UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season

[Spaceman1000$]

I was also expecting both teams to score, but Paris Saint-Germain came very close to scoring in a few attacks, but two of their balls hit the post. That's why they couldn't get close to scoring. If there had been a goal instead of a post, the match could have even ended in a draw. To be honest, Arsenal deserved to win the match. Because Arsenal played with more passion and quality than Paris Saint-Germain. Of course, Dembele is a player whose absence can be felt. This weakened their attacking area.

Arsenal is really lucky that PSG didn't score two goals, after Arsenal have successfully scored 2 goals, they're using their dirty strategy again i.e. park the bus. Arsenal not dare to score many goals unlike other teams which make the match looks not exciting to watch.

Dembele want to show if he's a star player and he want to become the next Mbappe, but Luis Enrique didn't want that to happen.

This is not good for both of them, I guess it's better for PSG to find new player that can replace Dembele, Dembele might want to leave in the next season.

The chances of both teams scoring goals in this match is about 90% but PSG still couldn't get a single goal in this match and I can't say it's because Arsenal's had a very strong defensive line up, the french club didnt even show much intensity in the first half, they allowed the home side dominate and made them look like a youth team thereby reducing their chances of finding themselves back into the game. In the case of Dembele, in as much as we cannot dispute the fact that he is a good player who has some level of exposure yet I think he has to work a little on his character so as to maximise his chances of becoming of the best players because he has the potentials of achieving all these but hasn't been able to achieve such feat even after winning the world cup with France and several other laurels, he also has to respect the coach and acknowledge that the coach is the principal factor in the team.

[Plaguedeath]

The game against Real Madrid will be the real test of Borussia Dortmund. They have been lucky to play with two average clubs in their two last games. The first game against Club Brugge brought three goals and yesterday's game with Celtic attracted seven goals. We will evaluate the ability of the team to make it to the further rounds of the championship with the match with the Los Blancos.

I will not be surprised if they lose or draw because the match will held in Real Madrid's home and Real Madrid is way more stronger than Celtic and Club Brugge. The impressive result by Dortmund remind me with Manchester United, they can destroy small teams, but they getting humiliated by big teams.

Certainly, Dortmund's previous performances is enough proof to think they'll win the Champions League, but it's too early to assume. However, they're still a reliable team and may reach the finals, unless the recent conducts is as a result of competing with low skilled teams. They have a nice game play, and the strikers are doing a great job. For instance, Adeyemi is a strong forward, and his shots are superb, he'd make similar efforts against other big teams.

Dortmund get humiliated by Stuttgart, I'm not sure they will win the Champions League.

Adeyemi is really inconsistent player, he mostly play bad and sometime he scored many goals.

[reagansimms]

Currently leading the standings in the Champions League is Borussia Dortmund.They have played two matches so far with two impressive wins, and they have scored 10 goals. They are at the top of the points table after a 7-1 win over Celtic, although Dortmund's attack was much stronger. I think the Champions League will be more likely to win the Champions League than the Bundesliga this season, especially with Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Leverkusen attacking the Champions League with a lot of excitement in every match.

Dortmund success in winning a big 7-1 victory over Celtic on the second matchday of the UCL has brought the German club to the top of the standings with 6 points. Since the new format was used this season, the rivalry will increase because many teams have the same results, but goal productivity will differentiate their positions. Currently there are at least three teams that have collected the perfect number of points, Dortmund, Stade Brestois and Bayer Leverkusen. The three teams will have more competitors after the second matchday is finished, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Juventus, Real Madrid, Benfica. The teams have the potential to win again like in the first matchday.

[MK-74]

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You probably missed the previous round and the Bayern - Dynamo game 

Yes, I missed it, these big-scoring wins are very important for the teams because even 1 goal has a lot of value in the new format.

The big teams' opponents are easy tonight, I think they will all get a comfortable win.

Benfica - A.Madrid match is important for me because Kerem Aktürkoğlu and Orkun Kökçü will play in this match.
Kerem and Orkun's performances are very good, I expect one of them to score tonight.

