Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 375. (Read 92696 times)

You really mentioned an important history to remember.
And that is the history between Liverpool and Barcelona in the Champions League when everybody thought that Liverpool will do nothing again. That was when Liverpool pulled up one of the greatest surprises in the Champions League right at Anfield.

But it is quite obvious that the Liverpool squad of them that did the wonders against Barcelona was stronger than the Liverpool squad we have now. Today's Liverpool is full of inconsistency. So they cannot pull any surprise against Real Madrid.

Even though it's true that football is full of surprises, I won't be holding my breath much from Liverpool in their return leg against Real Madrid. I don't think Liverpool will advance to the next round, but it's possible they could win the second leg if their lucky. However, I don't think they can beat Real Madrid and advance to next level because they made serious mistakes by giving up a lot of goals in the first leg, and  with what they are playing currently, I don't think they have a any advantage to even win Real Madrid at their stadium.the home game will even give Madrid big advantage to win Liverpool again.

Liverpool and Real Madrid have different performances in the past three weeks. When Real Madid had poor performances in La Liga, Liverpool got good results in Premier League by beating Newcastle United and Manchester United. When Real Madrid returned to a winning track, Liverpool suddenly lost to Bournemouth.

Their performances last week pull Liverpool back to reality that they will not easily to beat Real Madrid at Bernabeu and their task is even much harder. They must beat Real Madrid with very big difference from 2 goals and above that is very unrealistic.

Porto are one of most stable clubs in Champions League since their great success with Mourinho in 2002 - 2003 and 2003 - 2004 seasons. After that season, they keep up their good transfer strategies, buying young players at cheap prices and sell them at expensive or record prices and maintain their club performance in the past 20 years.

In Champions League, Porto are not an easy club to beat by any club in Europe. They managed to make shock against big clubs and usually go far than group stage in Champions League. Inter Milan might be a next victim of Porto with their not too good form recently.

Leipzig is a German club and they won't give up too soon in any match. A first leg match is an example that they are able to fight strongly and can pull the match back. They didn't give up even Manchester City dominated that match and had a leading goal as well.

In a second leg match Manchester City will have their home stadium advantage and a lesson in Germany so that I believe they will solve Leipzig and continue their ambitious target to win a first Champions League.

Manchester City is the favourite to win, I believe they won't give Leipzig the chance to win this game. Manchester City are much better than Leipzig in performance,  so I don't think Leipzig will defeat City in this game. This is a very important game to Manchester City they needs to win.

Porto are a very strong side at home and they also know how to score goals. Porto have been in a very good form lately while Inter have been inconsistent. Since Porto are at home, that could make them have a very good day and on their good day it would be near impossible for Inter to contain them. The good news for Inter is that in Porto's last three games they've been conceding goals unlike before that they were better defensively.

As for Man City, they have to be very careful and make use of the chances they create if they want to avoid what happened in the first leg. It is a certainty that they'll create a lot of chances because they always do but if they don't score those chances then they would be useless. They better not underrate Leipzig.

That will further prove that Real Madrid is very ready to welcome Liverpool at the Bernabeu. In my opinion, it is very likely that Liverpool will bury their dreams this season in the Champions League. The result of Leg 1 is 5-2 and they will have to do everything they can if they insist on winning. Wouldn't be too surprised when the last game they lost to a small club but somehow still that against Real Madrid will be a very tough task.

They are getting to the next round by all means Liepzig is no threat to City
They have done marvelous investment and what's left for Pep to win is the champions league which he found difficult against Chelsea and last season he was sent back home by Real Madrid. He was left and seen fumming why the Champions League is so difficult.
I will see if trying to use Hallaand as a weapon will work for him this season

I think that mirrored the result in the first leg and liverpool is in a critical situation for the second leg with so many aggregates against real madrid. I did see some people mention how liverpool was making comeback against barcelona and they took it as example about the possibility for liverpool to winning against real madrid in santiago bernabeu but they were taking barcelona. it doesn't have a relationship with real madrid. Real madrid played differently.

Real madrid would never have won 14 UCL trohies if it's not as consistent as now in UCL. Barcelona is not the same as real madrid. Anything can happen but if we even use our logic and liverpool had almost zero chance to win over madrid. Going all in madrid is a must while it's still giving pretty good odds.

Liverpool have yet to find consistency in their form of play, after managing to leave an impression that is hard to forget for the Manchester United public, Liverpool couldn't do anything in the next game which made them have to accept an embarrassing defeat to Bournemouth.
Inconsistent performance means that Liverpool will experience difficulties when away to the Santiago Bernabeu. The results of the first leg made Liverpool even more depressed. Although anything can happen in football, I'm not sure Liverpool can score 4 goals without conceding at home to Real Madrid.

In my humble opinion, I'm quite dubious whether Manchester City would be capable of overpowering Leipzig, especially given their substandard performance in the first leg. Undoubtedly, it's a fact that Nkunku won't be available for Leipzig, but one cannot underestimate the proficiency of their other squad members. Nevertheless, I'm rooting for Manchester City to learn from their previous blunders and be more vigilant this time around. Perhaps they ought to focus on fortifying their defense line and exploit Leipzig's frail attack. Guardiola should undoubtedly take note of this and avert making the same mistake as the previous match. Without a doubt, City fans are eagerly anticipating an enthralling match, and hopefully, their team will step into the stadium with an unmistakable strategy and unrelenting determination to win!

