Who will win the Champions League this year

hmm many people seem to ignore Lyon.. i really think they will win it, and everyone will start talking about them winning it after they woop Roma..

The strongest team is Lyon. That is the one team I don't want to face. I think Milan stands right behind them and not because of the fact that I am a Milan fan, but because of the history we have in the CL and the players that we have.
We DO have one of the best line-ups out of all those teams in the CL, but the players weren't performing in the first half of the season. A lot of injuries hammered us and bad form. But with players like Maldini(experience), Nesta, Pirlo, Gattuso,Seedorf,Kaka,Gilardino we HAVE to be one of the biggest favorites. Simply because even if these players haven't been performing at the highest thus far......when the moment comes to play a quater,semi or a final against a big name team........these players WILL show up and when players like that show up it is hard to beat them. I know the other teams have big names as well, however our names are the ones that made it to 2 finals 1 semi-final in the past 4 years and trust me, Milan will be the team nobody will want to face because everyone knows how tough it is against Milan when these players are on form.

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

hmm many people seem to ignore Lyon.. i really think they will win it, and everyone will start talking about them winning it after they woop Roma..

Lyon was better last year and they never won the cup. I can't say I can see very good reasons for them winning. If you follow the French league you could also see that they currently doesn't do as well and have big problems scoring. on this higher level they are a bit to reliant on the freekicks of Juninho IMO.

Originally Posted by kris

Lyon was better last year and they never won the cup. I can't say I can see very good reasons for them winning. If you follow the French league you could also see that they currently doesn't do as well and have big problems scoring. on this higher level they are a bit to reliant on the freekicks of Juninho IMO.

I sort of agree with kris on this. I also think that Lyon were a better team last year, not that they aren't good this year but still, they are yet to be really tested.
Although they did top their CL group, it was comprised of teams like newcomers Steaua and an awful Dynamo Kiev side not to forget a rather volatile and inconsistent, not to say poor, Real M, who are somehow still seen as favourites by some despite being so desperately disfunctional.

IMO, it would all depend on the momentary form of the teams when they meat at the end of February because if Lyon looked the big favourites in CL 2 months ago, now they are showing far less impressive displays and are having problems scoring, as well. 2 months ago, I would have picked as almost automatic winners in their clash with Roma but if the two teams were to play now, I would give it a 50-50 and maybe a slight advantage for Roma.

imho lyon is a good team, but nothing more than that. for french league they have superior team but in cl they lack something. i think players like malouda, fred, abidal... are good but will never be good enough to dominate europe...
juninho is top player, even carew is but that is it. wiltord is injured...
cant see them past the quaterfinals

I'll admit i'm not an AC Milan supporter (Sorry! thought i'd best get that out in the open straight away!) but i am interested in how you think you'll do in europe this season (how far you think you will get) and who your best player(s) are likely to be?

We'll get to quarter final, semi-final at the maximum and that's highly dependend on the adversary we'll get that's it. Best players? Kaka, Inzaghi, Maldini but that's my opinion, the optimists will tell you we'll win the final, while the pessimists will see us out against Celtic already.

I don't underestimate them but clearly if Milan can't qualify against them then frankly we wouldn't deserve to play the CL for the next two years.

Place your votes for the games of CL:

Celtic - Milan 20/02 » 07/03 »
PSV - Arsenal 20/02 » 07/03 »
Lille - Man. United 20/02 » 07/03 »
Real Madrid - Bayern 20/02 » 07/03 »

Guess which will go further....

Originally Posted by Giorgos

Place your votes for the games of CL:

Celtic - Milan 20/02 » 07/03 »
PSV - Arsenal 20/02 » 07/03 »
Lille - Man. United 20/02 » 07/03 »
Real Madrid - Bayern 20/02 » 07/03 »

Guess which will go further....

Milan, PSV, Man Utd, Bayern

i hope milan, roma or inter.

IMO WE will win CL again! It will be a great present for US(Milan supporters)! Milan can win it, if play in a right formation! I hope Carlo knows what to do!

Milan is Milan, Let's see, I am a fan of Real Madrid in Spain, they have many problem's in defence, also Capello... , Barca will not do it again, they are not so motivated like last year, Lyon, which is Lyon? a very good team but they dont have the name to raise the trophy, Manutd its my 2nd team in Europe we will see, but they are more focus in Premier League, they can go well, Inter are fantastic in Seri A but i want to see how they will appear in CL, Bayern is in crisis but is Bayern, but definitely not for title, Liverpool has a strong shirt. Arsenal they improoved last year but they are still loosers, not the team which they believe they are the best.

So it depends on Milan... let's take Celtic seriously and then i am sure that our players would be there... dont forget that's the last challenge for our players this year. When we lost against Ajax (Kluivert) we were awful though because Milan is a great team, we reach the final and we lost in details.

first time caller here,

really looking forward to the two games with milan.i was at the last game in the san siro and thought it was the best stadium and atmosphere apart from celtic park that i had been to.coming over for the return leg and hoping for as good a trip as last time(different score),don't forsee any trouble at all.eufa should let us have a full capacity stadium so we all can enjoy ourselves.

good luck,apart from celtic games

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you better not underestimate us at celtic park, your season has been erratic and teams with a huge reputation have failed to cope with the demands of celtic park.