Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 148. (Read 71740 times)

I think it's not about a classic problem during the transition period. In fact, Real Madrid only lost Nacho, Joselu, and Kroos last season. But their performance has been declining. It's important to remember they still have mostly the same players from last season. It's such a disgrace they just missed a few players who played last season, made then played like a mid-tier team.

Several bad results acquired by Real Madrid have attracted many media to come for them. Things worsen when the media's news starts to sway the public.

Ancelotti is the only one who can fix things up in Real Madrid. He needs to act faster.

Man City is a rich club, it is no wonder that Pep recruits quality players at fantastic prices, he does all of this so that Man City remains strong in all tournaments, especially in the EPL and UCL. This season, many Man City players are injured, so I think Pep will prepare a transfer in the middle of the season, besides spending a lot of money, in fact Man City is not afraid of FFP penalties regarding restrictions on player spending.

This season is more difficult than previous seasons for experienced clubs in the Champions League but in my opinion it is even more interesting because we no longer see Real Madrid or other favorite clubs always dominate the Champions League in this phase and see them struggling to rank 8th without having to go through the play-off round to qualify for the last 16. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich have experienced 2 defeats in the Champions League even though they are the strongest candidates in the UCL, let's see how the journey of these experienced clubs this season will they not be able to advance far in the UCL until the final??

That will not only be their dream but every other persons dream and if you want to win the champions league it won't stop as a dream their somthing that you have to work towards it, and most title that they have won is not more than league 1 and mostly other France leagues and win the champions league is somthing they can do if they are serious about how they want to win it exactly, if they have to get new players it won't be a bad idea but if you look at it, psg have spent a lot of money on getting super players and still nothing yet, for them.

When you say sign of qualification it's high they have not don any serious advancement in trying to win but I just hope some day they will be able to make their dream come through by winning the champions league. They actually had the time and resources then but they were still unable to win it and that is why it is a dream, and that is one of the reasons mbappe wanted to leave to be able to win the champions league, and things are now different, the condition of psg in the champions league is worse.

Arteta needs to learn more from each defeat they experience, the game strategy must be changed, because if it has been a long time it will no longer be able to produce a victory in the match and that will be a long enough suffering if it cannot adapt to the development of the opposing team that is getting better, like Inter Milan, Yes, although Inter Milan are indeed quite good in the league and I think they are balanced and only utilize the white box, and this penalty win was a big catalyst for Inter Milan's victory, it's just that they couldn't penetrate deeper into the Inter Milan squad and create a return that was only in vain when in yesterday's match.

It's a classic problem after a transition period of many players leaving and retiring. Real Madrid today does not have a complete player in the main and substitutes. This condition makes Ancelotti not have many options and some substitution decisions also seem inappropriate. So now many who write the Ancelotti era are starting to disappear. Many supporters began to distrust Ancelotti's performance. It may seem like this has happened not long ago, but with the size of the Real Madrid Team I think a lot of media will pay attention.

Yes, it is a fact that Madrid was caught with their pants down, and that is why they were thrashed, but come on, Barcelona finally beat them, it had been a long time since they had been thrashed, and if we are going for thrashings, Madrid has already thrashed Barcelona more than they have now, so this is not something to jump to conclusions about so quickly, for now Madrid is still standing in the League and you can't compare one team with another , each game is a different story, that is what we must learn from football.

I watched the match Munich vs Benfica but I didn't see or smell that Benfica could get an advantage, completely this match Munich played well and controlled the game until the end and Benfica just parked the bus to not concede more than one goal, Benfica didn't have a good chance I saw them just playing defensively against Munich's attacks but unfortunately Munich couldn't break down Benfica's defense again after one goal thanks to Musiala happened in the second half, and I thought this would be a lot of goals for Munich but it turned out not to be but these 3 points are also very important for Munich and they managed to get them.

Even Real Madrid the defending champions were affected by the new format. Real Madrid, who were previously very strong in the group stage, had to fight hard to qualify for the round of 16 after only being able to get 6 points from 4 matches. Real Madrid next opponent is Liverpool who are currently at the top of the Premier League and Champions League standings, the match will be played at Anfield, based on the results achieved in the previous two matches, Real Madrid will have a hard time when facing Liverpool. If they lose, they will be in the relegation zone.

You are right Champions League always has surprises. Experienced team loss was unexpected and probably surprised many people who bet on game. New format has made competition even more unpredictable. Aston Villa loss to Brugge was shocking especially since Brugge is not as good as Aston Villa. Aston Villa had perfect record until Tyrone Mings made a mistake that led to a penalty. This loss will make their next game against Juventus more difficult.

I thought so too, but it's not easy to build a team in the middle of a session. He will face the best player he wants who is under contract with a defending club. Most likely he will get fail to recruit player he want and maybe will use a resemble-player where approach with his strategy. I think what he can do now is release unimportant competition. It's real what he's doing before, They released the Carabao Cup and gave the winning to Tottenham. Yup, when I watch how the Manchester City squad expression on the bench when they missed 2 goals in 1st half, it seems like they really want that Carabao Cup to go on the list, and want to play important completion like the Champions League and Premier League only.

