2016-17 UEFA Champions League

SantryRed

Porto V Roma and Villareal V Monaco are two crackers.

Porto-Roma would be a game that you wouldn't be too surprised to see as a Quarter Final game! Certainly a last 16 one anyways.

That_Guy

Confirmed that Dundalk will play their game on Wednesday 17th August.

inforfun

Ajax - Rostov.

Rostov probably wouldnt exist anymore if it wasnt for Ivan Savvidis, who has been dumping a few million in that club in the last 18 months.
Nothing too special if it wasnt for the fact that he owns PAOK Saloniki who were Ajax' opponents in the previous round.

MD1990

Roma's CL tie against Porto is huge for them. If they lose I could see Manolas being sold. Also Juventus will receive increased CL prize money too.

Andersonisgod

Bale with no goals in the Champions League last season is chosen in Uefa's top 3 players ahead of Suarez and Messi.....make of that what you will.

MisterAnarchy

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Bale with no goals in the Champions League last season is chosen in Uefa's top 3 players ahead of Suarez and Messi.....make of that what you will.

Seems a bit of an odd selection allright ,they must be using the Euro 2016 performances as a huge factor in voting.
Suarez had a much better season than Bale ,that's for sure .
Suarez is arguably the best striker in the world over the last year and a half.

How in gods name did Toni Kroos and Thomas Muller get into the top 10 ?

citytillidie

Playoff Round
Champions Route
Playing Tuesday
FC København (DEN) V APOEL (CYP) *Live BT Sport Extra 3
GNK Dinamo (CRO) V FC Salzburg (AUT) *Live BT Sport Extra 4

Playing Wednesday
Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL) V Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) *Live BT Sport Extra 5
Celtic (SCO) V Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) *Live Eir Sport 1 / BT Sport 2
Dundalk (IRL) V Legia Warszawa (POL) * Live RTE 2 / BT Sport 3

League Route
Playing Tuesday
Steaua București (ROU) V Manchester City (ENG) *Live BT Sport 2
Ajax (NED) V Rostov (RUS) *Live BT Sport Extra 2
Young Boys (SUI) V Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER) Live on Eir Sport 1

Playing Wednesday
Porto (POR) V Roma (ITA) * Live BT Sport ESPN
Villarreal (ESP) V Monaco (FRA) *Live BT Sport Extra 2

Bret Hart

That's Aguero of penalty taking duty. Absolutely no bottle.

RobertKK

Aguero after missing two penalties for City.

0-1 up from a Silva goal set up by Sterling.

GreNoLi

'Sterling runs into...', a common refrain.

Bret Hart

City should be 5 or 6 nil up by now. Very wasteful.

That_Guy

That City goal was delish.

Bret Hart

2-0.Game and tie over.

Sexy football.

GreNoLi

Good lay off?

No it was a poor touch, good finish though.

SEPT 23 1989

Excellent again from Sterling in the build up

He is going to have a great season

That_Guy

That pass from De Bruyne into Nolito was insane.

GreNoLi

Nolito carrying his good form from the euros into the new season.

That_Guy

Nolito/De Bruyne/Aguero is going to kill teams this season.

GreNoLi

That_Guy wrote: »

Nolito/De Bruyne/Aguero is going to kill teams this season.

Gundogan's fitness could make or break their season.

mikeym

Steua Bucharest are not exzactly world beaters.

limnam

That_Guy wrote: »

Nolito/De Bruyne/Aguero is going to kill teams this season.

tbh there's teams in bushy park on a sunday would have given them more to think about than they've had tonight.

That_Guy

He could play 11 fans from the crowd next week and Steaua wouldn't get close.

Burial.

Misses two penalties, still scores a hat trick. Aguero is amazing.

mikeym

Looking forward to Dundalks match tomorrow.

Unearthly

Burial. wrote: »

Misses two penalties, still scores a hat trick. Aguero is amazing.

A future quiz question no doubt

citytillidie

Playoff Round Results
Champions Route

Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL) 2 V 0 Viktoria Plzeň (CZE)
Celtic (SCO) 5 V 2 Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR)
FC København (DEN) 1 V 0 APOEL (CYP)
Dundalk (IRL) 0 V 2 Legia Warszawa (POL)
GNK Dinamo (CRO) 1 V 1 FC Salzburg (AUT)

League Route
Steaua București (ROU) 0 V 5 Manchester City (ENG)
Porto (POR) 1 V 1 Roma (ITA)
Ajax (NED) 1 V 1 Rostov (RUS)
Young Boys (SUI) 1 V 3 Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER)
Villarreal (ESP) 1 V 2 Monaco (FRA)

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm pleased with Monaco's result. They have some exciting players and I'd like to see them make the Champions League. I want to see Porto advance for the same reason but Roma look favourites now in that one.

Ajax look in trouble I see.

The Golden Miller

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Ajax look in trouble I see.

How so? They'll win the second leg quite comfortably imo

inforfun

The Golden Miller wrote: »

How so? They'll win the second leg quite comfortably imo

Have you seen them play recently?

