Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 702. (Read 92666 times)

That was clearly not more a of a decent thing to see my friend how can he say that Barcelona lost as a result of Aubameyang not being present with Barcelona. It's such a weird thing to say to someone who plays or watch football. Bayern Munich has not being on the same class for some seasons. They have been the best of two sides, Barcelona needs extra quality to match up Bayern this Gavi and some lazy wingers won't give them any thing or push the up

Galtier was chosen by PSG because of his CV to deal with player ego in Lille. So far he has shown that he is able to repeat it in PSG too. I felt about Galtier is similar to Carlo Ancelotti. They are both coaches who don't make too strict rules as well as punishments on their star players but they can manage their players so well.

They are like friendly coaches with their players but are still able to constrain their player ego. In addition, they are wisely enough to enlighten their star players and can use them in new positions and lift their players to new highs in their career.

Ajax lost a lot of important players in the summer and they are not able to replace them with other players but still maintain their performance as the same. They got some big defeats in Champions League that are not what they usually experience there.

I am not doubtful about ability of Ajax to come back because they have a very good Academy and very efficient scout team. So they will be able to detect more youth talented players and grow those players to star ones again. However the process might need a few seasons and in the meantime their fans must be familiar with bad results.

Plzen is a weakest team in the group and it is very normal to see Inter Milan destroyed Plzen in the match. This big win of Inter Milan also puts the end for Barcelona in Champions League. This is also the second consecutive season Barcelona were not able to pass through the group stage in Champions League.

In previous seasons, their fans were upset when Barcelona were beaten in semi final, quarter final or 1/8 round but now they have to accept even much worse results.

It's not a problem. Aubameyang rarely joined into the main squad, leaving from barcelona was not become a mistake. I think people understand this perfectly about how barcelona can start the season with a good start with lewandoski but i think that people became overrated with barcelona. Barcelona can be beaten easily by bayern munich but yeah the mental from barcelona's player already gone since intermilan was winning the game against plzen.
I just wanna say if the current squad of barcelona didn't meet expectation to compete in the champion league. that's better for barcelone to use another financial clever to buy new players from another club. This club has been blaming by so many people now.

I think that the fact that Inter's win over Victoria Pilsen deprived Barcelona of even a theoretical chance of reaching the playoff stage had a role in such a Barcelona game. Barcelona president Joan Laporta said on this occasion that watching Inter win was like torture, because they hoped for a miracle, but it did not happen. On the other hand, I personally think that this should not serve as an excuse for losing and the lack of shots on goal, because even before that, it was clear to all sane people that Inter was obliged to win at home and solve the issue of the team's participation in the playoff stage. Barcelona had to show with this match that the team is on the way to restoring the old traditions, but to the great regret of the club's fans, this did not happen and, frankly, Bayern Munich won this match and it turned out even easier than in the first match in Munich.

Yep, dealing with players' egos will be always a hard thing for the coach. Mauricio Pochettino (the previous coach) has experienced it, he realized it to be one of the biggest problems in PSG squad. Now, the new coach (Christophe Galtier), gradually to have a better approach to dealing with the egos of PSG starts players. I never heard of any issue about Messi's bad attitude, most of the issues about bad attitude problems are from Mbappe and Neymar. These players are always unpredictable and difficult to manage.  

It is only your speculation/assumption.
Even if Lewandowski-Aubameyang played together today, it can't guarantee Barcelona to win. Barcelona has a complicated problem, it is not only in the attacking line. You need to realize how Barcelona defenders and midfielders perform poorly nowadays. It is the opposite with Bayern Munich, they are very solid and strong both in the midfield and defense line.

Interestingly, in this case, Club Brugge, who are not seeded, are at the top and have only lost once in this group stage, and even if they lose they will definitely qualify now and Atletico must accompany Barcelona in the Europa League.

I thought it would be a little bit the same as their first game but I was wrong in this and Porto can avenge them in the first meeting.

Apart from the Barcelona attack that was not so good today their defence has been really terrible this last past two seasons. Xavi has a lot to do else they will so not do well in Europa. Their defence is really in a terrible shape that any attack from a good attacking team can result in a goal, which is very unlike the Barcelona days with Puyol in defence.

Tottenham is another team i will like to discuss, tactically, I don't think the coach Conte has what it takes to take the team deeper into the competition. Tottenham's tactics to games looks almost the same which makes it difficult for them to always secure max points especially from coaches that understand that kind of football. They were lucky to get a draw today.

I have tried so hard to understand what you meant in this your post, it is confusing and I refuse to believe what I am understanding about the post because it does not make sense. Are you saying that the reason why Barcelona is performing poor is because they sold Aubameyang?
If it is what you meant it is very laughable.
Barcelona's problem is not how to put the ball at the back of the net, in the world of today there is hardly more than two strikers that can score goals more than Lewandowski. Barcelona is having team harmony problem not individual problem. Even if Aubameyang leaves Chelsea today his impact wouldn't be felt that much, he is not that type of player that will destabilise any club when he leaves. He is not Mane

We shouldn't be surprised with Ajax's result against Liverpool tonight. It was already too difficult for them to continue in the Champions League after the group stage. Liverpool just finished them off by a clear 3-0 victory. Nunez is still performing impressively. This was his 4th goal in his last 5 games.

