2021-22 Club Soccer (UCL, EL, Libertadores, CCL & Domestic Leagues) Barca Death Spiral Edition

[Snorky's Shame]

Barca lost to Betis lul

I mean Betis was ahead of Barcelona going into the game.

That said, they couldn’t score on a defense with Bellerin on it so there’s that.

 

[silverwheels]

Barca in the Europa League for the first time since 2004.

 

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Barca in the Europa League for the first time since 2004.

Barcelona might have a chance in this competition!

Who the hell am I kidding, Sevilla is going to win it for the 922nd time.

 

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Pot 1:

Manchester City
Liverpool
Ajax
Real Madrid
Bayern
Manchester United
Lille
Juventus

Pot 2:

Paris
Atletico
Sporting
Internazionale
Benfica
Atalanta/Villarreal
Salzburg
Chelsea

Cool kids tournament:

Leipzig
Porto
Dortmund
Sheriff
Barcelona
Atalanta/Villarreal
Sevilla
Zenit

Go home you’re drunk:

Club Brugge
Milan
Besiktas
Shakhtar
Dynamo Kyiv
Young Boys
Wolfsburg
Malmo

 

[silverwheels]

Liverpool prolly going to get Paris or Inter right out of the gate.

 

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UCL Draw

Benfica v Real Madrid
Villarreal v Manchester City
Atletico v Bayern
Salzburg v Liverpool
Internazionale v Ajax
Sporting v Juventus
Chelsea v Lille
Paris v Manchester United

Messi v Ronaldo. Again. Atletico v Bayern seems interesting but Atletico isn’t playing well right now.

EL Draw

Sevilla v Dinamo Zagreb
Atalanta v Olympiakos
Leipzig v Real Sociedad
Barcelona v Napoli
Zenit v Betis
Dortmund v Rangers
Sheriff v Braga
Porto v Lazio

Byes to Round of 16: Crvena zvezda, Frankfurt, Galatasaray, Leverkusen, Lyon, Monaco, Spartak Moskva, West Ham

Of course Barcelona get the toughest team they can draw.

EDIT: UCL Draw voided because of a clerical error. New draw at 9 am ET

 

[bruin]

LOL

 

[kella]

Wtf?

 

[Snorky's Shame]

New UCL Draw

Salzburg v Bayern
Sporting v Manchester City
Benfica v Ajax
Chelsea v Lille
Atletico v Manchester United
Villarreal v Juventus
Internazionale v Liverpool
Paris v Real Madrid

Arguably the two biggest clubs outside the top five meet up, Liverpool goes to San Siro again, Ronaldo faces Atletico and Messi faces Real Madrid again.

EL Draw

Sevilla v Dinamo Zagreb
Atalanta v Olympiakos
Leipzig v Real Sociedad
Barcelona v Napoli
Zenit v Betis
Dortmund v Rangers
Sheriff v Braga
Porto v Lazio

Byes to Round of 16: Crvena zvezda, Frankfurt, Galatasaray, Leverkusen, Lyon, Monaco, Spartak Moskva, West Ham

ECL Draw

Marseille v Qarabag
PSV v Maccabi Tel-Aviv
Fenerbahce v Slavia Praha
Midtjylland v PAOK
Leicester v Randers
Celtic v Bodo Glimt
Sparta Praha v Partizan
Rapid Wien v Tottenham/Vitesse

Byes to Round of 16: AZ, Basel, Feyenoord, Gent, København, LASK, Rennes, Roma

Teams left in Europe by country:

7: Spain
6 or 7: England
6: France, Italy
5: Germany
4 or 5: Netherlands
4: Portugal
3: Austria, Denmark
2: Czech Republic, Greece, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Turkey
1: Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia, Israel, Moldova, Norway, Switzerland

Belgium, Russia and Ukraine probably going to take a hit with their coefficient while the Dutch should see theirs improve.

 

[silverwheels]

Liverpool prolly going to get Paris or Inter right out of the gate.

 

[goblue96]

 

[Snorky's Shame]

So 4/5 of the big five leagues in Europe are pretty much done and Italy could be getting there.

Might be a good time to watch leagues outside the big five.

It’s a two way race between Porto and Sporting in Portugal. The big three in the Netherlands are in a race and in Belgium a team that hasn’t won a championship in 87 years could finally win one.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

I guess Manchester City has qualified for the quarter-finals already.

 

[silverwheels]

UEFA is moving the CL final out of St. Petersburg for obvious reasons.

 

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UEFA is moving the CL final out of St. Petersburg for obvious reasons.

The Final is now at the Stade de France in Paris/Saint-Denis. Can’t believe it’s been 16 years since the last final.

