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Boring, boring Champions League?

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by Lotak, Nov 2, 2011.

  1. Lotak

    Lotak Member

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    Has the English games in the Champions League so far been REALLY REALLY boring?
    Take a look at these results (and 2 latest scores).

    Arsenal:
    Marseille (h) 0-0
    Marseille (a) 1-0
    Olympiakos (h) 2-1
    Borussia Dortmund (a) 1-1

    Both games against Marseille were dire. Olympiakos was a decent game. Didn't see the Dortmund game

    Chelsea
    Genk (a) 1-1
    Genk (h) 5-0
    Valencia (a) 1-1
    Bayer Leverkusen (h) 2-0

    Genk (a) was alright. Genk (h) was a mismatch. Can't remember much about the other two games.

    Man Utd
    Otelul (h) 1-0
    Otelul (a) 2-0
    Basel (h) 3-3
    Benfica (a) 1-1

    All matches were incredibly dull bar the Basel game

    Man City
    Valencia (a) 3-0
    Valencia (h) 2-1
    Bayern Munich (a) 0-2
    Napoli (h) 1-1

    Nothing really exciting here. Listening to the Valencia game, its more or less one way traffic and hardly the most extravagant football ever played.



    Does anyone else think that the Champions League (or at least the English involvement) has been REALLY dull this year?
     
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  3. harryhood67

    harryhood67 Well-Known Member

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    The English teams qualify easily mainly thanks to their no 1 seeding , yet you can see they arn't good enough to take on the big boys barca / Madrid, Unless city get another couple of world class uncup tied players in January, the other three English clubs will be lucky to get to the quarter finals
     
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  4. Swamp

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    the champions league group stage for me as a neutral has been reall boring for me. at least last year we had tottenham ripping inter to shreds at WHL and other games to get exited about. the only game which i watched this week with any real interest was the apoel vs porto game, which apoel won 2-1 and lead the group against all the odds.

    the rest of them, chelsea, arsenal (i switched off that game), man u etc.. very poor TV.
     
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  5. PGFWhite

    PGFWhite Well-Known Member

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    The Champions League is boring - full stop. Needs to go back to a straightforward knockout competition to make every match competitive and give an outsider a chance of winning it.
     
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  6. KingHotspur

    KingHotspur Well-Known Member

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    The group stage is always boring. The real competition starts in the last 16.
     
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