2022/23 Champions League Semi-Finals and Final

[amenina]

Rodri named 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Player of the Season
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleagu ... -of-the-s/

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia named 2022/23 UEFA Champions League Young Player of the Season
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleagu ... league-yo/

2022/23 UEFA Champions League Team of the Season
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleagu ... he-season/



Erling Haaland tops 2022/23 FedEx Performance Zone rankings
https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleagu ... -rankings/

Erling Haaland has ended the campaign comfortably clear in the FedEx Performance Zone rankings after managing 12 goals and one assist in his 11 UEFA Champions League outings.

The Man City striker was the top scorer in the competition this season, registering five of his goals in the group stage with the remainder coming in the knockout stages.

[Lubomir25]

Foden made a difference after KDB went off.

Yes, Guardiola courageous move to replacing De Bruyne with the more offensive Foden paid.

Enjoy the parade!

It wasn't courage, KDB was injured

[offside]

Foden made a difference after KDB went off.

Yes, Guardiola courageous move to replacing De Bruyne with the more offensive Foden paid.

Enjoy the parade!

It wasn't courage, KDB was injured

Yes, of course. But he decided for Foden instead of a midfielder.

[BurningStorm]

It only took Pep 7 tries with such a cheap team, I'm really impressed. Other coaches would have needed 8 or 9!!!!!

Congrats to Oldelpaso. I know he is a lifelong fan who would support them even in the Championship. Nothing against this type of City fans. Enjoy it.

[Lyonnais]

WS Marks

- KO games count twice
- average of the best 10 marks


Top 10

8.41 Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid, FWL, 22, BRA)
8.25 Erling Haaland (Man City, FW, 22, NOR)
8.05 Kevin De Bruyne (Man City, AMC, 31, BEL)
7.99 Bernardo Silva (Man City, MC, 28, POR)
7.93 Rodrygo (Real Madrid, FW, 22, BRA)
7.90 Rodri (Man City, DMC, 26, ESP)
7.83 Federico Valverde (Real Madrid, MC, 24, URU)
7.82 Joshua Kimmich (Bayern, DMC, 28, GER)
7.81 Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica, DL, 27, ESP)
7.76 Karim Benzema (Real Madrid, FW, 35, FRA)
etc.


Best XI

....... Vinicius Jr (R.Madrid) - E.Haaland (Man City) - B.Silva (Man City) ...........
....... F.Valverde (R.Madrid) - Rodri (Man City) - K.De Bruyne (Man City) ............
A.Grimaldo (Benfica) - A.Bastoni (Inter) - R.Dias (Man City) - G.Di Lorenzo (Napoli)
........................................ A.Onana (Inter) ........................................


U21 Players

7.18 Jamal Musiala (Bayern, AMC, 20, GER)
7.07 Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid, MC, 20, FRA)
7.05 Antonio Silva (Benfica, DC, 19, POR)


André ONANA
GK, 27, Inter & Cameroon (34 caps)
Career: Ajax - Inter (2022)
Titles:
- Champion of the Netherlands 2018, 2021 & 2022
- Winner of the KNVB Beker 2019
- Winner of the Coppa Italia 2023



Ruben DIAS
DC, 26, Manchester City & Portugal (46 caps)
Career: Benfica - Manchester City (2020)
Titles:
- Winner of the Nations League 2019
- Winner of the Champions League 2023
- Champion of Portugal 2019
- Champion of England 2021, 2022 & 2023
- Winner of the FA Cup 2023
- Winner of the League Cup 2021



Alessandro BASTONI
DC, 24, Inter & Italy (17 caps)
Career: Atalanta - (Parma) - Inter (2019)
Titles:
- Winner of the Euro 2020
- Champion of Italy 2021
- Winner of the Coppa Italia 2022 & 2023



Giovanni DI LORENZO
DR, 29, Napoli & Italy (27 caps)
Career: Reggina - (Cuneo) - Reggina - Matera - Empoli - Napoli (2019)
Titles:
- Winner of the Euro 2020
- Champion of Italy 2023



Alejandro GRIMALDO
DL, 27, Benfica & Spain U21
Career: Benfica (2016) - signed to Leverkusen
Titles:
- Champion of Portugal 2016, 2017, 2019 & 2023
- Winner of the Taça de Portugal 2017



RODRI
DMC, 26, Manchester City & Spain (41 caps)
Career: Villarreal - Atletico - Manchester City (2019)
Titles:
- Winner of the Champions League 2023
- Champion of England 2021, 2022 & 2023
- Winner of the FA Cup 2023
- Winner of the League Cup 2020 & 2021



Kevin DE BRUYNE
AMC, 31, Manchester City & Belgium (99 caps)
Career: Genk - Chelsea - (Bremen) - Chelsea - Wolfsburg - Manchester City (2015)
Titles:
- Winner of the Champions League 2023
- Champion of Belgium 2011
- Champion of England 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 & 2023
- Winner of the DFB Pokal 2015
- Winner of the FA Cup 2019 & 2023
- Winner of the League 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021



Federico VALVERDE
MC, 24, Real Madrid & Uruguay (49 caps)
Career: Penarol - (Deportivo) - Real Madrid (2018)
Titles:
- Winner of the Champions League 2022
- Champion of Uruguay 2016
- Champion of Spain 2020 & 2022
- Winner of the Copa del Rey 2023



