Other CL matches : R7

[Frogfish]

Villa still losing 1-0 at Monaco but are having the better of it so far.

 

[King Binny]

Milan probably regret "giving up" on De Ketelaere too early.


View: https://x.com/brfootball/status/1881784393771217371

View: https://x.com/livescore/status/1881781075527237903

 

[Frogfish]

So Atalanta beat Sturm 5-0 whilst Villa lost 1-0 at Monaco and that could cost them a Top 8 position and mean a playoff slot instead.

 

[Frogfish]

Some big matches tonight :

Atlético Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen

Benfica vs Barcelona

Bologna vs Borussia Dortmund

 

[Frogfish]

HT

Atlético Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen. 0-1

Benfica vs Barcelona 3-1 (wow) !

Bologna vs Borussia Dortmund 0-1

 

[Dreambeliever]

Great results for us allows a little rotation in GW8 but guarantee Slot will want a perfect record.

 

[The Nomad]

Barca won it at the death. Wankers.

No rest for us

 

[ibromurph]

Fcuk sake. Benfica are shit. We need a draw final game.

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

Why? Worst we can finish is second, and first and second are all the same.

 

[Modo]

Fcuk sake. Benfica are shit. We need a draw final game.

The fuckers had a free kick in the 95th minute. Moved everyone up, leaving Rafinha all alone.
Instead of securing one point, they went for three and lost it.fucking idiots.

 

[Bradley]

Why? Worst we can finish is second, and first and second are all the same.

No trophy for 2nd place in the league phase.

 

[binomial]

FFS, why couldn't this Benfica Barca game been on tomorrow.

Looks like Benfica were screwed out of a late pen at 4-4 before Raphinha went up the other end and scored the winner seconds later.

 

[Frogfish]

PSG will need something from their home game vs City as if they lose I doubt 10 points (the max they could then make) will be enough to make the play offs.

Villa are 8th but after tomorrow likely 10th/11th.

RM & City can not make the Top 8. Inter also at risk.

Brest, Milan and Bayern should all move into the Top 8 tomorrow.

 

[Modo]

Okey Dokey scored for Boro

 

[Modo]

Damn, maybe the kid has a left foot after all:


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1i6tzo5/ben_doak_goal_for_middlesbrough/

 

[binomial]

RM & City can not make the Top 8

You don't understand how happy this makes me.

Hopefully the draw is rigged, they deserve eachother in the play offs.

 

[Modo]

You don't understand how happy this makes me.

Hopefully the draw is rigged, they deserve eachother in the play offs.

That would be great but RM are on form atm and have two easy games (Salzburg, Brest) left in the group stage.

City looks like the team that will end up between 15-18 in the league.

 

[binomial]

That would be great but RM are on form atm and have two easy games (Salzburg, Brest) left in the group stage.

City looks like the team that will end up between 15-18 in the league.

Madrid are shite, Barca own them and they needed ET to get past Celta Vigo.

 

[StevieM]

That would be great but RM are on form atm and have two easy games (Salzburg, Brest) left in the group stage.

City looks like the team that will end up between 15-18 in the league.

A PSG win tomorrow would likely mean City would struggle to get higher than 19th.

Real winning their 2 games would likely mean the finish 15th or higher.

Which all means - yes, there’s a very good chance they could play each other because 13th or 14th will play 19th or 20th.

That’s good, because it means neither can play us in the QF.

City beating PSG means they could still play Real, just depends on other results - but it also increases the risk that they could play us in the QFs.

 

[Modo]

A PSG win tomorrow would likely mean City would struggle to get higher than 19th.

Real winning their 2 games would likely mean the finish 15th or higher.

Which all means - yes, there’s a very good chance they could play each other because 13th or 14th will play 19th or 20th.

That’s good, because it means neither can play us in the QF.

City beating PSG means they could still play Real, just depends on other results - but it also increases the risk that they could play us in the QFs.

A lot of other results will determine where they both end up. Pretty difficult to predict now.
But I'd rather avoid both.

 

[StevieM]

A lot of other results will determine where they both end up. Pretty difficult to predict now.
But I'd rather avoid both.

Yep, but it’s beginning narrow, obviously there’s only one and a half rounds to go.

We’ll have a pretty strong idea after tomorrows games.

I know there’s a lot of grumping about the new format, but it does mean there’s a lot less in the way of dead rubbers, while also making the group phase more meaningful - despite Slot’s comments on it not necessarily providing an advantage - I think it does - the outliers this year are City & Real, who yiu would expect to be up near the top rather than scrambling to stay in.

I reckon they’ll bring in more seeding over time - like all the teams will be seeded after group stage so that in the R16 the highest seeded team plays the lowest seeded team that makes it through the playoff.

It’s not quite like that yet, in that Liverpool can’t play a team that finished lower than 18th regardless of how gets through.

The limited draw does give a little bit more chance… but I wonder if that’s as much about UEFA putting on a “next round draw” event more than anything - rather than just having everything mapped out.