Cup specialist vs Anti-cup specialist

Benitez is a proven European coach while Rudi has disappointed badly in getting results in Europe.This is also the first time Rudi gets his team past the group stages.

Madrid even in turmoil should be able to thwart of Roma's resistance who last played the knockouts in 2011.

Btw last time Roma met Madrid, Roma knocked them out.Anyone still remember that ?

lol This will be the highest scoring CL tie. Mostly by Madrid

I don't remember that but I will surely remember when Roma kick them out this time.

Hope we tell CR Roma is a relegation team. He will take care of the rest.

@adit this ^^^

I remember when we knocked them out. Vucinic was irresistible, but Madrid had Julio Baptista ....the teams were completely different then.

Adit wrote:Hope we tell CR Roma is a relegation team. He will take care of the rest.

McLewis wrote:I remember when we knocked them out. Vucinic was irresistible, but Madrid had Julio Baptista ....the teams were completely different then.

Van Nistelrooy, Robben, Guti, Raul, Wes Sneijder who was in the form of his life.Pretty much a star studded team except for their leaky defense.They even won their league that yr
Madrid crashing out early year after year.Good times

This is the Roma side that beat them:

Doni, Cicinho (Panucci 87), Juan, Mexes, Tonetto, Aquilani, De Rossi, Taddei, Perrotta (Pizarro 77), Mancini (Vucinic 65), Totti

Hard-working, well-drilled, counter-attacking side, that. Nothing like what we have now.

Most even game of the last 16 stage

Salah/Gervinho vs Danilo Ramos vs Pjanic/Iturbe/Falque whichever guy who is around his area James/Bale vs a decent team

Please have mercy on us

S wrote:

McLewis wrote:I remember when we knocked them out. Vucinic was irresistible, but Madrid had Julio Baptista ....the teams were completely different then.

Van Nistelrooy, Robben, Guti, Raul, Wes Sneijder who was in the form of his life.Pretty much a star studded team except for their leaky defense.They even won their league that yr
Madrid crashing out early year after year.Good times

i think van nistelrooy and robben were injured in either the second or first leg. guti started both and was mr inconsistent (there are two extremes to guti, he either plays world class, and by world class, i mean super super amazing world class or is an absolute idiot; he had an assist in the second leg i believe, but it was a game he chose to be an absolute idiot). raul, even though he was getting a bit of a comeback that year, was far from the same raul of old, he had declined by then. we also had gago and mahmoudu diarra manning the midfield, an ageing salgado, a garbage cannavaro and a garbage heinze.

on paper we looked good, but that was one of the poorest madrid sides in years (even though we won la liga back to back), and that roma side on paper may not have been much, but they were playing some brilliant football under spalletti. in reality, they were better than us- totti was redefining the false 9, mancini was beasting, taddei was in form, with that talent and our shaky back four and midfield, i never considered that loss an upset. hell you couldn't trust us in europe back in those days, even against mid-level sides

titosantill wrote:

S wrote:

McLewis wrote:I remember when we knocked them out. Vucinic was irresistible, but Madrid had Julio Baptista ....the teams were completely different then.

Van Nistelrooy, Robben, Guti, Raul, Wes Sneijder who was in the form of his life.Pretty much a star studded team except for their leaky defense.They even won their league that yr
Madrid crashing out early year after year.Good times

i think van nistelrooy and robben were injured in either the second or first leg. guti started both and was mr inconsistent (there are two extremes to guti, he either plays world class, and by world class, i mean super super amazing world class or is an absolute idiot; he had an assist in the second leg i believe, but it was a game he chose to be an absolute idiot). raul, even though he was getting a bit of a comeback that year, was far from the same raul of old, he had declined by then. we also had gago and mahmoudu diarra manning the midfield, an ageing salgado, a garbage cannavaro and a garbage heinze.

on paper we looked good, but that was one of the poorest madrid sides in years (even though we won la liga back to back), and that roma side on paper may not have been much, but they were playing some brilliant football under spalletti. in reality, they were better than us- totti was redefining the false 9, mancini was beasting, taddei was in form, with that talent and our shaky back four and midfield, i never considered that loss an upset. hell you couldn't trust us in europe back in those days, even against mid-level sides

Aquilani too. Absolutely thunderous shots. After that, I was always surprised that he wasn't rated higher on Football Manager

Yea, I remember him hitting the post from way out on the Bernabeu. It was a nasty shot.

20-1 on aggregate.

I get the feeling that the reason some of you guys are belittling Roma is to make the likely defeat of Real Madrid even more trollable .

Seriously, who do you think we are? Greek Gods FC?

This is probably the most balanced draw of round of 16 and it could go either way. Saying otherwise is simply nonsensical.

You are overrating this Roma , they can ' t beat even Bate Borisov and Spezia at home atm.
But basically even if they were in their best,  it would not be the most balanced match of round of 16

The Demon of Carthage wrote:I get the feeling that the reason some of you guys are belittling Roma is to make the likely defeat of Real Madrid even more trollable .

Seriously, who do you think we are? Greek Gods FC?

This is probably the most balanced draw of round of 16 and it could go either way. Saying otherwise is simply nonsensical.

Roma lost to Spezia who are 11th in Serie B using pretty much their first team. I don't think you quite understand how bad Roma are at the moment.

Both teams are off form, this match can go either way.

breva wrote:

The Demon of Carthage wrote:I get the feeling that the reason some of you guys are belittling Roma is to make the likely defeat of Real Madrid even more trollable .

Seriously, who do you think we are? Greek Gods FC?

This is probably the most balanced draw of round of 16 and it could go either way. Saying otherwise is simply nonsensical.

Roma lost to Spezia who are 11th in Serie B using pretty much their first team. I don't think you quite understand how bad Roma are at the moment.

Even Real Madrid was knocked out by a Serie B team in National Cup tbh.

Robespierre wrote:

breva wrote:

The Demon of Carthage wrote:I get the feeling that the reason some of you guys are belittling Roma is to make the likely defeat of Real Madrid even more trollable .

Seriously, who do you think we are? Greek Gods FC?

This is probably the most balanced draw of round of 16 and it could go either way. Saying otherwise is simply nonsensical.

Roma lost to Spezia who are 11th in Serie B using pretty much their first team. I don't think you quite understand how bad Roma are at the moment.

Even Real Madrid was knocked out by a Serie B team in National Cup tbh.

The game is still 2 months away ffs.

^^ the way some are posting i thought the match was next week , anyway the team will win regardless of the coach, semi's again will decide the season.

Looks like we'll have a new coach for this tie anyway. A lot can change in 2 months.

I still think we'll get a hiding personally.

Valkyrja wrote:

Robespierre wrote:

breva wrote:

Roma lost to Spezia who are 11th in Serie B using pretty much their first team. I don't think you quite understand how bad Roma are at the moment.

Even Real Madrid was knocked out by a Serie B team in National Cup tbh.

In a more embarrassing but less performance related way.

That banter when Garcia gets sacked and Mou takes over Roma.