The Champions League is over for another year, but what a tournament turned out to be the edition 2024/25.
A new format was introduced, and it is safe to say that after the first restraint, the competition phase – instead of a group stage – offered a few matches of the highest quality in all eight games and the competition became much more exciting. Thanks to data from the analytical company Pff FC, we have viewed some of the most interesting athletic statistics of the season.
New UCL League format a huge success
Where previously the big teams of Europe were often eligible for the round of 16 at a canter, which means that the last one or two group matches would be a 'dead rubber', last season some top teams still had to win their last league games to reach the last phases.
Manchester City, for example, had to beat Club Brugge to guarantee progression, after he had only achieved eight points of their opening seven games.
They managed to get the required victory, with Nico O'Reilly standing up in 24/25 as a remarkable player for Pep Guardiola, and whose presence was certainly felt in the Champions League.
15.91% of his runs were defined as HSR (High-Speed ​​Run), the most by every player in the competition. But in the end City would soon be dumped from the tournament by the holders, Real Madrid, who themselves were completely beaten over two legs of their quarterfinals against Arsenal.
PSG soon became the team to beat
The Gunners may have thought that their name was on the trophy, given the way Los Blancos were sent, but they were not a party for final winners, Paris Saint-Germain.
Despite the fact that he only finished in 15th position, Luis Enrique's side had become the team to beat in the knockout phase after switching off pre-tournament favorites, Liverpool, more than two legs in what should be one of the best tires of the entire competition in 24/25.
Inter Milan was picked up Barcelona in two epic semi-final collisions, although they too were not a party for the Parisiens and lost by a record 5-0 Scoreline in a one-sided final.
PSG's Joao Neves had a major role to play in the final, and at the age of 20 he can look back on last season's tournament knowing that he has given the most distance from each player (170.87 km).
Hakimi on fire, Penxa not out of the blocks
Colleague PSG ACE, Achraf Hakimi, registered the top speed of 35.54 km/h in the course of the competition, while Lukas Penxa van Sparta Prague was the slowest with a lecture of 14.99 km/h, although he only spent 1.74 minutes on the field in the entire tournament.
Hakimi also had the most sprints in the UCL (459), which was considerably more than Raphinha of Barcelona in second place (375), and as if I wanted to emphasize how hard Luis enrique got his PSG players to work, Nuno Mendes (331), William Pacho (321) also with this special with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley with Bradley.
Exactly at the bottom came seven players who had no sprints at all during the competition in 24/25.
Five keepers (Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Gregoire Coudert, Phillip Kohn, Alexander Meyer and Joel Drommel) would be expected to be there, although the Nathan Butler-Oyedeji of Arsenal and Atletico Madrid's Thomas Lemar hang their heads in shame.
What is also worth pointing out is that Mendes, Neves, Hakimi and Pacho were also in the top six players (all from PSG) who ran most during the entire competition, Pachos 54.61 km away as equivalent to 33.93 miles!