Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 401. (Read 76232 times)

Since big teams will meet themselves, they will eliminate themselves and give opportunity to some other smaller unexpected teams in the competition to perform. Many teams in the competition will be hoping for luck to shine on them so that they do not meet the big teams that will eliminate them early in the competition. The draw looks different this season, but anyhow it is every team will be hoping for luck, to meet teams that they are sure they can defeat. Top picks to win the competition this time also remains Manchester city and Real Madrid. For Dortmund that made it far last time, I do not think they can do it again.

Usually we can only see matches between two big teams in the last 16 or last eight or in the semi-finals. but now we will be able to see strong teams meet earlier. That will add to the excitement for UCL this time.

Leverkusena will indeed have some difficult matches. Inter Milan, Liverpool, AC Milan and Atletico Madrid will probably be a very tough test for them. but it was necessary to prove that they deserved to go further. Currently Leverkusen in the Bundesliga also looks fine and immediately won the first week's match. And last season they also played well in the European League. And now it's their turn to prove their strength in the UCL. Are they ready for a higher level or not? We'll see in time.

Just like people predicted that with new format it makes some of favourite teams will met each other early and after seeing drawing results today i have seen some of big matches will be available on League phase

Liverpool vs Real Madrid
Manchester City vs PSG
Bayern Munich vs Barcelona
PSG vs Arsenal
Bayern Munich vs PSG

Besides that i also interested about Leverkusen schedules because during league phase they will facing several strong teams and i have to says their consistency will be tested here  whether Leverkusen can able to beat these teams or not and here is below the opponents for Leverkusen

Inter Milan
Liverpool
AC Milan
Atletico Madrid
RB Salzburg
Feyenoord
Sparta Praha
Brest

Looks like now I have to get used to seeing the new UCL format this season which has changed. But it looks like a series of matches that are more even and more exciting will be presented right from the start. And in fact, for me, whatever opponent Real Madrid will face, it is still very likely that Real Madrid will still be able to progress further and securing a top eight position, I don't think it will be that difficult for Real Madrid. It's just that I doubt they will win the title again this season. because I think there has been a lot of improvement at other clubs too. But one thing I hope for is that every prediction I make can come true. Because I'm quite bored with losing in my bets lately in domestic leagues. And I hope that in the UCL every match can be easier to predict.

The match between Servette vs Chelsea just started few minutes ago, with Chelsea currently taking the lead with a penalty kick which was scored by Nkunku at 14minutes into the game. So regarding the last performance of the previous match between both club, I'm more confident in Chelsea winning tonights game with more goals, of which since they were able to score 2 goals to Nill last performance between both club, today, I'm more confident Chelsea giving Servette another Clean sheets with 3 goals to Nill. However, let's see how it goes.

Home and away games will still be there, but all teams in this phase will not play the same team in 2 games. Now we know how the new format works in the Champions League, especially in this phase, but home and away games against the same team will be played as usual when all teams have qualified for the round of 16.

Because at this stage each team will face 8 different teams, the total points that can be collected are 24 points. The team with the most points between 1st and 8th place will automatically qualify for the round of 16, while the team ranked 9th to 24th must qualify through the playoffs. It is a bit confusing at first, but I think it is no less interesting because each team will face 8 different teams instead of 3 different teams with a home and away format.

I would say Young Boys deserve to win this match. They have performed really well. After a 3-2 win at home I thought Young Boys would play defensively in the away match. But in this match Young Boys attacked a lot and tried to break Galatasaray's defense. And finally succeeded Young Boys. Young Boys won the match 1-0. Young Boys won the home match by 3-2 and the away match by 1-0.

Galatasaray is my favorite team. I would have been happy if this team could have qualified for the Champions League. But the team failed to perform well against Young Boys. However, now Galatasaray will be fully focused on the Super Lig. There is a big possibility to see galatasaray dominate in the Super Lig next season.

I agree with your point of view. BSC Young Boys played well in this match and gave their all effort to win this match. The match was tough for both teams because BSC Young Boys did only one goal but I expected 3 goals from that team . Galatasaray team could draw this match but they didn't use their mind and played defensive. They should attack in this match but they could not do that . And after the goal of Virginius ,we saw no goal in this match. I think Galatasaray should improve their performance because with that kind of performance,that is very hard for team  to win match against good team. Players have to make mind and they have to play with active mind.

Why do I feel like this new format favours the big teams more than the small teams? In the old format, the smaller teams in the group had to fight to get at least second so they could make it to the round of 16, but now the big teams will occupy the top 8 and when the teams in 9th to 24th position are paired for the play off, there is a bigger chance the big team will win. This is just a super league that involves all the top teams in Europe.

I like the format though. It means more interesting matches. We don't have to wait till the quarter-finals before we see clashes of big teams. Aside from the fact that the players have more matches to pay in a short period of time, I believe the format is better than the old one.

I honestly feel for the Arsenal club and always wonder why they are always failing to take the Champions league even at periods they could have taken it, they in fact become weaker in their performance. Mikel Arteta seems to be a steady manager for the club and could soon be seen with the respect given to Sir Arsene Winger if he can surprise us and cast out the spell that always stop Arsenal from taking the Champions league. Unlike in the past, the competition have increased as many small clubs are now taking a new shape to be stronger and thicker for bigger challenges. It could be even tougher this season for Arsenal but not as much if they could strategize themselves properly.

