Surprises in matches are more visible in the European League than in the Champions League, but the level of fierce competition in matches is clearly more visible in the Champions League than in other leagues. But for the teams that are eliminated from the Champions League and enter the Europa League, it is also quite dangerous for other opponents because they could make a bigger surprise in the Europa League with the interesting matches they receive here.
Well this year's champions league was also full of surprises, although the end result was not any difference since Real Madrid was able to take the trophy home for the 15th time. What was surprising to me was the way Dortmund was able to hold the fierce competition with other elite clubs that participated and found their way to the finals. Although, that would not be the first time they had done that, since they were able to take the trophy in 1997 but now Dortmund wasn't at its best because they could not make it to the top third of the Bundesliga but at least they were able to channel the same energy to the Champions league finals.
The Europa League did get a very interesting surprise because Leverkusen played very well and got amazing wins in a row in many leagues so speculation is flowing that has a great chance of bringing the Europa League trophy is Leverkusen but in the final match Leverkusen was made helpless by Atalanta which even many people did not think that Atalanta could win the league trophy because it was amazed by the performance given by Leverkusen both in the Europa League and in the domestic league for beating Bayer Munich, and that was the big surprise in the Europa League.
While many thought that Real Madrid might also lose, the fact remains that Real Madrid won even though it took until the middle of the second half to get a goal, and I was also quite surprised that Dortmund could reach the final and compete with Real Madrid competitively and the goal scored by Madrid was not many concluded that Dortmund was extraordinary this season, even though they still lost the final against Real Madrid.