2017/18 UEFA Champions League

citytillidie

It is back with round of 16 games from now until March 14th

Tuesday 13th February
Juventus (ITA) V Tottenham Hotspur (ENG) - BT Sport 3 / TV3
Basel (SUI) V Manchester City (ENG) - BT Sport 2 / Eir Sport 2

Wednesday 14th February
Porto (POR) V Liverpool (ENG) - BT Sport 2 / RTE 2
Real Madrid (ESP) V Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) - BT Sport 3 / Eir Sport 2

Rekop dog

Cant wait for the return of the best comp in sport this week.

Juventus
City
Porto
Madrid
Munich
Barca
Shaktar
United

To progress imo. Munich to win outright.

A lot of close ones in there. City and Munich would be the only ones to fall into the cert category this round. The aggregate score in Real v PSG could be 9-8 or something similarly crazy. Most people will have PSG to win but reckon your Kross and Modric's will wake up for the glamour tie and prove why they were the best partnership in this comp the last few years.

Barca a bit lethargic of late but Chelsea in disarray. They should be too good over two legs for the London outfit.

Porto imo the most underrated side left in the comp. Liverpool heavy favourites to progress there but I see an upset. The game is a great advert for exciting African strikers.

GavRedKing

Big night for the English sides tonight, both topped their groups so will have home advantage in the crucial 2nd leg.

I think City will steam roll Basel tonight and the tie will be over before going back to Manchester.

I wouldnt write off Spurs but if they get out of there tonight with a goal, even in a 2-1 loss, its a good result, I'd still fancy Juventus over two legs but Spurs are more than capable of catching them out.

Kiith

City will have an easy win. Basel aren't bad, but City in their current form are head and shoulders above them. 0-3 i'd say.

Spurs/Juve is tougher to call. Spurs are playing very well right now, but Juve are a tougher challenge then we've faced in a while. We did a fantastic job in our group, when no one gave us much of a chance, but it was against a poor enough Real and a terrible Dortmund. Juve will be different, with a wealth of quality and experience at this level, as well as the form to back it up. I'd happily take a score draw, but i woulnd't be surprised to see it end 0-0.

GavRedKing

Ye've a better chance than us anyway of going through, cant see anything other than a gallant defeat, at best, against Barca.

brianregan09

Can't see Spurs getting near this Juve team , Spurs are one of the best teams in England but Juventus are a cut above

Deise Vu

brianregan09 wrote: »

Can't see Spurs getting near this Juve team , Spurs are one of the best teams in England but Juventus are a cut above

It will be interesting to see how effective Spurs pressing game will be against a team as skillful as Juventus. Potentially the Tottenham backline could be horribly exposed if Juventus had a full team. However Juventus have a bit of an injury crisis being without Dybala, Cuadrado, Matuidi and a few defenders. Spurs have the luxury of bringing a few flyers off the bench in Lamela and Moura while starting with some seriously clever footballers who also have some pace about them so I am quietly confident Spurs will take at least a draw back to Wembley. Juventus have only conceded 1 in something like the last 16 matches so any score at all for Spurs would be amazing. My prediction is 1-1.

Rekop dog

Be pretty surprised if Spurs come away with anything tonight. Juve have been impenetrable of late and offer lots going forward too, Bernardeschi to play a staring role tonight imo.

Comfortable 2-0 win.

Rekop dog

Sami Khedira never gets all that much acclaim but that man has done nothing but win since he's been a kid. Captained Germany to an under 21 euro championship. Won a Bundesliga at fecking Stuttgart, won everything there is to win at Madrid: la liga, 2 Spanish cup, a Cl, super cup and world club championship. At Juve he's won 2 Serie A and 2 Italian cups. And a World Cup medal thrown in there too. That's a cv and a half for a 30 year old.

Bridge93

Wouldnt rule Spurs grabbing a point out fully. Few big names missing for juventus by the looks of it

KERSPLAT!

3-0 City
2-1 Juve

Fromvert

Chelsea the only English team to not go through, PSG, Bayern and Roma to round out the eight.

