UEFA Champions League 2023/2024

[SiamoNoi]

Can you tell me how can i get Tickets for the Salzburg game in Salzburg?

I don't know yet. For now just hope it will be possible. Need to see dates first.

 

[Matt90]

Yes, I don't think Milan will beat PSG and Arsenal. Maybe Newcastle, but Newcastle looks good too. 3rd or 4th for Milan.

Psg have great individuals but are poor as a unit. I honestly see that group as pretty even any team could win it, newcastle get a few injuries and I could see them bottom. Ideally they and psg would go out, the less fake clubs the better.

Hopefully lazio can do a better job on celtic this time.

 

[chicho2395]

The funny thing is that we are not the only ones happy with the group and that is because it is an even group.

Real society, offended because everyone looks down on them (Inter, Benfica and Salzburg) but with confidence to even win the group. They feel superior.

https://foros.diariovasco.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=994136&start=60

those from Benfica look second, they are saner

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those of Salzburg happy too

FC Salzburg | Champions League 2023/24

Salzburg spielt zum fünften Mal in Folge in der Champions League Gruppenphase. Neben Salzburg bereits fix qualifiziert sind: Manchester City Arsenal FC Barc...

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Bets and qualifying odds:

Inter 1.3
benfica 1.6
R.Society 2.4
Salzburg 3.25

In short, if they are sure of passing what is left for inter? Failure to pass would certainly be a failure

 

[SiamoNoi]

And fucking Joe Cole pronounced our name as "Inter Milan" in the CL draw event. These fucking inbred, British fucks.

Many Inter fans are doing that somehow so I don't know what to say anymore about that.

 

[Wobblz]

Lazio will do fuck all in CL.

 

[Fitzy]

Why not make it 256 teams? More games, more revenue.

Idiots.

 

[Sawyer]

Expectations will be higher and thus pressure will.

This group is good for the mentality of the squad, I just hope we pull through with flying colours.

 

[Sawyer]

And fucking Joe Cole pronounced our name as "Inter Milan" in the CL draw event. These fucking inbred, British fucks. Marchetti corrected right after him with "Inter Milano".

Don't disagree with the retard saying it wrong but in the UK it's just common to say Inter Milan, don't think there's a need to insult 4 countries like that.

Edit; oh and the translation of italian to English on Milano is Milan, so..

 

[ADRossi]

Stupidity. UEFA has figured out more matches = more money, while players salaries are relatively stagnant. So they run the players into the ground and give us lower quality football. But we're all a bunch of crack addicts, so we'll watch the matches anyway.

 

[brakbrak]

Because you can't get Bayern or City when progressing out of the group if they were in the group. I'd rather get Benfica after the group than City

That's some mental gymnastic bullshit. They are on track to finish first as they always do every year, if we finish first (which we absolutely should with this group) we won't have to face them in the next round.

 

[Besnik]

We've gotten lucky in knock out phase's draw of last season. Being in opposite path of ManCity and Real Madrid has given us bigger opportunity to reach the final, although you never know, maybe in two-legged clash vs ManCity we could have knocked them out, but chances of that to happen were smaller than knocking out one of Benfica, Milan or Napoli for example.

But @wera has an interesting point though.

Hopefully reaching last season's final should be an experience boost for our players to feel less stressed in this season. We should absolutely aim for top of group, since only qualifying as second is not enough considering quality of opponents we've gotten in our group.

 

[Irequis]

And fucking Joe Cole pronounced our name as "Inter Milan" in the CL draw event. These fucking inbred, British fucks. Marchetti corrected right after him with "Inter Milano".

That's better but they should use either Internazionale (like Jamie Carragher haha) or then just Inter.

Actually it is very hard to determine which name is correct or not. Michael Cox once wrote the difficulty in mentioning clubs' name which is written in local name (https://theathletic.com/4308623/2023/03/16/sporting-lisbon-athletic-bilbao-wrong-name/). For example, Bavarian should not blame us if we say Bayern Munich instead of Bayern Muenchen. However, the most consistent English translation would be Bavaria Munich which is even more baffling. And good luck saying Tsrvena Zvezda, you would embarass yourself in butchering the pronouncation live in front of millions people.

And as non-Italian Interista in, it is just natural to say Inter Milan because it is the easy English translation and people keep referring it as Inter Milan. Thus, it is difficult to expect outsiders to understand what is acceptable or not in identifying our club's name.

 

[crzdcolombian]

No Barca, real or Barca. We had gotten fkd with these groups last few seasons

Hopefully we qualify early and play some younger players

 

[CoolMan44]

Fun group imo. It's actually a more 'tricky' group than a lot of people think. At the same time, there is no traditional 'powehouse' opponent. I'm also glad that we get to face two teams I've never watched us played against (Sociedad and Salzburg, excluding friendlies). There is no easy team but it's also a group that we should aim to top, especially given our experience last season.

 

[CoolMan44]

Anyone know when the list of fixtures comes out?

 

[ADRossi]

Anyone know when the list of fixtures comes out?

Usually within a few days.

 

[thatdude]

So that makes three of us on this forum in the Tampa Bay metro area...up 'till now I thought it was just @thatdude and me. (I'm in St. Pete.)

Pretty crazy for how small this forum is.

 

[YoramG]

Fixtures should be out by Saturday.

I would love to go to the Sociedad away game but San Sebastian is a ballache to fly to from the UK. Might try for Salzburg, or make one of the home games my yearly trip to Milan.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Stupidity. UEFA has figured out more matches = more money, while players salaries are relatively stagnant. So they run the players into the ground and give us lower quality football. But we're all a bunch of crack addicts, so we'll watch the matches anyway.

A week or so ago, I was kinda debating with myself (real meeting of the minds, I know) about my thoughts from a while back when there were ideas floated out there about the World Cup being every two years vs. every four years. And the devil on my right shoulder football fan in me was perfectly fine with the idea...like, I have zero national attachments of any kind, I can enjoy the football without being actively pissed off about certain teams winning games or about my team losing games (I'm not a USMNT supporter nor have I been for several years; I have, ahem, "nuanced" views towards the USMNT - none politically-inclined - but that's for another thread). I mean, it sounds fantastic to me, so why not, right?

Of course, then spoke the angel on my left shoulder actual person within me, reminding me that this sport already taxes its players at the highest level to extreme degrees as it is. Champions League teams are making regular cross-continental travel, they play a game that has become considerably more physically demanding of its players on a game-by-game basis and they're playing more games than they ever have before. The odd-year summers for European players and the non-World Cup or Copa America years for South American players are the only time they get anything in the form of extended rest between seasons (and even useless fucking competitions like the Nations League now exists to cut into some of that time; I have never watched a Nations League game and I can't imagine I could ever care to). Think about shit like this* and other forms of performance-enhancing or at least performance-maintaining drugs these players will take to keep up with the physical demands of the sport. The physical discomforts that these players deal with after their time playing the sport, a sport that does make them and their families exceedingly wealthy and a deal that every one of them knows the risks when they sign up for when they reach the highest level, but just because there's an accepted risk doesn't make it ok to grind these players into dust. That's not even accounting for the risks that these players don't know they're signing up for; NFL players didn't know just how severe the risk of concussions and the permanent effects of them would be many years ago when they played American football, and guess what? It turns out this form of football also has severe risks of concussion-related injuries that can cause debilitating post-football problems for players, risks that are above that of the average population (if I can find the article I remember from a couple months ago, I'll link that as well).

If anything, we should be playing fewer games, not more. Leagues should probably follow the Bundesliga model and reduce to 18 teams and 34 games. There should be more built-in rest periods for teams. England should get rid of the fucking useless Carabao Cup that absolutely not a single fucking person outside of White Hart Lane could give the tiniest shit about. International competitions should remain as once-every-four-years, and that includes the Copa America doing so instead of spinning a wheel and it randomly telling them whether a given year should have a Copa America or not.

But, as you said, money talks, and the genie left the bottle a long time ago. If they can milk more games, that's what they're going to do. Player safety and health be damned. This is absolutely no surprise when literally every major footballing association on the planet - UEFA, FIFA, CONMEBOL, etc. - is corrupt to their very core.

*Behind a paywall; I can paste this article in the appropriate thread if it's both wanted and appropriate by TPTB on this forum.

 

[Fapuccino]

Great draw. CL KOs 3 years in a row would be great.

This year our goal should be to pull off a major upset in the CL. I doubt we'll get to finals again, but an upset would certainly be up our alley.