Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 149. (Read 59654 times)

In fact, Juventus played very well in that match. Despite falling behind, they recovered in the second half. They also continued to fight without losing the balance of the game after receiving a red card and scored two more goals. At the end of the match, Juventus won 3-2. The next match for Leipzig will be very difficult because the opponent is strong Liverpool. I wonder what they can do against Liverpool. If they can surprise them, they will have an important victory to advance in the Champions League.

That match will be very interesting and I am curious about that match  because both teams are good teams of that tournament and players of that teams are best and they are doing well for that game . But I will support to  Bayern Munich team and that team has good stat against Barcelona . But Barcelona team has capability to upset  Bayern Munich because we are watching last matches of  Bayern Munich in which they are not playing like champions and they should focus on their mistakes and they have to work on that to win this tournament.Araújo and D. Olmo are injured due to hamstrings and that point is in the favour of  Bayern Munich and they will be happy after that and  Bayern Munich has edge on that.

Indeed, each team in football must face the injury problem. That's why a team who have busy schedule, they must have good number of players. If they have lack of players, it will be difficult to deal with injury problem.

I agree that Real Madrid should win against Lille although there were some injured players. It was unfortunate that Real Madrid as defeated by Lille. If we consider the squad quality, Real Madrid is much stronger than Lille. But Lille could play with good teamwork, so they can defeat Real Madrid. Sometimes playing football is more about the team work than the quality of the squad.

Real Madrid lose may be unacceptable, but there are still some remaining matches. It is better to focus on upcoming matches than thinking too much about the lose against Lille. Sure, Real Madrid can't do anything to recover the lose. Just move on and focus on other matches.

But so far from my observations this season, it seems Monaco are clearly a better side than PSG, as title might possibly change hands this season. But we can't overlook what PSG has built over the years, even though they where not actually building for the future. If we sit down to count the quality players that PSG has purchased over the years, then we will all agree that they are the spending type. We've seen plays like Neymar, Ibrahimovic, Di Maria, Messi, etc, all come and go, but still yet they where not able to lay hands on the UCl. That's why I've always believed that they don't make enough plans for the future, but they are good at figuring out a solution for the present.

And I noticed that they actually didn't use some of their top players in the game against Arsenal, but I really enjoyed what those young lads played. If only PSG can build and hodl this current team, then it might possibly be their turn some day.

Just maybe they aren't in their best form just yet and probably before the end of the season they will be in their best form to be able to get better but the challenge is they are playing in the champions league that is very competitive with their very little experience and not them been so experienced enough to be bale to handle the champions league to the point of becoming top contenders, it will be better they focus more on their domestic league as they will be able to do even more that way than they would have done and just get experience from the UCL.

There is no denying that in Ligue 1 PSG is a ruler who can always be relied on to win trophies, in the Champions League PSG is still not lucky. It takes a lot of patience and hard work to achieve success, money sometimes cannot make dreams come true instantly, so far PSG has felt that. Madrid, Man City and Bayern Munchen are the more favored teams, PSG must be able to compete with the three teams in order to have the same chance to win trophies, it is not a good idea to hope that the three favorite teams will experience a decline so that it will benefit PSG.

Currently, Enrique seems to be trying to change his approach in managing squad depth, no longer relying on one or two star players like in previous seasons. This can be seen from their policy of not looking for new players to replace Mbappe. If you look at Enrique's managerial quality, I believe he can offer success to PSG in the future, but of course everything takes time. Their chances this season are still very open, even though we know that in the last match PSG lost to Arsenal. There are still 6 more matches in the League phase to move one stage to the next round.

Juventus did not get it easily friends, the match against Leipzig yesterday Juventus worked hard and they put all their strength to be able to beat Leipzig, if only Conceciao did not have the opportunity to do the goal the match would end in a draw, from the statistics of the game Leipjig and Juventus are very normal, meaning that there is no dominance of the game heavier to one team, only a few percent is very reasonable.
What makes me want to say the most difficult thing again is in the next match against Liverpool, which Liverpool is a pretty good team and if you look at the quality of the players, Arne Slot's players are better.

