UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season

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Slavia Prague vs Lille

Slavia Prague starting lineup:
Kinsky; Holes, Ogbu, Zima; Masopust, Dorley, Zafeiris, Diouf; Schranz, Chory, Provod

Lille starting lineup:
Chevalier; Meunier, Diakite, Alexsandro, Gudmundsson; Santos, Andre, Haraldsson, Zhegrova; Cabella; David

Lille in the comfortable position because they have won 2-0 in the first leg and for this match although currently Slavia Prague playing as a host i think it's hard for them to gets the winning results 3 goals without conceded moreover Lille is in the good shape because they were unbeated in the last 6 matches in all competitions

Actually at home Slavia Prague have good records for qualification stages because Slavia Prague is still unbeaten in the last 8 home matches but their opponent is Lille which is very strong so i doubt they can beat Lille today and for betting option i think both teams to scores or over 2.5 goals is good

[LGD2Business]

Young Boys did very well with their limited budget and managed to qualify for the Champions League. Galatasaray had a fiasco despite having a very big squad with a very high budget. In 2 games they played very badly, they didn't deserve to qualify for the Champions League. All that money and investment was wasted. Young Boys should be congratulated, money is not everything. It's more important to be a team.

[Luzin]

After a long absence in the UCL last season, Arsenal reached the quarter-finals. Meraka lost narrowly to Munich 0-1. This season I think they have better players. They should be able to compete and be better than last season. The management's trust in Arteta has brought improvement. Aretata is given a lot of money to spend, I think they are a team that has a chance to enter the semifinals this season.

Arteta certainly learned from the mistakes of 2 seasons. Furthermore, if Arteta fails, Arsenal should also give a warning, because Arteta has been with Arsenal for quite a long time and Arteta's transfer policy always has management support.

[Frankolala]

After a long absence in the UCL last season, Arsenal reached the quarter-finals. Meraka lost narrowly to Munich 0-1. This season I think they have better players. They should be able to compete and be better than last season. The management's trust in Arteta has brought improvement. Aretata is given a lot of money to spend, I think they are a team that has a chance to enter the semifinals this season.

Arteta certainly learned from the mistakes of 2 seasons. Furthermore, if Arteta fails, Arsenal should also give a warning, because Arteta has been with Arsenal for quite a long time and Arteta's transfer policy always has management support.

Arsenal are not good in Champions league and I don't think that the management will give him any warning because even during Arsene Winger time, it was difficult for Arsenal to excel in UCL. Reaching the quarter finals last season is not a sign of improvement that they will reach the semifinals.

Semifinals is for strong teams who are dominating UCL and not for a team like Arsenal who don't have the winning mentality when they are facing pressure and they easily give up. Bold, confident and desperate teams are the ones who reaches the semifinals.

[Jegileman]

After a long absence in the UCL last season, Arsenal reached the quarter-finals. Meraka lost narrowly to Munich 0-1. This season I think they have better players. They should be able to compete and be better than last season. The management's trust in Arteta has brought improvement. Aretata is given a lot of money to spend, I think they are a team that has a chance to enter the semifinals this season.

Arteta certainly learned from the mistakes of 2 seasons. Furthermore, if Arteta fails, Arsenal should also give a warning, because Arteta has been with Arsenal for quite a long time and Arteta's transfer policy always has management support.

Arteta failing this season again will pose a lot of risk to his work because he can’t keep been the runner ups in the league competition and not make it that far in the champions league. The champions league if filled with a lot of big clubs and that alone should not make it that easy for them. They’ve done well last season in the champions league, maybe this year they can go a bit further with one more round, like making it to the semifinals.

I won’t put too much hope on them though, but if they can make it to the extent they did last season, I mean to the quarterfinals, then I’ll applaud them for that effort because it’s not easy to reach there amidst the many big clubs in the competition. Arsenal could surprise us this season or we may continue to see the Arsenal of last season again this year because I don’t feel they’ll underperform than they did last season in all competitions.

