Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 330. (Read 141787 times)

That's right. Many people's hopes were that the two teams should meet in the final but unfortunately these two great teams had to meet in the quarter-finals, this was like a premature UCL league final.

But I agree with you. Even though last season Real Madrid was humiliated by Man City, this is not the case because now Real Madrid is better and stronger. It is proven that currently Real Madrid is still at the top of the Laliga standings. Additionally, with the arrival of Jude and several other players, the Real Madrid squad is almost complete compared to last season. So my prediction is that Real Madrid this season will definitely be able to eliminate the defending champion (Man City) from the UCL league competition.

Sometimes no one knows fate and how it is that two teams that previously met last season have to meet again this season and this also reminds us all that the one who wins this match will be the winner of the 23/24 edition of the Champions League. There is nothing strange about this considering that these two teams are strong candidates to win the Champions League every season and if they meet early then it will also confirm to other teams that everything is over.

Here it is clear that Real Madrid has business to settle with Manchester City, especially since last season's humiliating defeat still feels bitter to this day. Real Madrid is starting to improve this season by increasing the depth of its squad and indeed it is not comparable to what it currently has. Real Madrid is still playing without a number 9 striker and Manchester City has a crazy goal scoring machine like Erling Haaland. I think if Mbappe arrived earlier this season everything would be balanced and Real Madrid wouldn't just rely on their winning mentality.

It's actually true that the match between arsenal vs Bayern Munich is really going to be a fascinating encounter between them, but I really don't think arsenal have what it takes to go toe too toe with this Bayern Munich side, regardless of how inconsistent Bayern have been in this season, it's actually true that arsenal have been doing well recently but this is the champions league, experience is fundamental if you must succeed, that's why arsenal struggled against fc Porto, and was unable to be at their outmost best in both legs because they lack the experience required at this particular stage of the competition, and lastly if you look at Bayern Munich of late, I think they are finding back their form at the right moment, which i think will be crucial in their quest for glory between now and the ending of the season.

Yes, defending champion Manchester City, will compete with record holder Real Madrid. With 14 times lifting the prestigious Silver Cup in history, Real Madrid is, of course, the club with the greatest status in Europe. But at the present time, the balance of power is leaning in favor of Pep Guardiola's teachers and students thanks to the almost absolute power coming from the top stars.

Having to face the reigning Champions League champions right now is a difficult challenge for Real Madrid. Real Madrid has only won 1 of the last 6 matches against Man City. Last season, Manchester City crushed their opponents with a score of 5-1 after two games. Kevin De Bruyne and his teammates dominated for 90 minutes, not giving Real Madrid any chance to protest. Now, how will the four pillars of Real Madrid, Jude Bellingham, Vinicius Junior, Aurelien Tchouameni and Eduardo Camavinga, cope with a more perfect Manchester City than last year. Manchester City is very strong. It can be said that their stars are much superior.

They met too quickly, so this seemed like a quicker final match for both teams. I also really want them to meet, but I don't want this to happen in the quarter-finals, but the draw results must lead us to see their meeting will occur in the quarter-finals. Both Real Madrid and Manchester City will definitely prepare for this match as best as possible, because both of them definitely realize that their opponents in this round are not teams that can be underestimated at all, they are even my 2 biggest favorites to become champions this season.

Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti will clash tactically again, after the previous season they often met and last season Carlo Ancelotti had to admit that the strategy implemented by Pep Guardiola was better than the strategy he implemented so that Real Madrid had to be eliminated. This season will be a different story, because Real Madrid itself is better than before. This will be a challenge for each team, because in my opinion this will be their strongest opponent in the Champions League this season.

Arsenal have been drawn to face Bayern in the Quarterfinals of Europe’s elite competition the UCL and this is one match that will be holding maximum views especially as it’s the biggest match after the Real Madrid vs Man City match. Many will want to see how this Arsenal side have really improved and if They’ll be able to go past this inconsistent Bayern team. The Gunners will take on the Bundesliga champions in an intriguing tie with England striker Kane, having joined the club last summer, facing his former club's rivals.

