Miscellaneous Forum

Ok. We are back in full swing. Who is going to win the champions league?

Will barca go back to back?

Either, Barcelona or Real Madrid, no doubt about it!

Hmmm...for some reason I doubt Real, but I could see Barca focusing on this since they are so far out of the league in Spain now.

Munich might be a contender as well...

It all depends on whan Real and Barça meet: If Barça is out, Real will win, if not, Barça.

Yes, you're right, Barcelona will focus on Championship, at the same time, Real has a comfortable distance (10 points), enough to relax a bit.

Very torn here - because Barcelona is my grandson's favorite - but I love Real Madrid! I do think Barca could pull thru.

BTW - my grandson made the NorCal select team and went on to make Region IV All Star - woo hooo!

Wow..congrats...that's really great! I'd be suprised actually if real or barca won...things sometimes end different than you expect....

although, that said, I'm a big fan of the football played by both teams. I do think that Real under Mourinho though is a bit negative and more fouling than necessary...just based on the classico games and copa del rey game.

I would first of all like to get the old knock out system back so that everyone could get knocked out from round 1 instead of playing endless and pointless group games that were only created to earn the tv money.
I think they are playing too many games and it affects the players negativly and it´s silly in my opinion.

But for this year i would not be suprised if Bayern won it.
The final will be in Munich and that will give them a big advantage if they make it that far.

This English sports magazine says it well, out barca in Real Madrid
http://fourfourtwo.com/clubs/realmadrid/news.aspx

Champions league we are going for our 10th ::)
Cheers

I thought the New York Giants just won!!!!!

Sorry, just a little American football humor!

Not sure I agree with you there Claus. with this way you are more certain to get the really good teams on the last rounds like in the WC
That said, I think Barca will make it again ;-)

I am not a gambling man but I wouldn't bet against Barca, I think they just have so much individual talent.

But Daarth:
the wonderful thing about football is that everyone can beat the big guys on a good day, but i champions league that hardly ever matters cause they will give them a second chance all the time until the final and there is just some charm lost then in my humble opnion.

haha, then they should rename it to Champions Cup

As I said before, my bet:

1- Barcelona
2- Real Madrid

However, if they play the final.................

shame on you Redang ::)

Yes, get rid of the groups and bring back the knock out from the start, it's so boring now, same old Barca, Real, Man u zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

So as an American just very vaguely familiar with football does the proportion of money spent on players usually equal the greater number of victories for each team?

In the end yes, but almost any team can beat the best on a good day in football and that is why i like knock out tournaments and not all this group stage crap where they can squeeze through even if they mess up.

So explain to me how group stage works. Is it like the World Cup (which I do follow a little) where there are a number of groups and the top 2 from each group survive to the round of 16.

Yes pretty much.

But then in the round of 16 you have both home and away games so you have less suprises, but more tv money.

gwened, we must accept that Barcelona has been better than anybody over the last years; from now on, we'll see, but the odds are, must be, for Barcelona (we must see though)

yes Redang but like the newspaper article says, that I posted from England, barca out Real Madrid IN....of course they will have ups and downs, we cant win every year lol!!! but 31 vs 21 etc 9 vs 4 etc etc etc sorry had to put those numbers up.
this year we will win the double Liga and Champions, watch out.

Liga is supposed to be down (finger crossed); one to go?, let's hope so!

Mou to the end ::)

so far Barcelona 0 Milan 0

Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich great match, and the revenge for Chelsea or a surprise???

...and Barcelona - Chelsea

yes what I said, the revenge for the stolen game they did on Chelsea last time thanks to the referees,its all over in videos lol!!!

Bayern are looking good on the match I watched (re-run) yesterday. Robben is in excellent form but I always did rate him.