Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 191. (Read 141888 times)

Even though many people say that Real Madrid won and qualified for the semifinals based on luck, in my opinion, it's not just relying on luck, Anceloti has smart tactics, he knows that if Real Madrid doesn't get a draw, Man City will take advantage of the situation by playing at home as winners, so from Madrid kept its defense tight, making it difficult for Man City to score goals, even though Man City took many shots but only 1 of them was scored as a goal.

Real Madrid only recorded 8 shots compared to Man City, but this shows how great Anceloti's intelligence is by applying strategy to his players, even the penalty kick taken by Real Madrid was successful in bringing them to the semifinals and eliminating Man City, which is something to be proud of even though Man City is a strong club. in attacking but intelligence and experience are very important in delivering the right attack.

Apart from Real Madrid and Manchester City, I think Bayern Munich is one of the favorites to win the Champions League title this season. So it's true, no one will underestimate Bayern Munich in the semifinals this season even though Real Madrid is basically the favorite team to enter the final. Bayern Munich also has the experience and squad depth to beat Real Madrid, but that alone will not be enough to hope for victory because Real Madrid is the king of the Champions League title and is full of experience and mentality.

Luis Enrique finally succeeded in proving his capacity as an experienced coach in the Champions League. He managed to play interesting football with different teams, but PSG are not the main favorites to win the title. PSG can beat Dortmund and qualify for the final, but it will be very difficult for PSG to win the title if Real Madrid is the opponent. Real Madrid have never failed to win the title as long as they have reached the final, so it is unlikely that PSG can win their first title this season.

Of course there are possible scenarios that could see Luis Enrique win the Champions League title this season with PSG, but this is never easy. Real Madrid is a team that really has quality and mentality, even if Bayern Munich is in the final it will also be equally difficult for PSG to thwart Tuchel's title plans in the Champions League.

It was a night when Bayern Munich lived up to their assertions that, when the Champions League comes around, they were an altogether different beast. Bayern Munich were into the final four of the Champions League with Joshua Kimmich's second-half header after winning 1-0 against Arsenal, giving them a 3-2 aggregate victory. Arsenal's European dream is over - and the Gunners' focus is back on the Premier League.

I think the mentality that Arsenal showed in yesterday's match against Munich was quite good. Yes, sometimes luck can also be a factor. The reason is that Arsenal has tried their best for that match. I saw that Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya's performance was very good in that match because Raya blocked many of Munich's attacks. Do you always say that the losing team doesn't have a winning mentality? Look at their struggle from the start to their last match. Is that not part of a winning mentality, if they really don't have a winning mentality, maybe they won't qualify for the next round from the start.

Both teams are the biggest in Europe in terms of quality players and experienced coaches. But we still have some teams that could stand as a barrier for Real Madrid to go to the finals. Bayern Munich is a club that shouldn't be underestimated. They were able to defeat Arsenal which is a team made up of some of the best young players in the world. They also have a good coach who is desperate to prove the club management wrong. I think Thomas Tuchel will do everything possible to make Bayern management regret letting him go at the end of the season. The good thing about the UCL games is that each club has the chance to re-strategize since they have two legs for each level of the competition.

I don't think many people believed that Barcelona would lose against PSG after they won the first leg in Parc des Princes. I expected the game to at most end in a draw in Camp Nou which would make the Spanish side progress to the semi-finals. And Barca got the first goal and I was sure that they would be in the semis. But a single event which is the red card received by Ronald Araujo changed the sequence of the game which gave PSG an undeserved victory. Such events can happen in football so we cannot be certain that a club will win even if it is against a perceived weak side.

In this match it could be said that their respective strikers did not perform well, Man City could not get more contribution from Haaland and Madrid also did not get much contribution from Vinicius because they were both closely guarded by Vinicius x Wlaker and Haaland x Nancho. . Therefore Man City has no other choice but to rely on Foden and Bruyne, who have the character of being able to attack and also have the advantage in creating opportunities for their teammates, while Haaland is more busy trying to escape from Nancho control. At several moments Haaland and Nancho had an argument and got into a physical fight which ultimately resulted in Nanco getting a yellow card. This is all part of Ancelotti's ingenuity to disrupt the balance of Man City attack. I think from the start this was Ancelotti's plan because he realized that Rudiger had to guard the other side of Grealish and Bruyne movements.

I also want to say almost the same thing, of course I agree Arsenal don't have a good mentality in the Champions League. Arsenal have built their squad well in the last few seasons, but they don't have much experience in the Champions League so they have to learn a lot from their failures this season to perform better next season.

