Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 289. (Read 76603 times)

Barcelona is indeed improving his name which last year was immersed because it could not give good results and made many people disappointed, while their financial problems last season made Barcelona less optimal in playing, the dismissal of Xavi was expected to provide fresh air that could be brought by New coach Hansi Flick because he did not have severe thoughts on the problems that exist in Barcelona, ​​and yes finally Barcelona can show back after a long time underestimated and considered to have no development, and UA is the opposite with Madrid's performance that has extraordinary expectations with strength His team, apparently they did not match this temporary expectation.

The new format gives the opportunity to correct even the most difficult situation that arose at the beginning. I thought that Milan would be able to not lose in the match with Bayer, but apparently Fonseca's team is not all right yet, and the Champions League matches are much more difficult for them than the matches in Serie A, where things are going much better for them. Milan and Leipzig remain the two biggest surprises, who after two rounds remained without points.

It is important to maintain discipline in the club regardless of player’s status and importance in a club, no player is bigger than the club so I understand the manager’s decision to keep Dembele out of the lineup in the game against Arsenal but that shouldn’t be a reason they must lose. On the night Arsenal were the better team and they controlled the game well and were very good defensively making it difficult for PSG to score.

I was surprised seeing the result of the game that Aston Villa played against Bayern Munich. You know that everybody is saying Bayern Munich is going to be a very tough team this in the Champions League competition. Although I know that the luck was not by their side this time around, everybody did not expect the match to end like this. Even I personally thought Bayern Munich would find this match very easy to win, not knowing that Aston Villa are ready for Bayern Munich in this match.

 Unfortunately, after playing with even the team that is tougher than Aston Villa and they played the matches, Aston Villa turned out to win against Bayern Munich. That is football; everything can happen regardless of how good a team is. If the luck wasn’t by their side, they would find it difficult to win the match. Let’s continue watching Kompany matches to see if he will still be dominating as he has been doing since the start of the season.

Barcelona is muscling up and they want doing everything possible to see their self to the top and maintenaning or tying to is actually a very good move coming from Barcelona, and they are gradually climbing sixteen is not actually a bad idea. It is now as if flick was a breakthrough for Barcelona and kicking starting the season have been going very well. I just hope that flick does not end up like xavi because it looks like a lot of clubs are not playing this season if you don't perform well as a coach then they will fire you it's now like a new trend. Barcelona are doing well in la liga they are currently topping the table and this shows that a lot of things will be changing because am trying to understand Madrid after the whole hype that was giving their performance is not yet satisfactory.

Yeah that's right, until now I do not believe the two favorite teams have been defeated because before, me and some people predicted the worst thing that could happen was a draw not defeated. Most of the away teams lost in yesterday's match but yes there are still 6 more matches to play this means that there is still time to collect points or catch up.

Another match that surprised me was Atletico Madrid conceded 4 goals, I don't think that can happen because Atletico Madrid has a good defense in fact in this fight it seems they can't do anything whereas before I predicted Atletico Madrid scored at least one goal, unfortunately not. Bad luck also happened to AC Milan who had been defeated 2 times in this competition and unfortunately in the 4th match they will face Real Madrid means AC Milan has the potential to be defeated 3 times.

The overall odds of your bet were higher than 5, in fact it is too optimistic to expect all the favorites to win and the bet to play.
Personally, I decided that in the group stage (especially in the first games when the tournament prospects are far from dangerous situations) I will bet against the favorites. I can’t say that I have already had successful bets, but this is normal since I choose even bolder odds.
Yesterday I think many people fell into a trap because the odds for Bayern and Real to win were quite good (this is what always makes me wary in such situations).

They both had chances to score many goals in the match, but only Aston Villa was able to score just one goal in the match. Both of them had a strong defense in the match, and they both played well, but Aston Villa was able to score a goal in the match.

