UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season

[Fuso.hp]

Hey @babo, my friend, how does it feel after getting thrashed 4-0 by Paris Saint Germain? Lol! What goes around comes around!
You got off lightly, because Carnesecchi saved the penalty, otherwise you would have conceded five goals!
But don't worry, they'll forget about it quickly... Just look the other way now.

the only thing missing was that the goalkeeper also scored
I feel very much an Inter fan, even if to be a perfect Inter fan I was missing 1 goal better 5
the colors are the same, black and blue... we are cousins ​​if you want

this season is going really shit, it's going to be a disaster lol

It's not a disaster. Unfortunately, Paris Saint-Germain are very strong, and to be honest, Atalanta played well in the first half and came very close to scoring.
So the foundations are there, you just need to find consistency in your results, and I believe you can achieve great satisfactions

The way Atalanta performed, I didn't think they performed well. With any kind of haphazard planning, Atalanta could have gone behind by a goal in the first three minutes of the match and that goal was scored by a Paris defender. It must be admitted that PSG played a lot of attacking football against Atalanta and their plan was to score multiple goals in the first half and they succeeded in that plan. They defeated Atalanta by a big margin of 4-0 with two goals in the first half and two more in the second half. In this match, PSG played quite good football in their defensive positions at the same time and they were quite aggressive in their attacking line-up, that is, with the combination of all these, they secured a big victory.

[Oshio-man]

Nice win for Manchester City as they won comfortable at home 2:0 is a good way to start their campaign in this year's competition the early red card that Napoli had really affected their performance but as for city two goals with all three points is a good way to kickstart their champions League campaign. Barcelona too also got an important away victory as they won 1:2 against Newcastle.

The red card that came early in that match really helped Manchester City to defeated Napoli in the second half, after they have reduced their strength on eleven players in the field, if not that there was red card, I don't think Manchester City would have taken victory from that match because both team are playing well in this season and the match would have ended up draw 0-0,  for Barcelona, i think they deserved the victory they achieved from Newcastle because they played well in the home of Newcastle to scored two goals to defeated Newcastle 1-2 to achieved three points, those teams that won their first match took a good stand in this season that will make them to have hope of winning this title.

[Cryptmuster]

Napoli's performance was very boring. I don't think they had any intention of winning this match based on their performance. Only 1 shot in the entire 90 minutes! None  of us expected to see such a poor performance from the Serie A champions.

Napoli did not have  a target to win this match. They wanted to finish the match goalless. The team wanted to get  1 point from the match. Napoli coach knows very well that Napoli's forwards are not strong enough. So we saw Napoli's players playing  defensively from the beginning of the match. And their only job was to repel City's attacks.

Napoli's players have lost confidence after Giovanni Di Lorenzo's red card. And this is also  one of the reasons for their defeat. The players need a stronger morale if they want to do well on the Champions League platform. De Bruyne also failed to play well in the Etihad in the Napoli jersey

It is a pity that Conte had to replace De Bruyne so early, but after the red card he had no other choice, at least that is what he said at the press conference after the match. And I think it was exactly because of that red card, because under such conditions no team would have been able to play against City, which is why City were so much ahead in the statistical indicators.

From yesterday’s matches I would like to highlight Barcelona and Rashford’s two goals, especially his second one, it seems that he has started to justify the trust Flick gave him, and I am very glad that he has started scoring for Barcelona. This shows that there are coaches who are able to unlock players’ potential, and there are those who are not.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

I'm not sure if we can call Barcelona lucky in this match because of the fact that they took a 2 goal lead in the second half through 2 Rashford goals while Newcastle scored 1 goal in the 90 minute well, that means Barcelona is in a safe position. Based on the attack Newcastle is not better than Barcelona so actually Barcelona could scored more goals. By the way, this win is quite important for Barcelona because their next opponent is PSG which means there is a potential for losing points or draw.

The match statistics show Barcelona's dominance, meaning Barcelona's win can't be considered lucky. I didn't watch the match live, but watching the replay, Barcelona played much better than Newcastle. The spotlight is on Rashford, as many had doubts about him, but he performed very well in this match. Even Yamal's absence didn't have a significant impact, although there were some weaknesses without him. Facing PSG will be much more interesting, as we'll see a potentially much tighter competition, as both teams have the potential to compete in the Champions League.

[Rashlyowl]

This raises a big question for anyone watching the Napoli vs. Manchester City match. I think it's better to watch the Juventus and Dortmund matches; they put on a great and enjoyable match.

If we're talking about entertainment, of course, the Borussia Dortmund & Juventus match is more exciting. But football isn't just entertainment, there's also a lot of betting involved. For anyone betting on Manchester City, last night's match was an interesting one, as the bettor had the comfort of betting on it.

