2022-23 UEFA Champions League

Dr. Bre

What a chance for kolasinac

Mr.Nice Guy

How did Kolasinac miss that?

Mr.Nice Guy

Hojbjerg's belter sent Marseille out of Europe altogether.

Stupid that Tudor didn't send Payet on for the final minutes. A bit of magic from him might have made a difference. Deserved what they got.

Dr. Bre

Last minute spurs win group !

Loafing Oaf

Wow what a finale from Spurs!

Kiith

All 4 teams in Group D were going through at some point tonight.

Not sure how we managed to pull group winners out of that shitshow.

patob

Peter Collins didn't mention Frankfurt in his Group D review with Didi Hamann and Kevin Doyle, it was all about Spurs, shameful stuff typical of RTE. Thought he might have asked Didi about Frankfurt.

thebaz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119821964#Comment_119821964

Should have showed the Spurs game, instead of the dead rubber Liverpool game. agree poor coverage of a big European night.

ShamoBuc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119822054#Comment_119822054

Liverpool fans won't complain, especially as they ended up beating a previously unbeaten team. Late drama in the Spurs game but I'm not too sure if its was a good game. Hindsight is always 20/20. Can't get it right all the time. If Spurs were on i probably wouldn't watch their game- always way too defensive for me.

thebaz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119822085#Comment_119822085

20/20 ????

The Liverpool game was always a dead rubber - they won, they qualified and remained second - the Spurs group was where the action was , but RTE went with the safe ratings bet - and I was neurtal just wanted to see a meaningfull game.

citytillidie

RTE need to make back the money they spent and getting more viewers for a dead rubber Liverpool game will help that as it will pull in a bigger rating.

Kiith

Its not rocket science lads. Liverpool have a bigger supporter supporter base, so showing a Liverpool game gets more viewers.

TheCitizen

Two meaningful games tonight. Shaktar v Leipzig at 5:45 and Milan v Salzburg at 8. Rest of the games are dead rubbers for the broadcasters to choose from.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119823246#Comment_119823246

I know I'm the weird one when it comes to this but I would watch an important game over my own team in a dead rubber.

And it's also not just who has the bigger supporter base. As a neutral I just turned off the TV last night when I saw it wasn't the Spurs game on.

TitianGerm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119823666#Comment_119823666

Judging by Spurs fans comments during the game last night they were fit to turn off the game for most of it as well with the teams lack of ambition to actually get up the pitch.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119823481#Comment_119823481

Most bizarre thing of all is that Virgin have actually decided to not show the English teams.

They are showing PSG vs Juve I can only assume because the PSG team have a lot of Twitter followers or something.

Fitz*

Virgin's coverage has gone back a lot in recent years. They used to have all the games available to watch and now it's just the 1. The other games don't need the analysis etc, but coverage was always welcome.

dr.kenneth noisewater

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119823785#Comment_119823785

Thats because LiveScore own all the rights now for Ireland and sell a game per week to RTE and Virgin to show

Fitz*

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119824060#Comment_119824060

Ah I see.

And who makes the choice of which game is bought (sold to) by RTE & Virgin? Is it LiveScore themselves as the primary rights holder?

dr.kenneth noisewater

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119824459#Comment_119824459

I'd imagine RTE/Virgin get to choose as they always pick the most popular EPL team most weeks.

Rezident

2 penalties for ball to hand. I don't think I can watch this anymore.

Weepsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119823693#Comment_119823693

City won't attract any more viewers than PSG v Jive imo over here.

Liverpool, celtic and man utd games featured heavily in both virgin and rtes top 10 ratings for september. Only 1 city game did across both networks and between them they had at least 2 if not 3 games

Did you smash it

Jeez how good a manager is Marco Rose or how bad a one is Tedesco?

DellyBelly

Just watched Celtic there....god Scottish football is very weak. I know there is talk of Rangers and Celtic going to the premier league but they would hardly be competitive in the championship.....

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119825438#Comment_119825438

I was more thinking the bizarre bit was if you are going to show a dead rubber you would show an English one.

Personally Ide love them to show Milan Salsburg but I know that's too much to ask.

Esse85

Absolutely world class goal from Mbappe.

breezy1985

Milan 1 up thanks to Giroud.

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119825759#Comment_119825759

There is no talk of them going to the Premier league.

breezy1985

Milan 2-0 Salsburg.

