Social media in turmoil as ‘investors’ suffer heartbreaks on final day of UEFA Champions League group stage
Investors' suffer heartbreaks on final day of UEFA Champions League group stage
With eighteen (18) games marking the final round of the group phase of the newly-created UEFA Champions League format, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, was supposed to be the ‘cash out’ day for most punters or investors, as they like to call themselves.
The group phase of the 2024/2025 UEFA Champions League had reached a crescendo with some big clubs, including Real Madrid and Manchester City, needing wins to advance to the next stage of the competition.
The likes of Liverpool, Arsenal, and Barcelona, who had already qualified, had extra motives, such as favourable draws in the next round and financial rewards, to win their games.
All these factors set up the biggest possible ‘cash out’ day for bettors, not only in Ghana but across the world.
Ahead of kick-off, Ghana’s social media space, particularly X (formerly Twitter), was awash with posts of people expressing readiness to bet with the conviction that they were going to enjoy huge returns.
Betting odds were also flying on social media as bettors shared their stakes to allow their friends to stake in anticipation of the monies they were going to enjoy.
But things did not turn out as planned as the results of some games went against what many ‘investors’ predicted.
Based on the meltdown on social media, most of the ‘investors’ suffered heartbreaks as clubs like Liverpool, Manchester City, Young Boys, Barcelona, and others chalked various results that did not go in favor of the punters.
See some of the reactions below:
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
