UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season

[MArsland]

The first match of the Champions League was quite satisfying as several big teams such as Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, PSG, Inter, Barcelona, and Manchester City won. Unfortunately, Juventus and Dortmund played to a draw. On the second match, the big teams will face underdogs, so they should be able to maximize their chances of winning 3 points. Except, for the match between PSG and Barcelona, which is highly anticipated because it is sure to be fierce.

[banana33]

The win against PSG really deceived them. They felt they were the best team in the world; they felt they were unstoppable. I usually watch Chelsea games, and I know how exactly they play. I knew it would be a miracle, like the miracle against PSG, for them to win Bayern Munich.
They don't play good football, and their attack is not what they think it is. Whenever I say, the fans usually feel I'm hating on them. They are too inconsistent. They can't maintain a level for the long term. Even during games, they perform well I waves, they don't perform well for the whole 90 minutes of the match.

They need to try and get full points against Benfica, Ajax, Atalanta, Qarabag and Pafos because the games against Barcelona and Napoli will be very difficult.

Chelsea did not win PSG by luck in the club world cup final they won them because they were so informed at that time and being the world champion does not mean that another club cannot win them, no matter how good a club is a team can still win them, even as good as Barcelona a club still won them this season so Bayern Munich winning Chelsea does not mean that Chelsea is not informed, and you think they are playing with pride as a world champion that was why they could not win or compete with Bayern Munich I think that is not the case they tried all they could but it turns Bayern Munich won them and you can still be surprised that Chelsea will qualify in this round remember football is unpredictable sometimes.
All Chelsea should do now is to improve more on their form and make sure that they have a very strong defense and a strong forward and strong midfielder if this is done I don't think anything can stop them anymore I still Believe Chelsea has chances in this champions league title this season.

Certainly, challenging the strongest teams in the first round hasn't been seen for years, and that's why the new formula ensures that even the favourites meet immediately. This makes everything more spectacular, but by doing so, they also knock out very strong teams.

[knowngunman]

Galatasaray did not play well against Frankfurt yesterday, and even if Galatasaray has more possession, it does not mean that they played well because they did not win the match and conceded five goals, Galatasaray score an opening goal in the match and they end up losing the game, a poor performance from Galatasaray, and they should consider themselves lucky that this is not the knockout stage of the competition; otherwise, there is nothing they can do to qualify for the next round.

A total disappointment from Galatasary yesterday against Frankfurt. No game plan, no working tactics and no interference in the game at all. The defense is a total disgrace, the midfield was completely ruled out and the attack was nothing but trash. The coach was watching desperately and helpless on the sideline despite his team was losing 5-1. Such indecisive coaching style will hardly succeed in Europe competition because to succeed in Europe competition, a coach must definitely knows how to read games and offers appropriate tactics.

[Roseline492]

Rashford played very well in yesterday's match. He was able to replace Yamal, and scored two goals at once, and managed to give Barcelona a win at Newcastle. This is a good thing for him, because all this time Amorim said that he needed to improve his game to save his career, but after yesterday's match, Rashford immediately proved Amorim wrong. He is worthy, it's just that there is something wrong with Manchester United.

Another era of Rashford has started in Barcelona just like how others that left Manchester United has, in Manchester United Rashford always misses from one goal to another and hardly become somebody whom they depend on in any match but just his few matches in Barcelona they have already beginning to hear his name  because Newcastle United saw what they had never seen in him during when they usually play with him on the premier League, before Rashford will finish his contract his worth would be more than how they brought him in Barcelona, his first goal was casual but the second goal against Newcastle United was astonished.

[ejikeme24]

Manchester City really performed well in their first match of the season. Of course, Napoli is a strong opponent and, of course, they are the team that won the Scudetto last season in Serie A. However, Napoli was ultimately defeated by Manchester City with a score of 2-0. Manchester City dominated possession and played exceptionally well, delighting their fans both inside and outside the stadium. It was unfortunate that Napoli failed to score a single goal in the match. Erling Haaland and Doku were the heroes for Manchester City in this game.

Sure they're supposed to perform well because their opponent was only 9 in the Field so what did you expect, if not for the red card that was given to lorenzo I'm sure that this match wouldn't have ended this way. Because the starting was very interesting that's when lorenzo is still present. But when lorenzo was sent off everything just changed, and  de bruyne was substituted. it was a very big mess up for napoli because they really prepared for manchester city in that match but the red card just ruing everything for them. I was not really in support of that lorenzo Red card, I was actually thinking that the referee is going to consider him for the first time and only give him yellow card considering that the match is very crucial for the both teams.

