CL round of 16

Much like last year, there are supposedly strong teams in pot to be drawn against 1st placed Group teams. Should make some interesting match ups.

Group winners:

Napoli
Porto
Bayern
Spurs
Chelsea
RMad
City
Benfica

in Pot B:

Pool
Brugge
Inter
Ein. Frankfurt
Milan
Leipzig
Bor. Dortmund
PSG


Meanwhile the following teams join ManU, Arsenal, etc in Europa.

Ajax, Bayer Leverkusen, Barca, Sporting, Red Bull Salzburg, Shakhtar, Sevilla, Juve

I hope PSG draw RM, City or Bayern rightaway

Bayern - Milan, make it happen

showdown of the Hernandezes

United, Arsenal, Barca, Juve...

EL looking more exciting tbh

Firenze wrote:United, Arsenal, Barca, Juve...

EL looking more exciting tbh

Each of those teams is complete crap

Well I’ d give him Arsenal, but agree on rest!

Myesyats wrote:I hope PSG draw RM, City or Bayern rightaway

I would like a repeat of PSG - RMad

So PSG let Benfica sneak into 1st place n drops into pot B... flopping already?

Anyway, if u wanna win CL u gotta beat the best to bring it on early I guess, good enough to beat anyone, just bad defense still though

Me now : Not Manchester City, not Manchester City

I'd like the 2 oil teams to play eachother

If Bayern and Pool don't draw eachother then they do have to hot/cold balls. I don't care what anyone says. I mean it's pretty obvious they'll draw eachother especially if we are drawn first against say Brugge.

Would be sweet if we get QSG again, put them out of their misery and watch their infighting from the comfort of our sofas.

Who knows what the form of the teams will be in February. Lots of our veterans are taking it easy so far this season. Hopefully that means they go firing on all cylinders post January.

Lots can happen in the WC. Lots of players playing their last WC so will give every bit of blood in the competition, might come back exhausting and mentally done.

Would be a dream scenario for any club drawing a smaller team in the last 16

Myesyats wrote:I hope PSG draw RM, City or Bayern rightaway

Madrid can very much beat either of them. Also, Madrid drawing PSG again would be my bet.

Realistically, we can only beat Porto and Spurs from all the teams we can face. I have my doubts on Benfica as they looked quite impressive in the groups. Watch Liverpool get Porto.

If it's not too much to ask, and given the fact that Madrid had the toughest CL route in recent memory last year, I would like this time to have an easy opponent.

But who are we kidding? Madrid is gonna have a heavyweight this time as well, isn't it.

The Demon of Carthage wrote:If it's not too much to ask, and given the fact that Madrid had the toughest CL route in recent memory last year, I would like this time to have an easy opponent.

But who are we kidding? Madrid is gonna have a heavyweight this time as well, isn't it.

Yup. Would be a dream scenario for Ceferin to have no Spanish teams beyond the R16 so that he can finally tell them to do one as they are not good enough for the CL.

City have they ever had a tough R16 draw ever?

Liverpool v Real Madrid
QSG v Bayern Munich

The only 2 games to look forward to. The rest of the ties are meh

Liverpool's dream draw. They wanted us, they got us. Salah got this, will get his revenge, 3rd times the charm as they say

Bayern already, oh ffs... oh well, hopefully MNM wont be hung over in Feb. from WC...

The QFs n beyond this yr should look pretty weak with so many strong teams out already by then...

Just by math alone it wont be Real again (said that a few times b4 XD), so it should be either Man C, PSG/Bayern. LFC are weaker n then the rest would be huge surprise winners...

Teams to advance should prolly be:

Man C
Benfica
Real
Spurs (dont watch Milan but I imagine should beat them )
Napoli
Chelsea
Inter
PSG (if MNM are back from WC on form)

Always are surprises so like maybe Dortmund/Milan/Porto or even Frankfurt cause an upset or two. Anyway, just feels a bit weak from that list... finally for Pep to win it with Man C? Hopefully PSG take the chance though...

halamadrid2 wrote:City have they ever had a tough R16 draw ever?

Liverpool v Real Madrid
QSG v Bayern Munich

The only 2 games to look forward to. The rest of the ties are meh

Liverpool's dream draw. They wanted us, they got us. Salah got this, will get his revenge, 3rd times the charm as they say

I don't think anyone in Liverpool camp wanted to face Madrid in round of 16 specifically
I think, I was more confident for the final than this time with Mane in the first XI. I had also forgotten that second leg will not be at Anfield.
But you know, who cares - we will still kick you out. We always perform better in CL compared to EPL. Also, I have observed with Klopp. He struggles sometimes against specific opponents or in finals, but eventually he gets it right. Also the games will be played next year, plenty of time to get us back in form.

Gotta mention also how badly PSG is proved to have fked up not topping the group if get knocked out by Bayern... instead of getting Brugge Club, the difference is just too immense

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Leipzig vs Man City
Brugge vs Benfica
Liverpool vs Real
Milan vs Spurs
Eintracht vs Napoli
Dortmund vs Chelsea
Inter vs Porto
PSG vs Bayern