Bernardo SILVA
MC, 28, Manchester City & Portugal (80 caps)
Career: Benfica - Monaco - Manchester City (2017)
Titles:
- Winner of the Nations League 2019
- Winner of the Champions League 2023
- Champion of Portugal 2014
- Champion of France 2017
- Champion of England 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 & 2023
- Winner of the FA Cup 2019 & 2023
- Winner of the League Cup 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021



VINICIUS Jr
FWL, 22, Real Madrid & Brazil (21 caps)
Career: Flamengo - Real Madrid (2018)
Titles:
- Winner of the Champions League 2022
- Champion of Spain 2020 & 2022
- Winner of the Copa del Rey 2023



Erling HAALAND
FW, 22, Manchester City & Norway (23 caps)
Career: Bryne - Molde - Salzburg - Dortmund - Mancester City (2022)
Titles:
- Winner of the Champions League 2023
- Champion of Austria 2019 & 2020
- Champion of England 2023
- Winner of the Austrian Cup 2019
- Winner of the DFB Pokal 2021
- Winner of the FA Cup 2023

[Dragonite]

It only took Pep 7 tries with such a cheap team, I'm really impressed. Other coaches would have needed 8 or 9!!!!!

Congrats to Oldelpaso. I know he is a lifelong fan who would support them even in the Championship. Nothing against this type of City fans. Enjoy it.

Arsène Wenger had TWENTY attempts in charge of Monaco and Arsenal and couldn't win a single one. So what's your point here?

If a manager can't do it in attempt #1 with 0€ to spend then he is a fraud?

[greenbay]

Guardiola might be the best manager of the world, but he can't prepare City mentally for a CL final. The players were afraid, even more after they scored.

Given the amounts spent during his reign in Munich and Manchester, one CL trophy is quite poor when it comes to best manager. Some folks might argue that he was just lucky for having Messi, Xavi and Iniesta in a Barca side that eben the team‘s bus driver could manage to a CL trophy.

Some folks are just haters and/or know f*ck all about football.

Seethe, haters, seethe!

Common knowledge says that the term haters is most often used by fanboys.

[greenbay]

Congrats to Oldelpaso. I know he is a lifelong fan who would support them even in the Championship. Nothing against this type of City fans. Enjoy it.

No shame in being a lifelong City supporter or any other club recently bought. Whereas these fanboys that crawled from under their rocks since some billionaire bought himself a toy… totally different story.

[mspm89]

Arsène Wenger had TWENTY attempts in charge of Monaco and Arsenal and couldn't win a single one. So what's your point here?

If a manager can't do it in attempt #1 with 0€ to spend then he is a fraud?

The golden Di Matteo standard! These guys just don't reflect on what they're writing before submitting.

[mspm89]

Common knowledge says that the term haters is most often used by fanboys.

Whatever dude. As I already stated before the other City final in a convo with Bugy, I don't even like Guardiola as a person. I like him as a manager.

Keep coping!

[BurningStorm]

Arsène Wenger had TWENTY attempts in charge of Monaco and Arsenal and couldn't win a single one. So what's your point here?

If a manager can't do it in attempt #1 with 0€ to spend then he is a fraud?

The golden Di Matteo standard! These guys just don't reflect on what they're writing before submitting.

Two completely different things, dude. Average coach winning the CL in his first try doesn't have anything to do with it. But winning it after 7 tries with the by far most expensive team (and almost fuck it up even against Inter, if they are smarter in front of the goal) is not a reason for new superlatives. I've always said that it will happen one day because of endless money and endless tries.

[Dragonite]

But winning it after 7 tries with the by far most expensive team (and almost fuck it up even against Inter, if they are smarter in front of the goal) is not a reason for new superlatives. I've always said that it will happen one day because of endless money and endless tries.

West Ham spent more than Manchester City this season to win the Conference League.

Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham spent more and ended up empty handed. Why aren't you attacking them instead? Worse than "spending a lot and winning" is spending a lot and losing!

[Lubomir25]

One of the other reasons I don't see City as a great success story is that they done it while all of Europe's super powers and in transition. And even then they still struggled to get over the line.

[Lubomir25]

But winning it after 7 tries with the by far most expensive team (and almost fuck it up even against Inter, if they are smarter in front of the goal) is not a reason for new superlatives. I've always said that it will happen one day because of endless money and endless tries.

West Ham spent more than Manchester City this season to win the Conference League.

Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham spent more and ended up empty handed. Why aren't you attacking them instead? Worse than "spending a lot and winning" is spending a lot and losing!

City done it over a sustained period with money they didn't earn. This will become apparent once they are found guilty of fiddling the books like Juventus but on a larger scale. Also Man U won the league cup so aren't empty handed

[Bulgarian]

But winning it after 7 tries with the by far most expensive team (and almost fuck it up even against Inter, if they are smarter in front of the goal) is not a reason for new superlatives. I've always said that it will happen one day because of endless money and endless tries.

West Ham spent more than Manchester City this season to win the Conference League.

Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham spent more and ended up empty handed. Why aren't you attacking them instead? Worse than "spending a lot and winning" is spending a lot and losing!

Well go ahead and pull out the money they spent in previous years under the same manager. Dont pull up only 1 summer.
One of the transfers by city that most baffles me to this day is paying 30m for Danilo. How did ReslM convince them i will never know. Just to compare (ik they play different positions) Modric and Kroos each cost the same as Danilo.