[Mayor of ogba]

I wanted to play Arsenal to beat Paris Saint-Germain at Emirate Stadium in their Uefa Champions League game last night, but I was afraid because I thought that Paris Saint-German could be a threat to Arsenal, but I didn't know that Arsenal could have an easy win over Paris Saint-German at Emirate Stadium last night. I was surprised by how the Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain match ended 2-0 without Paris Saint-Germain scoring a goal against Arsenal, even though they dominated Arsenal in that game. It seems Paris Saint-Germain are finding it hard to score against their opponents since Mbappe left the club to join Real Madrid on a free transfer.

We cannot judge from the PSG team side because it must be admitted that Arsenal's performance this season is quite strong so it is natural that PSG has difficulty in beating Arsenal.
Arsenal played at home, with their positive performance at the beginning of this season I think it is natural to win and I have predicted the results of this match from the beginning, from all sides we can see that Arsenal this season is much stronger than PSG.

I disagree with you; even Paris Saint-Germain is also performing pretty well in their league this season, and they are even topping the League 1 table. If you watched the Arsenal vs Paris Saint-Germain game last night, you will know that Paris Saint-Germain performed better than Arsenal in that game. Arsenal were lucky to have scored two goals against Paris Saint-Germain inside 35 minutes, which helped them beat Paris Saint-Germain at Emirate Stadium last night. With the chances Paris Saint-Germain had against Arsenal in their game last night, Arsenal would have found it hard to win that game if Paris Saint-Germain had a good finisher.

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However PSG messed up really badly... I wasn't expecting to see this kind of a starting lineup first of all. I didn't even know Dembele had a fight with Luis Enrique and found himself out of squad right before. I wish I didn't take such risk like double chance on them.

There is nothing that PSG can expect with their game that has declined greatly since Mbappe left for Real Madrid, the defeat to Arsenal was certainly a heavy blow and chaos that occurred in their camp, there is no harmony in the PSG squad so most likely last night's defeat was clear evidence of no chemistry between the players and the coach, of course Luis Enrique's decision not to include Dembele in the squad is right that players who have big egos should at least get punishment to be able to respect the coach more and that will affect the stability of the club.

[Obari]

You called Arsenal lucky in that match? Come on, they did not only win PSG 2-0 but played so well. Their style of play in that match may not interest you much but that is how they play and they got the result. I was personally disappointed at PSG for not scoring even a single goal. Their performance in the French Lig 1 this season is outstanding which means they ought to score at least a goal even though they played away. Dembele, Fabian Ruiz and Bradley Barcola have been doing exceptionally well and I do not see any problem with their pattern of play. I just feel Arsenal deserve the win that they got.

Predicting the scores, it was difficult but with a well stellar display in the first halve, there was presence of confidence in Emirate atmosphere, victory chants from the home fans. Arsenal thrashed an elite side last night, an amazing job exerted by Mikel Arteta and his team. Paris Saint-Germain will not go anywhere in the UEFA Champions League this season. Watching them played against an EPL side, it simply and generally justified the fact the Ligue One is consider farmer's League. They've been unable to reach the top target, not been able to deliver the crucial task and this is consider bad news for them. Luis Enrique just have one option, he needs to work on his game strategy because it's really been a whole rough night for him in England. PSG couldn't even settled for draw points, rather got humiliated and this is no good news for them.

[AYOBA]

I was also expecting both teams to score, but Paris Saint-Germain came very close to scoring in a few attacks, but two of their balls hit the post. That's why they couldn't get close to scoring. If there had been a goal instead of a post, the match could have even ended in a draw. To be honest, Arsenal deserved to win the match. Because Arsenal played with more passion and quality than Paris Saint-Germain. Of course, Dembele is a player whose absence can be felt. This weakened their attacking area.

