Champions League 2009\2010

Cheezdoodles

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Who will win?

Main contenders in my opinion, in no particular order:

Barca: beautiful fotball, excellent squad and last year tremble winners. Zlatan has given them Aerial Ability aswell, something which they lacked badly last year again Chelsea. Messi is amazing, so is Iniesta, Xavi , Alves, Henry and pretty much the entire squad. 2 bad their new defender isn't eligble for CL. This years barca team looks stronger than last years, and thats quite an accomplishment, as last years team was simply amazing!

Chelsea: Strong squad, play very efficient fotball, shame Guus didn't stay, but Ancelotti is pretty good, won cl before, good at tactics. And he has a way of getting the best out of the old guys :p On a good day, few teams can match them.

Inter: A completely new team compared to last years, Sneijder,Milito,Eto,Motta and Lucio. They actually play quite attractive fotball on a good day, and coach Mourinho is a great tactician.

Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Xabi Alonso, Benzema, Raul Albiol, Granero. These are just some of the players that the White House signed this summer. Very good dept in the squad, (last 2 seasons have been horrid in terms of injuries), a lot of players that can change the match at any time, and Pellegrini, a coach who took Villareal to the CL semi finals 2007, could be the man who ensures that RM take their tenth CL\(whatever it was called before cl) throphy at their home stadium . If Nistelrooy gets healthy and in form, they will be even stronger. (0.7 goals per match average at real madrid)

Manchester United: Allways contenders, but look weaker compared to last season. But as long as Fergeson is in charge, they allways have a chance to win.

Arsenal: Dont think so. While arsenal play attractive fotball, and Wenger is a brilliant manager, i think their squad might still be to young, and some will argue that they are quite weaker than last year, without Adebayour and Toure.

Liverpool: Torres is very dangerous, lets hope he manages to stay healthy for longer than 4 months at a time. Benitez is a very good coach. Gerrard is Gerrard. Allways a possibility.

What do you think? Who will win?

Personally i think that Barca are the biggest contenders atm. Chelsea is strong as allways, and Inter looks very strong. If the new Galactico team in Madrid "glues" together nicely over this season, i dont think anybody except for maybe Barca will be able to stop them.
 
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Nice analysis there. I'm rooting for Manu, but I don't think they'll have the squad to pull it off. Some of the key players are a year older, Ronaldo and Tevez gone with only Valencia and Owen in...

Real, Barca and Chelsea are extremely strong and I think all of them have a pretty good chance of taking it home. The margins will be small between them.
 
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Chelsea are looking very strong and powerful this season so, barring too many injuries, I'd tip them to win either the Premier League or the Champions League. Abramovich is very keen to win the Champs League, as I understand it. Whether or not the transfer ban will affect them remains to be seen.
 
As i see it, chelsea basically has to win this year (from the eyes of Abrahimovic).

Next year they have no transfers and lets face it, Chelsea is not exactly a young team. They aren't getting better, they are getting older. Unless they win it this year, Abrahimovic needs to spend lots of cash when their transfer is removed if they are ever going to get the title.

Also, next year Man City will probably be playing in the CL, and if they go on another spending spree similar to this year, they will be very very very very hard to beat. Their team is allready pretty impressive, and nobody has the financial muscle to compete long term with AbuDhabiGroup.
 
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Sooo. Plays offs start today!

Stuttgart v Barcelona
Olympiacos v Bordeaux
Internazionale v Chelsea
Bayern Munich v Fiorentina
CSKA Moscow v Sevilla
Lyon v Real Madrid
Porto v Arsenal
Milan v Manchester United

Going to be many interesting matches, milan-manu and inter-chelsea in particular
 
Milan doesn't have much chances for the next match IMO. Too old team, will need to start from scratch in the next couple of years.
 
did anybody see the arsenal vs porto game? even as a arsenal fan i feel we could do well as long as the worse (and i mean worse) is behind us, that and we dont play chelsea/drogba till the final!
 
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