UEFA CL Group B Matchday 6: Benfica (Home) v. Napoli (Away) @ Stadio Da Luz [R]

if Napoli plays like they did vs Inter they can win, but... will they?

 

I dont think we played partically well against inter ... The zielinski goal released alot of space for us to run into - yet we didnt really create a lot of big chances given how many favourable situations we got in. We ********ed up in defence a couple of times too - Reina was saving our asses a couple of times.

my point is Inter were just bad that match. We need to forget about that match and concentrate about Benfica.

someone tell Sarri

 

Just need a draw or dynamo win, right?

 

We could use the CL money by advancing, winter market

 

If dynamo win, both Benfica and us are in

 

Please Napoli win this, make Serie A proud. And don't count on Dynamo Kyiv winning or even getting a draw, they have nothing to play for.

 

Ya Kiev won't get the job done, it's all on us

 

I think even if Dynamo get a draw, we're in, unless we lose

so let's win!

 

If you draw or win you are in no matter what even if Besiktas win.

 

Yeah but if we draw and besiktas lose we go through as group winners. If besiktas draw or win we go through as second. If we win benfica we finish first nonetheless.

 

At this point if we finish second there really isn't that much difference than if we were to finish first looking at the potential candidates. Finishing first could land us Bayern or Real, whereas finishing second could land us Leicester for instance

 

in Napoli fashion we could do something like finish first than they put up against Bayern in the R16

 

Maronn' I'm nervous. I know we can dominate if we play as Sarri preaches...but to win we need CUUULOOOO as well. So here it is:



VINCERE VINCERE DEVIIII VINCEEEEREE!!!

 

KEEP EM COMIN @Osolemio

 

There is still a benefit to finishing first I'd say:

If Group Winners the teams likely to face are: Bayern, Dortmund, Man City, Sevilla, Arsenal, Leverkusen, and Copenhagen.

If Group Runners Up the teams likely to face are: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico, PSG, Monaco, and Leicester.

Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Atletico, are still stronger than Bayern, Dortmund, and Man City. In fact PSG can even be a threat, and I believe PSG are stronger than they look. PSG and Man City in my eyes are quite comparable. Monaco is also not a team to be underestimated, and is likely superior to Arsenal, and on par with Sevilla.

I am assuming Real Madrid will beat Dortmund at the Bernabeu. Dortmund and Man City are good teams, but they have quite a few problems in defense, and their defense can be extremely shaky at times. Real and Atletico have pretty much a solid defense.

 

Reina; Hysaj, Koulibaly, Albiol, Ghoulam; Allan, Diawara, Hamsik; Callejon, Gabbiadini, Insigne

 

The only thing that matters is qualification...

 

duo of diawara and allan sounds precautious, so hopefully that helps us defensively

 

Jorginho must be in the dog house for passing it to Roma, Besiktas, and Benfica players

 

Allan is the kind of player you like for these kinds of games, would have preferred Slinky Zielinky to Hamdik starting but he is the club captain and you need him to be a leader in tough venues like this

 

Allans hard work is important but when you have an anchoring defensive mid like Diawara ideally you'd want both the central midfielders to push up. I think zielinski instead of Allan would have been useful (or jorgy instead of diawara) if we wanted to take the game to them

 

we had a chance to lock this group up ages ago...if we don't get through, this is totally on us. I pray for victory because I don't want our champions league run to end here...but, I can totally see it not going our way.

I agree...we need to play like we played Inter. Threatening, attacking football and Reina needs to show up big today.