I was surprised that PSG couldn't score Arsenal after they conceded two goals before halftime when they were giving Arsenal a lot of pressure which led to them possessing the ball more but Arsenal got a clean sheet from them though Arsenal number 1 the goal keeper tried in making some good saves for his team to win without conceding any goal against PSG. I don't think the absence of Dembele affected PSG much even though he would have make a lot of positive impart in their gameplay. Where Arsenal killed PSG was the second goal they scored because for PSG to recover and score more goals is very difficult since they are also facing strong opponent and not a medioce team. Gianluigi Donnarumma made some huge mistakes that contributed to PSG losing to Arsenal because the goal keeper overlapped too much.

Arsenal didn’t give PSG any single chances that’s why they where not able to equalize back after arsenal conceded two goals, all thought that PSG give Arsenal so much pressure in the first half by dominating the entire possession i agree with that, but what I want to understand is that; the kind patterns of the game Arsenal is playing this season it has proved to us that they’ve ready to win the champions league they don’t to repeat what have happened to them in previous seasons back should repeat again this season.

Furthermore, if we look the Arsenal performance currently now in both the premier league and the champions leagues it has far differ from their last season performances, so their yesterday match against PSG arsenal deserved to win; because they did a very good attacking and even their defenders also did a great job together with their goalkeeper.

[dzungmobile]

There is nothing that PSG can expect with their game that has declined greatly since Mbappe left for Real Madrid, the defeat to Arsenal was certainly a heavy blow and chaos that occurred in their camp, there is no harmony in the PSG squad so most likely last night's defeat was clear evidence of no chemistry between the players and the coach, of course Luis Enrique's decision not to include Dembele in the squad is right that players who have big egos should at least get punishment to be able to respect the coach more and that will affect the stability of the club.

As a rich club, they must have many options and replacements in players and tactics without Mbappe or any biggest star player in their club. If PSG fails with this mission, it explains why they failed in Champions League when their most anticipated star players can not perform well.

Opponents will block main attacking power of PSG and PSG have to prepare ace under sleeves to beat opponent. If PSG quality and competitive drop a lot only because of a single player, Mbappe, it shows a fact that their squad is not good. Dembele shown his ego in Barcelona too and PSG made mistake at beginning by buying him. Pogba is an example for a high ego player can fail even he is very talented. Dembele has never performed at Pogba's best world class level and if he becomes unprofessional again, his career will fall very quickly in PSG.

[Lida93]

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Honestly, this is a match that is quite difficult to predict, both teams are elite clubs in their respective domestic leagues and also have equally strong performances lately, Milan does have more experience in the Champions League, of course they have a strong mentality but Leverkusen also cannot be underestimated, they managed to win in their first match so in their second match they don't want to lose points even if they get a draw and also bookies favor Leverkusen in this match with odds @ 1.64 while AC Milan's odds are @ 5.00. However, I avoid betting on them and prefer other clubs that have a more convincing chance of winning.

I think I do like your selections and for the fact that you played safe makes me wanna replicate your selections but am not sure I want to exceed my usual staking amount for a day as I have already had my own games booked already. I didn't have to avoid the Bayer Leverkusen vs AC Milan game as it very much of interest to me just like that of Arsenal vs PSG a both team score will surface in that game because the two teams are goals scoring teams. And whoever is going to win in that Leverkusen : Milan game is gonna do it with a late minute goal because that's what the two teams share in common in their respective league wins this season. Recall that Leverkusen got that late 90+3 minutes goal against Wolfsburg, while AC Milan did same against Inter at the 89th minutes from Gabbia. It's definitely gonna be an interesting game.

How do you feel seeing the results of this bet?

The feeling is mutual mate.

Yes, this really makes me very annoyed when I have to experience a defeat caused by 1 match that makes me fail to win the bet, why is this really not according to expectations ;( even though I am very sure about the betting option which I think is quite safe but what can we do in the many choices we do have to accept surprises things like this.
Leverkusen-AC Milan was won by Leverkusen with a narrow score of 1:0, it is very unfortunate that both teams did not score as you expected, just like Arsenal vs PSG which I thought they would score but unfortunately PSG could not reply to Arsenal's attack at all.

