2012/13 UEFA Champions League thread

[MDK]

Fuck the big teams and their prawn sandwich brigade :@

[Baddar]

So, which match matters most tonight?

[stokeriño]

Pfft, Porto v PSG?

Real answer: unless you care whether Zenit or Anderlecht get into the Europa League, none of them.

[MDK]

Prediction: Hughsey will be upset at the end of the night. Or not, depending on how much he rates the Europa Cup, premier cup competition of the solar system.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Stick the Kiev game on for the sheer madness of the conditions. Entire pitch is packed with snow and it's hammering it down with big chunks.

Mental, wont surprise me if play is stopped here. Let's hope not though.

Edited December 4, 2012 by JohnnyPerfect

[Colly]

Can't believe they're actually playing, the pitch is ridiculous.

[MJB]

Orange ball!

Great stuff.

[Summers]

Just put it on, this is crazy!

[MDK]

I prefer this kind of football

[MJB]

Could Messi do it on a snowy Tuesday night in Zagreb?

[Summers]

The goal area is a freakin' mudbath.

[stokeriño]

I've not been watching. Is it worse than this?

Edit: Just saw the clips when they came back from the adverts. Yep, that's pretty bad.

[MJB]

There isn't that much snow, but the goalmouths are basically flooded.

[Gazz]

Kyiv should really be taking advantage of the fact that they are camouflaged.

[stokeriño]

I'm betting that Benitez will start all three of Mata, Oscar and Hazard today. Really he ought to play Moses, who was virtually our best player against West Ham before being subbed-for-some-reason, instead of Hazard, who's been off the boil for a number of weeks, but yeah.

With the same old list of "are they really injured though, really?" names in Lampard, Terry and Sturridge, tonight's line-up will surely be:

Cech

Azpilicueta-Ivanovic-Luiz-Cole

Mikel-Ramires

Oscar-Mata-Hazard

Torres

Gary Cahill really deserves to be in there over Ivanovic, but I'm not yet sure how highly Rafa rates him (if at all).

Que sera, sera

Whatever will be, will be

Europa or Champions League

Que sera, sera

EDIT: Okore is injured for Nordsjaelland, yay.

[Matt]

Shaktar vs Juve is odds on to be a draw :/

[stokeriño]

We all know that.

[Rafael]

On the progamming of ESPN, it says that Chelsea will play Norwich City in the Champions League

[Matt]

We all know that.

I'm pretty sure I've never seen it before. Is it down to Chelsea fans being pessimistic or are the bookies expecting a fix?

[stokeriño]

If Chelsea fans were truly pessimistic they'd bet on wins for Shakhtar...and Nordsjaelland.