and the atmosphere against Celtic would be brilliant (plus easy travel)I'd like Bayern, Barca and Celtic.
It's about the glory!!!
and the atmosphere against Celtic would be brilliant (plus easy travel)I'd like Bayern, Barca and Celtic.
It's about the glory!!!
League form and European form do not always go hand in hand. Leicester and Leverkusen proved that they couldn't handle both and both teams did quite well in the CL but crap in the league. Vice versa we were poor in Europe vs motivated teams playing at Wembley, but awesome in the league.Really? CSKA were dogshit and Leverkusen finished relatively near the relegation spots.
surprising that more folks don't realize how tough it was without those key players....particularly at that time of the year. Remember Dier, Walker and Alli were a bit jaded after England duty and Davies has been much better the second half of the season.All I know is that if we put out that side against West Ham, Leicester, Bournemouth etc at WHL we'd recognise a loss as a very disappointing result. If we eventually missed out on Top 4 or the title by a couple of points, it's the result everyone would look back to and say "that's where we fucked up". Heck, we've been without Lamela most of the year and Rose half of it and haven't had another result that bad. Of course we missed the likes of Kane and Lamela, but we spent £50m in the summer buying backups to them - if they aren't good enough that's nobody's fault but ours.
surprising that more folks don't realize how tough it was without those key players....particularly at that time of the year. Remember Dier, Walker and Alli were a bit jaded after England duty and Davies has been much better the second half of the season.
Look at it the other way round, If you are in pot 1 or 2 you are not going to want Spurs put in pot 3.
Who the hell is going want Spurs as the pot 3 team in their group?
Worst case for me would be getting a super-club from both pot 1 and 2, giving us a very slim chance of progressing from the group. We all looked at the group we got this season with high expectations for not only progressing from the group but also going 1 or 2 rounds further and look how that turned out...
Don't get me wrong, I want the glamour of playing a Barca, Bayern, Real Madrid or PSG, but I mainly just want to get out of the group this time. I'd be more confident of beating the big teams in a knockout format than a group stage match, no idea why but that's just my gut feeling.
I fully agree that, on our day, we could beat any team in the world. I truly believe that.We beat every top four team aside from Liverpool this season, I know the likes of Real, Bayern etc come with a certain intimidation, but at the end of the day, we are capable of going toe to toe with top sides. And they'd have to play each other too, I think we'd stand as much chance in the group as in the knockout.
We have to have faith in ourselves that we can take the big clubs on. Imagine the confidence boost if we were to get out of a hard group. We had Inter, who were champions when we first got in the CL, that didn't do us any harm.
Lol agreed.The game is about Glory.
I don't care how we are seeded, we wanted to play with the big boys didn't we? Let's not get squeamish when we actually have to play them.
Monaco were a surprise package, but conversely Bayer Leverkusen were surprisingly awful - they only finished 4 points clear of the relegation playoffs in the Bundesliga this season, 21 points behind the Champions League places. We really should have done better against them.
Up and down? They'd won 1 match in 6 and have been down in the bottom half pretty much all season.when we played Bayer in both games we never had Toby, or Harry, and as a team we were off form over that period, where Bayer's was just up and down
Up and down? They'd won 1 match in 6 and have been down in the bottom half pretty much all season.