Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 21. (Read 34790 times)

I wouldn't say I expected anything much from arsenal other than the result I saw from the game. Even though you're a fan of the premier league and have along the line become a fan of arsenal, you should know that Atalanta is a fantastic team that can win any team in the EPL or give them at least a fair fight like what they did against arsenal. It was not a bad performance from both sides and the result is the typical one you get when two teams of equal playing ability meets in a competitive tournament as the UEFA champions league.

There's a lot to take out from this first games that all the 36 teams at the UCL has played so far and even though the likes of Barca has lost her first game while inter, man city, Atalanta and arsenal have only gotten a single point for themselves, it only tells us of how competitive the champions league is and we can't certainly make any guess as to what the table will look like from week 2. Of all the big teams that has an high on the trophy, arsenal seems to be the one with the toughest of teams at the start of thier champions league campaign. After this first draw against Atalanta, thier next rival is still a tough opposition, PSG. If they get another draw or loose the game which somehow I feel one of them will likely play out, it's going to affect them psychologically in Thier coming games both at the champions league and the base league.

Ter Stegen is like other goalkeepers with good ability to use their feet for passing the ball. It's a trend in modern football when coaches want their players to make ball possession and even create chances from goalkeepers. This approach and requirement from coaches has a risk that goalkeepers sometimes make mistakes with their passes and mistakes from a goalkeeper is always very dangerous.

Manuel Neuer, Ederson, Alisson and Stegen are all good goalkeepers with passing ability but they all made mistakes and caused conceded goals for their teams. It's a bad match for Stegen of course and he needs to avoid it in future as most as possible.

Stegen has many options to make a pass to the right, left, center or a strong pass ahead to middle of field, but he chose a worst and most terrible option. Yamal scored a beautiful goal but it's not enough for Barcelona to have three points with only ten players since 10th minute.

I would say it was Ter Stegen's mistake. Foolishly he made a pass. Ter Stegen gave several such bad passes in this match. I don't blame Eric Garcia, because his target was not to concede a goal. I don't think it was a bad foul though. However, the players were at fault, and Barcelona were also unlucky in this match.

Monaco's players became more confident because of this one red card. And did a lot of attacking in the first half. And with 10 players it was very difficult for Barcelona. And finally Barcelona lost the match. But I would have been happy if the match was a 1-1 draw. However, Barcelona are quite strong this season. Hopefully we will see a good performance from Barcelona in the next match.

Garcia is really stupid for making such fatal mistake in the early minutes, even it was a goal, at least they will play with 11 players. I don't know why he really afraid to get conceded, his team is strong and I believe they can comeback, but playing with 10 players is really hard.

Seeing Barcelona's player make fatal mistake in the early minutes, he reminds me with Araujo lol.



Yeah, they lost so many players, so I don't see anything surprising they ended up draw instead beating Atalanta.

The result may not be bad. However, I could not be satisfied with Arsenal's performance in this match. And if Arsenal perform like this, they won't do very well in the Champions League.

Atalanta were strong opponents. But even then, Arsenal should have tried to dominate the match. Arsenal players managed to make only 6 shots in the full 90 minutes. We definitely don't expect this kind of gameplay from a top tier team. Atalanta's aim was to share the points in the match. That's how they managed to do it. Arsenal should change their match tactics. At the same time the forward players have to perform better.

Stuttgart and Dinamo Zagreb are not in the same category. If Real Madrid's opponents were Dinamo Zagreb, maybe the margin of victory would have been the goal you mentioned.  But I think a 3-1 win can be called a big win. However, I was a bit disappointed with the way Real Madrid performed in the first half, but they showed their true form in the second half. I would definitely agree that Real Madrid missed a lot of chances in the first half of that match but they managed to score later to win the game. In the group stage matches we see the big teams winning by huge margins against all the other teams.

For Arsenal to share points at home to Atalanta is certainly not a bad result being able to withstand the onslaught of the hosts makes its own advantages. David Raya is one of the best goalkeepers in the world, in Arteta hands his quality continues to increase dramatically, the saviour at the spot 2x is not easy, it's only fitting that Arteta prefers to discard Ramsdale.

On the other hand Bayern Leverkusen won 3 points perfectly against Feyenoord, Leverkusen first appearance is very important to improve the mentality of the players. The most memorable thing in the match and also as the key to Leverkusen victory was the opportunity to make good use of the attack, so that it always results in goals.