I saw last season of EPL as a swift move to take the championship because Guardiola is always strategic in his approach to games and scenarios. Arsenal made slight mistakes who cost them big lost last season, one of which was their lost to Aston Villa. Coincidentally they've met again this season and Arsenal already lashed them two to none. I hope the evil spirit that always hunts Arsenal's chances to take the Champions league trophy doesn't catch up with them this tournament. Lol.

The UEFA Champion League have draw and seems optimistic with my favorite team Real Madrid get qualify to knock out round as the top eight standings teams or directly qualifying. New format from group stage filled by four team change to be league format and each team with four home and four away match must playing effective to secure three points every match if want get the top eight standings teams.

Looking the opponent teams, Real Madrid have opportunity to secure top eight standings position get directly qualify to next round regarding only Liverpool and Dortmund are difficult opponent teams.

Here the schedule and opponent team of Real Madrid in Champion League.

• Dortmund (Home)
• Liverpool (Away)
• Milan(Home)
• Atalanta (Away)
• Salzburg(Home)
• Lille (Away)
• Stuttgart(Home)
• Brest (Away)

Liga Champion draw is over and we can take a look at our favorite teams and who do you think is the group of death for the time being? The new format is a little harder to understand if you don't look into it.

If only playing 8 matches in this phase, does that mean there are no more home and away matches, is that so or not? Because I think, if there are no more home and away matches it seems no longer interesting, because what makes it interesting so far is about home and away matches. But, if only playing one match in this phase or 8 match like that, does that also mean the match will be played in a neutral area or not because at least, if in this phase they play home and away matches then at least they play 16 matches in this phase, I personally have not followed and found out.

But yes, hopefully with this new format the Champions League will still be interesting because if I consider the teams in each pot, then it is like being grouped into seeded teams, middle and also mediocre teams or dark horse teams. With a pot like this, I feel the match will be interesting at the beginning but for the next phases, it might not be so interesting if later in the final match it brings together a top team against a dark horse team.

The draw results are here: https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/draws/

Sorry for not posting an image but it would be just too much. Because there isn't any group stage anymore and there are too many matches.  

We are talking about (36 teams x 8 matches per team) / 2 = 144 matches in total. Let's see how things go in this new format. It isn't like reinventing the wheel of course there are many similarities.

The only difference is that there is a league-like phase instead of groups. After this stage everything is the same. I'm curious whether we will see an underdog doing unexpected things this season.

Well arsenal no doubt are up to the standard of even winning the champions league but due to one or two things, I think there major focus should be on even the premier league because they first need to tackyqnd conquer their rival which is Manchester who on a bigger scale is even on the champions league. If arsenal actually wins the premier league then we will talk about their next step to take.

I really liked the new draw to tell the truth.    It is much more practical compared to the previous version. If they wanted to use the old draw for the new system, they were going to need more than 1000 balls to determine all the matches.

Buffon opens a ball from a pot and Ronaldo presses a button for the computer to determine the opponents of that team, that's it.    So far the unluckiest team looks like Club Brugge. They have drawn nearly all the most challenging teams. I'm just looking forward to watching league matches. There will be discussions about if there was really a need for a change. But we will see. Maybe we will like this system more.

Arsenal have experienced a tremendous improvement in their squad so we can count on them in the Premier League as title contenders, while in the Champions League, of course after the 2005/06 season we no longer see any proud achievements for Arsenal in the Champions League so far, Arsenal have been a team that has consistently ended the season in the top 4 of the Premier League and continues to be able to qualify for the Champions League, But so far I see that their qualification to the Champions League is nothing more than as a team that complemented the previous 32 clubs, last season Arsenal had a pretty good performance and even they were able to put up a tough fight against Manchester City in the domestic league but what we saw in the Champions League last season was the opposite of their performance in the premier league,  Many people predict that their will go far in the Champions League, especially at that time their opponent is Munich who has a pretty bad performance in the league but in fact we can see that Arsenal mentality in the Champions League is still very small, so it makes me doubt if this season they can be surprise us in the Champions League.

The drawing of the Champions League today has started and for those of you who want to see it live can be through the UEFA streaming site:  UEFA STREAMING

Madrid always has the power to win UCL. but I think City will be a strong contender. both teams have monsters for the front line. let's see how the situation is from the group stage. I will also support Madrid to win UCL this season. Madrid has Mbappe who was not in the team last season. and now they have to perform better. although we see that currently, Mbappe has not scored a goal for Madrid in La Liga. while Haaland has scored 4 goals for City in the EPL.
I know UCL is not only about the performance of one or two players. but more about the hard work of the team that plays well consistently throughout the competition. Madrid has a champion mentality.

Arsenal's performance this season will be better than last season when they give more importance to the Champions League tournament. I think if they have to change the Premier League competition plan a little while giving more importance to the Champions League tournament then they should because it's been a long time since they won the Champions League title. The big teams that are in the Champions League will not be Arsenal's opponents beforehand, so it is possible to win against the relatively small teams if they play according to the right plan. If the top five teams for the Champions League were to be made, Arsenal's name would be there, but Arsenal would have to perform better.

In less than an hour time, the draw for the group stages of 2024/25 UEFA Champions League season will commence and despite the fact that there's a new format that'll give room to more teams than the 32 teams in former format, I still don't think we're going to have a new winner of the competition this season. In the last decade, there's been some clubs that has dominated the competition and I also feel one of them will surely win it again this season.
Real Madrid are the defending champions after they successfully won it last season but bookmakers went for Manchester City as the club with the highest probability ratio of winning the competition. However, if you ask me, I think Real Madrid will win retain the European Cup trophy this season