According to the draw for the quarter-finals of the Champions League 2022/23, there have appeared two “terrorist” matches, Man City vs Bayern and Chelsea vs Real Madrid. It is noteworthy that these 4 teams belong to the same bracket and will have to eliminate each other on the way to the final.
That means the other branch has the appearance of 3 Serie A teams. Inter Milan will meet Benfica and Napoli will face AC Milan. There will be an Italian team that will make it to the semi-finals and Serie A has a three-quarter chance of reaching the final.
Many fans believe it is no coincidence. “They just put a Serie A team in the Champions League final directly. Tell me it’s not cheating,” one fan said.
One very optimistic Chelsea fan added: “Guys, what’s the chance of this happening? Why do Napoli have easy teams and the four strongest teams in the same bracket?! Surely some kind of fraud”. A third claimed: “It was really cheating for Napoli to win”.
Even Italian football fans joined in, with one AC Milan fan writing: “We hit Napoli. What a cheat scenario.”
Another wrote: “This means AC Milan/Napoli/Inter/Benfica has a chance to play in the UCL final. Wow! That’s cheating.”
Going further, another tweeted: “Getting to the semi-finals by beating Porto and Benfica or Frankfurt and Milan is crazy. They actually cheated to get Serie A fans to stop crying about being called up to the mains. It’s a B-class league.”
However, not everyone thinks the idea of cheating is a bad idea, with one person writing: “Milan vs Napoli & Man City vs Bayern shows that cheating draws aren’t bad after all. “.
