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Guess Villarreal had an injection of cash just now because they've stepped it up and starting to create chances since the goal
Guess Villarreal had an injection of cash just now because they've stepped it up and starting to create chances since the goal
Here is my squad ranking on paper:
1- City, PSG, and CFC
2- LFC and MUFC
3- Juve and Bayern
4- AM, Barca, Madrid, and BVB
Here is my squad ranking on paper:
1- City, PSG, and CFC
2- LFC and MUFC
3- Juve and Bayern
4- AM, Barca, Madrid, and BVB
My take:
1. City, PSG
2. Chelsea, Liverpool, Bayern
3. AM, Real, Juve
4. Manu, Bvb, tottenham
5. Barca, Arsenal, Porto, Ajax, etc..
I see that a lot of people rate City and Psg as the strongest.
Ok, we'll have a good trolling spree in May of 2022 then.
Remember:
1. father Pep hasn't won a CL in 8 attempts after Barca, even though he had a CL winners Bayern and unlimited budget Man City.
Why on earth would something change this season, especially with fans returning to stadiums which means 0:3 defeats for Pep's team in quarters and semis on away games.
This season was his golden opportunity because away matches were played without fans.
And choirboys teams (like Barca and Pep's teams) usually crumble under pressure and under yelling of 80 000 opponent's fans.
That is one of the reasons why City went this far this season.
With fans, booing and aggressive fouls back in 2022, we'll probably see a good old sulking contest from Pep's team.
2. about Psg, Messi more or less had 9 years of mysery in CL matches.
And in the last few years, he almost turned into a non factor in big games.
Yet, in the next season he will be almost 35 by the time of quarters and semis.
Not only that, he is paired with an eternal loser Neymar, with whom he already played at Barca for 4 years and managed to get past quarters only once, even though back then, they were 8 years younger than in a spring of 2022 (and played in the most expensive attacking trio ever = MSN)
So, basically, people aren't valuing patterns, history, mental strength, age and real problems of teams but they just rate fancy names:
Oh, Messi, that team will surely win, lol.
Omg, Pep is the coach, that team will surely win.
Those two teams will win shit, as in majority of the last 8-10 years of Pep and Messi.
Sorry.
mate, city and psg have been in semis and final for the past two years. there aren't many clubs around to challenge them as they are constantly renewing and improving their squads with better players.
spanish clubs are in the mud or nowhere near as good as they were. italian clubs are dead at CL level. that leaves us with chelsea, liverpool and bayern as contenders for city and psg.
so, would it be unusual that from those 5 top teams that one of city or psg to make it to a final?
Psg is fine, they had two good years, but they lack something.
Neymar is injured, older and not a good leader.
Mbappe is hot and cold.
The rest of the team is meh.
Imo, Messi will not solve problems because he will change team's dynamics and he will slow them down a lot and the play will go through him all the time.
About City, they had 1 good season in Pep's 5 seasons with them.
In the first two KO rounds they played very bad German teams (so, a lucky draw), and vs Psg they were weaker but scored some wtf goals and went through.
So, basically, City played two strong ties this season: vs Psg and City.
Against Psg they scored lucky goals when they were down and Psg lacked mental strength and leaders to return.
When City faced the first "normal" team (Chelsea), they lost right away.
** and again, we played without fans, which is a dream of choirboys teams led by Pep's cleanshaven nice guys.
For whom will I cheer and who can beat City and Psg?
= good old semi-normal teams: Bayern, Liverpool, Chelsea.
Plus, both Psg and City can always go out against someone like Atletico and Juve.
And of course, Pep can go out against ANY English team, even against Man Utd.
You can never underestimate Pep, his ability to pull some experimental lineup and to lose against anyone.
Navas? Marquinhos? Hakimi? Verratti?The rest of the team is meh.
..
So, basically, people aren't valuing patterns, history, mental strength, age and real problems of teams but they just rate fancy names:
Oh, Messi, that team will surely win, lol.
Omg, Pep is the coach, that team will surely win.
Those two teams will win shit, as in majority of the last 8-10 years of Pep and Messi.
Sorry.
Navas? Marquinhos? Hakimi? Verratti?