Champions League 23/24

Who will win CL this season?

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companyofcules

companyofcules

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FC B said:
Sadly, this CL edition marks the first in VAR era in which Madrid got away with murder, aka refereeing "mistakes", ofc always in their favour. Leipzig games, Bayern return leg and the final.

Since 2019 when VAR was implemented in CL, there were no more refereeing scandals involving Madrid in CL and therefore only one CL won for them in that time span. It seems to me they finally "adapted" to VAR in CL and it took them quite a while to do so.

Hopefully we won't see a repeat of what we saw back in the last years without the VAR system in CL (2016-2018) in which Madrid had the season and the refereeing scandals always for them and never against them and in the end the win of the trophy, season after season.
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There was vs PSG, clear foul on Donnarumma that made possible the remontada. More clear than this penalty
 
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Morten

Senior Member
Feels like Dortmund made a mistake switching on Reus, didn't have much of an impact, and left Dortmund without much pace up front.
 
serghei

serghei

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fergus90 said:
First 50 minutes Dortmund were the better team but in the end Real ran out deserved winners. Dortmund ran out of ideas and belief.

Second half once Vinicius and Rodrygo were 1v1 with the Dortmund fullbacks more often, the game changed.
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This is because Adeyemi for example, but even Sancho to a lesser extent, played at a high level physically in the 1st half. Me and my friend even said in the 1st half that they can't keep this intensity up and Madrid is gonna cook them in the 2nd half, and exactly this happened. In this aspect, the game has been very predictable.

They needed to keep the same level of intensity and pressure for 90 mins, but Dortmund fell off a cliff in the 2nd half. And the big chance Adeyemi missed in the 1st half, that 1 vs 1, that should have been a goal. So basically, Dortmund gave it all in the 1st half, trying to get some lead to defend like vs PSG, but it did not work as planned.
 
Horatio

Horatio

You're welcome
serghei said:
This is because Adeyemi for example, but even Sancho played at an insane level physically in the 1st half. Me and my friend even said in the 1st half that they can't keep this intensity up and Madrid is gonna cook them in the 2nd half, and exactly this
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Ten Hag W?
 
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Morten

Senior Member
cracken said:
It's weird that you're trying to impose your ideals into another fanbase. Madrid doesn't have a specific style but they play attractive football most of the season and only close shop when they need to get a result against a stacked team, usually in a second leg away from home. Just contrast the first and second legs against Man City this year, one was the former while the second was a perfect example of the latter. No reasonable fanbase is expecting their team to live and die by a "philosophy".

Capello's football was significantly less appealing than Ancelotti's and the results weren't even comparable. Ancelotti won the long-awaited Decima in his first season whereas Capello eked out a league title on goal difference against a lackluster Barcelona and got embarrassed in the round of 16 vs a trash Bayern Munich. Ancleotti would have met the same fate if that's what he served in his first season.
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True, the football under Capello was actually dire, believe me, i watched some of it, Ancelotti's football is definitely better, and always has been.
We scored 60 something goals in that league campaign, we only won because we faced a similiar abysmal Barca, but even then, they had a much better g/d than us.

Comparing that to Ancelotti's team when he returned is a joke.
 
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