I think Arsenal will become more established over time if Arteta is still their coach. There are many players who are starting to have a lot of experience and they will develop a good mentality by learning from failure. There is still a very long way to go and Arsenal will probably prove themselves in a few seasons, but yes I think mentality is the most influential thing in their competitiveness in big competitions.

The meeting record between the two teams can basically make Real Madrid's head puff up. I mean, Real Madrid has a good record when they meet Bayern Munich, that means Real Madrid has its own advantage to be the favorite to go to the final this season. Bayern Munich certainly has a chance to beat Real Madrid, but it is difficult.

The interesting match in the Champions League was the quarter-final match between Real Madrid and Manchester City. Perhaps we will not see another match in the Champions League as competitive as Manchester City and Real Madrid in the quarter finals. In the first match, Manchester City went to Real Madrid's home ground and drew with Real Madrid. In that case, we thought that when Real Madrid played at Manchester City's home ground, Manchester City might advance. But the opposite happened in the second leg match Real Madrid confirmed the semi-final by defeating Manchester City at their home ground. It can certainly be called a tough revenge for last season as Liverpool's Champions League dream ended last season with a defeat to Manchester City. Of the four teams now in the semi-finals, I am considering Real Madrid and PSG for the final. Because Bayan Munich will not compete with Real Madrid at all, on the other hand, even if Dortmund does well, maybe PSG will make it to the final.

Bayern Munich and Real Madrid both played against the two strongest English teams currently and even though Real Madrid was able to put off a stronger performance than Bayern Munich, we should not forget that the same arsenal that Bayern could not play well against is the same team that Manchester City that played Real Madrid found unable to defeat this season in their local league. Bayern still have a chance of winning Real Madrid, some of the injured key players from their team may be available by then, and then they have Harry Kane.

Because they belong to strongest clubs in Champions League so a winner in their direct matches, will have good chance to far in Champions League and win the title. It happened in previous seasons and might happen again in this season. After Manchester City, Real Madrid will meet another familiar opponent, Bayern Munich.

Bayern Munich are not weak and they are familiar with Real Madrid through many matches with each other in history. Real Madrid will have two other difficult matches with another strong opponent. A winner will be decided by not much big difference like the quarter finals between Real Madrid and Manchester City. Kane will fight for a first title in his career after failure in Bundesliga. If his first title is Champions League, it is a big milestone for him and decision to leave Tottenham Hotspur is a good one.

I have already concluded the moment that the draw was made for the quarter finals, when I saw that Real Madrid is playing Manchester city. I said that whoever wins the match will become the winner of the champions league this season because no club will be as strong as two of them.

So now that it is Real Madrid that won City, then I don't think anyone will be able to stop them. Bayern Munich will not be able to win Real Madrid in Germany, because they are not inform, and it is not that one that they managed to win Arsenal, that they will play with Real Madrid who is always ready to net the post.

You are right about Bayern Munich must beat Real Madrid in the first leg of the game, if Bayern Munich did not beat Real Madrid in the first leg of the match it’s over for Bayern Munich because Real Madrid will defeat Bayern Munich in Santiago bernabeu qualify to final round of champions league, but the way I’m looking at this season champion league Real Madrid is the favourite to win this champion league, I know we are talking about football here and anything can happen but what I want us to understand in this season champion league is that a team that struggle to defeat Manchester City is definitely going to win this champion league and since the day Real Madrid eliminate Manchester City, every body believe that Real Madrid will win the league.

Although this champion league is full of surprises, the team that you expect to win will be the one to lose, but I think Real Madrid is different from the other teams , I believe in Real Madrid with 90% of winning the champion
League title, Bayern Munich performance is not good as Real Madrid own, Bayern Munich qualify for semifinal by defeating arsenal with one goal, so from my point of view Real Madrid is defeating Bayern Munich.

It is very difficult for Bayern Munich to do that, because Real Madrid is not a team that can just be beaten, but that doesn't mean their chance is lost, they still have a chance, just not bigger than Real Madrid. This season, Bayern Munich is considered to be experiencing a decline, which makes them a little doubtful in this match, although we cannot guarantee that Real Madrid will perform perfectly in this match.
In the first leg, Bayern Munich will host Real Madrid first. They must be able to make the best use of this match, and victory is the result they must achieve in this match. If they can't win, then they will have a more difficult task in the second leg because they have to play as the visiting team. And we know that when Real Madrid play at home, they are always scary for their opponents. There is no other choice for Bayern Munich in this match, they cannot afford to lose or even a draw will weigh them down.

Bayern must beat Real Madrid first, and then PSG (most likely) to get the title, and PSG must have an easy walk with Dortmund (compared to the game with Real, but in general it is natural that Dortmund also has a chance) and then beat Real/Bayern in the final. At the same time, the odds of PSG and Bayern are assessed as almost equal. Am I the only one who thinks these quotes are crooked?
It seems to me that Real Madrid and PSG are undervalued, which means betting on them has value.

