UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season

[hyudien]

About the game yesterday, Fenerbahce were horrible in the first half. If they had started better then maybe they wouldn't have lost. But still nothing ended yet. 2-1 is not too bad.

Yes, Jose Mourinho first half plan was quite poor, perhaps due to the nerves of playing away from home or the Fenerbahçe players lack of warm up time, given the lengthy rest period after the league season concluded. However in the second half, they began to find their rhythm and, frankly were fortunate to capitalize on their few chances. They still have a chance to overturn the aggregate deficit, provided they prepare well and capitalize on their home advantage.

[Abdulzuruku01]

What Zidane has done was once what will never happen again probably.

He got lucky on many levels and I think he knows it and that is why he doesn't return to the business because he would be measured by what he has done on the past and he knows it can't be done again.

Zidane did a really fantastic job when he was coaching Real Madrid, leading the team to win the prestigious Champions League trophy three times from 2016 to 2018, the tournament that is only meant for champions. He is lucky, but his hard work and dedication were crucial to their success. Even after Zidane left Real Madrid, the new coach struggled, times which made him returned for the second time, and still made a significant impact, leading the team to the Champions League semifinals and finishing second in La Liga. I cannot claim that no coach will achieve that, but for now, it will be very tough for any coach to win the Champions League in a row like Zidane.

[armanda90]

About the game yesterday, Fenerbahce were horrible in the first half. If they had started better then maybe they wouldn't have lost. But still nothing ended yet. 2-1 is not too bad.

Sadly, Jose Mourinho's team Fenerbahce have conceded one goal at few minutes left before match ended and not good result for first leg match after losing 2-1, actually Fenerbahce not performed really well indeed dominance ball possession during 90 minutes only created two shots on target than Feyenoord success making 3 shots on target. However losses 2-1 at the first leg not over yet for Fenerbahce have opportunity at second leg and playing home must winning over two goals.

Other Champion League playoff round, Benfica secured the victory over 2-0 from Nice and seems one step closer for qualifying to next round, second leg as home match looks not difficult defend victory over 2 goals and getting draw or losses under two goals more enough for Benfica. Indeed still have opportunity but Nice must winning above three goals if want qualify and secure one place at UEFA Champion League season 2025/26.

[KTChampions]

Sadly, Jose Mourinho's team Fenerbahce have conceded one goal at few minutes left before match ended and not good result for first leg match after losing 2-1, actually Fenerbahce not performed really well indeed dominance ball possession during 90 minutes only created two shots on target than Feyenoord success making 3 shots on target. However losses 2-1 at the first leg not over yet for Fenerbahce have opportunity at second leg and playing home must winning over two goals.

Other Champion League playoff round, Benfica secured the victory over 2-0 from Nice and seems one step closer for qualifying to next round, second leg as home match looks not difficult defend victory over 2 goals and getting draw or losses under two goals more enough for Benfica. Indeed still have opportunity but Nice must winning above three goals if want qualify and secure one place at UEFA Champion League season 2025/26.

It seems to me that this is a normal result for Fenerbahce, Turkish clubs play much stronger at home than away, so I think Fenerbahce's chances are better in this confrontation.
As for Benfica, they will definitely advance to the next round, as they are more likely to win at home again than lose by 3 goals. I can assume that in the playoffs we will see a pair of Fenerbahce - Benfica, where Fenerbahce's chances look extremely weak even taking into account the Mourinho factor.

[Ever-young]

The match between Inter Milan and Barcelona last season in the champions League competition was a very difficult and tough match for Barcelona the tried all they could in order to win Inter Milan but all there attempt failed i really don't know where Inter Milan got their strength from because the way they played with Barcelona was not the way they play with PSG in the final, because of the way they played with Barcelona I was thinking that Inter Milan will win PSG very well and I believe everyone was also saying the same thing that Inter Milan will win PSG in fact some set of people we are saying the match between Inter Milan and Barcelona with determine the winner of the champions League trophy so when Inter Milan won the match everyone was certain that they will win PSG in the final but that didn't happen, for me the defense of Barcelona is okay what happened in the match between them and inter Milan is something that no one can actually explain.