[AHOYBRAUSE]

I'm not sure if we can call Barcelona lucky in this match because of the fact that they took a 2 goal lead in the second half through 2 Rashford goals while Newcastle scored 1 goal in the 90 minute well, that means Barcelona is in a safe position. Based on the attack Newcastle is not better than Barcelona so actually Barcelona could scored more goals. By the way, this win is quite important for Barcelona because their next opponent is PSG which means there is a potential for losing points or draw.

The match statistics show Barcelona's dominance, meaning Barcelona's win can't be considered lucky. I didn't watch the match live, but watching the replay, Barcelona played much better than Newcastle. The spotlight is on Rashford, as many had doubts about him, but he performed very well in this match. Even Yamal's absence didn't have a significant impact, although there were some weaknesses without him. Facing PSG will be much more interesting, as we'll see a potentially much tighter competition, as both teams have the potential to compete in the Champions League.

Well to be fair, I wouldn't call it dominance. Sure they had more of the game with 64% possession, but that's also due to their playing still with plenty of short passes in their own half or in the midfield. A dominance in this regard would be like 75 or more percent. While they had more shots, most of them haven't really been a danger tbh and with shots on target Newcastle even had 1 more. Anyway, it wasn't lucky but also wasn't dominant. I was eager to see what Woltemade would do but he was yet again, like in the 2 recent games for Germany, a letdown. They might regret signing him for so much money soon I fear.

[Sexylizzy2813]

It is a pity that Conte had to replace De Bruyne so early, but after the red card he had no other choice, at least that is what he said at the press conference after the match. And I think it was exactly because of that red card, because under such conditions no team would have been able to play against City, which is why City were so much ahead in the statistical indicators.

That is one thing about red cards in games like this, it will spoil the plans of the manager and the decision the coach will make is just to cover up that position that's open. I don't think managers have plans for a game in case there's a red card involved if not Conte would have done so and truly that was the only thing to do subbing one if his best in that encounter but if the game wasn't the way it was I believe Napoli would have made a statement by showing us how poor City was. A red card in the 21st minutes and no goal till the second half now imagine if Napoli was complete, I think City won't have gotten any goal or won the game and I know that if it was a smaller side with red card Manchester City would have scored more than 2 goals in that encounter but take a look at how weak they played yesterday even if they won.

[ajanwalker]

If Napoli hadn't been down to 10 men, City wouldn't have been able to beat Napoli. City dominate possession in many matches, but they're not that effective in scoring.
Haaland may have scored a nice goal, but City still aren't a team that scores a lot of goals.
Napoli went down to 10 men in the 21st minute, and City dominated the game.
Doku's goal wasn't befitting of a team like Napoli. Doku dribbled inside the penalty area, took a shot, and scored. It wasn't a goal worthy of Napoli.
City started with a win, but I don't think they'll win the Champions League.

[satscraper]

When we look at the Barcelona team, it’s a whole different team when matched with Newcastle, they clearly are the better side but, given that they would be playing Newcastle at home, it does come with some difficulty no doubt but, the win was always on their side.

Agreed, that's why I bet on Barcelona, and I was right about it. Marcus Rashford scored twice in the second half, securing the win for both the team and my bet. I think if it hadn’t been for Yamal’s injury, and if he had played yesterday, Barcelona could have scored even more. As for Isak, I don’t think he would have made big difference for Newcastle if he hadn’t left.Overall, Barcelona is just a class above Newcastle, they dominated the entire match.

[Ricardo11]

Newcastle United vs Barcelona match was at Newcastle's home ground, but Barcelona was still quite good, Newcastle performed well in the match, but they couldn't stop Barcelona, ​​Barcelona played a great match, both teams were good attackers, but Barcelona was ahead of Newcastle in all aspects. We didn't see any goals in the first half of the match, Newcastle tried to attack very well in the first half, but not effective, Barcelona scored a great goal in the second half, which was scored by Marcus Rashford with a great headup in the 57th minute, and some time later Marcus Rashford scored a great goal again in the 67th minute with a great powerful shot, this shot was very good. After that Newcastle tried a lot to score, in the last minute they scored a goal in the 90th minute, and after that there was no chance to score another goal, but anyway, both teams played well, I think Newcastle didn't perform too badly, and in the end Barcelona won the match by 2-1 goal.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Match day 1 of 8, Liverpool knew they had no other option than to win... Atlético de Madrid were not an easy target at all. I'm not surprised that they came in with a different format against Arne slot, scoring two cheap goals that seemed really avoidable.

Let's talk about Van Dijk's header straight from the far left, right into the net without any intervention; I've seen a couple of headers, but that right there was the smoothest save, marking a good start for him in the champions League. Who's going home with this prestigious trophy this time around?

