Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 221. (Read 75653 times)

We have to admit that Atletico Madrid have not been in good form this season. Atletico Madrid have not lost a single match in La Liga this season. However, Madrid has drawn in 5 matches. Atletico Madrid is 7 points behind Barcelona. Although the defenders of the team can play well enough in La Liga, we are not getting the expected results from Atletico Madrid.

Atlético Madrid's performance on the Champions League platform has been very poor. Atlético won only the first match against Leipzig by a margin of 2-1. Madrid then lost 4-0 and 3-1 to Atletico Madrid against Benfica and Lille respectively. Atlético Madrid's overall performance on the Champions League platform has been very poor.

Actually, Barcelona has a weakness in this match, but Bayern Munich seems to have failed to take advantage of it. Kounde repeatedly failed to prevent Serge Gnabry from launching attacks on the left, as did Balde who was on the right. However, Barcelona's good play when building attacks forced Bayern Munich to play carefully, of course this has made Barcelona successful in developing their game.

This home win is Barcelona's best to remember against Bayern Munich, but I hope they don't get too over-excited. There is an equally difficult match waiting for them in a few days, that is the El Clasico match at the Bernabeu against the defending champions.

Atletico Madrid started to look like they are really terrible at this point, and with a new contract for Simeone, I expected them to do better this season but they are looking quite terrible. I understand Lille beat Real Madrid too, but that was a shocking result to begin with, ATM losing to them as well makes no sense at all and we need to realize how terrible things could be for them on the long run as well if they keep losing like this.

Simeone has to take the team back to roots and make them work hard on defense, because getting three goals by Lille is not what Atletico Madrid is known for, they are known for their amazing defense and right now there is absolutely no defensive scheme that is working for them.

Juventus really didn't play like usual. In fact, several blunders also occurred in Juventus' back line in this match. And yes, you are right that Stuttgart did play better in that match. We even saw Stuttgart playing comfortably as if they were the hosts even though they weren't. I really hope Juventus plays as well as usual. But yeah, that day was quite an annoying day for us. In fact, unlike usual, they also made mistakes several times in making passes which gave the opponent an advantage. I hope Thiago Motta can make amends for all the mistakes he made in that match. Because in the next match, Juventus has an opponent who also surprised us all this season, namely Lille, who even managed to beat 2 giant teams from Laliga, namely Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid. And I think Lille could beat Juventus easily if Juventus still plays like they showed against Stuttgart.

Bayern Munich have played brilliantly in the opening matches of the season with the help of Kompany. In most of the matches, we have seen the Bayern Munich team win by a big margin. But gradually we saw a decline in Munich's performance. Bayern Munich's downfall began with a match against Leverkusen. Munich shared points with Leverkusen. Munich then lost against Aston Villa. Bayern Munich also drew the match against Frankfurt 3-3.

Bayern Munich lost against Hansi Flick's match strategy. Barcelona performed brilliantly. Each of their attacks was very fast. However, if Bayern Munich's goalkeeper could have performed a little better, Munich would not have conceded 4 goals.

It was one of the memorable matches of the day, that's the comment of a Barcelona fan who sat next to me while watching the match. Barcelona basically did not dominate the match, while they played under pressure throughout the first half when Bayern Munich trailed 1-0. In the end Barcelona managed to get out of the pressure and play comfortably in the second half, while they were really good at building attacks.

Raphinha looked so calm throughout the match and he was really in his best form. I admit he is good and has speed, it was a special day for him. In conclusion, Barcelona lost in terms of experience in that match, but they were good in terms of play and certainly deserved the win.

Yesterday I almost managed to win 500 or 1000 dollars on a bet  , which I predicted 46 goals in total in the 3rd round
Unfortunately the round had 51 goals, and I lost the bet

It seems that Harry Kane isn't very lucky, Bayern are doing badly in the Champions League and may not even qualify  
Their next opponents are Benfica and PSG, so it won't be easy.
I was very surprised that the German team conceded 4 goals to Barcelona