I can remember that a lot of people speculated that inter would carry their performance with Barcelona to the finals, bit unfortunately that wasn't the case. Concerning the Inter's game with Barca, I feel it's just a normal thing for teams to adapt their strategies based on their opponents, and this mostly leads to unexpected outcomes. I don't think the issue was actually Barca's defence mechanism, I just looked at it that Inter Milan knew that Barcelona was a formidable opponent and thus seriously prepared and studied their gameplay thoroughly, and Barcelona also underestimated inter, which led to their failure and Inter's Victory. But whatever the case was, it was indeed an unexpected turn of events.

[Altryist]

Sadly, Jose Mourinho's team Fenerbahce have conceded one goal at few minutes left before match ended and not good result for first leg match after losing 2-1, actually Fenerbahce not performed really well indeed dominance ball possession during 90 minutes only created two shots on target than Feyenoord success making 3 shots on target. However losses 2-1 at the first leg not over yet for Fenerbahce have opportunity at second leg and playing home must winning over two goals.

Other Champion League playoff round, Benfica secured the victory over 2-0 from Nice and seems one step closer for qualifying to next round, second leg as home match looks not difficult defend victory over 2 goals and getting draw or losses under two goals more enough for Benfica. Indeed still have opportunity but Nice must winning above three goals if want qualify and secure one place at UEFA Champion League season 2025/26.

Fenerbahce played well, it's a pity that they couldn't hold on to the draw and conceded in extra time. In addition, they had one goal disallowed at the end of the first half due to offside. I think they deserved a draw in this match, but Feenord is a strong team, so it was not worth hoping for an easy away game. They still have a return home match, but it won't be easy, Feenord will have to open up their defense because they will need to attack, and Feenord has a good attack, so I think they will score more.

[Roseline492]

However, I was disappointed by Fenerbahce's performance. After Luis Enrique became the manager of this team, I thought that we would see a change in Fenerbahce's performance. Luis Enrique would be able to gradually strengthen the team. But nothing like that happened. We do not see any improvement in Fenerbahce's performance. Fenerbahce lost 2-1 against Feyenoord. We do not even see a better performance from Fenerbahce.

Luis Enrique? He is managing PSG man. You must have wanted to say Jose Mourinho.

About the game yesterday, Fenerbahce were horrible in the first half. If they had started better then maybe they wouldn't have lost. But still nothing ended yet. 2-1 is not too bad.

I believe it was just a misconception because a lot of people usually do this, they would be trying to mention a name of the coach that has been managing a club but mistakenly call another name so actually you are right Luis Enrique is the PSG coach whom has been the ingredient to how testy PSG has become and I don't think he has ever coach Fenerbahce before. However he is right because Jose Mourinho hasn't done so well as the coach before him because there was a time when he has not joined the club they were better than Galatasaray but now they are not as the club is under his control.

[banana33]

You're right, but Madrid's style focused on being a little slower thanks to Ancelotti, where they basically made good use of the midfield but now football is very fast, if you compare it to Barcelona's football you have to be fast and the forwards have to help defend, and generally Madrid's forwards don't do it, Vinicius doesn't help and that's negative, for me if he doesn't collaborate he shouldn't come on, Xabi has the same idea, so Xabi is building a totally integrated team without egos.


Ancelotti wasn’t lucky with the players Eder Militao missed a lot due to injury, Mbappe had to adapt, and Bellingham and Vinicius weren’t in the kind of form we know them for. I think Xabi already has well developed tactics and excellent training sessions that will generally prepare the players for the start.


This where some of the players Ancelotti used to win their domestic league last two season and i feel Madrid had a little tactical drop which can be due to fatigue on the side of the players or any other technically Factor, but regardless of any of these, Ancelotti did his best for Madrid. I am yet to see what Xabi Alonso has in stock for Madrid at The moment that supersede that of Ancelotti.
 
You are right Carlo Ancelotti has the best achievements and records in Real Madrid so far.  Carlo Ancelotti is also the most successful Coach in the history of Real Madrid,he has won the highest number of trophies in Madrid. With all of his unbreakable records in Real Madrid, it was obvious that Carlo Ancelotti did his possible best building Real Madrid. It won't be easy for any coach to reach or break the records of Carlo Ancelotti and  I am not sure if Xabi Alonso can attain such heights in a short time. However Xabi Alonso is also an experience coach but it will require more than just experience to win the LaLiga trophy, Super cup and the UEFA Chiampions league trophy for Real Madrid.

