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Italian clubs in europe 2017/18

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#1 ·
Seems I am the least lazy making the thread this year. this year all teams succeded in the qualification. So we got 6 teams in competition.

UCL

Group C

AS Roma
Chelsea FC
Club Atlético de Madrid
Qarabağ FK

Roma could potentially beat both Chelsea and Madrid. all three tough as nails teams. But Roma in europe has been mostly a long story of failure.

Group D

FC Barcelona
Juventus
Olympiacos FC
Sporting Clube de Portugal

its just a question of who will end up at first place. Juve have more than a fair shot as Barcelone is in a mini-crisis

Group F

FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Feyenoord
Manchester City FC
SSC Napoli

Napoli toyed with Nice in qualification. they should progress and there is even a small chance they might topple Manchester Cash

Euro League

Group D

Milan (ITA)
Austria Wien (AUT)
Rijeka (CRO)
AEK (GRE)

Comfortable group for us, even if AEK is possible the best pot 4 team.

Group E
Lyon (FRA)
Everton (ENG)
Atalanta (ITA)
Apollon (CYP)

Atalanta is screwed. Even if they could pimp Lyon.

Group K

Lazio (ITA)
Nice (FRA)
Zulte Waregem (BEL)
Vitesse (NED)

Lazio should progress, but just about difficult enough that they could fail if no focus is put on it.
 
#5 · (Edited)
yeah, the defeat of Juventus was predictable, for many reasons, and so was predictable that Roma could suffer with Atletico Madrid, but the defeat of Napoli is disappointing.
My prediction for today is a win for Milan on Austria Wien and a defeat for Atalanta to Everton. Not sure about Lazio at Arnhem. Lazio in European competitions have often underperformed.
 
#6 ·
Brilliant idea to exclude Lichsteiner from the CL list. Sturaro played RB and made an assist.. to Rakitic.

Roma won't go through. I even have a funny feeling regarding their game in Azerbaijan next.. anyway the squads and coaches of Atletico and Chelsea are simply better so no shame in not qualifying.

juve will probably put 6 or 7 against Olympiacos. They did beat them 7-0 before...
 
#9 ·
Atalanta convincingly beat a strangely lethargic Everton team 3:0, scoring all the goals in the first half.
Impressive performance for Atalanta. Unpredictable.

While Roma were outplayed by Athletico, the draw was not lucky because Roma defended well and Alisson was outstanding, meanwhile at the other end Roma was denied a penalty-kick after a blatant handball inside the Athletico penalty area.
Yeah, we could pretend that luck doesn't exist at all and life is a series of probability. :D
 
#21 ·
It's the main thing that makes me disregard him as potential Allegri successor (2nd being don't know if he has a 2nd gear tactically speaking) despite playing fantastic football and has imposing charismatic coaching that's praised by his players (former or otherwise). If he could stfu it would elevate his steem alot more. Comes off as a classless peasant too often.


Did you read his now almost monthly whining about the schedule? It's 4 days between CL and last Serie A game but he expects the league to protect Napoli by making sure you don't face a top /good side before or after a CL game? How ridicolously self involved.

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#20 ·
Always stay this stylish, Sarri.

I think this is the strongest post-Maradona Napoli so far, but this game will be too much. Pep has finally got City playing his kind of football and Napoli will have huge problems surviving their tempo. An early Napoli goal could rattle them a bit, though, so it's indeed important to be brave and try to take the game in their own hands.
 
#25 ·
So Napoli choked for the second time in Europe, despite flying high in the league.

Damn that doesn't serve the Anti Juve narrative of, does well in the league coz they cheat and fails in Europe coz they can't cheat. F*ck. F*****CKKKK!!!!! :doh:
 
#35 ·
You go from Dani Alves (GOAT candidate in RB) to Sturaro, and from Bonucci who controlled and secured everything with the ball, to a Benatia that plays like a Juan Jesus now.




Yeah this shit aint going anywhere. You can win titles with slightly weaker attack or midfield as it happend for us past years, but weakening your defence? Nope, its a wash, try again next season when you fix it 3/4ths of this defence.
 
#31 ·
Well done to Roma tonight - aside from the defensive phase. Scoring 3 goals (could well have been 5-6) at Stamford Bridge in a CL match is impressive. Joint motm award goes to Kolarov and Dzeko - interestingly both ex EPL players. That probably helped. Roma can beat Chelsea at Olimipico. Perotti was shooting like a wuss tonight though, needs to work on that.
 
#34 ·
Benching your former "star" Juan Jesus would help our defense a lot, the guy is a disaster most of the time. So much athletic ability and such a lack of brain.

Anyway, pretty impressive performance from us aside from the defensive lapses, it helped that Chelsea for some reason decided not to press us at lal in out half for 90% of the game, we are pretty bad at dealing with this this season. Amazing goal by Dzeko.
 
#37 ·
That result will probably be Atletico's undoing in terms of qualification. Anyway Europa League with Atletico Madrid and Dortmund would be quite intriguing.

Benching your former "star" Juan Jesus would help our defense a lot, the guy is a disaster most of the time. So much athletic ability and such a lack of brain.

Anyway, pretty impressive performance from us aside from the defensive lapses, it helped that Chelsea for some reason decided not to press us at lal in out half for 90% of the game, we are pretty bad at dealing with this this season. Amazing goal by Dzeko.
Nice 'assist' by JJ to David Luiz tonight.. marking on Hazard was poor too.

JJ was moved to LB in his last season at Inter, clearly goes to show he was not trusted much to play as CB.

He is error prone. Why isn't the Mexican Moreno playing?