Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 236. (Read 92666 times)

as i said in another thread that may have to change the cast. because Lampard has always tried to experiment with using any formation, it still fails and Chelsea is still giving a very bad performance.
in this second leg I think Madrid will still be the best and be able to beat Chelsea.

I haven't accepted defeat until the last whistle ends the match. I know I sound silly but do I believe Chelsea has it in them to turn the feature around and get a victory to progress? Yes we do. We lost against Dortmund and many people wrote is off but then won at our home and progress to the quarter finals. I believe we can do the same against Real Madrid. This is football and anything is possible. It just takes Lampard to make the right selection and the determination of the players to want to win the game for us to come out victorious. No disrespect to Real Madrid but what did they play in the first leg? Sure they won but they could only get a second goal after we went 10 man down.

Real Madrid are already a power house but they couldn't destroy us until we were one man down. What if they get the same fate in the return leg and one or even two of their players get sent off wrongly just as chilwel was sent off for a soft tackle. Anything is possible in football, we just have to score 3 goals without them responding and we're through into the semi finals. It looks very impossible to achieve mainly because we have been lacking goals this season but I won't doubt my club and even though we lose I'll keep my head high as in the midst of the worst season since I became a fan we still made it to the quarter finals of the champions league.

That's true, Napoli already won the Serie A title, and all the games until the end of this season are just friendly matches for this team also I think they should stop using some key players like Osimhen for all games in Serie A and let him stay french for the champions league if they beat Ac Milan they are going to face with other teams and absence of these players will damage the team.

No hope for chelsea. The club is still consistently performing the worst no matter what kind of competition it is. Chelsea keeps showing awful performances again big or small teams. I would like to call that chelsea as a mediocre team that was even worst compared with the small teams in EPL.
Nothing really change from real madrid. Real madrid is still a very consistent club in UCL. The chance for madrid to make more goals against chelsea in stamford bridge is very big. I don't even think much going to change for the second leg.
Chelsea will keep performing the worst. it has become a habit by chelsea. Some useless players can fuck off in summer. Chelsea needs not only to sell some players but it needs also to change the coach.

The bookies are still favoring madrid even though the game will be played at stamford bridge. It seems like that chelsea has no chance anymore to be qualified for semifinal.
Madrid will be facing city in the next stage as city is having very big chance to win against bayern.

Good they finally have him backhe was indeed missed by the fans in the first leg
Another boring and baring game with no goals
Having Oshime back is like having the prime Lionel Messi back within your squad so much conference in the player

Napoli knows they have already gotten the italian league championship that is why they don't put too much effort in their games. I think the Champions league match is something they would not want  to lose easily,   Napoli  will still remain tough in  their performance in Champions league.

Manchester City are quite close to the semi finals now after getting a very solid win like 3-0 over Bayern Munich. Honestly I was waiting for Manchester City to win in Etihad but this was way more than my expectations. Especially in the second half Bayern Munich were pretty bad against them. It was like the game Manchester City played against Leipzig in this half.

Bayern Munich have nothing to lose from now on. They will need to take much bigger risks and Manchester City are just the team to benefit from that.

Op has never updated on the team selection options for the team that will become the UCL champion this season.  Even though the team that had been eliminated should have been crossed out from the poll results.

In my opinion the strongest teams in the ucl after the first leg finished were manchester city, real madrid, inter milan and ac milan because they were able to secure victory in the first leg.

But for the second leg it could be that there will be a stronger change, it could be that Napoli will make an extraordinary comeback as well as Benfica.

The second leg between napoli and ac milan will be an explosive atmosphere because napoli will definitely come out with full offensive football looking to overturn the tide to their favour and like you said one goal difference is really a narrow Victory and with knowing what napoli are capable of, i think they can manage to squeeze themselves in the next round which is the semi finals. But as for Bayern Munich and Manchester City, i think Manchester City are still going to win at the Munich stadium because this Bayern team are not capable of withstanding the attacking force of Manchester City and with haaland at his best he will be looking to fulfill all revenge scores he has with this bayern team.

In the game between Napoli and Ac Milan, I think the reason of why Napoli lost the game was because of their Nigerian forward Osimhen was absent in this game and they proved they can't have a good performance without Osimhen, According to some news Osimhen will be ready for the second leg and the 1-0 result is not so bad for Napoli that's why I think Ac Milan should be scared for the second leg.

https://football-italia.net/spalletti-claims-osimhen-will-be-100-available-to-napoli-for-second-leg-against-milan/

Yes, AC Milan stay dominant in the matches against Napoli. In one of its encounter Milan managed to score 4-0 against Napoli. From there it have won 2-1 against Lecce and the other one is drawn against Verona. The upcoming match is more important and the the odds were completely in favour of AC Milan which used to vary when the match is live. This time Napoli will record its win against AC Milan under the guidance from Luciano Spalletti as it is something pre written that AC Milan wins against Napoli as the last four encounters were in favour of AC Milan.

it is possible that the second leg will belong to Napoli if they are able to play aggressively from the early minutes. Osimhen will be a big enough hero for Napoli if he is able to bring victory to Napoli in the second leg later.

