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Since Liverpool are starting their Europa League campaign tonight, may as well start this thread now.

This will be rodgers first season in Europe, so I expect he'll look to have a solid competition. I reckon AVB will take this competition more seriously than Redknapp and Newcastle will want to do well for sure. Hopefully these three teams will do well and help England's co-efficient points.

As for the CL, we're retaining it :jordan2

 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

Arsenal 1-3 Bayern
Just as I predicted.

If Madrid get eliminated, Bayern are my next pick to win the CL this year.


As for today's game, although Milan has been playing much better than they were earlier in the season, I can't see them taking anything from today's game. They now weaker than they were last season and they don't have Balotelli available for the CL.
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

:wenger

lol at how people think that Arsenal will be trashed at home. Of course Bayern is the stronger side of the two, and is unarguably one of the favs to win the whole thing, but Arsenal on their day will surely make it a tough ride especially at home on a Champions League night. Isn't a walk in the park at all though I myself am predicting a slim Bayern victory tonight :robben

If Bayern would trash Arsenal, that would probably be in Germany IMO not in England. I see Arsenal escaping with something like a 1 all draw or score-less draw to a lesser extent.


Milan will beat Barca tomorrow, I called it first :side:
 
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Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

Arteta is fit.

It's rumored that Wenger will start either Walcott or Podolski up top, with Giroud on the bench. I'm suspecting something like this:

Arteta - Ramsey

Walcott - Wilshere - Cazorla

Podolski​

Koscielny isn't a certainty and that could mean a back-4 of Jenkinson - Sagna - Mertesacker - Vermaelen, while Sagna is super, Jenkinson vs. Ribery sounds terrible. I hope Kosh is fit enough. I'd rather Coquelin start as RB if Kosh isn't fit for this one. Or, Wenger could start Sagna at LB and Jenk at RB, with Merts and Vermaelen in the middle, but Vermaelen has been poor for a while now in the middle. Our best defensive partnership still is Per and Kosh.

I've been saying this for a week now and I've been called delusional in the process, but we are winning tonight. We can't keep a clean sheet, so I'm expecting 2-1 to us. Come on, Arsenal!!!!

:wenger
 
#3,848 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread

but not every club gets the same tv money + the sponsors. the big clubs will get the bigger sponsors and the bigger tv deals and the rest will fight fro scraps.

and it has nothing to do with avoiding a portsmouth type situation. the new premier league ones are an even bigger farce. it was specifically said to avoid these types of situations. maximum allowed annual losses? 35 mil. portsmouth's highest annual loss? 17 mil. the new wage restraints introduced mean that qpr would be able to increase their wage bill by 4 mil over the current 170% of their turnover.

how is that stopping any sort of financial ruin? the money paid to the bottom club next season will be more than this season's champions. the next few windows could see spending unrivalled by previous windows. it will not be a level playing field. the rich will get richer and there is no chance of a city situation occurring again. and that's the only reason this has been implemented. to stop the likes of an everton, a sunderland, a fulham, from never being anything else than a team battling for europa qualification and once every blue moon a champions league spot. and that's pretty sad.
 
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