My prediction for the draw: 

City vs Inter

Bayern vs AC Milan

Chelsea vs Real Madrid

Napoli vs Benfica 

2 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Was bad enough playing Arsenal in 2004 got to admit I was so pissed during the first leg I've no recollection of it at all without Googling I think Eidur scored for us Pires for them. The second leg was brilliant '' Follow follow follow there was only two minutes to go when Bridge scored that goal that sent us out of control and knocked Arsenal out of Euro'' great night 😎

I watched the second leg down the pub with my brother-in-law who is an Arsenal fan. Obviously I was very happy and my brother-in-law wasn't happy. I spoke to my sister the next day and she told me that he arrived home in a foul mood and didn't want to speak to anyone. A great goal from Bridge. 

Inter, AC Milan or Benfica would be a good draw

On 15/03/2023 at 15:46, Deino said:

We're going to draw Bayern or Real and City will draw Inter

Scratch that. We'll draw Inter because we will be facing off against Lukaku at some point afer which we'll draw Real just so Rudiger can score a header or a thunderbolt against us

Realistically I think it has to be either Inter or AC Milan. Anyone else and I would fear for us tbh

2 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Having ex Stoke player Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting instead of Lewandowski at striker is the one I find amusing, albeit he is actually having a decent season ...  🙂 

Shocked that they didn't go for Haaland for 60m, they usually love stealing Dortmund players

I am looking forward to drawing a good team like Napoli, Bayern or Real. There's no point facing weaker (on paper) opposition in the CL because then the excuses are made that we had an easier route. Give us the harder tests and show what we are capable of. We have already faced Milan so not interested in that draw. City we've played about 3x already this season. Inter doesn't interest me much, neither does facing Benfica. I like those special CL nights where we play a big team as it adds to the atmosphere and size of the event. Truth is, the likes of Bayern and Real are great matches because of our history with those two. Napoli would also be very intriguing due to their form this season and a new and dangerous opponent to face. 

Edited March 16, 20233 yr by enigma

1 minute ago, Drogba1 said:

Shocked that they didn't go for Haaland for 60m, they usually love stealing Dortmund players

Bayern tend to avoid agents like the late Mino Raiola

Just now, enigma said:

I am looking forward to drawing a good team like Napoli, Bayern or Real. There's no point facing weaker (on paper) opposition in the CL because then the excuses are made that we had an easier route. Give us the harder tests and show what we are capable of. 

Rival fans wouldn't acknowledge our wins properly anyway. Rival fans out there are still saying our 2021 CL was a fluke

3 minutes ago, enigma said:

I am looking forward to drawing a good team like Napoli, Bayern or Real. There's no point facing weaker (on paper) opposition in the CL because then the excuses are made that we had an easier route. Give us the harder tests and show what we are capable of. We have already faced Milan so not interested in that draw. City we've played about 3x already this season. Inter doesn't interest me much, neither does facing Benfica. I like those special CL nights where we play a big team as it adds to the atmosphere and size of the event. Truth is, the likes of Bayern and Real are great matches because of our history with those two. Napoli would also be very intriguing due to their form this season and a new and dangerous opponent to face. 

I'd love to see the Napoli game, they play great football. Realistically we're going to get a hard team eventually anyway

I think both real and bayern are really overhyped

I really prefer avoid city and I think we can handle with the rest

40 minutes ago, enigma said:

I am looking forward to drawing a good team like Napoli, Bayern or Real. There's no point facing weaker (on paper) opposition in the CL because then the excuses are made that we had an easier route. Give us the harder tests and show what we are capable of. We have already faced Milan so not interested in that draw. City we've played about 3x already this season. Inter doesn't interest me much, neither does facing Benfica. I like those special CL nights where we play a big team as it adds to the atmosphere and size of the event. Truth is, the likes of Bayern and Real are great matches because of our history with those two. Napoli would also be very intriguing due to their form this season and a new and dangerous opponent to face. 

From thar point of view then Napoli would be the ones for me. Not played them since 2012 and those 2 famous games. Would be interesting to see "the new maradona" and big vic against our side too. Could be a real ding dog with Wes and James against them.

Well we find out later who we have,and no doubt we will hear the usual it's fixed I knew we would end up drawn against them.

On 15/03/2023 at 16:57, coco said:

How many permutations are their for a QF draw ? I'm no mathematician maybe someone else is ? Is it 7x6x5x4x3x2=5'040 ?

I've studied the maths and it's 0 % chance of getting Tottenham 🤣

On 16/03/2023 at 00:11, ozboy said:

I am no mathematician but my guess is that there are 16 permutations. Initially there are 8 teams and the first 1 picked can be drawn against any of the other 7. After that there are 6 teams and the first one picked can play any of the other 5, after that there are 4 teams left and the first can play any of the other three. Then the last two pick themselves. So I get 7 + 5 + 3 + 1 = 16.

Happy to be corrected.

Out of 8 teams there is a possible 28 doubles / possibilities. i'm pretty sure.

21 hours ago, bluehaze said:

Was bad enough playing Arsenal in 2004 got to admit I was so pissed during the first leg I've no recollection of it at all without Googling I think Eidur scored for us Pires for them. The second leg was brilliant '' Follow follow follow there was only two minutes to go when Bridge scored that goal that sent us out of control and knocked Arsenal out of Euro'' great night 😎

For me, nothing is better than beating arsenal and their f**king arsehole fans.

 

4 hours ago, Bluesince66 said:

Well we find out later who we have,and no doubt we will hear the usual it's fixed I knew we would end up drawn against them.

On BBC HYS comments the other night , a Bayern Munich fan reckoned that EUFA are doing everything to prevent them winning it !

come on celsea

Real Madrid again.

real fucl off 

That could have gone better ...

We've gone from never playing Real in the Champions League to not being able to escape them.

Inter v Benfica

City v Bayern

Just now, AlexTommo said:

We've gone from never playing Real in the Champions League to not being able to escape them.

We had a heated rivalry with Barcelona for years, now we have a more friendly rivalry going on with Real Madrid.

City vs Bayern LOL