Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 23. (Read 54974 times)

Actually i didn't expect some of the results i saw in the champions league this mid week, the overturning of victory happening in the way we least expected is something i didn't expect, having bigger and experienced teams loosing to smaller and almost not experienced champions league teams. Madrid and Arsenal were the worse as i least expected they were going to loose at all a draw would have been a fair consideration but a loss got me wondering as it wasn't expected at all. Barcelona's consistency is such that is deserving of every applaud as they look very promising this season.

Same story all the time but they don't go anywhere. lol. Stop making excuses
Or Arteta has reached the Lag phase and will soon start nose-diving. Time will tell...
Poor performance. This is very embarrassing for a team that wants to win. Martinelli, Trossard, and Havertz are doing nothing. It is not enough, a solution is needed.
Hopefully, they win something this year. Definitely not the Champions League. In the event of another trophy-less season, I'd be glad to see the back of Mikel Arteta.

The truth of the matter is that neither of these kovacic or Gundogan can replace Rodri in the Manchester city team, though they look pleasing when watching them just as you rightfully said, but that defensive and attacking stability that Rodri  brings to the team is what Manchester city are seriously lacking now, and that is why they really need him back in order for things to go back to normal.
Then as for Kevin De Bruyne, though he is a key player at Manchester city, but I don't think he is seriously missed like Rodri in this team due to his age.

Arsenal is already broken, they have suffered too many defeats in the Champions League and Premier League.
They are also losing the matches they played well in, and the success they want is getting far away from them.
After Inter Milan scored, they completely closed down and played defensively, Arsenal could not open up the defense. They usually have difficulty against such teams. Inter did a good job in defense.

Agreed, if Arsenal play against Chelsea on matchday 11 and play like they did against Inter, I am optimistic Arsenal will win. And in the Champions League match between Arsenal and Inter last night, Arsenal played very well and it is only natural that Mikel Arteta is happy even though they lost at Inter's home with a score of 1-0 because Arsenal showed a good game. And statistically Arsenal is superior overall %63 ball possession 20 shots 4 on target, and far when compared to Inter. And Inter's 1 penalty goal was luck, and they have also never conceded a goal throughout the Champions League this season.

With the reshuffle of positions, Mbappe is not free to play his role so that he is less able to express himself and I am sure that the decision is not at all right. Three matches without a single goal scored show that the position is not ideal for him and maybe Ancelotti should think of another way so that the front line can be much more productive and the most painful thing is because the former Real Madrid player was able to break through Lunin's goal.

Conditions like this are not good for Real Madrid, both in the Champions League and in La Liga because if they don't change and don't evaluate, the team's condition will be much worse. Ancelotti must find a special format regarding the positions of Mbappe and Vinicius because if they are forced to play like yesterday the results may be disappointing.

The crisis experienced in midfield makes Manchester City's condition troublesome in organizing attacks even though it cannot be denied that the quality of their attacks and possession of the ball is so dominating but in the end it does not make them better because the attack line they have is hampered from the flow of the ball received because Pep's scheme is easy to read where they only rely on the speed of their 2 wings and when close to the defense line immediately send the ball to Haaland, which can be used well by the opponent because they only need to tackle Haaland so that Manchester City's ball flow is hampered.
The absence of KDB and Rodri, who are used as attack rhythm setters, still has a big impact even though now there is still Kovavic who is used as an option but because the characteristics and characteristics of the players are different where KSB and Rodri who are focused on attack are different from Kovavic who leads more to defense making Mamchester City overwhelmed in the attack scheme they created.

Football is always full of surprises, so it is not strange if at first it was good and looked promising, but because they could not be consistent, their performance eventually declined. It looks like it has been a tough week for English teams in the Champions League. Only Liverpool can win convincingly, while Arsenal, Aston Villa, and even Man City suffered defeats (Man City was the worst as it was their 3rd consecutive defeat in all matches).

This is not the end because they still have a long way to go, but they need to evaluate for at least because if there is no change then they will struggle even harder.

The outcome of this week championships league matches were unexpected, though it's always like that when it comes to football, the barcelona side was in control of their game and ordinarily their opponents weren't their equals so the result of that particular match was the actual expectation of football enthusiasts, I almost lost too but the good things is I handicapped Salzburg 2 goals ahead knowing fully well that there's no way feyenoord is going to beat Salzburg on a clear 3goals and it worked for me though the odd was small but it's better than losing, feyenoord performance in that match was so bad and I wouldn't like to make it a subject of discussion because it doesn't worth it.

Personally I expected arsenal to equalize inter Milan goal but unfortunately they did not, to me, I think it's time for Arteta to act, everything is looking very devastating and needed to be fixed very quick, I don't see much pressure in their attack, it calls for a great concern, when the attack is weak there is nothing a team can do, such a number of shots on target without being fruitful tells how weak the striking force is, if this kind of poor performance by arsenal persist then it means they are not ready for any serious thing this season but I believe that arteta is taking note on the next line of action to take.

Arsenal are going through tough times, a common problem for Arsenal, although after the match Arteta said that he was happy with how the team played and he thinks that if they play like that in the next match against Chelsea, they can win. They need a win because they have not been able to win in the Premier League for three matches in a row, and if they lose points in the match against Chelsea, it will only complicate their situation, which cannot be allowed because Liverpool are already ahead of them by 7 points.

