The craziest Champions League: there are already 11 goals and 3.30 goals per game
NWe haven’t even been there for two days, but The new format proposed by UEFA for this 24/25 season already leaves us with evidence: there are more goals and more wins. The joint classification, where the difference between goals scored and goals conceded is fundamental, invites teams to continue trying to find the rival goal regardless of whether they are already ahead on the scoreboard. It is the main consequence of this revolution in the first phase of the Champions League.
If the opening day of the Champions League already produced abnormally large results, the second is leaving some even stranger results. The big clubs are no longer only looking for three points against the ‘Cinderellas’, but they also want to draw blood. The statistics do not lie and that is This is the season with the highest number of goals per game since the creation of the competition.
In recent years, The average number of goals per game had settled at three, but this start to the league phase is far surpassing that statistic. So far 27 games have been played, with 89 goals scored to date. The result is 3.30, which are the number of times the nets are pierced for each collision, seeing a goal every 27 minutes.
This increase is mainly due to the increasing number of goals that are being seen. Bayern beat Dinamo Zagreb 9-2 on the first daywhich was a great warning of what is being confirmed match after match. Barcelona (5-0), Borussia Dortmund (7-1), Manchester City (0-4), Brest (0-4) e Inter (4-0) were other examples that occurred last Tuesday in the Champions League. Added to these are those of Leverkusen (0-4)Celtic (5-1)Dortmund again (0-3)Sparta Prague (3-0) and Aston Villa (0-3) of the first date. In total, there are now 11 matches that are decided by a difference of more than three goals.
More teams, more difference
The number of teams present in the maximum continental competition has also increased and that means that the difference between better and worse is also greater. There have always been clubs that were several steps below, but not as many as on this occasion. Young Boys, RB Salzburg and Slovan Bratislava are off to a disastrous startshowing a level more typical of a Conference than a Champions.
The format is still being born and it is possible that it will undergo variations over the years in search of a perfect system, but this debut in the Champions League is crying out in the throats of the narrators and leaving the goal nets more worn than ever. . It only remains to be seen if these data are maintained over the phases and playoffs or if they are the result of a lack of adaptation to these new rules.
