Champions League Thread

[LukakutoStamford 779]

D'you really think so. Dortmund is not that strong, for sure City is a lot better, BVB does not have any more experience. I'm quite sure they will qualify second to RM. Bayern due to their weak group will be the only german team to qualify.

Terrible draw for Citeh. They could finish fourth and I wouldn't be surprised. It's not that Dortmund or Ajax are world beaters but I think Citeh has enough weakness that this draw could cause them a whole host of issues.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Ajax are a guaranteed 6 points and iit will be decided by Dortmund vs Citeh if they get 2 or 4 points.

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[francozola 2,040]

I'm pretty happy with this draw. Not as easy as I would have liked but we aren't Utd so can't expect that sort of 'help'. Really looking forward to those Juve matches.

And jesus some of the posts here after the draw was made...

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Btw, when actually did Messi try to belittle our success? There has actually been no Barca CL triumph without them having had luck in amazing abundance and controversial refereeing decisions to put it cautiously. I bet Barca would not have won a single title if the referees or whoever was influencing them would not have helped. To add Spanish football is hugely funded by the ever-bankrupt spanish state, who puts high taxes on everything except Real and Barca and the taxpayer of richer European Countries have to save their weakened economy and hence fund Fc Barcelona.

A certain eufemio Fuentes openly admits having injected doping substances into several Barca players. Furthermore, Barca admit using HumanGrowthHormones (hgh) excessively pre and post training sessions and games in such high dosages, it has to be allowed by Uefa. uefa have not only granted that permission (Barca is the only club to own this permission) but in order to grant a swift doping/drug control they have excused Barca players from drug controls several times....I was not surprised with spanish sports suddenly becoming so succesful in recent times

and now messi says, we were lucky to win the CL...

Don't believe me, have a look:

http://www.tagesanze.../story/17920233

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cjHyjnCfls

http://www.welt-hert...-fussball.html/

http://www.gazzetta....132951672.shtml

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Not a bad draw. We can handle Juventus and the other two teams are nothing really. It might be tough to top the group though. Anyway a massive LOL to Citeh. Hope they get destroyed.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Juve has lot of italian players and that national team was playing in final of euro. Pirlo, Vidal, Chiellini, Marchisio, Isla, Buffon and possibly Llorente are fantastic players. The only

weakness is that they lack of CL games in recent years, but shouldnt be problem for Buffon. Pirlo, etc. Shakhtar as team is not that difficult, but they are Strong squad and the weather there could be terrible. Nordsjelland will probably be easier, maybe something similar to Kobenhavn we played in past. I expect 2 draws away vs Juve and Shakhtar and 4 wins. But defeat could also be there if we wont be prepared.

[RollingPapers 194]

Wow, nice way to talk, i bet you feel very strong now !

Apart from this, hello everyone, i'm a Juventus fan from Italy.

The draw was very interesting, we look forward to play you at Stamford Bridge and at our new Juventus Stadium.

I read some positive comments from you guys about our team.

Some others instead seem to understimate us... maybe you shouldn't: after the 2006 relegation we've gone trough some difficult seasons, but when our former captain Antonio Conte joined us as a manager last year, things finally changed... the DNA of the old Juve came back, the spirit of never give up came back... like you probably know we won the league with ZERO defeats, we also reach the final of the Italian Cup and this year we already won the Italian Supercup (the equivalent of your Community Shield).

Another thing that Conte brought to this team is a very high quality football, the best in Italy, and i'm not saying this because i'm a fan.

If you look at some stats from last season games, you will notice that we always had a lot of ball possession (3rd team with more ball possession in Europe last year, see here: http://tinyurl.com/czz3bde), we never throw away the ball, not even when it's near our box.

Our defence was also very good last year (just 20 goals conceded in 38 games, best of the league), but in my opinion the strongest zone of our team is the midfield.

Pirlo, Vidal and Marchisio all had a magical season, and this year we add Isla and Asamoah, who had a very good start of the season (a goal in the Supercup, an assist in the first Serie A match vs Parma).

