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September 25, 2022, 06:42:20 AM
Inter - Barcelona will be eyed very closely indeed. Inter aren't having good days recently. They have defensive and offensive issues both now. They have another difficult match against Roma before facing Barcelona in the Champions League. If they don't have a good result against Roma too it would demoralize them even more. In any case it isn't easy for them to recover magically in a short time though.

Barcelona have had a very impressive run so far. Maybe they lost to Bayern Munich here but their performance was still decent. Their performance in the La Liga has already been very satisfying. I expect them to show the same performance against Inter too and have the control of the match. They can win this to make up for the Bayern Munich loss.

Yes Inzaghi's troops are not in great shape. especially in the last match, Inter had to lose when they played away games at home to Udinese. after the international break, Inter will play host to Roma, Inzaghi must fix his squad, especially in their defense line which is quite fragile.
as you said, it is not easy for them to miraculously recover in a short period of time.

As for Barcelona, ​​I don't see Barcelona playing badly when they travel to Bayern.
I think they were just out of luck at the time. In this match, Barcelona should be able to beat Inter easily. three points, is a mandatory result for Xavi Hernandez's squad.
Barcelona performed well against Bayern, they had many chances to score, but they couldn't score. Bayern Munich capitalized on their chances to win. Barcelona must win their next matches to get points.
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September 25, 2022, 02:36:01 AM
Inter - Barcelona will be eyed very closely indeed. Inter aren't having good days recently. They have defensive and offensive issues both now. They have another difficult match against Roma before facing Barcelona in the Champions League. If they don't have a good result against Roma too it would demoralize them even more. In any case it isn't easy for them to recover magically in a short time though.

Barcelona have had a very impressive run so far. Maybe they lost to Bayern Munich here but their performance was still decent. Their performance in the La Liga has already been very satisfying. I expect them to show the same performance against Inter too and have the control of the match. They can win this to make up for the Bayern Munich loss.

Yes Inzaghi's troops are not in great shape. especially in the last match, Inter had to lose when they played away games at home to Udinese. after the international break, Inter will play host to Roma, Inzaghi must fix his squad, especially in their defense line which is quite fragile.
as you said, it is not easy for them to miraculously recover in a short period of time.

As for Barcelona, ​​I don't see Barcelona playing badly when they travel to Bayern.
I think they were just out of luck at the time. In this match, Barcelona should be able to beat Inter easily. three points, is a mandatory result for Xavi Hernandez's squad.
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Barcelona have had a very impressive run so far. Maybe they lost to Bayern Munich here but their performance was still decent. Their performance in the La Liga has already been very satisfying. I expect them to show the same performance against Inter too and have the control of the match. They can win this to make up for the Bayern Munich loss.
No, I don't think so because they played really impressively in this. But they still have difficulty in communication, especially for the defense line.
The first Bayern goal came from a corner which left several Bayern players free to head the ball and for the second goal actually Araujo and Christensen could still hold Sane and Musiala but they lost focus and let both of them through so even though their performance was quite good they still had to improve their current teamwork.

I did not watch the champions league game last week we'll
But with all you have said then they need to work on set pieces very well
I don't expect a fast start to Christensen and also Alonso was too dull for the fast play Bayern Munich was playing.
He found it difficult to hold down Sane who has pace
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September 25, 2022, 02:12:56 AM
Being inexperienced in big tournaments like this one might be a problem for Graham Potter maybe. They couldn't beat Salzburg for example but it was his first Champions League game at the same time. Chelsea still have four more games to play here. Nothing has ended for them yet but on the other hand they are going to play against Milan two times in a row now. This is the most critical time period of the group stage for them. If they don't get at least four points from these games then their chance to move on can be much lower depending on the results of Dinamo Zagreb - Salzburg games.
Chelsea have actually made the transfer they need for solving their scoring issues. But let's see how good Aubameyang will be able to perform. If he doesn't perform like he was at Barcelona then they might still have serious issues.
Inexperience during champions league shouldn't be a problem because their opponents are not that much amazing aside from maybe Milan, so they should be second at worst no matter what. The fact that they are not shows that it is not just inexperience in UCL, but inexperience with a big club like this before.
Potter has been a manager for a while now, but he hasn't really managed a team at the size of Chelsea before, and definitely never been with a club that spent 200+ million in a single off-season. That type of size definitely requires a bit of experience, which you gain by doing it for the first time, because nobody grows knowing it, it just so happens that Potters first time will be with Chelsea.
Qualifying for the next round of the Champions League will not be too difficult for Chelsea if they are able to perform consistently well. Chelsea will still have the opportunity to play 4 matches. If they are consistent and stable they can easily qualify for the next round from second place in the table.
I'm not calling Potter a bad coach. But he is not experienced enough to manage a big team like Chelsea. And so I don't think he will be able to change the team's performance very quickly. But given enough time, he might be able to stabilize the team.
For me Chelsea has everything to qualify, I know there are those 4 games left, but for me they will win them, and I really admire the work of all the players and the technical director, and it is a great job that they have done and for me it will be one Of the surprise teams for the competition, some had no faith in them, but I really admire their ability to start and be about to qualify, the work of the technical director has been impeccable, raising a team from nothing and making their players understand each other and give their best is something that few achieve, I believe that the motivation that the players have has also had a great influence.Everyone hates Tuchel's work but for me it has been very good, the only thing is that it is no longer giving results and when that happens, it has to be replaced, but for me it did its part.