[Barikui1]

From what Manchester City played Napoli tonight,I don't think the Italian giant will ever forget it in a hurry. Napoli only had a single shot in the entire game while Manchester City had 23 shots and 805 passes in the entire game. Napoli couldn't stand a chance against Manchester City, they were outplayed. Napoli suffered a red card and were one man down in the first half, Di Lorenzo exit from the pitch weaken the defense of Napoli and Manchester City capitalize on Napoli weakness. Napoli were lucky that Manchester City weren't in their best form and if not for the brilliant saves from Napoli goalkeeper vanja milinkovic - savic, Manchester City would have succeeded in netting more goals in the game.

Napoli's performance was very boring. I don't think they had any intention of winning this match based on their performance. Only 1 shot in the entire 90 minutes! None  of us expected to see such a poor performance from the Serie A champions.

Napoli did not have  a target to win this match. They wanted to finish the match goalless. The team wanted to get  1 point from the match. Napoli coach knows very well that Napoli's forwards are not strong enough. So we saw Napoli's players playing  defensively from the beginning of the match. And their only job was to repel City's attacks.

Napoli's players have lost confidence after Giovanni Di Lorenzo's red card. And this is also  one of the reasons for their defeat. The players need a stronger morale if they want to do well on the Champions League platform. De Bruyne also failed to play well in the Etihad in the Napoli jersey

No man, this Napoli team was playing with a man down, do you expect them to go attacking Manchester city on their home turf with a man down?

If they had stupidly done that, they would have concede up to 8 goals because they would not have the right balance to sustain it, which will undeniable makes them exhaust their strength and Manchester city will easily run over them, so playing defensively and trying to catch them on a break is the logical thing to do, because if they had done it well, they would have stand a chance to draw the game or snatch a one nil victory if they were very effective on the break, but playing with a man down is really not an easy task, talkless of playing it against Manchester city at the Etihad stadium, so what are you saying?

[joniboini]

Who's going home with this prestigious trophy this time around?

I mean, it's still too early to make any bold predictions. One key injury to your starting line-up can change a lot of things. Not to mention last season, we know how terrible PSG were at the start, yet they won the UCL. Man City got their first win but it's hard to conclude whether it means they're improving rapidly or not because the red card situation. I'd wait until matchday 6 or something to make predictions about the semi finals at least.

[Tamaperdana]

Napoli's performance was very boring. I don't think they had any intention of winning this match based on their performance. Only 1 shot in the entire 90 minutes! None  of us expected to see such a poor performance from the Serie A champions.

Napoli did not have  a target to win this match. They wanted to finish the match goalless. The team wanted to get  1 point from the match. Napoli coach knows very well that Napoli's forwards are not strong enough. So we saw Napoli's players playing  defensively from the beginning of the match. And their only job was to repel City's attacks.

Napoli's players have lost confidence after Giovanni Di Lorenzo's red card. And this is also  one of the reasons for their defeat. The players need a stronger morale if they want to do well on the Champions League platform. De Bruyne also failed to play well in the Etihad in the Napoli jersey

Yes, in this match, Napoli really didn't play like a strong team, even though, as we know, they were the team that won Serie A the previous season. Furthermore, this season they also brought in new players who should have made Napoli even stronger. But strangely, in this match, Napoli really looked like an amateur team playing against a big team. Because just look, in this match, Napoli only managed to control the ball 26%. So with that in mind, I think Napoli really played very badly in this match. So I also really don't understand why they played this badly. Moreover, they are playing in the Champions League, so they should be able to show a good performance.

Because basically this is their dream, and I'm sure Napoli also wants to try to win the title in this competition. But seeing their poor performance like this, I feel that they will not have much hope of being able to go far in this competition. But even so, this is only their first match, so I think Napoli can still improve their performance so that in the next match they can perform even better. As for Bruyne, I think he was a little shocked and nervous because this match was played at Manchester City, his former team. That's why his performance wasn't great.

[mandown]

Galatasaray started the match well, but conceded some amateurish goals.
I found manager Okan Buruk's comments after the match interesting. He mentioned that his team lost 5-1, but he was the side that had more possession.
Because Frankfurt allowed you to play, you had more possession.
It was a devastating loss, and the next match is against Liverpool in Istanbul. It doesn't matter that the match is in Istanbul, because Liverpool plays top-tier football.
Galatasaray needs to come into that match with a lot of concentration. Otherwise, a major defeat could ensue.

[Bitcoin_people]

Barcelona played great in their opening match and won this match to collect important points. Marcus Rashford played a great game in this match, he scored two goals for Barcelona and because of this goal, the home team won this match. This season, Barcelona has brought in good players to gain more advantages and they are fighting with excitement from the beginning to stay high in the Champions League. I think this season will be more competitive as each team has brought in good star players to keep their team in high position. When strong teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG and Bayern Munich face each other, the matches will definitely be more exciting against each team.

