CL Round of 16 draw

[Power Man]

Barring majour injuries, Madrid should beat City

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Barring majour injuries, Madrid should beat City

That's pretty presumptuous, they're in bad form but on their day they can take anyone on. Laporte immensely improves that back line ( not slightly as you alluded to.)

 

[Power Man]

That's pretty presumptuous, they're in bad form but on their day they can take anyone on. Laporte immensely improves that back line ( not slightly as you alluded to.)

When is Laporte scheduled to come back?

 

[Savant]

Not doing any predictions until end of January

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Well. Mourinho's record in play off games is rather decent.

Mourinho has a lot of work to do before that tie though. Spurs didn't handle the high press from Wolverhampton very well - so playing that same way against Leipzig would be problematic. Pretty sure Spurs will be better though. 50/50 for me.

They might be better, but they won’t have a coaching advantage. Nagelsmann is a terrific coach. Mourinho isn’t at this point.

 

[hatterson]

When is Laporte scheduled to come back?

At the beginning of december he gave an interview where he said "I can’t say when exactly but more or less one month-and-a-half to two months."

So that would put it mid/late January. Baring no setbacks (which wouldn't be insane given it's a knee surgery issue) it looks like he'll be back with at least a couple weeks to get back to speed before the CL tie.

 

[Cassano]

Barring majour injuries, Madrid should beat City

Agreed. City look pretty bad this season in all comps.