[wakier]

The first match of the Champions League was quite satisfying as several big teams such as Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, PSG, Inter, Barcelona, and Manchester City won. Unfortunately, Juventus and Dortmund played to a draw. On the second match, the big teams will face underdogs, so they should be able to maximize their chances of winning 3 points. Except, for the match between PSG and Barcelona, which is highly anticipated because it is sure to be fierce.

The clubs you mentioned certainly have extensive Champions League experience, so it's no surprise that they won their first matches, despite facing some tough opponents like Bayern Munich versus Chelsea, Barcelona versus Newcastle, Manchester City versus Napoli, and Liverpool versus Atletico Madrid. All four matches were highly entertaining, and the club that always has a chance of winning the Champions League remains the strongest.

The PSG vs. Barcelona match is sure to be exciting. Last season, they met in the Champions League quarterfinals, and PSG won, this time who will win?

[tsaroz]

The first match of the Champions League was quite satisfying as several big teams such as Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, PSG, Inter, Barcelona, and Manchester City won. Unfortunately, Juventus and Dortmund played to a draw. On the second match, the big teams will face underdogs, so they should be able to maximize their chances of winning 3 points. Except, for the match between PSG and Barcelona, which is highly anticipated because it is sure to be fierce.

The clubs you mentioned certainly have extensive Champions League experience, so it's no surprise that they won their first matches, despite facing some tough opponents like Bayern Munich versus Chelsea, Barcelona versus Newcastle, Manchester City versus Napoli, and Liverpool versus Atletico Madrid. All four matches were highly entertaining, and the club that always has a chance of winning the Champions League remains the strongest.

The PSG vs. Barcelona match is sure to be exciting. Last season, they met in the Champions League quarterfinals, and PSG won, this time who will win?

Manchester City not only defeated Napoli, but they were in full control of the game with them on the attack the whole 90 minutes. Comparing the stats, Manchester City had 74% ball possession and had 23 shots on target while Napoli had one. Napoli was in disadvantage from 21st minute when Di Lorenzo showed unnecessary off play aggression toward Haaland which got him a Red Card.
Barcelona vs Newcastle ended as expected. Even though Newcastle is trying hard with their new team, they are still to get used to playing as a team.
With this, the first round of Champions league's league stage is over and the teams usually known as stronger teams won unless they faced a much stronger team than themselves. There are still plenty of opportunities but we can easily predict which of these teams would move forward.

[Ahli38]

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.

Since the first half began Liverpool has put a lot of pressure on Atletico Madrid. And that was proven after they secured their position with 2 goals. But unfortunately they seemed overconfident about this. So before the first half ended they conceded a goal. And I think Liverpool's defense seemed unfocused in anticipating this,  where it was allowing Atletico Madrid to easily made a score. We could see that one of Atletico Madrid's players had a free run on Liverpool's defense. The same thing happened in the second half. Atletico Madrid scored a goal due to a mistake by Liverpool's poor in defense. There were so many Liverpool defenders who should have been able to anticipate the shot. Unfortunately they seemed unprepared to anticipate it.

However luckily for Liverpool. Because they managed to win the match from a header goal by Van Dijk. Liverpool actually dominated the match. And several threatening attacks have occurred. But they failed to capitalize on excellent opportunities to score more goals. Perhaps they realized this through the match. They should not feel satisfied or even overconfident too quickly. Because that becomes a dangerous gap for them. However I think Liverpool can be a strong candidate to become champions in the Champions League. So let's see how they perform after this.

[Adiljutt156]

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.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen football team was successful to draw the match which they played against Copenhagen football team. That was two sided match because both teams did 2, 2 goals in this match. Copenhagen team effort was wonderful in this match as they tried to do goal early in this match in which they became successful and after that we saw no goal for a long time because both teams tried to make their defense system strong.Larsson did goal at 9 minutes of the match and after that we saw goals from Bayer 04 Leverkusen football team. Hatzidiakos was a person who did second goal of the match and that was at 82 minutes of the match and Hatzidiakos did last goal of the match and he did this goal at 91 minutes.

[Adbitco]

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.