Real Madrid disappointed most people in their match yesterday, Most people that placed bets on yesterday’s Champions League match will pick Real Madrid in their bet, and I don’t think anyone will even predict Real Madrid to lose the match, the loss came as a surprise to everyone. I wasn’t surprised by the result of the Bayern match. Aston Villa is not a weak team, so I expected the match to be a difficult one, and Aston Villa were able to get three points in the match.

If the goalkeeper is on fire they will ward off many kicks from any angle and Martinez made many saves in this match.

Bayern Munich is too focused on building an attack that continues to multiply until it forgets the defense is a little careless, it becomes an opportunity for Aston Villa opponents.

With this defeat of course there is still time for them to qualify without having to enter the playoffs, I think Bayern Munich and Real Madrid can win in the next match and this time these two teams are just unlucky in their performance has never been in doubt.

Dont make it sound so easy for Bayern to have won the game. If you had watched the game like you claimed you would've seen how the Aston Villa defenders were covering every single space. It became much harder for Bayern after Villa scored. Because they focused more on defending. And let's not forget about Martinez the Vilas keeper. That dude was a hell of a man. He punched every ball out and made the Bayern Munich striker frustrated. In the last 5 minutes of the game. Bayern had one good opportunity and it was so close to being a goal but Matinez saved the game. Bayern received late. In the first half, they were too comfortable like they would score later on. It took them as a shock after all to see that not even a goal came out of the game.

All thanks to Atletico midfielders and defender for their reluctance. I dont think they know what they came to the UCL to do. Why will the players feel reluctant on the field? Go back and watch the highlight in that game. The penalties they conceded were a result of the defenders not going for the ball early. After watching 20 minutes of the game I switched it up to Bayern because it was a terrible match to see Atletico playing in that way.

This is very natural, why the champions league is so interesting, because all teams will give the best they can to the champions league, and even more make the Champions league a priority league that must be won, such is the popularity and very high competition tension of the champions league. each team does not meet the teams they often face in each season like the domestic league, coaches and players will face many opposing strategies that come from different leagues and have different characters, and surprises here are far more than the domestic league, the defeat of Real Madrid and Bayer Munich is a clear example of how the champions league is very competitive.

Real Madrid were basically favorites to win the match, but in reality they had to accept defeat for several reasons.
The tension in the match was very high and this has triggered Real Madrid to play a little more aggressively than Lille. Real Madrid committed more fouls and received more yellow cards in this match, but this is not a reference to why Real Madrid lost. The thing I emphasize here is that Real Madrid is following Lille's playing pattern which should not be like that.

This kind of defeat is good for Real Madrid and its fans who are overconfident as if Real Madrid is invincible. Lille proved that nothing is impossible to beat a top team, the same thing happened to Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Atletico Madrid and Milan. However, Barcelona's performance tends to be better than Real Madrid so far in the Champions League, of course because of the goal productivity between the two.

To be honest Bayern Munich played very well but was very unlucky in front of the goal and the Goalkeeper from Aston Villa got was awesome in this game.
For sure or hopefully Munich will be learn from the match and making it better in the future in there next game.
But from all the games it shows that also the big Clubs like , Munich or Real Madrid can be beaten every other team even they have so much star players.
Looking forward to the next game between Dortmund against Real Madrid.

You don’t need that much of a 17 points, while the new champions league format was formed many football agregrators ran simulations then and most of them got it that 15 points was ok to finish in the top 8 and at least 11 also ok to get into the playoffs. That means a five wins will get any team there or combination of draws to get the 15 points. Right now it is worrying for Milan but their remaining fixtures looks like they could go a long all the way to even qualify for the round of 16.

AC Milan remaining fixtures are; Club Brugge, Real Madrid, Sparta Bratislava, Crvena Zvezda, Girona and Dinamo GNK. This six fixtures with the exception of Real Madrid should be a three point matches for the Milan club, although if they don’t buckle up I see upset from matches like Girona and Club Brugge, so it is still in their grasp to get at least a playoff place

This round definitely proved that whatever you take from the national leagues has really no effect on the outcome of the matches.  In Spain, Barcelona just got a 4-2 defeat and everyone was saying this was the end of their domination when faced with a batter tram they couldn't perform,  they scored 5 goals, while Madrid despite touting their unbeaten record got a defeat nobody, but really nobody saw coming.
Same as the Bundesliga, I wonder what tiny percentage didn't have Bayern on their card or who thought that Ac Milan finally picking up their game in Serie A would manage to get at least one point.

