Arsenal got a good draw, and Arteta said we are winning it so that's one cup in the bag
Newcastle got a hard draw, Dortmund will be the key match, Milan are pretty average these days, PSG should win the group.
Going to be a strange Champions League not seeing my club involved, not even Thursday night football this year. So I doubt I’ll watch it so closely.
Some interesting draws and a real “Group of Death” for Newcastle.
Group A
Bayern, Man Utd, Copenhagen & Galatasaray
Group B
Sevilla, Arsenal, PSV & Lens
Group C
Napoli, Real Madrid, Braga & Union Berlin
Group D
Benfica, Inter, Salzburg & Real Sociedad
Group E
Feyenoord, Atletico Madrid, Lazio & Celtic
Group F
PSG, Dortmund, Milan & Newcastle
Group G
Man City, Leipzig, Crvena Zvezda, Young Boys
Group H
Barcelona, Porto, Shakhtar Donetsk & Antwerp
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Arsenal got a good draw, and Arteta said we are winning it so that's one cup in the bag
Newcastle got a hard draw, Dortmund will be the key match, Milan are pretty average these days, PSG should win the group.
City Favourites for the tournament, Bayern 2nd Favourites, Madrid 3rd Favourites and Arsenal 4th favourites. That's with the bookies.
Question on a hypothetical situation. As it stands PL clubs get 4 CL slots. Based on UEFA coefficient this season 3 extra CL slots are provided to best performing nations in UEFA club competitions so we could get another slot for 5 in total. The winner of the Europa League gets a CL slot, say Liverpool or Brighton win that and finish 6th. So that's 6 slots. And the winner of the CL gets a slot. Say Arsenal win that and finish 7th in the PL.
Am I right in saying we could have up to 7 teams in the CL next season if the above unfolded?
At what point are Newcastle going to realise they are basically playing Fulham away? Milan are terrible, it is just that Newcastle seem overawed
Absolutely couldn’t disagree more. Comfortable in possession and not taking unnecessary risks. I’d have coached this in exactly the same way. I think we’ll take Murphy off for Wilson with 20 mins left and try to nick a goal. Wouldn’t that make it the perfect away performance?
Eddie Howe unbeaten in the Champions League.
Told you he was good enough at this level.
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That was a tough watch to be fair. I'd imagine Dortmund and PSG will both take 6 points off Milan. But if Newcastle can win all 3 at St James' then that San Siro point may prove to be a point gained as opposed to 2 points dropped.
How biased against Man City are the commentary team?!!? Talking about getting 'punished at this level' as if City are rookies. McCoist was creaming his pants when Red Star scored
Come back De Gea all is forgiven?
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This could be a rout...
United had not started too badly but that goalkeeping mistake has clearly taken the wind out of their sails.
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Arsenal pumping PSV. Hopefully we can take some players off and rest them for Spurs.
Shame for Ramsdale but Raya looks a much better keeper on the ball.
Anyone else getting signal issues on their Sky box?
That penalty decision is a joke, ruining football..
That young kid for Bayern is having a worldie
He’s damn impressive!
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Great finish that.
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Gunners the best team of round 1 so far, aside from City I'd fancy our chances against anyone else however it is early days of course!
Haavertz played pretty well tonight I thought
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Bellingham's the darling of Madrid again tonight, has any Englishman made an more impressive start to their career abroad when the big clubs come calling?
Future Ballon d'or winner right there...
Good game, Bayern deserved winners. Great to see two teams slogging it out. One team in transition, the other solid and strong. Big clubs nonetheless. History, emotion, tradition, always on view when teams like this meet
Both were terrible, I'd love Arsenal to get either in the knock-outs, we'd pump them.
Want to avoid City until the final, Real will come good, the rest of the teams weren't impressive at all. Can't see past City although if we got them in a one-off game (ie the final) then you never know.
Yeah I don't expect us to get to the final and Bayern for sure have the players to hurt any team but they were a bit rubbish today. What I meant was playing City in a one off at Wembley would give Arsenal a better chance than over 2 legs however whilst everyone was watching Bayern/United tonight Arsenal pumped a team that was on the longest unbeaten run in Europe (26 games) and we looked pretty handy.
PSV looked very average and didn't offer anything after about 60mins. Best player was probably their full back Dest.
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Want to avoid City until the final????
I dont see Arsenal going past the quarters, you beat a PSV side who arent scaring any of the elite in Europe, Munich would beat Arsenal for me,
the 4-3 loss feels like a moral victory for me take away the gk howler, and the stupid handball rule and we won 3-2
Good performance from Arsenal, but PSV are pretty average. CL is a lot of luck, if we get a easy draw we could make the semis, but once we come up against City, Bayern, Real, I can see us struggling over 2 legs. Good to be back in the CL and winning matches.