5 Man Utd
Bayern 2-3 Man City

GTR63

Apparently they'll try to play the remaining 58 mins of Gala vs Juve tomorrow. The weather is due to get worse there btw.

jamescd

Pellegrini just said on the post match interview he thought his team needed 2 more goals to top the group and so he decided against putting Aguero on. The Sky Sports lads are baffled as to why he thinks that, and are questioning his basic mathematic skills :pac:

batistuta9

They reckon on sky that pelligrini didn't know that another goal would've seen city top the group, that he thought it was another 2 they needed.
they're getting it from his interview & it does sound like that

electrobanana

Juventus game on tomorrow at 13.00 according to clubs official twitter so 12.00 our time i think

Dempsey

pellegrini made a boo boo?

klose

12 points between 2nd and 3rd in group d, absolute non runner of a group stage that was.

Turtwig

Dempsey wrote: »

pellegrini made a boo boo?

Sounds like it.

Pinturicchio

electrobanana wrote: »

Juventus game on tomorrow at 13.00 according to clubs official twitter so 12.00 our time i think

Moved to 14.00 CET (1pm our time) now at the police's request. Apparently the Juve team are stuck on a bus in traffic that isn't moving and can't find a hotel for the night.:pac:

Jelle1880

Not winning the group now means City will most likely get one of the Spanish teams in the next round.

That, or PSG.

jamescd

or Dortmund, who beat them in the groups last season. Should have definitely pushed for that 4th goal !

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Rezident wrote: »

Baffled that Irish tv insist on showing Man Utd even when Bayern are playing City in a cracking match. Yet another spectacular fail by Irish TV. This is why I don't really watch TV anymore.

Too many United fans in Ireland.

Missed the game myself unfortunately, Champions League is at awkward hours for me here in Korea.

delija_sever029

I guess theres plenty more fans of Liverpool in ireland than Utd but they still didnt broadcast Pool....oops,they dont play CL,right... :P

Pinturicchio

The game is going ahead apparently...

Green Giant

Stupid question time: will Galatasary and Juve play 13 minutes and switch around straight away or will there be an actual half-time break?

Pity it's not on Sky, would make good use of the oul Sky Go in work otherwise!

electrobanana

its on sky sports 2 at 12.55

Green Giant

Nice one! Cheers!

snowblind

I hope this isn't as recent of a photo as it was suggested, can't see a match being played in that.

electrobanana

snowblind wrote: »

I hope this isn't as recent of a photo as it was suggested, can't see a match being played in that.

ya that's it today sky just showed it live there its looking dodgy alright.

delija_sever029

Jesus are they going to plant some things in there? or the harvest already started?

xtal191

Some more pics of the pitch

snowblind

Without knowing anything about managing arenas like that, how much of this is ineptitude of the Gala/Arena mgmt and how much actual force majeure? We'll see I guess, risking injuries doesn't really suit well with ambitions in two leagues for Juve.

delija_sever029

on 1st pic it looks like they peeled some nice part of field together with snow

Dempsey

Ya, they really scraped the **** out of that field. Its far from perfect but good enough for a football match. First touch will be very important!

delija_sever029

Galata - Juve 1 : 1

Would be great for the sake of a bit of controversy if Galatasaray could get the win.

snowblind

Because you value controversy over sportsmanship?

GavRedKing

C'mon the Turks.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

never thought I'd say this: but is anyone else having tourble keeping an eye on the ball?

Francie Barrett

Surely this has to be abandoned.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

It's gettign pretty episodic as it is! Probelm with abadoning it is when do you replay it?

snowblind

Well if Gala cannot host this match it should default 0-3. They have under pitch heating, which is not working. They could not clear the pitch yesterday and instead destroyed the pitch (especially in where Juve are attacking 3/4 of the match tonight) with a tractor.

citytillidie

Tonights Games
Group E
FC Schalke 04 (GER) V FC Basel 1893 (SUI)
Chelsea FC (ENG) V FC Steaua Bucureşti (ROU)

Group F
SSC Napoli (ITA) V Arsenal FC (ENG)
Olympique de Marseille (FRA) V Borussia Dortmund (GER)

Group G
FK Austria Wien (AUT) V FC Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS)
Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP) V FC Porto (POR)


Group H
FC Barcelona (ESP) V Celtic FC (SCO)
AC Milan (ITA) V AFC Ajax (NED)

snowblind

snowblind wrote: »

Because you value controversy over sportsmanship?

Same conditions for both teams.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

never thought I'd say this: but is anyone else having tourble keeping an eye on the ball?

Yeah it looks pretty much red rather than orange up close, wonder if that's the issue?

snowblind

Deleted User wrote: »

Same conditions for both teams.

That has nothing to do with it. You said the controversy would be great. I would prefer a game where controversy wouldn't obscure the sportsmanship deciding the result.