Champions League 2012/13

[David]

group stages were drawn, this is how it stands

Group A:

Porto
Dynamo Kyiv
Paris Saint-Germain
Dinamo Zagreb

Group B:

Arsenal
Schalke 04
Olympiacos
Montpellier

Group C:

Milan
Zenit St. Petersburg
Anderlecht
Málaga

Group D:

Real Madrid
Manchester City
Ajax
Borussia Dortmund

Group E:

Chelsea
Shakhtar Donetsk
Juventus
Nordsjælland

Group F:

Bayern Munich
Valencia
Lille
BATE Borisov

Group G:

Barcelona
Benfica
Spartak Moscow
Celtic

Group H:

Manchester United
Braga
Galatasaray
CFR Cluj


Group D is toughest if you ask me, will be interesting to watch.

[Arron]

Group D will be awesome to watch. United have the easier of groups.

[David]

i reckon madrid will top group d, and man city will squeeze through, but t0m brought up a good point on twitter that they underestimated the group last season and run the risk of doing it again excluding madrid

[A4R0N]

was hoping that city would be in the same group as celtic but i like our chances this year

[Matthew]

was hoping that city would be in the same group as celtic but i like our chances this year

you like your chances?

Madrid > City and B. Dortmund are an excellent team ;)

Group of Death!

Happy with chelsea's group though :)

EDIT: oh thats if you're a city fan, not sure if you support them or celtic :p

[Hiding]

man city will win it all becuz they are the best team in the world :)

[David]

man city will win it all becuz they are the best team in the world :)

not sure if sarcasm

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you like your chances?

Madrid > City and B. Dortmund are an excellent team ;)

Group of Death!

Happy with chelsea's group though :)

EDIT: oh thats if you're a city fan, not sure if you support them or celtic :p

Ajax is also an excellent team

[Hiding]

not sure if sarcasm

maybe not the best team in the world... but in my opinion man city is the best team in the premier league

[A4R0N]

you like your chances?

Madrid > City and B. Dortmund are an excellent team ;)

Group of Death!

Happy with chelsea's group though :)

EDIT: oh thats if you're a city fan, not sure if you support them or celtic :p

nope i'm a city fan i was hoping they'd get celtic as i'm from glasgow and a lot of my friends are celtic fans, but yeah i do fancy our chances hopefully we can draw with madrid, dortmund and ajax aren't the same teams they were last season they've lost alot of they're big players

[David]

nope i'm a city fan i was hoping they'd get celtic as i'm from glasgow and a lot of my friends are celtic fans, but yeah i do fancy our chances hopefully we can draw with madrid, dortmund and ajax aren't the same teams they were last season they've lost alot of they're big players

you can laugh at them when barca put them out :P

[A4R0N]

you can laugh at them when barca put them out :P

if they had got city i would have been going to the game i might still go just to see messi and co in action

[DPS]

Group G :(

GG Celtic

[David]

fixtures here if anyones interested
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/fixtures/_/league/uefa.champions/uefa-champions-league?cc=5739#


matchday 1 on tuesday & wednesday

[David]

man city have a strong team picked tonight, gonna be a good game.

Man City: Hart, Clichy, Kompany, Nastasic, Maicon, Y.Touré, Nasri, Barry, Silva, Javi García, Tévez

Real Madrid: Casillas, Varane, Pepe, Khedira, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcelo, Alonso, Essien, Arbeloa, Higuaín, Di María


nice to see essien starting, not sure what the deal is with ramos not starting.

[LiquidLuck.]

BENFICA FTW!!!

[David]

MARVELOUS WIN FOR MADRID WOOOOOOOOOO
screamed when ronaldo scored, what a champ. all 3 madrid goals where excellent

got a nice first day on vbsoccer, 12 points :P !

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BENFICA FTW!!!

they're going to ruin celtic tomorrow

[LiquidLuck.]

MARVELOUS WIN FOR MADRID WOOOOOOOOOO
screamed when ronaldo scored, what a champ. all 3 madrid goals where excellent

got a nice first day on vbsoccer, 12 points :P !

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they're going to ruin celtic tomorrow

We are the best kty! :D (No, not really. It's just my club since I was born xD)

[David]

wonder if terry's playing with his suit on

[David]

lol oscar scoring twice on his debut, what a champ. such a good talent.

[Matthew]

good game, shame Mikel is a tool.

Oscar though, what a player O_o
20 years old too, wow.

