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Goodbye round of 16
onze11 9 years ago Edited
Barcelona, Haiti 29 123

By Onz Chery
Mar. 16, 2016

Round of 16 is finally over! The thing lasted like a month, aren't you guys glad it's finally over? I started to get tired of this round 16, round 16 every champions league fixture day. We're already in the year of 2016, so we see the number 16 quite often-- I'm tired of it!

Well, thinking about it, there's actually one 16 I never get tired of seeing and that's the back of defensive midfielder Daniele De Rossi's jersey (sorry about the loss to Real Madrid, De Rossi).

enter image description hereRoma captain Daniele De Rossi. Soccer-infos Image.

But anyways, goodbye round 16. Hello, quarter-finals.

Okay, before we say our goodbyes to round of 16, it would be fair if we take a quick look at the best of this first knockout round. I know you like goals, we're going to start with the best goal.

Best Goal

We gotta give it to Luis Suarez's kun fu kick against Arsenal.

Shoalin soccer ain't got nothing on this.

Top Scorer

Yeah-yeah nice goal, Suarez. But it's never about quality in scoring, it's always about quantity. The topscorer of the round of 16 is Suarez's teammate Lionel Messi with three goals.

enter image description here Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
Reuters Image.

Best Performance

The best performance also goes to the Argentine forward. Messi scored two second half goals, giving his side a crucial victory over the Gunners away from home in the first leg.

Best Game

Enough of individual performances, let's go collective. Let's talk about the best game. You don't even gotta think about it twice, the best game of this round was the second leg between Bayern Munich and Juventus. Bayern midfielder Thomas Mueller's 90th minute goal sent the game to extra-time after Juventus went ahead by two goals in the first half.

The German side completed their turnaround in extra-time with two more goals in the span of two minutes. What a game, feel like watching the highlights again just writing this.

enter image description hereFootball Soccer - Juventus v Bayern Munich- Champions League - Juventus stadium, 23/02/16Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller (4th L) celebrates after scoring against Juventus.* REUTERS/Giorgio Perottino, yahoosports.

Sorry, champ

I don't like knockout rounds too much, it's always hard to see good teams leave. One team that it really hurts to see leave this round are the Italian champions and last year's finalist Juventus. If you have players you can score goals like this against Bayern Munich...

... it's sucks that you have to leave the tournament so early.

Most memorable moment

Last but not least, the most memorable moment was when Atletico Madrid celebrated Juanfran's game winning penalty kick against PSV Eindhoven at home. The two sides played three hours and 30 minutes of goalless football-- can you believe that? Three hours and thirty minutes! Lord!-- before the penalty shootout.

Take a look at a picture of the Atletico players sprinting towards Juanfran to celebrate. What happened to those extra-time cramps?

enter image description hereAtletico Madrid players celebrate penalty kick victory over PSV Eindhoven.
Getty Images

After looking at the best of round 16, I guess it wasn't that bad, right? It was actually pretty good. But we don't regret it, there's better things ahead. The quarter finals!

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By Onz Chery
Mar. 16, 2016

Round of 16 is finally over! The thing lasted like a month, aren't you guys glad it's finally over? I started to get tired of this round 16, round 16 every champions league fixture day. We're already in the year of 2016, so we see the number 16 quite often-- I'm tired of it.

Well, thinking about it, there's actually one 16 I never get tired of seeing and that's the back of defensive midfielder Daniele De Rossi's jersey (sorry about the loss to Real Madrid, De Rossi).

enter image description hereRoma captain Daniele De Rossi. Soccer-infos Image.

But anyways, goodbye round 16. Hello, quarter-finals.

Okay, before we say our goodbyes to round of 16, it would be fair if we take a quick look at the best of this first knockout round. I know you like goals, we're going to start with the best goal.

Best Goal

We gotta give it to Luis Suarez's kun fu kick against Arsenal.

Shoalin soccer ain't got nothing on this.

Top Scorer

Yeah-yeah nice goal, Suarez. But it's never about quality in scoring, it's always about quantity. The topscorer of the round of 16 is Suarez's teammate Lionel Messi with three goals.

enter image description here Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
Reuters Image.

Best Performance

The best performance also goes to the Argentine forward. Messi scored two second half goals, giving his side a crucial victory over the Gunners away from home in the first leg.

Best Game

Enough of individual performances, let's go collective. Let's talk about the best game. You don't even gotta think about it twice, the best game of this round was the second leg between Bayern Munich and Juventus. Bayern midfielder Thomas Mueller's 90th minute goal sent the game to extra-time after Juventus went ahead by two goals in the first half.

The German side completed their turnaround in extra-time with two more goals in the span of two minutes. What a game, feel like watching the highlights again just writing this.

enter image description hereBayern Munich midfielder Arjen Robben and Juventus' Giorgio Chiellini fight
for the ball.
Getty Images

Sorry, champ

I don't like knockout rounds too much, it's always hard to see good teams leave. One team that it really hurts to see leave this round are the Italian champions and last year's finalist Juventus. If you have players you can score goals like this against Bayern Munich...

... it's sucks that you have to leave the tournament so early.

Most memorable moment

Last but not least, the most memorable moment was when Atletico Madrid celebrated Juanfran's game winning penalty kick against PSV Eindhoven at home. The two sides played three hours and 30 minutes of goalless football-- can you believe that? Three hours and thirty minutes! Lord!-- before the penalty shootout.