Yeah, they started the game in a brighter not by even scoring first which I didn't expect because I had already tipped Frankfurt to win that very match, I was then being skeptical about my selection, if I had made the wrong choice. I was relieved when Frankfurt made it 3 - 1 at HT. My only surprise was that I didn't expect Frankfurt to score that much goal against Gala.

[Marykeller]

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.
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Rashford played very well in yesterday's match. He was able to replace Yamal, and scored two goals at once, and managed to give Barcelona a win at Newcastle. This is a good thing for him, because all this time Amorim said that he needed to improve his game to save his career, but after yesterday's match, Rashford immediately proved Amorim wrong. He is worthy, it's just that there is something wrong with Manchester United.

If you say that something is wrong with Manchester United, I will agree on that because any player who leaves Manchester United tends to improve more than they were in Manchester United.

Hansi Flick and Barcelona fans will be proud of Rashford's performance last night against Newcastle. I just hope that Rashford's performance keeps getting better, so that before the one-year loan deal expires, Barcelona will be thinking of ways of giving him a permanent deal rather than returning to Manchester United.

[stompix]

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.

When you lose 5-1 everything you say is looking like useless excuses, yeah, a 2-0 might be a fluke, a 3-1 , but when you get 5 goals from a team that is nowhere near the top you simply played bad, and the worst is still to come if you keep it like that.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen football team was successful to draw the match which they played against Copenhagen football team.

Successfully getting one point by the teeth from Copenhagen? You can call that everything but success.
Bayer is on a slide where I don't see why the bookies would give them such favoritism over PSV, but gain Glatasaray is only 4x against Liverpool after those results, so, so probably I'm looking at a different reality with different teams here from another universe here.

[Razmirraz]

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Rashford played very well in yesterday's match. He was able to replace Yamal, and scored two goals at once, and managed to give Barcelona a win at Newcastle. This is a good thing for him, because all this time Amorim said that he needed to improve his game to save his career, but after yesterday's match, Rashford immediately proved Amorim wrong. He is worthy, it's just that there is something wrong with Manchester United.

Rashford repaid Hansi Flick faith by scoring twice against Newcastle, and he answered all doubters by leading Barcelona to victory on his Champions League debut after moving from Man United. Barcelona is very lucky to have a player of Rashford class, when other players are unable to score goals, he emerges as the hero of the victory, Amorim of course never thought Rashford could become an important player for Barcelona, ​​but that's the reality.

Several players who were just brought in by Barcelona in the last summer transfer window have had an extraordinary impact on the team, Joan Garcia also performed very well in the game, he closed the match against Newcastle with five saves, one of which came at a moment that could have changed the course of the match. On paper, this match could be very difficult for Barcelona because several key players are injured, but their presence on the pitch makes everything easier.

[Berry2d]

In football unimaginable things do happen and happened in such a way we don't expect. In Barcelona unbelievable win against Newcastle united, Marcus rashford surprised the world by scoring two wonderful goals within the first 20minutes of the second half a performance he never displayed while he was I Manchester united for the past three years.

When Marcus Rashford joined Manchester united senior team in February 2016 scoring two goals in the Europa league against midtjylland and also featured in the premier league three days later against Arsenal, he had an excellent performance in Manchester united them but ran out of luck when Erik Ten hag took over power, the mystery behind his downfall that's what we can't tell but his performance depreciated deeply even before Amorim took over power and fail to get back on his fit until his game yesterday that surprised the world with a very good performance

[bangjoe]

The first match of the Champions League was quite satisfying as several big teams such as Arsenal, Madrid, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, PSG, Inter, Barcelona, and Manchester City won. Unfortunately, Juventus and Dortmund played to a draw. On the second match, the big teams will face underdogs, so they should be able to maximize their chances of winning 3 points. Except, for the match between PSG and Barcelona, which is highly anticipated because it is sure to be fierce.

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This leading team managed to get a victory of course gamblers who chose according to their favorite team's choice smiled broadly because many of this favorite team got a perfect victory in the first round.

For Dortmund and Juventus they can be categorized as a very exciting and tense match, no one loses to them and they kick points because of the draw that surprises many people.

The journey is still long and the situation or situation of the team can change in the second round of the Champions League, I think we will watch the matches that are pleasing again, the beginning is not the end, they still have a very broad chance to be able to get victory and advance to the next round that is more serious and challenging.

[Oluwa-btc]

Rashford played very well in yesterday's match. He was able to replace Yamal, and scored two goals at once, and managed to give Barcelona a win at Newcastle. This is a good thing for him, because all this time Amorim said that he needed to improve his game to save his career, but after yesterday's match, Rashford immediately proved Amorim wrong. He is worthy, it's just that there is something wrong with Manchester United.

