Champions League

2022 - 10 - 25

Champions League 24/25 format: Football Manager fans experience ... (GiveMeSport)

This gives the opportunity for clubs to test themselves against a wider range of opponents – and also raises the prospect of fans seeing the top teams go head ...

The new format should mean that there is more to play for right up until the final night of league action." "While the top eight teams will advance automatically to the round of 16, those sides placed between ninth and 24th will enter a play-off round. "Under the new format, teams will play four matches more than is currently the case. The present Champions League season begins with participants divided into eight groups of four. [Champions League](https://www.givemesport.com/champions-league) is going to look very different come the 2024/25 season. From the 2024/25 season, there will be a single league made up of all 36 competing clubs.

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Ajax vs. Liverpool Predictions: Champions League Odds & UCL ... (Goal.com)

After going three matches unbeaten in all competitions, Liverpool's recent momentum was brought to a shuddering halt at the weekend.

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Champions League permutations and scenarios: How teams can ... (Sporting News)

What Champions League teams need to qualify: Of the 16 knockout stage places up for grabs this year, only five have been secured. Here's a full look at what ...

- Loss vs. PSG AND PSG draw vs. - Win vs. - Draw vs. RB Leipzig AND RB Leipzig loss or draw vs. Marseille AND Marseille loss or draw vs. Sporting CP AND Sporting CP loss or draw vs. - Win in final two matches (@ Atletico Madrid, vs. - Rangers win vs. Porto AND Porto loss vs. Ajax AND Ajax loss vs. - Wins in both of last two matches (vs.

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Top eight fastest hattricks in UEFA Champions League history (Khel Now)

Following Mohamed Salah's quickest Champions League hat-trick of all-time. Let's look at the previous fastest UCL hattricks.

[Manchester City](https://khelnow.com/tag/manchester-city/) demolish [Atalanta](https://khelnow.com/tag/atalanta/) and maintain their 100% start in Champions League Group C. With a 52nd-minute slot into an open net, Gomis’ hat-trick eclipsed Newell’s previous record 16-year record of scoring the fastest hat-trick in the Champions League by completing it in 8 minutes and 45 seconds. The 30-year-old winger replaced Darwin Núñez in the 68th minute and scored his first goal in the 75th. With Bayern Munich in 2021-22, Lewandowski scored three goals in the first 23 minutes of a knockout-stage match against RB Salzburg, marking the fastest hat trick scored by any player in the competition from the start of the game. The Spanish giants had cruised into a three-goal half-time lead courtesy of Karim Benzema’s double and a Ronaldo strike before the latter netted twice more early in the second period to make it three goals in just 11 minutes either side of the interval. Blackburn saved complete embarrassment with a comfortable victory over Rosenborg in their final fixture. Robert Lewandowski scored four times, converting a penalty on 53 minutes to double Bayern’s lead from the first half. Ronaldo became the first player to score more than 10 goals in the group stages with his 11 in six games. Lewandowski remarkably scored three goals in a devastating spell of 10 minutes and 22 seconds to kill this tie. Only Messi and Luiz Adriano have scored five goals in a single match. Luiz Adriano in the 28th minute scored a penalty. Let’s look at the previous fastest UCL hattricks that Salah has now beaten.

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Wednesday's Champions League predictions including Barcelona ... (Sports Mole)

Sports Mole provides score predictions and previews for all of today's Champions League fixtures, including Barcelona vs. Bayern Munich.

