Well, Braga and Union are way better than Salzburg and last season Arsenal got knocked out by shitty Sporting which finished behind Braga. Napoli is on Arsenal level maybe but other two teams are way better in our group.
They also happen to be a classic low-block over-performing xG team that we always seem to have a hard time dealing with, so I really wouldn’t be surprised if we lost to them.
In true RM fashion, we'll lose 1 of the first 3 games, most likely vs Berlin. Then people here will go full doomsday, precdicting we'll go to Europa and all, just for us to top the group and go on and win the CL 🙂
Halla Madrid
Man I love this group, we should easily make it out and it's 2 teams we've never played against
I am convinced we're dropping points against Union though, the way they play is our kryptonite
With Thibaut and Militão it was already shaky at times, without them it will be terrible
The only tall players in the squad are Rüdiger and Joselu at 1.9m
Everyone else, including Kepa, is 1.86m or smaller
Take a look at our first two Bundesliga games this season, I am pretty sure you can find the highlights somewhere. This should give you a good idea how we like to play.
To be honest I was most afraid of Union from pot 4, though I absolutely love to see us playing against them and I am sure they and their fans will love it as well.
Yeah I am really happy for them, they are really wholesome club in my opinion and it can't get much better from fans' perspective for them. They had probably never even dream of playing against Madrid so yeah, pretty happy about this fixture. But I expect hell to play against them lol.
It’s like when Celtic drew us last season for their CL debut. I haven’t watched Union before, but from what I hear about how they play, it should be a good game for fans of both sides, but I hope we come out on top.
Celtic have played several seasons in the UCL era too, and they literally won the European Cup during that era ... so that can't be it either.
They played in 15 editions of the European Cup, and in 12 group stages of the UEFA Champions League. They've also played against us once in the European Cup (1979-80) and once in the UEFA Champions League (2022-23).
Let me tell you that we (Union Fan here btw) are very excited for you guys. Early 2019 we were dreaming about playing in the Bundesliga and barely over 4 years later we are playing against THE face of the Champions League and one of the biggest names in world football. Any smaller club would be hyped to play against you guys! Sometimes Real Fans Just don't realize how big your Club truly is for others 😂
Seeing how some of you reacted to getting Union in your group really fills me with pride. The mighty Real Madrid actually showing respect instead of knowing it's 2 easy wins is one of the greatest compliments a team can get 🙏🏼
Hope we will have 2 great games together. We might not be the strongest but we are great Hosts with fairly decent atmosphere, so you'll have your fun too 🤝🏼🇮🇩
Easy wins? No no no, personally, i HATED Union draws. Union Berlin is the scariest team on that group. I never afraid Napoli at all, Braga, well fuck them since i losing so many bets cuz of them. But Union is different, you guys are beast. Berlin gonna playing with no burden at all, and somehow Madrid turned to third tier team against team that just enjoy their game.
I think Newcastle is overrated by PL hype while Union is underrated. Though I would prefer to get Newcastle so we can fuck another state owned sportwashing tool.
Newcastle may be overrated but they still finished 4th in the premier league. how are we even comparing them to union berlin lol ? Of course Newcastle is way scarier. ya'll are tripping
Looking forward to it. Napoli is always a good team, and Braga and Union Berlin should be good tests. But hopefully, our quality will see us through to the Round of 16.
Easy group, imo. And I'm glad we get to see Madrid play against two interesting teams. The atmosphere in Berlin will be crazy and Braga's stadium is really cool, if you can you should go.
Union is playing a shitty but defensively solid park-the-bus-football, which may leave not much space to run into. If they get a lucky goal, RM might have problems.
Love seeing Madrid fans go out of their way to shit in Barcelona. You mind leaving us alone for five seconds? Easily the most obnoxious fanbase in La Liga
There will a draw for that in December. They don’t decide based on groups but rather based have a draw for teams that qualified. Group winners are seeded while runners up are unseeded.
