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2024-25 UEFA Champions League

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,582 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    They now have the champions pathway and the other pathway so you could just let the champions drop to a lower tournament.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,370 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Match Day 1
    Tuesday 17th September
    17:45 Kick-offs
    Juventus (ITA) V PSV Eindhoven (NED) - Live on TNT Sports 2
    BSC Young Boys (SUI) V Aston Villa FC (ENG) - Live on Virgin Media Two / TNT Sports 1

    20:00 Kick-offs
    AC Milan (ITA) V Liverpool (ENG) - Live on Premier Sports 1 Ireland / Amazon UK
    FC Bayern München (GER) V GNK Dinamo (CRO) - Live on TNT Sports 2
    Real Madrid C.F. (ESP) V VfB Stuttgart (GER) - Live on Virgin Media Two / TNT Sports 1
    Sporting Clube de Portugal (POR) V LOSC Lille (FRA) - Live on TNT Sports 4

    Wednesday 18th September
    17:45 Kick-offs
    AC Sparta Praha (CZE) V FC Salzburg (AUT) - Live on Virgin Media Two / TNT Sports 5
    Bologna FC 1909 (ITA) V FC Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) - Live on TNT Sports 4

    20:00 Kick-offs
    Celtic FC (SCO) V ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK) - Live on Premier Sports 1 Ireland / RTE Two / TNT Sports 2
    Club Brugge KV (BEL) V Borussia Dortmund (GER) - Live on TNT Sports 5
    Manchester City FC (ENG) V FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) - Live on Virgin Media Two / TNT Sports 1
    Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) V Girona FC (ESP) - Live on TNT Sports 4

    Thursday 19th September
    17:45 Kick-offs

    FK Crvena zvezda (SRB) V SL Benfica (POR) - Live on TNT Sports 4
    Feyenoord (NED) V Bayer 04 Leverkusen (GER) - Live on Virgin Media Two / TNT Sports 2

    20:00 Kick-offs
    AS Monaco (FRA) V FC Barcelona (ESP) - Live on Virgin Media Two / TNT Sports 2
    Atalanta BC (ITA) V Arsenal FC (ENG) - Live on RTE Two / Premier Sports 1 Ireland / TNT Sports 1
    Atlético de Madrid (ESP) V RB Leipzig (GER) - Live on TNT Sports 4
    Stade Brestois 29 (FRA) V SK Sturm Graz (AUT) - Live on TNT Sports 5

    ******



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,040 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    Villa giving Young Boys a good spanking



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,042 ✭✭✭pavb2


    Villa firmly in control just don’t concede



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭jj880


    Anyone know how to check the Amazon Prime feed details on an LG TV for Milan Liverpool?

    Its a great quality feed.

    Great match also.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Delighted the dive wasn't rewarded



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Who needs ceentre forwards when you have centre backs like that !



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭jj880


    Is Shearer drunk? Talking some load of bollox



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 33,536 CMod ✭✭✭✭ShamoBuc


    Standard for him, glad I don't have to listen to him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,635 ✭✭✭The Golden Miller


    Milan players have basically downed tools since Maldini's contract was terminated. Before that, the hardest working team in Europe. Could they bring him back, would he come back? Pioli didn't like his influence in the first team, but he instilled belief and fight in them, that it was an honour to play for them. They've lost that buy in since he left.

    They're a shambles now



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,370 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    Goals show is available on TNT 3 but its not the same without the usual European line up

    ******



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭jj880


    True just seems worse than usual rambling on. Jon Champion is obviously getting annoyed with him.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,794 ✭✭✭✭AdamD


    Pen gets to take some amount of pens for club and country, his stats would look wildly different in another era



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 5,312 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Aris


    Oof, Bayern didn't hold back, total demolition...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,334 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Madrid came through a tricky tie, unconvincing though despite 3 1 scoreline.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,031 ✭✭✭doc_17


    I see Harry Kane scoring lots of goals that aren’t important. And penalties. He needs to do it when it really really matters.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,949 ✭✭✭✭klose


    50+ goals already for Bayern and he’s playing for them little over a year, he’s holding up his end of the bargain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,627 ✭✭✭kowloonkev


    Going to be a lot of games that are meaningless for at least one team by around week 5/6.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,031 ✭✭✭doc_17


    yeah, how many of those goals made a difference in big game? I’m not saying he’s useless, how could I, but he’s not a man for the big occasion.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,303 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    Are the extra TNT channels available on Now TV? How about Livescore? Do they still have rights to show the obscure matches?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭rpirl


    Was Dovbyk the only big player who left Girona? Would be good if van de Beek could do well there but him and Miovski just might not be good enough if they want to build on last season



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,320 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,477 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    1-0



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    Might be a rights issue, might be TNT, but they have made a right horses ar5e of the goal show. More like Soccer Saturday now, watching the so-called experts like Joe Cole watching the games rather than flicking from the action in one game and another. No Jimbo and the other regulars (tonight anyway). Load of boll1x



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,153 ✭✭✭jacool


    Only things worse than TNT coverage.