[David]

nice arm

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4OpZQgCMAAc40y.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4Ope8hCIAAzyI9.jpg

[FlyingJesus]

WHO THE FLYINGJESUS ARE BATE BORISOV AND WHY ARE THEY BEATING EUROPEAN SUPERGIANTS

[David]

lmao thought that myself, more than surprised.

[FlyingJesus]

Messing up my bloody points how did you get 15 out of that ;||||||| hacker

Still got Valencia to beat them though, I reckon they'll go in as the sort of underdog hero that everyone wants to win and then someone totally random like Gago will score a magnificent hattrick of tap-ins and make everyone cry

[David]

http://icap.me/i/PuDhWiwXTM.png

and 2 from celtic earlier :P

[FlyingJesus]

Only one I got totally right was the Juve draw :( got NO points from Group F so far haha or C but couple of games there tomorrow

[The Don]

I knew my original bet had no chance so I put on a bigger one during the 80th minute so i would still make £10 profit and it actually came in for once

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4Oq8StCAAA0OMV.png

[FlyingJesus]

£53 from a £20 bet on accumulator doesn't seem a very good rate :S especially if you bet on BATE to win

[The Don]

£53 from a £20 bet on accumulator doesn't seem a very good rate :S especially if you bet on BATE to win

This was my original bet

http://i.imgur.com/aalPd.png

around the 80th minute of all the games I knew I hadn't won so I placed that £20 bet which is why the odds were terrible, I pretty much bet that the scores would stay the same for the last 10 minutes (or the winning teams would score)

[FlyingJesus]

Ohhhh right didn't realise it was placed quite so late on :P stupid Ramires getting a fourth, I had it on 3-0

[The Don]

The last 10 minutes were so stressful
ah that sucks, how much would you have won?

[FlyingJesus]

Oh I'm too stingy and scared to do money bets, I meant on the forum app haha

[The Don]

oh, not too bad then, where is this forum app? I've never heard of it

[FlyingJesus]

http://www.habboxforum.com/vbsoccer.php?do=settings had it for the Euro too, not many people doing it for champs and Dave's already won basically but yeah

[The Don]

this has been poorly advertised, literally never knew this existed. I'm confused as to how many points we start off with each?

[FlyingJesus]

Start with none, gain them by getting results right. Think there was a forum notice but can't remember

[David]

there was a thread in dev. and a feedback thread on it :O and a link at the top of sports

[David]

back to back hat trick by ronaldo, unexpected :P
didnt do so well with predictions that time but 7 points isn't bad. i heard hulk broke the sound barrier along with abiatti's chest with his goal earlier

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and man city are going to need a kick up the arse if they want out of group stages

[David]

is chelsea on tv tonight :(

[David]

lol chelsea are down already

[FlyingJesus]

What the hell are they doing

[David]

shouldnt have had lampard on anyway

celtic are winning lmaoooooo

[SackRace]

Celtic beating barca?!?!?

[brandon]

I wonder how long Celtic will hold on for haha

[David]

forster seems confident, hopefully they last at least until half time.

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torres is getting chances, he just needs to shrug off the pressure and plant one in the net.

[SackRace]

Hulk; brandon; didn't last too long 1-1 HT :):)

[Matthew]

chelsea's defence has been shocking so far.

At least its only 1-0 - chelsea look like they can score.

I said 2-0 before the game (to chelsea), now I'm going for 2-1 ;)

[David]

had 2-1 from the start, had 4-0 barca

http://icap.me/i/fcUd154CAK.png

[SackRace]

Unlucky Celtic Barca did deserved to win. Have to give it too Celtic motm: Fraser Forster by FAR!

[Matthew]

Celtic did so well to only lose 2-1. Sad that they conceded with virtually the last kick though :(

[Lee]

haha loved the chelsea match last night. UTD did well coming up with 3 goals :/

[Matthew]

arsenal and city lost..

wow.

[FlyingJesus]

Some really odd results this week :S only game I got totally correct was the Zenit one lol

[Stephen]

All my teams lost in my accumulator :|

[David]

knew i wouldn't do very good this week :( got 3 partially right.
hopefully in the home leg real madrid can get the 3 points from dortmund

[Matthew]

knew i wouldn't do very good this week :( got 3 partially right.
hopefully in the home leg real madrid can get the 3 points from dortmund

yeah i'd be shocked if they didn't!

Man city look like they're in trouble now!

[David]

back on tuesday/wednesday. looking for home advantage to give real madrid the 3 points they dropped in germany

[SackRace]

Wonder how Celtic do this week, will be very interesting!