I personally didn't think Tuchel was a bad coach. He has tried his best to make the team strong. To strengthen the bonding between team players. But for some reason, he could not succeed. Players like Raheem Sterling and Emerick did not adapt well to the team. If Sterling had been able to play better, Chelsea's performance would have been stronger. Chelsea's main weakness this season is their defense. If the defenders had played well, they would have been a little higher on the points table. Looking forward to seeing what steps new pitcher Graham Potter takes to strengthen the team.
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September 25, 2022, 01:54:35 AM
That match is hard to remember. because Lewandowski seems to have a big problem when it comes to breaking into his former club's goal. well the game of these two teams was very commensurate in that match i thought from the start of the barcelona round they could beat bayern but in reality it was a big mistake. Bayern appear aggressive against barcelona and from the statistics the meeting of these two teams always ends with a big score. xavi will probably have a chance when they play at camp nou to beat Bayern. We'll just have to wait for the second round of their meeting at the UCL in group fase. I hope Lewandowski has no problem scoring against his former team.
His former teammates on Bayern know his style of play so that's why they can successfully locked his movement on that match and it makes Lewandowski has no room to created the opportunity to scoring goals and this also became an the weakness of Barcelona at that time when Lewandowski has deadlock they became an difficult to win and lose but for upcoming match against Inter i think it won't be happend and their chance to get 3 points also quite good considering Inter is not in the good shape
At least there is a statement from Lewandowski that yesterday when playing against Bayern Munich, Lewandowski was ready to score a goal against his former team. At least it is a statement that shows that Lewandowski will continue to play properly as a professional player, so if the reason is that Lewandowski is reluctant to score against Bayern Munich it is not right. But at least I agree for the reason that Bayern Munich know Lewandowski's style of play and as such, it will make sense when the Bayern Munich defender manages to close Lewandowski's space.
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September 25, 2022, 01:34:41 AM
That match is hard to remember. because Lewandowski seems to have a big problem when it comes to breaking into his former club's goal. well the game of these two teams was very commensurate in that match i thought from the start of the barcelona round they could beat bayern but in reality it was a big mistake. Bayern appear aggressive against barcelona and from the statistics the meeting of these two teams always ends with a big score. xavi will probably have a chance when they play at camp nou to beat Bayern. We'll just have to wait for the second round of their meeting at the UCL in group fase. I hope Lewandowski has no problem scoring against his former team.
His former teammates on Bayern know his style of play so that's why they can successfully locked his movement on that match and it makes Lewandowski has no room to created the opportunity to scoring goals and this also became an the weakness of Barcelona at that time when Lewandowski has deadlock they became an difficult to win and lose but for upcoming match against Inter i think it won't be happend and their chance to get 3 points also quite good considering Inter is not in the good shape
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September 24, 2022, 11:12:50 PM
This is the main advantage from tiki taka. Bayern was also facing the same situation when it was facing a team that can use fully defensive strategy and using counter attack just like when it was facing chelsea and real madrid. barcelona's player only focusing in the ball possession which is not good. The win will not determined by ball possession but it's from how many goals your team can make to win the match against another team. I didn't like a strategy that was putting ball possession as very important thing rather than focusing how to make goal.
I watched first half match between Bayern Munich vs Barcelona on second matchday at UEFA Champion League group stage and Barcelona have good performance at first half created many attempt but still not lucky for scoring goals. I think Barcelona games play style always tries how dominance with ball possession and looks slowly when have chance to make counter attack, different with Bayern Munich not trying with how dominance ball possession but how effective when get chance to make counter attack.