I believe Napoli can turn things around because losing 1-0 to AC Milan in the first leg has not broken their hopes because they lost by a narrow score. Spalletti must be able to get Napoli to end their bad streak against AC Milan if they are to qualify for the next round.
In the Bayern Munich vs Manchester City match, I believe that Manchester City will be able to control this match because they won a big win in the first leg. Only a miracle can turn things around for Bayern Munich.

In the second leg, maybe the Napoli players will indeed have higher confidence with the presence of their mainstay striker, Victor Osimhen. but actually the condition of the Napoli team cannot be said to be in good condition. because several other players are still injured and are still in the recovery stage. but at least the presence of Osimhen on the field can make the focus of the Milan players a little distracted. especially the back line will definitely focus more on blocking Osimhen in that match. but it will give the other Napoli players good enough space to make their usual sharp attacks. today Napoli, Inter and Milan had poor results in Serie A. These three clubs compactly showed an unusual match. especially Inter Milan who had to suffer defeat by Monza. maybe the coaches of these three teams really plan to only use the game to the fullest for the second leg later in the Champions League. so it's no wonder today's results in Serie A weren't good enough for these three teams. because for a while these three teams are focused on facing the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals.

It's time for second leg.

Tuesday 18th April
Chelsea 20:00 Real Madrid Agg:0 - 2
Napoli 20:00 AC Milan Agg:0 - 1

Wednesday 19th April
Bayern Munich 20:00 Manchester City Agg:0 - 3
Inter Milan 20:00 Benfica Agg:2 - 0

(source:_ https://www.skysports.com/champions-league-fixtures)

Considering everything these are my prediction.

Real W
Milan W

City W
Inter W


The game with more doubts is Napoli Milan, with Napoli playing at home and recovering Osimhen BUT losing their 2 defenders.

If only Milan can play with and expiriciend attacker with a weaker defender... (You right Giroud will do a great game and it will dominate)

AC Milan has shown a winning mentality ahead of Napoli; they've met twice recently and won both games. Napoli lost to them in both Serie A and the Champions League. The second leg encounter will still be difficult to predict who will win because Napoli’s key scorer Osimhen will be present; perhaps this will increase the players' confidence to play to win AC Milan in the Champions League second leg.

Napoli has struggled in the past two weeks and has fallen shot of the intimidating performance that's left leading the league table by an almost 20 points difference. But in the past two weeks, they were without their biggest threat and their in form inform striker Victor Osimhen but the good news now is that he's back to the team and so the second leg of UEFA Champions League quarter final encounter with AC Milan will not be an easy match as Napoli will try to make amends to their shortcomings by emphatically wining the match

all of that will be difficult to do considering Ac milan will continue to focus on their game to play better than what they showed during the first leg match. the second leg will be a match of life and death both ac milan and napoli they will give all their strength for the second leg later.

The advantage for Napoli is the return of Osimhen to the team and they are hosts for the second leg but that doesn't mean that Ac Milan chances are quite small in the second leg because they have winning capital which makes them more confident in facing Napoli in the second leg.

The next games for next week are the games of Chelsea and Napoli, both playing at home. Chelsea has already been eliminated from all bookmakers, but how certain is that really? 2-0 is a good result for Real, but Real has also proved vulnerable in other games and Chelsea even led 0-3 in Madrid the last time both teams played against each other. No harbinger or guarantee, just some info. Those are numbers Chelsea should hold on to, just a shame they lost to Brighton in the league today. They have a new trainer, but he can't do magic either, of course.

I too was one of those people who predicted a different outcome from their last meeting. However, what happened was that Napoli lost again by a narrow score. It's a shame they couldn't win this game to make it easier for them in the second leg later. AC Milan seems serious enough to be able to talk more about this Champions League. The second leg they will definitely play their best to be able to maintain the advantage they got in the first leg.

Without Victor Osimhen Napoli are not the strongest team and that is they have to accept defeat in the first leg but even with 1 goal behind it is still a little difficult for Napoli even though they will play at home and Milan will definitely defend their game so as not to concede more goals with Aggregate goals now of course Milan is still a little in the advantage.

We will see in the second leg later, whether Napoli have to accept defeat again or instead they come back to qualify for the semifinals but you are right that Milan have beaten Napoli at home, they will have the confidence to beat them again in the UCL.

At least this will be crucial.