Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 1246. (Read 141744 times)

No striker in football achieves what Halland achieved last season without his teammates. I agree with you that every player in that Manchester City team was crucial to their dominance of last season, but don't make it look like Halland does nothing than score easy goals already created by other players.

When you talk about the 700 goals of Ronaldo, you don't mention the support he got from his teammates, so why is it different with Halland? It's common knowledge that a striker needs good players behind him to flourish so why do people always bring up the issue of the support Halland gets when talking about the goals he scored? Was he supposed to d it on his own?

Debruyne was the man behind Haalad success because if you look at it,you will see it that most assist came from Debruyne. Most players believes in Haalad and the moment City players get to the box of their opponent,Haalad is the player that the ball will be passed to for scoring. He played in a good team that everybody supported him and also wanted him to be an outstanding striker last season which he achieved. When you are a great player playing in the midst of other great players,you will be very successful. We are expecting a new season and I don't think that it would be the same as last season was for Manchester City.

Neither nor. You are mentioning 39 games, but you are neglecting the fact that Real Madrid's journey would have ended in the quarter finals for example in one year with a halfway decent referee. There is a huge difference between getting lucky in the round of 16 due to wrong referee decisions and then be able to play till the end compared to getting knocked out right away. Of course they had the chance to play the next round, but that chance wasn't based on them being the superior or more efficient team.

That is why I am saying that the domestic league title is the most honest title a team can win. It is not perfectly honest, but more honest than any one or two leg knockout tournament. With the VAR in place today, Real Madrid would probably not have achieved what they did achieve without the VAR. Since the VAR makes the game more precise, variance would decrease and the scope for lucky probabilities for Real Madrid would have been smaller.

The variance of mistaken decisions can have insane impact on the history of a sport. It can give a team a record that will almost never be broken, or it could end the streak in the following year immediately. In this case dozens of decisions helped Real Madrid to win those three titles in a row. Congrats

It was easier for Haaland because he had great support from other team members. When I was watching his interview some days ago, he was asked the best player he ever played witha and I was not surprised that he picked De bruyne because he realizes that all the opportuniy he had that was turned into goal, the half assist came from DE Bruyne, so I don't I agree when you said Haaland statistic was easy to create, they should remove him to another club and watch how he becomes a joke to the club.

It is usually like that when all the teams that made it to the Champions League have good perfomance but the story change immediately when they start the Champions League, it is called the Champions League because they are all good teams from the best of best but when they meet each other, even the team you never expect turn to a joke and evetually don't make it to the final.

Napoli have really performed amazingly in Serie A this season. But in the Champions League, they did no better than PSG. Probably not enough experience for them for such big competitions. By the way, what is surprising is that they lost to Milan. Perhaps in the Champions League it's experience that counts more than a stars squad.

We can refer to when City has had its ups and downs, especially in the middle of the season. even then, if I'm not mistaken. At that time, Pep tried several times to experiment with several systems to find the ideal pattern for his squad, until they got the ideal formation. City is far more ferocious than before, they always topple the opposing team with a landslide score. all of this is thanks to the system that Pep has developed, conditioned by the players who are his starting eleven.
in several crucial cases, Haaland was unable to score, especially in the matches against Madrid and Inter. naturally, he gets a very tight marking. fortunately, Pep is smart and has devised a strategy so that the other City players can contribute to scoring goals. in a way, Haaland opened up space on his teammates. plus, City have players who perfectly fit into the system that Pep Guardiola employs. so, not only Haaland made a big contribution. after all, what City played was a game of teamwork.

Well, they got the momentum to win the trebe winner, something that really deserves to be appreciated. next season, it's only natural that City will remain the favorite team. for now, they are in their prime. it's just that, other competitors were not going to let City go smoothly for the second time defending the championship. that's why, there are many clubs currently deepening the depth of their teams in order to appear competitive.

Of course Napoli had a great success last season by winning the Serie A but the management had already won it by a big margin when they faced Milan in Champions League and between these games they even lost 0-4 to Milan at home in Serie A which angered the management to the maximum level.That is why it was asked to stop collaborating with Spalletti for the upcoming season and some new manager,in this case Rudy Garcia has a lot of burden on his shoulders,which is not to win again the Serie A as that is always an objective in stronger teams in Serie A but to also go further and not to be humiliated like they were in the dual elimination games against Milan.

Not all players but most of the Manchester City players are much better than other players in the teams they joined there, maybe that's because they have the experience of working with a coach like Guardiola or that's maybe because of the better pieces of training they had in this team.

That's why many teams are trying to hire Manchester City players like Saudies they are trying hard to hire Silva.



After Messi left they are having negotiations with other players and now Enrique is going to ask PSG to hire more players.
We know PSG is a rich team and they won't have any problems with hiring even more expensive players.

I guess the PSG we are going to see in the next champions league will be different that what we saw in the last season which can give them more chances to finally achieve something in the next champions league.



You are wrong, Haaland is an active and well-performing player even in the hard games they have against strong teams but the problem with these players for Haaland they know they have to be careful about this player, and usually other teams will let one or two players man-marking Haaland and that's how they don't even let players like Haaland to even show the good performance we usually expect to see from him. 

Oh you   I did not think that you would seriously talk about conspiracy theories and "Perez bought everything."
As for mistakes in different directions at a distance, then what, three Champions Leagues in a row that Real won is a short distance for you? This is 39 games (more than the number of games in the Premier League) and Real Madrid were the strongest in the results of these games. Is it because Perez bought everything or just because Real Madrid were stronger?  

