UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season

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Real Madrid doesn't play with champions league especially when they have gotten to a stage like this. Although the present Madrid aren't the same Madrid we have then but nevertheless Bayern needs to do a great job to defeat them.  I believe at this stage, they will want to use all experience to work to winning. I believe this match will surely be an interesting match with many goals.

I have followed the Champions League for a long time, but in recent times, Real Madrid has won the most trophies. They have always been underrated. They have always been underlooked, and that is when they are the most dangerous. Just look at their most recent encounter with Manchester City. A very big number of people had written off Real Madrid, but here we are. Trust my word, after the two legs, don't be surprised to see Real Madrid progress into the next round, and we shall have people here say all sorts of things, like they were just lucky or that they cheated. Just wait and see 

[lombok]

Real Madrid doesn't play with champions league especially when they have gotten to a stage like this. Although the present Madrid aren't the same Madrid we have then but nevertheless Bayern needs to do a great job to defeat them.  I believe at this stage, they will want to use all experience to work to winning. I believe this match will surely be an interesting match with many goals.

I have followed the Champions League for a long time, but in recent times, Real Madrid has won the most trophies. They have always been underrated. They have always been underlooked, and that is when they are the most dangerous. Just look at their most recent encounter with Manchester City. A very big number of people had written off Real Madrid, but here we are. Trust my word, after the two legs, don't be surprised to see Real Madrid progress into the next round, and we shall have people here say all sorts of things, like they were just lucky or that they cheated. Just wait and see 

The thought of organic sincerity usually takes the back seat to conjecture about transient fortune and the labor and training we have seen on the field. A fear of never give up is the most dreadful third party trick to keep in mind when playing this historic team. Ignoring our opponents' strengths will only give them the opportunity to suddenly break through our defense. We should be careful in making judgment concerning all high world class achievements.

[Ale88]

I'm sorry but I disagree: Liverpool, because of Slot, decided to change a lot of players while bringing in several new ones, and right now not a single player lived up to the expectations nor the price Liverpool paid for them. And let's not forget that he fought with Salah, leaving the Egyptian guy with no choice but to leave the team earlier than what had agreed. If you spend that amount of money, let a key player like Luis Diaz leave and ruin the relationship with Salah, you are responsible, that's it.

Slot did well with Liverpool last season but it's different in this season after many changes in player resource last summer. Slot has a lot of difficulty in using new players together with senior members in the club but he is partially responsible for players in and out the club in the summer so he can not blame anything. It looks like Slot was too confident that new star players can adapt to the league and club well enough and quickly successfully replace players who left the club in the summer. So far, we all witnessed that this belief is wrong and affects Liverpool performances in this season. It's not time to regret anything that already happened, it's actually time of tightening their squad and play as best as possible in remaining matches.

Slot did well during the first year because he simply continued what Klopp did for several years. Usually that is a smart move because when you replace a manager that trained the team for 5+ years the most intelligent thing is to slightly change the tactic without completely overturned it. The second year we saw more of Slot's ideas and, unfortunately for Liverpool, they didn't work at all.

[Tamaperdana]

I have followed the Champions League for a long time, but in recent times, Real Madrid has won the most trophies. They have always been underrated. They have always been underlooked, and that is when they are the most dangerous. Just look at their most recent encounter with Manchester City. A very big number of people had written off Real Madrid, but here we are. Trust my word, after the two legs, don't be surprised to see Real Madrid progress into the next round, and we shall have people here say all sorts of things, like they were just lucky or that they cheated. Just wait and see 

Yes,, it cannot be denied that Real Madrid currently has the most Champions League trophies, so it is natural that Real Madrid is said to be a team that may always be a regular champion in this big competition. But the problem is that Real Madrid is currently experiencing a decline in performance and is not like before when Real Madrid always had no trouble reaching the final round. But now, we all know that to qualify for the round of 16,, Real Madrid really struggled and had to go through the playoffs first. So, it is natural that Real Madrid is currently a little underestimated by some people because of that.

