UEFA Champions League

World Football
35011

Just seen the result, what a fantastic bit of news to sort us out on a Friday!

The quad-is-on

:ode2:

35012

Am not going to dream of us in the semi-final just yet.

35013

Beautiful

But we have to take Bodo seriously they beat a lot of teams this year.

But amazing stuff letā€™s.win this thing man

35014

Just seen the draw! OMG! Literally a dream draw for us. Doesnā€™t mean anything though unless we do what we need to do against Bayer Leverkusen in R16.

This is going to really annoy our rivals! And potentially helps us in the title race against Cityā€¦Real Madrid and then most likely Bayern Munich, IF they progressā€¦

Wow!

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35015

nice nice nice nice

35016

Something really funny about fans of the club with the most CLs celebrating avoiding the team with 0 CLs until the final. :rofl:

Canā€™t say I blame them, Iā€™ve seen Madrid get whooped before, I donā€™t think Iā€™ve ever seen them get so thoroughly beaten over two legs in the CL, especially after the whole talk leading to the return leg.

35017

Donā€™t underestimate our ability to fuck up things. Weā€™ve demonstrated that a few times this year already. Would be very typical of our players to be dreaming of the semi-final/final and fuck up the round of 16 or the quarters.

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35018

Rival fans are calling how lucky this draw is but isnā€™t the whole point of finishing first is to get a favourable draw

Man City having to play Madrid during the title run is their own doing

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35019

Very true, and we have a tendency to make things difficult for ourselves! Equally, maybe this is our year!

35020

City fans fuming but quietly ignoring theyā€™ve lost to Leverkusen, Bodo, Newcastle and Spurs all this season.

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35021

Champions League for R16 confirmed:

First Leg: Bayer Leverkusen vs Arsenal
Wednesday 11th March
> KO: 5:45 UK time

Second Leg: Arsenal vs Bayer Leverkusen
Tuesday 17th March
> KO: 8:00pm UK time

Ugh that early kick-off time really sucks.

35022

edit: what Bl1nk says above :slight_smile:

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35023

How mentally hurt are you by previous campaigns :joy:

35024

6:45 in NL is a lot better than 5:45 here! Looks like that will be a WFH day then :joy:

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35025

Exactly.

Nice to look ahead but letā€™s be real, we thought the same last season too when we convincingly defeated Real Madrid.

Arsenalā€™s approach and how opponents set up against us makes us more effective in the CL, but these games are only easy on paper.

If it was one of them, would fans be happier with CL more or the PL title?

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35026

Yes. :grinning_face:

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35027

This is so tricky. While I think winning the PL is tougher than winning the CL, Arsenal as a club needs a CL more than a PL.

So no not tricky, I take that back..give me CL

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35028

The CL has always been the holy grail for me. Even after decades without a league title Iā€™d never put that above winning in Europe.

Luckily, thereā€™s nothing in the rules that says we canā€™t win both :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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35029

Whichever it is, shen the time comes Iā€™m sure Iā€™ll find a way to make it sound more important than the other one.

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35030

I would absolutely give up the PL title if it meant we win the CL.

But weā€™ll do both :smiley: