Now if Milan can equalize and then we freeze the scores please
UEFA Champions League - 29/01/25
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to celebrate rare back-to-back victories for Manchester United! They analyse the late win in the Europa League vs. Rangers and then try and find things to analyse in a pretty dour game vs. Fulham. They also chat about the latest Marcus Rashford news, and look at the latest transfer news.
Stuttgart score against PSG. Fuhrich
Too much to ask for one last city collapse?
Sporting just scored and is now in a qualifying position, while Zagreb is out
Atalanta level. Pasalic.
Benfica two up against Juventus. Kokcu.
Madrid with three. Rodrygo.
Lille now have five or maybe six.
This new cl format is so much better
Feyenoord getting a good rogering
Try telling Jeff Stelling that. He hates it.
Most fun night of CL football in many years I think.
Coman makes it 3-0 to Bayern.
Been made some good changes in recent years, first away goal rule being gone, and now a better group stage format.
Rodrygo is a bit underrated, ironically being a lowkey & humble team player who never complains means he gets
overshadowed by Vini who is vocal and flashier.
overshadowed by Vini who is vocal and flashier.
So City can still be in it, despite being crap, and thanks largely to playing a Bruge side that had qualified at half time?
If you put all the last group games in the old format on at the same time on the same night it would be great too - except there would be a lot more at stake.
I'm pretty confident even we would have got into the playoff in this CL format.
61 goals so far.
bloody hell62, Bratislava scores in München 
Nah thats bollocks, a lot more dead rubber nothing games. Old format was beyond stale and crap.
Is it!?
Fun tonight but every single team you'd expect to go through has despite half of them being awful.
Agree, always looks good
The average this season has been 3.2 goals/game which translates to around 57-58 goals, so not far off currently.
Exactly. Most goals today completely shift the table so that it completely changes who can play who in the playoffs/R16
Most of those our own goal by us.
Some could still go out in the playoffs and at least you do not get teams dropping down to EL and ECL.
Yeah, only 31 goals so far this season …absolutely useless
Liverpool bring on a fella for his debut and gets sent off straight away.
I think so
Take out tonight, we've had many better games to look forward to.
If united were in it I would enjoy it more than a lot of the shitty group games we had (even those we struggled in)
Lille and Villa being through to R16 while Real/Bayern have to play City in the playoffs shows that real surprises are possible.
Unlucky
Nah, in most groups you'd have people fighting out for second place at the very least.
And besides, most of the games tonight are dead rubber? That's why there's loads of goals, there isn't much at stake. Most teams knew they were either play offs or top 8.
This format rewards mediocrity.
Under the old format, City would have drawn Brugge, Feyenoord and Sparta Prague, sleepwalked to first place and a last 16 tie against Brest (or equivalent).
With this, they're in a must win game and could easily play Real, Milan or Bayern in a playoff.
So unless Milan score, it's Real or Bayern for City
Think he's a bit unlucky there. The flight of the ball would've taken it towards Quansah who was covering.
Enjoying seeing Sterling being predictably crap.
Arsenal get a late penalty for handball. Sterling to take. Saved.
Bayern managed to just screw us over
May they play City
May they play City
League ranking matters for the seeding. And with 8 matches for 36 teams goal difference matters much more than with 6 matches for 4 teams as before. That's why it makes sense to really go for it and try to score a lot.
Looks like Villa might just avoid the play-offs.