Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 305. (Read 92722 times)

If Napoli, Real Madrid, and Manchester City are unlikely to win the title, who do you think will? Is it Bayern Munich?
You have a lot of faith in this club Benfica, which is fine because they're doing extremely well right now and the opponent they'll be facing can easily be passed through to the semifinals. But seeing them in the finals is something I'm certain is extremely unlikely. Consider any of the other teams they could face after successfully passing through AC Milan; do you think they'll win and advance to the finals?

Napoli, Real Madrid, and Manchester City are unlikely teams to win the title. Also, we are neglecting. Benfica has been performing exceptionally well in the Champions League this season. Benfica also won the last match against Club Brugge 5-1. This group should not be neglected either. The way they are performing so far, I wouldn't be surprised to see Benfica in the Champions League final. Benfica will play against Inter Milan in the quarter-finals. Inter Milan's performance is not regular. So Benfica has a chance to win this match. I think the semi-final will be between Napoli vs Benfica.

No prob, it's free for anyone to express their opinion about the upcoming match. I think that it's hard for napoli not to use some key players like osimhen and kvarat. I did know if the injuries might become a threat to osimhen. I just try to be realistic by seeing the result from the previous matches.
I am really doubtful about performance of ac milan to face napoli. As you can see that how ac milan was getting poor results in previous matches. I can't even believe something big to come from ac milan right now.

that's why i doubt if ac milan will give a tough game to napoli. Ac milan could not even beat salernitana and it was losing against udinese. Im saying like that caused by i have some reasons why ac milan will not be able to win against napoli.

Napoli is far above ac milan right now. i would like to say that if ac milan will put more effort caused by it was not safe yet in serie a. roma and atalanta is very close to the ac milan.

Correct. It seems that many of us are expecting a new team to win the UCL trophy this season. and I personally also see this opportunity owned by Napoli. because after all Napoli did make a very good impression that they have in Serie A. who top the standings with an absolutely incredible points difference. and at least Napoli in the quarter-finals has an opponent they should be able to overcome, namely Milan. so that the opportunity to qualify for the semi-finals becomes more wide open for Napoli.

No doubt Napoli is playing  well in the league and performing beyond expectation in the champions league, but the champions league this season wont be easy for them. we can only wish, but the cup is for the experienced ones, Napoli doesn't have champions league experience. none of Napoli players in this squad has won the champions league before. so it will be tough for them to clinch the cup this season.
i predicted  Real madrid vs Napoli finals, but Real Madrid are favourite to win again.

I also want to see a team that is different from last season to win the Champions League this season, especially a team like Napoli who are currently looking quite strong in their own domestic league and there is still a chance to advance to the next round in the Champions League. So it would be extraordinary if a team like Napoli this season could get two big trophies from two different big competitions.

I agree with you. Facing Manchester City at this moment will not be easy for Bayern Munich. Because they changed coaches, I wouldn't say coach Tuchel is inexperienced. He is quite an experienced coach. However, it takes time to adapt to a new team and it is very difficult to take charge of a big club like Bayern Munich. However, before facing Manchester City, Bayern Munich will play three matches against Dortmund, and Freiburg. I am looking forward to seeing how Bayern Munich performs in these three matches. If Munich can perform consistently well in these three matches, Bayern Munich can be expected to perform well against Manchester City as well.

When he faced a Premier League team, of course he already understood very well how their game would look like, so he already had an idea of what to do when facing a Premier League team. There may be an adjustment for Thomas Tuchel, because somehow there has to be an adaptation for someone who has just joined the team. He must be able to show that he deserves to be at Bayern Munich.

I think it is an advantage for Manchester city to face Bayer Munich because they suddenly replaced the coach.
Bayern Munich players and coaches certainly have to adjust their strategy in terms of the game.
But in the future I agree with you that Tuchel will be able to revive Bayern Munich's game, so as to be able to win more trophies, it does not rule out that Bayer Munchen will get a league title next season, because Tuchel is one of the coaches who has had many achievements.

For example, if later in the first leg Inter lose, surely they will learn how to overcome Benfica in the second leg with a better strategy to outperform the aggregate results at home later. But indeed Benfica is an opponent who is quite defeated for Inter at this time, considering that Inter's performance is still below Benfica in the domestic league or UCL. But for sure if there is any miracle I think it will only come to inter and for benfica I am very sure they will get rid of inter in the QF stage.

Correct. Thomas tuchel is an experienced coach and actually a very reliable coach. even when he was at Chelsea he donated many trophies to Chelsea. one of them is the champions league trophy. so I think it doesn't take much time for Tuchel to adapt to the Bayern Munich team. and I'm pretty sure he also has a lot to know about the opponent Bayern will face in the UCL quarter-finals, namely Man City. and it's true that there is still time for Thomas Tuchel to adjust the strategy he made to apply to Bayern.

He joined Chelsea only a few months after bringing PSG to a Champions League final but failed under feet of Bayern Munich. PSG sacked him and Chelsea hired him but see, he won a Champions League with Chelsea with a goal from Kai Harvertz. Now Bayern Munich hoped that he will repeat it with them as an alternative coach who will win another Champions League.

