Champions League Round of 16 (16th Feb - 17th Mar)

Classical Mechanic

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Wolfsberger AC's name uses a German grammatical form to say Athletic Club for/of the town/city/settlement of Wolfsberg instead of just Wolfsberg Athletic Club. It's an alternative that a lot of clubs from German speaking countries use for their names.

If for example FC Fulham used an English version of that same German grammatical form, they'd be FC for/of the residential area of Fulham.
Would their opponents be playing against of the residential area of Fulham or against Fulham because the first option wouldn't make sense as a name?

Example sentence:
Tottenham have their game against of the area of Fulham tonight.
Tottenham have their game against Fulham tonight.

Now combine this with the fact that the German form doesn't actually use part of a sentence to describe the connection. The original name of the town just gets a different grammatical ending that is clearly only there for the conjunctive use with a noun and wouldn't make sense standing alone.
So Fulhamburger then?
 

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What the feck? 0 attempts on goal from Atletico? Have Chelsea played well or is Spanish football shite now?
Maybe both, but Spanish football is at its worst since God knows when.

Having said this, Atletico are in very bad form of late.
 

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Crystal clear from one angle that the ball come off the defender. That check should’ve taken 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes. And we should’ve been able to see all angles while they were checking. And the ref should explain the overturning.
 

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The decision for the Giroud goal is so obviously correct you have to wonder why it took them so long.
 

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I'm scratching my head here haha

I'll try one more time. *breathe* Wolfsberger is the adjective derived from the word Wolfsberg. Just as Londoner is the adjective of London. So if there were a German football club based in London, it would be called Londoner FC. But you cannot just use the adjective on its own. Spurs are playing Wolfsberg.
Why would you have a German club based in London, though? Wouldn't that be an English club by default then?

*snigger*
 

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Atletico have been really poor imo, next to 0 threat and they've barely been able to string 3-4 passes together to build an attack.

Chelsea haven't been much better but they've at least been able to build attacks down the flanks.
 

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Every year Simeones shit house tactics gets exposed in Europe and every time it makes me smile.
That was also never offside, how in Gods name did it take so long to reverse?
 

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Been watching the big "clash" in the champs, Wycombe beating Reading.

Surprised to see Chelsea winning this one1
 

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Bayern bending lazio over is genuinely more entertaining than this dross
 

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Every year Simeones shit house tactics gets exposed in Europe and every time it makes me smile.
That was also never offside, how in Gods name did it take so long to reverse?
We might be relying on a mob like them to stop Liverpool though.
We all know Liverpool have form for winning this cup when they shouldn't do.
 

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We might be relying on a mob like them to stop Liverpool though.
We all know Liverpool have form for winning this cup when they shouldn't do.
Would be very happy if Atlético go out against Chelsea yeah. Just avoid Bayern and perhaps City and it’a as open a competition as it has been in years to get to the semis/final.
 

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Bayern bending lazio over is genuinely more entertaining than this dross
Chelsea and Atlético should play each other every week. I have never seen two teams that deserves each other so much !
 

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Be interesting to see Atletico's penchant for a low scoring game against our tendency for complete stupidity. Could they possibly keep it 0-0 or would we cause a 4-3.
 

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We might be relying on a mob like them to stop Liverpool though.
We all know Liverpool have form for winning this cup when they shouldn't do.
This side wont do it though. Spanish football is horrendous these days. Chelsea have a better shot than Atletico if it came to that
 

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Really dreadful from ATM tonight
They have Chelsea too much respect and totally deserved to lose
They gave up any kind of possession and were dreadful almost as bad as Crystal Palace yesterday
 

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If I was an Atletico supporter I'd probably chew my hand off in frustration. This sort of football is not worth the occasional big trophy :p