Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 635. (Read 92693 times)

As long as I am concerned I still believe that Graham Potter is a good coach and he will make good coaching career and Chelsea according to SatoPrincess what he need is time and Chelsea board needs to have patient with Graham Potter to be able to sync his method into the mind of Chelsea players and besides he don't have the hundred percent available players to man up the competition in the English Premier League. I am believing that by next year all his men will be available and Graham Potter would be able to give his best

Agree to disagree there mate. City is a huge football club now, I feel like Leipzig will not be a problem for them at all, lets just take a look at how many goals Haaland scored against them when he played for Dortmund, never really checked maybe the result is zero but I have a feeling it must be a lot.

I feel like City as a whole is better than Dortmund anyway, so we are going to see some great scoring from City. I am not saying City will just win, I say aggregate result will be 4.5+ goals easily, because City is that much better. People may see Leipzig as a good team, and when people see them lose big time, they will realize that no matter how big Leipzig could be in bundesliga, City is far superior in world of football.

Never have chance for Milan get scudetto trough Antonio Conte become manager on Serie A teams with Juventus and Inter Milan, always dominance with winning record against Milan its seem how experienced from Conte to win. But have different team and scheme between Juventus or Inter with Tottenham Hotspur, I don't think easy for Conte have good memorize against Milan on Champion League 16 round.

Actually Milan not really have impressive performance at Champion League, become second season after absent for long time at Champion League have les experience how to face bigger team like Spurs. I think Milan little difficult for beating Tottenham Hotspur but have solid appearance on home match will be effective on away match.

Maybe they look care by chance because Barcelona is seemed unstable at the moment and Inter takes advantage of the opportunity by the chance. As I know, if Barcelona can play like they played in La Liga, Inter could be in Barcelona's position right now. beside that case, Inter seems not to give up a weak club, Viktoria Plzen for getting the winning and in fact lost versus Munchen. So, we can said they only focus on the champions league if win versus Porto whether it's at home or away.

I also agree with your perception, I don't see that the two teams have any relationship or any kind of similarity between them, for me there are many differences, considering that Real Madrid is the defending champion of the UCL, I still see it very well in Compared to other teams, Liverpool the only player that I see very well is Mo Salah, for the rest even if they are good, I see them disconnected when they play, for his part Klopp is a very good coach, I would not put the full responsibility on him.

Nothing is written, and yes, Liverpool is a very good team and I don't think they are going to be surprised by Liverpool, apart from the fact that Real Madrid is almost in first place in the League, it is very good here in the UCL, I don't think they're going to lose that easily.


Well what happens is that now with Inter things have changed quite a bit, for me Napoli has been at its peak and they have chosen to put all their energy into the UCL, for now I think all energy should be focused towards Everything that has to do with the World Cup, but unfortunately Italy is not in the World Cup, this time it has to be in the World Cup, I am sure that the players are preparing, as I see it and how Inter is playing in the UCL, is that if they continue with that level like Napoli, then Italy can be first in the qualifying round for the next World Cup, for now after the World Cup what they will look for the most will be the UCL.

Indeed, in this case what Pioli said is true because Conte is a big influence on Tottenham and he knows that Conte will be a problem for him later.
Even if there is a possibility because their strengths are balanced but when Tottenham are at full strength with Kulusevski and Richalrison in the middle and Son and Kane are playing fit then this can be a big problem in my opinion especially if you look at Milan's condition in midfield this time it can't really be said good because often lose in this midfield.

This could be true because he knows the characteristics of the players he buys and of course the results show especially when you see Kulusevski now who is doing better at Tottenham.
On the other hand, I feel that Milan's game is not very good for Serie A even though they are in 2nd position.
At the moment their midfield and defense are not very good even if you look at their goal conceding ratio this is actually bad for a big club class.
Even though there is still hope but I am still quite confident with Tottenham in this regard with a record that there will be no significant changes for the players in the transfer break.