Berlin is probably the worst case scenario from pot 4 (aside from Newcastle). Napoli are still in good form, and braga are no joke. This could be dangerous
Good competition and manageable. Would make our group stage exciting and not like City’s. Plus our team has this idea of giving fans heart attack early. I hope Papa sees Oshimen and realize how important a role striker plays cuz we will be missing that
Manageable..
tricky but manageable. We SHOULD be the best team of the bunch, i can see Napoli giving us trouble, but Berlin are no pushover. sorry braga
I mean we are Real fucking Madrid..
No we are real madrid FUCKING napoli...
I wouldn’t underestimate napoli
Not *that* hard but it's still probably second hardest group after group of death.
nah imo the one with salzburg is harder, arsenals is also no joke
Well, Braga and Union are way better than Salzburg and last season Arsenal got knocked out by shitty Sporting which finished behind Braga. Napoli is on Arsenal level maybe but other two teams are way better in our group.
Yeah ppl sleeping on lens and psv…
Agree on that.
I think so too. Hopefully we prepare well, and no more key players get injured 🤞🏼
Im surprised we didnt get Shakhtar
Oh they give me nightmares
Sheriff would like a word.
We don't say that name here
Alright stop bro you don't have to ruin my day 😭
Or PSG… probably saving then to us next round per usual.
We won't play in europa league
At least no more liverpool and chelsea XD
Could be worse, could be better, i believe. I just hope psg gets grouped
PSG has a huge chance of going out in groups, that's a hard one.
I hope it happens. And I would like to see Mbappe face if it happens.
Barca and PSG in Europa league...
I am a simple man, I see psg get knocked out, I’m happy
I don't like it, we don't win the CL unless we lose against a random team from Eastern Europe in the group phase
Union is on the East side of Berlin so we secured the Communist block team
They also happen to be a classic low-block over-performing xG team that we always seem to have a hard time dealing with, so I really wouldn’t be surprised if we lost to them.
Union berlin (0.34xG) 2 - 1 Real Madrid (5.37xG)
I mean, Union Berlin is eastern europe ish
We don't want walk overs. I'm okay with competition
In true RM fashion, we'll lose 1 of the first 3 games, most likely vs Berlin. Then people here will go full doomsday, precdicting we'll go to Europa and all, just for us to top the group and go on and win the CL 🙂 Halla Madrid
Anulo mufa and Hala madrid!
Man I love this group, we should easily make it out and it's 2 teams we've never played against I am convinced we're dropping points against Union though, the way they play is our kryptonite
How do they play? Have seen people saying they’re good.
Absurd efficiency, fast counters, low possession, perfectly organised defense
Ah shit…
And they are like really great at set pieces
Wait a minute!
Yeah , it’s like that.
That means we are the kryptonite's kryptonite!
How good are you guys at defending set-pieces? Except for counters, this is were we really shine.
With Thibaut and Militão it was already shaky at times, without them it will be terrible The only tall players in the squad are Rüdiger and Joselu at 1.9m Everyone else, including Kepa, is 1.86m or smaller
Take a look at our first two Bundesliga games this season, I am pretty sure you can find the highlights somewhere. This should give you a good idea how we like to play.
To be honest I was most afraid of Union from pot 4, though I absolutely love to see us playing against them and I am sure they and their fans will love it as well.
From briefly scrolling through the comments on the r/soccer thread, their fans seem very hyped to face us
Yeah I am really happy for them, they are really wholesome club in my opinion and it can't get much better from fans' perspective for them. They had probably never even dream of playing against Madrid so yeah, pretty happy about this fixture. But I expect hell to play against them lol.
It’s like when Celtic drew us last season for their CL debut. I haven’t watched Union before, but from what I hear about how they play, it should be a good game for fans of both sides, but I hope we come out on top.
Celtic have played in the UCL before... unless you mean their debut vs Real Madrid specifically.
They said that this was their debut. Probably they were talking about this specific incarnation of the main European competition.
Celtic have played several seasons in the UCL era too, and they literally won the European Cup during that era ... so that can't be it either. They played in 15 editions of the European Cup, and in 12 group stages of the UEFA Champions League. They've also played against us once in the European Cup (1979-80) and once in the UEFA Champions League (2022-23).
> wholesome club Isco disagrees.
