Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 1034. (Read 141752 times)

I wasn’t expecting anything serious from the match, I knew Arsenal was going to win the match. Arsenal won the match comfortably with 4 goals to 0. That’s really a good start for Arsenal. Let’s see how they are going to perform in the subsequent matches to come, but I don’t think there is any club that is going to give Arsenal difficult moments in their group stage. Arsenal's performance was really impressive in their last match, and all Arsenal fans are really hoping they win the league this season.

Everyone was expecting a win from Bayern Munich, which happened just the same way people predicted, but I was not expecting Manchester United to score three goals in the match. I was thinking Bayern Munich would win by a wide goal margin, but unfortunately there was just a slight goal difference. I was not really impressed by Bayern Munich's performance in the second half, why would they concede three goals In the second half alone, that’s not really good.

Before the UEFA competitions began, I was confident that Arsenal would advance from whatsoever Group they were sent to. They may experience disappointment along the way, but not if they fail to advance from the group stage.
Arsenal outperformed PSV by a wide margin. It appeared as though winning the game was very easy for them. That made me to liked how they gave the entire game their all, from the start to the finish. they continued to yearn for additional goals after it was certain that it is already a won match for them. 

The match between Bayern Munich and Man Utd ended with 4-3, the home team winning. Dù thua trận này nhưng tôi vẫn đánh giá cao tinh thần của thầy trò Ten Hag. They were lazy in the first half, but in the second half, I saw them completely transform. Mainly goalkeeper Onana, Onana played very well in the second half.
Man Utd needs to improve their defense further, and in attack, I need Rashford to regain his form. He seemed out of place in the team compared to last season. Rasmus Hojlund is expected to be MU's No. 1 striker in the next decade, and his performances against Arsenal and Brighton disappointed Ten Hag. In the end, he scored against Bayern. I'll see how Hojlund proves his worth.

I believe if De Gea was making mistakes and conceding a lot of goals, and if Onana is facing the same thing right away as soon as he arrived, maybe United should realize the problem could be somewhere else? I agree with you that defense is lacking and its not good at all, but also I believe wings and midfield is lackluster as well. The best way to not have all that many shots to your goal would be making sure that you keep the ball, when you barely have the possession all game long and when your midfield is past easily with couple passes, then even a good defense can handle only so much. They do not have a good team all around, not just onana or defense.

Dortmund was not able to provide much resistance when they came to the Parc Des Princes stadium because PSG was really in a very strong situation in this match. Statistically, PSG was able to make Dortmund fail to show their best game because PSG immediately put pressure on Dortmund from the early minutes. PSG was able to shoot 17 shots and was able to dominate ball possession throughout this match. Luis Enrique men really performed well, especially Mbappe because Mbappe was able to trouble Dortmund's defense in this match.

Dortmund is not very strong this season after Bellingham departure because in the domestic league alone Dortmund has not been able to show good performance. For PSG, the first win will be quite important for them because slowly Luis Enrique has proven his best qualities to rebuild PSG strength after their imbalance of strength in the domestic league this season.

If I remember correctly, De gea has his fair share of mistakes that were costly to his team on multiple occasions. I still maintain my opinion that since he arrived at Man Utd, he is under a lot of pressure to be better than De gea and his confidence drops on each passing games especially if Man Utd defense as a whole can't really coordinate much. I'm of the opinion that Onana will do well at man utd as time goes and he rebuilds his confidence.

If you watched the UCL final last year vs Inter, you'd understand. But still too early. Let's see what becomes of him in coming games.

Am frankly impressed by Bellingham's performance so far for Real Madrid. Who would have thought he would be 6 goals adrift as top scorer whereas Lewandowsky is still at a 3 goal deficit and yet to catch on.
I hope he doesn't get injured before the team gets to secure another goal scorer that can deliver in every or almost every matches.
Sincerely,  I think Mbappe would be the best option in attack alongside Bellingham. What a wonderful combo it would be.

Before Jude Bellingham was signed to Real Madrid in the summer, I knew he was a phenomenal midfield player but what I never knew about the Englishman was that he was just this good to play in the false 9 position.
Since his arrival to Real Madrid, Jude Bellingham has scored six goals in his six appearances for the Spanish giants. Without Bellingham's goals this summer, Real Madrid will be 9 points worse than they are currently. His contributions to the club since his arrival has been enormous and that's why many believes he's the best signing of the summer.

Mason Mount is injured, there is no clear information when they can play again. Meanwhile Ambrabat wasn't on the squad of Man United against Bayern Munich, he wasn't among the substitution players too. I don't know what's happening with Ambrabat. Man United may still not register him or too late to register him for the match. I'm not sure what the reason is. But it was clear we couldn't expect to see him playing because he wasn't on Man United squad.

Yes, Jude Bellingham scored in minute 90+4'. The match is almost over, but Jude Bellingham once again becomes the savior of Real Madrid. It was very unfortunate that Real Madrid wasted too many chances. They made 32 shoots, but they only could score a single goal when the match is almost over. Union Berlin has a good defense, but Real Madrid attackers look not playing effectively. I'm sure Real Madrid is still in urgent of a top striker.

Union cannot be underestimated and are the dark horses for this group C due to a pretty good performance in the first match although they still had to drop points at the Bernabeu.
But for the actual qualifying candidates I don't think it will change because Napoli and Madrid are still very big and possible to qualify, as for Union Berlin I think they can still if they really want to fight for third place and if the performance is the same as the first match then it can still happen.

It's just that even if their defense is good, they also have to think about how to score goals and this is something that Fischer must think about in dealing with their attacking line whose performance has decreased and seems to have lost the scoring instinct.