Take a look at a picture of the Atletico players sprinting towards Juanfran to celebrate. What happened to those extra-time cramps?

enter image description hereAtletico Madrid players celebrate penalty kick victory over PSV Eindhoven.
Getty Images

After looking at the best of round 16, I guess it wasn't that bad, right? It was actually pretty good. But we don't regret it, there's better things ahead. The quarter finals!

By Onz Chery
Mar. 16, 2016

Round of 16 is finally over! The thing lasted like a month, aren't you guys glad it's finally over? I started to get tired of this round 16, round 16 every champions league fixture day. We're already in the year of 2016, so we see the number 16 quite often-- I'm tired of it!

Well, thinking about it, there's actually one 16 I never get tired of seeing and that's the back of defensive midfielder Daniele De Rossi's jersey (sorry about the loss to Real Madrid, De Rossi).

enter image description hereRoma captain Daniele De Rossi. Soccer-infos Image.

But anyways, goodbye round 16. Hello, quarter-finals.

Okay, before we say our goodbyes to round of 16, it would be fair if we take a quick look at the best of this first knockout round. I know you like goals, we're going to start with the best goal.

Best Goal

We gotta give it to Luis Suarez's kun fu kick against Arsenal.

Shoalin soccer ain't got nothing on this.

Top Scorer

Yeah-yeah nice goal, Suarez. But it's never about quality in scoring, it's always about quantity. The topscorer of the round of 16 is Suarez's teammate Lionel Messi with three goals.

enter image description here Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium.
Reuters Image.

Best Performance

The best performance also goes to the Argentine forward. Messi scored two second half goals, giving his side a crucial victory over the Gunners away from home in the first leg.

Best Game

Enough of individual performances, let's go collective. Let's talk about the best game. You don't even gotta think about it twice, the best game of this round was the second leg between Bayern Munich and Juventus. Bayern midfielder Thomas Mueller's 90th minute goal sent the game to extra-time after Juventus went ahead by two goals in the first half.

The German side completed their turnaround in extra-time with two more goals in the span of two minutes. What a game, feel like watching the highlights again just writing this.

enter image description hereBayern Munich midfielder Arjen Robben and Juventus' Giorgio Chiellini fight
for the ball.
Getty Images

Sorry, champ

I don't like knockout rounds too much, it's always hard to see good teams leave. One team that it really hurts to see leave this round are the Italian champions and last year's finalist Juventus. If you have players you can score goals like this against Bayern Munich...

... it's sucks that you have to leave the tournament so early.

Most memorable moment

Last but not least, the most memorable moment was when Atletico Madrid celebrated Juanfran's game winning penalty kick against PSV Eindhoven at home. The two sides played three hours and 30 minutes of goalless football-- can you believe that? Three hours and thirty minutes! Lord!-- before the penalty shootout.

Take a look at a picture of the Atletico players sprinting towards Juanfran to celebrate. What happened to those extra-time cramps?

enter image description hereAtletico Madrid players celebrate penalty kick victory over PSV Eindhoven.
Getty Images

After looking at the best of round 16, I guess it wasn't that bad, right? It was actually pretty good. But we don't regret it, there's better things ahead. The quarter finals!

Comments
samuel999 9 years ago
Arsenal, France 6 185

The picture you posted of Bayern - juventus was from the season 2012/2013...

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left4red 9 years ago
Liverpool 1 75

Very well said. I really hated the way Juve were eliminated, reminds of Atletico vs Real Madrid CL final, but overall Bayern were the better team just the way that Juve collapsed towards the end was unpleasant to watch after putting such a hard fight.

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saatvik10 9 years ago
Manchester United, India 27 540

Max Allegri got it right with his tactics in the first half, but God knows why ruined it all with his substitutions

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liomessi10 9 years ago
Barcelona, Argentina 222 3053

if you look closely at juves disallowed goal it was onside. then they missed two golden chances. Really sorry for them. and the fact that bayern scored 90 minute goal. atletico got worse tho

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KTBFFHSWE 9 years ago
Chelsea FC, Sweden 52 2449

Well written.. PSV were so close to go through and would be fun to see Juve go through as well.. What a goal by Cuadrado, eh? But I guess in the end Bayern deserved to go through..

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quikzyyy 9 years ago
Arsenal 429 9010

In which terms got Messi best performance? He wasn't even best Barcelona's player in these 2 legs.

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decentK 9 years ago Edited
Arsenal 38 2896

I didn't really like Suarez's goal because it was far from clean hit. It hit to his knee or shin if I saw correctly, therefore it's basically a fluke. Sorry for being harsh, but first thing when I watch a nice goal (I mean volley or something like that) is how clean the hit is towards the ball.

Here's a similar goal, but with a clean hit.

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Showing previous versions of this text.

I didn't really like Suarez's goal because it was far from clean hit. It hit to his knee if I saw correctly, therefore it's basically a fluke. Sorry for being harsh, but first thing when I watch a nice goal is how clean the hit is towards the ball.

Here's a similar goal, but with a clean hit.

I didn't really like Suarez's goal because it was far from clean hit. It hit to his knee if I saw correctly, therefore it's basically a fluke. Sorry for being harsh, but first thing when I watch a nice goal (I mean volley or something like that) is how clean the hit is towards the ball.

Here's a similar goal, but with a clean hit.