Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 197. (Read 92693 times)

Agreed, The performance from real madrid is very consistent when it comes to the UCL. that's why real madrid has 14 UCL trophies as per this time. Manchester city was losing against madrid last season through a dramatic comeback. This is also giving huge pressures to the pep guardiola caused by manchester city will be facing the best club in the world. I see that how grealish and mahrez were even feeling over confidence if manchester city will able to win against madrid easily but i don't even think that thing gonna happen.

It's very hard for city to win the match against real madrid. We must try to see what's gonna be the result from the first leg before we will able to determine the result for the second leg. In my understand if these days.
Im thinking real madrid will be still winning the game against manchester city.

Real madrid was EPL team killer.

Now, Manchester City is the strongest nominee to win the title this season according to the odds providers. However, Real Madrid managed to win it many times when the odds weren't favoring them. Manchester City's biggest difference from last season is the participation of Haaland, who is able to change something for them, as well as being the top scorer now with 12 goals, and has the chance to break Ronaldo's record with 16 goals in one season, so this should give additional incentive for him. On the other hand, we can't underestimate Vinicius and Rodrigo, who have been showing great quality and high power in the last matches. Personally, I expect Manchester City to pass this time, as Guardiola is supposed to learn from every failure he made in the previous seasons.

I hope that the third attempt for Man City to win the title in the Champions League must be successful this season. But Real Madrid is really a scary team when they play in the Champions League. They have won 14 times the title in the Champions League. and if this season they win again, their record as the team with the most titles in the Champions League will be even more difficult for any team to catch up with. Somehow I expected Man City to win the UCL title for the first time this season.

Guardiola deserves this title this season. The team effort is really amazing right now and they are much better than Real Madrid right not in my opinion. Still the results in both legs might not be very comfortable for Manchester City but they should still be able to eliminate their opponent this time and have their revenge on them at the same time. Manchester City could have eliminated them last season already if that magical comeback didn't happen.

Guardiola is only missing the Champions League title with Manchester City now. They have been very successful so far except that one. While they have a very special striker like Haaland this must be their time to shine. I'm really bored of seeing Real Madrid becoming the champions often. I think it is time to see some new champions like Manchester City.

Imo Manchester City have always been a complete team, they have just been somewhat unlucky in the CL knockout stages even after scoring quite a lot of goals, last season against Real Madrid in the CL SF City scored five times, but defensive errors and lack of concentration cost them so much, and they ended up conceding 6 goals, thus they were eliminated. What i think is that City are now a more matured team in the CL, and that's all round, i mean in every department, not just because of Erling Haaland, the team now knows when to sit back and defend and when to go on all attack, and we saw that side of City against Bayern Munich in the QF 2nd leg. City are going to go through to the final, they are better prepared for Real Madrid and they are beginning to accrue the well needed experience to win games such as this.

Pep Guardiola has new head coach record in Champion League after success bring Manchester City on semifinal stage for three time in a row but he still fail for tittle. This important chance for Manchester City winning Champion League this season and not becoming yet meme by the rival Manchester United because The Citizen never won Champion League due several time participated.

Its not easy for beating Real Madrid in semifinal stage, team with mentality and come back winning make Manchester City face difficult how to win from Real Madrid exactly last season, after success winning of first leg but Madrid make it difference on second leg. Will Pep Guardiola winning Champion League again after last time on season 2010/2011 with Barcelona and its more than ten years Pep Guardiola has much money for transfer players and seems failure for winning Champion League tittle

Almost all Real Madrid fans seem to really be underestimating Manchester City from the race for its first Champions League title this season. I think you're all likely to see the facts differently this season because it's just so boring to have the same title winner for most of the season. Real Madrid has won 7 Champions League titles in 22 seasons "since 2000", and its best record since then is winning 3 titles in 3 consecutive seasons in 2016, 2017, 2018. Last season Real Madrid won it too, so they shouldn't going to win it this season.

I think it's time for a team like Manchester City to stop Real Madrid's dominance in the Champions League and this season Manchester City have a really good chance. Manchester City have to prove they deserve to win it instead of Real Madrid again so I hope Pep Guardiola will give it his all.

Match between these two sides is always competitive and always very difficult to predict because they are playing with one mind as everyone is willing g become the champions, but Inter stand a chance to win according to statistics from their last five matches because Inter win their last two matches.

If you consider experience manchester city has both the experience and the manpower to challenge any club Madrid might have dominated for some time now but manchester city is going to change the whole thing since am sure they will be emerging as the new champions, and I could remember how Benzema was on fire last season he was unstoppable when he was addressed as the big benz but this season manchester city have strategies and having Haaland is like you said is another player that perfectly knows how to deliver goals for his club the end to champions league is near can not wait to see the winner. the competitors are not joking everybody is trying their best.

I don't see a big difference between Milan and Inter now. These teams are very close to each other in the Serie A this season already. There is only a gap of two points between currently and the matches between so far have ended up with really competitive scores as well. Therefore I don't expect Milan to be as weak as they were against Napoli in the previous round. They weren't much impressive then but they still eliminated Napoli.

They must also be aware of that and I will be expecting improvements in their performance this time. Inter had some difficulty in defeating Benfica in the second leg. Actually they were very impressive at scoring again but the real problem was with their defending. Because they conceded 3 goals there. If they didn't have a good advantage from the first leg then things might have been more difficult for them to reach this stage.

Inter should focus on their defending now as there is nothing wrong with their productivity.