Barcelona have bad thing when conceded one or two goals not trying how to play effective for counter attack and scoring goals, but keep try playing ball possession on their defensive area. I think need change about Barcelona player motivate when losing and still have left minutes playing.
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September 24, 2022, 10:51:19 PM
That match is hard to remember. because Lewandowski seems to have a big problem when it comes to breaking into his former club's goal. well the game of these two teams was very commensurate in that match i thought from the start of the barcelona round they could beat bayern but in reality it was a big mistake. Bayern appear aggressive against barcelona and from the statistics the meeting of these two teams always ends with a big score. xavi will probably have a chance when they play at camp nou to beat Bayern. We'll just have to wait for the second round of their meeting at the UCL in group fase. I hope Lewandowski has no problem scoring against his former team.
Actually this is not only for Lewandowski but for the whole team even though in the first match Barcelona controlled the game with very large possession of the ball but the chances for them can be counted because of the solid midfield and Bayern defense in cutting attacks.
On the other hand, Barcelona always makes the mistake of allowing Bayern's players to attack back so that defeat is unavoidable.
This is the main advantage from tiki taka. Bayern was also facing the same situation when it was facing a team that can use fully defensive strategy and using counter attack just like when it was facing chelsea and real madrid. barcelona's player only focusing in the ball possession which is not good. The win will not determined by ball possession but it's from how many goals your team can make to win the match against another team. I didn't like a strategy that was putting ball possession as very important thing rather than focusing how to make goal.
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September 24, 2022, 07:56:02 PM
Actually this is not only for Lewandowski but for the whole team even though in the first match Barcelona controlled the game with very large possession of the ball but the chances for them can be counted because of the solid midfield and Bayern defense in cutting attacks.
On the other hand, Barcelona always makes the mistake of allowing Bayern's players to attack back so that defeat is unavoidable.
Allowing Bayern players to strike back is ridiculous for Barcelona. Because maybe Barcelona underestimated the Bayern players when attacking back so that Barcelona players didn't make a fuss when it happened. But they (Barcelona players) all feel sorry when they lose just because they made a small mistake like you said.
This is a very annoying thing for Barcelona and I believe Barcelona can still win in the next game.
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Barcelona have had a very impressive run so far. Maybe they lost to Bayern Munich here but their performance was still decent. Their performance in the La Liga has already been very satisfying. I expect them to show the same performance against Inter too and have the control of the match. They can win this to make up for the Bayern Munich loss.
No, I don't think so because they played really impressively in this. But they still have difficulty in communication, especially for the defense line.
The first Bayern goal came from a corner which left several Bayern players free to head the ball and for the second goal actually Araujo and Christensen could still hold Sane and Musiala but they lost focus and let both of them through so even though their performance was quite good they still had to improve their current teamwork.
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September 24, 2022, 07:39:01 PM
Actually this is not only for Lewandowski but for the whole team even though in the first match Barcelona controlled the game with very large possession of the ball but the chances for them can be counted because of the solid midfield and Bayern defense in cutting attacks.
On the other hand, Barcelona always makes the mistake of allowing Bayern's players to attack back so that defeat is unavoidable.
I saw a lot of mistakes at the centre-backs from Barcelona, ​​namely Andreas Christensen and Ronaldo Araujo. Their appearance was completely uncharacteristic. even their performance is below their usual standard of performance. this should be a noted for xavi for the next match and otherwise the defense of bayern is really very solid. and to be honest the tempo of attack from barcelona was less organized in the match against Bayern so it was easy to break. But with this we can see the quality of Bayern Munich. with this result I think Xavi has a lot of homework to do.
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That match is hard to remember. because Lewandowski seems to have a big problem when it comes to breaking into his former club's goal. well the game of these two teams was very commensurate in that match i thought from the start of the barcelona round they could beat bayern but in reality it was a big mistake. Bayern appear aggressive against barcelona and from the statistics the meeting of these two teams always ends with a big score. xavi will probably have a chance when they play at camp nou to beat Bayern. We'll just have to wait for the second round of their meeting at the UCL in group fase. I hope Lewandowski has no problem scoring against his former team.
Actually this is not only for Lewandowski but for the whole team even though in the first match Barcelona controlled the game with very large possession of the ball but the chances for them can be counted because of the solid midfield and Bayern defense in cutting attacks.
On the other hand, Barcelona always makes the mistake of allowing Bayern's players to attack back so that defeat is unavoidable.