Inter have seemed so far like they care about the Champions League a little more than the Serie A. Because their performance in the group stage was really impressive. Especially against Barcelona they had really nice results and these ones played the biggest role in their advancing to last 16 round also. On the other hand, they are struggling to keep up with the leader just as the other teams in the Serie A. They are very productive there but they are just dealing with some defensive issues.

I think that they will continue to care about the Champions League the most for now. Because they have a really nice draw in this round against Porto. They are clearly the favourite of this draw and I believe in them to reach the quarter finals. As it is really difficult for them to fight for the Serie A title they can at least push as much as possible in the Champions League.

Which of the Chelsea strikers that used to score early goal is Graham Potter benching? Do you mean Aubameyang? Because Aubameyang didn't spend time with Tuchel. Are you talking about Sterling because Sterling used to see playing time. The problem of Chelsea is not coach, it is lack of players and unavailability of players.
You can have players but they will never be available for you when you want to use them. It is different from not having good players at all. Chelsea is facing the two types of problems at the same time.

Milan is undoubtedly a good team. They play football with responsibility. Milan team has great players. Milan and Tottenham are after the World Cup. It is difficult to imagine how the players of the team are doing. But we can expect both teams to return with strong squads.

I haven't followed the development of the Serie A League in a long time, so I don't have much about these teams from Italy including AC Milan. however, Tottenham had better luck against AC Milan than they had to face Napoli. and so is the question of the AC Milan coach, Stefano Pioli also said that if Conte's presence as Tottenham coach would be very influential, he considered Conte already knew Milan's game. thanks to his experience managing Inter Milan and Juventus. and this is an advantage for his current Tottenham team.

nonetheless, IMO, when it comes to statistics. the strength between Tottenham and Milan is quite even, therefore Milan's chances of winning are also not completely closed. I'm sure Millan will also give his best game in the round of 16 match later. moreover, Milan's first leg match will play as the home team.
and as you said, Milan also has a long experience in the champions league. So, although Conte has more advantages in terms of experience and player strength. but if they underestimate Milan, the situation could be an advantage for Milan later.

Interesting and also, maybe that's why one of the reasons Antonio Conte signed players who arrived from Juventus and Inter such as Kulusevski, Bentancur and Perisic. Because maybe Conte really understands the characteristics of the players from the two clubs, but even so, there really is no guarantee that they will win again against the Italian team.
Because so far Milan has been doing well in Serie A and even though they are not a strong team at the top, Milan is in second place in the Serie A standings as it shows that Milan is ready to play well in the Champions League as well.

The first leg will be played at the San Siro but for some reason, I personally am not so sure for Milan to win but maybe a draw could happen. Because at the same time, even though Tottenham is not the strongest team in the Premier League, it seems that Conte does have a better strategy.
So, with a comparison like that it looks like there is still a chance for both of them to win, but I personally still think that Premier League teams can play stronger and better.

Yes, Chelsea are an experienced cup fighter, but by this point it was already clear that they were in big trouble this season, and Milan looked (and even now looks) very solid. That's why I thought that Chelsea would score 4 points instead of 6 plus the first place in the group went to Chelsea even if my prediction was correct.
In general though at least everyone has a chance, I don’t really believe that Chelsea will lift the cup over their heads this season, you are too much optimistic, but we’ll see.

Now looking at the condition of the team which is actually quite good for Tottenham and Conte's experience in dealing with teams from Serie A, it is clear that this is a very good capital for Tottenham.
Their condition also actually looks the same in the outline of the game but I feel Tottenham are much better especially for their midfield.
But this could be something else if you look at the experience that Milan had in the Champions League.