A greeting to all of you and sorry if my english wasn't 100% correct !

Stefano, Italy.

[Tomo 21,751]

This should take more of a big seat for the big news of the day.

Chelsea will play Wolves in the Carling Cup Third Round

[Steve 10,227]

Please, destroy Juventus! Bastards and thieves! Come on Chelsea!

[Strike 7,489]

Shakhtar Away 3 days before United at home in the league. Will have to rest players for that. shouldn't be too hard

edit: Juve away right before City home. oh dear

[Shulz 23]

Please, destroy Juventus! Bastards and thieves! Come on Chelsea!

as juve fan, brilliant way to represent your city and team! enjoy watching us this year... =)

for all the others... really looking forward to watch our games, we missed this scene and these matches! we are gonna be a tough one, guaranteed! respect for the current winners of the champions tho, glad we drew you guys =)

[Tomo 21,751]

Shakhtar Away 3 days before United at home in the league. Will have to rest players for that. shouldn't be too hard

edit: Juve away right before City home. oh dear

Shakhtar

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Azpi------------Luiz------------------Cahill-------------------Ryan

-----------------Mikel----------------Meireles----------------------

Moses----------------------Oscar---------------------------Marin

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United

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Ivan--------------Luiz--------------Terry-------------------Cole

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Hazard----------------------Mata------------------------Ramires

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[Tomo 21,751]

Good to see some Juventus fans here already, stick around, before and after our clashes

[Shulz 23]

Good to see some Juventus fans here already, stick around, before and after our clashes

you bet! always liked Chelsea since I'm from Cagliari and obviously a great fan of Zola.. hope a new friendship between our fans will start, I'm also considering about coming at Stamford to watch the game! =)

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

We got a squad with 2 absolute quality players in each field position for exactly those 3 games in a week situations. I do not worry about that. Even a team of

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Azpi------------Luiz------------------Cahill-------------------Ryan

-----------------Essien----------------Meireles----------------------

Moses----------------------Oscar---------------------------Marin

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should be capable of getting a result at juventus or shakthar (no disrespect). I mean, we don't buy quality covers for fun..

[Steve 10,227]

as juve fan, brilliant way to represent your city and team! enjoy watching us this year... =)

for all the others... really looking forward to watch our games, we missed this scene and these matches! we are gonna be a tough one, guaranteed! respect for the current winners of the champions tho, glad we drew you guys =)

Welcome to the site! All Juve fans are welcome here and please disregard Solonapoli.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Can't believe people are underrating Juventus that much. You'll be surprised. Juventus are the Italian champions, they didn't lose a game in the league last season. If you think we'd get a result from them easily then shame on you, just because Juve haven't been in the CL recently people forget that they are one of the most successful teams in Italy.

Nothing but respect for Juve, we'll need to play our strongest team at top form to beat them.

Juve XI I'm expecting is:

Buffon

Lucio - Barzagli - Chiellini

Pirlo

Lichtensteiner - Marchisio - Vidal - Asamoah

Giovinco - Vucinic

Something like that anyway. A very strong team.

This should be a great match.

[Hysteria 159]

September 19 - Juventus (H)

September 22 - Stoke (H)

September 29 - Arsenal (A)

October 2 - Nordsjaelland (A)

October 20 - Tottenham (A)

October 23 - Sakhtar (A)

October 28 - MU (H)

November 7 - Sakhtar (H)

November 11 - Liverpool (H)

November 20 - Juventus (A)

November 25 - City (H)

December 5 - Nordsjaelland (H)

December 8 - Sunderland (A)

Are you fking kidding me? Every PL clash is before/after a CL match..

That's tough. The good thing we have a deep squad.

[Ramzi 233]

Lol, this thread has went from "Why are you guys overrating Juve so much!?!" to "Why are you guys underrating Juve so much!?!"

[capriccioso 2,545]

The good thing is we're getting the away trip to Shakthar out of the way nice and early. It would have been horrific to go there on matchday 6 with qualification still not in the bag...