Marseille](/football/eintracht-frankfurt/champions-league/preview/preview-frankfurt-vs-marseille-prediction-team-news-lineups_497761.html) (Wednesday, 8.00pm) Sporting Lisbon](/football/spurs/champions-league/preview/preview-spurs-vs-sporting-lisbon-prediction-team-news-lineups_497724.html) (Wednesday, 8.00pm) Leverkusen](/football/atletico-madrid/champions-league/preview/preview-atletico-vs-bpoint-leverkusen-prediction-team-news-lineups_497758.html) (Wednesday, 8.00pm) [> Click here to read our full preview for this match](/football/atletico-madrid/champions-league/preview/preview-atletico-vs-bpoint-leverkusen-prediction-team-news-lineups_497758.html) [Barcelona vs. [> Click here to read our full preview for this match](/football/liverpool/champions-league/preview/preview-ajax-vs-liverpool-prediction-team-news-lineups_497738.html) [> How Liverpool could line up against Ajax](/football/liverpool/champions-league/predicted-lineups/how-liverpool-could-line-up-against-ajax_497750.html) [> Liverpool injury, suspension list vs. [> Click here to read our full preview for this match](/football/napoli/champions-league/preview/preview-napoli-vs-rangers-prediction-team-news-lineups_497753.html) [Ajax vs. [> Click here to read our full preview for this match](/football/inter-milan/champions-league/preview/preview-inter-milan-vs-plzen-prediction-team-news-lineups_497744.html) [Napoli vs. [> Click here to read our full preview for this match](/football/club-brugge/champions-league/preview/preview-brugge-vs-porto-prediction-team-news-lineups_497790.html) [Inter Milan vs. Ajax](/football/liverpool/injury-news/injuries-and-suspensions/liverpool-injury-suspension-list-vs-ajax_497707.html) [Atletico vs. If that is the case, Bayern would need to triumph here to be confirmed as section winners, but we have a feeling that an entertaining contest will end with the points being shared. With no real need to go at full throttle, Napoli may step off the accelerator if they can establish another early lead; settling for a relatively routine win. Starting to click into top gear, Inter are quite capable of securing the points needed for progress, but their recent defensive record offers Plzen some hope.

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Messi breaks another Ronaldo Champions League record as PSG ... (Goal.com)

Paris Saint-Germain superstar Lionel Messi produced a spellbinding performance against Maccabi Haifa on Tuesday, scoring two fabulous goals.

[scoring as Paris Saint-Germain ran riot to beat Maccabi Haifa](https://www.goal.com/en/news/messi-50th-psg-appearance-goal-maccabi-haifa/blte3341da9fc45df25) in the Champions League, but it was his second goal - a delicate strike from outside of the box - that stole headlines. [BUY FIFA 23 NOW](https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/fifa-23) WHAT NEXT FOR MESSI?

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PSG hit seven, reach Champions League last 16 (The Punch)

Kylian Mbappe and a Lionel Messi in vintage form both scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain crushed Israel's Maccabi Haifa 7-2 on Tuesday to secure a place in ...

Then came what was probably the night’s outstanding goal, as Messi linked up brilliantly with Mbappe before jinking his way into a shooting position and burying a shot into the bottom-left corner. Mbappe laid the ball back to the Argentine who took a touch before sending a shot across goalkeeper Josh Cohen and into the far corner of the net with the outside of his left boot. The upcoming World Cup in Qatar is surely a factor in the outstanding early-season form of Messi and Neymar in particular, and along with Mbappe they turned on the style to leave Maccabi regularly looking dazed and confused in defence.

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Juventus out of the Champions League: If this isn't failure, then what ... (Goal.com)

Massimiliano Allegri is fooling nobody: Juventus' Champions League group-stage elimination constitutes abject failure, and he's lucky to still be in a job.

In truth, it was a desperate attempt to save his own club from its own mistakes. Any other coach would have been sacked by this stage of the season. So, this really isn’t all about Allegri and his horribly outdated tactics. And it was a humiliation. But the fact that he's still in charge is a damning indictment of Agnelli and his board, and the dire financial situation that they have put the club in. Then came three consecutive last-16 losses, to Lyon, Porto and Villarreal, before this latest humiliation in Lisbon. [Juve will remain under investigation for alleged false accounting and communications,](https://www.goal.com/en/news/juventus-notified-preliminary-investigations-finances-concluded-false-accounting-allegations/blt0ccab29ca604f25b) they were dumped out of the Champions League. This is a total systemic meltdown, a club in the midst of a complete institutional crisis, now under intense scrutiny on and off the field. [it was Agnelli who led the failed coup,](https://www.goal.com/en/news/agnellis-failed-coup-judas-like-juventus-president-has-lost/1ifwmqkn35iqr1l5mhz282d9i3) insisting that it was essential for the survival of the game. [president Andrea Agnelli insisted after the shameful loss to Maccabi Haifa that he had no intention of sacking Allegri before the end of the season,](https://www.goal.com/en/news/agnelli-confirms-allegri-not-sacked-admits-ashamed-of-juventus-terrible-season/blt07c1592f09cc1312) which means there is no end in sight to the fans' misery. [It's also abundantly obvious that he's only still in a job because of the size of his contract, which runs until 2025, and Juve's financial problems.](https://www.goal.com/en/news/allegri-juventus-coach-sacked-agnelli-blame-institutional-crisis/blte08880620911a674) In 2017, Juve reached a second final in three seasons.

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