Champions League 8-Team Tournament in Lisbon :

[YNWA14]

The delusion of Gomez being responsible for Liverpool being out of the CL gets more amusing the more I see it.

If PSG get past Atalanta they can make a run, but man that was one of the worse matchups for them on paper.

I don't think so. PSG has the best team left really it's just about whether they play up to their potential or not. I think the rustiness is being overstated. Atalanta play too open to beat PSG IMO especially when that leaves so much room for guys like Mbappe and Neymar. Only way Atalanta wins that game is if PSG are really off.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Pretty self explanatory. Atalanta are white hot and Atleti are playing the best footy they have in properly years. My money is on them for that game.

Atalanta and Atletico are both worse teams, as well.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

I think some people forget how PSG has played this season. They haven’t done much wrong. Certainly in contention for the best team in the world this season. I’d probably put them after Liverpool, but I don’t think anyone other than Liverpool has been better.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Atalanta and Atletico are both worse teams, as well.

They're both not playing like it

 

[Gecklund]

They’ll be rested, and then they’ll play 2-3 exhibition games. It’s not as if players in their first game of the season can’t match players who are in some convoluted-season mode. The players who had to stop, come back, finish out their season, and then go onto the Champions League might be fatigued and injured.

Their “exhibition” games are against shitty teams. When teams come into a new season, they’re rusty.

 

[Evilo]

Nothing replaces competition, so yeah PSG and Lyon will be disavantaged.
But it what it is.
Lyon might be able to snatch a draw at Juve, it's possible. Juve couldn't break them down in the first leg. And it's easier to defend at 11 than to attack when you're rusty.
PSG has a tough matchup because Atalanta is walking on water right now.
But we'll see in a month.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

They're both not playing like it

When have you seen PSG play recently?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Their “exhibition” games are against shitty teams. When teams come into a new season, they’re rusty.

This is such a bullshit trope. Sometimes you’ll play one of your best games of the season at the beginning. It doesn’t always work that all your best form is middle/late part of the season.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

When have you seen PSG play recently?

They havent played recently lol

 

[Bon Esprit]

City also lost to Chelsea and Southampton.

And? Good teams loose to not so good teams all the time.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

When have you seen PSG play recently?

The entire reason why PSG are pretty vulnerable is exactly because they haven't played recently lmao

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

The entire reason why PSG are pretty vulnerable is exactly because they haven't played recently lmao

I don’t agree with that, at all, but to each their own.

 

[Gecklund]

I don’t agree with that, at all, but to each their own.

Yet everyone else things it’s a pretty big issue.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Yet everyone else things it’s a pretty big issue.

I mean look at how the NHL is doing playoffs. They created a seeding round for the top ranked teams so they have more than just exhibition games for them to get warmed up. Playing recently absolutely matters.

 

[East Coast Bias]

I mean I don't know if it'll sink PSG - who knows. But there's no way you can call this a choke job if they lose here after not playing competitively for 5 months. In a single tie no less.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Real at 30-1 is an outrageous price, best value by a countrymile

30-1 because they're not likely to get past their current tie situation, obviously. Though, given that they can't score a goal from open play at this point, I'm not sure which of the top teams I would bet in their favor for anyway.

 

[gary69]

PSG will play a couple of competitive French cup matches before the CL, against St.Etienne and Lyon.