"Estoy triste": The pouty, not impressed, hands-on-hips Other Teams' Thread [R]

Kind of love Ronaldo with his "Calm down, I got this" goal celebration ... hey Ronaldo, you don't got this !!!

 

Normally I'd say winning at the San Siro is a tougher prospect than winning at Celtic Park, but this year might be different.

And Ibra scored for PSG in their win at Dinamo Zagreb. Always brings a meh to my face.

 

Would be ... but I doubt it will happen. Ajax will most likely crumble at the Bernabeu. What may happen is Borussia topping the group. But I still think RM will come back and top it.

 

LPB have now won only once in the last 24 road games in Germany. lol

 

Yes! I predicted the 2-1 result, got $650 for getting 6/7 results, I would have got 3500 had Man City drawn!

 

They are missing a LB and a DM ? How cute ... we are missing a whole back line !!

 

Interesting how the groups are shaping up halfway through:
A: Porto (9 pts) and PSG (6) looking pretty. Dynamo Kiev had a chance to claw back into it because they will host those two in MD4 and 5. The other Dinamo (Zagreb) looks adrift as they still travel to Porto and Paris.

B: Schalke's win at the Emirates basically puts them in pole position, but Arsenal are uncomfortably in 2nd knowing a bad result in Germany will open the door for Olympiakos.
C: Málaga bossing it! Perfect record and no goals allowed. Would be great to see Zenit nip Milan for 2nd.

D: All the win today means for Dortmund is that they held court. Still a tough trip to Madrid to come, and LPB could be back atop if they avenge today's loss. Citeh are screwed. They absolutely must win the 3 remaining games to even have a sniff of survival. Ajax in spoiler role.

E: WAXTAP look good, but Chelsea is in a similar situation to LPB: avenging their MD3 loss at home means they can go top. Juve is the mystery. Their next 2 games are at home vs. Nordsjaelland and Chelsea, so if they learn to win instead of draw, it eases pressure for the MD6 trip to WAXTAP.

F: 3-way tie for first between Valencia, BATE and Bayern! Lille, with 0 points, play their next 2 away at Bayern and BATE, so they will likely end up with zilch. This means Valencia is a relatively good position: they play BATE and Bayern at home, then a potentially nothing-to-play-for Lille away on MD6.

G: Perfect 9 points for Tito's boys, but next 2 are away at chilly Celtic and frigid Spartak. Get the win in Glasgow and Tito can bring some scrubs to Moscow. Whichever of those 2 teams--Celtic and Spartak--get points off Barça will have one hand on 2nd place, otherwise it rests on their MD6 showdown.

H: ManU in a similar position to Barça, perfect so far but with 2 away games to come, albeit in warmer climes: Portugal and Turkey. Dark-horse Cluj has 4 points, and with MD4 and 5 at home, they have a solid chance of keeping 2nd place. If they slip up in either home game, they have a tough task in the cauldron of Galatasaray's stadium in the group closer.

 

Hmm, well naturally I just poached this fact from somewhere else, in this case it was the matchticker commentator on ESPN who said at the beginning of the night that LPB was 1 for 23 heading into this one. And he specified against German teams in Germany, so that French team shouldn't count.

He then immediately predicted 2 - 1 to Borussia so this guy must know something.

(Maybe it was VEB. )

EDIT: this CNN article says that lone victory happened in 2000.

 

27 September 2000
Bayer Leverkusen Germany 2–3 Spain Real Madrid

 

Let's add round to day and include Chelsea losing in that statement !