Champions League Draw 2015/16: Group Stage

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Stahp lol, those two are miles better than Sevilla and Gladbach. Especially are Gladbach who are nowhere near the team that qualified last season.

Don't underestimate Lucien Favre. He always needs a little time at the beginning of the seasin until Gladbach really start. (Last season they started with two very lucky draws and people were worried, too).

Gladbach will probably lose every single one of their games

I'm not underestimating them, it's just the CL finalists and Man City are much better them. Same goes for Sevilla, i'm just being realistic.

Also ES fair enough.

@Hans

I probably should agree with your prediction

rwo power wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Stahp lol, those two are miles better than Sevilla and Gladbach. Especially are Gladbach who are nowhere near the team that qualified last season.

Don't underestimate Lucien Favre. He always needs a little time at the beginning of the seasin until Gladbach really start. (Last season they started with two very lucky draws and people were worried, too).

A German team in CL other than Bayern and most recently BVB, there's only 1 way it's going to play out....... Will cop 6+ goals over 2 legs

I think Leverkusen will do well though, until it comes to qualifying on Match 5 or 6 in which case they will capitulate as per usual

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I'm not underestimating them, it's just the CL finalists and Man City are much better them. Same goes for Sevilla, i'm just being realistic.

Last season, Gladbach were not really much worse than Sevilla, they just didn't manage to convert their numerous chances.

And as a matter of fact, they are still really good in counter attacking, and attacking teams are a better match-up for them than defensive teams. (And none of the teams can press as well as Dortmund, which is an achilles heal of Gladbach).

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I think Leverkusen will do well though, until it comes to qualifying on Match 5 or 6 in which case they will capitulate as per usual

Probably be on -10 goals after barca twice

When i say same goes for Sevilla, i mean that City and Juventus are much better than them. Not Sevilla are much better than Gladbach

MaraVilla wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:I think Leverkusen will do well though, until it comes to qualifying on Match 5 or 6 in which case they will capitulate as per usual

Probably be on -10 goals after barca twice

That's irrelevant when it comes to them qualifying though, you'd expect both Roma and Leverkusen to lose to Barca tbf.

messi won the award. congrats to him. no one here seems to know it.

Arsenal are buying him on deadline day imo.

Doesn't matter if groups are predictable or not, doesn't mean they won't be interesting. If football is so predictable, how come there are always surprises, I bet there will be many upsets in at least a couple of groups, it always happen. Also there are many refreshing teams this season like Valencia, Lyon, Dinamo Kiev, BMG, el Wolfsburgo, it's a shame Lazio wasn't in there as well but really looking forward to some teams that are back in CL after years of absence.

LOL, from the Gladbach forum about ManCity as an opponent of BMG: "Now I can understand why they so desperately need De Bruyne!"

BusterLfc wrote:Doesn't matter if groups are predictable or not, doesn't mean they won't be interesting. If football is so predictable, how come there are always surprises, I bet there will be many upsets in at least a couple of groups, it always happen. Also there are many refreshing teams this season like Valencia, Lyon, Dinamo Kiev, BMG, el Wolfsburgo, it's a shame Lazio wasn't in there as well but really looking forward to some teams that are back in CL after years of absence.

Never said that, not sure why it's interpreted as such tbh.

Leverkusen - Barca is gonna be interesting. Leverkusen are at their best when they play against teams who play from the back.

Also the UPOTY award's video packages was quite funny. While Suarez and Messi had footage of them doing nutmegs and scoring great individual goals, all of Ronaldo's were tap ins

Too easy..

Zanetti and Maldini

Dem good ol' days ....

City best team on paper by a fair margin.Man EPL fans do crack me up.as if reaching a CL final doesn't mean anything.

And if only football was about looking at individual quality of the players while ignoring tactics, work ethic and chemistry.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Luca wrote:Rip juventus

Calma lol, you are miles better than everyone in that group not called Man City and you'll probably top them as well.

There's a lot of new signings. I'm worried to be honest.
No attacking midfielder yet either

Then again, Juventus plays better against better teams in Europe

Not a bad draw for us. Wish we had gotten a stronger pot 3 team.

Will comfortably finish 2nd

Meh. City and sevilla to qualify from that group easily while missi and ronaldo to probably win the top scorers award from the group stages as usual with double digit figures, even before the competition starts proper..

A..... distant second?

So Arsenal to go 2nd and meet Barca or Real in the ro16?

À bout de souffle wrote:

Spoiler:

Too easy..

Why CR  second and Suarez 3rd is really beyond me