Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 92. (Read 35267 times)

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

They became representatives after the competition process in their respective leagues so that they became representatives who would play in the Champions League or could also go through the play-off route. Arsenal looked so strong in the last two seasons in the Premier League but they failed to become a team that managed to enter the final round. In terms of champion mentality, I agree that Arsenal does not have it and we can see that in the Premier League and they should have been able to lock in the champion in the last two seasons.

But because of consistency and failing to play consistently until the end of the competition, Man City took over the top position and they managed to come out as champions in the Premier League in those two seasons. This is what Mikel Arteta needs to fix if he wants to win the title, even though if you look at it, the Champions League competition will be much more difficult than the Premier League.

Pretty much everything as expected after the first game, except Young Boys kicking out Galatasary.

It turns out that I was needlessly afraid of Qarabag as they were nowhere as good as they were in the first game. Seems like they play much better away than home as they also lost vs Ludogorets just to beat them 7-2 away.

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CL draw starts in about half an hour, let'e see how that plays out with these new rules.

Even if Arsenal have some new players to strengthen their squad I don't think they will be able to get to the Champions league finals because what really matters to Arsenal is to win Premier league title and this have been their target ever since.  Champions league is more competitive than Premier league and arsenal have been finding it very difficult to win EPL. I won't be surprised if arsenal fails to make it in champions league because it won't make any senses when they haven't be able to win the easier title but looking up to win the Champions League.

I will prefer arsenal players to put all their energy in premier league because it will be so disappointing not to get the title of the league in this season again.

The new system implemented in the Champions League adds to the length of the match schedule for all clubs, pots 1 and 2 seem to have big clubs there, especially pot 1, which is very scary, in pot 1 there are many big clubs, it is very interesting to watch, I also do not really understand the system that will be implemented because I have only seen what will be done for the system that will be used by FiFA, if the match you mentioned is true, it will be interesting and will definitely be tiring for all players, later there will be many schedules that will take place.

the champions league brings together the best teams in their respective domestic leagues, therefore arsenal must fight to bring out their full strength if they want to achieve success in this year's champions. we see in the two seasons in the EPL arteta's team has improved and made them a candidate for the premier champion but has always been taken by man city, most people think arsenal does not have a champion mentality and i agree with that arsenal must have it if they want to be a respected club in the champions league. this season they have the opportunity to prove it all and honestly i hope arsenal can surprise us all in the champions league.

Still with many top teams and don't forget the dark horse teams that will present a surprise in the champions league this season. I hope there is no gap that makes small teams feel sad when playing against big teams later. Of all these teams, there is one team from Slovakia, namely ŠK Slovan Bratislava, which will make its debut in the champions league which will also be in a new format.

On the other hand, if I'm not mistaken, each team will play 8 matches to determine their chances of advancing to the next round and I think it will drain the players' energy. But this must be tried so that we all know the good or bad with such a tight schedule starting this season.

The current European teams have joined each pot which is indeed in accordance with the value of their respective coefficients, including 7 teams that has completed all the qualifying matches so making the 36 team slots playing in the Champions League this season complete, so they currently only have to wait for their respective opponents after the Champions League drawing will be carried out. later, Each pot has contained the 9 best clubs in Europe and each team will play eight matches in the League phase to be able to qualify for the knockout phase, every teams will undergo 4 away and home matches so that the team that is ranked above the League phase will be confirmed to qualify for the round of 16 while the other temas that are ranked 9-24 must fight in the playoffs to get the remaining 8 tickets to advance to the next phase,reportedly, each team will have an equal opponent from each pot because each team will face two teams from different pots later.

Source : https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/

Yeah overall Slavia Prague played well with dominance at least 17 shots and 7 on target but unfortunately those efforts could not change the aggregate with a final score of 2-3 for Lille to advance to the next phase. From the start I had expected that both teams would score that's why I placed a bet on both teams to score YES It's just that I didn't expect Slavia Prague to score 2 goals because I predicted the match would end in a draw.

Previously I also watched the rematch between Galatasaray vs Young Boys and Galatasaray had to be eliminated from this competition after losing 2 matches home and away  even though at first I was quite sure that Galatasaray could win the match when playing at home, unfortunately Young Boys were lucky enough to score a goal in the 87th minute. Indeed, anything can happen in every match, even something we never thought.

In today's match of Slovan Bratislava vs Midtjylland team, Slovan Bratislava team scored 3 goals and Midtjylland team scored 2 goals. If Midtjylland team could have scored 1 more goal in today's match, this match would have been a draw but after scoring 2 goals, Slovan Bratislava team players did not score any more goals.  Their performance was very good due to which Slovan Bratislava team won this match very easily in today's match.

It doesn't look like Okan Buruk is being fired. He has just stated that their target is going to be to win the Europa League which doesn't look possible with this performance at all. 

I couldn't predict Bodo/Glimt correctly because they got eliminated. But they were just terrible so they deserved it. 0.03 xG... Crvena zvezda completely dominated the game.

Lille were nearly getting eliminated as well. Slavia Prague played way better than them. Despite winning the game by 2-1 it wasn't enough.    I wish they made it after watching that performance.

It seems like your bet was ruined by the upset of Crvena Zvezda and the impressive performance of Slovan Bratislava. If I were to choose a parlay bet, I would probably choose the same option as what you have chosen. But I realize that surprises can happen and my prediction is correct if there is still a surprise that can ruin the parlay bet because I actually doubt Bodø/Glimt. Bodø/Glimt performance is very bad when playing away without being able to put up any resistance.

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BTW, my prediction is very comfortable and free from surprises. Initially I predicted the Slavia Prague vs Lille match would end in a draw but it turned out that Slavia Prague was able to beat Lille. But still Lille is superior because they have a higher aggregate score.

When Slavia Prague and Lille were matched, I said that Slavia Prague would pass the round, but I was wrong when I said it did not happen.
Lille may have made it to the Champions League groups, but Slavia impressed the audience with the football they played yesterday.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that he confined a team like Lille to their own field in the first 20 minutes.
Slavia Prague will continue on its way in the UEFA Europa League. If they do not have motivation problems, they can come to very good places in the Europa League. I will follow Slavia Prague in the group matches.