Indeed PSG played quite impressively, but the problem is that they do not have a reliable executor when facing the goalkeeper, several opportunities that were almost 99% goals were actually done hastily and ultimately failed. Oblak is indeed a goalkeeper who is always a nightmare for any player, his saves deserve a thumbs up. Relying on counterattacks is Atletico Madrid option because PSG players are too focused on attacking so that when they get a fast attack they will be easily penetrated.

Arterta is a good coach and his pattern is working for him, is just that you shouldn't expect to win all the time or the players should be in their peak form all the time. Inter has a good defense, and if not for that penalty, the match would have ended in a draw. I was expecting Inter to score more goals but they couldn't, because Arsenal didn't allow them. Arsenal is passing through hard times currently, and they will definitely overcome it soon. If you look at Arsenal in the past two seasons, there is always a period that they will face difficulties, I think this is it.

Judging by Aston Villa's recent games, it seems that the team is in a bit of a crisis and it is especially evident from Unai Emery, who looks nervous and restless. Perhaps the players have stopped listening to Emery or are just on the decline of their physical abilities, because the last 3-4 matches Aston Villa does not look like a real team and if you compare how they played last season, it seems that they are two different teams. We should also mention Brugge, because they played well and could have scored more, but they managed to score only one goal.

Considering the financial capacity of PSG, which I think is higher than that of Atletico, Aston Villa and Brugge combined, the result for PSG is very bad and in the end they risk not getting out of the group at all, because PSG could win only the very first match against Girona.

Yesterday's match result between Juventus and Borussia Dortmund was indirectly better than Real Madrid and Manchester City
And in my opinion Borussia Dortmund should have scored more than one goal because so far Sturm Graz has not gotten any points and the Austrian representative has always lost in the four matches they have played in the Champions League. And besides that Borussia Dortmund played at home and also controlled the ball overall, it's just that considering Sturm Graz has not gotten any points they strengthened their defense and they succeeded so that Borussia Dortmund had difficulty scoring goals and only managed to create one goal and get full points and that was already a good job.

If we talk about Real Madrid and Manchester City, the performance conditions of both are declining and what we need to know is that these two teams are still the favorites and also the strongest who always make surprises because they always make comebacks that will continue to advance to the next round even until the end. And this is where the beauty of football will be a lot of drama and also surprises because if it always runs smoothly there will be no criticism and praise.

But the previous week Arsenal became the team's favorite in the match against AC Milan there were certainly many who lost in gambling if they put Arsenal into their multi -betting betting, especially on the previous day that included Man City and Real Madrid as a team that was entered into it would be the worst betting what ever happened.

Atalanta is already very good enough, this season they have rapid progress and are able to compete, victory against Stuttgart is their position to be safer, only a few more points to be able to enter the blue zone or the next round.

Barcelona have slowly built back their reputation as a club that can demoralize any team and yesterday Red Star Belgrade were not spared. You know, they have been the only club that have been consistently pouring goals in about 7 of their last games and haven't been losing. It's too early to say that they can win the Laliga but I don't think they can be unstoppable in both the league and champions league if they continue in this their commendable performance.

In addition to Yann Sommer, Inter's defense line also performed exceptionally. They played a big role in Inter Milan's victory yesterday because after the second half started and they were narrowly ahead, they only focused on defense and did not even get a single chance to target Arsenal's goal.
This is proof that Serie A clubs have always had a solid defense.
This victory temporarily places Inter Milan in 5th place in the standings, with this position it will further increase the chances of qualifying for the next phase.

I hadn't seen the stats before your post and only watched the match, but the stats for PSG seem just awful to me. If PSG had a three shot advantage and a 72 to 28 percent possession ratio and PSG ends up losing with those stats, then this team played poorly. In PSG play professional footballers who get huge money and I think to justify them by the fact that they are young is not worth it, because all of them play at a serious enough level and many of them have been playing for more than one year, like Dembele, Donnaruma, Hakimi or Marquinhos, but still PSG does not look like a real team, but rather resembles just a group of players who have to play together.

Aston Villa were disappointing yesterday and unlike Aston Villa PSG were the better side but just unlucky to have conceded a goal at stoppage time and lost the game but this is football, you have to make use of your chances when you have the chance because if you don’t you will definitely be punished. PSG had more possession and were in control of the game they had more chances but didn’t utilize them, they should have scored but i guess Atletico Madrid defended well and were able to secure 3 points in the most difficult situation.

Aston Villa on their own end didn’t play as expected and allowed Club Brugge to win the game, Brugge were the better team they had more goal scoring chances and also defended their lead well. Aston Villa is now at position 8 after losing to Club Brugge.

what you say is very true in the UCL, in my opinion, Brest also performed very impressively, which is of course different from the domestic league because in the domestic league Brest is currently ranked 11th in the standings. Meanwhile, UCL Brest has never experienced a defeat so far and is currently in 4th place in the standings. Yes, this will definitely be a very interesting match to watch against Barcelona because Brest will definitely try their best to win this match.

Indeed, Barcelona is currently in good form, so I predict that Barcelona will have great potential to win that match. but yes, it is not easy to beat Brest because Brest is also a strong team currently in the UCL. Sparta Prague, which was defeated today by Brest with a score of 1-2, will definitely make Brest appear confident in the match against Barcelona.

Yes, indeed, if Barcelona is able to attack stronger in the next match against Brest then there is definitely great potential for Barcelona to be able to win 3 points from Brest. but I'm sure Barcelona will attack stronger in the next match and it looks like I want to bet on Brest's win and I predict 3-1 for Brest's win.