[dezoel]

Arsenal's performance is fine for the Premier League but they won't be able to do the same in the Champions League at least. They perform in such a way that it seems that the Champions League tournament is not important to them. One match was won, one match was lost, they have no problem with this, they are only giving importance to the Premier League tournament. If Arsenal took the Champions League tournament seriously, they would have done well in the Champions League long ago and their main plan would have been the Champions League. Some players have changed this season and there will be an expectation that they focus equally on the Champions League as well as the Premier League.

In last few years, we are having Arsenal as one of the best team in Premier League and their performance could be much improved in Champions League in this season because in last season they have done good job but sadly at the end they have elimination after having defeat against Bayern Munich but this season they are well-prepared for having good performance and better chance for going until last rounds even this is never been easy to predict, but they can achieve their best.

Usually we have mindset about English clubs they are not taking these UEFA competitions seriously so they lost quickly and jump into their domestic system for having better results, but this is never been good because they also love to have good results in these events and give their best hopefully we will have Manchester City and Arsenal at their best for having better results.

[Franctoshi]

After a long absence in the UCL last season, Arsenal reached the quarter-finals. Meraka lost narrowly to Munich 0-1. This season I think they have better players. They should be able to compete and be better than last season. The management's trust in Arteta has brought improvement. Aretata is given a lot of money to spend, I think they are a team that has a chance to enter the semifinals this season.

Arteta certainly learned from the mistakes of 2 seasons. Furthermore, if Arteta fails, Arsenal should also give a warning, because Arteta has been with Arsenal for quite a long time and Arteta's transfer policy always has management support.

Arsenal are not good in Champions league and I don't think that the management will give him any warning because even during Arsene Winger time, it was difficult for Arsenal to excel in UCL. Reaching the quarter finals last season is not a sign of improvement that they will reach the semifinals.

Semifinals is for strong teams who are dominating UCL and not for a team like Arsenal who don't have the winning mentality when they are facing pressure and they easily give up. Bold, confident and desperate teams are the ones who reaches the semifinals.

Isn't about Arsenal not having a winning mentality but they haven't gotten what it takes to win the Champions League trophy. Champions league game isn't a game for amateur clubs, especially when it gets to the semi final games, it meant for stronger teams, to me only boys are still playing in the team of Arsenal, they only need to step up the team a bit, they're are not that bad team when it comes to the Champions League competition but a fair team.

[hahay]

Young Boys did very well with their limited budget and managed to qualify for the Champions League. Galatasaray had a fiasco despite having a very big squad with a very high budget. In 2 games they played very badly, they didn't deserve to qualify for the Champions League. All that money and investment was wasted. Young Boys should be congratulated, money is not everything. It's more important to be a team.

I think Galatasaray is able to turn things around in the second leg because they are playing at home and also, the aggregate is only 2-3 I think there is still a very good chance for Galatasaray in the second leg. Not only that, because I am very confident that Galatasaray will be able to turn things around so I also bet and choose Galatasaray to win. But what happened was that Galatasaray played badly even though they were playing at home, instead of having a chance to score a goal, but in reality Galatasaray really failed and got a deadlock until they were unable to score a goal in the second leg eventhough they were playing at home.

Of course, this is a disappointing result considering the quality of the budget and also, basically Galatasaray still having a chance to turn things around. But in reality, I didn't expect Young Boys to be able to play well in an away match like this. Because after all, even though Young Boys had won the aggregate, but Young Boys still played  aggressively in this second leg. Thus, it is not surprising that Young Boys also managed to have good dominance with good statistical records in this second leg.

[TheGreatPython]

Have I mentioned how much I hate Galatasaray now? Lol, all jokes aside they have managed to make me lose money twice in a row, they were seen as clear favourites, odds as low as 1.33 some places, showing that they weren't just favourites, they were expected to dominate, and when you look at the teams that isn't really that shocking, they really did have that chance and could have happened, but didn't, why is that?

Well, simply answer is that we are talking about a situation where it's clear that we can't have results that we want anytime we want it, it's just not going to happen. Galatasaray was the better team, as agreed by all, but they were the team that played worse, which happens, usually not twice in a row but something must be wrong with them.