Leipzig of this current champions league are not the Leipzig I used to know from the previous champions leagues,they are not performing very  well this time around and they are making it obvious  even in Bundesliga  they  have a lot of draws even though they have some wins , the draws were not what I was expecting from them...
At the same time looking their unsatisfactory performance,  I can still some effort  channelled into UCL than Bundesliga , they lost to zero in Bundesliga  but in UCL there are some  goals attached to their winning and so far they being  playing big clubs though I didn't expect Juventus to have it so easy  despite their effort for that game. They don't make it that far actually in UCL but they always give tough time to clubs guess that's not gonna happen this time around

One game loss will not matter, because they still have games to play, and I am confident that Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Athletico Madrid, as you mentioned, will qualify to the next round because they are dominating their leagues and even doing so in the Champions League. It is just that they are not favorites to win their second game in the Champions League, because they already have three points in the league. Nothing will change, and all of the big clubs that regularly perform in the ucl every season will still qualify to the round of 16. They couldn't be out of the ucl simply for the first round because I firmly believe they can still play well. Manchester City, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, arsenal, this club am sure they will qualify to next round. i really believes with them Nothing will stop them from moving to the next step. All the small club are trying and winning some matches because I didn't expect even Lille will get the opportunity of defeating madrid but that is football you can't predict always. Let see the tough games after the international break because madrid really have tough matches to play this month.

Despite Juventus's red card, they were still able to defeat the Leipzig club with a narrow 3 goals to 2. This is when I regard Juventus as a club with poor and inconsistent performance this season. Yet they were able to defeat Leipzig with a deficit of one player. The last time Liverpool played Leipzig it was a 5 goals defeat that Liverpool knocked the club with. Now Liverpool is expected to do the same or more especially now that Leipzig doesn't show any form of improvement recently.


PSG have always got this dominating trait in the domestic league with them winning over and over again in their French league but despite that show of muscles and supremacy at the league level they have had an inconsistent performance in the UEFA Champions League over the years. Since the 1990s when they were able to reach the semifinals, they haven't gotten any significant achievement in the UEFA Champions.

It is recently, in 2020, the club was able to make some mark by reaching the Champions League Finals against Bayern Munich but unfortunately, they lost the match to the opposition. In the tournament after that, which was 2021, they also reached the level of semifinals but were some more defeated.

I think it's quite the opposite. It's just 2 games out of 8, the team at the top might find themselves in 20th position after the next 3 game weeks. I believe the big teams still have a better chance of qualifying than the smaller teams.
Teams like Dortmund who have not lost any game still have Barcelona and Real Madrid to play.
Bayer Leverkusen still have to play Liverpool and Inter Milan. My point is there are still very big games coming up for all teams and it's too early to say the big teams might not qualify.

Also, what makes it easier for the big teams is that, if they can't make it in the top 8, they'll have a chance to settle it with a playoff and there's a higher chance it will be with a club they're bigger than which gives them a better chance of qualifying.

Injuries are part of sports and sometimes you end up with a worse result because you lose some important players but even with some injuries, they should have won the Lille game, looked very difficult for them to lose and they still lost.

I understand injuries could be bad, but this is a team sport, not like they are playing tennis, when a tennis player is injured then they are out and can't get a result, but when a player of a team is injured they still have someone else replace him and they continue, and Real Madrid should have won this game. Right now there isn't anything they can do about it, they just need to move on and look for other games, and hope for the best to happen when the time comes, will be greater result.

It will be a tough match indeed for both of the teams because they all have good players of similar qualities, and they both have goos strikers that can score goals for them.
Considering Barcelona as the host at Camp Nou, they have slight advantage over Bayern even though the home advantage has to do with the effort they put in the game, and I am also considering the young talented players they have and also their manager Hensi Flick that have coached Bayern Munich before.

But if we decide to check statistic of just their last five encounters, Bayern will the favorites to win the match because they won their all their last five matches against Barcelona; and also considering the last Bayern had in their last Champions League match against Aston Villa, they will try their best to win against Barcelona so that they can step up in the table ranking.

However, the match can end in a draw if every team put in great effort, and it itnends in a draw, it will be more preferable because they will still maintain their positions and they will have equal points in the table ranking.


How can they be satisfied with a performance that will not earn them any trophy in the end, it is unlike any club and no any of the club will settle for less in this case. PSG needs to pay more attention to winning games by taking total control of the game. They should try and earn all three points with smaller teams and at least get a draw when they face with big teams. If they can patch up and continue in this form, they’ll reach higher rounds and make it a easier challenge for them going forward.