2023-24 Champions League: Round of 16

[Polak]

8 out of 8 predictions wise. Not bad if I do say so myself although admittedly some of the game were easy to call. I think Dragonite and I had the same predictions so he got a full house too.

The only slight surprise for me was Porto managing to take it to penalties. I thought they'd lose by a comfortable margin in London. Atletico Madrid v Inter was the only close game but I had a feeling they would go through and they did.

[Lyonnais]

Beautiful. 4 of the top 6 English, including 1st.

England have a fantastic squad. One or another they will win a major title

[Ambro]

Beautiful. 4 of the top 6 English, including 1st.

England have a fantastic squad. One or another they will win a major title

If they get a proper manager.

[bugylibicska]

Outright odds before the draw:

Man City 2.62
Arsenal 5.00
Real Madrid 5.50
Bayern Munich 7.00
PSG 12.00
Barcelona 13.00
Atletico Madrid 17.00
Borussia Dortmund 21.00

[matt]

From the least balanced to the most balanced tie Elo-points wise:

Copenaghen - Manchester City 1648 - 2052 (404, file not found!)
Lazio - Bayern 1769 - 1940 (171)
Leipzig - Real Madrid 1809 - 1977 (168)
Porto - Arsenal 1800 - 1945 (145)
Inter - Atletico Madrid 1957 - 1865 (92)
PSG - Real Sociedad 1884 - 1801 (83)
Napoli - Barcelona 1809 - 1854 (45)
PSV - Dortmund 1812 - 1856 (44)

Napoli are much closer than i expected. The difference between Copenaghen and City is crazy, lol.

The feeling of "Inter bottling it" is confirmed by this (February) ELO stats.

7/8 ties went the ELO-way.

[Dragonite]

8 out of 8 predictions wise. Not bad if I do say so myself although admittedly some of the game were easy to call. I think Dragonite and I had the same predictions so he got a full house too.

The only slight surprise for me was Porto managing to take it to penalties. I thought they'd lose by a comfortable margin in London. Atletico Madrid v Inter was the only close game but I had a feeling they would go through and they did.

Are you "happier" with these flawless 8/8 CL predictions compared to the flawed EL and Conference League predictions? Or you don't care about the accuracy of the predictions?

I don't care about the accuracy of the predictions, "unexpected" things are (usually) nice.

And although we agreed about the 8 teams advancing, I didn't agree with you about the "unbalanced" Porto vs Arsenal, to me it was 51%-49% for Porto without the head-to-head, and 51%-49% for Arsenal considering the head-to-head.

And the most unbalanced clash was Lazio vs Bayern, Lazio winning the first leg was the biggest surprise.

I may say more things about the CL last 16, EL last 16, Conference League last 16 and UYL last 16 & last 8 later this week. I'll go watch the matches now.

[Polak]

It isn't about being happy or sad. I said I got 8 out of 8 which isn't bad although some ties were easy to predict. I have not commented on my prediction result with the other two competitions in this round because the ties are not over yet. Last round my predictions were not great.

[Digitaldude555]

Maccabi score the penalty now up one on aggregate

[Lorric]

For the top 2 battle I would have liked a Porto win. Not a glory performance for a PL leader to need a PSO win against Porto. But mentality seems to be alright.

Barca - Bayern again in the QF?

Oh, you know what's going to happen. Now that Arsenal are available...

Boom.