[yenerbatmaz]

Nice win for Manchester City as they won comfortable at home 2:0 is a good way to start their campaign in this year's competition the early red card that Napoli had really affected their performance but as for city two goals with all three points is a good way to kickstart their champions League campaign. Barcelona too also got an important away victory as they won 1:2 against Newcastle.

The red card that came early in that match really helped Manchester City to defeated Napoli in the second half, after they have reduced their strength on eleven players in the field, if not that there was red card, I don't think Manchester City would have taken victory from that match because both team are playing well in this season and the match would have ended up draw 0-0,  for Barcelona, i think they deserved the victory they achieved from Newcastle because they played well in the home of Newcastle to scored two goals to defeated Newcastle 1-2 to achieved three points, those teams that won their first match took a good stand in this season that will make them to have hope of winning this title.

I watched the match highlights, and based on the impression I got from the highlights, Napoli and Manchester City would have struggled in this match had he not received a red card. After the red card, City attacked heavily. Haaland scored with a beautiful header. Doku's goal put the Napoli defense to sleep. If City had been as good as they were in their past, they would have made a big difference yesterday, but they're far from their former powerhouse. They might have won 2-0, but a big, quality team would have easily defeated City.

[bastisisca]

The Champions League games are actually going as expected, almost all the big teams won their matches. These games played according to the odds of the bookies but i wondered why they gave Newcastle a lesser odd, don't know if it was a mistake from the bookies because Barcelona is stronger than Newcastle but i was surprised to see the bookies give them a 2+ odd. I see no weakness in Barcelona but the team am having some doubts is Liverpool, i don't know why they keep conceding goals in their matches, any game they score above one goal they must surely concede a goal and what troubled me in the match against Atletico Madrid yesterday was the fact they they were leading by 2:0 but Atletico equalized the 2 goals, if not for die minute goal that was scored by Virgil Van Dijk, the match might have ended in draw which shows a great weakness in Liverpool especially their defenders.

Yes, i haven't seen any particular excitement in the Champions League so far, nothing special. i think some good games will come, but not now, when things are starting to tighten up a bit.
Oh God, in the end Juventus's match with 8 goals wasn't bad, if you think about it.

[Kaliandra]

Later, we will watch Copenhagen vs Leverkusen. It seems that this match will be no less exciting because both teams are undoubtedly skilled and capable of advancing to the Champions League. Copenhagen will be the home team in this match, so they will surely be enthusiastic because they will have the full support of the spectators in the stadium. Copenhagen will certainly be embarrassed if they are defeated by Leverkusen.

Leverkusen, despite being the away team, will certainly not give up because they also have good and strong players and will definitely fight hard in the Champions League because they also want to win the Champions League trophy this season and certainly do not want to repeat last season's failure where they did not win the Champions League. It seems like I'll be favoring Leverkusen to win in this match. Do you have any good predictions about this game? Kasper, as Leverkusen's new coach replacing Xabi Alonso, I hope he can lead Leverkusen to perform even better in this season's Champions League.

Personally, I'm not confident in Leverkusen this season. Even though they have a new manager, they haven't been convincing in securing wins. Copenhagen is a strong team, and I think they can beat Leverkusen quite well.

Your prediction wasn't too far off, as the match ended in a 2-2 draw. Of course, if Hitzidiakos hadn't scored an own goal, Copenhagen could have won the match. But in my opinion, both teams played well in that match because both teams really played well and attacked each other. Unfortunately, I favored Leverkusen in the bet and unfortunately I lost the bet in that match and ended up losing money. Copenhagen, as the home team, failed to win, but fortunately they didn't lose. If they had lost, it would have disappointed their supporters.

Of course, in the next match, Copenhagen will play against Qarabag. Qarabag cannot be taken lightly because in their last match, Qarabag managed to defeat Benfica. In this match, I am confused about whether to bet on Qarabag or Copenhagen. What do you think?
Leverkusen will face PSV in the next match, which will surely be exciting, and both teams will certainly try their best to win. However, I have a feeling that Leverkusen will be able to beat PSV because I saw PSV lose to Union Saint in their first match. I think I will favor Leverkusen to win that match. What do you think?

[Pandu Geddon]

Yes, i haven't seen any particular excitement in the Champions League so far, nothing special. i think some good games will come, but not now, when things are starting to tighten up a bit.
Oh God, in the end Juventus's match with 8 goals wasn't bad, if you think about it.

Besides the exciting Juventus match, I also watched the thrilling Liverpool vs Atletico match. The game was almost ending in a draw, and Liverpool's winning goal came in the final minutes.
This is the qualifying round, and some dominant clubs look unsurprising. But we will see more interesting matches when we enter the knockout stage. Perhaps we will see big teams struggle to advance as well.