But fortunately, Real Madrid was able to prove itself in the match against Manchester City and that has indeed become a big hope for Real Madrid fans. So now, Real Madrid fans certainly seem very confident that their favorite team will be able to win in this round. I don't think having that assumption is wrong, but still, this match will certainly not be easy for Real Madrid. Because currently their opponent is Bayern and they are also strong and stronger than Manchester City, so that's why I personally am quite doubtful whether Real Madrid can win or not in this match.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Yes at least someone is seeing things from my own side on how i see this game, Bayern Munich is not to be trusted when it comes to defence, in as much as there are not much attackers in the Germain Bundesliga to be doing the work but at least we can see how they conceive goals unexpectedly, so going to face Real madrid that is well equipped with good Attackers is really not a good one because it will be a bad day for them, like Real madrid is likely to win that game if i am not mistaken home and away, but let's just wait and see how it goes.

In this match things will be very evenly matched. For me, whoever scores first will have a psychological advantage because they will have dared to take the first step. I don't know how intensely Bayern will come out looking for the win. Madrid's defense isn't very good, but I think Madrid's attack has improved a lot since Arbeloa arrived. I don't know what he's done, but the improvement is quite good.

[HajiBagi]

Yes at least someone is seeing things from my own side on how i see this game, Bayern Munich is not to be trusted when it comes to defence, in as much as there are not much attackers in the Germain Bundesliga to be doing the work but at least we can see how they conceive goals unexpectedly, so going to face Real madrid that is well equipped with good Attackers is really not a good one because it will be a bad day for them, like Real madrid is likely to win that game if i am not mistaken home and away, but let's just wait and see how it goes.

In this match things will be very evenly matched. For me, whoever scores first will have a psychological advantage because they will have dared to take the first step. I don't know how intensely Bayern will come out looking for the win. Madrid's defense isn't very good, but I think Madrid's attack has improved a lot since Arbeloa arrived. I don't know what he's done, but the improvement is quite good.

Real Madrid defense has improved, if you look at the last three games Real Madrid played before the International break you will believe that Real Madrid defense has improved a lot, since the return of Rudiger the defense has improved and he is the one leading Dean Huijsen and guide him, another way to know that Real Madrid defense has improved since the returning of Rudiger is the goal they conceded, Real Madrid conceded few goals than when they stated the season.

The game against Bayern Munich will not be an easy game for both Real Madrid and Bayern Munich and as Kylian Mbape said that if there is any team that can beat Bayern Munich is Real Madrid and that is true, Real Madrid is different when it comes to Champions League, Bayern Munich have never beat Real Madrid in their last 9 matches and even if Bayern Munich is in good form they are unlucky to beat Real Madrid in the Champions League, Real Madrid have players who can turn up for them in any games and we can see that against Manchester City when no one believes that Real Madrid can beat Manchester City.

[Barikui1]

In this match things will be very evenly matched. For me, whoever scores first will have a psychological advantage because they will have dared to take the first step. I don't know how intensely Bayern will come out looking for the win. Madrid's defense isn't very good, but I think Madrid's attack has improved a lot since Arbeloa arrived. I don't know what he's done, but the improvement is quite good.

I see Bayern Munich team as the clear favourite in this game because they are in a more better form than real madrid, though I can't deny that their has been tremendous improvement from real madrid since the arrival of arbeloa, and I can't deny that I was one of those that thought that the team would even be worse under his leadership, but I was wrong, but regardless of all these, I think that Bayern Munich is just too strong and I see them as the best team in the uefa champions right now, so it would take an extra ordinary effort from real madrid to knock this Bayern munich team out of this year uefa champions league because they are in the form of their lives presently, but since this is football, nothing should be ruled out because anything can happen on that day that may sway the result into the favour of real madrid, that's why I believe that luck is very important to lift the uefa champions league title, because skill and quality is not enough.

[SuperBitMan]

Yes at least someone is seeing things from my own side on how i see this game, Bayern Munich is not to be trusted when it comes to defence, in as much as there are not much attackers in the Germain Bundesliga to be doing the work but at least we can see how they conceive goals unexpectedly, so going to face Real madrid that is well equipped with good Attackers is really not a good one because it will be a bad day for them, like Real madrid is likely to win that game if i am not mistaken home and away, but let's just wait and see how it goes.

In this match things will be very evenly matched. For me, whoever scores first will have a psychological advantage because they will have dared to take the first step. I don't know how intensely Bayern will come out looking for the win. Madrid's defense isn't very good, but I think Madrid's attack has improved a lot since Arbeloa arrived. I don't know what he's done, but the improvement is quite good.

