Exactly, there's no easy way through for this trophy anymore. I do love my team (Forest) and love that we won it two years running, but to win it in the current format needs so much more ability than it's ever needed before.
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Originally posted by neoboy259 View PostIf you wanna win the Champions League you will have to face, and beat, the best teams at some point.
That said, I think if 3-4 English teams make it to the semis again this year, UEFA will act in one of three ways : lower the number of teams to 3, removing the country protection or only having one or two seeded teams. They made it perfectly clear last year they didn't want an all English final again.
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Most surprising result in today's matches was at the Nou Camp where Barcelona lost 2-1 to Rubin Kazan. Liverpool slumped to another defeat but until it's mathematically impossible for them to qualify for the next phase, no one should write them off just yet...
The pick of tomorrow's games will see the two most successful teams in the history of the European Cup face off against each other - Real Madrid vs AC Milan. Should be interesting, not least for Kaka.
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So, while Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea are making light work of their groups, the other glamour sides in Europe are having a far harder time of it.
Barcelona only took 1 point from their two games against the Russian champions Rubin Kazan, that group is still wide open with any of the four teams able to take it.
And Milan, Real and Marseille are contesting a very close group as well.
Seville are through, I think Bordeaux might be (dont have their head to head record handy, so not sure if Bayern can overhaul them or not). Porto are through, they're in Chelsea's group and that ones basically over.Last edited by Flabio; 04-11-2009, 20:48.
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So, crunch time for Liverpool tonight. They should beat the Hungarians even without Torres and Babel, but I fancy Fiorentina to beat Lyon which would make the result irrelevant.
I just can't see Lyon turning up, they've already qualified and I can't see them being that fussed about whether they're playing a group winner or runner up next round given that the way some of the groups are going the 'stronger' teams are jsut as likely to be second as first.
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Yes it is.
Last year Lyon came second, drew Barca in the knockout round and got a bit of a battering. Hopefully they'll want to avoid the same thing happening again and go for a positive result.
Fiorentina lost at home to Parma last time out too, so hopefully they aren't in the best of form.
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