Hi everyone I am here today to do a complete preview of the world's most important soccer tournament at least in a club level the Uefa Champions League, don't get me wrong I like the World Cup but at the very least they carry the same or close to the same importance.
We'll break it down into 8 parts each one discussing an individual group. I'll do the first one today and the second one tomorrow, and so on so forth, to create an article relatively simple to understand I'll first list the teams in each group in the order I believe the group will finish, give a small breakdown of the group as a whole and then asess each individual team and why I believe they'll end up in that place. So let's begin.
Group A:
1st: Atletico Madrid.
2nd: Borussia Dortmund.
3rd: AS Monaco.
4th: Club Brugge.
This is a pretty interesting group although most of them are for a guy that enjoys soccer as much as me, in it we find three teams that don't come to mind when we think about the top tier (Barcelona, Juventus, Man United, Real Madrid...) maybe Atletico to a lesser degree than Dortmund and Monaco but as after a brief look back at the recent past will tell you, not only they have been almost a lock to be present in the tournament on a yearly basis they all enjoyed unprecedented success amongst Europe's best.
Simeone's squad has made it to two finals which is remarkable for a side with his investment, they were minutes away from the title the first time around and lost the second one in a penalty shootout, against Real Madrid well that's pretty good, it's heartbresking but nevertheless pretty good.
Borussia Dortmund had it's glory days eith Jurgen Klopp and that phenomenal squad that took the league title from the hands of the mighty Bayern Munchen but falled to the same in the UCL final, since the german coach had left the building the team hasn't been the same, losing key players and with that failing to produce the same results although their group last year was brutal, Tottenham and Real Madrid were and are ahead of Dortmund and it'd be quite a upset, to me at least if the german side were to eliminate them.
Remember when AS Monaco went after James Rodriguez and Falcao Garcia and it looked like just the beggining well that was about the whole it and they kind of slipped under the radar for a while and in that time they did a tremendlus job developing players until a couple of years ago they broke out and with the likes of Mbappe, Mendy, Silva, Bakayoko, Fabinho, Sidibe and others winning the Ligue 1 a shocker 8 points ahead of PSG and also making it to the UCL semifinal, unfortunately ot didn't last as the team saw most of it's key players leave in the following summer window.
Today we can easily put Atletico Madrid significantly ahead of everyone else in the group in terms of investment, expectation and all that comes with it, now that doesn't mean you'll ser them putting up 18 points but nonetheless it is what is, they are quite simply a level above, while Dortmund and Monaco have seen pretty much all of their star players leave once they reached a certain level, and Brugge is clearly the favorite to finiah the last.
Based on the previous paragraph you can see in my view the first and last place are pretty set. Now the reason I have Dortmund qualifying for the round of 16 is this.
1, Putting Brugge aside for a second. Monaco already lost at home to Simeone's side, it's quite improbable that they'll beat them at Madrid. You can say that this only matters if Dortmund somehow takes points away from Atletico, which is not a easy task. But consider this, the rojiblancos already won one of the four matchups against these two, they can very well win all four but that's not the likeliest of all scenarios and it is far more likely that they drop points in one of the two matches against Dortmund than in the one remaining.
2, Better Home Field advantage, if the scenario plays out as I talked about on the paragraph above, Dortmunf can decide at home against AS Monaco even if they oose the away game, a couple of draws will do the job also.
3, Third and most important, Dortmund to me is a better team than Monaco, they also have better options, just tell mr how many players from Monaco would start in the side from Germany.
Anwyay that's a wrap. More and more content coming. See you guys later and let me know what you think.
Anyone that knows a place hiring writers or if you are looking for one let me know. I'm always available 24/7.
My email is: estevaomaximo_23@hotmail.com
It's 1:41 AM my time right now and I'm using my cellphone so ignore the spelling horror that is this article
We'll break it down into 8 parts each one discussing an individual group. I'll do the first one today and the second one tomorrow, and so on so forth, to create an article relatively simple to understand I'll first list the teams in each group in the order I believe the group will finish, give a small breakdown of the group as a whole and then asess each individual team and why I believe they'll end up in that place. So let's begin.
Group A:
1st: Atletico Madrid.
2nd: Borussia Dortmund.
3rd: AS Monaco.
4th: Club Brugge.
This is a pretty interesting group although most of them are for a guy that enjoys soccer as much as me, in it we find three teams that don't come to mind when we think about the top tier (Barcelona, Juventus, Man United, Real Madrid...) maybe Atletico to a lesser degree than Dortmund and Monaco but as after a brief look back at the recent past will tell you, not only they have been almost a lock to be present in the tournament on a yearly basis they all enjoyed unprecedented success amongst Europe's best.
Simeone's squad has made it to two finals which is remarkable for a side with his investment, they were minutes away from the title the first time around and lost the second one in a penalty shootout, against Real Madrid well that's pretty good, it's heartbresking but nevertheless pretty good.
Borussia Dortmund had it's glory days eith Jurgen Klopp and that phenomenal squad that took the league title from the hands of the mighty Bayern Munchen but falled to the same in the UCL final, since the german coach had left the building the team hasn't been the same, losing key players and with that failing to produce the same results although their group last year was brutal, Tottenham and Real Madrid were and are ahead of Dortmund and it'd be quite a upset, to me at least if the german side were to eliminate them.
Remember when AS Monaco went after James Rodriguez and Falcao Garcia and it looked like just the beggining well that was about the whole it and they kind of slipped under the radar for a while and in that time they did a tremendlus job developing players until a couple of years ago they broke out and with the likes of Mbappe, Mendy, Silva, Bakayoko, Fabinho, Sidibe and others winning the Ligue 1 a shocker 8 points ahead of PSG and also making it to the UCL semifinal, unfortunately ot didn't last as the team saw most of it's key players leave in the following summer window.
Today we can easily put Atletico Madrid significantly ahead of everyone else in the group in terms of investment, expectation and all that comes with it, now that doesn't mean you'll ser them putting up 18 points but nonetheless it is what is, they are quite simply a level above, while Dortmund and Monaco have seen pretty much all of their star players leave once they reached a certain level, and Brugge is clearly the favorite to finiah the last.
Based on the previous paragraph you can see in my view the first and last place are pretty set. Now the reason I have Dortmund qualifying for the round of 16 is this.
1, Putting Brugge aside for a second. Monaco already lost at home to Simeone's side, it's quite improbable that they'll beat them at Madrid. You can say that this only matters if Dortmund somehow takes points away from Atletico, which is not a easy task. But consider this, the rojiblancos already won one of the four matchups against these two, they can very well win all four but that's not the likeliest of all scenarios and it is far more likely that they drop points in one of the two matches against Dortmund than in the one remaining.
2, Better Home Field advantage, if the scenario plays out as I talked about on the paragraph above, Dortmunf can decide at home against AS Monaco even if they oose the away game, a couple of draws will do the job also.
3, Third and most important, Dortmund to me is a better team than Monaco, they also have better options, just tell mr how many players from Monaco would start in the side from Germany.
Anwyay that's a wrap. More and more content coming. See you guys later and let me know what you think.
Anyone that knows a place hiring writers or if you are looking for one let me know. I'm always available 24/7.
My email is: estevaomaximo_23@hotmail.com
It's 1:41 AM my time right now and I'm using my cellphone so ignore the spelling horror that is this article
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