Mr.Nice Guy

Team news:

Juventus XI: Buffon; De Sciglio, Benatia, Chiellini, Alex Sandro; Khedira, Pjanic; Bernardeschi, Douglas Costa, Mandzukic; Higuain

Tottenham XI: Lloris; Aurier, Davinson Sanchez, Vertonghen, Ben Davies; Eriksen, Dier, Dembele; Lamela, Dele Alli. Kane

Basel XI: Vaclik; Riveros, Suchy, Lang, Lacroix; Frei, Elyounoussi, Die, Xhaka; Stocker, Oberlin.

Man City XI: Ederson; Walker, Otamendi, Kompany, Delph; Fernandinho, Gundogan; De Bruyne, B Silva, Sterling; Aguero.

I think Juve/Spurs will be quite tight. Both sides look defensively strong. I could see this coming down to small margins, maybe a penalty or set piece effort. I reckon 1-1 for the first leg and a more open game at Wembley.

I expect City to come away with a win but I'm not sure it will be as straightforward as many predict. I'll say a 2-1 win. Aguero is in great form so I can see him getting something.

Should be fascinating. I'm especially looking forward to Madrid vs PSG tomorrow.

Rekop dog

Bridge93 wrote: »

Wouldnt rule Spurs grabbing a point out fully. Few big names missing for juventus by the looks of it

Ah it's a fairly big squad who rotate plenty anyway so they're not overly weakened by it. Similar to when City missed the likes of Jesus, Sane, Mendy. When you've quality replacing quality a few loses isn't really noticed.

Mr.Nice Guy

HIGUAINNNNNN

Agent Coulson

Well he scored in a pretty big game for a guy who doesn't score in the big games.

kksaints

Terrible defending by Spurs.

Mantis Toboggan

Fantastic goal

Lucas Hood

Alli picking up Higuain strange.

sligeach

You have to say that was something special from Juventus and after only barely a minute. Fantastic finish.

BorneTobyWilde

I love a well thought out freekick. That was Agger like v Chelsea.

ctrl-alt-delete

Ignoring the defending, that was a beautiful strike.

Rekop dog

Too easy. Juve will strangle them now.

Fromvert

That is some brutal defending.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YI1Pk1oGGU

BorneTobyWilde

Very Agger like indeed.

ricero

The english media darlings spurs 1 down already. So poor from dele alli.

Mr.Crinklewood

Is Kevin Kilbane taking over the world?

Mr.Nice Guy

Peno to Juve.

KERSPLAT!

Ffs

sligeach

Howler from Davies.

BorneTobyWilde

That was like VVD penalty ironically.

ricero

The naivety of this spurs side on show here

Agent Coulson

Bye Bye Spurs.



Juve better watch out for dirty tackling Spurs now.

Mr.Nice Guy

2-0. Spurs in danger of losing this before they get to Wembley.

Fromvert

Jesus, tie very likely dead.

Rekop dog

Lol you're not playing Arsenal now Spurs.

sligeach

Not even 10 minutes gone and Spurs are 2-0 down. They should go for the jugular, kill any hope Spurs have in the second leg.

KERSPLAT!

Serious power, Lloris hadn't a hope. Spurs fecked though 2-1 wouldn't be too bad. The way it's going though it'll be 8-0 after the first leg

Mantis Toboggan

Horror start from spurs, great to see

pudzey101

Higuain hat trick within the first 45 im guessing

castletownman

With all the self-righteousness of certain sections of Spurs' fan-base, and not too subtle media fapping over them, I can't say I am too disappointed for them.

Maybe capitulating in the last-16 is a North London thing

Bridge93

Well I was wrong

Agent Coulson

Basel should of had a pen against City.


City now 1 up. Gundogan

Mr.Nice Guy

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Basel should of had a pen against City.

Would have been soft imo.

1-0 City now. Gundogan header from a corner.

gimli2112

looked a harsh penalty decision against Spurs, they're giving them away for very little now, it seems

CalamariFritti

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Would have been soft imo.

1-0 City now. Gundogan header from a corner.

No attempt at the ball. Clear penalty doesn't matter how soft it looked.

WinnyThePoo

gimli2112 wrote: »

looked a harsh penalty decision against Spurs, they're giving them away for very little now, it seems

Very clear penalty.

Agent Coulson

Diving Kane not given a pen.

Ref should have booked him.

j8wk2feszrnpao

This is a Juve side with players who win league titles and complete in CL finals. The winners of the North London derby ain't gonna frighten them.
Spurs are a good side, just not as good as the media hype suggests.