Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 205. (Read 58607 times)

Arsenal does not play impressive football in UCL and they only have strength when they are playing EPL matches. Arsenal should be gald that they had Rayp who prevented the penalty and made two double safe.

Atalanta tried a lot because i never expected such a good performance from them after having a terrible start of this season.

It was expected that Arsenal were going to struggle without Odegaard. Arteta could not find someone to cover the gap or develop a new strategy that can help the team advance through without Odegaard. Arsenal fans should find comfort in the fact that Manchester City also had a draw yesterday. I think Arteta is saving his boys for their fixture against Manchester City this weekend.

See this result like this was never a surprise to me be the both team are really in their good form, when penalty was awarded to Atalanta I thought it will be a win for them but immediately they lost the chances they had I say maybe this match will ends in draw which as come to reality, the both team deed tried their best but unfortunately luck wasn't at both sides, Atalanta lost their home to Arsenal, can Arsenal win their own home against Atalanta?
I think the only thing that make everyone support Manchester City was only because they are the host and most  home games they don't joke with it, if not Inter Milan are also very strong to end the match draw against Manchester city, remember that Inter Milan was also a Italian champions unlike Manchester City was English Premier League champion so Inter Milan are also big team that are capable of what they deed.

I can say that Kerem Aktürkoğlu found himself after leaving Galatasaray. He is going towards being great in Benfica. It was a source of pride for two of our players to score in a high-level tournament, the Champions League. Bayern Leverkusen beat 4-0, yes, German teams literally beat their opponents like distributed, Bayer Munich beat their opponents in a different way. We are in an exciting Champions League season.

I am an Arsenal fan, but I am not impressed it’s our performance in this game; the players couldn’t hold ball in the middle, and Atalanta Midfielders were taking control of the game due to how often Arsenal loses possession easily. The wingers are not active because no enough passes from the midfield, they channel all the work to the defenders and the defenders delivers their hip perfectly.

We really miss Ødegaard, and the Merino we signed need to get back soon to give us more option in the midfield because we can win title with the likes of Jorginho, Partey and Havertz in the midfield; although they tried their best because it wasn’t easy and it is a good sign that we can also depend on them when our key players are out due to injury. In general, squad depth pay.

Atalanta did well; they deserve three points because they played for it, but the penalty they lost was the cause. Kudos to David Raya for the wonderful saves.

Yea, home teams were able to maintain their homes, none of the home teams lost to their opponents in this night fixtures; but in the evening, away teams wins matches.
The new Champions League format has begun, let’s see how it will go as we have seen the first matches. And from all indications, we will have a lot of surprises as big teams might get eliminated early due to points.

The 4 goals scored in the first half looked cool for Leverkusen although the second half there were no additional goals but I think it was enough to make them comfortable and have more confidence level for their first match.

Although in today's match we could see that Feyenoord tried to do a different scheme in the second half but when the first half they were wrong in the action that made Leverkusen take a quick lead in the first 5 minutes made Feyenoord's confidence and mentality a little slack in the first half.
A good end for Leverkusen but not accompanied by another favorite club where in this match Barcelona and Arsenal did not get maximum points even though this first match they were the favorites but Arsenal were only able to draw and Barcelona had to lose with a red card mistake that actually did not need to be done because indeed this red card was purely a player's mistake that should not have happened for a club like Barcelona.