[David]

Wonder how Celtic do this week, will be very interesting!

if they play a 9-1 formation again it will be a similar story tbh, poor valdes will be getting bullied by hooper while the lynch mob probe at celtics defence

[SackRace]

if they play a 9-1 formation again it will be a similar story tbh, poor valdes will be getting bullied by hooper while the lynch mob probe at celtics defence

Champions league nights at Parkhead are pretty amazing as been to a few myself, but Celtic do have a chance when they get free kicks kicked in the box and corners as seen that from last game.

[David]

Champions league nights at Parkhead are pretty amazing

but, barcelona are the most boring team in the world, ever.

pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
shoot
scramble for posession
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass

[David]

Ozil is going to get shanked when he's home for internationals, after scoring that goal lmao.

great game, a nice result but it could have been better for madrid. couldn't ask for more than a draw due to the performance.
man city are ******.

[SackRace]

Celtic 1-0, Barcas defence is crucial

[David]

Celtic 1-0, Barcas defence is crucial

hahahaha, know who scored? hope it was samaras

[SackRace]

hahahaha, know who scored? hope it was samaras

Wanyama scored what a noice
now it's just
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
shoot pmsl

[David]

Wanyama scored what a noice
now it's just
pass
pass
pass
pass
pass
shoot pmsl

what a legend, hope they score again.

[FlyingJesus]

I think Chelsea would be better off if they scored more goals than the other team. That's my professional opinion

[David]

nice reactions from oscar :O

so the shaktar keeper has made 2 mistakes that lead to a chelsea goal, lets have some more please

[FlyingJesus]

Do you think it was my pep talk that did it

[SackRace]

HT: Celtic 1:0 Barcelona

Celtic have had all the luck in the first half, Messi hit the post twice. Barcelona have had so much possession since Celtic scored if they keep that up I'm sure something will come.

[SackRace]

Celtic 2:0 Barcelona - 18 year old Tony Watt scores with 5 minutes remaining Hulk;

[David]

Celtic 2:0 Barcelona - 18 year old Tony Watt scores with 5 minutes remaining @Hulk (http://www.habboxforum.com/member.php?u=73895);

im dying, this is wonderful.
their first loss in domestic and champions league by celtic hahahaha

[SackRace]

im dying, this is wonderful.
their first loss in league and champions league by celtic hahahaha

can't believe it too haha

[David]

what a night, moses off the bench to take the winner in 94th minute and celtic beat barcelona 2-1 lmao

[DPS]

HAIL HAIL! 2 - 1!

[SackRace]

As a Rangers fan fair play to Celtic if it wasn't for Forster..

[David]

whats the odds of barcelona and fans complaining about how they should have won due to having majority of posession.
and probably complain to UEFA again to get the rules of football changed.....

[Matthew]

chelsea 3 - 2 shakhtar

what a game, oscar's goal was amazing and Moses won it with the last kick of the game (virtually ;))

a much needed win yay

[David]

going to be watching chelsea vs juventus. i think it might be down to buffon vs cech

[FlyingJesus]

Oh totally forgot to add my predictions for today's games, woops

[David]

oh :( you were catching up on me as well :P

both teams look dangerous, loved that run from oscar especially.

[Matthew]

poor game, poor result.

why does chelsea always suck in november

[mrwoooooooo]

poor game, poor result.

why does chelsea always suck in november
sounds like i need chelsea's number

[SackRace]

celtic 1-2 benfica they deserved to win

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celtic 1-2 benfica they deserved to win

[David]

effectively, real madrid were cheated. wasn't even a penalty :P

thanks for coming man city, see you next year.

[David]

been on top since matchday 1 *+*+*+

http://icap.me/i/6X9f0zTngW.png

[David]

enjoyable game from real madrid, put out a weak-ish team and got 4-1 against ajax.
man city end bottom of the table with 3 draws and 3 losses lol.

[SackRace]

I really don't think Celtic will be up to it tonight. I have a feeling Benfica will though

[FlyingJesus]

Got one point yesterday lol oh dear. Hoping Shaktar thrash Juve

[Matthew]

PLEASE SHAKHTAR DESTROY JUVE

Chelsea need to win and Juve need to lose for us to go through. Chelsea will most likely get an easy win, and tbh IF shakhtar put out their strongest team then they should win. I can see them doing so though as from what I've heard, the manager NEVER changes the team so we can hope!

[David]

madness, 3 penalties in about 3-5 minutes
first 2 get saved and luiz smashes the 3rd in.
1-0 to chelsea

still waiting on the shaktar-juventus game to break the draw

[Matthew]

TORRES SCORED

COME ON SHAKHTAR

[SackRace]

Celtic in the last 16 :O

[David]

very unlucky for chelsea


Celtic in the last 16 :O

hope they get further ngl

[RyRy]

hate united right now

[Matthew]

**** YOU SHAKHTAR :'(

Ah well. Thursday nights, channel 5!!

