UEFA Champions League (Part 2)

The Cruyff Turn
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Who did Chelsea get?

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2689

We had athletico last year and RM who is replaced by Villarreal.

2690

Think the home and aways have worked out well for us, other way around would have been a lot harder.

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2691

Apart from the Inter tie the rest are doable. I was apprehensive but I wouldnā€™t like to be in Shittys shoes (PSG,Barca and Napoli)

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2692

We beat them twice when playing at home.

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2693

Weā€™ll presumably get to see Curtis again, although not back at Anfield.

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2694

Yes another team we got before away and beat them 0:1.

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2695

Couldnā€™t watch, how did we end up with Arsenalā€™s draw and vice versa? Someone forgot to warm/freeze the balls?

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2696

Thierry did the draw and he wants to replace Arteta as soon as possible.

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2697

Should get top 8 with that.

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2698

Feels like a much better draw than the past two seasons.

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2699

I think the last two years have been labelled the toughest so yeah this is probably that.

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2700

Really we should be aiming to hit 17-20 points from that. Fene away could prove to be the most challenging.

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2701

Just saw our draw. Not bad at all.

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The best thing about the draw is that hopefully qualifying can be done without going all out in every game, using the squad as much as possible. Hopefullyā€¦

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2703

Curtis Jones will be hoping to play the game of his life.

Letā€™s not allow it to happen.

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2704

Great draw? finish 1st, 2nd, 8th, 12th whatever.

Then hope for an even greater draw.

Back to the positives, who doesnā€™t love Euro Anfield night.

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2705

You make a good point. There needs to be a better way to reward performance in getting to the knockout rounds.

Iā€™m not fully sure what that is, but if thereā€™s little difference between performing with excellence and finishing top/higher, and performing in such a way that you do just enough to advance, then something is wrong.

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The payoff is not trivial, but an upset in the 1st knockout round can make a big difference.

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In comparison to the other English teams, our draw is pretty good. No PSG, no RM and no Bayern. Also, two of our three more difficult games are at Anfield whereas City and Villa both have Barca away and Arsenal have Bayern away.

We could end up finishing top of the league, which means weā€™ll probably get PSG in the last 16 again.

Bring it on! Bring them all on!