Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

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emir said:
City are the better side no doubt but they only have a slender lead to take to the Bernabeu. We saw how much they struggled at Atletico's ground but we are talking about the Bernabeu here and Real Madrid, it's on another level. The home advantage will favour Real Madrid greatly.

What I'm saying here is, football isn't played on paper.
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Chelsea have recently beat Madrid ( on the night ) in their own backyard. Completely dominating massive portions of this game. The season before, they failed to beat Chelsea at home again in the knockout stages and were knocked out. The season before that, City came away from the Bernabeu with a win in the knockout stages, eventually knocking them out. Going back yet another season, Ajax punted them 4-1 at the Bernabeu despite Madrid leading from the 1st leg and were knocked out.

Not to mention CL home defeats against Shaktar Donetsk, CSKA Moscow, Shefiff Tiraspol and Club Brugge in the last couple of years alone.

You saying home advantage favours Madrid ' greatly ' isn't at all accurate when looked at more closely.
 
NathDogg said:
Just turned lfctv on, I mean bt sport - ultimate fap fest over the ped Heds.

Apparently we get too hung up over the lines they draw for var and the benefit of the doubt should go to the attacker, because mane was offside!?

They weren’t saying that when Lukaku scored from being inside and var ruled it out in the league cup, the jokers.

Sick to death of the double standards.
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I also watched that.
Michael Owen definitely spoke about the Premier Leagues and trophies his ex club had won,with Rio Ferdinand looking at him in disbelief.
 
sd_1992 said:
Yeah, mad how they keep getting gifted easy routes to the final....
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It's not mad, it's just incredibly good luck, and often. Then you add in the 50/50 VAR calls that ultimately all go in their favour, the fact that they are play an unchanged starting xi virtually all season with about six/seven 30m+ players sat on the bench each week, pretty easy to see why they're doing what they're doing. Their luck seems to never end. They played Henderson and some other cart at centre back for about 3/4 of the season last year and still almost won under the league. I sure enjoyed the 'dry' years they had in the early 2000s, but it seems a long way away now, and to be honest even when they were crap they ended up winning the Champions League with the likes of Dudek, Biscan and Djimi bleedin' Traore representing them. The devil's club.
 
City wil ease past Real in 2nd leg, I'm shocked how a defence like that has gotten so far in the CL as Real leak goals for fun, Militao is the Brazilian Maguire and Alaba is not a CB in a back 4, he's better in a back 3, he got exposed badly by City that made Carlo haul him off at HT.

City will score 3 over there and will have Cancelo back from suspension, 3-0 win.
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
I think City will probably see it out to be honest

This could be the season they finally do it
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Wouldn’t put it past UEFA to have them out in the second leg. They want a Madrid Liverpool final for the tv money, to avoid another all English final, and to ensure the team that hates uefa the most don’t win it. I’m not saying City won’t be good enough to go through anyway, but it wouldn’t shock me to see the ref doing all he can to give Madrid a leg up in that game.
 
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