On December 20 2013 04:48 Mensol wrote: I'm betting on Arsenal as long as their roster stays injury-free.
For MCity-Barca, Yaya Toure is going to destroy Barca's midfield.
The problem for MCity is that Touré is the only beast in their midfield. And I don't think their attacking front/midfield is so used to run after the ball. I would say Barça favourite 60/40 (after all, Manchester City has 0 experience in big Champions League games, and Pelegrini has never caused too much problems to Barça teams in the past), and 70/30 if Messi comes back strong. Aguero's potential absence is important, but I don't think he is the most adequate player to disturb Barcelona's defense. Silva + a strong 9 like Negredo/Dzeko is going to be more scary for our CBs that aren't having their best season...
I wouldn't be so confident about the game being a walkover for PSG. If they get into CL mode, sure, but their past few games have been unequal in quality, and they tend to waste too many opportunities to score.
Well, Leverkusen lost 5 of their last 7 games. 3 of these opponents are teams in the last third of the table and another opponent is from the 2nd league (cup game). Additionally, they play even worse in the CL (how can you lose 2-9 in aggregate against ManUnited in THIS season?)