[Kardan]

hate united right now

Were you one off again Ryan?

Good thing I didn't bet on that Chelsea match of a Nord win, Draw, or a 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 win by Chelsea...

[DPS]

The draw in full:
Galatasaray v Schalke 04
Celtic v Juventus
Arsenal v Bayern Munich
Shakhtar Donetsk v Borussia Dortmund
AC Milan v Barcelona
Real Madrid v Manchester United
Valencia v PSG
FC Porto v Malaga

[David]

lol juventus are going to **** celtic up, buffon will point and laugh at their strikers.

madrid vs united is going to be good.

[Matthew]

sky sports predicted every fixture correctly yesterday haha

interesting though, some big teams will go out!

[Zak]

When the games on?

[David]

When the games on?

february/march

[Zak]

february/march

Ahhhh ok got ages then :) thanks David x

[SackRace]

I see real madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Valencia and PSG as winners into next round

[David]

I see real madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Valencia and PSG as winners into next round

valencia and psg are in the same match

[SackRace]

valencia and psg are in the same match

Malaga then

[luce]

I cannot even describe my excitement for Ronaldo coming back to OT. Confident we will have Real over two legs as well because of their current poor form but also they have two el classico matches leading up to ours and we have standard PL fixtures. One Barcelona match is the league and on in the cup, and I know the league doesn't matter to them now so they could conceptually rest players but their domestic cup is basically the only chance of silverware, outside the CL, they have. So lets hope that goes the distance.

Still drawing Ronaldo is enough for me.

[David]

celtic are out, unless they can win by 4 goals in the 2nd leg haha

[David]

thanks for coming manchester see you next year

[GoldenMerc]

nani is the next kong fu fighter, good game tho

[David]

nani is the next kong fu fighter, good game tho

the embarrassing thing is, they didn't even score their own goal.

[Kardan]

I don't understand why football doesn't employ technology and have a video referee as well that can be called upon? I don't support either team, but it does my head in with people constantly blaming the referee - you can't expect them to get everything right 100% of the time. But why not use technology? It's ridiculous.

[David]

I don't understand why football doesn't employ technology and have a video referee as well that can be called upon? I don't support either team, but it does my head in with people constantly blaming the referee - you can't expect them to get everything right 100% of the time. But why not use technology? It's ridiculous.

you're saying the ref was wrong?

[Matthew]

It was a clear red card.

All over the internet there is so much man u bias its actually unreal. By the laws of the game, Nani deserved a red card, simple as.

[David]

It was a clear red card.

All over the internet there is so much man u bias its actually unreal. By the laws of the game, Nani deserved a red card, simple as.

Sorry, you cannot give this user reputation until 17:59 on the 6th March.

even the commentators were bias

[Matthew]

Sorry, you cannot give this user reputation until 17:59 on the 6th March.

even the commentators were bias


Ive never heard more biased commentators in my life lol

[Kardan]

you're saying the ref was wrong?

No, I think the ref was right in this case, but in general, referees will make mistakes.

[GoldenMerc]

I don't support ether but it was complete 'accidental' he has his eyes on the ball the whole time...

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[chemidann95]

Manchester United fan here. :P

[David]

I don't support ether but it was complete 'accidental' he has his eyes on the ball the whole time...

Sent from Phone

watching the ball or not, he shouldn't have his boot up that high, especially with studs showing. he's not the only one on the park and he should know other people are going to contest for possession.
he also feigned an injury when he didn't even get hit lol, diving ****.

[HarrySX]

I haven't read this thread and I don't plan on doing so but I can only assume the topic in hand is Real Madrid vs Manchester United.

If so, that referee was a ****** and that was *not* a red card. Anybody that says otherwise is simply wrong. He had his eyes fixed on the ball. It was an unintentional foul and there is no way that warrants a sending off.

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While the commentators were indeed bias ("it's the goal scorer himself" or whatever they said) that foul was not intentional.

[Kardan]

I haven't read this thread and I don't plan on doing so but I can only assume the topic in hand is Real Madrid vs Manchester United.

If so, that referee was a ****** and that was *not* a red card. Anybody that says otherwise is simply wrong. He had his eyes fixed on the ball. It was an unintentional foul and there is no way that warrants a sending off.

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While the commentators were indeed bias ("it's the goal scorer himself" or whatever they said) that foul was not intentional.