Actually it's not that difficult if you follow Milan's journey this season in the Champions League. Milan is the only Serie A team that has tough opponents compared to Inter. Milan managed to beat Tottenham in the round of 16, then beat Napoli in the quarter-finals, so they should be able to beat Inter in the semi-finals and qualify for the final. But of course things are not as easy as they say, so there must be struggle and sacrifice to qualify for the final between the two teams.

I hope Milan will represent Serie A in the final against Real Madrid. That seems to be the best hope where I have to say Madrid can beat Manchester City. We have to make the most of the first leg to win a good aggregate because the second leg will be at the Etihad.

Manchester city simply unstoppable this season.

No matter how experienced a club like real madrid is , manchester city under pep guardiola can't be compared to the recent opponents that faced by real madrid , it's a special case in manchester city where a club with great records & stats at the champions league like bayern munich as well get destroyed .

I didn't say he would lose, I just said who I wanted to see in the final. That they are indeed a very strong team for the Champions League is a fact, the number of wins proves it. But Manchester City also have strong players, cyborg Haaland is one of them, he can decide this game, but there are too many factors that make it impossible to determine in advance who will win.

Experience is going to be against strength in the matchup between Real Madrid and Manchester City. Real Madrid have dominated the Champions League most of the time obviously. They had a really tough run here last season also but still made it to the title with the right strategies and their experience. They will surely try to do the same thanks to Ancelotti's great management. However this time things might not go in their way like last season. Because now some things are different compared to then.

Manchester City are a complete team now especially thanks to Erling Haaland. He was the missing piece of the puzzle. He is really unstoppable now and I don't see any Real Madrid defender who can really stop him either. It is all up to Courtois' performance against him. But still I'm expecting Manchester City to reach the finale with the help of Haaland.

It would suit the status and name for a club like AC Milan to win the CL again. What would have been the odds for AC Milan to win the CL at the start of the tournament? Manchester City or Real Madrid are the favorites anyway if they play against each other in the final. But emotionally I think that the Milanese clubs have a better chance against Real Madrid than against Manchester City. But that is emotionally, actually quite crazy because Real Madrid is the undisputed champion if you look at the history in the CL. We all know that Manchester City play great football, but there's going to be a trophy to be won at some point. It should have happened against Chelsea, but they also went out inexplicably against Real Madrid last year.

To be honest, I actually didn't expect Inter Milan and AC Milan to be in the semi-finals of the Champions League. I didn't even expect this result at all. Because what I hope for the teams that stand in the Semi-finals is Napoli and Benfica. but Inter Milan and AC Milan have made a big surprise by beating the 2 seeded teams this season. Inter beat Benfica very well. but AC Milan beat Napoli by luck. because Napoli in the first leg did not play perfectly because 3 of their mainstay players suffered minor injuries, one of which was Osimhen. and in the second leg all the Napoli players recovered and Napoli played very well. but still the condition of the Napoli players who have just recovered from injury is not as good as when they were before their injury. Milan was even pressured continuously in the second leg. but Milan managed to draw against Napoli in that match.

But still, Ac Milan and Inter Milan are indeed teams that have a long history in the Champions League and in Serie A. They are giant teams in Serie A. So they really deserve to be standing in the Champions League semi-finals at this time.

but the more interesting semi-final match is Real Madrid vs Man city. yeah, this is also about Man City's revenge after losing last season to Real Madrid. But I think Man city will also find it difficult in the semi-finals this time. because Real Madrid have players who are experienced and have a strong mentality.

For now, I can't conclude too much for the match between these two teams. basically, these two teams are giant clubs in their respective leagues. for me, both teams have their advantages. the difference is, City now has a goal monster as their spearhead on the front lines.

meanwhile for Madrid, not much has changed this season and they also tend to fluctuate their performance in their domestic league. however, Real Madrid is a team that has a winning mentality in this competition. and how they toppled the two previous Premier League teams, Liverpool and Chelsea. Real Madrid has a combination of young and veteran players, such as the collaboration between Vini Jr, Benzema, Rodrygo and even Valverde. not infrequently, the fast counterattacks they do always succeed in making a goal. plus, the Madrid players also have above average individual skills.

Unfortunately, these two teams had to meet in the semifinal match, even though it would be very interesting if these two teams met in the Champions League final match. but speaking of which, it seems my support is more with City right now. from my point of view, City deserved it.

It is true that Real Madrid is the most dominating team in the Champions League, especially in terms of the title race. But I don't think that makes people underestimate Manchester City without proper analysis and reasons. Manchester City has proven its performance and statistics in the Champions League, the same has been proven by Real Madrid this season.

Manchester City is better team than Liverpool and Chelsea who are actually representatives of the Premier League in the Champions League. The performance of the two teams above is not very good in the Premier League, while Manchester City is a team that is more likely to still be able to win the title this season. So the Real Madrid vs Manchester City match should be very interesting to look forward to. Madrid could potentially fall short in the semi-finals, but if they qualify then Madrid are title winners.

People in Italy naturally love that AC Milan and Inter Milan play against each other, but the neutral football fan does not. It does have something that 2 teams from Italy and from the same city will play against each other in the semi-finals. Then someone will always be in the final. Inter was the last Italian winner in 2011?! quite strange for such a large football country that we have not had an Italian CL champion after that. I think it's a game where we don't see a favourite. I also watch the meeting between Real Madrid and Manchester City. The latter will also want a lot of revenge on Madrid because they were impossible to eliminate last year.