Typical post from Marcus Rashford fan boys which I see on football twitter daily and also a toxic Manchester United fan who want to see a manager sacked. I'm also not a fan of the words "He was able to replace Yamal". These comments are completely bs,  he wasn't all that last night,  he just had his chances and was able to squeeze and utilize them. We should be singing and heaping praise on players like Frankie De Jong  and Pedri who detected and controlled that game yesterday night. Two beautiful goals? Yeah! But he wasn't all that!

[verdinio]

Manchester City really performed well in their first match of the season. Of course, Napoli is a strong opponent and, of course, they are the team that won the Scudetto last season in Serie A. However, Napoli was ultimately defeated by Manchester City with a score of 2-0. Manchester City dominated possession and played exceptionally well, delighting their fans both inside and outside the stadium. It was unfortunate that Napoli failed to score a single goal in the match. Erling Haaland and Doku were the heroes for Manchester City in this game.

On the other hand, Napoli was truly unlucky because Di Lorenzo committed a foul on Haaland, resulting in a red card. This undoubtedly impacted Napoli's strength, preventing them from performing at their best. Now, Napoli must truly improve their strength. However, Napoli still has a good chance in the upcoming matches.

Napoli is certainly a strong opponent but not enough to worry Manchester City. Come on, yes, they are certainly strong for the Italian championship but they are not exactly at the level of the big international teams and in fact you saw it, they played a normal match but they lost it.

[Frankolala]

Rashford played very well in yesterday's match. He was able to replace Yamal, and scored two goals at once, and managed to give Barcelona a win at Newcastle. This is a good thing for him, because all this time Amorim said that he needed to improve his game to save his career, but after yesterday's match, Rashford immediately proved Amorim wrong. He is worthy, it's just that there is something wrong with Manchester United.

Typical post from Marcus Rashford fan boys which I see on football twitter daily and also a toxic Manchester United fan who want to see a manager sacked. I'm also not a fan of the words "He was able to replace Yamal". These comments are completely bs,  he wasn't all that last night,  he just had his chances and was able to squeeze and utilize them. We should be singing and heaping praise on players like Frankie De Jong  and Pedri who detected and controlled that game yesterday night. Two beautiful goals? Yeah! But he wasn't all that!

The fact is, you need to admit that Rashford made the night for Barcelona despite any sentiment that you have on him. He plays like shit in United but he made a significant impact yesterday on the pitch. A tree cannot make a forest and team work is needed in order for a team to achieve victory. I disagree with whoever said that Rashford replaced Yamal because they are not of the same class in football.

[LGD2Business]

Before the match began, PSG, Bayern Munich, Barcelona, Liverpool, and Man City were indeed more favored, and it proved true as they managed to secure full points. Meanwhile, in my opinion, Liverpool defensive line is more concerning than Barcelona, as they have conceded 6 goals in their last five matches, while Barcelona have only conceded 4.

Barcelona was not “favored”
Just check out the odds, for some reason, the actually thought Newcastle had an upper hand. Maybe because Barcelona had a few players who were injured, but yes, bookmakers actually looked at Newcastle as the favorites.

If the bookmakers gave Newcastle United lower odds, you should have bet on Barcelona. Bookmakers sometimes make mistakes like this in favor of the user. Barcelona was the favorite in that match. Just like they are the favorites for the championship.
Generally, they see home teams as having a significant advantage. Even though there is a difference between the teams, they don't take risks when setting the odds. This is probably because they take this into account in their risk analysis, but in reality, the favorite team won.

[Pandorak]

Rashford played very well in yesterday's match. He was able to replace Yamal, and scored two goals at once, and managed to give Barcelona a win at Newcastle. This is a good thing for him, because all this time Amorim said that he needed to improve his game to save his career, but after yesterday's match, Rashford immediately proved Amorim wrong. He is worthy, it's just that there is something wrong with Manchester United.

Marcus Rashford put on a stunning performance in this match, the two goals he scored against Newcastle were truly extraordinary. It's not just about his contribution on the scoreboard, but also about how confidence can yield great results when the coach and teammates give their full support, demonstrating the true definition of hard work. As a result, Rashford was able to bring out his best abilities. Hopefully, Rashford can maintain this level of consistency not just in this match, but in the matches to come.