Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 1126. (Read 141749 times)

Xavi have little experience in europe competition? come on man, that have to be a joke, i know he as a manager its one thing, but he play 20 years this competitions and he knows very well all from the inside of the beast, so, no excuses.

Actually, last season's squad was not much different from now, and even though Barcelona got Gundogan for free from Manchester City. But there is one player that really caught my attention, namely their academy player Lamine Yamal and currently he is in the Barcelona main squad to help strengthen the depth of the existing squad. If we look at his playing style, he is quite broad as a right winger and he can be a good option when the team needs a player who can penetrate the opponent's defense more.

On the other hand, Barcelona's defense is actually quite good, but I don't agree that sometimes Lewandowski doesn't contribute at a critical time like this and I think Barcelona can only rely on other players if they want to continue competing in the Champions League later.

The work is not easy for them to be able to make them in a fierce competition, it requires a very strong mentality. Because it's not uncommon for a club to be eliminated because they don't have a strong mentality. But I think Barcelona have the foundation in terms of mentality.

But I don't think they need to think about it, because if they think about it too much it will make them depressed because they are forced to think about something that hasn't happened yet. It would be better if they just focus on their immediate matches. I mean they should prioritize finishing their matches one by one.

The barcleona's squad was not depth enough last season. That's why xavi has been buying some talented players like guendogan from manchester city as he wants barcelona will be fully prepared to face UCL this season.
The competition becomes even stricter and manchester city as the winner of last season has been doing massive improvements. Even city has bought the three times UCL winner kovacic from chelsea as his replacement. Barcelona were unable to get a good result in europa league last season. It has been proving if barcelona needs to strengthen its squad. The defensive line must become the main concern by xavi. Lewandowski is good in helping barcelona

Benzema was a sharp striker for Real Madrid last season and the departure of Benzema gave a slight decrease in the game from Real Madrid but when you watch Real Madrid in the Domestic League they play quite well and even tend to be better than Barcelona.
Now Ancelotti is always trying to make the team less dependent on one player like last season when Benzema was there.
Manchester City has a goal machine, namely Haaland and he can make Manchester City have a different chance of winning, plus there are other players up front like Julian Alvarez and assisted by quite reliable midfielders Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy
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With them on the front lines, Manchester City has very good strength in every attack on the opponent's goal.

I consider it normal when you say you don't care about the history of Barcelona, because each of us has our own views and favorite clubs. It is true that Barca in the last two seasons have been very bad in the Champions League, Xavi's squad has only been able to make it to the last 16 in 2021-2022, the next edition Barca has only played in the Group Phase.

I think all clubs experience ups and downs in performance, unstable financial factors really affect this. It is certainly not easy to rebuild a club that is facing a transition period, and is not supported by adequate finances.

Xavi was able to finish the season well in La Liga, but he failed to do so in the Champions League. Perhaps he has little experience in such competitions so far and it is easier for him to focus on one thing at a time. I think that in the current Champions League season Barcelona will not achieve great results again, because the competition is very big.

In my own opinion, I think Xavi Hernandez has been a great manager since he took over the managerial role at Barcelona. He became a Barcelona manager when the club were lacking the big names that were known at Barcelona and yet has been progressive with the available players in his possession. Xavi became a Barcelona manager when the club started to experience financial crises that's made them not be very active in the transfer market but was still able to win the Spanish La Liga title last season ahead of a star studded Real Madrid team. His young Barcelona side I think aren't good enough to win the UEFA Champions League title this season but from the progress he's recorded so far, Barcelona might win the competition in few seasons from now.

But it's not just Ancelotti's words because seeing from Perez's statement earlier he also said the same thing so I think this possibility will not change.
The summer transfer window will close in a few days and looking at their performance in La Liga right now it's actually still quite good and Ancelotti will still be quite satisfied with this.

It's just that even like that I think in the end this will change but in the winter because for the Champions League with the current conditions I don't think it will be possible so there needs to be some additions.

I really appreciate Xavi as a Barcelona coach who only appeared with existing players but was able to maintain stable performance since last season but unfortunately Xavi hard work only got the title in La Liga without being able to get the UCL title last season and until this season I have doubts if Xavi is able to bring Barcelona to get the UCL title. I not saying Xavi is bad but just doubting a player who is difficult enough to appear to compete strongly with other teams in the UCL. because we all know that improvements to other teams have started to occur, such as Bayern Munich, which is currently in a very strong state with Kane, who was recently recruited by Munich, and there are still several other big teams that Barcelona must face, so I doubt that.

Xavi usually focuses on younger players and this can make Barcelona have more potential than other teams, On the other hand, Inter Milan was the team playing in the final game of the last Champions League. there is a chance for us to see a miracle and one strong team lose this tournament earlier than they could expect to see.  

UEFA Champions League competition is club football's most prestigious trophy and that's because of the quality of teams and players that are always seen in the competition and so far the competition is concerned there'll always be surprising results and unbelievable moments. Last season we saw a new winner of the competition which was Manchester City but it wasn't surprising to many because the dominated the competition last season.
Despite the fact that there are 32 teams across Europe that are gonna be involved in the competition this season, I think there few club's that can be presumed as favorites such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. There's a every possiblity that none of them will  reach the final of the competition but I think they're the current favorites

Compared to Inter and Bayern Munich, people also think that Barcelona is not one of those who have a big chance to qualify for the top 16 last season. I'm not saying they are bad, but Barcelona's players' injury problems, especially in defense, have prevented them from going far in the 2022-2023 Champions League.


This year will certainly be more difficult considering that almost all teams have made improvements to their squad. It's hard to say who is the absolute favourite, but I tend to agree that the Champions League will still be dominated by Premier League teams this season.