Tuchel did good management at Mainz, Dortmund, PSG, Chelsea even he did not won too many titles with them. At Dortmund, they simply failed under a giant Bayern Munich, that is reasonable. In PSG, many coaches failed with them in Champions League not only Tuchel but he failed in the only Champions League final they have.

Tuchel did not have much experience in Premier League as he joined them in winter on 26 January 2021 and a few months later he was fired by Chelsea on 7 September 2022. With that limited time, he did not have enough experience with Premier League.

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Tuchel has never won EPL. He is having good experience in UCL but not in EPL. Chelsea was winning its last EPl on 2018. let's give tuchel some times. Tuchel has not yet faced the first match in the bundesliga. People are always judging even before the first match has started.

I don't know why people are always thinking like that. As bavarian and im very optimistic about the result that will be delivered by tuchel. The win against dortmund will be boosting mentality from all of players in bayern
let tuchel do his job against dortmund very soon and we can see whether bayern become even better.

There will always be pros or cons and that's normal in football. The non sense thing if people judge him while he has not even played a game with bayern.

Yes it would, especially on a personal note; Pep gets another opportunity to return to the Allianz Arena and face his former employers Bayern Munich, a team with which he earned quite a lot of success, and for Thomas Tuchel, after just recently being sacked by an English club Chelsea, he faces an English club so soon after he landed himself a new job, and he also has a chance to face his own former employers, but that's of course if his current team Bayern Munich defeat City in the tie, and Chelsea are able to eliminate Real Madrid in their own QF tie.

Having said that, everything is shaping up to be quite dramatic and it is the players that would have to settle it on the pitch in 180 minutes, across two legs. Personally i think this is City's year, i can just feel it, thus i think they would eliminate every opponent that's put in front of them, it is just my feeling, but we'd see how correct i'd be in a couple of weeks and months, i would not mind bookmarking this.

Napoli's condition of avoiding being the favorite club is a real advantage for them this season because indeed with this the possibility that they will be in the final is clearly very high considering that currently their bracket is only filled by other Serie A clubs Inter and Milan and one more Benfica. They just need to show their dominance here as they did in the group stage then it will be great for Napoli.

The match between these two teams in Serie A, of course, will not be tight. I predict Spalletti doesn't want to gamble by playing his squad as a full team. He will be very careful because it will be very detrimental to his team if his players get injured in that match. So because of that he will save some of his top players to focus on the Champions League. Meanwhile, AC Milan is in a tight spot. The Rossoneri view all the current games as like finals. In Serie A winning is their main target to secure the top four positions. Specifically for the match against Napoli, it is likely that Milan will also have another mission, namely to find the opponent's weak points for them to take advantage of in the Champions League quarter-final match. It is possible that Pioli applied high pressure to make the Partenopei players uncomfortable.

I respectfully disagree with you on several points because I do not believe that Napoli will put in less effort during this match and risk injuries before their more important Champions League match. Napoli is currently at the top of the Serie A standings with their best performance and 19 point lead over the second place team which is more than enough to secure the championship title this year. However, I believe that every match is important for maintaining their momentum and competitive levl, and as a professional football team, they will not take any game lightly but with less important players.
Furthermore, while losing a player like Osimhen due to injury would be a setback I think Napoli will change their gameplay by playing overly cautious football. It is possible that they may rotate some players to avoid fatigue or give other squad members a chance to prove themselves but I don't believe they would deliberately underperform in the meantime.
On the other hand AC Milan is likely to put in maximum effort to win both matches, as they are close to the second spot in the Serie A standings and also have a chance to reach the semifinals or even finals of the Champions League. But after all Italian teams are more unpredictable than other champions since every team has its strengths and weaknesses and predicting the outcome of any football match is always tricky.

Actually, this is a little bit risky to do.
But, who knows? It will be very interesting if Benfica can beat Inter, Inter must be surprised enough. But exactly, Benfica is also an unpredictable club that can be in the quarter-finals of the Champions League so far. But, in fact, they have been performing amazingly, like what Napoli has been doing so far. Moreover, most statistics offer about the win probability on Benfica. Indeed, Inter must not underestimate Benfica in this case. their first leg match must be watched out and learned.

This can be a test match before the real big match of them in the Champions League. It is probably still unpredictable because sometimes the euphoria will be different and each club has different motivation in Serie A or in the UCL. So, the result may be different. Napoli is exactly a big club, their achievement so far is incredible, surprising anyone in this season. On the other hand, Milan's performance is not stable, they are more not consistent from match to match. But, Milan is also not a small club, so this will be also a hard opponent for Napoli, moreover if Milan has a great performance when against Napoli.

His success at Chelsea was a separate consideration for Bayern Munich before the contract offer.
Of course Tuchel is a coach with a lot of experience, but I don't always think he will be able to manage any team and win the Champions League like he did with Chelsea.

Interesting, of course, we will all be presented with one of the great matches this season between Bayern Munich against Manchester City. Pep Guardiola has also handled Bayern Munich several seasons ago, these things will increase the level of matches to be very interesting to look forward to.