It's a frustrating result although I have had my fair share many times. Hardly will anyone had thought that PSG can't get a single goal against Arsenal even if they were going to lose the game.  This is part of the reason we don't have to stake beyond what we can afford to lose on any game irrespective of how sure we feel about our option. Nothing is sure until it's played as selected.

I just made some straight win selections for today on the big teams hoping they are going to make my day by taking all full points home.

[Distraction]

PSG just can't win a Champions League trophy in this way. They were really terrible against Arsenal.    It ended 2-0 maybe but the score difference could have been much more than that. Their defending was in bad shape and I can't say they were effective in the attacking area either. Why would you start with Lee Kang-in the centre-forward position?  

Dembele is left out of squad which is a big loss for PSG. If he can't get back in shortly then PSG can get quite weaker in the area. I'm not sure if Doue is ready for big challenges yet. What do you say, can he fill Dembele's place?

[Solokan]

Currently leading the standings in the Champions League is Borussia Dortmund.They have played two matches so far with two impressive wins, and they have scored 10 goals. They are at the top of the points table after a 7-1 win over Celtic, although Dortmund's attack was much stronger. I think the Champions League will be more likely to win the Champions League than the Bundesliga this season, especially with Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Leverkusen attacking the Champions League with a lot of excitement in every match.

Dortmund, as runners up in the Champions League last season, has indeed performed impressively so far in the UCL and of course Dortmund has achieved extraordinary goals. Dortmund scored 3 goals against Club Brugge and most recently 7 goals against Celtic and of course against Celtic Dortmund really had a goal party on the field and the happy faces of the Dortmund players and Dortmund fans were visible.

Indeed, Dortmund started this season in the UCL well and of course this will make Dortmund more confident for the next match and indeed, if you look at Dortmund's standings in the UCL, of course Dortmund is in 1th place and of course currently Dortmund's performance in the UCL is better than the Bundesliga. . And indeed, other teams from the Bundesliga, such as Leverkusen, Bayern, of course have good quality. Well, let's see their actions to see whether many Bundesliga clubs will move up the rankings and consistently win or not in the UCL.

but of course this season is still early and of course there are still many matches that Dortmund will face in the UCL and of course in my opinion Dortmund should prepare mentally and physically for the next match because of course Dortmund will face Real Madrid which of course will not be easy for Dortmund to win. beat Real Madrid. and of course in Dortmund's match against Real Madrid this is a tough test for Dortmund and if Dortmund can beat Real Madrid I think Dortmund will have great potential to become UCL champions. But I personally predict that the match will be won by Real Madrid.

[pusaka]

PSG just can't win a Champions League trophy in this way. They were really terrible against Arsenal.    It ended 2-0 maybe but the score difference could have been much more than that. Their defending was in bad shape and I can't say they were effective in the attacking area either. Why would you start with Lee Kang-in the centre-forward position?  

Dembele is left out of squad which is a big loss for PSG. If he can't get back in shortly then PSG can get quite weaker in the area. I'm not sure if Doue is ready for big challenges yet. What do you say, can he fill Dembele's place?

Paris Saint Germain had to go home with disappointment after they lost to Arsenal with a score of 2-0. No matter how hard they tried to score goals, they couldn't do it because Arsenal's defense could work well in this match, on the contrary they defended with a few shortcomings so it was quite easy for Arsenal to score 2 goals.
This defeat made their position unsafe, because they lost when other favorite teams won. But I understand why they lost, because Arsenal is not an easy opponent for them, and indeed Arsenal is currently on a positive trend, I mean in the last few seasons they have improved, so Paris Saint Germain's defeat was actually quite a lot of people predicted that it would happen, especially since they played at Arsenal's headquarters too.

[Pandu Geddon]

PSG just can't win a Champions League trophy in this way. They were really terrible against Arsenal.    It ended 2-0 maybe but the score difference could have been much more than that. Their defending was in bad shape and I can't say they were effective in the attacking area either. Why would you start with Lee Kang-in the centre-forward position?  