 Arsenal's game last night was amongst the most boring games I've seen yet since the champions league started and although some of it isn't their fault being that they played with so much fatigue but I expected a better turn out than the draw they settled for. Infact, the both sides played like they are very tired. No coordinated pass, as for the Gunners, they tried to maintain some form of control over the game but couldn't and if not that Raya had to step in, the hosts would have carried all three points.
 Now that the two sides facing off on Sunday; Man City vs Arsenal drew their games, I hope we'd see more action from them when they meet because especially for Arsenal, it will be bad that they struggled this way against Atalanta to at least maintain a point and retain some of their players only to go and lose woefully to City on Sunday because then their efforts would be wasted.

Feyenoord is not a weak team so this big win is a massive win for Leverkusen. It is a big win of course, but more than that it shown very good quality of Leverkusen. It proves that their success last season is not by chance but actually comes from their hard-working and they already improved their quality and competitiveness a lot.

Leverkusen are ready to compete well in Champions League and they don't participate in Champions League this season with fear but with high confidence about their ability to beat opponents around Europe and are ready to go far.

At least it is a draw, not a defeat and the opponent is not weak, but strong enough. So this draw is not a loss for Arsenal even result is disappointed and not their expected result. Arsenal have many matches in group phase to fight, get good results, and move to a next phase of Champions League.

They shown that they are ready to learn and improve themselves in latest seasons and this draw will be part of hard lesson they learn, to improve themselves more. It's not the end, but beginning of a brighter chapter for Arsenal.

Xabi Alonso's first debut in the Champions League yielded quite satisfactory results, his team was able to score 4 goals at Feyenoord's headquarters, it was a big blow for the home club, Feyenoord had scored a goal but the goal they created was disallowed for offside so Feyenoord could do nothing but accept the defeat besides that the goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther also made a mistake by putting the ball into his own goal which added to Leverkusen's total score I'm sure the Feyenoord players must be increasingly frustrated because they couldn't reply to the goal against Leverkusen even in the second half they couldn't do much.

I think Leverkusen will be the dark horse this season so clubs like Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Man City have new competitors this season who also have a chance to compete for the UCL title.


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Despite being unbeaten in La Liga but not guaranteeing victory in the Champions League, Monaco did not let the visitors take home any points from their home and managed to use their man advantage to claim their first win in the UCL. I have no interest in discussing the result of this match at length because Barcelona deserved to lose, they were outclassed in terms of statistics and played very badly. The beginning of Barcelona's defeat due to Eric Garcia red card and Ter Stegen mistake. There is no chance of revenge because the new format in the Champions League no longer has two home and away legs.

Look at how Yamal reacted when he saw Ter Stegen, he seemed to represent the disappointment of Barcelona fans.

Personally, I was also surprised when Barcelona was defeated by Monaco and to be honest I thought Hansi Flick would be able to make the Barcelona players even better even though Olmo didn't play due to injury, but yes, now Barcelona have to swallow the bitter pill because they were defeated by Monaco but of course Monaco. nor can it be taken lightly because its power is extraordinary.

However, what is really a shame is because the red card that Garcia received and of course at an early stage when receiving a red card will certainly put Barcelona under pressure in terms of the number of players and in terms of mentality, it will also sometimes potentially be disturbed. but yes, of course Monaco was very good at taking advantage of the opportunities he got and of course with the lack of Barcelona players when competing because Garcia received a red card, it certainly made Monaco more confident in being able to beat Barcelona. but yes, it is a shame that those who gamble on Barcelona's victory have to swallow the bitter pill, but yes, football matches are sometimes always difficult to guess who will win.

but yes, this failure for Barcelona is certainly very unfortunate because of course Barcelona failed to get 3 points for encouragement, but of course I see that Hansi Flick will definitely learn from the experience that Barcelona has just gone through. and to be honest, I also bet on Barcelona winning, but it's a shame that many people lost their bets, including me. but of course I also saw Monaco playing well and indeed they deserved to win and what is certain is that this made Monaco fans very happy because they managed to beat Barcelona.