Players come and go with the philosophy of the coach who makes them play, unfortunately the coach of Raela Madrid has a team designed and built on the structure wanted by Ancelotti, and this causes difficulties that can lead to tactical errors, he needs time to understand what to change and how to fix it

[yenerbatmaz]

I watched the highlights. Fenerbahçe's first goal was an incredibly simple one. You can't concede such a goal in a competition of this level. Fenerbahçe's defense failed to clear the ball properly. Fenerbahçe's Ambrabat scored beautifully, but they couldn't secure a draw.
In the second goal we conceded, a man came from behind and scored with a header.
If you see goals like that in your goal, you're eliminated from the tournament.
Feyenoord took the advantage. A draw will be enough for Feyenoord to advance to the second round.
Everything will be decided in Istanbul, but I wasn't satisfied with Fenerbahçe's performance. After the match, Mourinho said, "I've never beaten Feyenoord in the Netherlands, but I've always beaten them in the second legs." We'll see if this statistic holds up.

[Republikcoin.com]

Players come and go with the philosophy of the coach who makes them play, unfortunately the coach of Raela Madrid has a team designed and built on the structure wanted by Ancelotti, and this causes difficulties that can lead to tactical errors, he needs time to understand what to change and how to fix it

While it will take time for a new coach to change things around at Real Madrid, it shouldn't take long for Real Madrid to recover quickly to keep pace with its rivals in La Liga and the Champions League. It's not pleasant to see Real Madrid suffer in those two major competitions, as they have previously performed well in them. Therefore, Alonso must have more power to improve Real Madrid's situation for the next season, although it will be difficult for him, as Real Madrid is a team that has won numerous trophies under previous coaches.

[bastisisca]

Look, I see a problem with Chelsea, which is the consistency of their great performances. If you talk about a single match, I will not underestimate Chelsea at all, because they can surprise any team in a match and it can be any team. But I will not agree to bet on them for a tournament, I will underestimate them here. The reason for this is that, as you must know, Chelsea often surprise their fans with losses and wins. Just as they can win against strong teams with great performances, they can also lose against weak teams with disappointing performances. Chelsea can only be removed from the list of underrated teams when they are consistent.
If they could fix that, they would have become a great team without a doubt. However, the way they played against PSG happens like 5-6 times a year, they look great on those games and like a team that would be one of the best in the world. Then they play 20 games or so in the middle that looks quite average, nothing special, not terrible neither, like a top 5 team but that's about it nothing like one of the best teams, and they also have 5-6 games (like most clubs) that they just purely suck and play horrible and look like championship level team.

When you think about all of those, you realize that they are inconsistent and they cant be great. If they really want to win, they need to hope that one of those great games happens at a finals game, like it happened at CWC.

i am not a Chelsea fan but i have to say i agree with their inconsistency even though they managed to beat PSG
Sometimes they play great games and sometimes they play terrible games
This means lack of continuity and you cannot base your title race on this lack of continuity.

[banana33]

It may not take long for Real Madrid to come back, if they perform poorly in a season, they come back stronger the next season, this is the habit of Real Madrid and has been like this for a long time. Last season, Real Madrid could not achieve anything, next season you will see this team performing well in the Champions League as well as winning the La Liga title. Injuries in the team are normal but what happened with Real Madrid last season is expected. When a manager is preparing a team in the transfer window, he thinks that one or two players may be out of the field for the entire season due to injury, so every club keeps their substitutes on the bench, but Real Madrid also has four to five players from the starting XI out for a long time due to this injury. If this had not happened with Madrid, they would have performed well last season.
Real Madrid is a formidable legendary team no doubt, but I don’t think we can hype them up like this without seeing the workings, they’ve been great in the past and sometimes they dip form and come back but in those times they dominated Europe they didn’t dominate LaLiga. With what they have now I don’t see them winning the LaLiga or even the UEFA Champions League, they might be able to compete better this season but it’ll still be difficult to win a title, cos all other teams are also trying to do better.
In fact, there is nothing to take lightly about the Real Madrid team in any season, I think that Real Madrid has built the strongest attacking line in club football at the moment, but this attacking line-up is not really useful in their main matches because their defense position is weak.
Earlier, when Real Madrid's defense position was strong, the defenders would pass the ball directly to the strikers from the defense position, which resulted in Real Madrid's strikers scoring directly from the counter. Since the defense position is currently weak, the ball is not being cleared from the defense, as well as the ball is not being supplied to the midfield and the midfield is not able to provide good support to the strikers. Due to Madrid's weakness in one position, its impact is falling on all positions.

