15 reasons to be excited as the UEFA Champions League is back!

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UEFA Champions League football is back and there are plenty of reason to be excited! Well, at least our WhaleBets team will name exactly 15. All the big guns will be blazing and each club will aim to go all the way to the final on 30 May 2020 at the Ataturk stadium in Istanbul – a city provided great UEFA Champions League memories over the past decade. Could we be in for the greatest ever UEFA Champions League season ever? We will be certainly hope so.

 

 

 

  1. Liverpool look to defend their title from last season and become the first English side to defend their UEFA Champions League trophy.

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  2. Old faces, new faces in – Joao Felix, Antoine Griezmann and Eden Hazard are just a 3 of the high-profile players changing their club alliances over the summer.

  3. How many other records will Cristiano Ronaldo and Leo Messi break over the course of the season?
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  4. Remember the 2005 final between Liverpool and AC Milan. Guess where the final will be this year? Yes, you are right – Istanbul.

  5. Napoli v Liverpool, Dortmund v Barcelona, PSG v Real Madrid – and that is just in the first 2 days of the group stage!

  6. Ajax – the young Dutch side won our hearts last season, could they make another serious run after losing some of their star players during the summer?
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  7. Juventus are yet again looking like a major contender, but is finally Cristiano going to win the UEFA Champions League with 3rd different team?

  8. Neymar Jr. had a frustrating summer, could he recapture his best form and PSG become a major contender and reach at least the Quarterfinals?
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  9. Bayern Munich are in a transformation period having replaced club stalwarts Robben and Ribery, but can the young generation inspire the Munich side?

  10. Inter – Romelu Lukaku is finding it’s best form and the Nerrazzuri are one of the clubs to watch this season.

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  11. English sides – all-English final last year, strong sides this season and all the reason why we can see all English clubs go all the way till the later stages.

  12. Atalanta – the Seria A side is making their debut in the tournament and they could be a real dark-horse for the knockout stages.

  13. Crvena Zvezda, Dinamo Zagreb, Olympiacos, Galatasaray – the party in the group stages is joined by 4 major Balkans clubs and knowing the passion from those sets of fans – it could become nasty.

  14. VAR – what impact will the new technology would have to the beautiful game and decisive matches, a discussion we will not now enter, we are just extremely curious to see how this will result when it matters the most.
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  15. New kick-off time in group stages – following the success of the 2 TV slots made in the UEFA Europa League, the most riches competition is having 2 TV slots meaning only one thing – more football can be watched.

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