Who do we want in the last 8 of the Champions League?

Giovanni said:

Odds on the combined aggregate score being 10+?
Seriously the most entertaining game on offer. Will be the polar opposite to athletico v juve.
Everybody can say whatever they want about this but it boils down to 3 key points imo.
1) which team converts their chances more often (id say dortmund are more lethal than us RIGHT NOW)
2) Whos defense can concede the least chances to the other to score from (if we have toby, jan, rose, auriee than we win in that respect).
3) If NWHL is ready!! European night under the lights with 62k yids desperate for german blood. We need the ferocious atmospher just as they will have at theirs. An nervous and tense wembley is not ideal.

This game will be bonkers and go to the very last minute at their place.

Edit...i added a 3rd but equally important point!!!

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Shadydan said:

Fundamentally my point, we're still not using dark arts to frustrate our opponents, against Barcelona we had an opportunity to get Vermaelen in trouble for the studs up challenge on Eriksen, Eriksen should have gone down clutching his leg and the other players should have surrounded the ref, what did we do...? fuck all. A min later Son was through on goal and he gets clipped by a defender and he stays on his feet, if he goes down then that player gets sent off. The same against PSV in Eindhoven where we should have managed period when Lloris got sent off better, they went onto score.

Our game management is good but not at the level of these teams such as Juve, this is why everyone talks about having the experience in these competition because it counts and players know what to do to win. This is why I don't think we can measure group stage matches against knock out matches because as I mentioned earlier there's a whole new level of intensity and mentality as it's sudden death so whether we played well against bigger sides in the group stages are irrelevant, we dismissed Real Madrid last season and they went onto win the CL.

And we're still giving away cheap goals, how many goals can you remember so far in this CL campaign where the opposition has earnt their goals, maybe 3 or 4?, the rest you can say we've literally handed the opportunity to the opposition or we could have done a lot better in preventing them.

This is why we need to avoid the bigger sides like Juve/Real/Bayern/PSG and hope for Porto or Dortmund because it's not just merely about ability, it's about mentality, game management and dark arts which comes down to experience and we're not as schooled as the bigger sides in the competition yet.

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Shadydan said:

This is whhhhhhy

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HailKingLevy said:

Who the fuck Quotes their own posts, point scoring against yourself, ydc.

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Shadydan said:

Another day another attempt to try and throw a jab at me - something I said? I must have really upset you, wanna talk about it hun? x

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Shadydan said:

Bayern would be a dream draw if they go through.

In all honesty we should be pretty confident playing anyone barring Atletico or Juve.

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bubble07 said:

2 positives. Dortmund doesn't have that aura that bayern Madrid juve and psg have. Think that is huge psychologically. Second, every team has a dip in form and as dormund havent had one yet they should have one around our game against them

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TottenhamMattSpur said:

Do you think we'll knock Liverpool or City out?

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Shadydan said:

More confident of beating them as opposed to total shithousers.

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Shadydan said:

Another day another attempt to try and throw a jab at me - something I said? I must have really upset you, wanna talk about it hun? x

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