Dembele is left out of squad which is a big loss for PSG. If he can't get back in shortly then PSG can get quite weaker in the area. I'm not sure if Doue is ready for big challenges yet. What do you say, can he fill Dembele's place?

Doue has not shown anything for PSG. He was previously talked about replacing Mbappe at PSG, I think it's excessive. Dembele contributed greatly to PSG with his goals and assists. Unfortunately, he had problems with Enrique. I don't really follow what the problem was behind the dispute between the two that ended in Dembele not being played.

Dembele's not being played automatically means Enrique will have more hope for Barcola who is currently the top scorer in Ligue 1. and maybe Lee Kang-in, or Asensio who is also not performing so well. Enrique often experiments with his players' positions. Maybe he is having trouble finding the best formation for now.

[Bitcoin_people]

Dortmund, as runners up in the Champions League last season, has indeed performed impressively so far in the UCL and of course Dortmund has achieved extraordinary goals. Dortmund scored 3 goals against Club Brugge and most recently 7 goals against Celtic and of course against Celtic Dortmund really had a goal party on the field and the happy faces of the Dortmund players and Dortmund fans were visible.

However, Dortmund saw their best performance last season and they are following their best performance this season as well coming to UCL. We have seen them complete the two matches with impressive wins in both matches and the fans of Dortmund must have been overjoyed to see them win. Although Dortmund did not do well in the Bundesliga, we can see a lot of improvement in their performance in the Champions League. However, we can assume from the impressive performance that Dortmund will try to play their next matches with even better performance.

[tsaroz]

PSG just can't win a Champions League trophy in this way. They were really terrible against Arsenal.    It ended 2-0 maybe but the score difference could have been much more than that. Their defending was in bad shape and I can't say they were effective in the attacking area either. Why would you start with Lee Kang-in the centre-forward position?  

Dembele is left out of squad which is a big loss for PSG. If he can't get back in shortly then PSG can get quite weaker in the area. I'm not sure if Doue is ready for big challenges yet. What do you say, can he fill Dembele's place?

Paris Saint Germain had to go home with disappointment after they lost to Arsenal with a score of 2-0. No matter how hard they tried to score goals, they couldn't do it because Arsenal's defense could work well in this match, on the contrary they defended with a few shortcomings so it was quite easy for Arsenal to score 2 goals.
This defeat made their position unsafe, because they lost when other favorite teams won. But I understand why they lost, because Arsenal is not an easy opponent for them, and indeed Arsenal is currently on a positive trend, I mean in the last few seasons they have improved, so Paris Saint Germain's defeat was actually quite a lot of people predicted that it would happen, especially since they played at Arsenal's headquarters too.

Arsenal played a very impressive game and they were perfect at finishing. They had just two threatening attacks and scored both times while PSG controlled the ball most of the time, they were not able to generate many opportunities and when they did, the finishing was poor. Premier league is certainly much better and competitive than Ligue 1 and PSG without Mbappe seems weak. PSG also made many changes on it's team this season and the new team don't seem to have get along.
The new format might give PSG more chances to get better and keep their journey on the championship.

[hahay]

However PSG messed up really badly... I wasn't expecting to see this kind of a starting lineup first of all. I didn't even know Dembele had a fight with Luis Enrique and found himself out of squad right before. I wish I didn't take such risk like double chance on them.

There is nothing that PSG can expect with their game that has declined greatly since Mbappe left for Real Madrid, the defeat to Arsenal was certainly a heavy blow and chaos that occurred in their camp, there is no harmony in the PSG squad so most likely last night's defeat was clear evidence of no chemistry between the players and the coach, of course Luis Enrique's decision not to include Dembele in the squad is right that players who have big egos should at least get punishment to be able to respect the coach more and that will affect the stability of the club.

With Mbappe and without Mbappe PSG will remain the same, only able to dominate Ligue 1 and not the Champions League, so the defeat against Arsenal for me is a natural result and not surprising at all about what happened internally. But indeed, what was surprising was PSG's defeat with a score of 2-0, of course it was a bad result experienced by a top team that has great dominance in Ligue 1.