[Weawant]

Galatasaray had to admit the superiority of Young Boys, they had to lose again in the second leg with a score of 1-0 so they had to say goodbye to the Champions League because they lost with an aggregate of 4-2 to Young Boys.
Young Boys can be very calm in this match, they know that they are superior and they are aware that Galatasaray will play openly to find a quick goal, so they can prepare a strategy very well and win this important match again. Galatasaray had to experience bad luck because when they were racing against time to create an equalizer, they had to play with 10 men.
3 places have been filled, just looking for 4 more teams to complete the place in the Champions League.

damm...! that's all I can say about the match, previously I personally have high hopes if the galatasaray can turn the tide in the second leg and betting on their victory is not a disadvantage, but in fact the galatasaray was not able to do much in the match after the youngboy destroyed them in front of his supporters, to be honest what happened to galatasaray at the moment made me lose faith in Turkish clubs and It seems that they are no longer as great as they used to be when they played in European competitions, previously Mourinho failed to survive the Champions League with Fenerbache and now we see how Galatasaray have to be eliminated from a team that has actually been below them all this time, poor strategy and also Galatasaray lack of creativity in the game is one of the reasons for their defeat and even when they continued to waste many scoring opportunities in the first leg, but in the second leg they played more worse without any better chances to break into Young Boy goal.  

I don't know if it will be okay to say the red card has an effect on the psychology of Galatasaray such that it really has to show in their productivity, all along they had been the favourite for most persons and most hope were on them in the fact that they were looking better than young boys but interestingly, as football will always come with its own surprise and other forms of uncertainty, they have out chances to young boys and Young boys didn't fail to utilize it and here they are qualifying for the champions league but beyond this is another serious struggle for young boys so they shouldn't celebrate just yet except they aim to go get some experience alone from the champions league.

[nelson4lov]

Here are some of the projected UCL pots.


The draw will take place on Thursday afternoon so we will finally know teams and their opponents. If Y'all recall, there is a new format for European games called the league phase amd we would get to know teams playing against each other in those 8 games that each team would play against.

Have I mentioned how much I hate Galatasaray now? Lol, all jokes aside they have managed to make me lose money twice in a row, they were seen as clear favourites, odds as low as 1.33 some places, showing that they weren't just favourites, they were expected to dominate, and when you look at the teams that isn't really that shocking, they really did have that chance and could have happened, but didn't, why is that?

I have since avoided Galatasaray in any of my betslips so far. Their level of inconsistency is something I can not deal with this season. I tried to manage it last season but I won't bet on Gala for this unless I see significant improvement ib their overall team results and some consistency.

[Dzwaafu11]

Have I mentioned how much I hate Galatasaray now? Lol, all jokes aside they have managed to make me lose money twice in a row, they were seen as clear favourites, odds as low as 1.33 some places, showing that they weren't just favourites, they were expected to dominate, and when you look at the teams that isn't really that shocking, they really did have that chance and could have happened, but didn't, why is that?

Well, simply answer is that we are talking about a situation where it's clear that we can't have results that we want anytime we want it, it's just not going to happen. Galatasaray was the better team, as agreed by all, but they were the team that played worse, which happens, usually not twice in a row but something must be wrong with them.

Nobody thinks it will be like this because seriously, Young Boys is not supposed to be a challenge for Galatasaray that they cannot win in both the first and a second leg, which is too bad of them. This shows how poorly they will perform this season. It will be difficult to predict Galatasaray even though we said it before that Galatasaray will do well in the second leg; unfortunately, we have witnessed and still lost the game.

 I can’t call this luck as I did for their first leg, but I will directly say that Young Boys are currently stronger than Galatasaray. However, we have now realised that Galatasaray is not a team that we should put high hope on. With the way they are playing currently, I don’t think it will favour them this time around. 

[kawetsriyanto]

Arsenal are not good in Champions league and I don't think that the management will give him any warning because even during Arsene Winger time, it was difficult for Arsenal to excel in UCL. Reaching the quarter finals last season is not a sign of improvement that they will reach the semifinals.

