Topic: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2022/23 | Qualifying - page 12. (Read 12018 times)

Haaland - De Bruyne duo are doing a wonderful job lately. Their performance against Arsenal in the Premier League was so impressive. They had better keep up this level of communication with each other at a high level for the Champions League also. Because there isn't much time to go until the first leg against Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabeu. This cooperation can help them a lot about capturing an advantage away already.

Last season they experienced a really big disappointment in the same stadium with an unbelievable comeback by Real Madrid in the final moments. I must admit that Manchester City were strong back then without Haaland also. But I still see a significant difference between that version and this one now. It is like there is no defense line that can stop Haaland from doing what he always do. Real Madrid should work hard to find a formula to decrease his effectiveness against themselves.

What do you think will happen in the first leg? I think that Manchester City will manage to get a draw at worst.

Benzema goal is the most delicious bet I agree here, but we have to find out first what the odds are, I think the problem is it is probably the "lowest" of all the goal scorer markets and this always makes me a bit wary.

Napoli it seems is the most consistent, we can ignore 0-4 loss to Milan, I agree. They perform badly again in league, while Napoli already had their bad game.

looking at the game between benfica and inter, i think that given the poor performance that benfica had against porto in yesterday's game, which was a portuguese league game, and taking into account that when porto played against inter, it was unable to dominate Inter just like Benfica did yesterday, even taking into account Inter's poor performance in Serie A I would say that Inter can score a goal against Benfica and win or draw, Benfica is a team that always does the same thing, it starts the league well but when it is approaching the end of the league they start to play very badly

about the bayern game, well city is a team that when they try hard they manage to have a good defense and bayern is a team that has another coach, despite tuchel being a good coach it seems to me that the possibility of not scoring a goal in that the game is very real, especially after what I saw in the game against freiburg in the cup game, we will see in a few minutes how bayern will be on the field when playing again against freiburg, of course betting on the BTTS in this game even seems more viable to me

In the cases of the napoli and real madrid game, in my opinion both teams will win, napoli will beat milan, real madrid will beat chelsea, despite milante beating napoli a few days ago, then milan was the same again milan of bad performance, maybe because it didn't put its best players, but napoli will also have its best players that's why i see napoli beating milan, in the case of chelsea, we'll see how they will do in today's game for premier league, According to the press, all players were happy with Volta and Lampard.

I think the most obvious bet is: Benzema will score a goal  (please do not take it as advice and dyor) - by the way, for some reason, there are no quotes for this outcome yet, probably because the lineups for the game have not yet been announced.

Personally, I look at the multibet: City - Bayern BTTS Yes (1.62), Benfica - Inter BTTS No (1.82), Napoli double chance (1.45) and Real win (1.74). x7,43 seems to be a decent number.

I wasn't hoping to have things getting better speadily,..most especially for the fact that the former Coach had messed up Chelsea, in a way that'll need much time and concentration to build back.
Frank lamparp is back to Chelsea, hallelujah!! But the big question say a different thing,..like I learnt he's coming to stay till the ends of the season; that's seems more like someone on probation right?? So how about the Bruno guy? Hmmm....now you talk about old players?? Like Alonso who's out already?? Uhmm,..I'll say, that's a straight win for Madrid based on their form currently.

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Does anybody have any good tips for making early bets?

I know I'm probably going to waste money chasing losses if the first leg doesn't turn out but I do want to make sure I get good bets in.

Chelsea has Lampard now already as caretaker and I believe they will get great results from this. He won't last long and the effect won't last long but old players can give fresh motivation for the remainder of the same season.

Real Madrid and Chelsea are also going to have a draw against each other. I remember the latest one between them which was pretty competitive as well. Real Madrid had a really big difficulty in eliminating them as they made it after extra time in the second leg. Tuchel was doing a really fine job with Chelsea back then. But now we don't have the same Chelsea I'm afraid.

Potter's Chelsea are still having the same kind of issues they had at the beginning of the season. Their defending is not very well and they still have finishing issues in many matches. They are actually productive as for creating dangerous attacks. But they need to improve their scoring skills more until facing Real Madrid. Otherwise their job can be really difficult just as it was the same for Liverpool too.

I don't see any chance of securing Benfica's victory in the Champions League quarter-finals, as Inter Milan are far ahead of this team in terms of performance. But even then, if Benfica manage to secure victory, it will be truly incredible.

There is a 50% chance for seeing a semi final matchup between two Italian teams right now. One of them is certainly an Italian team but I think the other one will also be like that. Because I think Inter have the capability of eliminating Benfica in this stage. They just need to play both legs very carefully. They already had big problems on eliminating Porto in the previous stage. It was a close one.

Benfica are another challenging Portuguese team for Inter. They are in the lead in the Liga Portugal right now and running to the league championship. While they are having a great season they would like to do their best in the Champions League as well. They didn't lose to PSG in the group stage too as you remember. I expect another close matchup but I see Inter one step ahead for now.

A few minutes before the start of the Inter vs Porto game, and with the starting line-ups already presented, do you think Porto will be able to beat Inter?