Yesterday match of Bayern vs Benfica team, Bayern team won the match by scoring 1 goal. Benfica team could not score any goal in this match. Benfica team players tried hard to score but could not score any goal.  However, Benfica team could have drawn this match. The performance of the Bayern team players was really good for which Benfica team could not score any goals in this match.

Yeah too much surprise for us. All of the top teams are losing their games, except Barcelona. This season I strongly believe that Barcelona will be the champion of UEFA champions league title. Because all the top clubs have lost confidence, even Real Madrid, which is known as the King of Europe and ex-champion, played so poorly against Milan. 
 
But anyway let's see who makes a comeback and makes his bad form better. Barcelona is the only team that is playing super dominant this season. I think if they maintain with continued and consistency in the knockout stages as well, So I hope this Hansi Flick side can become champion this season.

True. The defeat of an experienced team in the Champions League was unexpected and I am sure many gamblers failed to win. This is the Champions League that always makes it interesting, always giving unexpected surprises. But to be honest, the surprises that occurred in the Champions League this season were one of the factors because of the new format.

In addition, there was actually something more interesting in the 4th match of the Champions League yesterday, namely the defeat of Aston Villa. Even though they had the opportunity to maintain their unbeaten record in the Champions League because their opponents, Brugge, could be said to be far below their quality, and Brugge's game was mediocre. Aston Villa should have won, even though they didn't win, at least they could draw. But in reality they lost because of a silly mistake made by Tyrone Mings which resulted in a penalty. One defeat will certainly have an impact on the next match, and the next match is against Juventus.

PSG biggest dream will be to win at least 1 champions league title, they've won the league title many times so I do agree about the main focus on UCL but even with the main focus, they still haven't even proof any sign of  qualification for it ... When there was even enough resources they couldn't still make it happen, imagine having Messi, Neymar,Mbappe,Ramos, Hkimi, marquinhos, Veratti ,Kimpembe.... and still couldn't make use of the resource to archive  a sole purpose of bringing such starts together . Though I don't know the squad depth when Enrique started but as at the moment the squad is not a squad that can win Champions league

If that is what they have in mind, I won’t really blame them that much. To sign three amongst the nets players in the world at a time in the same club all was something spectacular and everyone would have expected a great outcome from that which only went on to no avail. Mbappe is a very smart and talented player when he was in PSG, he was at his peak and never would one thought that with the addition of Messi and Neymar, they can ever fail short of winning the champions league title that time. They may have changed their focus to the Ligue 1 games only because their position on the champions league standings is poor and they don’t look like a team that wants to do something about it.



You have just mentioned what Arsenal lacked and if they don’t have what they lack, there is no way they’re going to make it to the champions league title racer. Their problems are yet to be solved without a number nine that would be able to convert many chances for them. They may have experienced only one defeat in their last four games but that result is still not convincing enough to see them as a team to hope for the champions league trophy. They need to improve and win all of their remaining four games in the group stage if they want to compete for the champions league title amongst other top teams in the competition.

Thw defeats of all these top experienced champions League teams are really a surprise to most persons which is very much understandable because usually these top teams are so experienced in the champions League that ordinarily at this stage they should be Acing their games but the sad reality is far from that. As for Madrid the situation is looking even critical because away from the injury, players don't seem to understand themselves enough again and they appear to have lost their rhythm at some point.

Pep has stuck to this plan throughout his career  and it's no surprise that he became the first manager to break the €2 billion mark in transfer spending.
As for the current results, so far everything is going as I expected - the group stage is a mess that few take seriously. In fact, serious games will only begin in the playoffs.

If you look at PSG's transfer this season, PSG doesn't seem to want to rush to chase the Champions League trophy by buying star players. They seem to want to learn from other European teams by going through the process of building a basic foundation with their young players under the guidance of coach Enrique. So that if one day it succeeds, it is more proud than buying top players but still failing to get the Champions League trophy. IMO

If you look at the PSG vs Atletico Madrid match, PSG actually played very well, and they also dominated the course of the match, it's just that Simeone's tactics were crazy even though from the start Atletico Madrid were continuously attacked by PSG and Atletico Madrid only defended by relying on counterattacks in the end they were able to win. Diego Simeone was able to overcome Luis Enrique's tactics in a dramatic, cool way. The best Champions League Matchday 4.

Although Lenglet made a mistake and PSG players immediately punished him into a goal, but not long after Atletico replied and finally Molina scored, and it was even more exciting but Atletico was able to score a goal in the final minutes thanks to a counterattack. In this match, it must also be acknowledged that Oblak is a world-class goalkeeper, he saved Atletico's goal several times.

Last season, Liverpool had a lot more injured players, but Klopp managed the situation better than Pep. I think Pep has a plan to turn things around, but I believe he will make an expensive signing when January comes.