Napoli were actually the victim of being inexperienced in the Champions League. Otherwise they had such a great potential to do much better than that. The group stage went really amazing for them in fact. They even destroyed Liverpool in one of the matches. But after the group stage they started to stumble.

When they faced Milan they technically seemed stronger generally. But Milan were a way more experienced team than them in their history of Champions League adventures.    Even though Napoli seemed dominant in their matches Milan still made it.

In short Napoli have gained some experience now and it is up to Rudi Garcia's management to be successful here again. By the way I still call it a success for Napoli about what they did here last season.

Rudi Garcia might be an accomplished coach, but it remains to be seen if he can maintain Napoli's commendable consistency against Serie A heavyweights like Milan and Inter. Indeed, we saw how well the team was synergized under Luciano Spalletti's tutelage, making his departure quite disheartening. I am, however, keen to see how Garcia's game strategy melds with Napoli's current squad, which remains largely unchanged. I suppose the key here will be adaptability

Messi's departure actually won't have much effect on PSG, I think they can make the most of the roles of Mbappe and Neymar. The two players are also in their golden age, there is no need to doubt the quality of the two of them. Luis Enrique is definitely very lucky to have these two attackers in his squad. But if Messi hasn't left PSG, I think they will be more afraid of the Champions League next season because Enrique really knows how to maximize Messi's role. But what can Enrique fail to reunite with his former protege.

On the other hand, the duet of Neymar, Mbappe and Messi last season was not optimal so they could not go further after being defeated by Bayern Munich in the last 16 with an aggregate of 3-0. With the majority of the star-studded squad, it doesn't guarantee that PSG can win the Champions League easily and they have never made it to the final at all. For Osimhen, who is being linked with PSG, I think it will be difficult to realize considering he has a release clause at a very high price.

I don't agree with your, despite Haaland is not man of the match in Champion League final looks his contribution from group stage until final stage and success become top scorer in Champion League. In final match, Haaland get huger pressure and its effective how to make other player get space for scoring goals. Honestly, Manchester City is strong team and don't depend on one player but Haaland is goals machine helped Manchester City winning treble winner in this season and success get first Champion League tittle.

Did you see Haaland's statistic in Champion League? last 11 matches success scored 12 goals and seems how amazing with his performance for Manchester City in this season, I don't think with City winning Champion League without sign Haaland.

Yes, I believe you are correct. I have been considering that ever since I noticed how every Manchester City player plays the game like a machine. I admire the way they perform on the pitch because they always play with one another in mind, which makes them very difficult to defeat. Every Manchester City player who joins any other clubs, in my opinion, would be among the team's best players because they always play the ball normally, even when they are losing.
Everyone is aware that Halaand is not as good at Borussia Dortmund as he is at Manchester City, despite the fact that he is currently regarded as one of the top players in the world.

It's not too early to predict that, because some of the club names that will compete in the Champions League are regulars and most of them are clubs that are used to reaching the quarterfinals at least. I personally look forward to surprises from clubs that are considered as dark horse clubs, there are many club names and it is difficult to predict because there are some clubs that are not too often in the Champions League can actually speak a lot there.



For a big team like them, losing players should not affect their game. But we're talking about Paris Saint Germain here, who are a rich club, but don't know how to utilize their excess money. In the end, they're just an average club, especially in the Champions League.
How can a club with such internal problems bring out the best in them.

Napol had good performances in Serie A and one good reason for these results he got was mostly because of bad and unstable performances from other teams, also Napoli said the champions league because they didn't have Osimhen helping their team like they had before. That's why I don't even expect to see him achieve anything in the next champions league with their new coach.



Paris Saint Germain got enough money to make stronger teams than even what we saw in the last season, they started working with Enrique recently and we know this coach knows the way to win the champions league however we are still waiting for Enrique to give the list of the players he needs for the next season and PSG start buying to rebuild the teams for the next season.

Messi's departure will indeed have an effect on the strength of the team at PSG, but the position left by Messi could have been filled by another player even though his talent is not the same as Messi's. Osimhen can indeed be the right alternative for PSG, but the price must also be reasonable because I don't think that Napoli will let Osimhen go for a very cheap price, especially since he was able to make quite good achievements in Serie A last season.

Manchester City really play football like a machine. Gabriel Jesus had good statistics in this team. Sergio Agüero had good statistics in this team. Ilkay played in this region when the forwards were injured and got good statistics. Manchester City are playing with a tactic with a machine setup. No matter who you put forward in this team, they will have good statistics. Of course, Haaland is a great football player. He had already proven to be a great player in Borussia Dortmund. But I think it's easier to get great stats at Manchester City than it is to get great stats from other teams.

Actually when Haaland has trouble scoring goals, they still have Julian Alvarez who can replace the role of goalscorer for the striker, but as we know Pep Guardiola is a perspective coach who rarely even changes his players during 90 minutes of a match. Maybe I don't understand what Pep Guardiola is thinking, but when a team needs a supply of goals, then as soon as possible the coach must try to include other players as supersubs. But considering that in the last few Champions League games last season all the goals were mostly scored by his midfielders, it is clear that Haaland cannot contribute during matches with high tension and also against other strong teams like Real Madrid or Inter.

The point is that all players have an important role in every match, so we cannot conclude that only one player makes a club win and get trophies. Because after all, because Haaland is a player who is very wary and of course, opposing players will also try hard to stop him. So, with opposing players placing more focus on Haaland, and then the other players at Manchester City have a good chance to continue to make attacks to score goals. So yes, in that way each player has their own role, so Manchester City's performance at this moment is indeed extraordinary because they have great players too.