I can't totally agree if you claimed Arsenal is bad in UCL. Even if they are very often eliminated in round of 16, they ever reached UCL final in Henry era. Sure, the quarter-final wasn't an impressive achievement for Arsenal in the last season. However, we can understand if they were defeated because they played against Bayern Munich. If we consider the squad quality, Bayern Munich was surely ahead of Arsenal. Bayern Munich is also one of the favorite team to win UCL and they are more experienced than Arsenal. They may be unlucky to face Bayern Munich in the quarter-final last season. Who knows that they may have a better luck this season.  

Semifinals is for strong teams who are dominating UCL and not for a team like Arsenal who don't have the winning mentality when they are facing pressure and they easily give up. Bold, confident and desperate teams are the ones who reaches the semifinals.

Of course, weak teams will never reach the semi-final round. Regarding the mentality of Arsenal players, it can be debatable. But if we consider the squad quality, I've no doubt that Arsenal is actually capable to reach the semi-final round this season. It is all about their consistency to play in each competition, specifically in UCL matches. If they can do it, they will have a chance to reach the semi-final.

[W Jr.]

Galatasaray had to admit the superiority of Young Boys, they had to lose again in the second leg with a score of 1-0 so they had to say goodbye to the Champions League because they lost with an aggregate of 4-2 to Young Boys.
Young Boys can be very calm in this match, they know that they are superior and they are aware that Galatasaray will play openly to find a quick goal, so they can prepare a strategy very well and win this important match again. Galatasaray had to experience bad luck because when they were racing against time to create an equalizer, they had to play with 10 men.
3 places have been filled, just looking for 4 more teams to complete the place in the Champions League.

damm...! that's all I can say about the match, previously I personally have high hopes if the galatasaray can turn the tide in the second leg and betting on their victory is not a disadvantage, but in fact the galatasaray was not able to do much in the match after the youngboy destroyed them in front of his supporters, to be honest what happened to galatasaray at the moment made me lose faith in Turkish clubs and It seems that they are no longer as great as they used to be when they played in European competitions, previously Mourinho failed to survive the Champions League with Fenerbache and now we see how Galatasaray have to be eliminated from a team that has actually been below them all this time, poor strategy and also Galatasaray lack of creativity in the game is one of the reasons for their defeat and even when they continued to waste many scoring opportunities in the first leg, but in the second leg they played more worse without any better chances to break into Young Boy goal.  

I don't know if it will be okay to say the red card has an effect on the psychology of Galatasaray such that it really has to show in their productivity, all along they had been the favourite for most persons and most hope were on them in the fact that they were looking better than young boys but interestingly, as football will always come with its own surprise and other forms of uncertainty, they have out chances to young boys and Young boys didn't fail to utilize it and here they are qualifying for the champions league but beyond this is another serious struggle for young boys so they shouldn't celebrate just yet except they aim to go get some experience alone from the champions league.

Young Boys, despite having much lower opportunities than Galatasaray, managed to win two matches despite doing very badly in the league. Last year in the Champions League, all teams had a hard time in Galatasaray Istanbul, but this year in the preliminary round, Young Boys crushed them. Galatasaray players started to get angry towards the end of the match. Since the match reports, everyone believed that Galatasaray would make it through the round, but with an expected elimination, Galatasaray will not be able to take part in the Champions League after many years.

[Hanadawa]

Arsenal are not good in Champions league and I don't think that the management will give him any warning because even during Arsene Winger time, it was difficult for Arsenal to excel in UCL. Reaching the quarter finals last season is not a sign of improvement that they will reach the semifinals.

Champions League is a different level. I don't think the Management can give Arteta a warning for failing to qualify for the final or semi-finals. This is different from the domestic league where every team has a different level of strength and is almost the same. It's like Arsenal who have City and Liverpool as their tough rivals. The competition season will be very long and consistency will help the team win the title. This is different from UCL because in each round there are only 2 matches against the same team and one final match. All UCL teams are at the level of league champions. Successfully qualifying for the semi-finals or quarter-finals is already an extraordinary result that deserves to be appreciated. I think with Arsenal's current level they have a chance to qualify for the semi-finals this season.