The match will be an interesting match and no one can actually say the club that we win between these two club because these two club are playing very well and when it comes to Champions League, they usually do everything possible to make sure that they win the champions league and so we cannot predict the team to win the match because it is predictable. We just have to wait until the match day and see for ourselves anyone can win the match and it is based on how lucky and how devoted and determined they are to win the match. Real Madrid is playing very well and Mbappe is back. I would even prefer Mbappe not playing the match because they have been doing better without Mbappe

[m4r1o]

For all of us to see something like this taking some time, it is not going to be easy and should be very near impossible for Lisbon.

yes i agree with you the level is very different and thinking that they manage to beat Arsenal i really don't think it's possible, even if football has many surprises in store for us, as always we can't know how it will go but my prediction is Arsenal's victory, clearly, now i just have to understand what will happen on the next step.

[Zackz5000]

I'm sorry but I disagree: Liverpool, because of Slot, decided to change a lot of players while bringing in several new ones, and right now not a single player lived up to the expectations nor the price Liverpool paid for them. And let's not forget that he fought with Salah, leaving the Egyptian guy with no choice but to leave the team earlier than what had agreed. If you spend that amount of money, let a key player like Luis Diaz leave and ruin the relationship with Salah, you are responsible, that's it.

Slot did well with Liverpool last season but it's different in this season after many changes in player resource last summer. Slot has a lot of difficulty in using new players together with senior members in the club but he is partially responsible for players in and out the club in the summer so he can not blame anything. It looks like Slot was too confident that new star players can adapt to the league and club well enough and quickly successfully replace players who left the club in the summer. So far, we all witnessed that this belief is wrong and affects Liverpool performances in this season. It's not time to regret anything that already happened, it's actually time of tightening their squad and play as best as possible in remaining matches.

Slot did well during the first year because he simply continued what Klopp did for several years. Usually that is a smart move because when you replace a manager that trained the team for 5+ years the most intelligent thing is to slightly change the tactic without completely overturned it. The second year we saw more of Slot's ideas and, unfortunately for Liverpool, they didn't work at all.

It too Klopp time to build Liverpool the way it was before leaving the team. Arne Slot use what Klopp built to win the English Premier league tittle in this first season as Liverpool coach, he would have still go with those formation and tactic since it works for him then know a good replacement to bring in when there is an injury in the team or when a player is out of form. Salah wasn't in a good form this season could it be what affected Liverpool in the league or the tactics of Slot made Mo Salah to loss form?

[KTChampions]

In this match things will be very evenly matched. For me, whoever scores first will have a psychological advantage because they will have dared to take the first step. I don't know how intensely Bayern will come out looking for the win. Madrid's defense isn't very good, but I think Madrid's attack has improved a lot since Arbeloa arrived. I don't know what he's done, but the improvement is quite good.

I don't think the first goal will decide anything in a two-legged tie of this level. The games are pre-determined as BTTS, so no one will be surprised by either a goal scored or a goal conceded. In terms of chances, of course, the first scorer will be slightly closer to the overall victory, but at this level, everyone is psychologically prepared to both catch up and lead. Bayern remains the favorite, but I see that in recent days the odds have started to shift in favor of Real, this is a good sign (I support Real), I noticed that this indicates a current incorrect assessment.

[Mayor of ogba]

Sporting cannot be underestimated, I am sure Arteta will also think so because this is a quarter-final match where every team has strengths that must be watched out for, although I also do not deny that overall Arsenal's strength is better compared to Sporting. However, in terms of mentality, that is not certain and anything is still possible, so I will not overly favor Arsenal.

Sporting lost the first leg  match against bodo/glimt 3-0 . Despite being behind by such a large margin, sporting qualified for the quarter-finals. And for this reason, there is no chance to  consider Sporting as weak.

Arsenal will have to play very carefully in the first leg match. Sporting is always very strong at home. Sporting has played well in almost every home match of the champions league. They were even able to defeat a strong team like PSG at home. So  the possibility of arsenal winning easily is very low.

Especially I would say that if arsenal makes any mistake in the first leg match, they will face big problems. So in any case, arsenal must try to win or draw in the first leg  match.

