Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 171. (Read 59227 times)

Those are great prediction picks you just made above, as Bayern Munich truly had great potential of winning Aston Villa in today's game which is the start few minutes from now, and likewise, I see Real Madrid smashing a win against Lille with BTTS, since in last 11 matches, both championship and club friendlies Lille has always known to score at least 1 goal in each game. However, when it comes the the game between Liverpool vs Bologna, I'm still a bit skeptical about the over 3.5 you put above, because judging from the previous H2H performance, both teams have only had an average goal score of 2, as I think placing that game as Over2.5 would have been much better.
But let's see how it goes

Arsenal played pretty good yesterday, and they were able to outsmart PSG in order to score two goals in the first half. PSG game strategy was good, but they lack a good finisher and that was really a big problem for them because after all their ball work to Arsenal goal post, they will not be able to find the back of the net.

Arsenal proved superior over PSG yesterday with their good defense and attack that was very effective throughout. I was wondering why people were saying that Enrique has improved the performance of PSG and there was no good player to break the deadlock.  A lot is to be done in PSG for them to be able to go far and win the Champions League in future because they might not pas the round of 16 this season.

I wish Arsenal could continue to keep their defense so strong and tight like they did yesterday against the PSG side, they would have achieved more than they did last year at the Premier League and Champions League tournament. The defense was tight enough to stop the French club from penetrating the 18 box yard to score goals, even though PSG had hit the post twice, that could not be transferred to a goal for the French side.

I loved the opening goal netted by Kai Havertz after Trossard had serviced him..with a powerful cross which saw Havertz, winning a header goal against the PSG players. Deyemi Saka also did well to compliment the first goal scored by Havertz with a second goal which further made the PSG guys look more wary and weak to equalize.

In the end, Shakhtar couldn't score a single goal against Atalanta. In fact, there were no shots aimed directly at Atalanta's goal throughout the match. It seems that Atalanta's defense was too difficult for the Shakhtar players to penetrate. And the match ended with the score still being the same, namely 0-3. With this victory, Atalanta managed to get 4 points and put Atalanta in a fairly safe position for now. Because Atalanta has not lost in two matches in the UCL.

Meanwhile, the other match, namely Girona vs Feyenoord, apparently ended with Girona losing. Feyenoord excelled and won the match with a score of 2-3. It seems that Girona is not yet able to compete in the UCL. Because now Girona has experienced two defeats and Girona's position is really unsafe at the moment.

PSG's coach is to blame for not fielding a full squad in the Champions League match against Arsenal. Even though Dembale is not injured, he is not included in the squad. Arsenal is eager to win after losing to Atalanta and will not want to lose again. It is possible that the coach only wants Arsenal to win because if they play their entire squad, they will be successful. But I heard that they suspended Dembele, which is why he is not in the squad. Liverpool are playing against Bologna and assure he will be win for the Red this night, because they are better then Bologna this season, and they are in real good form nothing will stop Liverpool from not winning today expect the coach didn't put better players in the information because that is what psg did yesterday and make wrong decisions ad arsenal get the opportunity of defeating them in the ucl.

Atalanta performed quite well even after successfully holding Arsenal's draw before now they are able to win with Shakhtar Donetsk as an away match.
I saw several times the attack from Shakhtar Donetsk was not so profitable because it could not become a goal, while the attack from Atalanta was so easy to become a goal, I think Shakhtar Donetsk's defense was quite weak.

I didn't watch Girona's game but some of Peyenoord's goals were Girona's own goals? That's how weak Girona are at the moment, are they unlucky? It looks like a close match.

Lille vs Real Madrid

Lille (confirmed lineup): Lucas Chevalier, Bafode Diakite, Alexsandro Ribeiro, Gabriel Gudmundsson, Tiago Santos, Mitchel Bakker, Ayyoub Bouaddi, Benjamin Andre, Remy Cabella, Edon Zhegrova, Jonathan David.

Real Madrid (confirmed lineup): Andriy Lunin, Daniel Carvajal, Antonio Ruediger, Eder Militao, Ferland Mendy, Federico Valverde, Aurelien Tchouameni, Eduardo Camavinga, Jude Bellingham, Endrick, Vinicius Junior.

This both teams haven't play in any competition so it will be very hard to predict despite real Madrid are far stronger than Lille but we should know that all this small club can be underrated because they are full of surprises, let see what they have to offer at Stade Pierre Mauroy.

Aston Villa vs Bayern Munich
Aston Villa (confirmed lineup): Emiliano Martinez, Ezri Konsa, Diego Carlos, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans, Jaden Philogene-Bidace, Morgan Rogers, Jacob Ramsey, Ollie Watkins.