Barcelona's performance when facing Bayern can't be said to be bad, Barcelona has tried to give their best. Even Barcelona dominated the match
and also created quite a number of chances. Unfortunately, as you said, Bayern's midfield and defence were very solid, several times the attack
that was built by Barcelona was successfully thwarted. After all, it is not easy for any team to face Bayern at the Allianz Arena. I became curious
when Barcelona faced Bayern at the Camp Nou, Barcelona should have beaten Bayern. But before facing Bayern, Barcelona must be able to beat
Inter first. Despite Inter's inconsistent performances this season, but Inter are not a team to be underestimated, Barcelona must be careful when
facing Inter. But I believe Barcelona can beat Inter, because after all the Barcelona squad is more qualified and also Barcelona's performance is
better when compared to Inter.
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September 24, 2022, 06:37:23 PM
That match is hard to remember. because Lewandowski seems to have a big problem when it comes to breaking into his former club's goal. well the game of these two teams was very commensurate in that match i thought from the start of the barcelona round they could beat bayern but in reality it was a big mistake. Bayern appear aggressive against barcelona and from the statistics the meeting of these two teams always ends with a big score. xavi will probably have a chance when they play at camp nou to beat Bayern. We'll just have to wait for the second round of their meeting at the UCL in group fase. I hope Lewandowski has no problem scoring against his former team.
Actually this is not only for Lewandowski but for the whole team even though in the first match Barcelona controlled the game with very large possession of the ball but the chances for them can be counted because of the solid midfield and Bayern defense in cutting attacks.
On the other hand, Barcelona always makes the mistake of allowing Bayern's players to attack back so that defeat is unavoidable.
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October 4 we will start again with the Champions League. At Ajax - Napoli in group A, Napoli can deal a huge blow if they manage to win. In that case, it seems to me already decided that Liverpool and Napoli will advance to the next round. All eyes will be on the clash between Inter Milan and Barcelona that week. Before the season I would say Inter are a better team, but now I think Barcelona have the better cards. However, it is also possible that Barcelona does not reach its level, as we have seen a few times last year and Barcelona did not manage to get through the group stage in the CL. I'm looking forward to this game but I think Barcelona will win it.

Inter - Barcelona will be eyed very closely indeed. Inter aren't having good days recently. They have defensive and offensive issues both now. They have another difficult match against Roma before facing Barcelona in the Champions League. If they don't have a good result against Roma too it would demoralize them even more. In any case it isn't easy for them to recover magically in a short time though.

Barcelona have had a very impressive run so far. Maybe they lost to Bayern Munich here but their performance was still decent. Their performance in the La Liga has already been very satisfying. I expect them to show the same performance against Inter too and have the control of the match. They can win this to make up for the Bayern Munich loss.
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Chelsea team as individual players are good very good but when you put them together as a team they are not very good. That is to show that Chelsea problem can be coaching problem. Tuchel got it wrong because some few players that understood his type of play left the team. It was as if his defence line was just new and they didn't adapt so fast to his pattern of play. I wish that same thing will not happen to Graham Potter.

Well, you already know in the world of football everything can sure happen, and if the coach is not competitive enough pretty much they can easily change them so Graham Potter is not safe, but in actuality, no one is really safe, and apparently Chelsea is in a bad spot right now in Group E with 0 Win, 1 Draw and 1 Lost that is why it is not looking good at all,

I don't think he was wrong, because Tuchel's work was good, but we all know that when a technical director no longer gives results, it is obvious that he is replaced, but I think that one of the things that we sometimes do not appreciate is good work of what some have done, then it's time to change phase, and they achieve that through a technical director.