With this defeat I think it has also become a sign that PSG will still not be able to advance further in the Champions League. But maybe, if only qualifying for the last 16 seems like it can still be attempted by PSG but, if PSG targets to advance to the semifinals, I'm sure it won't happen because for me, if for example PSG is able to qualify to the quarter-finals, it is also a good result for them for their efforts to improve the quality of team performance after Mbappe's departure.

[yudi09]

We cannot judge from the PSG team side because it must be admitted that Arsenal's performance this season is quite strong so it is natural that PSG has difficulty in beating Arsenal.
Arsenal played at home, with their positive performance at the beginning of this season I think it is natural to win and I have predicted the results of this match from the beginning, from all sides we can see that Arsenal this season is much stronger than PSG.

I disagree with you; even Paris Saint-Germain is also performing pretty well in their league this season, and they are even topping the League 1 table. If you watched the Arsenal vs Paris Saint-Germain game last night, you will know that Paris Saint-Germain performed better than Arsenal in that game. Arsenal were lucky to have scored two goals against Paris Saint-Germain inside 35 minutes, which helped them beat Paris Saint-Germain at Emirate Stadium last night. With the chances Paris Saint-Germain had against Arsenal in their game last night, Arsenal would have found it hard to win that game if Paris Saint-Germain had a good finisher.

PSG's game last night was quite good, but they were unlucky. Why? because the top statistics show that PSG are much better than Arsenal.
I think Arsenal's victory was also not because of 100% luck but because Arsenal's finishing was much better than PSG. In fact, in terms of luck, PSG were far from lucky because they could not take advantage of the opportunities that existed throughout the match. I watched the match alone via streaming that's why I said that.

[Hyphen(-)]

PSG's game last night was quite good, but they were unlucky. Why? because the top statistics show that PSG are much better than Arsenal.
I think Arsenal's victory was also not because of 100% luck but because Arsenal's finishing was much better than PSG. In fact, in terms of luck, PSG were far from lucky because they could not take advantage of the opportunities that existed throughout the match. I watched the match alone via streaming that's why I said that.

How is PSG better than Arsenal in yesterday’s match?
I think the best statistics of judging a better team is based on the game’s outcome, and if it is true, then Arsenal is a better team yesterday because they get three points they needed in the game yesterday.

PSG played well in the match yesterday, they dominated the game but couldn’t use their chances well and that’s what Arsenal showed yesterday.
There is no doubt, PSG is a good team, they have good squad that are very competitive, but Arsenal’s defensive ability helped Arsenal yesterday because they play massive attack and massive defense and the players now have wining mentality and have more maturity than last season.

[ndutndut]

Arsenal didn’t give PSG any single chances that’s why they where not able to equalize back after arsenal conceded two goals, all thought that PSG give Arsenal so much pressure in the first half by dominating the entire possession i agree with that, but what I want to understand is that; the kind patterns of the game Arsenal is playing this season it has proved to us that they’ve ready to win the champions league they don’t to repeat what have happened to them in previous seasons back should repeat again this season.

Furthermore, if we look the Arsenal performance currently now in both the premier league and the champions leagues it has far differ from their last season performances, so their yesterday match against PSG arsenal deserved to win; because they did a very good attacking and even their defenders also did a great job together with their goalkeeper.

Arsenal deserved to win because Arsenal's game so far has been very cool. Arsenal's squad has been in tune for years and their management has been patient and trusting in Arteta and some additions as puzzle pieces have been successfully implemented. What I also see is that Arteta has made this team more mature.

The characteristic of a big team is that they play badly but still win, because the system is already in place. New or old players, they adapt easily. That's why Calafiori, Timber (who has only played due to a season-long injury), even young players like Ethan Nwaneri if given the opportunity to play can also adapt because the system is already in place. This is very different from PSG who lost their star players, they couldn't do much in the UCL league, even though they dominated the game but they had difficulty scoring goals.