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Barcelona Drops to Europa League After Being Beaten By Bayern Munich
Bayern have qualified for the last 16 of this season’s UCL and sit top of the group with 6 wins from 6 matches. Barcelona Have Dropped Down to Europa League After Being Beaten By Bayern Munich 3-0 in their Champions League final group match.
The recent struggles of Barca under Koeman and new coach Xavi seem to emphasize the fact that Lionel Messi was the starman holding the catalan club.
If Barcelona had lost against Bayern and Benfica failed to beat Dynamo Kiev, then Barcelona would have progressed due to having a two-point advantage in Group E.
Unfortunately, Barça lost and Benfica won against Dynamo Kiev, so Benfica has qualified as runners-up and the Camp Nou outfit will head for the Europa League. If Both Barça and Benfica had lost their games, then Barça would have qualified due to their two-point advantage.
Barcelona Drops to Europa League After Being Beaten By Bayern Munich
GOAL — Barcelona on the brink
Thomas Muller does what he does. His 50th Champions League goal, eight of which have come against Barcelona. Lewandowski lobs one to the back post where Muller reaches it with a looping header. Araujo hooks it away but it has crossed the goal line by inches. With Benfica cruising against Dynamo Kyiv, Barcelona surely need to score two.
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That’s surely it. The ball wobbles ferociously through the Bavarian night, flying past Ter Stegen and surely killing off any hope Barcelona have of avoiding the Europa League.
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Not advancing to the Round of 16 of the Champions League is a major blow to Barcelona, owing to their current financial situation. Since they finished third in the group, they would still remain in European competition, joining the Europa League at the Round of 32 stage, but the prize money is lower than that available in the Champions League.
Because Barça have been knocked out of the Champions League 2021/22 at the group stage, they stand to lose between €10.53 million and €15.2 million for not securing a place in the knockout round.
When was the last time Barca failed to qualify for the Champions League last 16? That as way back in 2001.
After a home defeat to Real Betis on Saturday, Xavi was hoping for a response from his team against the Bundesliga leaders. But that dream was shattered in a 3-0 defeat to Lewandowski’s Bayern.
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The UEFA Champions League group stage reaches its conclusion on Wednesday with four places still up for grabs in the knockout stages.
Perhaps the biggest game of the week came at the Allianz Arena where the equation for Barcelona was simple even if the task was not. Beat Bayern Munich, at whose hands they have suffered a string of recent hammerings, and they are through to the last 16. Fail to do so and Benfica, two points behind them, could steal into second place with a win at home to Dynamo Kyiv.
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3-3 draw between Manchester United and Galatasaray in UEFA Champions League – Group A. They also analyze the performance of goalkeeper Andre Onana and the chances of Erik ten Hag’s side of advancing to the knockout stages.
Not saying Onana is done at Utd but surely ETH needs to give the back up a chance at this point. Even DDG needed to come out of the team briefly when he first came to the club. Gives him a chance to build his confidence away from the spot light. But TBH DDG was never this bad to begin with sm
Throwing away leads, basic mistakes and tonight, despite Onana performing better recently we might as well have had Jonny Evans in goal.
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As much as I like eth, he caused our exit by bringing in a keeper not too familiar with EPL. In fact he should not have sent David away the way he did. He should have kept him and the duo should have competed. Onana errors contributed a lot to the exit
Tactically, I think ETH did pretty much everything correctly. Outside of Magelof not being good enough in general, the only criticism I can offer is that Mainoo should’ve come on for McGhost after he scored his goal. Solidify that midfield and shut everything down.
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The keeper had a bad game and had a lot already this season which isn’t great but let’s hope he gets better as the season goes cause I remember when De Gea first came to United and he was not great as well but he matured, got stronger and became a great goalkeeper. But ETH needs to replace Onana for the next game and let him know that he needs to step it up.
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As a United fan I have to disagree with the assessment of the performance. There was no control, no maturity. United give the ball away far too easily for this level. When you have less possession than a Sean Dyche team and then get 43% against Galatasaray, you’re not the technical side the manager wants to build. I feel sorry for Onana, he’s been doing much better recently. The mistakes he’s making are so basic it speaks to a mental problem. My hope is that Onana will feel much more comfortable when we develop into the team Ten Hag wants. Need to bring in ball-playing CBs and controller midfielders in the next two windows. Then we’ll see the real picture.