Here is one of the stories that can continue to push Chelsea forward, will it be the solution? The genius tells him:

Graham Potter's tactical genius and how it can benefit Chelsea in crunch Premier League matches



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Graham Potter's Brighton & Hove Albion side produced a wonderful performance against Manchester United on the opening weekend of the season

Source: https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/news/graham-potter-chelsea-premier-league-24984962

Well now it's time to wait and see how everything continues to develop.



In actuality, Matchday 3 is coming for UEFA Championship and Chelsea is just starting their retaliation that article has suggested how a genius Graham Potter is then I will surely grab my popcorn and watch how Chelsea unfold a next-level play in actuality I am looking forward to Chelsea to take over Group E and on October 6 match up Chelsea will be against Milan we can surely test what a good coach Graham Potter is,

October 4 we will start again with the Champions League. At Ajax - Napoli in group A, Napoli can deal a huge blow if they manage to win. In that case, it seems to me already decided that Liverpool and Napoli will advance to the next round. All eyes will be on the clash between Inter Milan and Barcelona that week. Before the season I would say Inter are a better team, but now I think Barcelona have the better cards. However, it is also possible that Barcelona does not reach its level, as we have seen a few times last year and Barcelona did not manage to get through the group stage in the CL. I'm looking forward to this game but I think Barcelona will win it.

October 5 will likely be the start of matchday 3 but apparently, I think he has a different timeline hence the different date we have, In 1st game the leader of Group C Bayern Munich I think will have an easy win over Viktoria Plzen, Sporting against Marseille, that I think Sporting could win, Leverkusen might have a shot on Porto, because Leverkusen is a screwed team right now on the Bundesliga, Frankfurt against Tottenham, which Tottenham could win, but still, Frankfurt can have a special thing and could win against Tottenham, Barcelona with Lewandowski could have a high chance against Inter, and Liverpool against Rangers, that for me I think I will go with Liverpool,
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September 24, 2022, 04:40:59 PM
October 4 we will start again with the Champions League. At Ajax - Napoli in group A, Napoli can deal a huge blow if they manage to win. In that case, it seems to me already decided that Liverpool and Napoli will advance to the next round. All eyes will be on the clash between Inter Milan and Barcelona that week. Before the season I would say Inter are a better team, but now I think Barcelona have the better cards. However, it is also possible that Barcelona does not reach its level, as we have seen a few times last year and Barcelona did not manage to get through the group stage in the CL. I'm looking forward to this game but I think Barcelona will win it.

In the match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Barcelona was the better team to win the match but the winning totally slipped from them. They have -3points. That is enough reason not to count Barcelona off in their next match. Barcelona has all it takes to win their next champions league match. Anyone betting against Barcelona is doing so at their own risk.
That match is hard to remember. because Lewandowski seems to have a big problem when it comes to breaking into his former club's goal. well the game of these two teams was very commensurate in that match i thought from the start of the barcelona round they could beat bayern but in reality it was a big mistake. Bayern appear aggressive against barcelona and from the statistics the meeting of these two teams always ends with a big score. xavi will probably have a chance when they play at camp nou to beat Bayern. We'll just have to wait for the second round of their meeting at the UCL in group fase. I hope Lewandowski has no problem scoring against his former team.
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September 24, 2022, 04:39:01 PM
It is too difficult to talk about Chelsea's title chance in the Champions League in the near future now. Because they have bigger concerns to deal with first. It is very hard to predict what will happen after Tuchel's departure and Potter's arrival. They will need a lot of time to see the results of new changes in the team. People have many question marks in their minds because of Potter's being very inexperienced about big teams and big tournaments like this one. I won't be surprised if they even continue in the Europa League this season. It won't be easy for them to collect enough points against Milan to increase their chance for next round.
Maybe we are still at the beginning of the season now and I'm prejudiced about their future. But as long as they don't solve their scoring issues this season won't be bright for them neither in the Champions League nor in the English Premier League.
Chelsea are currently at the bottom of Group E, and only has 1 point from 2 matches indeed very small chance to qualify from the group stage.
Especially as you said Chelsea chose Graham Potter as the new coach, who has no experience dealing with big teams and also inexperienced
in the Champions League. This fact makes some people become pessimistic about Chelsea. AC Milan is Chelsea's strongest competitor in Group E,
so like Chelsea it will be difficult to face AC Milan. Even Chelsea against Dinamo Zagreb and Salzburg were unable to win, so Chelsea needed a miracle
to qualify from the group stage. Another problem from Chelsea, they are also not productive in scoring goals, Aubameyang, who is expected to be
a goal machine, has not shown satisfactory performance. Too many problems have happened to Chelsea, this season will indeed be quite a difficult season
for Chelsea.