Luck sometimes plays a very important role in any game, including in the world of sports such as football. As happened with Liverpool who failed in the European League even though they were very favored. but Liverpool were unlucky there. In fact, it really doesn't make sense to see Liverpool always missing the target every time they attack and have a good chance. And Barcelona here was also unlucky because they had to lose 1 player when victory was before their eyes after winning since the first leg and also winning early in the first half of the second leg. But unfortunately, after losing players, Barcelona had difficulty maintaining the balance of their team.

And PSG here is lucky. Honestly, their performance is not much different from Barcelona. Even when Barcelona had 11 players we could see that Barcelona could make better attacks and Barcelona's performance looked even more convincing. Meanwhile PSG they only became more comfortable in the game after Barcelona lost players. But PSG actually always almost scored a goal, even since the first leg. but they always have less than good accuracy. And the ball always fails to reach the target by deviating slightly from the goal. But in the end luck came to PSG and managed to make Barcelona lose by a big score in the second leg. However, PSG still deserved to advance to the semi-finals.

Even after Barcelona received a red card and was forced to continue with a reduced number of players, its performance was considered somewhat acceptable and it can be said that it held on. Imagine if any other team was facing PSG with only ten players, what would the result be? PSG, of course, was not ready for this surprise and moved its tactic from focusing on the defense area to attacking with full numbers after ensuring that Barcelona would not be able to approach its goal in any way because it would automatically move to defense to cover up the numerical shortage of players.

I agree with your last position that PSG would not have performed well if Barcelona had maintained its full number of players. But as you know, in football, efficiency is not always the dominant factor because luck may play the biggest role. PSG was lucky this time in one of the most important matches of the tournament.

No one should underestimate Bayern, they are already in the semifinals, which means they are better than the other teams who were eliminated earlier, but we also have to be realistic in looking at the overall strength of the two teams and I think Real Madrid is much more favored to advance to in the final compared to Bayern, that's natural because Real Madrid is superior in everything compared to Bayern this season.

For PSG and Dortmund's semi-final match, PSG is indeed a little stronger than Dortmund, but PSG's performance is very inconsistent so this creates a space for Dortmund to take advantage of, and in fact I think that for the semi-final match everything will be different and most likely will be quite balanced so no It can be denied that the two UCL semifinal matches this season will be very fierce.

From the bookmakers' point of view Real is the favorite in the race to win the Champions League, its chance of winning is estimated at 39%, the rest of the odds are much less, and the chances of Bayern are about the same as Borussia 19%, and PSG has a chance of winning 27%.
So in general Real is the favorite not only in the game with Bayern, but in the Champions League in principle.
Arsenal last played in the Champions League final in 2006, when they lost to Barcelona and that was the last major peak Arsenal reached.
In addition, before the match with Bayern there was a humiliating defeat from Aston Villa and apparently Arsenal morally broke down and the game with Bayern was already lost for him before the start of the game.

Actually, Arsenal's game is very good and has made a lot of progress. in the first leg Arsenal were able to hold a draw and in the second leg the game was still balanced. In the first half they were still able to hold a draw but Rice and Tomiyasu were not able to hold back the attacks well so they conceded a goal from Kimmich in the second half. If their performance is bad, maybe Bayern Munich will score a lot of goals in the first half because Bayern Munich have lots of shooting opportunities, but it cannot be denied that their performance is also on fire.

But whatever it is, good job for Arteta because he has brought Arsenal to the top 8, a very tough struggle. because for several seasons it did not enter the Champions League, but after entering the Champions League again it became a team that was still taken into account. Apart from that, even though the German League has not been able to win a trophy, this shows that Thomas Tuchel is more experienced than Mikel Arteta in the Champions League competition, because he has led Chelsea to become champions in the 2021 Champions League.

This was a tough match of course, after 6 years had passed, the two teams finally met again. Mentally both teams have a very strong mentality in the UCL league. but I also believe that Real Madrid will qualify for the final in this match, because Real Madrid is better prepared than Bayern Munich this season to win the UCL league trophy.

I am even very confident that Real Madrid will beat Munich and become UCL champions this season. After successfully beating City, I think the strongest candidate to become UCL champions is only Real Madrid. Fans often say that City and Madrid are the 2 strongest teams in the UCL this season. Maybe even fans of other clubs will also choose one of them. And last night Real Madrid managed to beat City. This means that Real Madrid really deserves to be champion. Munich has a winning mentality but Madrid has a winning mentality and a solid mentality. I think that will be the difference between the two teams and I also predict Madrid will win the semifinal match.