Anyone who has been following the Champions League and the Portuguese league will know how strong Sporting CP is, and I think Sporting CP overturning their 3-0 defeat in the hand of Bodø/Glimt shouldn't be a yardstick that Sporting CP is a strong. I wouldn't blame anyone who sees Sporting CP as a weak team because it's obvious the person doesn't know the team or club called Sporting CP. Sporting CP performed a little bit better than Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, but Arsenal found it difficult to get passed Bayer Leverkusen in the round of 16. There's a clear indication that Sporting CP will become a difficult opponent to Arsenal more the Bayer Leverkusen, so Arsenal needs to make no mistake against Sporting CP and they should be careful against Sports CP in the first leg of their quarter final tie.

[SmartCharpa]

Real Madrid doesn't play with champions league especially when they have gotten to a stage like this. Although the present Madrid aren't the same Madrid we have then but nevertheless Bayern needs to do a great job to defeat them.  I believe at this stage, they will want to use all experience to work to winning. I believe this match will surely be an interesting match with many goals.

I agree with you, at this stage Real Madrid doesn’t joke with their performance in the Champions League when they reach the quarterfinals. Perhaps we are going to see another different performance from them in the game against Bayern Munich, like we saw against them with Man City and Benfica, we need to understand that Real Madrid isn’t a team Baywrn Munich can eliminate that easy, they need to prepare themselves, they are also a team that hardly plays without conceding a goal.

I think we should only leave it in that way we should wait and see what can happen in the match day. Because the football is full of surprises, a team that we didn’t expected to do better will later come out with a positive results.

Sure, anything can happen in football a team that you didn’t expect to do well come out with a surprising result, the game between Arsenal and Sporting, we have to wait after the game to determine whether Arsenal will qualify easily or they will struggle to win. Sporting isn’t at the same level with Arsenal, but we shouldn’t underestimate them since they will host the first leg.

[landheer]

In this match things will be very evenly matched. For me, whoever scores first will have a psychological advantage because they will have dared to take the first step. I don't know how intensely Bayern will come out looking for the win. Madrid's defense isn't very good, but I think Madrid's attack has improved a lot since Arbeloa arrived. I don't know what he's done, but the improvement is quite good.

Usually, the first to score a goal will gain confidence and a better mentality. Now I'm curious who will score first in this match. Real Madrid has great abilities, as does Bayern. In my opinion, this match is not easy to predict. However, I think Real Madrid will have the biggest advantage because they are the host and usually play well at home. I also read the news that Mbappe is very optimistic that he can beat Real Madrid. Well, we'll see what happens later.

But Bayern will definitely fight hard to win, and the Bayern coach will definitely try to defeat Arbeloa's strategy. It looks like this match will be very exciting. However, as for betting, I think I'll bet on it because this lag is very difficult to predict the winner.

[9ja Amaka]

Real Madrid doesn't play with champions league especially when they have gotten to a stage like this. Although the present Madrid aren't the same Madrid we have then but nevertheless Bayern needs to do a great job to defeat them.  I believe at this stage, they will want to use all experience to work to winning. I believe this match will surely be an interesting match with many goals.

I think this match is the most unpredictable match in the quarterfinals. I know most people will favor Bayern Munich to go through,  but I really don't think it will be that easy. Bayern Munich has been in a very good form this season and Real Madrid has had ups and downs all season,  so I totally understand why most people will favor Bayern Munich, but like I said Real Madrid are a team that can hurt any team on thier good day, so I don't see it as an easy match for Bayern Munich.  One thing I am very sure is that the both legs are going to produce a lot of goals and I also think it's going to be a very interesting encounter,  but I really can't predict which team is going to go through,  because I believe both team are capable of going through to the semifinals.

[blue Snow]

For all of us to see something like this taking some time, it is not going to be easy and should be very near impossible for Lisbon.

yes i agree with you the level is very different and thinking that they manage to beat Arsenal i really don't think it's possible, even if football has many surprises in store for us, as always we can't know how it will go but my prediction is Arsenal's victory, clearly, now i just have to understand what will happen on the next step.

