Re: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season

1 week away,

Big diference with the past.

the 1st turn will be played in 3 days

Tuesday 17th September
BSC Young Boys Bern 17:45 Aston Villa
Juventus 17:45 PSV Eindhoven
AC Milan 20:00 Liverpool
Bayern Munich 20:00 Dinamo Zagreb
Real Madrid 20:00 Stuttgart
Sporting Lisbon 20:00 Lille

Wednesday 18th September
Bologna 17:45 Shakhtar Donetsk
Sparta Prague 17:45 Red Bull Salzburg
Celtic 20:00 SK Slovan Bratislava
Club Brugge 20:00 Borussia Dortmund
Manchester City 20:00 Inter Milan
Paris Saint-Germain 20:00 Girona

Thursday 19th September
Crvena Zvezda 17:45 Benfica
Feyenoord 17:45 Bayer Leverkusen
Atalanta 20:00 Arsenal
Atletico Madrid 20:00 RB Leipzig
Brest 20:00 Sturm Graz
Monaco 20:00 Barcelona

Source_ https://www.skysports.com/champions-league-fixtures

They are using a lot of the idea of the "dead" superleague, but this is on copied poorly.

This is really a poor imitation of the Super League. Of all 18 games, only 3 (I highlighted them) can be called top games and in addition, you can find 3-4 games that are of interest. The rest will be interesting only to fans of the playing clubs. In total, out of 18 games, only 6-7 are watchable - and this is with the optimistic assumption that the new format will not kill the irreconcilability of the confrontations, since this is the group stage and the value of the games is very low. The only improvement is three matchdays instead of two, but that could also be a problem as the Europa League and Conference League will have no spectators at all.

UEFA's new Champions League format is straight out of the Super League playbook - more money, less sport. Yeah, we might get some juicy early matchups, Liverpool vs. Real Madrid in the group stage? Sounds great. But what about the smaller clubs? They're getting thrown to the wolves, playing each other in meaningless games while the big boys duke it out

This ain't good for anyone. The knockout stages could be a snoozefest if half the big names get knocked out early. And let's not forget about the Europa League. It's supposed to get a boost with no more Champions League dropouts, but let's be real, it'll be completely overshadowed by the new UCL format

UEFA's chasing the cash. It's the same story with all these football associations: squeeze every last penny out of the clubs, the fans, everyone. The beautiful game is becoming the business game, and that's a damn shame

There are too many changes that do happen in the Champions League every season but I don't see it will make the Champions League better, this season we will see a new format and I think a lot of surprises will actually happen in the change of format, including we will see how often big teams meet now in the semi-league phase started which we rarely found in the previous group phase, Maybe it will look interesting but the possibility for us to see a more exciting and high-intensity knockout phase seems unlikely to happen, because currently with the increase in the number of matches in the Champions League and also the schedule at clubs in the domestic league will actually make many players in big club clubs exhausted which in the end a storm of injuries will hit their squad, Especially with the national team matches which are indeed close to the schedule that the club currently have, so I think every big team is no longer ready to face competition in the Champions League like what happened to Madrid today which has lost many players due to injury.