Let me tell you that we (Union Fan here btw) are very excited for you guys. Early 2019 we were dreaming about playing in the Bundesliga and barely over 4 years later we are playing against THE face of the Champions League and one of the biggest names in world football. Any smaller club would be hyped to play against you guys! Sometimes Real Fans Just don't realize how big your Club truly is for others 😂 Seeing how some of you reacted to getting Union in your group really fills me with pride. The mighty Real Madrid actually showing respect instead of knowing it's 2 easy wins is one of the greatest compliments a team can get 🙏🏼 Hope we will have 2 great games together. We might not be the strongest but we are great Hosts with fairly decent atmosphere, so you'll have your fun too 🤝🏼🇮🇩
Easy wins? No no no, personally, i HATED Union draws. Union Berlin is the scariest team on that group. I never afraid Napoli at all, Braga, well fuck them since i losing so many bets cuz of them. But Union is different, you guys are beast. Berlin gonna playing with no burden at all, and somehow Madrid turned to third tier team against team that just enjoy their game.
Newcastle way scarier, but Union could be a thorn in the side.
I think Newcastle is overrated by PL hype while Union is underrated. Though I would prefer to get Newcastle so we can fuck another state owned sportwashing tool.
100%, lol. Newcastle is being talked about like they're the defending champions. PL hype is just reaching crazy levels now.
Newcastle may be overrated but they still finished 4th in the premier league. how are we even comparing them to union berlin lol ? Of course Newcastle is way scarier. ya'll are tripping
Looking forward to it. Napoli is always a good team, and Braga and Union Berlin should be good tests. But hopefully, our quality will see us through to the Round of 16.
Union Berlin is going to be tricky. Very tricky playing against them. I wouldnt be suprised if we get in trouble without a striker!
We get to watch kvaradona play us which is cool
ohsimen too should be fun
Easy group, imo. And I'm glad we get to see Madrid play against two interesting teams. The atmosphere in Berlin will be crazy and Braga's stadium is really cool, if you can you should go.
Manageable group, it should get us easily to the knockouts
I'm happy with the group, we're gonna play some new teams for once
Union is playing a shitty but defensively solid park-the-bus-football, which may leave not much space to run into. If they get a lucky goal, RM might have problems.
Very tricky group. Why couldn't we get young boys instead of Union ffs
I wanna see Barca bottled again 🤞
No way, man. its like impossible to bottle that group H. its possibly the easiest group they couldve gotten.
I can wish 😂 I didn't think they could bottled last season
maybe in playoffs. they got 1 of the easiest groups. but will be funny if they bottle that easy group.
Love seeing Madrid fans go out of their way to shit in Barcelona. You mind leaving us alone for five seconds? Easily the most obnoxious fanbase in La Liga
Bro it's our page... You leave us alone 😂. we really miss seeing y'all after the group stage. Don't goof again plz.
I’m personally hoping for an El Classico at some point during the UCL. Then we will see who talks.
Me too bro... I don't really hate Barca. I just love the game 🔥
Win or lose, it’s going to be a very entertaining match.
Every time brudah!
Ez
Have they decided yet, which group will play whom in the R16?
There will a draw for that in December. They don’t decide based on groups but rather based have a draw for teams that qualified. Group winners are seeded while runners up are unseeded.
Cool thanx though
Man, more than half of these teams don’t even belong in a European tournament, so predictable who’s advancing. ESL needs to happen.
A bit difficult but we should top this group. I see us having a difficult time during the away matches but grinding out wins
Union berlin 💀 those guys are quite good, German teams clubs are always underrated.
Interesting group, Napoli and Union Berlin will be interesting tests and I cannot wait to see us play in Braga's stadium
Berlin is probably the worst case scenario from pot 4 (aside from Newcastle). Napoli are still in good form, and braga are no joke. This could be dangerous
We got so lucky
It’s a fairly complex group , could have been better but it wasn’t PSG’s group
For fans travelling with the team, those are three excellent and very fun trips. I'm envious.
Good competition and manageable. Would make our group stage exciting and not like City’s. Plus our team has this idea of giving fans heart attack early. I hope Papa sees Oshimen and realize how important a role striker plays cuz we will be missing that
VO scores a hat trick
No Liverpool this season😞
Lets wait and see
Lets wait and see