    1. Man City "kit"
    2. PSG teamwork and will to win



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    I actively avoid TNT coverage because of the likes of Joe Cole & Rio. Those 2 are the worst of the worst 'pundits' in my eyes. And the other ex-players they have on aren't much better.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,344 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    Not a braincell between them, particular dislike for Rio. I look at the former players, how the difference in character going into management putting your neck on the line vs these lads who like the sound of their own voice.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    That is a cracker of a goal for Bratislava.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,040 ✭✭✭✭Loafing Oaf


    seems to be teething problems with the sound & cameras too. Not impressed so far…

    The ‘leaving us in suspense about which team scored’ thing is even lamer than before when you can see the celebration on one of the screens…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    This City Inter game has the feeling of a CL quarter final of 2002-2012 ish era of the away team keeping it tight but combative at the same time on the break and not just sitting deep holding on. I'm enjoying the cagey and competitive nature to it.

    We wouldn't have got this match up in the old format. Might just be a once off but we don't know yet.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    You don't get an Irishman scoring a goal in the CL group stages for 13 years and then you get 2 in an hour!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Blow it up ref!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,370 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    I said the same last night they have ruined it

    ******



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,410 ✭✭✭xtal191


    Some amount of shite teams in it this year



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭Brussels Sprout


    The trouble with expanding the tournament is that there really only 6-10 top class teams most years so they're just diluting it more and more. Seeing all the dregs in one table just seems to accentuate it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    it's only 4 teams extra this season, not 16 dregs! Those clubs ye are calling crap are in it every other year.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,059 ✭✭✭randd1


    I know it's early days, and seeing Celtic and Villa put on a show in Europe was worth watching, and there's been a few cracking goals, but is it all still a bit 'meh'?

    If it was simply about adding more games, would it have not been better to go back to the two group phase format from a few years back? You know, 8 groups of 4 gets whittled down to 4 groups of 4, then into the QF's.

    The top teams would have more games against more top teams as they wanted, and likely a little bit less dross in it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,477 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,060 ✭✭✭Peter Flynt


    What's this? Teams that aren't Man Utd or Liverpool……?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,561 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    To be fair, albeit with the gameweek not over yet, having Celtic, Leverkusen and Villa sitting in the top 4 points to it being good so far.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    The group stages haven't been good in years. That's one reason they had the reason or excuse to make the league bigger. Yea, you get one or 2 games OK every year, but a lot of dead rubbers and meaningless games as well. Not much of a change this year, we'll see some good games, and a lot of filler, and the knock outs might redeem it after Xmas, but we'll continue to watch it doromfthe long nights.

    Those Doritos, Domino pizzas and Heineken won't sell themselves.... keep watching those ads!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭Dick phelan


    Should just be 32 teams straight Knockout over two legs for each round.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,031 ✭✭✭doc_17


    this Arsenal Atalanta match is dreadful. Arsenal really know how to make a game c**p!

    Post edited by doc_17 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,334 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    No tournament has ever got better by adding more teams.

    Just look at Euros for a good example.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    Jesus but that was a lonnnnng ass half. Arsenal are getting harder to watch by the week, 4 CBs shielded by, Partay and Rice, 2 primarily defensive players, and now it seems Reya has morphed into John Lucic kicking every ball long as well - George Graham would be proud!

    Everyone to their own of course, if you enjoy this type of thing, but this is one expensively assembled Tony Pulis tribute act.

    It's time to turn on the Netflix.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    ...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    Well able to shut a game game down and keep it shut down. Arteta sort of reminds of Benitez in that aspect.

    Arsenal games are not entertaining to watch as a neutral.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,285 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,748 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Brilliant double save/ Wonderful Raya.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭Caustic


    It's nice to see Atlanta and inter put it up to arsenal and city hopefully a sign that Italian football is on the way back to being really competitive at the top table



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