Bayern Munich (confirmed lineup): Manuel Neuer, Konrad Laimer, Dayot Upamecano, Min-Jae Kim, Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Serge Gnabry, Michael Olise, Kingsley Coman, Harry Kane.

Aston Villa and Bayern Munich meeting again after meeting for the long time and Aston Villa won the match, since then they haven't meet again till now that Bayern Munich are one of the strongest team in the world, Aston Villa have to play header to win again if possible, Bayern Munich are incharge now which means they destroy any teams that comes their way.

In today's match of Shakhtar Donetsk vs Atalanta team in UEFA Champions League, Atalanta team is leading by 3 goals so far. Shakhtar Donetsk team has not scored any goal yet. Shakhtar Donetsk team is trying hard to score. Let's see what goals Shakhtar Donetsk team can score in today's match.  Or. Atalanta team player B. Djimsiti scored the 1st goal in 21 minutes. A.  Lookman scored the 2nd goal in the 44th minute and R. Bellanova scored the 3rd goal in the 48th minute.

Girona's performance which has dropped drastically this season is not that surprising. because teams that suddenly become strong in one season are sometimes not always able to maintain their strength in the following season. And this happened to Girona. And Girona in Laliga is currently also getting results that are not so good. Which makes them currently in 12th place. And I think Girona seems to be returning to their performance like when they were first promoted to Laliga.

but initially I thought Girona would focus more on the UCL and achieve good results. However, it seems that this is difficult to achieve. But I still hope that Girona can show good results in the UCL. Because I really like Girona's playing style so far. And now Girona has managed to equalize the score to 2-2. And well now it's only a matter of time until Girona scores another goal and puts the lead on their side.

Quite some interesting games today as well, but I still think that yesterday's fixtures were more exciting. I just checked not too long, and I saw that some games started very early. Currently, Feyenoord is leading Girona by 2goals to 1, while Atlanta is leading 3nil. Though I don't have plans to watch any of these two games, but I feel I should talk about Girona. They've be very poor this season, and I'm not even sure if the owner or management is doing anything about it. The last time I checked for their position on the league table, it wasn't looking good for Girona at all. I think they even lost to PSG in their first UCL game, which I actually predicted a draw. To be honest, they've been very poor so far.

And as for my main game tonight, I will be watching the game at villa's park (Villa Vs Bayern). I am already getting excited, because I know that's it's going to be a very interesting fixture for today (if not the best fixture). Though Bayern Munich have a better UCl experience, but we can't just write Villa off easily. I won't be making any predictions. I just want to enjoy the game. Good luck to all teams.

Edit: while writing the post, Girona scored an equalizer, but we still have about 10 mins left.

PSG looked terrible, worse than they usually do, this game wasn't really a point on how they look because normally they aren't this bad. For some reason or another, they ended up being worse and I have no idea why, which happens at times and there is nothing wrong with this, we just need to make sure we are not dealing with anything crazy at the moment and need to do better.

I understand that we are going to see this type of results eventually, but at the end of the day we are not going to see PSG be this bad again, not frequently at least, the result is an uncommon one because PSG normally plays better. Maybe this was caused by Arsenal playing amazingly, which isn't a surprise to anyone since Arsenal is doing great and they have been great for a while, I believe they did alright.

As long as we have what it takes for Arsenal to win, they can win against any big team, they are the one fighting against City after all, so battling it out with PSG wasn't a new thing for them, they are used to battling it out with big clubs. All in all, this game shouldn't mean Arsenal is great, and shouldn't mean PSG is terrible, they are both good clubs who are just under the greats, and could do serious damage long term.

Liverpool will fight against Bologna at Anfield now and people at here have already know that Liverpool in the positive trend because they can gets 4 winning streak in all competitions and these results too makes Liverpool can occupy first place on League table of Premier league and for Bologna this season they have to hard struggle this season but basically Bologna latest performance is not really bad because they still unbeated in the last 5 matches in all competitions but we can't says those records is impressive because Bologna only able to get 1 win and 4 draw and here is the lineup for both teams below

Liverpool: Alisson, Van Dijk, Konate, Diaz, Szoboszlai, Nunez, Mac Allister, Salah, Robertson, Gravenberch, Alexander-Arnold

Bologna: Skorupski; Posch, Beukema, Lucumi, Miranda; Freuler; Orsolini, Moro, Urbanski, Ndoye; Dallinga