IMO, this is a victory with Hansi Flick's tactics against Munich. After Raphinha scored a quick goal in the early minutes, Munich immediately tried to apply high pressing and tried to outplay the players in Barca's defense line in order to launch a superiority tactic. And sure enough, Barca was a little under pressure which in the end Kane was able to equalize the score. Yes, there was a lot of empty space left by Barcelona players when Munich applied pressure. Uniquely, usually Barcelona players immediately fall apart. In yesterday's match, they actually played more confidently, especially several players who took individual action. Flick took advantage of the carelessness of Munich players, and Raphinha was often overlooked in his position. The second goal should not have happened, if Min-Jae Kim had been able to block the ball properly. Barca's third goal, Casedo cleverly saw Raphinha moving freely and gave a long pass and the goal was scored. As for Lewa, it seems that Flick deliberately made Lewa the focus of Bayern Munich's defenders. And we can see, Raphinha always gets a lot of space and he is able to score a hat-trick.  In Bayern's camp, Kane has played very well, unfortunately one of his goals was disallowed even though a few minutes later Kane scored another goal. Statistically Bayern is superior in ball possession, but Barca performed much better. With this result, Barcelona is in a safe position, while Munich is in an unsafe position. which means, hoping Munich can get full points for all the remaining matches in order to qualify for the next round.

After losing in their first match against Sporting in the UCL, nobody expected if Lille could be so spartan by beating the big two teams in La Liga at the moment, Lille have shown their ability to rise and dominate in those two games and I think David performance as a striker at the moment is really quite good and consistent, so Lille is lucky to have him in front line of them at the moment,  In addition, their victories over Madrid and Atletico are clearly starting to show that they are very ready and can compete with the best teams in the UCL at the moment, in my opinion If they can continue to maintain consistency like their last two games in the UCL of course Lille can be a dark horse that will probably surprise us later like Dortmund last season.

The 4-1 win over Bayern Munich is a testament to the effective strategy and also the right application of the Barcelona squad in the match, Flick has shown that he knows how to maximise his team potential to overcome strong opponents, and I think Barcelona can be the favourites again this season in the UCL title race with Madrid and Manchester City.

I have high hopes for this game for Madrid, I think things will go as they want for this team, however I think Dortmund will not make it easy for them, and that is what I like about the UCL because each team believes in themselves and that seems spectacular to me, personally I always enjoy these games, I always find the time to watch these games, it is something that I have been born with since I was little, and Dortmund is a strong team in Germany, very good and they always make the difference with anyone, even with Madrid.

And there is something very interesting, the Spanish teams have so far been ahead of the Germans , both Madrid and Barcelona have demonstrated very high level Football.

Well, it was another wtf moment and thank you god almighty that I didn't have enough time to place even one penny cause I would have been fleeced by probably every single match I was hoping to watch, I know myself and I would have bet totally awkward on the two Spain versus German matches.

Either way, I look at the standings and really can't believe my eyes, Milan is out of the playoff, Bayern is hanging by a thread and you have 3 Premer Leagues teams dominating the top 3, and special mention for Leipzig who seems to play in reverse in the CL from the the Bundesliga.
In one round I'm fleeced by the favorites not scoring the other one I stand aside why they score over 5 goals, I must quit this thing as my timing is always off.


It was for 7 times in a row, Bayern has won the 6 previous matches, Barcelona's last victory was from the 2014 season and funny enough Barcelona hasn't managed to score one in 4 games against Bayern.

Bayern Munich is undoubtedly a strong team. They had beaten Barcelona many time. So It's a big achievement for Barcelona as they defeated Bayern with 4-1 goals. After Raphinha scored the first goal within a minute, it indicated that something is coming and so is happened. Although Bayern Munich tried to dominated the match and Harry Kane did goal back at 18th minutes to make the score equal but Barcelona took the control and scored another goal at 36th minutes by R. Lewandowski. And then Raphinha Scored his 2nd goal at 45th minutes. And before half time, they did total 3 goals when their opponent only scored 1. Such excellent performance boost Barcelona inspiration and gear up their performance in 2nd half. Afterwards scored another goal at 56th minutes, Raphinha touched a sensational hat-trick milestone and broke Bayern Munich concentration totally. Bayern Munich gave their best effort, dominated the match around 61% with good passing accuracy but due to perfect strategy, they failed to Score more goals against their opponent. Hope they'll learn from their mistakes and developed better strategy next time

Based on their form this season, I expected both of them to play well but experience manager should take the lead and Hensi Flick did well because he is an experienced manager that has managed many teams before taking Barcelona Job, while Vincent Kompany is a young manager that is trying to bulls his reputation with big clubs; therefore, I was not surprised with the result because I was expecting Barcelona to win, but the goal margin is what surprises me the most.