Europa League Draw:

Rangers - Crvena Zvezda
Braga - Monaco
Porto - Lyon
Atalanta - Leverkusen
Sevilla - West Ham
Barcelona - Galatasaray
Leipzig - Spartak Moskva
Betis - Frankfurt

Europa Conference League Draw:

Marseille - Basel
Leicester - Rennes
PAOK - Gent
Vitesse - Roma
PSV - København
Slavia Praha - LASK
Bodo/Glimt - AZ
Partizan - Feyenoord

Also neutral sites for Russia or Ukraine home games. This goes for club and country.

 

[bruin]

17 dead and possibly more last night in Mexico. Reports coming out police in with the cartel. Horrible look Mexico. But with what’s going on down there, not surprising.

 

[silverwheels]

Ref in Liverpool-Inter was card happy as hell but on to the next!

 

[Snorky's Shame]

The Paris memes should be fun tonight.

 

[silverwheels]

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Money can’t buy you love

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Sources: Security called as PSG chief goes for ref

Paris Saint-Germain were left fuming after Real Madrid's 3-1 Champions League win at the Bernabeu, sources told ESPN.

www.espnfc.com

Paris unhinged.

 

[goblue96]

 

[silverwheels]

LOL Juve

 

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North vs. South in the UCL Draw.

(In bracket order)

Benfica - Liverpool
Villarreal - Bayern

Manchester City - Atletico
Chelsea - Real Madrid

Europa League Draw

West Ham - Lyon
Frankfurt - Barcelona

Leipzig - Atalanta
Braga - Rangers

Tough match up for the Dragons, the Galaxy are always tough at home. Frankfurt are the Patriots of…sorry had some WLAF/NFLE/ELF flashbacks there.

Europa Conference League Draw

Leicester - PSV
Bodo/Glimt - Roma

Feyenoord - Slavia Praha
Marseille - PAOK

More former winners of the European Cup/Champions League in the ECL than in the EL.

Teams left in Europe by country:

5 - England
4 - Spain
3 - Germany
2 - France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
1 - Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, Scotland

 

[silverwheels]

 

[Karl Hungus]

 

[silverwheels]

Benzema got a hat trick against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

 

[kella]

Why is he better now than he was 10 years ago

 

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Hope everyone enjoyed the last Berlin Derby in the Bundesliga for awhile.

There’s a pretty good 2.Bundesliga promotion race if anyone is interested.

 

[silverwheels]

LOL Real

 

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Should have said LOL Bayern

 

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WOOF Liverpool. Good thing they won by two in the first leg.

 

[bruin]

Man, Ederson to the rescue today. Semis! @Yankee151 @bruin228

 

[silverwheels]

Thread title accurate!

 

[doh]

BarcaLOLona

Dest absolutely horrific on the 3rd goal.

The level of talent on that team is ridiculously low for all the money they've spent.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

I’d like to tell you about the game but I let a couple of Frankfurt fans in my house to watch the game for $50 while I ran errands and did some stuff for work.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Just some thoughts.

Eric Garcia is actually a microcosm of Barcelona since the start of the year to today. That said, his mistakes usually are of the WTF/catastrophe variety.

He wasn’t even the worst defender today either. Mingueza just isn’t very good and Jodi Alba is cooked because there’s no cover for him at LB.

Just give Pedri the rest of the year off. Especially if the hamstring injury is as bad as it looks. Gavi wasn’t great either but I’ll give him a pass. De Jong isn’t 100% percent and Busquets can’t cover the ground he used too.

I like Ferran Torres but man he can’t finish likes he does for Spain. Aubameyang is a stop gap for the lack of a striker. Who knows what’s going on with Dembele? He’s been pretty good ever since Koeman left. Is he playing well because he wants to stay or because he wants to leave?

Remember though this is still year one of a post-Messi/Bartomeu rebuild. These things happen with a young team. They did beat Real Madrid, Atletico and Sevilla in the last two months and there’s still a lot of young talent on this team.

Tonight does suck though.

 

[kella]

Isn't Obamayang like 35 and didn't they already make basically the same mistake with Henry like 10 years ago?

 

[Snorky's Shame]

This is different. Henry was still useful and played a big part in the 08/09 treble.

Aubameyang is a marriage of convenience. A player desperate to leave with a club in desperate for striker. He hasn’t been bad but he’s not a long term solution.

 

[silverwheels]

 

[Snorky's Shame]

He wouldn’t be at the club right now if they did.

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Napoli = Choke Club

 

[bruin]

I think City will be fine in the return to Madrid, but hope we’re not kicking ourselves all summer for not putting up 5+ yesterday.

 

[DeadMan]

Holy shit, FC Koln might end up in Europe at this rate.

 

[DeadMan]

Villarreal got their Coq out, huh?

 

[goblue96]

It's pucker time on Merseyside. Be nice if CBS Sports would fucking show the match.

 

[silverwheels]

LOLerpool is back!

 

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Oh they woke up

 

[Snorky's Shame]

Real Madrid just doesn’t die do they?

 

[silverwheels]

Revenge time!