at the moment, Chelsea are in a really tough spot in their Champions League campaign so far. moreover, they are also not in the best of positions in the English Premier League as well. at this point, i believe that appointing Graham Potter to the managerial team was quite a big mistake for the management because this guy is quite inexperienced with bigger teams, and he also doesn't have a lot of experience with the Champions League. to qualify for the next stage of the competition, Chelsea really needs a miracle to happen. as soon as possible, i hope that their coach will be able to figure out the problem and fix it as soon as possible for their team.
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September 24, 2022, 04:33:01 PM
October 4 we will start again with the Champions League. At Ajax - Napoli in group A, Napoli can deal a huge blow if they manage to win. In that case, it seems to me already decided that Liverpool and Napoli will advance to the next round. All eyes will be on the clash between Inter Milan and Barcelona that week. Before the season I would say Inter are a better team, but now I think Barcelona have the better cards. However, it is also possible that Barcelona does not reach its level, as we have seen a few times last year and Barcelona did not manage to get through the group stage in the CL. I'm looking forward to this game but I think Barcelona will win it.

In the match between Barcelona and Bayern Munich, Barcelona was the better team to win the match but the winning totally slipped from them. They have -3points. That is enough reason not to count Barcelona off in their next match. Barcelona has all it takes to win their next champions league match. Anyone betting against Barcelona is doing so at their own risk.
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September 24, 2022, 03:57:03 PM
October 4 we will start again with the Champions League. At Ajax - Napoli in group A, Napoli can deal a huge blow if they manage to win. In that case, it seems to me already decided that Liverpool and Napoli will advance to the next round. All eyes will be on the clash between Inter Milan and Barcelona that week. Before the season I would say Inter are a better team, but now I think Barcelona have the better cards. However, it is also possible that Barcelona does not reach its level, as we have seen a few times last year and Barcelona did not manage to get through the group stage in the CL. I'm looking forward to this game but I think Barcelona will win it.
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September 24, 2022, 03:40:42 PM
I wonder what do you doubt? Do you think that Dynamo or Salzburg will take Chelsea's ticket to the playoffs?  Grin Or do you think they don't have a strong enough lineup to be successful in the playoffs? I think that both proposals are unfounded, and success in the Champions League playoffs is largely a random factor and a lot will depend even on the pairs draw.
That square that gave Dynamo and Salzburg the first success against Chelsea is still available for the return leg it is left for Chelsea to buckle up or get defeated for the second time. This is champions league and the better team always win there is no two ways about it. Chelsea can win them if they device another method or strategies, because if they continue to use same method of game, i think that they might lose the match.

It seems to me that there will be enough increased motivation for Chelsea to win. A change in manager is already contributing to this and even if he does not make a drastic change in the playing patterns, Chelsea will be much stronger in the return games. This will be enough to win, because objectively these rivals are of different levels.

By "play-offs" you mean the remaining round ties, right? Because I know play-offs differently.

Success in the "play-offs" doesn't mean Chelsea automatically win the UCL… Does it? I am talking about the bigger picture. In the Premier League, Chelsea isn't going to finish top 4 under Graham potter. You can save this post for future reference  Grin

I use the common meaning of this word:

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The playoffs, play-offs, postseason or finals of a sports league are a competition played after the regular season by the top competitors to determine the league champion or a similar accolade. Depending on the league, the playoffs may be either a single game, a series of games, or a tournament, and may use a single-elimination system or one of several other different playoff formats. Playoff, in regard to international fixtures, is to qualify or progress to the next round of a competition or tournament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playoffs

I would like to know in what other meaning do you use?

Let's say I save your post for future reference, what should I do if Chelsea is in the top four?  Grin The odds of this are quite high and are now estimated at 2.10. Do you think you see the picture better than the bookmakers?
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