Topic: UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season - page 773. (Read 92689 times)

I would have loved to agree with you on this but I feel, Tuchel made a significant impact as to why he was relieved of his job at Chelsea. I know players could gang on there coach as its a tradition when the coach player relations aren't great no more, they did it to Jose Mourinho and it lead to his dismissal as well. Chelseas bad play was one that was anticipated this season after seeing Tuchels how Tuchel sluggishly made use of the transfer market while looking at what he lost to it.

Yeah, Chelsea made some significant signing in Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Wesley Fofana, Marc Cucurella, E. Aubameyang, Armando Broja and others but, he had A. Broja on the bench far more than supposed even with Kai Havertz wasn't doing so much lately, to earn his spot in the first eleven.
Tuchel was adamant to the changes in his team and that wasn't a solution to the problems in his team.

For Graham Potter, I won't be all excited yet. After all, Tuchel had a good start too and made Chelsea better for a time. Let's just hope Graham Potter could hold this up.

It’s too early to start making predictions about who will be champion yet. Lots of things can change, we are only in October. The big teams usually take it up a gear after Xmas. Injuries  can affect a teams rhythm & form so let’s see what happens when we get to the knockout stages.

You can probably narrow it down to the usual suspects though, Real Madrid, Man City, Bayern, Chelsea, LFC, Barcelona, Inter.

My own team LFC aren’t doing too well atm but we always do well in the CL. You can never ever write off Real, they are the undisputed Kings of Europe. Man City must be favourites, Haaland looks unstoppable if we’re honest. I don’t know if I’ve seen a CF like him.

Let’s see what happens.

Hopefully it can continue to improve and can also be really optimal because Chelsea have gone through difficult times at the beginning of this season so it is very necessary to improve their performance optimally this season so that they can catch up on points and compete with the best teams this season through Potter's direction. Because Potter still needs to learn every character of Chelsea players and put them in a better position.

The first three legs of the champions League have been played and three teams have already qualified for the next round, Which are Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Napoli,and I believe this gives us a clue of the teams that will reach the final and better still win it, most teams are not up to it this season,like Liverpool,juventus and Tottenham, but I think for now Manchester city are the first favourite, they are playing on another dimension ever since Erling Haaland was signed,then there is real Madrid who has history, experience and luck in this competition then we have Bayern Munich.

Chelsea don't have to play to win in the second leg - a draw will suit them just fine (as Milan, by the way) so I think we won't understand much about the team's ability in the second leg. In the Champions League, Chelsea will be fine with a draw against Milan and two wins against much weaker opponents, so I'm guessing Potter's focus will now shift to the Premier League, where Chelsea are in a much tougher situation.

I would say AC Milan lost this match because of their own failure. AC Milan's gameplay was poor from the start of the match. Since it was their away match, they probably wanted to draw the match and share the points. But their gameplay was very weak. Milan goalkeeper Tatarusanu made several good saves, otherwise, Milan would have conceded a few more goals. The dominance of the Chelsea players was quite visible throughout the match. We expected a better performance from a renowned team like AC Milan. But I was very disappointed with their performance. Despite playing defensive tactics, their performance was poor.

The change in manager was good for Chelsea, but who knows how things would have been if Tuchel had remained in the team. Aubameyang is the player who can quickly join a new team, it is strange that Barcelona let him go, because for some time he was very productive in attack, but apparently there was no place for him in Xavi's scheme. So far, Potter's start work in the team can be considered very successful, and he may indeed be able to achieve even greater results with Chelsea, since even more resources will be available to him here.

The results of Group E are definitely pretty surprising for me so far i have to say. When the draw for the group stage happened a few weeks back i was pretty sure that the final table of group E would be 1. Chelsea 2. AC Milan 3. Salzburg 4. Zagreb but now it looks completely different. Salzburg is on top of the table and it is very well possible that one of the big favorites of this group or maybe even both of them will not reach the knockout stage of the Champions League.
That being said both Chelsea and Milan still have it in their own hands if they will go through or not and if i would have to bet now i would still go with those two teams as my picks to reach the knockout stage.

But in fact, the Champions League is an event that is certainly far different from the English League, excellence and motivation come to any safe club to show its existence, including Chelsea class if several matches in the Champions League are only won once. The Premier League for Chelsea is also currently not bad if they will return to their excellent form. They are in 5th place in the standings and I think that is enough capital to follow 4 or 3 positions rather than being far in the top 8. Graham Potter's career is just getting started and we don't know if this bodes well for Chelsea to earn points continuously to qualify for the group stage.

Potter has just take over as manager so we will have to give him time to find the best Chelsea strategy, anyways, this new coach has a positive impact for Chelsea with Aumabeyang Chelsea form getting back on track the fans expected. Chelsea inconsistent history maybe different this time, there is a striker which hungry for goals for wins. I think 3-0 is something good for Chelsea because we know Milan is not an opponent to beat easily like that.

Chelsea played well and won. But Chelsea's performance is still unstable. Moreover, AC Milan's performance in this match was not good. They played completely defensively but conceded 3 goals due to mistakes by the defenders. Chelsea, on the other hand, didn't seem to attack too much. But every attack by the Chelsea players was brilliant and organized. Chelsea only made 10 shots in this match. 6 of them were on target. I would say Chelsea's match strategy was quite good in this match. But they need more time to perform stably and consistently well.