Couldn't you argue that most fouls in football are unintentional?
I didn't realise that if you didn't mean to do it, then you shouldn't be punished :P Surely that means each time a goalkeeper fouls a striker it shouldn't be a oenalty as they were intending to get the ball and not the player...

[Reloaded]

The key to being a good ref is to know when and how to use the rules of the game, not just to know a rule.... You take into contest everything happening at the time and the situation of the tackle, its shouldn't of been a red. Anyone saying its the rules is stupid, if most ref's didn't use their brain with situations and just followed the rules by the word we would not have the great league Britain has today with the PL as it would just be ****.

[Kardan]

The key to being a good ref is to know when and how to use the rules of the game, not just to know a rule.... You take into contest everything happening at the time and the situation of the tackle, its shouldn't of been a red. Anyone saying its the rules is stupid, if most ref's didn't use their brain with situations and just followed the rules by the word we would not have the great league Britain has today with the PL as it would just be ****.

So you're saying it was a clear breach of the rules, but shouldn't have been a red?

[mrwoooooooo]

Rules are rules. Bitter scum fans

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

[HarrySX]

Couldn't you argue that most fouls in football are unintentional?
I didn't realise that if you didn't mean to do it, then you shouldn't be punished :P Surely that means each time a goalkeeper fouls a striker it shouldn't be a oenalty as they were intending to get the ball and not the player...

I see what you're saying (and I agree... trust me) but in this case, as a poster above mentioned, a good referee will use their judgment. I personally think it's clear here that it was merely an accident. Should his boots have been that high up? Probably not, but they weren't in the air to cause injury, he really was simply trying to intercept the ball.

Trust me I'm no real avid football supporter and have no bias towards either team, but I can appreciate a good game.

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Rules are rules. Bitter scum fans

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

That's probably true for the majority.

[Ardemax]

Not a United fan but it was like the red for Warburton in the World Cup... wrong.

He had no idea there was a player there and the ref really did ruin the game for me. Yellow at most.

[Matthew]

I don't support ether but it was complete 'accidental' he has his eyes on the ball the whole time...

Sent from Phone


I haven't read this thread and I don't plan on doing so but I can only assume the topic in hand is Real Madrid vs Manchester United.

If so, that referee was a ****** and that was *not* a red card. Anybody that says otherwise is simply wrong. He had his eyes fixed on the ball. It was an unintentional foul and there is no way that warrants a sending off.

While the commentators were indeed bias ("it's the goal scorer himself" or whatever they said) that foul was not intentional.

Whether or not it was accidental/intentional or whatever is irrelevant. The rules of the game say that if you do anything which can be considered "dangerous" then the referee may take appropriate action in the form of a red card.

Nani could have been looking at the ball, at the sky, at arbeloa; he could have been playing fifa on his iPad or even wearing a blindfold for all anyone cares- it would still have been dangerous play and therefore would deserve a red.

Harsh justice. If anything, the laws of the game need reviewing, as I agree it was a harsh red, but nevertheless it was a fair red.

[GoldenMerc]

may aswel have kicked him in the head, would of got the same outcome

[Matthew]

may aswel have kicked him in the head, would of got the same outcome


haha yeah. i found it hilarious how Nani dived after clearly "stabbing" arbeloa in the chest though...

[David]

haha yeah. i found it hilarious how Nani dived after clearly "stabbing" arbeloa in the chest though...

handsome bit of time wasting

[HarrySX]

haha yeah. i found it hilarious how Nani dived after clearly "stabbing" arbeloa in the chest though...

Was an attempt to look as if it was more accidental than it appeared. Unethical, but happens all the time,

[GoldenMerc]

To be fair, I think it could of been worse and idk, It could have been painful :P

[David]

Semi-final draw;

Bayern Munich vs Barcelona
Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid

Disappointment that they play at the same time, I would watch both of these but Madrid >>>>>>

[DPS]

Barcelona vs Madrid for final!

[David]

bye barca thanks for playing

[Matthew]

well barca...


... were well and truly destroyed

[David]

"I tried uploading highlights of Bayern Munich vs Barcelona on YouTube but they don't accept rape."

[David]

was hoping for a second away goal but its bye madrid as well

Germany 8 - 1 Spain

[Zak]

Asif Barca and Real got destroyed

[David]

id say fair game to dortmund but that should have been a penalty at the end and they're nazi scum for time wasting after the second goal
howard webbs also a ****

putting aside my bias madrid view, they went out with a fight in the end, which i dont think barcelona can do in honesty, bayern are a different class from dortmund and are certainly not milan - so i dont think a repeat of that leg will happen.