These records was Conte get when he train Inter and Juventus even Conte also has good records from Milan current Manager Stefano Pioli that since 2019 until 2021 Conte only lost once from several meetings so this indicated Conte know how to beat AC Milan and this also who makes him confident will be the winner of this match and first leg Tottenham as a host so i am sure he will utilized the match to gets 3 points and the statistics indeed showed Tottenham might be will makes Milan slipped moreover Milan currently still struggle to find their shape and i have to says their performance also not quite well in this competition so lets see who will be the winner whether it Milan or Tottenham

Leipzig has improved a lot in the last few games, before that they were at the bottom of the well where they had a lot of bad results, but they managed to recover and are 5 games without losing, there are 5 games in which they have 4 wins and 1 draw and a particularity is that Leipzig in the last 5 games at least scored 2 goals in each game, this will be a problem for City that in the last premier league game lost the game, but I think that City will win that game against Leipzig, even if the Leipzig are in good shape they are still not as strong a team as City. but city won't have an easy game, maybe even the goal difference won't be big


that old phrase: " lightning never strikes the same place twice..." the luck chelsea had in the past will not have this time, even if Kante and Reece James play again, chelsea will be trampled by arsenal, City and newcastle, they didn't even reach the first 4 places, in the champions league they even had great luck to play against dortmond, but they shouldn't celebrate yet, because even those from dortmond can beat chelsea and even if chelsea manages to win dortmondo in the game against another team chelsea will lose so for this season chelsea will not win the premier league or the champions league, chelsea's coach must prepare the team for next season, that's what he needs to think about

Why should that surprise you, are you forgetting that Chelsea was the last two seasons tournament winners that surprised the whole world when they fought their way through to the finals and defeated an informed Manchester city side to lift the trophy. Chelsea has excellent players but just lack a manager to motivate them correctly. We could all see how good the side is when the players gets the right motivation from the manager (Thomas Tuchel using this underrated squad to lift the trophy and Potter going from last in the group to winning the group).

Last two seasons, we weren't favorite as well but yet we lifted the trophy while defeating all the so called favorites. This season I'm not over expecting much from the players since we're yet to have a full squad, the like of Kante and Reece James are injured and that's giving some unbalanced to the team. When we do get our full squad back, I can bodly say we'll defeat any team that dares to stand in our way of lifting the trophy. Potter is an excellent manager, this is just a phase that'll pass and I'm expecting that after the world cup break, Chelsea should easily return to their previous form of winning games convincingly.

I don't weird when seeing the new owner is very speculative about the future of the club, but when talking about coaches of course that makes team to be video games, the new owner must be don't be like a gamer when managing a big club like Chelsea. I know sometimes the emotion will control your self when always lost and lost but Chelsea is still good, especially on the champions league, they just depending it after the world cup and back to the best performance.

Leipzig is not an easy team to beat, they have quite an impressive record and are currently ranked 3rd on the Bundesliga standings. I am quite optimistic that after the league resumes rolling, Leipzig will be able to place its ranking up to second place, eliminating Freiburg. although not as strong as Manchester City, at least they will provide quite a fierce resistance considering they have a history of two meetings in the champions league last season. and don't forget, Leipzig has also made it difficult for Real Madrid in the second leg of the group phase. and the match was won by Leipzig with a score of 3-2.

however, that Manchester City is stronger and more of a favourite. plus at this time, Haaland is predicted to be the key for Manchester City to win a trophy in this competition. Leipzig is not the toughest opponent they will face. City is still predicted to overthrow Leipzig in the round of 16 later. it's just that, Pep Guardiola should not underestimate the opposing team.

There is something interesting about the Tottenham vs AC Milan match, what is interesting is the current Tottenham coach, Antonio Conte. Yes, he recorded something extraordinary every time he met AC Milan. He won 10 times when he met the Serie A champions, he only tasted 1 defeat and 3 draws. With this, Tottenham benefit because their coach is very experienced when dealing with AC Milan.
Indeed, now the situation is much different, what makes me curious is, will Antonio Conte be a nightmare for AC Milan? It will be very interesting if he can win again against the Rossoneri.

The first games in the Champions League don't really matter. For example, last year Sheriff in the first two rounds beat Shakhtar and then Real at the Santiago Bernabeu and led the group, but then everything fell into place. Everyone understood that Chelsea would advance to the next stage, the only surprise for me was that they scored 6 points in the games with Milan, I expected 4.
At the moment, Chelsea are extremely far from being favorites to win the Champions League. Bookmakers estimate their chances as 1 to 13.