Well, I guess all eyes are on the next round, we have the moment of truth for Real against Dortmund and Barcelona versus Bayer, and by the time those play we can figure for real what their form is and what was a total fluke.


The defense was indeed ok, what is obvious is that the made-up attack line without Mbappe doesn't work, and when this guy finally enters and is obviously not having his day, probably due to injury, things won't be better either, they need to find a solution so they are not forced to play a single line-up with a single tactic that goes south the moment a key player is injured.

Bayern Munich was playing an all attack game and wasn't even minding their defense enough because they taught probably by forcing the attack so well they were going to be able to take a lead and stay ahead in the game but it turned out they weren't able to penetrate the defense of Aston villa enough to get a goal from them because its been locked tight and solid defense, it wasn't away game but wining was something i believe they anticipated and couldn't get at the end of the day. Bayern will learn from this game that the build up should probably not be one sided, as much as possible, every aspect of paly should be covered especially defense so they don't concede too many goals.

This is why it is called gambling because you cannot predict the future. If I had known that all these big clubs who are well experienced in Champions League would lose the matches, I would have used a big amount of money to bet on the weak clubs to hit it big.

It is impossible to know and most times gamblers always bet on big teams because it is a norm for them to win the small ones, but as you can see it is not a guarantee that big clubs must win small clybs. This is why sports are used for gambling.

In the last few seasons we can see how Arsenal have developed quite rapidly, this is none other than because Arteta knows that all this time defense has been their main problem, that is why since his arrival at Arsenal he has continued to focus on improving their defense, in the last two seasons Arsenal have become a team that has a very small conceded ratio in the Premier League and this proves that they are one of the teams with defense best in the Premier League.
The match against PSG in the Champions League yesterday, previously raised my doubts if they can win considering PSG still has a very impressive attacking line at the moment in Ligue 1, but after seeing Arsenal game, especially their defense which is able to make it difficult for PSG, it is clear that Arsenal have great hopes to qualify for the round of 16 later,  there are still some tough games for Arsenal to go through in the UCL and I think if their defence can remain as solid as it is now, of course it is very likely that those games are not a barrier for Arsenal to go far in the Champions League this season.

Literally everyone expected such results (if we are talking not about specific games but about the situation as a whole). Even bookmakers give quite generous odds for favorites and modest ones for outsiders, but not because the outsiders have supposedly become stronger, but because these are group stage games and the favorites have almost no motivation to play at full strength. And it seems to me that many people hit the jackpot yesterday when they bet against the favorites. This move looked profitable, it's a pity that I made my bets against the favorites on the first day.

yes that's right. football is indeed full of surprises, who would have thought that the favorite teams in the UCL league this season each lost in their second match and I am also sure that many gamblers lost their bets in the second match including me. Especially Real Madrid who have the status of defending champions actually lost to a weak team, but if you look at this match Madrid deserved to lose and Lille deserved to win. Because they got quite a lot of chances besides penalties. Especially the wingers played very well in this match which managed to put a lot of pressure on Real Madrid's defense line. Indeed Madrid started to rise in the second half in the final minutes after Arda came in (after Modric and Mbappe came in). But still couldn't penetrate Lille's defense. Especially the Lille goalkeeper in my opinion was quite good in this match.

This is the most interesting and according to the facts Bayern Munich last experienced a defeat in the UCL League group stage in 2017, at that time Bayern Munich lost 3-0 to PSG coached by Unai Emery. But after Bayern Munich's 41 matches in the group stage without ever losing, who would have thought that Bayern Munich's record was stopped by the same person, Unai Emery with Aston Villa. I don't think this is a coincidence.