I hope that they will not defend so badly this season and they will improve the team's situation by doing well in defense.

exactly, I think exactly the same thing, it's easy for a club like Real Madrid to come back stronger than before, they certainly have some drops due to the trials they make by buying new players or always changing, but they have to do it to stay at the top

[HajiBagi]

I watched the highlights. Fenerbahçe's first goal was an incredibly simple one. You can't concede such a goal in a competition of this level. Fenerbahçe's defense failed to clear the ball properly. Fenerbahçe's Ambrabat scored beautifully, but they couldn't secure a draw.
In the second goal we conceded, a man came from behind and scored with a header.
If you see goals like that in your goal, you're eliminated from the tournament.
Feyenoord took the advantage. A draw will be enough for Feyenoord to advance to the second round.
Everything will be decided in Istanbul, but I wasn't satisfied with Fenerbahçe's performance. After the match, Mourinho said, "I've never beaten Feyenoord in the Netherlands, but I've always beaten them in the second legs." We'll see if this statistic holds up.

The second leg of the match is going to be tough, the match was very tough yesterday because Feyenoord did not allow Fenerbahçe to score goal in any Chances they had, I always knew that the match will be tough and I predict the match that Fenerbache will win the match but unfortunately it is not the way I expected, I was thinking that since Fenerbache has good players than Feyenoord they will be able to defeat them without any problem but Feyenoord prove that they are also big team and they are playing in their home.

Feyenoord did what every team will do to have the opportunity to win second leg of the match, the result was 2:1 but that will give Feyenoord a full confidence to play the second leg, Jose Mourinoh will also prepare for the next match, he will want to win the match by all means and lead the team to qualify for the Champions League.

[$weetne$$]

I can remember that a lot of people speculated that inter would carry their performance with Barcelona to the finals, bit unfortunately that wasn't the case. Concerning the Inter's game with Barca, I feel it's just a normal thing for teams to adapt their strategies based on their opponents, and this mostly leads to unexpected outcomes. I don't think the issue was actually Barca's defence mechanism, I just looked at it that Inter Milan knew that Barcelona was a formidable opponent and thus seriously prepared and studied their gameplay thoroughly, and Barcelona also underestimated inter, which led to their failure and Inter's Victory. But whatever the case was, it was indeed an unexpected turn of events.

I was one of such speculators who got disappointed at the end.  There are teams that gets  so mastered to a particular team such that whenever they meet, just expect some sort of fun because both team does put out their best anytime they are meeting and so it usually will look like they will do so well and that was the case with Barcelona and Inter Milan that inspired my speculations for them to get to the finals with those performances of theirs seeing that they also had a good squad depth as at the time.

[Adbitco]

I won't be amongst those that galvanise things up, but having special players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Toni Kroos,  Casemiro and probably Luka Modric helped him win all that. This is the reason why he's rebuffed all talks of managing another side. The French national team is the only side he'll be willing to manage again asides that, it's a big no no for him. That same season he won the Champions League Competition last, he was so poor in La Liga he had to resign immediately the Champions League was lifted.

But you just failed to acknowledge that he was a genius with that squad and he knew perfectly how to manage them. You think it's an easy thing managing players like Ronaldo, Bale, Ramos, Toni, Modric in one team. You forget to add that when a team has too many stars in the team it becomes a problem. Again, the question is, where all these players not in the team before he took over? The answer is yes, but did they dominate Europe for three consecutive seasons without Zidane, the answer is no. You should give Zidane the credit he deserves.

[Promocodeudo]

I was one of such speculators who got disappointed at the end.  There are teams that gets  so mastered to a particular team such that whenever they meet, just expect some sort of fun because both team does put out their best anytime they are meeting and so it usually will look like they will do so well and that was the case with Barcelona and Inter Milan that inspired my speculations for them to get to the finals with those performances of theirs seeing that they also had a good squad depth as at the time.

You know what shit happens ordinarily we expect things to actually be like that but it happens sideways, this also helps us a lot to understand that no  matter the history any club have or what we feel they can do in terms of performance or length they can reach in a particular, it may not be like that sometimes because there might be unsuspecting teams that may not allow such history to keep up, since there has been different suprises arising presently in football, I think the best we can do is to enjoy watching our soccer and no much feelings attached again, I was one of those that never believed that inter will be trashed by PSG with such number of goals after they succeeded in eliminating Barcelona but game, we move.