 Leaderboard so far

1    Bayern Munich    1    1    0    0    9    2    +7    3
2    Celtic    1    1    0    0    5    1    +4    3
3    Bayer Leverkusen    1    1    0    0    4    0    +4    3
4    Aston Villa    1    1    0    0    3    0    +3    3
5    Borussia Dortmund    1    1    0    0    3    0    +3    3
6    Sparta Prague    1    1    0    0    3    0    +3    3
7    Liverpool    1    1    0    0    3    1    +2    3
8    Juventus    1    1    0    0    3    1    +2    3
9    Real Madrid    1    1    0    0    3    1    +2    3
10    Sporting Lisbon    1    1    0    0    2    0    +2    3
11    Benfica    1    1    0    0    2    1    +1    3
12    Atletico Madrid    1    1    0    0    2    1    +1    3
13    Brest    1    1    0    0    2    1    +1    3
14    Monaco    1    1    0    0    2    1    +1    3
15    Paris Saint-Germain    1    1    0    0    1    0    +1    3
16    Arsenal    1    0    1    0    0    0    0    1
17    Inter Milan    1    0    1    0    0    0    0    1
18    Atalanta    1    0    1    0    0    0    0    1
19    Manchester City    1    0    1    0    0    0    0    1
20    Bologna    1    0    1    0    0    0    0    1
21    Shakhtar Donetsk    1    0    1    0    0    0    0    1
22    RB Leipzig    1    0    0    1    1    2    -1    0
23    Barcelona    1    0    0    1    1    2    -1    0
24    Sturm Graz    1    0    0    1    1    2    -1    0
25    Crvena Zvezda    1    0    0    1    1    2    -1    0
26    Girona    1    0    0    1    0    1    -1    0
27    PSV Eindhoven    1    0    0    1    1    3    -2    0
28    Stuttgart    1    0    0    1    1    3    -2    0
29    AC Milan    1    0    0    1    1    3    -2    0
30    Lille    1    0    0    1    0    2    -2    0
31    Club Brugge    1    0    0    1    0    3    -3    0
32    Red Bull Salzburg    1    0    0    1    0    3    -3    0
33    BSC Young Boys Bern    1    0    0    1    0    3    -3    0
34    SK Slovan Bratislava    1    0    0    1    1    5    -4    0
35    Feyenoord    1    0    0    1    0    4    -4    0
36    Dinamo Zagreb    1    0    0    1    2    9    -7    0


https://www.skysports.com/champions-league-table

I think the first 8 teams will need around 16-18 points
9-24, the teams for playoff probably needs 10 to 16 points.

I called it. I knew it won't be an easy game for Arsenal, they were the favourite but should be lucky to earn even that 1 point. The major credit for that goes to Arsenal's goalkeeper, Raya who made a fantastic double save of Retegui's penalty. Retegui should've done better on that rebound, he seemed to have enough time to take a better aim with that header, but it went right in the middle of the goal, making it possible for Raya to save it.
Apparently it was Atalanta's first ever goalless draw in their Champion's League history. What's a bit strange, it's Arsenal's 3rd away Champion's League game in a row, when they failed to score a goal.

The truth is that Arsenal should have lost this game tonight if that Atalanta player had converted the penalty chance they had. How mid of him to miss such great chance. I was disappointed truthfully tonight.
Arsenal midfielder's struggled to keep possession, Atalanta even tore them apart in midfied but that's to the defenders who did a good job same way they did when theybfave Tottenham Hotspur. Well, they didn't play well tonight same way it went down against Tottenham Hotspur.
I hope Mikel Arteta dumps Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus on the bench for the game against Manchester City during the weekend. Raheem Sterling and Trossad should get the starting role for that game. The final score of that game would be 1-1 in my opinion.

Benfica won the match 2-1 tonight with two Turkish players scoring goals.
Kerem Aktürkoğlu and Orkun Kökçü are playing well and have adapted very well to the team.

Barcelona lost 2-1 tonight against Monaco. Monaco played well and won.
Barcelona's young star Lamine Yamal made the score 1-1 but it was not enough for them to score a single goal.
Eric Garcia's early red card disrupted the team's plans.

It was a very easy win for B.Leverkusen. They beat Feyenoord 4-0.

Sorry for the disappointment faced from this game and for any loses incurred if you happened to place stakes on Manchester City to win over Inter Milan. I’m pretty sure many other person made similar bets on Manchester City and lost too. Inter Milan defense was impenetrable, City could not crack it in the gam. Even the Man of the Match Award was not won by a Manchester City player but Barella for Inter Milan.

