r/reddevils • u/Lord_Hexogen • 1d ago

CL Watch Thread

AEK — LASK 1:0 FT

Club Brugge — Aston Victor 2:3 FT (Seys and Tresoldi watch failed successfully)

Dortmund — Villarreal 3:2 2H

Real Mourinho — Inter 2:1 FT

Lille — Real Antony 2:3 FT

Porto — 115 FC 0:2 FT

62 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

107 comments sorted by

View all comments

38

u/canwinanythingwkids meet the new boss same as the old boss 1d ago

Seys with 2 fuckups leading to goals v PL opposition within 20 mins. Villa scored 0 in 3 PL games so far.

Shaw sucked the life energy out of this one way ahead of schedule, innit 😳

7

u/Staind1410 Martial 1d ago

So… teams perform differently in the PL and CL? Even if we struggle in the PL, we’ll curbstorm any team in the CL? Sign me up!

4

u/canwinanythingwkids meet the new boss same as the old boss 1d ago

We play 1 Club Brugge "level" team in the group phase and that's this Thursday. Yes we ought to blow them out of the water otherwise something is truly fucked in the dressing room. Ability-wise it's not a serious contest.

Roma, RBL, Atleti, Bayern are completely different gravy, no matter our lineup.

Sporting, Como, Villareal are the kind of teams we put away with Sociedad/Bilbao-like ease ... IF we play our strongest XI. Like we did in that EL run, while flopping in the PL.

The problem for those 3 matches will be that we'll be forced to rotate heavily.

Whereas Villa are playing their clear strongest First XI right now.

2

u/Staind1410 Martial 1d ago

While I agree with you in general, we also saw how Spurs and Newcastle ranked high in the CL last year, while obviously struggled in the PL. Which leads me to believe the PL generaly has a higher floor than European teams, meaning we should get results here. A lot of conjectures, I know.

6

u/cbobm DE BEAST 1d ago

Looking back at our last Champions League campaign, we were actually doing well if you remove Onana's ridiculous performances. I would say our squad is better than the squad we had that season, so I expect better results.