Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 79. (Read 89649 times)

That is the fact, but many people don't understand that any team can experience bad times, no matter the squad they may have. We have even been experiencing that this season. A team can be in great form one season, and the next season, they may not be in that same great form again.

So, I am not too surprised about Manchester City's poor performances because it is normal. Honestly, Manchester City has always struggled in the Champions League, but they are not doing too badly in their domestic league, as they are still in the top five of the Premier League table.

The reason why everyone is complaining about Manchester City is the high expectations people have for them. However, I truly didn’t expect PSG to make a comeback against Manchester City yesterday, especially after they were two goals down.

Unexpected losses like this are more prevalent in the champions league than in the domestic league. As it is a league of the champions from different top leagues in Europe, you should not underrate any team playing in the competition and always expect the worst outcome in every match. If you have such mindset and approach in the league, you’ll be well prepared to tackle what will come for you.

Bayern Munich was caught off guard and what Feyenoord did yesterday was extraordinary and I commend their effort to take the lead and manage to protect the lead and also added more goals to secure a comfortable win yesterday. It was a tactical game that the defense line really did their work well and didn’t allow the effort of the attackers to go in vain. Hard luck to Bayern Munich but a deserving to Feyenoord.

Betting is really unpredictable at these times with these teams also, one really doesn't know when stuffs like this will happen. If I had enough money currently, I will be banking on the smaller teams to win this big teams, at least if I do that three to five times one will come to pass but the problem is, one needs enough money to start so if one or two clicks, you will get something substantial to cover for the previous loss. Just thinking though.

I am not saying that divorce is the main factor why Pep Guardiola is no longer great at managing the club. Because every element, both external and internal, forms Pep Guardiola today. So one of the many problems with team performance, unstable players, dependence on Rodri, loss of player confidence, and the psychological condition of the coach are the complete ingredients that give birth to poor performance. Now there is only 1 match left which makes everyone not put too much hope on them.

That’s football; a team can not always be doing as we expect all the season; sometimes they will experience hard times because Manchester City’s performance this season is really bad, although last season, two seasons ago, City’s performance was really good, and that is why this season, even though they are experiencing hard times, I am not really too surprised because I believe it will later happen. Also, I feel like Guardiola is kind of confused on what to really do currently, because for PSG and Manchester City to end this way, then definitely we should know that it’s not really good for Manchester City this season.

I dont think Manchester city's poor performance should have anything to do with the coaches personal life because we all know this team have been through a lot including injury worries and also the problem of ageing players in the squad who needs to be replaced and also the problem of psychology which has impacted the entire squad as a result of their poor performance from previous games where they suffered some serial defeats both in the domestic league and in the champions.

Haven mention all these it wouldn't be nice to say that Pep's personal family problems could be responsible for the team's poor performance because if the story of his wife wanting to file for divorce hadn't come out to the public then no one would have known about it or insinuate that it could be the reason why the team is suffering.

I’m also confident that Guardiola will stay at City, especially since the club recently extended his contract.

As for City’s Champions League campaign, I don’t see them missing out on the tournament with both Guardiola and Haaland leading the way. Their decisive match for a spot in the top 24 is against Club Brugge, and it will take place at the Etihad. If City wins, they’ll reach 11 points (the same as Brugge) but will finish ahead due to Brugge’s negative goal difference. However, if City fails to win, they’ll be out. It’s a must-win game for the Citizens, and I expect them to give everything to secure their place in the next stage.

There's this thing that Man City usually does and that's if they meet a team they know they can thrash utterly, they'd would do it without apology. This Dinamo Zagreb are the same club that Bayern Munich played and whooped 9-2 but Arsenal could not do the same thing and even when they kept pressing their opponents defense, the much they would achieve when they get there is to shoot it off target. I truly was disappointed, won't lie.
It's with results like this you'd begin to ask whether this scoreline was worth Arsenal's shabby performance in the league of late. It all goes to show how the absence of Saka is being missed greatly because even though they've got the players with enough pace and creativity, they've not really got a good finisher and Saka was helping to cover that void but with his absence, the Gunners will just have to make do with slim victories.

