UEFA Champions League 2019/20

[Szumi]

Top of the group, but Salzburg were a real threat in the first half. Can't believe it was still goalless after 45. Salah's goal was amazing considering the angle and his right foot.

[DavidMarrio]

Salzburg are a really good team. It'll be a shame for them when half of Europe comes calling for their best players

Tough game but we deserved to win and really we should gave buried a few chances. They had their own opportunities like but overall an entertaining match to watch 

[stokeriño]

Me: "Fuck's sake, why have you overworked this-"

*Tammy scores a tap-in*

Me: "...Ignore me."  

[Colly]

18 minutes ago, DavidMarrio said:

Salzburg are a really good team. It'll be a shame for them when half of Europe comes calling for their best players

Are we really living in a world where we're feeling sympathy for the Red Bull teams? I'm sure they'll be alright.

[stokeriño]

Watching BT Sport and hearing Gary Lineker promote the 'excitement' of WWE is really, really weird.

[stokeriño]

Teams Chelsea could face in the next round:

PSG
Bayern Munich
Juventus
Barcelona
RB Leipzig

All of those except maybe Leipzig is an absolute death draw.

[Szumi]

And honestly, I'd pick Leipzig to beat Chelsea too. Werner is an absolute machine, Forsberg is getting back into form finally, and there's just so many good talents there. Plus, Nagelsmann is a superb manager. I'd expect him to out think Lampard no issues.

[Lineker]

Best draw for us is Valencia.

[Lineker]

Foyth is back!

[Lineker]

Horrible looking knee injury for Coman.

[Lineker]

Last 16 draw

Dortmund vs. PSG
Real Madrid vs. Man City
Atalanta vs. Valencia
Atletico Madrid vs. Liverpool
Chelsea vs. Bayern Munich
Lyon vs. Juventus
Tottenham vs. RB Leipzig
Napoli vs. Barcelona

[Baddar]

Tasty.

[stokeriño]

Bayern eh? A bit of variety from which team gets to obliterate us in the 2nd round. It's nice to not have PSG/Barca/Atletico again.

[Lineker]

Delighted with RB Leipzig. We'll probably still go out, but the draw could have been far worse.

[Baddar]

All of the games look hard to call, probably aside from Juve's tie, who should do the business over 2 legs against Lyon.

[Szumi]

Lyon have no chance. They didn't to begin with, but they just lost Depay this weekend for the year. Tore a cruciate. I believe they lost Reine-Adelaide as well.

[Benjamin]

That's a super fun draw, to be honest. February can't come soon enough.

[Lineker]

Quote

ITV has begun talks with BT over sublicensing some of BT's games, according to The Sunday Times. 

The broadcaster, led by Dame Carolyn McCall, wants to bring live coverage of Europe’s most prestigious football competition back to free-to-air terrestrial television after losing out against BT in last year's auction of UK broadcasting rights.

Free-to-air live Champions League coverage has been absent from UK screens for the past few seasons. When BT first took over the rights in 2015, it originally screened a small selection of games on its now defunct BT Showcase Freeview channel and ITV screened highlights. But since 2018, BT has total control of all rights, which has taken the pan-European club championship off the radar for many casual sports fans.

BT must now decide if it wants to give the Champions League wider exposure to gather more public interest in the event, or whether it's happy to keep all live coverage behind a paywall to boost the value of its subscription.

[stokeriño]

What, like if the Champions League stays off ITV for too long, people are going to forget the competition exists?

[Naitch]

I'd much prefer Champion's League football to be on free-to-air, but I'm not sure I understand the reasoning of that last sentence...