keep in mind how much city had to struggle to leave cska and roma behind. if not for two horrid individual blackouts from bayern players after having dominated city at ettihad one man down for 85 minutes (which had obviously cost them tons of energy and concentration), city would not even be in the ro16.

barca on the other hand has played most of the first half of the season without one of the best strikers in the world, who now is back and can practice and find his balance with neymar and messi to form what might be the most terrifying attack line in the world. (ofc barca's defense is still shit, but so is city's...)

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

February 16 2015 15:41 GMT

#2044

Champions League RO16 - Day 1
Kick Off

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Team News
Paris Saint-German
Sirigu
van der Wiel Silva Marquinhos Maxwell
David Luiz Verratti Matuidi
Lavezzi Ibrahimovic Cavani
Chelsea FC
Courtois
Ivanovic Cahill Terry Azpilicueta
Ramires Matic
Willian Fabregas Hazard
Diego Costa.

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır

Team News
Shakthar
Pyatov
Srna Kucher Rakitskiy Shevchuk
Fred Fernando Costa
Teixeira Taison Adriano

Bayern Munchen
Neuer
Rafinha Boateng Bernat Alaba
Alonso Schweinsteiger
Ribéry Götze Robben
Müller

Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco

HandleTaken

Sweden81 Posts

February 16 2015 17:16 GMT

#2045

I've bet on the Zlatan booked, Zlatan scores, Zlatan wins combo

Chelsea is the favorite though I'm afraid.

Skynx

Turkey7150 Posts

February 16 2015 19:36 GMT

#2046

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE HYPE!

Also Mourinho jynx wtf, PSG forced to play u21 team

Rebs

Pakistan10726 Posts

February 16 2015 20:21 GMT

#2047

On December 16 2014 08:50 Liquid`Drone wrote:

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haha ok I just read something that makes me kinda agree I guess

Out of all central defenders in La Liga, Pepe has caused the least free kicks and he hasn't gotten a single yellow card so far
that's gotta be wrong xD
I mean yeah it's caused by real madrid attacking so much more than they are defending and I guess they're not hit on counters that often but that still feels really wrong

Hes actually playing really well, its not all doom and gloom for teams playing Madrid they get attacked a fair bit.

Barca best D in the league statistically so the attacking alot and ball possesion logic applies to them a bit more
Also Barca have started doing the sit back let teams attack and break thing if their initial press., doesn't work and Messi lead breaks are pretty devastating,

ViperPL

Poland1775 Posts

February 17 2015 06:47 GMT

#2048

Ow yeah, Champions League is back! Mid february is always a great time of the year

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

February 17 2015 08:44 GMT

#2049

Updated team news and injuries.

smr

Germany4808 Posts

February 17 2015 08:55 GMT

#2050

prediction time!
psg 1:1 Chelsea
shaktar 0:5 Bayern

zeo

Serbia6342 Posts

February 17 2015 09:11 GMT

#2051

On February 17 2015 17:55 smr wrote:
prediction time!
psg 1:1 Chelsea
shaktar 0:5 Bayern

More like PSG 0:5 Chelsea
Shakhtar 1:1 Bayern

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

February 17 2015 09:18 GMT

#2052

One thing i noticed reading the press stuff. Why on earth has Blanc now decided it be good time to have "digs" at Ibrahimovic. In the game where he needs him the most, to have the best game at that high level. To cause Chelsea big problems, he starts saying "he needs to keep his shirt on, we dont want to see his tattoo's" etcetc.

Ibra is one of "those" kinds of players where if you do not play off of his ego he will not play for you. So that is good to know, Cavani is also not happy and isn't in good form. Lavezzi also isn't happy at the club so it seems PSG are in real trouble this time around which is a shame because on paper this tie looked just as good as last years.

NuclearJudas

6546 Posts

February 17 2015 14:51 GMT

#2053

Too many injuries for PSG. Chelsea win away and then secure the tie at home. Feels like classic Mou games coming up. Can see Costa getting sent off for twatting Luiz, which would be fun.

I guess Bayern will beat Shaktar. Almost tempted to watch that game to see how good Bayern are now.

Akka

France291 Posts

February 17 2015 15:16 GMT

#2054

Coincidentally I'm back in France for a few days so I'll go to the Parc tonight. I hope we'll see something like this again: https://vine.co/v/OxmbFpXYMTZ
but I'm very doubtful.
Then again, our team always performs better in CL at home ^^

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

February 17 2015 15:49 GMT

#2055

Luckily Lampard will not be playing and trying to defend, nor will we have Luiz /afk in the penalty area looking at Pastore's legs.

But yeah PSG not lost at him in 32 ties in Europe. But records are made to be broken

Sermokala

United States14127 Posts

February 17 2015 17:27 GMT

#2056

Shaktur is playing without a soul beacuse their home is in a literal warzone. Bayern has german superstars and shaktur has brazilian superstars. We all know what happened the last time they met.

malcram

2752 Posts

February 17 2015 17:36 GMT

#2057

guys, where to watch from browser? =X

zeo

Serbia6342 Posts

February 17 2015 18:47 GMT

#2058

On February 18 2015 02:27 Sermokala wrote:
Shaktur is playing without a soul beacuse their home is in a literal warzone. Bayern has german superstars and shaktur has brazilian superstars. We all know what happened the last time they met.

I just looked at Shakhtar's player list... 13 Brazilians, one Croatian and 11 Ukraine. They could field an entire team of Brazilians