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2747593, UWCL Round of 16 Group Stage starts today
Posted by upUPNorth, Tue Oct-05-21 01:18 PM
First time there has been a group stage for the Women's side in the CL. Makes for more games and some of them more competitive among the top seeds rather than when the Ro16 was a seeded knockout where only the middle seed game seemed really interesting with the disparity and Ro8 was where it got interesting.

Afternoon games aren't as compelling yet, (4-0 and 3-0) but the Barcelona v Arsenal match coming up should be good. Barcelona killed everything last season and don't seem like letting up, but Arsenal are flying at the start of this season after a summer of solid signings to make up for their lack of depth and injuries last season (Heath most notably, Mana Iwabuchi, Nikita Parris). Hopefully Arsenal can make it more interesting than the final Chelsea put up.

It seems like it is freely watchable anywhere on youtube as part of the DAZN rights plan this year to get as many people watching as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGxG7esgX9I

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrUQXESZrdvrMUkmSzJBxzD9lFspiSkAv

I thought they were going to geoblock in places they have service to subscribe to based on some ads I was seeing in Canada, but I've been able to watch the games fine so far.