Both teams were never met before so this is their first met in this competition and i think we shouldn't be analysis more about this match because certainly Liverpool will being an the favourite even the bookies only provide low odds for them @1.17 but there is potention Liverpool will win with 2 goals margin or more so that's why instead of Liverpool win i think over 2.5 goals also good pick

Girona's performance actually decreased slightly, especially in finishing their attacks. And I understand this will happen at Girona this season. Because we know that Girona has released one of its best players in attack who even scored many goals for Girona last season. And he was the top scorer in Laliga last season but Girona let him go. And yes the results are like now. Girona experienced a drastic decline.  They played well but not as well as last season. Their score is still the same so far, namely 1-2. But it looks like Girona will be able to equalize the score with their current quality.

Atalanta does seem to be playing comfortably with a score of 0-3 and I think Atalanta can almost be said to have secured 3 points for this match. Because Shakhtar has not been able to match Atalanta's performance so far.

For the Aston Villa vs Bayern match, I think Bayern will win even with a score of more than 2 goals. I see Bayern this season being much better. We remember that in the first match Bayern scored 9 goals against Dinamo Zagreb. And I think that in the match against Aston Villa, Bayern can score a lot of goals again, although it won't be as many as in the previous match in the UCL.

I was expecting such a decline last season because they had consecutive wins, Girona club is probably in this situation right now because of the feeling of satisfaction of the players who remained in the team.
We saw the same situation in Napoli. Atalanta finished the match with consecutive goals, there are still 30 minutes left, maybe they can even score an extra goal. 

There is an insane level of drop in Girona's performance this year.    They couldn't win in a five games in a row and currently they are going for the sixth one.    Feyenoord still lead by 2-1 and they even missed a penalty later on.

On the other hand, Atalanta must be playing one of their most comfortable games. They are 3-0 ahead against Shakhtar away and the home side was able to do literally nothing so far. Just like they were in the Bologna game in which they got very lucky too.

Anyone expecting Aston Villa to give Bayern Munich an upset tonight?    I mean even a draw counts. Emery is always full of surprises and his team aren't weak. Do you remember the way he eliminated them here while managing Villarreal?

Arsenal's victory was a well-deserved victory. Because they played very effectively and didn't waste many of the opportunities they got. But if someone says PSG wasn't lucky enough in that match then I will also understand that. Because PSG's several shot attempts were always unlucky because several times they only hit the crossbar. But in terms of attack quality, I think Arsenal is much better. They were so calm when they penetrated the PSG defense. And besides that, PSG's defense doesn't seem to be as good as Arsenal's. So Arsenal's victory was indeed deserved in this match. And I think Arsenal will continue to go further this time.

Atalanta is now leading Shakhtar Donetsk 3 goals to nil, the second half just begin and Atalanta as already gotten the first goal again, 3 minutes after the second half. I think it's obvious they will probably cruise pass Shakhtar Donetsk today.

Girona surprisingly is losing though I thought also they may get their first champions league today but there's still a chance especially from the fact that they're actually the one dominating the game in terms of ball possessions and shots, I hope they can turn the tides around against Feyenoord.

The two clubs played well in the match, Paris Saint-Germain were just unlucky in the match, they dominated the match, but couldn’t score. Arsenal were able to score their two goals in the first half of the match, and PSG couldn’t get any goal in the match, but their performance wasn’t so bad, PSG had some chances in the match, just that they couldn’t convert any to goal. Seriously, before the match started, I never expected Arsenal to win the match, I was expecting a draw, but Arsenal were able to score two goals, and they went away with three points.

Unfortunately I didn't watch the Leverkusen vs AC Milan match which ended in Milan's defeat. It seemed like a very interesting match if I saw the final score of only 1-0 for Bayer Leverkusen's victory. If the statistics I see in the application, AC Milan is very enthusiastic to be able to bring home 1 point with their total shots throughout the match, but AC Milan's expected goal is too small compared to Leverkusen's.
The highest score for last night's match was only Dortmund against Celtic. If you think about it, it is not reasonable for a team like Celtic to accept such a big defeat considering they are at the top of the standings in the domestic league.

The first half of the Girona vs Feyenoord match ended with a quite surprising score, namely 1-2. With the advantage being on Feyenoord's side. And for the Shakhtar vs Atalanta match, the first half score was 0-2. And Atalanta deserved to be the favorite and took the lead in the first half. And it looks like in the second half other goals will be scored again. And it looks like a lot of goals will be scored in the second round.

In the ongoing match I hope Girona will win but it looks like they will not do it easily. because first Girona had to think about how to equalize the score in the second half.