Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 396. (Read 76421 times)

Milan did not have a good start to the 3 matches. In contrast to Liverpool's performance in the Premier League, they won 3 matches in full, without even conceding a goal.
But we know that the team's performance in the Champions League is sometimes far from our predictions. Moreover, Milan will play at home, and also related to the rumor that the Milan coach might get bad luck if his team's performance does not improve.

Another interesting match is Arsenal vs Atalanta. Atalanta in Serie A has also only got 3 points from 3 matches. A bad start for a team that won the Europa League trophy last season. In terms of chances, Arsenal will definitely be more favored even though they will play at Atalanta's home.

I think these two games that you stated above will be the most interesting on that day. It will be lovely to see City and Inter clashing but I think City have the high chance of winning Inter because they are playing in Etihad stadium. Inter have improved in their performance and I know that match will be a challenge for Inzaghi.

Milan is currently weak if you look at it from their recent performance, their new coach cannot understand the team and how to manage the players making it difficult for them to win matches. It is clear that Liverpool will be able to win the match but one should not use the performance of a team in their domestic league to judge in UCL.

All teams have the opportunity to become champions in this Champions League, the only difference is their percentage. Some have the highest percentage to the lowest percentage of chances. Like this season for example, Manchester City still has the highest percentage to become champions based on several sources, in second place is Real Madrid. However, this percentage cannot ensure whether it will happen or not, because in fact last season Manchester City had the greatest chance, but they still failed. But surely here we will think realistically where we believe more in big teams with a high percentage too. I don't think anyone will make a team that is considered the "weakest" with a small chance predicted to be able to become champions.

So 1st out of 8 matchdays will take place between Tue 17th Sep and Thu 19th Sep.
We'll see a total of 18 games, so plenty to choose from. The biggest one is probably Man City Vs Inter in Manchester. The champions of England and last year Champion's League finalists against the champions of Italy who almost made it to the UCL quarter finals (lost to Atletico Madrid on penalties).
Liverpool Vs Milan also sounds interesting, but Milan does not impress with their league games, with only 2 points earned in the first 3 Serie A games. Haven't checked the odds for this one yet but expect Liverpool to be a big favourite.

In English Premier League or other league tournaments, the competition is usually between two or three teams, but the Champions League is a tournament where each team is strong, so each team has a tough competition in each round. Just as Arsenal can do well, Real Madrid have always done well, Manchester City have been performing very well in the Champions League recently and Bayern Munich are among the best performing teams in our list. This tournament is organized with the best teams of Europe and there are many tough competitors to win this tournament so these tournaments are always very challenging for every team. Real Madrid succeeded in this challenge last season, surely we will see another team this time.

There have been updates in UCl rules, so i won't look down on any team for not having hope in winning the UCL. The competition is a whole different level, every team there is tough and competitive. There shouldn't be any chance for a team to see another as a weaker team in the ucl. The reason is that even the teams considered to be weak, and we don't expect them to go far in the competition do have better performance in the game. The three teams he mentioned can go far, but they have to pass other teams who are there to stop them from winning the league. Any mistake from them might hinder their success.

it will be something studied in advance to already decide a championship, it seems to me that with this formula the best of the tournament are already paired, and it is something that penalizes many teams, I think that Atalanta vs Arsenal could have been a quarter-final match instead it's just at the beginning not to mention the others, let's say it makes a nice profit but we risk losing the big clubs along the way right away

According to the schedules first fixtures of Champion league will be starting on September 17th - September 19th and according to the list i was found some interesting matches which we can called those are big matches such as

AC Milan vs Liverpool
Manchester City vs Internazionale Milan
Atalanta vs Arsenal

I haven't checked the odds yet for these matches but i am sure Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal will being an the favourite in this matches however here is the fixtures of champion league for week 1 below



Source : https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41052654/2024-25-champions-league-full-fixtures-schedule-league-phase

even with arsenals currents form, it's still becoming more deficult to think of winning the trophy in the midst of the current teams at the champions league that are not relenting at all in Thier form. Real Madrid which is the defending champion is still going for the 16th, man city is at the best form to potentially win the UCL and Dortmund has gotten a strong encouragement after they've managed to get to the finals of last sessions champions league. This season will be very competitive and coupled with the structure of matches for this edition of the champions league, it's going to require dedication and a combined effort of all team players if any team is hoping to win in this champions league. Arsenal will go far in the champions league for the season but to win it is rather too ambitious to think of.

Before the Group stage of the Champions League begins, we will first see a small pause on the League of Nations. Honestly, I am not at all enthusiastic about this new format, as soon as I looked at this table, I was reminded of this "another championship", I’m not sure that the teams is also delighted with this format, for them this is even greater load, and as a result, this can only lead to a deterioration in the quality of games. But let's look how it all will happen, because I have not yet fully figured out this innovation, so far I do not like it.

The Champions League is certainly a prestigious league in Europe because of course the champions of European clubs gather here and it is true that it is not surprising that many teams want to play in the UCL and for those who already have tickets to play in the UCL of course want to win it. and indeed not all teams will win and of course there will be a fierce battle to become the best team and indeed Manchester City deserves to be a candidate who will be a strong team in the UCL and also Real Madrid also deserves to be a candidate for a team that will be a strong team in the UCL this season and Bayern will also certainly have great potential to become a strong team this season.

but in my opinion it is certainly not impossible that there will be a team that surprises us all in the UCL this season and of course it could be like Inter, Dortmund will surprise us all and I also see Barcelona also certainly has the potential to surprise in the UCL this season because their game in Laliga Barcelona appeared very extraordinary so of course we'll just see what happens later. However, in my opinion, Real Madrid still has the potential to win the title again because there are many star players at Real Madrid and PSG's key player last season, Mbappe, has now moved to Real Madrid, which will certainly make Ancelotti's troops even stronger this season.

