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2025-26 UEFA Champions League: Week 1 Recap

800 sats \ 35 comments \ @Carresan 19 Sep Stacker_Sports

Week 1 finished last night. Barça, thanks to Rashford who scored twice, won at Newcastle 1-2. Man City beat Napoli 2-0, though the Italians played with 10 players for 70 minutes after Di Lorenzo was sent off at 21 minutes. Surprisingly, Bayer Leverkusen could only get a draw in their visit to Copenhagen. Club Brugge, Eintrach Frankfurt and Sporting Lisbon beat clearly their opponents last night.

Pool results

@fred and @brave added 19 points and are at the top of the table. They are followed closely by @joyfam, @Undisciplined and @suraz. I am really happy that there up to 14 stackers participating this year.

As it is Week 1, on aggregate, the results are the same.

Prize

Currently, there are 14278 sats in the pot. Please consider that I will apply a 30% deduction, due to fees, on 4278 sats. The remaining 10000 sats will not have deduction.

Week 2

Matches will be played on September 30th and October 1st. I will post a few days earlier to open submissions.

Stay tuned!

cc: @grayruby @Undisciplined @zion @joyfam @brave @TNStacker @suraz @oxy @Entrep @fred @User21000000 @0xbitcoiner @lunanto

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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 19 Sep

Not bad.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

You did well too!

25 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 19 Sep

Complete disaster on my end!

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

Hahaha, not far from you! I was expecting more from Villareal.

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @Oxy 19 Sep

For a start, I like my position

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

You did well, though still very early. Do you support any team?

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @Oxy 19 Sep

I'm team real madrid, looking forward to Mbappe lifting the trophy

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

Great! What do you think about this year? Team looks better under Xabi Alonso, more pressure , players defending better and Mbappé looks better too.

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 22 Sep

I am having some issue with the app validating scores for the games. I think you should run your new pick 'em contest as per normal and I will run the first real contest for the app so I can deal with any issues in real time. I appreciate you offering to try to use the app but I don't want to cause you any extra work or headaches if it isn't working seamlessly.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 22 Sep

That's ok. No worries! We will have time to test it. I appreciate your help. I will run it as usual. Thanks!

15 sats \ 20 replies \ @grayruby 19 Sep

I knew one of these would finish in a draw but got the wrong one. Next round.

50 sats \ 19 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

I did miss it too. I thought it could be more likely in the Bayern vs Chelsea. A 4-4 draw is really unusual!

15 sats \ 18 replies \ @grayruby 19 Sep

Yes 4-4 is a high scoring match on both sides.

71 sats \ 17 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

By the way, I was considering to run a "pick 'em" bounty (just 1000 sats to begin) linked to the Europa League, which is tier 2 competition in European Football. My team, Real Betis, plays this contest this year. It would be similar to your pick 'em. Stackers should provide matches outcome (either team A or B wins or draw) and a tiebreaker.

Format in Europa League is similar to Champions league, with a group phase, where teams play 8 matches, followed by knockout stage that will lead to the final in May.

Europa League matches are on Thursdays (apart from the next week that will be on Wednesday and Thursday) so that it will not concur with yours. Let me know your thoughts and if you would be happy that I go ahead with it.

125 sats \ 6 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 19 Sep

My team, Real Betis, plays this contest this year.

FC PORTO, let’s go!

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/fixtures-results/

82 sats \ 5 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

I knew it! It's one of the hard ones along with Aston Villa, Roma and Lille

93 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 19 Sep

FC Porto’s killing it this year with the new Italian coach. No way that list’s right! 🤠

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

Yeah, I agree. This sort of things may look ok in paper though in reality it's a lot different. Anyway, we may agree that Aston Villa is definitely one of the main favorites. I would include within a short distance Lille, Porto and Feyenoord. Real Betis should be in quarter finals and then, it will depend on injuries, fitness and so on.

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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 19 Sep

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 19 Sep

Should be fun.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

I am sure it will!

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30 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 21 Sep

Do you want to run it as a pick 'em or similar to the UEFA contest where player accumulate points for correct picks. I am creating a "football madness" type of contest in the app that will allow you to host these kinds of contests.

Pick 'em is straight forward. We already have a Random sports pick 'em in the app so I can just create a football pick 'em where players can select draw as well.

I will set both up in the app and you can decide which format you want to use for Europa.

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @Carresan OP 21 Sep

Regarding the UEFA Europa League contest, I am happy to run it as a pick 'em weekly so there is no need to accumulate points.

Every week there will be a winner of the 1000 sats.

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 21 Sep

Ok.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Carresan OP 21 Sep

Thanks for your help ! What's next? Shall I log in the app to add the matchups?

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15 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 19 Sep

When does it start?

Do you want to try to do it in the app?

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

When does it start?

Wednesday 24th

Do you want to try to do it in the app?

Happy to give it a go!

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 19 Sep

Ok let me test a pick 'em with a draw option this weekend and if everything is working ok we can try using the app.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

Great! No problems..

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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 19 Sep

Almost a bad outing for my strategy

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 19 Sep

Not bad at all! There are other Stackers that performed really well, getting two or three correct results. It's good we have more competitors.

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @Entrep 21 Sep

Not to be a burden but can you also make a key indicator of what the highlighted cell color stand for?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Carresan OP 21 Sep

Yes, no problems! Green : 3 points, you've got the match outcome right Blue: 5 points, in addition to prior, you've got the final score correct. Grey: 0 points, you've got it wrong.