[Ever-young]

I was one of such speculators who got disappointed at the end.  There are teams that gets  so mastered to a particular team such that whenever they meet, just expect some sort of fun because both team does put out their best anytime they are meeting and so it usually will look like they will do so well and that was the case with Barcelona and Inter Milan that inspired my speculations for them to get to the finals with those performances of theirs seeing that they also had a good squad depth as at the time.

Football can be really unpredictable as we already know and the fact that Inter's exceptional performance against Barcelona didn't translate to the final just like most people expected made the outcome even more thrilling to some and to others disappointing.
While it was disappointing in one side, it's great that you've also learner from your experience and can reflect on what actually went wrong. At least next time, it'll enable you make more reasonable and informed choices when making your predictions. Football is full of surprises, which is why we shouldn't be overconfident with whatever predictions we're making, regardless of how certain it may be, at least this would help one make more realistic choices.

[lizarder]

Players come and go with the philosophy of the coach who makes them play, unfortunately the coach of Raela Madrid has a team designed and built on the structure wanted by Ancelotti, and this causes difficulties that can lead to tactical errors, he needs time to understand what to change and how to fix it

This is common in football, with players coming and going based on need, especially after seeing their previous performances. This isn't entirely the case, as I've seen several players adapt quickly to Xabi Alonso's strategy. I think it's just a matter of time, as we haven't yet fully seen Xabi Alonso's performance at Real Madrid, and given his abilities, it probably won't be much more difficult.

Some weaknesses may still exist in certain positions like a creative midfielder, as they are crucial for a player capable of controlling the rhythm of the game. Currently, Real Madrid doesn't have a player with this ability, but I'm confident Xabi Alonso can create new players in those positions.

[Fakhrulenclix]

I was one of such speculators who got disappointed at the end.  There are teams that gets  so mastered to a particular team such that whenever they meet, just expect some sort of fun because both team does put out their best anytime they are meeting and so it usually will look like they will do so well and that was the case with Barcelona and Inter Milan that inspired my speculations for them to get to the finals with those performances of theirs seeing that they also had a good squad depth as at the time.

Football can be really unpredictable as we already know and the fact that Inter's exceptional performance against Barcelona didn't translate to the final just like most people expected made the outcome even more thrilling to some and to others disappointing.
While it was disappointing in one side, it's great that you've also learner from your experience and can reflect on what actually went wrong. At least next time, it'll enable you make more reasonable and informed choices when making your predictions. Football is full of surprises, which is why we shouldn't be overconfident with whatever predictions we're making, regardless of how certain it may be, at least this would help one make more realistic choices.

Especially in the UCL competition, there are so many surprises that happen and we can see those surprises that exist almost every season because not only the quality and strength of the team can be measured but mental readiness is also very necessary so that we find it difficult to predict with certainty for a football match and I am no longer surprised by that because I think it is a common thing because it often happens.

[AYOBA]

The match between Inter Milan and Barcelona last season in the champions League competition was a very difficult and tough match for Barcelona the tried all they could in order to win Inter Milan but all there attempt failed i really don't know where Inter Milan got their strength from because the way they played with Barcelona was not the way they play with PSG in the final, because of the way they played with Barcelona I was thinking that Inter Milan will win PSG very well and I believe everyone was also saying the same thing that Inter Milan will win PSG in fact some set of people we are saying the match between Inter Milan and Barcelona with determine the winner of the champions League trophy so when Inter Milan won the match everyone was certain that they will win PSG in the final but that didn't happen, for me the defense of Barcelona is okay what happened in the match between them and inter Milan is something that no one can actually explain.

Inter Milan’s performances last season against Barcelona were great, as both of the teams performed very well by challenging each other. Seriously, everyone was very shocked with the kind of performance that the Inter Milan players showedin the last season’s semifinal match against Barcelona. They tried their best to make sure they had a chance to win for Inter Milan, but unfortunately, they couldn’t make it.

That’s why they said that football is unpredictable. Even me I did not believe that Inter Milan would not win the final against PSG after they were able to defeat Barcelona with a great performance, but at the end of the match, they still found it difficult to dominate the Champions League final, but they are also try as they make it to the final.