The fact that there are three Italian teams among the top eight already supports this. Milan is especially performing at a high level in the Champions League. They also won the Italian Cup by beating Inter in the final. They may have poor results in the Italian League, but when it comes to the Champions League and the cup, Milan is playing very well. Also, Atalanta is performing really well this year. Juventus is in the playoffs according to its current ranking. Italian teams are really shining this year.

What actually shocked me the most about the result of the UEFA Champions League game between Feyenoord and German giants Barcelona was that the Dutch club succeeded in stopping one of the most potent attacking line in Europe from scoring a single goal. I don't think there's anyone who must have predicted such result and that's why many are still surprised about the outcome.
Just like you suggested, Bayern Munich's performance this season have been short of the expectations of many and if nothing is done about it to improve their performance, they'll likely be eliminated from the competition and that I don't think is what fans of the club would want to experience

Did Manchester City perform well against PSG? I would say PSG played well in this match and PSG deserved to win this match. Manchester City's overall performance was weak.

PSG dominated this match. In the first half, both teams' target was not to concede a goal. So both teams played a bit defensively. However, in the second half, Luis Enrique changed his match strategy and PSG played a completely attacking strategy. In the second half, PSG had 62% ball possession and had a total of 18 shots. On the other hand, City players were only able to make 5 shots in the second half. Both City's attack and defense were quite weak.

Kylian Mbappé is now adjusted to conditions and his performance is also improved which helping Real Madrid for having better results with good margin today game was amazing stuff from them while they scored 5 goals and now having good confidence for keeping things to go into top 8.

Upcoming games are going to be more interesting as fans are going to have good action while Real Madrid needs to be consistent for having good chance of winning trophies now four games are on road while first against bottom side in La Liga then Brest is host team for Champions League game most chances they will be able to stay at the top for few weeks as their performance is improving, and their attack is giving them good results they needed to be had some good work on defense which will be good for them.

Manchester City lost the truck badly. And of course Manchester City's weakness in match strategy is now fully visible. Because Manchester City managed to take a 2-0 lead in just 8 minutes in the second half. After leading 2-0, Manchester City's target should have been not to concede a goal. But then Manchester City conceded 4 goals in 40 minutes.

The first half was very exciting. We saw good performances from both City and PSG. But Manchester City stumbled badly after scoring 2 goals in the second half. After leading by 2 goals, Guardiola should have tightened his defense more. But Guardiola failed to tighten City's defense.

I think Guardiola is in a bit of a bad mood because of his divorce from his wife. However, City will probably not take the decision to sack Guardiola because Guardiola is the best coach in the history of the City club.

When a below average team manages to score first, then the way to defend it is to strengthen the defense, and that's what Feyenoord showed last night, I have to praise their defense, it was extraordinary even though Bayern Munich bombarded them but not a single goal was scored, on the contrary, in crucial minutes Feyenoord actually increased their lead. Well, what is still clearly visible from Bayern Munich is their defense, I admit their attack is extraordinary as usual they are sharp up front but there are still gaps in defense. I'm sure many bettors lost their money in this match. Kompany needs to evaluate his squad defense if this mistake is repeated in the remaining matches or in the Bundesliga competition then something unexpected could come to them.

At least this season there are two teams representing the Eredivisie, namely Feyenoord and PSV Eindhoven. And when compared to PSV, Feyenoord was able to perform better, even though they faced quite tough opponents. Although if we look at the Eredivisie league competition, PSV performed much better than Feyenoord.