He isn't confused but showing a good sign of a good coach. He had limited time to bond with the players as such he's trying new things just to get the best players he'll use as his strating level. So far it seems he's looking to keep kepa at the goal post and some name has been on repeat in his selection which goes to show he has developed trust in them. There's something different about the Chelsea squad now than previous under the former manager, now the boys want to play football and score goals and they attempts keep coming in unlike before.

Players aren't been played out of position unlike when Tuchel was playing James at defense instead of giving him the freedom as a wingback. Havertz was been played as a striker when we have the like of broja on the bench. Potter is showing some positivity on the team and if this continues, just maybe we might get another shot at the champions league trophy this year.

That's pretty interesting to talk about chelsea but yeah i do agree about inconsistently of chelsea. The only problem is the performance from chelsea can't be stable. I meant it was always going up and down anytime no matter what kind of team that will be faced by chelsea. That makes me feel doubt about this too. This can be seen from what will be the result from chelsea in the EPL after champion league match. If chelsea will able to win some matches in a row and the consistently from chelsea may go back again but who knows

I watched the Juventus - Maccabi Haifa match last night and would like to single out two players who were without no doubt the players of the match.

Adrian Rabiot, but not just because of his two goals, which were beautifully executed. Particularly the header for 3:1, which is one of the better ones I have seen in recent years. He ran his ass off yesterday. He was good in attack and in the defensive aspects of the game recovering possession with perfectly-timed sliding tackles.   

The other one is Di Maria who achieved a hattrick of assists. Maccabi's defense allowed plenty of space and Angel took advantage of it all. I do hope that Allegri will manage to pair him up with both Vlahovic and Milik in certain matches because it's a shame to leave Milik on the bench with the way he has played so far. Di Maria's passing capabilities are excellent and he should be given a more free role in attack to move left and right on the pitch.

This is clearly what they have to do because indeed this is the moment when Graham Potter's role is shaken so he needs to do the match that Chelsea has run to the maximum because otherwise the substitution of Tuchel will be considered worse for Chelsea.
And now he is gradually taking Chelsea on a positive track and of course this is something good.
Now they have to be more focused because their position in the Champions League is still not safe and qualify for the knockout phase.

Suitable. We can't fully say that the 3-0 win over AC Milan can be said to be the beginning of Chelsea's revival, but it could be the start for coach Graham Potter to form the right strategy with the players owned by Chelsea.
We will see how their next match results when playing at AC Milan headquarters in the next round. Because English teams always have difficulty when dealing with Serie A teams in Italy.

Milan was no match for them I couldn't detect the errors in that game for Milan but I know they failed to take those chances at goal, Raphael Leao was un handleable yesterday night, James could not hold him down or stop him.
Using three man backwards and five man midfied locked up the game and they couldn't bend Chelsea so they had to follow through the wing's. Chelsea finally have the first win in the champions league this season and currently having four points. Potter isn't that bad you see

in this case I also want to praise the scheme that Potter did in his first few games at Chelsea.
3 matches he went with 1 draw and 2 wins of course this is a good record even when he is still confused about the suitable formation because of the three matches he played he always changed Chelsea formation.
At least this is something good for them in the midst of the chaos of the sacking of Tuchel because they managed to bring Potter who is now increasingly making Chelsea more optimal.

Dinamo's european story continues the same way it always has - a solid performance ruined by a silly mistake. Shame, they were good for a draw yesterday.
Moharrami should know better than to give away such a cheap penalty and Drmić should have done a lot better with that 1 on 1 sitter he was gifted with by a horrible mistake from Salzburg's defender.

Still - I feel that we can beat them in Zagreb. Chelsea's win against Milan keeps the group fairly open.

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Here are the result of my picks,

FC Salzburg VS GNK Dinamo Zagreb GOAL 1 - 0 - LOST

This game is definitely close I think both defenders had done a great job in defending especially Dominik Livaković from Dinamo, And Salzburg only made a goal with a penalty goal via Noah Okafor, Livakovic had gone the wrong way but yeah the game can really end with a draw aswell

RB Leipzig VS Celtic Glasgow GOAL 3 - 1 - WIN

Just like I thought it will be a one-sided game, I really think Leipzig has more effort in the champion league than the Bundesliga they dominated the game with a 3 - 1 goal, and Christopher Nkunku was the 1st to make a goal, then on 2nd half Jota  made a goal for Celtic, then Andre Silva made the last 2 goals for Leipzig to win against Celtic,

SL Benfica VS Paris Saint-Germain FC GOAL 1 - 1 - DRAW

PSG likely has a high chance of winning this but sad to say bad luck strikes when their center-back Danilo Pereira made a mistake an own goal to their net, when Lionel Messi with the assist of Neymar made the 1st goal then Danilo Pereira ruined it with that mistake is a terrible draw for PSG,

Manchester City FC VS FC Copenhagen GOAL 5 - 0 - WIN

It was a massacre, on what happened to this game, and completely one-sided game that is what happens with this, 1st strike was for Erling Halland then 2nd strike was from Erling Halland aswell, then an Own goal by Davit Khocholava for Man City's Net then Riyad Mahrez penalty goal, then lastly Julian Alvarez goal, it was a total annihilation against Copenhagen,