I honestly hope we finish bottom of the group so they can just focus on the domestic front. This team is poor to say the least and we will get knocked out in the second round even if we scale through by some miracle. So best not to, as for “O na na, whats my name” Don called it! He needs to reassess his priorities as a goalkeeper… now I’m ranting on YouTube, darn you ManUtd!
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Can David de Gea be the short-term fix Manchester United needs? | If I was him I wouldn’t go back there after the way he was disrespected .. I can’t believe the management could be this bold and daft after the treatment they gave that guy.
Don’t do it!!! They decided you weren’t good enough and decided to get onana. Even if you took a pay cut, it would of been to facilitate onana. That’s tells you what you need to know
Of course teams have offered him contacts and he’s chosen to say no. He’s said very clearly he’ll go to club fighting to win things and unfortunately all the top clubs have keepers. He might come back when the right club wants him.
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Wonder if Man U is telling Onana to skip the African cup due to his recent poor performances. Otherwise they’re telling him his spot is at risk
United have no transfer strategy so this potential move makes 100% sense. Afterall they bought Mason Mount for 50 million to warm the bench.
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It will be a mess and destabilising if we bring him back.. Shoking how he was treated after 12 years. And we bought a young goalkeeper, surely he gets a chance and we still have Heaton I believe.. What’s the point anymore? 😆 We’re a joke!
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De Gea deserved better treatment. He should plain down reject any offer or entertain the offer just to reject it. The Man Utd negotiators could not negotiate their way out of a brown paper bag, absolutely disgrace to their profession.
If they bring him back prep for a new manager. Cause ten hag is clearly incompetent.
And he’s been offered but he won’t take less than what he is worth, he’s a golden glove winner and a legend 🤷🏽. Onana can’t even distribute this season and can’t stop a beach ball.
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It’s a strange one this because de Gea priced himself out of a job. He wanted a contract worth more than than the £375k a week he was already getting, and Man United originally agreed to one, and then changed their mind, and I don’t blame them. He’s worth $75 million thanks to MUFC.
He was the World’s richest goalkeeper last season, and while he is a great goalkeeper, most pundits would name either Nuer or the recently retired Buffon as the greatest goalkeeper of the last 15 years, and most pundits would put the Brazilian duo Ederson and Becker as the best keepers in the Prem right now. What I’m saying is that at $75 million net worth de Gea could have afforded to be philosophical about it all and perhaps taken a pay cut.
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Still can’t believe Eriksen plays for Man United, especially after we all know what happened to him. I still remember that day and honestly thought we’d lost him. So happy to see him around and still playing.
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Glad to see Eriksen get his praise. He was always my favorite player at Spurs. Lack of competition in the squad forced him to regress a bit in his career. Barcelona/Real Madrid were interested at him at a time. Then he went to the demon Conte, who doesn’t know how to handle flair footballers. And of course after his health situation, happy he got to perform at Brentford, and for Ten Haag with his creative flair. Though now Man Utd have both Ambrabat, and Casemiro, should make him perform much better in a free role! Or at least backup to Bruno.
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The only reason i dont see Eriksen starting is because it doesn’t always look like he can play a full match, hence ETH has to be wise regarding when he should put Eriksen in the game. But everytime he’s subbed on, the entire team breaths easier and gains that extra sense of control. A game that was otherwise frantic, uncoordinated, improvised and scrappy, was all turned around when Eriksen came on the pitch. Gosh I wish we could see more to him.
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The midfield in the Derby has to be him, Brumo and Amrabat.. whenever Eriksen plays deeper, it releases Bruno.. this experiment of Bruno playing as a deep playmaker and Mctominey as a 10/Second Striker has clearly failed.
We know Eriksen can’t play 90 minutes, but ETH should try to start with him and find a comfortable lead before subbing him off. I don’t remember Bruno having any influence on the game, or in previous games, he is so panicked in possession unlike Mr.Cool here. I would swap them around and see what happens.
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