I don't understand the outcome of the game because I was busy watching Arsenal against Atalanta. Am unhappy to see that two games in today's fixtures had to cut my game. I was expecting Arsenal and Barcelona to win. It's annoying how Arsenal was playing only defensively throughout the game. Atalanta was so eager to win the game that the coach had to sub a lot of players to ensure that they would score in the game. But very unfortunate for them that the Arsenal defense is very hard to go through.

Atalanta was given a penalty that was caused by Partey and they failed to score. If the penalty was taken by Lookman I am certain that he would have scored. Lucky for Arsenal they have a good goalkeeper like David Raya. He was able to remove the ball from entering the goal twice. I believe he is the best keeper we can find in football these days.

I think Salzburg lost some of their quality and power that they were known for a couple of years ago. Despite playing in the Austrian league, they were still one of those teams that had to be taken seriously as they did an incredible job in sourcing top talents from all over the world. But they were just this club that brings those stars closer to other top European clubs. At some point it is hardly possible to compensate for all those players lost due to transfer to bigger clubs. I didn't expect Sparta Prague to be that dominant against them. They didn't only score more goals than Salzburg, but they were the better team by a whole lot.

Interesting game though, Sparta Prague were so dominant from the start of the game so it was already clear to see that they will win the game. Already leading two goals to nil in the first half, Sparta Prague continued playing comfortably and kept the game under control. They defended so well that Salzburg couldn’t get a goal or two shots on target. Sparta Prague were completely dominant throughout the game.

Losing many players due to injury certainly makes the situation more complicated for Arsenal so Arteta tries to rack his brains even when looking at Kai's new position which has always been used as a targetman now used as a playmaker it indicates that Arsenal are a little troubled with the current squad.

In the end, one point is still a positive thing even though their chance for 3 points is actually very large but Arsenal must be willing to share points with Atalanta in their first match this time.

Statistically the actual match in my opinion is a fairly monotonous match even if you see Barcleona and Monaco who play at the same time of course it's better especially seeing Barcleona lose is a separate entertainment in my opinion for this opening match.

Arsenal did tried all their best but again their midfield obviously is missing odegad, it was actually really clear he's needed, I could see that even from the formation of Atlanta they wanted to take advantage of the gap Arsenal is suffering at the midfield to make build up for opportunities they could use to defeat the Gunners but it's as if the gunner were playing all attack and all defense in a bid to make up for the midfield that was lacking and they tried and almost succeeded but Atlanta did messed up their chance which could have gotten them ahead of Arsenal. At some point it felt like Arsenal was been conservative too so they probably wouldn't concerned a goal, a fair start for Atlanta but they had a better chance to have done better. Atlanta to me is looking promising going by this first performance.

I guess or think that it was for sure the red card for Barcelona that they lost this game against Monaco.
It would be a different result if they hasnt got it.

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Looks like that Leverkusen made there homework with there win today against Feyenoord Rotterdam with 4 Goals.
Only Leipzig was not able to make a draw or win there match in Atletico Madrid , as it is always hard to play there.
Over all i guess the german teams was starting very good for there first Champions League games.

Hahaha finally it is a lost battle for for Barcelona after the the one man down, they where unable to lick their wound even though they tried to cover things up, monaco was seriously maximizing hitting back at them and the pressure was much on them, it is 2:1 victory for Monaco against Barcelona, The both played to their best but Monaco stood on taken much of the home advantage over Barcelona. But however, undoubtedly Barcelona would have been better if they had a draw game, but it is over now and what more can we say. Barcelona lost is a big loss , for many must have predicted them to either win or draw.

It is all good the game ended in draw because seeing the game very tough it as if the both team had the same chances to win. It is better the ended in draws than for arsenal to lose being their first champions league game for the season. To me the outcome of the game for arsenal was not bad because Atalanta is a team also doing well. For arsenal not ot give Atalanta the chance to win them that means they are ready for the Champions League this season, and it will be difficult for any team to defeat them. Arsenal really needs to try their best to perform better in champions league to last longer in the competition.