I have the feeling that the teams are on the same level of form. And the numbers of home competitions indicate just that. I would indicate that it will be a goal draw, with goals from Taremi and Martinez.

^  Yup...  Not a Liverpool supporter but it hurts seeing Klopp losing like this and losing overall for a lot of the season.  I don't know what's going on in their dressing room but I feel like the back line could still do better than what they're giving rn.  I mean with the players they have, they should be winning matches or at least make it close and fight for the win.

But what can you do?  Real Madrid...  What a squad.  They're lined at 6 to win the UCL.  There's def some value there imho.

My sincere condolences to Liverpool.

Their guys got ahead so fast, and then conceded so fast.

I couldn't watch the game so maybe my comments are only based on reports but I read that when it was 3-2 Klopp decided to go all out attack instead and then lost 5-2. I guess Real just isn't the team of Liverpool.

Title changed. Real life so busy I was sure I posted something in here to revive the thread but seems I was mistaken. Funny how your memory works in old(er) age heh.

There were complaints before about this thread being moderated but there you go, create a non-moderated one and it's a spam festival. Try to report them, especially the blatantly obvious ones.

Benfica the obvious choice, Bruges had a really good group stage but I doubt that is sustainable. BVB seems to be the natural choice too (it's my pick) but Chelski could perform in Europe, they certainly have the personnel.

In BSFL, I can see a number of people are tipping Benfica to win by the biggest scoreline.

At 2/1 your picks look good, problem is I don't trust Chelsea to score, but Benfica win and under 4.5 seems pretty safe!

Yes Club Bruges vs Benfica, Benfica is definitely the better side to win this game, so I tip the game to be  -2/over 1.5 goal wining.
While the BVB vs Chelsea's game , Chelsea has not gotten theirs selves for some couple matches they've played so far in the premier league and in various compition, even with their recent signings they are only able to get draws in their previous two games after their losing streaks, to be in a safer side I tip BTS or over 1.5 goal will make sense for the match.

CL is already at the KO stages.  buwaytress change the title and let's get more people in here.  One CL thread nobody likes to talk to me and the other one has a ton of people saying the same things over and over.  Nobody likes to talk to me there too.  I just need a little betting advice from everybody but nobody likes to share their leans, picks and analysis.   

Anyway, Club Bruges vs Benfica and BVB vs Chelsea.  No idea how these other clubs are doing other than Chelsea.  But I know enough to know that Benfica is better than Bruges and BVB is a decent club in the Bundesliga.  At first glance I like Benfica to win with under 4.5 goals combo at 2.02 and BVB double chance to win or draw and BTTS combo at 2.29.  What do you guys think?

You remember it correctly. Tottenham eliminated Ajax in that season thanks to the away goal rule. Ajax's effort really deserved appreciation. It was the same for Tottenham also of course as they reached the finale. But Liverpool defeated them by 2-0 and prevented Tottenham from winning their first ever Champions League title.

There are quite many different teams in last 16 round now indeed. We might see at least one of them in the semi finals also. But I think this time there won't be any surprising team in the finale. I just expect and hope to see two big title contenders clashing for being the champion. I strongly believe that one of them will be Manchester City. But it is much harder to predict their opponent. Actually I'm hoping to see Real Madrid there. This would be one of the best matches for a Champions League finale.

I do agree that it’s not going to be a year where nothing shocking happens, I think there will be some shocking results for sure, but it’s not going to be that much of a long term thing. What I mean is, maybe in the last 16 round now, or even in the quarter finals there could be a surprise team, but in semi finals the last 4 will be great teams for sure, I have no doubt about that.

I remember a year where Tottenham and Ajax, both teams nobody expected to see there, ended up playing against each other in semi finals if I remember correctly, nothing like that will happen this year. last 4 will surely be teams that really worth something and all four fighting for the title and contenders.

The Champions League is a very uncertain competition and surprises always happen and some clubs unexpectedly reach the semi-finals or quarter-finals of the competition, like Villarreal last season.
This season, there are many more surprises and even Barcelona, Juventus, Atletico did not make it to the knockout phase of the competition.
If the match between Real and Liverpool was played now, Real would definitely have the advantage, but I think that this break in all competitions due to the world cup could help Liverpool.
We don't know in what condition the players will return from the World Cup, and Liverpool was much better in the second half of the season last season as well.

PSG - Bayern Munich is indeed another interesting matchup in this round.

PSG did a really good job against them in their final meet in the Champions League. Maybe they eliminated them thanks to the away goal rule but the result was the most important thing of course. PSG didn't have Messi against Bayern Munich then as well. I have mixed feelings about this matchup again. Now PSG have a really great trio. Messi is injured now maybe but he would return until then I assume. Bayern Munich have lost Lewandowski and haven't brought anyone in his place. But they are still showing a marvelous performance. For now I won't favour any side and I want to see their recent forms right before this matchup first.

Yes Napoli seems for first time in a ton of years (To be more specific since Maradona join and leave them) very strong and with serious chance of doing something big.

But lets wait they are in the peak of performance and you cant be so much time in that peak, lets hope they have fuel to the second part of the season.

In P$G bayern i have no idea who can pass this round Bayern its not the same as years ago.