Rostov can play their favourite game. 0-0 is enough for them.
Add to that that Ajax has kept 1 clean sheet since Bosz took over, i na friendly against Beziers, and they are indeed in all kind of trouble.

Would be a disaster for Dutch club football if they fail, real danger of not having 1 single cl spot.
They had a lucky draw, not very easy but could have been a lot worse.

citytillidie

Playoff Round 2nd Legs
Champions Route
Playing Tuesday
Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) V Ludogorets Razgrad (BUL) (Agg 0-2)
Hapoel Beer-Sheva (ISR) V Celtic (SCO) (Agg 2-5)
Legia Warszawa (POL) V Dundalk (IRL) (Agg 2-0)

Playing Wednesday
APOEL (CYP) V FC København (DEN) (Agg 0-1)
FC Salzburg (AUT) V GNK Dinamo (CRO) (Agg 1-1)

League Route
Playing Tuesday
Roma (ITA) V Porto (POR) (Agg 1-1)
Monaco (FRA) V Villarreal (ESP) (Agg 2-1)

Playing Wednesday
Manchester City (ENG) V Steaua București (ROU) (Agg 5-0)
Rostov (RUS) V Ajax (NED) (Agg 1-1)
Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER) V Young Boys (SUI) (Agg 3-1)

The Golden Miller

inforfun wrote: »

Have you seen them play recently?

Rostov can play their favourite game. 0-0 is enough for them.
Add to that that Ajax has kept 1 clean sheet since Bosz took over, i na friendly against Beziers, and they are indeed in all kind of trouble.

Would be a disaster for Dutch club football if they fail, real danger of not having 1 single cl spot.
They had a lucky draw, not very easy but could have been a lot worse.

I have seen them recently, and they are indeed a bit weak, but I'd still expect them to get through. By no means in all kind of trouble

Mr.Nice Guy

Roma vs Porto teams:

Roma: Szczesny - Bruno Peres, Manolas, Juan Jesus, Paredes - De Rossi, Nainggolan, Strootman - Salah, Dzeko, Perotti

Porto: Casillas - Maxi, Felipe, Marcano, Alex Telles - Danilo, André Andrè - Jesús Corona, Héctor Herrera, Otávio - André Silva


Hope Porto do the business. Andre Silva is on fire in Portugal and Otavio has been doing well too. You'd fancy Roma to be favourites though.

Update: 1-0 Porto. Felipe heads in a great cross from Otavio.

HalloweenJack

One eye on the Dundalk match and another on the Monaco Villarreal match.

Monaco look the better side so far, very well organised as they have been since Jardim took over. I was expecting a bit more from Villarreal, tbf, they seem to be pushing very hard but no end product.

Mr.Nice Guy

Goal for Dundalk.

Mr.Nice Guy

De Rossi sent off for Roma!

Going to have to come back from a goal down with 10 men.

Mr.Nice Guy

Roma down to 9 men now!

The sub Palmieri off. Disgraceful tackles for both reds and right call by the ref on both counts.

Hank Scorpio

Brendan's under pressure

eagle eye

Great play from Dundalk there, thought they were going to get the equaliser.

eagle eye

Legia player gets a red card, down to ten men. Go on Dundalk and get the win now.

ERG89

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Roma down to 9 men now!

The sub Palmieri off. Disgraceful tackles for both reds and right call by the ref on both counts.

Shooting both their feet up against an ordinary enough Porto side. Not surprised with De Rossi tho.

Mr.Nice Guy

ERG89 wrote: »

Shooting both their feet up against an ordinary enough Porto side. Not surprised with De Rossi tho.

Yeah, 3 red cards for them over the 2 games. Madness.

Mr.Nice Guy

2-0 to Porto. Miguel Layun scores after Szczesny stupidly comes miles out of his box only for Layun to run past him and pass it into the empty net.

And Jesus Corona has just made it 3-0!

Job done. Very happy to see Porto and their exciting youngsters make the Champions League. Going to switch over now and see how Celtic get on.

HalloweenJack

Penalty for Monaco.

Terrible decision, hit Musachio's neck. Similar situation to Legia's pen last week but this one didn't even hit Musachio's arm, it was his neck.

And Monaco have scored.

Hank Scorpio

eagle eye

Ah damn it. Caught on the counter in injury time. Not to be. Well played Dundalk for giving it a great go.

retalivity

Unlucky dundalk, Celtic are going to get annihilated in the champs league

Badabing

retalivity wrote:

Unlucky dundalk, Celtic are going to get annihilated in the champs league

Bitter much

eagle eye

Badabing wrote: »

Bitter much

What is this about? I read his comment and I'm tending to agree that Celtic will get hammered by the better teams. They just scraped through against poor opposition.

What is bitter about that?

Badabing

eagle eye wrote:

What is this about? I read his comment and I'm tending to agree that Celtic will get hammered by the better teams. They just scraped through against poor opposition.

eagle eye wrote:

What is bitter about that?

What have celtic going through got to do with Dundalk not? Will Leicester get hammered aswell?