A 4-1 defeat to Bayern Munich is indeed a revenge from Barcelona, the deadlock was broken yesterday. I think Hensi Flick is the right manager that will make Barcelona the Barcelona they used to be with Messi, Neymar, and Suarez.

With this result that Bayern Munich has gotten from the Champions League so far, I am not really happy with it. They have lost two matches and just won one. I don't think Bayern Munich has ever gotten this kind of result in the Champions League before, especially in the group stage as it happening now. Even if it has happened, it must have been a very long time ago. With this result, I agree with you that Bayern Munich's performance in the Champions League is not good.

But what I observed in these Champions League matches is that Bayern Munich doesn't have an experienced coach. If Kompany were an experienced coach, Barcelona would not have been able to beat Bayern Munich like they did in yesterday's match. What Barcelona used to defeat Bayern Munich yesterday was keeping Bayern's players offside, because they know Bayern Munich is good at counterattacks, and that’s what Barcelona didn’t allow. If Kompany had been an experienced coach, he would have prepared for Barcelona with a different pattern.

Barcelona was prepared for Bayern despite how consistent that Bayern have been this season they were still defeated, I was surprised and Bayern did not have much chance against Barcelona their performance was so weak I was just surprised at the outcome thay happened, and the goal's Barcelona scored was not far from their selfs, and it was as if Bayern was scared and it is normal for anyone to be scared because of the kind of game that Barcelona wants to be playing, and Raphinha did a great play by scoring 3 goals not long ago after first half that they were able to win, their is a lot that have happened, during, if they are to judge Barcelona will still be the one to earn all the merit, they won by 4 goals, and Bayern only score one goal since the other goal was cancelled by var.

In the two matches, Lille really performed amazingly, they were able to beat a club as big as Madrid and ATM, which was even better in last night's match, they acted as the away team.
It seems that the ATM club officials must immediately consider replacing Simeone in the coaching chair, it seems that he has run out of ideas to build a great squad, more than 1 decade is enough in my opinion, ATM needs something more.
On the other hand, Barcelona broke the curse with the same coach, Flick knows what it takes to beat Munich with a total attacking game.
Another thing in this season's UCL, we will be presented with many dark horse teams such as Aston Villa, Lille, Monaco and Brest, they look difficult for big teams.

Barcelona came with full force this season both their Domestic League and the champions league. their performance yesterday was very impressive, to be honest the results was indeed a surprising win for them. Because looking at both teams performances in their league I couldn't believe that Barcelona would be able to beat Bayern Munich 4:1 yesterday due to their position in their league tables. and even though looking at their past head to head records in the champions league I think Bayern Munich are more powerful than Barcelona in times of winning, but yesterday they were able to break the yoke, what an incredible performance from Barcelona players.

Barcelona is at one of its peak form. The team has been built up so well that they are making individual played well renowned specially the two youngsters Lamine Yamal and Fermin Lopez, both of whom were impressive. Today was the day for Raphinha who scored a hat trick and was the man of the match. Lewandoski is the old man they can always depend upon. Harry Kane did his best but was not as supported by the team except for Gnabry. With such loss of Bayren Munich against Barcelona, we could conclude the Bundesliga is far behind Premier League and La Liga.

Lille continue to defeat their rivals. After beating Real Madrid, Lille have now managed to beat Atletico Madrid and are getting really good results. Lille scored 3 goals in the second half and won the match after a great comeback in the first half. Barcelona managed to defeat Bayern Munich. When Hansi Flick was in charge of Bayern Munich, he beat Barcelona 8-2. Now, with Barcelona in charge, he beat Bayern Munich 4-1. He is a really good coach and knows what to do.

I had predicted that Barcelona would end Bayern Munich's winning streak for 5 times in a row. My prediction when the match had only been going on for 20 minutes, it seemed like the match would be a draw even though in the 45th minute Barcelona led the match again with a score of 2-1.
Kane, who is known to be sharp in front of the opponent's goal, in that match, Kane was only able to release 3 shots with 43 touches.

If in La Liga Lewandowski is very sharp, in the match against Bayern Munich, that position was successfully carried out by Raphinha.
Raphinha managed to make Neuer at the end of the match with a rating in the bottom two after Kimmich.