2017/18 UEFA Champions League

irishguitarlad · 01-05-2018 9:22pm

Navas is playing unreal.

martingriff · 01-05-2018 9:23pm

Billy86 wrote: »

I'd agree Madrid line up better than Madrid against Liverpool, but on the other hand Madrid have some absurd big game players. Either way the winner tonight has to be the reasonably heavy favourite.

100%

~Rebel~ · 01-05-2018 9:23pm

Billy86 wrote: »

I'd agree Madrid line up better than Madrid against Liverpool, but on the other hand Madrid have some absurd big game players. Either way the winner tonight has to be the reasonably heavy favourite.

Favourite, yes, heavy, no.

TomSweeney · 01-05-2018 9:23pm

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Ref having a very composed game

That Turkish ref is one of the games best !

I've never seen him ref. a bad game.

Billy86 · 01-05-2018 9:24pm

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Favourite, yes, heavy, no.

Reasonably heavy favourite, yes. Overwhelmingly heavy favourite, no.

citytillidie · 01-05-2018 9:25pm

Why kick it out

irishman86 · 01-05-2018 9:25pm

citytillidie wrote: »

Why kick it out

I wouldnt risk pissing of the team im contracted to

martingriff · 01-05-2018 9:25pm

I kind of feel sorry for Robben ig Bayern to get to final

01-05-2018 9:25pm

Madrid are just so 'winnery' and it pisses me off an irrational amount

Harry Palmr · 01-05-2018 9:25pm

Naive from Bayern

irishguitarlad · 01-05-2018 9:25pm

Strange change no?

LuckyGent88 · 01-05-2018 9:26pm

**** off with that putting the ball out of play.

dirkmeister · 01-05-2018 9:26pm

F*ck sake

BenK · 01-05-2018 9:26pm

Rodriguez should not have put the ball out of play there. Let the ref make the decision. He seems more concerned about upsetting Real fans than winning the game for Bayern.

01-05-2018 9:26pm

Hate when players kick the ball out. Ridiculous

osarusan · 01-05-2018 9:26pm

For all their endeavour, the final balls from Ribery and in particular Alaba have been really poor.

~Rebel~ · 01-05-2018 9:26pm

Billy86 wrote: »

Reasonably heavy favourite, yes. Overwhelmingly heavy favourite, no.

I'm not sure that anyone could be reasonably heavy favourites against a team that is 1 goal away from being the all time CL highest scorers, and is the only unbeaten team in the competition this year (thus far).

I'd say there'll be very little in the odds, with the winner of this being slight favourites but no more than that.

Billy86 · 01-05-2018 9:26pm

Route one time with Javi? And is that sub an immediate reaction to James kicking it out? He's been maybe Bayern's most dangerous player tonight.

Mars Bar · 01-05-2018 9:27pm

irishman86 wrote: »

I wouldnt risk pissing of the team im contracted to

He did that already when he scored

TheCitizen · 01-05-2018 9:27pm

What da fúck???????

irishman86 · 01-05-2018 9:29pm

Mars Bar wrote: »

He did that already when he scored

But quickly apologised
Always felt James wants to be in Madrid and only went to Bayern as its a world cup year

Trigger · 01-05-2018 9:29pm

Martínez lucky to get away with no booking there, replay wasn’t nice viewing

NIMAN · 01-05-2018 9:30pm

Either of these 2 are going to give Liverpool front line an awful lot of opportunities in the final.

Billy86 · 01-05-2018 9:30pm

~Rebel~ wrote: »

I'm not sure that anyone could be reasonably heavy favourites against a team that is 1 goal away from being the all time CL highest scorers, and is the only unbeaten team in the competition this year (thus far).

I'd say there'll be very little in the odds, with the winner of this being slight favourites but no more than that.

Fair point, though I reckon name recognition, experience, etc will play a role. Madrid's whole squad has been there multiple times, while Bayern have more than enough that were there last time around as well as numerous World Cup winners etc... that may or may not mean a lot on the night, but it can definitely impact how the odds are set out and betting patterns between then and the match itself.