I love the Champion’s League because look at this ranking of global clubs – all the best clubs are in Europe, so the Champion’s League is close to a World Cup of clubs.

All of the top 30 ranked clubs in the world are in countries that feed into the Champion’s League. (Number 31 is Russian, which normally is in the Champion’s League but was suspended from UEFA in Feb 2022 because of… well I forget why)

All times are by https://time.is/Paris

Oct 3, 18:45

Union Berlin 🇩🇪 v 🇵🇹 Braga

Red Bull Salzburg 🇦🇹 v 🇪🇸 Real Sociedad

Oct 3, 21:00

Copenhagen 🇩🇰 v 🇩🇪 Bayern Munich

Manchester United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇹🇷 Galatasaray

Lens 🇫🇷 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal

PSV Eindhoven 🇳🇱 v 🇪🇸 Sevilla

Napoli 🇮🇹 v 🇪🇸 Real Madrid (WATCH THIS ONE)

Inter Milan 🇮🇹 v 🇵🇹 Benfica

Oct 4, 18:45

Hard to know which to watch: the first is better quality but less evenly matched, with Atlético favoured, whereas the second is harder to predict

Atlético Madrid 🇪🇸 v 🇳🇱 Feyenoord

Antwerp 🇧🇪 v 🇺🇦 Shakhtar Donetsk

Oct 4, 21:00

So much gold here. The list below is arranged from the most competitive to the most one-sided according to bookie’s odds

Newcastle United 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v 🇫🇷 Paris Saint-Germain

Borussia Dortmund 🇩🇪 v 🇮🇹 AC Milan

Celtic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 v 🇮🇹 Lazio

Red Star Belgrade 🇷🇸 v 🇨🇭 Young Boys

Porto 🇵🇹 v 🇪🇸 Barcelona

RB Leipzig 🇩🇪 v 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Manchester City

  • Vampire [any]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m getting into the Union Berlin story… they were in the 4th division just 17 years ago, only joined the Bundesliga for the first time in 2019, only joined the Champion’s League this year, and then were within a minute of getting an away point out of Réal fucking Madrid in their Champion’s League debut.

    74,000 Union fans there acting like total party animals.