By the way, I was going to bet on both teams to score for Barcelona - Bayern Munich. Thankfully I changed my mind after. Barcelona had a very ineffective game against them. Lewandowski was a disappointment indeed. As long as they continue to perform like this they don't deserve the Champions League.

It's obviously a bad performance by Barcelona in their  match against Bayern with that no shot on goal in front of their fans as well as a defeat both home and away tells how much Barcelona performance had declined in UCL, I remembered those days when Barcelona used to dominate UCL unfortunately reverse is the case now in terms of the team performances, I hope they won't continue to struggle in Laliga as well Europa league, as it stand now Group in D Tottenham chances of qualification for the knockout stages is guaranteed if they play atleast a draw against Merseille in their last match, a loss will be dangerous.

Barcelona's journey in the Champions League was really bad. out of 5 matches, they only won 1 time. Indeed, Barcelona is in the hard group where there are Bayern and also Inter. but this should be a means of proving that Xavi and his club are a giant club. but it looks like it's over. Even in the Europa League, whether they are able to take advantage of this opportunity to bring the trophy or not. Because there are also several big clubs that are currently very on fire.

Likewise with Atletico Madrid, maybe this is also the end of their journey in the Champions League because they were only able to draw against Leverkusen.
So now, only Real Madrid is representative of Spain in the UCL qualify for the next round, right?

Ajax is bad this year. Not only bad but also in a difficult group. Napoli are in great form this year and it is no surprise that they are leading the group.
Club brugge suffered their first defeat in the group at home against porto. This win opened the door for porto for the last 16.  Atletico madrid and leverkusen will compete for Europa.

I don't think aubameyang leaving is a problem or a mistake and i don't think the problem is in Barcelona attack but their weakness is in the middlfiel and the defence, they need to find quickly some solution to save the season and at least play for la liga title

Today game between Barcelona and Bayern Munich shows the level that Barcelona are, I really think Barcelona did a mistake allowing Aubameyang leave, he is a world class players he proves that in Germany when he was playing with Dortmund were he pair very well with lawendowski, when Barcelona signed the Poland international I thought xavi will partner them together but laporta couldn't resist the offer from Chelsea's, now the are just a minor team with big names, inter played today with four good strikers and Plzen couldn't stand them.

Yup, Barcelona had to go European Cup, the defeat at Cam Nou made the points gap with inter unable to be chased anymore. Inter have ten points while Barcelona are only four. Although there is still one match it will not be a impact anymore.
Bad history repeats, Xavi seems to have a headache with this state. They have spent a lot of money. Perhaps the management is also quite disappointed that they will not get much money from UCL because they failed in the group phase. Believing in Xavi is good but Xavi's ability in the UCL has not been able to make the club strong again.

Porto win and got 3 points in this match, congrats sir because you rooting for Porto to win I think you also bet on that match, the score is also very great 0-4. Porto and Club Brugge qualify for the top 16, because the result of match Atletico Madrid ended in a draw, and with that draw they can't press again situation in group.

By the way, the most interesting next matches in group D, the 4 clubs still have a chance to qualify. Very interesting to watch later on matchday 6, I personally favorite Tottenham and Eintracht Frankfurt to qualify. What is your opinion about group D?

In the end they remained the clowns in the Champions League for 2 seasons in a row, this is clearly a blow, especially in this case the expectations of Barcelona fans are clearly high because in the transfer market they spend a lot of money.
And the most important thing now is that Barcelona clearly lost the coffers of the bonus they should have got from qualifying for the knockout phase and of course this has an impact on their finances.
Hopefully with this loss they will not experience big problems in terms of financial next season.

There is a fact that Inter already guaranteed qualifying from their group before the Barcelona v Bayern Munich game started. So there was no meaning left for Barcelona to show a high level performance in their game.

However it must be still very frustrating for the fans to see their team performing this much weak. They couldn't even find the target for once during the whole game. This game was even in Camp Nou. Can you imagine how big the impact on supporters would be after this? This was another time we didn't see Lewandowski playing properly against a big team as well. He is just having a hard time scoring even one goal in this kind of important games. These are the times Barcelona need him the most so he had better realize this and improve his effort.

And the full-time score is 0-3.
I can't think how they and their fans will feel to be beaten by 3 at home and without a single goal in return. What's more, Lewandowski seemed helpless against his former team. And I'm sure Bayern understands very well how to anticipate Lewandowski. With this result, it is certain that Barcelona will not qualify for the group. Moreover, on the other hand, Inter also slaughtered Victoria Pizen with a score of 4-0.

Barcelona lost at home to Bayern Munich. Barcelona couldn't get a shot on target throughout the match.  The game was going in the middle but for some reason they couldn't find a goal. So now they will continue their journey in the Europa League.
Group D is one of the most complicated groups. It is still not clear who will go out and who will go to the Europa League.