Champions League 2019-2020

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Re: Champions League 2019-2020

Bericht door Orange14 » do aug 29, 2019 5:37 pm

Amol schreef:Drawn with Chelsea in Group H - this is amazing.
Yes!!!!!
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Bericht door Ayman » do aug 29, 2019 5:46 pm

We have Valencia as well.. not bad!

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Bericht door Amol » do aug 29, 2019 5:47 pm

Chelsea
Ajax
Valencia

This is not bad yet. We avoided Inter and Bayer in Pot 3
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Bericht door Orange14 » do aug 29, 2019 5:47 pm

Valencia from Pot 3. Reunited with our former keeper Jasper Cillessen.
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Bericht door Ayman » do aug 29, 2019 5:56 pm

Lille... hmmm.. I dont know what to make of this

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Bericht door Orange14 » do aug 29, 2019 5:57 pm

Lille from Pot 4. I think Ajax did well!
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Bericht door Amol » do aug 29, 2019 5:58 pm

Chelsea
Ajax
Valencia
Lille

This seems a very reasonable group based on the horror groups which we've been handed over the years.

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Bericht door rjf1 » do aug 29, 2019 6:01 pm

Valencia and Lille are the other teams in group H.

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Bericht door Ayman » do aug 29, 2019 6:27 pm

I would prefer to play a home game first against Valencia, then, next game away to Chelsea (Before Lampard loses his job), then home to Lille. Therefore it would work in Ajax's favour.

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Bericht door Amol » do aug 29, 2019 6:27 pm

The worst groups IMO this year are -
Group F
Barca
Dortmund
Inter
Slavia Prague

Group D
Juve
Athletico
Leverkusen
Spartak Moscow

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Bericht door SPL » do aug 29, 2019 6:59 pm

A decent draw ,Chelsea are a lot weaker than most of the Pot 1 sides.Valencia and Lille are good sides but beatable.

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Bericht door SPL » do aug 29, 2019 7:36 pm

I was way out in what qualification earns. Min 40m even if lose all 6 games. Something like 15m for getting to the groups but clubs get extra money on seedings and we are ranked 15th and get another 19m so add money from 3 home games and we are guaranteed 40m.

This is great money but my local team Brighton get 100m from sky ,believe we get about 10m from Tv. However they are just a small team in the EPL and they would not get 20m for their no 1 striker let alone 3rd choice like we have.

Being in the CL makes us a far bigger side than most of the EPL clubs especially now we pay 3m pa to players .Just the big 6 are bigger money wise than us.

Our name is still famous world wide and thus we need to continue getting into CL groups and certainly last 16 every season.

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Bericht door Manneken Pis » do aug 29, 2019 9:29 pm

Well .... all beatable as already said, but also no easy teams. I fancy us against Chelsea, particularly with Lampard in charge. Valencia will be the toughest I reckon (strongest technically and therefore toughest for us). I have no idea what coming second in La Ligue means these days so difficult to judge, but not at all intimidating.

Looks like a very even group with twists and turns ahead.
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Bericht door Ayman » vr aug 30, 2019 8:44 am

The Schedule is good, Ajax first at home to Lille. Then away to Valencia, before a two legged game with Chelsea, Home first.

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Bericht door rjf1 » vr aug 30, 2019 12:20 pm

It's not beyond the realm of possibility that we win this group.

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Bericht door Orange14 » vr aug 30, 2019 1:08 pm

rjf1 schreef:It's not beyond the realm of possibility that we win this group.
One match at a time!!!!!
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Bericht door Amol » di okt 01, 2019 9:58 pm

Spurs just got spanked 2-7 at home to Bayern. I still can't believe we lost to that shitty team in the last 10s in the home leg.

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Bericht door Cruijff » di okt 01, 2019 10:02 pm

Amol schreef:Spurs just got spanked 2-7 at home to Bayern. I still can't believe we lost to that shitty team in the last 10s in the home leg.

Especially the first 35 minutes in the away game Ajax gave a masterclass in football, teaching a PL team how the game is played.

After Vertonghen went off Ajax went playing in a slower pace and Spurs did it just a little bit better, but Ajax should also had scored 5, 6 or 7 goals against them.

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Bericht door Tom_ » zo okt 20, 2019 8:09 am

I don’t watch English football often but I just saw a 20 minute highlight package of Chelsea’s 1–0 win at home to Newcastle.

Don’t think it predicts much for Wednesday... Newcastle parked the bus - 5-4-1 with three CDs and two DMFs trying to clog the middle. Chelsea couldn’t create much and their main threat seemed to be runs from Barkley or Willian between the lines, whereas against Valencia they got the ball wide and played crosses to Abraham.

Overall I didn’t find them terrifying. I’m not sure who the favourite for Wed night would be.

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Bericht door Ayman » zo okt 20, 2019 3:32 pm

It's going to be difficult for Ajax, especially their tall striker Abrahams and Jorginho is a world class midfielder

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Bericht door Van basten » wo okt 23, 2019 10:09 pm

Lille scores at 95th minute to get a draw. Good result for us.

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Bericht door Cruijff » wo okt 23, 2019 11:10 pm

Van basten schreef:Lille scores at 95th minute to get a draw. Good result for us.

Jep.
Would Valencia have won we'd still be number 1 in the group, but they dropping points is better news for us.

Still this is very harsh: https://mobile.twitter.com/kamphuis_joh ... 22017?s=21

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Bericht door Tom_ » do okt 24, 2019 5:21 am

I don't believe VAR used the wrong frame. The feed I was watching used the earlier frame but drew a line down from Promes's shoulder which was slightly beyond the defender's foot. Honestly it's so close you can understand the decision going either way. Personally, I'm surprised they decided it was a "certain" offside (which must be required to overrule the assistant's original decision?)... but you all know my thoughts on VAR so I'll stop there.

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Bericht door Ayman » do okt 24, 2019 9:00 am

Tom_ schreef:I don't believe VAR used the wrong frame. The feed I was watching used the earlier frame but drew a line down from Promes's shoulder which was slightly beyond the defender's foot. Honestly it's so close you can understand the decision going either way. Personally, I'm surprised they decided it was a "certain" offside (which must be required to overrule the assistant's original decision?)... but you all know my thoughts on VAR so I'll stop there.
Sorry, but as Ziyech played the ball, Promes was on side, its been analysed. https://www.givemesport.com/1515755-var ... utoplay=on

P.S. Ten Hag needs to start giving chances to other players such as Traore and Gravenberch

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Bericht door Iniesta » do okt 24, 2019 1:03 pm

Shoulder is also part of the body, which also in first frame seems to be offside (not easy to check from this angle

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