UEFA Champions League Continued 2015/16

[Aidan11]

Why didn't Arsenal play Cech?

[dan08]

Why didn't Arsenal play Cech?

Rested for the Man Utd game apparently.

[Aidan11]

Why didn't Arsenal play Cech?

Rested for the Man Utd game apparently.

That backfired then.


Wenger must be madder than Ronnie Pickering in that dressing room right now.

[yuppie]

At this rate no English teams will get out of the group stages

[Aidan11]

So much for the English league supposedly being the best in Europe.

[yuppie]

So much for the English league supposedly being the best in Europe.

Certainly is the most watched. Looks pretty even this year as well.

[budgetmeansbudget]

So much for the English league supposedly being the best in Europe.

Depends what you mean by best. Probably not the technically best league in Europe but in terms of watch ability and providing overall entertainment to the watching public I don't think you can beat it. If money is the measure then it's way ahead of the rest. In terms of recent European success then it clearly isn't the best.

[Gingerfinch]

Don't think we've been the best since 2008ish time. We regularly had two-three teams in the QF's, and/or semi's. Our league is at present a little weak, but that's not a bad thing, if one of the smaller teams can sneak into the top six.

[The Waugh Twins]

Undergods Man U need to somehow stay within 5 or 6 goals of Wolfsburg at half time to avoid total embarrassment today.

[Aidan11]

Won't be that bad but I do have a feeling they will lose tonight.

[Aidan11]

[Gingerfinch]

Utd 2 - Wolfsburg 1
mönchengladbach - 0 City 2

You heard it here first

[The Waugh Twins]

Won't be that bad but I do have a feeling they will lose tonight.

yeah I know, just being pessimistic in the hope that it might cause an optimistic result.

[The Waugh Twins]

Wow that good hey.

[sussexpob]

So much for the English league supposedly being the best in Europe.

Its precisely the fact that the Premier League is the best in Europe as to the reason why English teams are terrible in the Champions League.

Take Arsenal - They lost to Dinamo Zagreb, a team who just won their 11 title in a row by going the whole of last year undefeated. They rested all their outfielder starting line up before the Arsenal game, and 9 before Munich. The only two players who played were subbed off at half time, and they smashed 4 past some hapless domestic team.

Olympiakos rested half their team and still beat some hapless side in their league 5-1 at the weekend. They have a 100% record this year, and have won the last league in 2014-15 by 12 points. Olympiakos have won 42 leagues out of 56 seasons of Greek football. They have won 10 out of the last 11 years.

These teams can rest up and focus on these games..... Arsenal go to United in a few days and have to have one eye all the time on who they play next. Zagreb and Olympiakos could happily throw points away in the domestic league to keep a team 100% fit for one 90 minutes.