[klidex]

The Champions League qualifying round is over and the clubs that will qualify and enter the Champions League phase include:

• Young Boys
• Sparta Praha
• RB Szalburg
• Dinamo Zagreb
• Red Star
• Slovan Bratislava
• Lille

These clubs will fight in the Champions League 2024/25 season with a different format from previous seasons and not the group phase anymore, totaling 36 clubs who will risk their abilities here.

It is very unfortunate that my bet had to be thwarted by the Red Star vs Bodø/Glimt match because betting on BTTS Bodø/Glimt could not create opportunities in this match, those who were initially superior in the first leg had to suffer defeat in the second leg and failed to qualify.

[legendbtc]

Arsenal are not good in Champions league and I don't think that the management will give him any warning because even during Arsene Winger time, it was difficult for Arsenal to excel in UCL. Reaching the quarter finals last season is not a sign of improvement that they will reach the semifinals.

Champions League is a different level. I don't think the Management can give Arteta a warning for failing to qualify for the final or semi-finals. This is different from the domestic league where every team has a different level of strength and is almost the same. It's like Arsenal who have City and Liverpool as their tough rivals. The competition season will be very long and consistency will help the team win the title. This is different from UCL because in each round there are only 2 matches against the same team and one final match. All UCL teams are at the level of league champions. Successfully qualifying for the semi-finals or quarter-finals is already an extraordinary result that deserves to be appreciated. I think with Arsenal's current level they have a chance to qualify for the semi-finals this season.

Arsenal have never won the Champions League. They reached the final in 2005/06, only to be beaten by Barcelona. That season, Arsenal was led by coach Arsene Wenger. They defeated Real Madrid, Juventus, and Villarreal in the knockout stages to reach the final. It can be said that Arsenal is the biggest club that has not been able to win the Champions League and has the worst record. A club of Arsenal's stature should have a better European Cup legacy. Arsenal are on the rise, they have a chance to win the Champions League thanks to their economic foundation and heavy spending in the transfer market.

I believe Arteta will help the team reach the semi-finals. I just want Arteta to focus only on the Champions League. Their squad lacks the depth and experience to aspire to win multiple tournaments. Arsenal should learn from what Dortmund did last season. They focused on the Champions League. Arsenal should choose their target this season.

[Pandu Geddon]

It is very unfortunate that my bet had to be thwarted by the Red Star vs Bodø/Glimt match because betting on BTTS Bodø/Glimt could not create opportunities in this match, those who were initially superior in the first leg had to suffer defeat in the second leg and failed to qualify.

I also lost in this bet. I didn't bet on many matches, only 2 matches but lost because Lille performed beyond my prediction.
even though Lille qualified I didn't expect them to lose 2-1 to Slavia Prague. After the first leg, they won 2-0. it seems they want to play safe even though they have to lose in the leg.


in a single bet, I actually got lucky in Red Star vs Bodø/Glimt match. not betting on a 1x2 win, but on both teams not scoring. I was not sure about this bet but it was a pretty consoling result for me from the previous loss.

[asriloni]

Young Boys did very well with their limited budget and managed to qualify for the Champions League. Galatasaray had a fiasco despite having a very big squad with a very high budget. In 2 games they played very badly, they didn't deserve to qualify for the Champions League. All that money and investment was wasted. Young Boys should be congratulated, money is not everything. It's more important to be a team.

Young Boys deserve to qualify for the UCL, after their hard work to beat Galatasaray. They beat Galatasaray in both games; they deserved this CL participation. That's insane for a club that is winless in the last 5 games of the Swiss Super League.

I'm really shocked at how poorly Turkish clubs perform in Europe, given all the money they spend. In general, they're shocking; Fenerbahce and Galatasaray are all doing poorly this season. Though they still played in the Europa League. But missing spots in the UCL is really painful for them.

[hyudien]

https://x.com/ChampionsLeague/status/1828915873601438173

Now we are in the draw phase and 4 pots have been announced. Each pot consists of 9 teams that will be drawn to determine who will be the opponents for each team. In the first pot there are teams that are indeed very favored, in the second pot there are also many teams that we are waiting for their appearance, such as Leverkusen for example.
Can't wait to wait for the results of the draw which will determine the opponents of each team in the Champions League this season.