I think this is a loss for Arsenal. If you ask why, Atalanta has been in a lower than expected performance since the beginning of the year. They played very well in the match with the weight of the Champions League and deservedly got the draw. They were unlucky because they could have won. I think this is a negative match result for Arsenal. Because Arteta believed he could win this match but the players could not show the necessary performance on the field. Still, a draw is a better result than a defeat.

Manchester City have a lot of money, and they bought many star players so that their player resource is very deep which is enough for them to have 2 different squads with almost similar quality. It's just almost, but never can be the same between two different squads. Players when are on bench a long time, have less chance of playing in actual matches, no matter how good they are, will struggle when playing and carrying big tasks again.

Squad B will always be less competitive and play worse than Squad A, it's popular at all clubs.

Without an amazing save from Raya, Arsenal would have lost this match but Atalanta shown that they are strong enough to compete against biggest clubs in Champions League. They began this season in Champions League with massive doubt on their competitiveness after promoting to Champions League even last season they won Europa League.

This draw against Arsenal and their performance in a UEFA Super Cub against Real Madrid, are enough to show that Atalanta are very ready for Champions League matches.

It was a really hard result for Barcelona fans to accept where after just 10 minutes of play they had to receive a red card and everything went wrong. Barcelona's game lost its balance. This result clearly complicates Hansi Flick to get points in the next match. Monaco this season has shown that they can indeed beat Barcelona 2x in a row, there was a moment when Ter Stegan made a careless pass because Eric Garcia's position was under pressure from opposing players who were forced to chase the ball, there were 2 more reasonable left and right side options but he had passed to Eric Garcia.

I think it's too early to be pessimistic no? It's just one game after all. Unless you're referring to your betting result. I think this is one of those games where you strongly believe the story will be different if you have a better player, in this case, the keeper. His performance is quite poor and you could argue he's one of the reasons those two goals happened. I think it's worth using a backup keeper for the next few games or so to change the mood around the squad.

To be fair that should be expected. I doubt Man City plays the same without their key players. I remember having a similar discussion in the previous season. It's up to Arteta and his team to find the right formula to win their games. That's what sets apart a great coach from the good ones.

Marc-André ter Stegen made fatal mistake when he forced the ball to Eric Garcia during Monaco's pressure, losing control of the ball made Garcia commit fatal foul which earned him straight red card in the early match or 10th minutes game play.
I think its huge problem make Barcelona have got first loss in this season and difficult ability qualifying to knock out round because many difficult matches are waiting for in UEFA Champion League from Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Benfica and Atalanta seems not easily for Barcelona securing three points.

Have difference possibility for the match result if Garcia don't get red card during early minutes conceded have moment to make come back but playing 10 players since 10th minutes make it difficult how to face Monaco pressure playing well and success securing the first three points  for their Champion League appearances.

The reward for the most boring match of the night goes to Atalanta vs Arsenal! 

It was literally the only match with no goal. I never imagined it that way. Just think about it you make a betslip of over 2.5 goals, BTTS etc. and add this match into it as well. It would be devastating...

I was thrilled with Monaco's win. Even though that red card was a big help, I believe they still had a promising squad to go for points home. Hansi Flick's team still didn't lose by a big gap despite playing fully defensive after.

Arsenal seems pretty amazing in defense, but their offense was crap. They didn't even have the intention to win that game against Atalanta. They recorded 5 shots and 2 on target in their first 22 minutes, but then, they only recorded 1 shot in the rest. And you're right about Raya's double save; it was something for them.

I might sound biased, but Arsenal's gameplay looked so terrible without Ødegaard. They lose their attacking shape, passing, and horrible ball circulation. Their control drops drastically. And it makes me realised how important odegaard for them.

Arsenal - Odegaard = awful to watch.

In my opinion this is a fatal failure for Barcelona in utilizing the 3 initial points in this event because they had to lose one of their midfielders early in the first half, and after he came out Barcelona really lost and they continued to get attacks until what happened in the end was a score of 2-1 for Monaco, but it must be admitted here Monaco looks very confident by playing with its young players Monaco's game is also very piercing and in my opinion they deserve to win this match and Barcelona destroyed us with a betting loss.

A little disappointed with this defeat which made me lose my chance even though I was quite sure with their current performance they were quite good in the previous match but in the Champions they seemed to lose control and in my opinion what is more important for Flick is to balance their mentality so as not to make something fatal that is not desired so that we are together in a state of victory.