UEFA Champions/Europa League Quarter-Final Draw [16th March 2017]

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 11:39

This is the ugliest and most unpleasant draw that could have happened.
I'd prefer Barcelona or Real Madrid for Manchester City, rather than Liverpool.

These Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid all got the easy draw.
The draw is fixed, right? :mad:

Kelt · 16 Mar 2018 at 11:52

Meh, didn't want that.

Was hoping both English teams would make it through to the semis.

Ayahuasca · 16 Mar 2018 at 11:52

I'm gutted tbh, I wanted to see Messi running at Lovren.

MADEinSTOKE · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:02

So it’s city,Bayern,Barcelona and Real Madrid for the semifinals

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:05

MADEinSTOKE said:
So it’s city,Bayern,Barcelona and Real Madrid for the semifinals

Liverpool, Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid, with the latter three with easy games, while Liverpool won't go through very easily... actually it depends on the mistakes in the City's defense.

Spain and Germany must be happy, while for Italy and England the draw is a complete nightmare.

XeNoN89 · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:05

Crap

robfosters · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:13

Decent draw for us in the Europe. CSKA well beatable.

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:26

A laughable team as Wigan knocked them out... Liverpool will tear them apart.
City have a chance against smaller teams like Sevilla and Roma, and perhaps against Juventus.
But against Liverpool, Barca and Real they will die.

The_One · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:28

Well happy with moscow in quarters

CliffyG · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:29

4K8KW10 said:
A laughable team as Wigan knocked them out... Liverpool will tear them apart.

Not sure that logic holds up...

As to Arsenal, CSKA should be a winnable draw but we always do rubbish in Russia so I won't get too optimistic.

Yas786 · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:32

Quite chuffed with the CSKA tie for us although traveling to Russia isn’t exactly a good thing :/.

Liverpool and City should be a good game, City will go through I think unless Liverpool play a blinder over 2 legs.

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:35

CliffyG said:
Not sure that logic holds up...

I am sure. The last time when they played, Liverpool scored 4!!! goals.

Yas786 said:
Quite chuffed with the CSKA tie for us although traveling to Russia isn’t exactly a good thing :/.

Liverpool and City should be a good game, City will go through I think unless Liverpool play a blinder over 2 legs.

sneakysnail · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:47

Not to fussed by the draw. Man city are tough but maybe better to go with the devil you know. Klopp has the best record again Pep of any manager and we've already shown we can get at them. More importantly in 12 games between pep and klopp only 1 draw so should be exciting no matter what.

Both teams going at it playing attacking football. We might lose but would go down swinging atleast. Would rather draw city than Barca, real or Bayern honestly.

llamadal · 16 Mar 2018 at 12:58

4K8KW10 said:
I am sure. The last time when they played, Liverpool scored 4!!! goals.

and the time before city scored 5.

I'm not saying liverpool have no chance, quite the opposite. I think it is the closest game of the round - neither defence is that great, both attacks are top class - hoping the ref doesn't ruin this one and we get 2 great matches.

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 13:17

llamadal said:
and the time before city scored 5.

That was very long time ago and doesn't count

Mark1989 · 16 Mar 2018 at 13:25

Love how people writing us off, yes we can't defend but if you attack city neither can they, barely any teams all season have had a go at them like we did, any team is beatable on the day anyway

antijoke · 16 Mar 2018 at 13:35

That's a crazy tie that's for sure.

Should be entertaining.

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 14:54

Is there another draw for the semi-finals?

In order to lift the trophy, Manchester City needs to beat Liverpool, Real Madrid and Barcelona one after another.
The chance is close to 0.

explicit4u · 16 Mar 2018 at 15:13

CSKA shouldn't be too much hassle, if we can avoid Atletico in the next round we've got a real shot at winning this. Also helps that one of Marseille and RB Leipzig will be knocked out too.

UCL draw is very underwhelming, would've loved to see our best two teams against Real and Barca.

4K8KW10 · 16 Mar 2018 at 15:23

explicit4u said:
UCL draw is very underwhelming, would've loved to see our best two teams against Real and Barca.

The draw itself is extremely corrupted. Instead of ties fixing, they should allow fair play, there should be one draw in the fall which determines all the season fixtures till the end of the season.
What the... are they doing now? Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern all get the lucky draws, and no another team has any chance of winning the competition.

Must sue UEFA.