Yeah I plumped for the Madrid match in the end.
Wow ā¦ amazing double save from Raya
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How TF did Raya get to that second effort!! Retegui didnāt even head it that firmly, probably thinking thereās no way the keeper makes this.
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Atalanta have got a pair of solid full/wing backs.
I was convinced Cuadrado was from another football era.
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Not spoken about enough how poor both Jesus and Martinelli have been for Arsenal for a long time now. January and February respectively since they last scored.
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Raum looks like a right prick.
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Edersonās been pretty solid tonight tooā¦
Lovely cross by Greizmann for a Ath Madrid winner it seems.
Top 8 after round 1 
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The goalie shite
Zakaria the Monaco player excellent against the 10 men of Barca
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Yeah need to beat Bologna next before we slide down the table over the following three matches and power back into the 8 after that.
Iām not sure Iām going write us off against Red Bull Leipzig to be honest.
Plus we are at home for the two hardest ties.
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Yeah not writing us off in any of those games; just not confident of 9 points. I think the reality is we will likely drop places over these games given the size of the table but I expect weāll finish strongly.
This is where individual results may come in to play for supporters.
Looking at those 3 middle games, I think a number of people would say, get 3 draws and your looking reasonably good for the final stretch.
Lose 2 and win 1 would give us the same number of points, but I wager a lot of fans would not be so optermistic.
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Yeah draws really are penalised with the table and different fixtures for each club in a way they werenāt previously.
Some guestimates on whatās needed to qualify for the next round;
This weeks fixtures include some tasty ties;
Tuesday 1st October 2024
8pm Arsenal v Paris St Germain
8pm Barcelona v Young Boys
8pm Bayer 04 Leverkusen v AC Milan
8pm Borussia Dortmund v Celtic
8pm Inter Milan v Crvena Zvezda
8pm PSV Eindhoven v Sporting Lisbon
8pm Slovan Bratislava v Manchester City
5.45pm SV Red Bull Salzburg v Brest
5.45pm VfB Stuttgart v Sparta Prague
Wednesday 2nd October 2024
8pm Aston Villa v Bayern Munich
8pm Benfica v AtlƩtico Madrid
8pm Dinamo Zagreb v Monaco
5.45pm Girona v Feyenoord
8pm Lille v Real Madrid
8pm Liverpool v Bologna
8pm RB Leipzig v Juventus
5.45pm Shakhtar Donetsk v Atalanta
8pm Sturm Graz v Club Brugge
While complacency would be bad, I donāt think we have much to worry about with Bologna. Their only win this season has been against a fairly hapless Monza side, they are a shadow of what they were last season.
By contrast, I think we caught Milan at the best possible time. A big win over Inter, then another W, and they are playing with much more confidence than when they faced LFC. Bayer might be in for a tough match.
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