And of course it was quite surprising when Feyenoord was able to win a landslide victory over the German league giants, Bayern Munich. Feyenoord really hosted their guests well, they appeared confident with a solid defense and deadly counterattacks. In fact, if we look at the match statistics, Bayern Munich dominated the match, both in terms of ball possession and in terms of attack. Just imagine, at least in that match Bayern Munich had fired 30 shots, that is quite a fantastic number, but the Feyenoord players were able to make very meaningful blocks and sweeps, plus J. Biljow was also able to guard his goal well, so that Feyenoord's goal did not concede a single goal in the match.


Who would have thought that Man City, who initially led by two goals, PSG was able to turn things around in the final minutes of the match, which Man City had to be two goals behind PSG.

The match was quite boring during the first half, because not a single goal was scored, even though in that half both teams had the same opportunity to score a goal, but both teams were unable to maximize it well. And when the second half continued, the intensity of the match immediately increased, Man City was able to score two goals, and that happened because of the mistakes of the PSG defenders, the first because the goalkeeper was unable to make a good save, and the Man City players were able to take advantage of the loose ball well and become a goal. Meanwhile, regarding the second goal scored by Erling Halland, it happened because of the mistake of the PSG defender when he was about to cut the pass, which made the ball go straight to Halland.

The 4 goals scored by PSG were quite impressive, they were able to counterattack quickly and accurately, so that PSG only needed 7 minutes to equalize, before finally Joao Neves scored a goal that brought PSG ahead. Meanwhile, for the last goal scored by Ramos, the referee almost disallowed the goal because he thought the PSG player was offside, so the referee had to check VAR first before validating the goal.

The problem is not their overall performance but the 90 minutes of the match and we realize that in the match against PSG yesterday Manchester City played very badly so it is not strange that they lost today's match.

Indeed, for the pre-match I even looked a little lower at PSG because indeed the expectations of Manchester City were quite large but of course when we saw the match take place we should realize why PSG deserved to win in this match.

So your words about good performances not guaranteeing in today's match actually don't really match what happened on the field because they lost badly in any case. The possession of the ball, the chances they have and the rhythm they usually always do in a match precisely in the match day against PSG then they cannot do this because of their poor performance.

It is hard to believe that Manchester City have become such a weak team that they lost so badly to PSG. They have not even been able to compete with PSG. City are not a threat to any team at the moment, but other weak teams are a threat to them. We can see a lot of difference between the City of today and the City of the past. The reason for the poor state of City is their defense. They are doing very badly in this department, especially when it comes to counterattacks, their weak defense cannot do much. Their attacking set is still great but they have to be strong in defense to win the match. I was not prepared for such a result with PSG.

The outcome of this match came to me as a major surprise because there was never a time I will imagine that Feyenoord will humiliate Bayern Munic that way, with three unchallenged goals. Such goal margin shows completely superiority and not just winning by chance. I actually felt bad for the supporters of Bayern Munic who had expected that their teams will win with some committing huge amounts in bets in favor of their clubs. I equally lost money in that match and that was because Bayern Munic could not score one goal to make the match over 3.5. I will be careful of playing them in their domestic league this weekend.

What is wrong with Bayern Munich or Manchester City? It is very strange how they lose the match by conceding three goals in a match where they have such good statistics.
There is nothing to exaggerate about Bayern Munich. The UCL league stage shows very surprising results. This system was better than I expected.
They made things harder for teams like Manchester City and Munich. Feyenoord and Benfica were a good system for teams at this level.
A friend of mine says Manchester City is untrustworthy when it comes to betting, but he has lost money at least three times this season because he trusted that team.

City is no longer the City we know as in the past few seasons, this season it is clear that the decline in quality is very noticeable and has become a team that is no longer a threat in European competition.
They lost helplessly against PSG, indeed they were ahead first but if we look at the game of both teams, PSG dominated the whole thing, it feels strange to see the city that usually dominates was not seen yesterday.
One more chance for City if they want to qualify must beat Club Brugge but seeing Club Brugge is also in a fairly threatened position they will fight tooth and nail in this match at least if they are able to hold City to a draw they will qualify for the play-off phase.