Another header this time Krunic

breezy1985

Milan 3 up. Giroud again after Leao ran the entire Salsburg team around the box.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119825421#Comment_119825421

It’s stupid that ball to hand isn’t a foul anywhere but the penalty box. Brought in by refs who didn’t want the hassle of making a decision

breezy1985

PSG end up as 2nd seed.

citytillidie

Key

Match Day 6 Results

Group A

Liverpool FC (ENG) 2 V 0 SSC Napoli (ITA)

Rangers FC (SCO) 1 V 3 AFC Ajax (NED)

Group B

Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER) 0 V 0 Club Brugge (BEL)

FC Porto (POR) 2 V 1 Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)

Group C

FC Bayern München (GER) 2 V 0 FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)

FC Viktoria Plzeň (CZE) 2 V 4 FC Barcelona (ESP)

Group D

Olympique de Marseille (FRA) 1 V 2 Tottenham Hotspur (ENG)

Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR) 1 V 2 Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)

Group E

AC Milan (ITA) 4 V 0 FC Salzburg (AUT)

Chelsea FC (ENG) 2 V 1 GNK Dinamo Zagreb (CRO)

Group F

FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 0 V 4 RB Leipzig (GER)

Real Madrid CF (ESP) 5 V 1 Celtic FC (SCO)

Group G

F.C. Copenhagen (DEN) 1 V 1 Borussia Dortmund (GER)

Manchester City FC (ENG) 3 V 1 Sevilla FC (ESP)

Group H

Juventus (ITA) 1 V 2 Paris Saint-Germain (FRA)

Maccabi Haifa FC (ISR) 1 V 6 SL Benfica (POR)

Dr. Bre

man City v PSG would be a great last 16 match

Weepsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119825421#Comment_119825421

The first one was a fairly nailed on penalty no matter what. Second was harsh

Dr. Bre

nothing could separate Benfica PAris at the top so it went on the amount of away goals scored

Brewster

I guess the Champions league really starts from here on in. It’s so hard for clubs from smaller leagues to compete, but still, it’s important that they are part of the tournament. Yet, the financial boost they get, in turn, leads to financial disparity in their own domestic leagues.

DellyBelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119826017#Comment_119826017

Just as well for them...they'd be hammered every game...

Fitz*

Benfica were drawn with PSG, Juventus, Bayern & Barca in the previous 2 groups stages. They've progressed both seasons now, winning the group this season.

Whatever they are doing there, they're doing it right.

Bluebb993

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119826540#Comment_119826540

Plenty of players been sold to Pl clubs the last few years aswell. 4 of 5 to city, 2 to Liverpool?

NIMAN

And they seem to invest their money well. They didn't miss Nunez at all last night.

billyhead

Benfica get a lot of talent from South America and then sell them on.

TheCitizen

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119826486#Comment_119826486

Seen this chat a million times before. If they were put into that EPL environment everything would change for them and within a couple of seasons they’d be a different proposition for any opponent.

A European Super League is what’s needed but not the ridiculous closed shop idea that was originally touted. Preferably a two or more tier league with relegation and promotion into it to ensure the pyramid of the game remains intact and the potential for clubs to work towards promotion into it remains an aspiration while badly run clubs find themselves relegated.

For now all Celtic can do is win the league again and make sure they’re in the Champions League again next year and perform better using the experience from this season. Same goes for other traditionally big clubs from smaller leagues like Ajax. Club Brugge qualified from their group.

yourdeadwright

Liverpool end up with more points than any other English side & yet are the only English side not to win there group

That's footall

DubDani

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119828788#Comment_119828788

Some oddties this year and to me the thing that makes this so exciting.

Take Bayern... taken the maximum of 18 points and still having a 50% chance of meeting PSG or Liverpool in the last 16.

CalamariFritti

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119800706#Comment_119800706

Just wanted to add something.

Today I am reading 'kicker' soccer mag which is Germany's biggest soccer mag. Many decades old, print and everything.

And they polled their readers - 200,000 votes - and 67% said VAR must go. I'm not the only one thinking this then.

martyos121

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119831477#Comment_119831477

And that's from a country where it's actually been used properly. I'm starting to think it's time to get rid as well, because I was sure it'd stamp out corruption and bias but if anything, it's made it even more obvious while nobody is ever held accountable.

NIMAN

My greatest worry about getting rid of VAR is that the TV analysts and companies would continue to use it, or their own form of it, and they'd be highlighting incorrect offside decisions etc every single week, and that would really annoy fans if your team suffered a bad refereeing decision.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119836156#Comment_119836156

I would definitely keep it for offside which is a clearcut decision.

The handball thing is doing my head in though.

NIMAN

Agree about the handballs.

Some of them are just crazy now. The accidental handball seems to have been banished from the game, nearly every ball to arm contact now seems to be an automatic penalty.

In the future, forwards will be aiming for defenders arms as much as the net.