Guys, are you ready? Here is the league phase table that has been made and we will soon be in the first matchday in the next few weeks.

Of course this will be much tiring but also fun to see the new format with many exciting matches and I think we should prepare more money to bet considering the chances of multiplying it are also much greater.

In addition, we can see that there will be only 8 teams with the most points that will qualify for sure and there are 16 teams that will fight again in the play-off round to secure their steps to the last 16. On the other hand, for the 12 unlucky teams, they will be eliminated from the league phase and must try it in the next season.

Anyway, which match will you be looking forward to in the opening match later? For me, of course Liverpool against Milan will be a big match that we shouldn't miss.

Don't look down on Arsenal as they have the chance to win the champions league too. They haven't won it before and Mikel Arteta would love to make history as the first Arsenal manager to lead the arsenal team to the champions league trophy. It would be looking impossible until they do it because they have a very good team that can be used to win top trophies. They signed some good additions to the team and have experience too as Sterling is an experience top player that lost form due to Chelsea poor form. Being in a team with fast and sharp players, his talents might be deactivated.

I don't  think so Bayern Munich tried so much to get that far but I think they were not just lucky to get to the final because I know they would have taken Dortmund out easily even though it was Final, even realmadrid get to equalise and won the match between them and Bayern  at the very last minute when the game was about going to an end, I'm  telling you they weren't just lucky,this would have been another story instead.

Maybe because they've won it recently but I will clearly disregard that even if we have favourites I don't just consider it , Uefa Champions League is game of Champions  which means we have various champions competing with each other so its not just some kind of regular game besides, we now how a new system

Your assertion of this top three teams to win the champions league competition may be right but for other teams you’ve mentioned not to have hope in winning the champions league along this other big three teams you’ve picked may also be right but could also not be so. The champions league competition is not the one that you can predict well when the matches have not yet began. You have to see the performance of each and every team before you can make some conclusions on them. I believe this your conclusions were based on last season’s performance by each team. We may see a surprise one this season and the most underrated team could pull up a great performance that will make other top teams you’ve mentioned not even make it far in the competition.

Bayern Munich is a team with a long history in Europe and they are highly respected. However, in the last few seasons, Munich seems to have not done much and they always fail to reach the final. For this season, of course, they are included in the ranks of the favorites but Real Madrid and Manchester City have always been more convincing.

Wining the Champions League is indeed a good thing any coach will want to achieve including Vincent Kompany, and it is among his main target as a manager especially if he can be able to win it as soon as possible even though he have a lot of work to do as a manger because his team need some balance before they can achieve such success.
With the likes of Madrid, Manchester City, and others, it will only be a luck of Kompany was able to win the Champions League this season.

Wolfsburg and Freiburg are not small teams in the Bundesliga. Even though they are not among the top three teams, they are always tough to play against because they used to be tough and always have good squad. For Bayern Munich under Vincent Kompany to have started this great, there is a good tendency that the can do well for the team especially if he is able to win the Bundesliga this season ahead of Leverkusen and Dortmund.

We should probably wait and see how this will move on, and it shouldn't really be worried about it at all, it needs to be considered as a normal thing and not have too much to deal with. I understand that things aren't always that easy to figure out which team will win, but Real Madrid is entirely designed to win this one, so it's not really that confusing, it's something that we have to handle all together and we can't really make any bigger changes on our bets neither.

I understand that Real started not that awesome, but they are still an awesome team and should be doing fine, it's clear that we will see them do fine, it can't be really a big deal at all, it has to be something normal without much changes for sure.

I almost completely agree with your opinion, but one thing, Kompany also wants to lead Bayern Munich to win the Champions League this season. There are many big targets that need to be achieved so that a coach becomes increasingly respected in European football, including Kompany, of course.

So far Bayern Munich have won 2/2 of their early season matches. Even though the opponents are Wolfsburg and Freiburg, this is Kompany's record at the start of the season. Bayern Munich is one of 3 teams that managed to get 6 points in the last 2 matches in the Bundesliga, so I don't think Kompany is really worth underestimating. Leverkusen suffered their first defeat of the season, so their performance has declined and is no longer the same as last season.

In my opinion, Bayern Munich is currently more comparable to teams like Liverpool, Barcelona, ​​PSG, Inter Milan and several other teams, because last season they lost their dominance in the Bundesliga. Bayern Munich reputation in the Champions League is quite good, but they do not have the same strength as Real Madrid or Manchester City at this time. The appointment of Kompany as the new manager this season raises concerns, the former Burnley manager has no experience in bringing a team to become champions. So I think it is very difficult for Kompany to lead Bayern Munich to become a dominant force in the Champions League, his main priority is of course to conquer the Bundesliga first.

Besides that, I am sure many people put Bayern Munich on the list of favorites because of their experience, even though their current situation has clearly changed. We realize that Kompany inherited most of the players from Tuchel leadership era, and there are still a number of players in the squad who have tasted winning the Champions League trophy such as Muller. However, a team journey in the Champions League is not limited to the attributes they currently have, Dortmund last season managed to reach the final, which made many people's predictions wrong. Such a thing is very possible to happen, because in reality we cannot predict a team luck.