Manchester City is a club that has dominated the English Premier League for several years and the investment made by the owner is not of small value, unfortunately it has not been able to turn them into a strong team in European competition, but in this second leg they will play in front of their fans at the Etihad Stadium so City's chances of getting to the quarter-finals are far greater than Leipzig because winning with just one goal is enough for City to get a ticket to the next round. But with the several advantages that City have in the second leg it doesn't make them reduce their attacks so it could be a bad thing if it turns out that Leipzig can counterattack more effectively and actually beat them later.

At that match where Liverpool vs Bournemouth, Van Dijk and Salah were making a mistake why Liverpool can lost. You can watch the replay where Van Dijk stopping to chase Outtara since Van Dijk was badmood by getting outplayed by Outtara, if Van Dijk keep chasing him, Outtara will get pressure and he might not able to pass the ball in a good position. Salah on other hand missed the penalty, he's forcing himself to score at the top corner while he can just score at the bottom corner.

Real Madrid isn't a club which tend to lost with big margins, they only lost for 1 goal difference.

Liverpool surprised everyone with a big win against Manchester United. But even then they could not return to form. Liverpool has lost against teams like Bournemouth. From this, it can be easily deduced that the performance of this group is very erratic. However, the Real Madrid team must play carefully. Because Liverpool has already proven that they are capable of winning by big margins even against strong opponents. Manchester United's defense was not weak. Even then, Liverpool managed to score 7 goals. And so if Real Madrid doesn't perform carefully and keep their defense tight then they are likely to lose by a big margin.

We did not see a good performance from Manchester City in the first match against Leipzig. They drew the match 1-1. The city will definitely have to perform carefully in the home matches. Although Leipzig is weaker than City, City is likely to lose. The city will definitely need to keep its defense tight. And it is hoped that Guardiola will not make the same mistake in the second leg as in the previous match. I expect Manchester City to dominate the match. Besides, Leipzig's most important player Nkunku is likely to miss this match due to injury. So Leipzig's attack will be a bit weak in this match.

The hardest thing to determine which team between porto against intermilan that will be qualified for the next round. I meant intermilan may able to win in aggregate in the first leg that played in san siro but i just remind you that if the second leg will be happening in the porto's home.

Interimlan is not yet safe with only 1 goals caused by porto can change the situation against intermilan. that makes me feel so hard to determine which club that will be winning the game between intermilan against porto.

I just try to believe that if intermilan will able to beat porto but in another case porto is also really strong when it was playing at home. that makes me so confused to pick which better from both of clubs.
That's why im not even sure with my choice for the match between intermilan against porto.

Even being able to turn things around at the Santiago Bernabeu in my opinion is very difficult. I don't think Liverpool will be able to catch up to that aggregate gap and Real Madrid will definitely finish off their win in 90 minutes of normal time. Karim Benzema has confirmed that he will fill in the line-up for the second leg and Real Madrid will appear with the full main squad. Liverpool, which is dominated by the new Trio, Salah, Nunez, and Gakpo, in my opinion they are too early to be able to beat Real Madrid. For Napoli to win the UCL this season, sometimes I also think about it but it looks like Napoli will only be able to go all the way to the semifinals.

Before going into the first leg of the Champions League against RB Leipzig, we thought that Manchester City might win this match. But they could not do that. Their on-field performance in the first match was marred by mistakes that eventually led to a draw. Manchester City were completely ineffective in the second half and if they could have produced their best performance in the second half of the match they would have won the previous match.
After the draw in the first match, I hope that in this match they will understand their mistakes and after understanding their mistakes, they will correct those mistakes and Manchester City will enter the field for victory in the next match. They must play their best. And the adversary, whatever the adversary, must be considered strong.  Hopefully, Manchester City will enter the field for victory in the next league match of the Champions League. And they will qualify for the next round.

Manchester city is quite consistent at this moment. The good thing is if manchester city is also playing at home against leipzig. Leipzig will be in disadvantage compared with manchester city. City will be so careful when playing against leipzig. Even though city will be facing leipzig at home but city can't underestimate leipzig. The draw may happen again and that will make city lose against leipzig.

I think that guardiola must be so careful with it. Leipzig can give city surprise anytime. I think that people shall be aware if city was the safe bet for the upcoming match in UCL.

Leipzig will be using all of things to be qualified for the last 8.

Manchester City will be a huge favourite against Leipzig on paper of course. The first leg was indeed unexpected at the end due to Manchester City's staying ineffective in the second half. But Guardiola must have warned them about this performance already. I won't be expecting to see the same mistakes again in their home game this time.

All Manchester City need is to show their usual performance and play their own game. As long as they manage to do this in both halves there shouldn't be any problem about getting a decent win.

I wish I could agree with you because it is always nice to see some surprises in these competitions like the Champions League. There is one thing though that keeps me from believing that Leipzig has a chance. I would definitely agree that Leipzig could tie the game in Manchester, and their chances would not be too bad if they won their first leg at home. However, do you really think they have a chance of winning the game in regular time? I can't imagine that is going to happen. I do see a little chance for them to keep the game tied in regular time and make it to the penalty shootout maybe, but Manchester City losing that game before the penalty shootout would be would be a real bang. If that is going to happen I think even Guardiola would have to explain a lot to the public and to the Manchester City management. For the sake of having some great news and action in the soccer business, it would really be nice to have a close result between them.