Indeed, the level is very different, but did you know that Arsenal is experiencing a player crisis due to injuries to many of their key players during national team matches. Sporting Lisbon should not be underestimated, especially since Sporting will be playing at home against Arsenal in the first leg. While many people are predicting Arsenal to beat Sporting, I'm a bit pessimistic about Arsenal being able to beat Sporting in the first leg, considering the number of injured Arsenal players. Let's see what Arteta will do in the first leg against Sporting, with so many of Arsenal's key players injured. After all, in the Champions League, even the smallest mistake can backfire.

[giorgione]

Sporting were not the underdogs going into the match from the first leg. Bodo glimt has been putting teams out, big teams but sporting were not like a big underdog in the match and after the first leg 3:0 people only thought it was impossible for sporting to come back and not that they were underdogs.
Yes there is no very obvious underdogs in this quarter finals but for the Arsenal and sporting matching because sporting are obvious underdogs to Arsenal.

Arsenal will never be the underdog this year, they can meet everyone and challenge everyone without fear, i am convinced that these players are happy with what they are doing and they really like playing against teams that are strong, perform well and keep up the challenge, Arsenal will make it.

[pewboy]

Arsenal won all their group stage matches including big teams but it's always a different ball game at the knockout stage. I see Arsenal as the favorite to win the game. Football is full of surprises, anything can happen, we might see a different outcome entirely from our expectations. Only gamble with the amount of money that you can afford to lose.
Arsenal won all phase league round matches but the first leg of rou d of 16 played draw against Bayern Leverkusen, little doubt with Arsenal performance at quarter final round against Sporting Lisbon will easily winning back to back home and away match or not? However Arsenal has advantage after all their player return back from international break match and avoid them from injury for playing in Champion League first leg against Sporting Lisbon one week later.
Entering the quarter final round I think difficult for predicting about which one team easy qualify to semifinal roumd because all teams participants want to earn much benefit if can reach higher round in Champion League.

Arsenal will continue to win, they can win all the draws from now until the end of the championship, this is certainly a great challenge, because in the champions you don't joke, but they are definitely the favorites and when they see the possibility of victory they go down hard so it won't be easy for Sporting.

[SmartCharpa]

I'm sorry but I disagree: Liverpool, because of Slot, decided to change a lot of players while bringing in several new ones, and right now not a single player lived up to the expectations nor the price Liverpool paid for them. And let's not forget that he fought with Salah, leaving the Egyptian guy with no choice but to leave the team earlier than what had agreed. If you spend that amount of money, let a key player like Luis Diaz leave and ruin the relationship with Salah, you are responsible, that's it.

Of course, Arne Slot is responsible for everything, he had a misunderstanding with Moh Salah and left him on the bench for few matches, Salah might not be on his prime again this season, but he cannot just force him out of the squad like that, he didn’t give him the playing time he deserved from the beginning of the season, and we are yet to see him at his best level this season, this isn’t the Salah we watched last season, he struggled to score in big matches.

To be honest, I don’t think Arne Slot is behind Luiz Dias departure from the team after they won the Premier League, we don’t know the relationship he has with the manager, but I think the player decided to leave because he want to face another challenges, while they brought in more players to strengthen their squad, but they didn’t play to our expectations.

[alankasman]

Indeed, the level is very different, but did you know that Arsenal is experiencing a player crisis due to injuries to many of their key players during national team matches. Sporting Lisbon should not be underestimated, especially since Sporting will be playing at home against Arsenal in the first leg. While many people are predicting Arsenal to beat Sporting, I'm a bit pessimistic about Arsenal being able to beat Sporting in the first leg, considering the number of injured Arsenal players. Let's see what Arteta will do in the first leg against Sporting, with so many of Arsenal's key players injured. After all, in the Champions League, even the smallest mistake can backfire.

The level is clearly different but all teams that have reached that stage have the best strengths so they are currently in a position that many other teams aspire to. However the reputations of these two teams are indeed different especially since the level of competition is also more attractive in the EPL than in the competition Sporting is participating in.

In this case many support Arsenal in my opinion even though many Arsenal players are injured they still have players who often sit on the bench but they also rarely play they also have the same goal meaning that all players have their own abilities. This is what makes Arteta not too confused about what scheme he will apply during the match later which we all know is that the match still uses a home-away scheme meaning that both teams will take advantage of their respective home matches which is the capital of both teams to be the visiting team when they play both Arsenal and Sporting.