Manchester City and Arsenal are the two Premier League top teams in the Champions League, while Barcelona and Real Madrid will also be the same. Bayern Munich, PSG, Inter and Napoli are also worthy, while Milan are likely to make the same effort as last season. My favorites are Manchester City and Real Madrid, but I don't rule out the Bundesliga team going higher.

You are saying this retrospectively, but who and what was Inter Milan when nobody predicted that they would end up playing a Champions League final? The group was quite obvious and then Inter Milan shocked everyone when they went further and further in the competition.

This year it will be harder because people adjusted their expectations, but I still think that they are one of the contenders because they know how to play these competitions.

Barcelona was in the group of hell last season where Bayern Munich, Inter Milan are the two teams that really have good preparedness from their squad. Barcelona, ​​which appeared with many young players, was still not good enough to face pressure, they even appeared with an incomplete squad due to several injuries. This season should be different as Barcelona seem ready to take on the Champions League challenge despite their failures last season.

Yep, and it will happen. for La Liga, not many are their toughest competitors except for some of their rivals namely Barcelona and Atletico. for the Champions League, Madrid will meet strong teams as their competitors. that means, their consistency will be severely tested if they don't have a successor to replace Benzema as a centre-forward. as for Joselu, he tends to play as a supersub or substitute. my point is not about the system they apply with the 4-3-1-2 pattern, but the consistency of their players.

Imagine, Madrid was almost dominated by its young players. although Vini and Rodry have had a lot of experience, however Bellingham is a newcomer. although in truth, he was able to adapt and play very impressively in his domestic league. but back again as I said, in the Champions League there are some strong competitors and they even have a solid squad defense.
Ancelotti, must have other options and not put responsibility only on Bellingham. which is a problem in Madrid's matches in three domestic competitions, the forward striker they have doesn't create many chances or rely on being a goal machine. if Bellingham underperforms, Madrid will find it difficult to overthrow the other team. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure it looks like Carlo Ancelotti has several options. however, he has not used it as another option. we'll see, because Madrid still has a very long way to go and so do the other teams.

For the previous season, they had different performances between La Liga and European competition. They failed in the Champions League and they also failed in the Europa League. I still see it as a natural thing, because it won't be easy for Xavi to immediately compete in a bigger competition and have more pressure too. Winning La Liga in the previous season was also a great achievement that could be done, just imagine in his first season of work, at that time Barcelona was even thrown out of the top 4, but he could also succeed in bringing Barcelona to finish as runner up.
I wouldn't rush to judge them in the Champions League this season, as the domestic league only started a few weeks ago.

Last season was also a good one for Real in the Champions League - they played just one game less than the finalists, so in terms of business they were almost 100% successful 
Ancelotti, on the one hand, tells the truth, on the other, he is disingenuous. The fact is that everything depends on PSG - if they continue to insist on their insane desire to get 250 million, then Real will pass by, if they lower the amounts to 150, then the transfer will take place.

I want to not be so hard on Xavi, and in fact i support him because in a very hard moment for Barcelona he show the face for everybody and take the management of the team, having said that i have to agree, this year in europe its KEY for him, another fiasco in europe and he can be ejected from his seat.

Well, we all know that it is human to make mistakes and to err in many attempts, but the most important thing is that Xavi already has enough experience for him to do very well this year at the UCL because they have the Necessary material to do it , but I think that They have no excuse, in fact I read a long time ago that Barcelona did not want to renew Xavi's contract because they have already given him many liberties and obviously for those liberties they have not received the triumphs that a team like this needs, generally things when They are about how to do things well, because Xavi is not the most suitable, he has had more mistakes than successes for me, this personally has done more things so that he can leave than stay, for me this is the last opportunity What does Xavi have to do things well, if he doesn't do things well this season in the League, or in the UCL, for me poor Xavi is going out, it's the safest thing, because the Baercelona bosses know that I won't win nor the Europa League, it was won by a team from the League that finished 7th and secured its place in the UCL, in this UCL things will be more fought over, because for me things will be tougher, at least the Real Madrid does not want to stay in the semis, but to go to the final at least.Well, we all know that it is human to make mistakes and to err in many attempts, but the most important thing is that Xavi already has enough experience for him to do very well this year at the UCL because they have the necessary material to do it, but I think that They have no excuse, in fact I read a long time ago that Barcelona did not want to renew Xavi's contract because they have already given him many liberties and obviously for those liberties they have not received the triumphs that a team like this needs, generally things when They are about how to do things well, because Xavi is not the most suitable, he has had more mistakes than successes for me, this personally has done more things so that he can leave than stay, for me this is the last opportunity What does Xavi have to do things well, if he doesn't do things well this season in the League, or in the UCL, for me poor Xavi is going out, it's the safest thing, because the Baercelona bosses know that I won't win nor the Europa League, it was won by a team from the League that finished 7th and secured its place in the UCL, in this UCL things will be more fought over, because for me things will be tougher, at least the Real Madrid does not want to stay in the semis, but to go to the final at least.

Now , with what was seen from the UCL, which was something very good, is that Italian teams have resurfaced and have very good football, because Inter is a very complete team , although now they have bells because financially they are not in such good shape, but I would like Barcelona to collide with an Italian team, because the Italian teams have raised their level in an impressive way, now I see these stronger teams and I really want to, I see that they are believing it and that is something that has to be like that , the Spanish teams that earned a position in the UCL, as in the case of Arcelkona for having been champions of their League, well they have to show that it was not Accidental, and that they have the level to be able to go far , otherwise , it would not make sense.