I also thought that Real Madrid would draw with Union Berlin because the one goal scored by Jude Bellingham was at the end of the match. So Real Madrid managed to win with that narrow score, and indeed when compared in terms of level of ball possession and ability to attack Real Madrid was much better than Union Berlin. But Union Berlin's own defense also needs to be paid attention to because that is what caused Real Madrid to fail to score many goals in that match.

This surprise will probably continue for Union Berlin this season, both in its own domestic league and in the Champions League, because Union Berlin could qualify for the next round if the other two teams often make mistakes in the next match. Union Berlin is indeed worth considering because if with Real Madrid they can play like that, there is a possibility that Union Berlin can beat Napoli and Braga in the next match.

I don't think that PSV will be able to put in a better performance than what they did last night at Emirate stadium in their home, because bfron the way thye match ended, it shows that Arsenal are superior over PSV, either at home or away. The have a weak defence and a weak team.

Arsenal are very lucky that they started the tournament playing with PSV because it is a sure victory for the gunners. Arsenal fans should be more focused on the next game and not the return leg because it will still end up the way the first leg ended. There was no doubt yesterday that Aesenl will win PSV, just the way that there was no doubt that Bayern Munich will win Manchester United.

Dortmund experienced quite a stressful early match when they lost to PSG. And as we know, some of their matches in the Bundesliga were not that smooth. There's something missing there. We really can't judge a club just by their performance in the main league, because sometimes it will be different when competing in the Champions League. However, here, Dortmund's position is in the hell group whose opponents are the big clubs of their respective leagues. And this definitely won't be easy. Moreover, Milan, they were quite aggressive in the first match, but they were less sharp in execution. This will be quite difficult to predict, but if you look at how they have performed so far, it could be that Milan are the favorites to win, or maybe they can draw again.

I too thought that Real Madrid would fill up his team sheet on strike position after Kareem Benzema. Besides that, Vinices Junior got injured, so I was pretty upset about how Real Madrid would play without a striker, but now, after the signing of Jude Bellingham, Real Madrid has no issues with the striking position. Jude Bellingham has played very well; he scored five goals in league competition and is now more than scoring in the UEFA Champions League by Real Madrid.

Yeah, obviously, Onana doesn't have the precious ability to play like David de Gea in UEFA Champions League competitions. He has so many weaknesses, like a weak hand and catching. It is right that Onana has better passing skills than David de Gea, but the reason is that no one needs a goalkeeper to make great passes or assist, despite the fact that the club needs a goalkeeper to defend a net from an opponent's goal, in which Onana is a little bit weaker than David de Gea. In my opinion, Manchester United needs to keep David de Gea for the goalkeeper role rather than Onana.

I'm not saying that the composition of the Borussia Dortmund squad is better than AC Milan, especially after they lost one of their important pillars (Jude Bellingham), if you see from the beginning of my response, I just don't agree with the people who say that AC Milan is the favorite in this upcoming match, even though it's very clear from the bookies that Borussia Dortmund has lower odds than AC Milan. Regarding level of excellence of both teams, I think I have to agree with you that these two teams don't have a big gap.

The result between PSV and Arsenal was very predictable and some players like Martin Ødegaard had azmig performances n this game. I think Arteta and his team can have good performance this season in both tournaments Premier League and the Chmapnios Leageu because most of the players they bought in the transfer window had amazing performances,
PSeicaly in the second half of the game Arsenal had a much better performance and they had eight goal opportunities while PSV had only three.

The problem Manchester United players have is that they are not as good as they think they are. They all feel like they're world-class players but can't play football like world-class players. What's worst is the fans give them the world-class players treatment.

There are United fans who believe Bruno is better than De Bruyne, meanwhile, Bruno goes on to drop stinkers every match day. Maybe in one of 6 matches, he'll have a 9/10 performance and the whole fanbase will start cheering him like he's prime Zidane. It's disgusting. Anthony, a very mediocre player is being rated as one of the best wingers in the world by United fans.

Ten Hag is a very good coach and I believe somehow he'll try to keep United alive, but I doubt they'll ever be what they used to be with the set of players they have. Only a few players are actually very good in Manchester United.

Another problem with United is they always have a scapegoat. We heard it was Woodward.
It was Pogba at a certain. Pogba was always blamed for every loss even when he was not on the pitch. Then it was Maguire. Maguire is an awful footballer but he cannot be responsible for every United's downfall. Now it's Onana.
Every goal scored is Onana's fault. They don't even care to demand more from their midfielders and defenders or attackers.

When they've run out of scapegoats, they'll go to the Glazers. A whole lot of things are wrong with that club, from their recruitment of players to management and fans.
It'll take a lot for United to be that great club again, problem is they don't even know how deep they have fallen off, they still believe in their deluded mind that they're that team of 1999 and 2008.

Remember remember this will be the last Champions League as you know it.

From the next year, we will have a new format.

2 mega groups of 16 teams with 8 random games player.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_UEFA_Champions_League

Galatasaray had match that they had to win and barely in the end got the draw. Really a shame that they didnt win but they should have started harder and opened them early. This match that they didnt win might cost them later in the group stage for sure.

Yes, seeing how aggressive Real Madrid were in attacking, you could say that Union Berlin was really strong at that time. The pressure after pressure that Real Madrid launched towards the goal could be broken. Even if you look at the statistics and during the match, the position of the ball was often in the back area of Union Berlin and they continued to press it. However, Berlin was also able to save their goal many times. And on the other hand, Real Madrid did manage to win and put extraordinary pressure on Berlin, but on the other hand, they had quite a hard time getting through the goal. This is sad because it looks like their front line was not that sharp at that time. I'm worried that without a very strong main striker, whether Real Madrid can really get into the final again or not considering these conditions. Hopefully, because this is their first match in the UCL without Benzema, the players will need to adapt more in the future.