The Scores
The First Leg
De Bruyne Trousers 52½ – 39 All Star Gunners
Last season, DBT and ASG both competed for the Championship. DBT won all four of their meetings and all by 15 or more matchpoints. What followed last weekend maintained that narrative (albeit ever so slightly closer). ASG have a small mountain to climb, but will be buoyed but the continued success of Antoine Semenyo ahead of his game against the basement boys of Wolverhampton.
Barons 48½ – 58½ The Phenoms
It was an eye-catching fight between the Championship’s top two. Both won their league games, allowing The Phenoms to keep Barons at arms length, but the league’s topscorers are poised to retake pole position on any given week. In the Champions League however, Barons need to overcome a 10-point deficit, and there’s a chance that that challenge may be met by Morgan Rogers when he faces Lewis Hall (Phenoms). Hall, however, has had two clean sheets in the past three games, and saw Villa stumble against Everton last week.
The Second Leg
De Bruyne Trousers 62 – 31 All Star Gunners
With the exception of the exciting-to-watch Semenyo and a fifth goal for Brian Brobbey, ASG had a nightmare semi-final. Opting for a “defensively robust” 5-2-3, they were broken by 12 goals allowed (GK/DEF) and zero clean sheets. Brobbey’s teammate Trai Hume was punished for conceding three first-half West Ham goals, returned -3, and neither Kelleher nor Frimpong could generate a positive score either (ie, both goose-egged). Van Hecke came off the bench with a lowly one point, while Nunes and Williams remained behind with 10+8.
That meant that DBT needed just 18 matchpoints off the back of their win last week to make an immediate return to the Champions League Final. They scored 37 from fielding Romero, Szoboszlai and Watkins alone – all finding the net away from home. Donnarumma and James also brought another combined 17. DBT win another Semi-Final, progress with a comfortable 40-pt aggregate victory.
Barons 52 – 56½ The Phenoms
It was a much closer game in the second leg of this fixture, but closer wasn’t what Barons wanted; they needed a 10-point win. Both ‘keepers (Henderson for Barons and Roefs for Phenoms) scored exactly zero (both played 90mins, conceded 3 and saved 2). Both teams also had 4 shots-on-target, Barons converted just one of these while Phenoms scored three.
Haaland (1 FPt) let Barons down for the second week in a row, but Chris Richards scored his first (and possibly only) goal of the season. On the other side, Dorgu and Mbuemo scored for Phenoms in their win away at league leaders Arsenal, and Szoboszlai added another on the south coast for the current Champions Liverpool.
The Final
The Season 12 Champions League Final takes place in Gameweek 25.
Kicks off on February 6th, 2026.
One leg – No replay if drawn. The tiebreaker is Goals Scored.
It will be The Phenoms’ first appearance in the Champions League Final (in their second entry), and DBT’s second consecutive (third attempt). DBT have reached the final four in all three tries, and the Final this season and last.
It will be a Friday-Sunday gameweek, starting off with Leeds United at home to Nottingham Forest. Last time out, Forest came back from a goal down to win 3-1. Currently 16th and 17th in the Premier League, both teams are fearful of being caught by West Ham and dropping into the relegation zone.
The Hammers also have a drop zone six-pointer against the team below them, and they also won the previous fixture in November after going behind, winning this one 3-2 (Josh Cullen’s 97th-minute consolation goal didn’t affect the outcome for Scott Parker’s boys).
There will be a repeat of the Europa League Final when Spurs travel to Manchester. Tottenham nearly beat United two months ago with a Richarlison injury time goal, only to be pegged back when de Ligt equalised in the 96th.
The final will end on Sunday 8th with Liverpool v City, formerly billed as a possible title decider, preceded by the Brighton-Palace “rivalry” match. The last Glenn Murray Derby ended in a scrappy goalless draw, there were only five shots-on-target, neither team reached 1xG and there were three yellow cards in injury for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The final Final game will have City travelling to Anfield for the first time since December 2024. The Champions won 2-0 that day, but more recently it was Man City in full control of their engagement, winning 3-0 (even after Haaland missed a penalty). Man City are currently second in the Premier League, Liverpool sixth.
This will be the first time that The Phenoms have played De Bruyne Trousers, and they may be going into the game as Championship League leaders (depending on their result vs SWP next weekend). De Bruyne Trousers are currently third in the Premier League and have outscored The Phenoms 14 times out of the 23 gameweeks this season, but just by 46½ fantasy points overall, roughly two per week on average.
The two teams currently (this is all subject to change over the next ten days of course) share Daniel Munoz and Dominik Szoboszlai, so how they both use the pair could affect the Final. Igor Thiago will be the biggest threat up front, having scored 16 so far this season, and might cause a headache at the back as Lewis Hall is one of the four defenders in The Phenoms roster.
Calvert-Lewin and Watkins probably represent DBT’s best avenues to goal as they face Forest and Bournemouth respectively in GW25. Reece James has a good chance at earning a clean sheet if he’s selected to start against Wolves, and also generating Tackle & Interception points from Strand Larsen (Phenoms). The Phenoms could counter with Matty Cash who has conceded just one in his last three games, and played the full ninety in Villa’s 4-0 win over Bournemouth in November. Remember though, the Premier League transfer window is still open for another few days, so there may be more changes ahead of the Final.
Good luck to both teams. The winner will be announced shortly after the conclusion of Gameweek 25.
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