 Arsenal narrowly beat Porto on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate draw to reach the last eight while Bayern overturned a 1-0 first defeat to Lazio to advance. The German side will head to the Emirates for the first leg armed with former Spurs hitman Kane, who has netted 36 times in all competitions this season following his £100 million move from north London. Arsenal are playing Champions League football for the first time since 2017, when ominously, they suffered a humiliating 10-2 aggregate defeat against Bayern. Equally worrying is Kane's record against the Gunners, with the 30-year-old netting 14 times in 16 appearances against them during his time at Spurs.

 Arsenal have real improved on how they play and you can see that in the league also as theyre still on top of the table with bery high goal difference. This match will be quite difficult but I still believe they can be able to do some magic at the Emirate to give them a boost before they head to Germany for the return leg. Even if they’ll be eliminated, I don’t think the humiliation will be as much as the past. The Barcelona VS PSG is another key match and I’m strongly believing PSG will be able to have the edge against this Barca side this time. Psg are seeking to achieving something this season and I wouldn’t be surprised seeing them in the finals again.

When talking about experience then what do we expect from Arsenal and some of their young players whose experience is certainly much lower when compared to Bayern at this time. At least the young players at Bayern have more playing time because they play every season in the Champions League and it is certainly different from Arsenal who are just restarting the Champions League competition after several seasons they have missed being in this big competition.

Experience cannot be used as a reference because Arsenal lost badly and h2h also cannot be a consideration because their last 3 meetings Arsenal always lost badly with the same score but another thing that can be a differentiator is that currently they have the same capacity and strength in terms of players because looking at the line up and players owned by Arsenal and Bayern I think the quality is not much different and this can be another consideration, of course, considering that with opportunities like this Arsenal still have momentum in probability.

I too was upset when I saw that Man City and Madrid will meet again not in the final... Last season City easily defeated Real Madrid... Of course it will be interesting to see them meet this season, because it seems to me that Real have a chance to win this time... But probably this match should have happened in the final...

Indeed both teams has opposite conditions at their domestic league because Arsenal still compete for race title with Manchester City and Liverpool they even looks unstoppable with gets several winning with big scores in Premier League but for Bayern Munich indeed since Tuchel handle this team Bayern Munich performance is really unstable they even has small chances to gets Bundesliga trophy because with 10 difference points below to Leverkusen it's very hard for Bayern Munich to taking over first place from Leverkusen

If we talking about the match between Arsenal vs Bayern Munich so far indeed we only can see it based on the history between these teams and the history has been talk Bayern Munich is much good because they can able to gets the trophies several times and the latest is Bayern Munich can being an the champion of this competition on 2020 at that time they can beat PSG in the final match but for Arsenal although they are big team in Premier League but Arsenal was never able to gets champion league trophy

Based on the odds for the first leg i can see Arsenal is the favourite but Arsenal should beware of Bayern Munich because recently this team has been showing fantastic performance because in Bundesliga Bayern Munich can gets several wins with big scores and the latest is Bayern munich can able to overcomes Darmstadt with big scores 5-2 so it's clearly Bayern Munich is on fire

The quarter-final match between Real Madrid vs Man City can indeed create an atmosphere like a big match like a final. And yes, everyone will definitely be looking forward to this match. Because matches that bring together big clubs are quite rare.  But I also didn't like how Real Madrid played against Leipzig. I see Real Madrid as if they have lost the sharpness of their attack line. And this needs to be fixed. And their back line must also be maintained so that they maintain maximum performance. Because the opponent you will face is an opponent who has a striker who is always hungry for goals. So Ancelotti's troops must be prepared for this.

I believe that Ancelotti must have learnt from his previous mistake, that he needs to make sure that his team is in control of the midfield this time. I also will love it if Real Madrid can use this season to whip back Manchester city ass in revenge of last season, but it is just too early for that challenge.

It is going to be a difficult match for the both teams because they know the quality of each other, since they have recently become rivals in the Champions League. The two club is balanced and I believe that both of them will stay focus more on that match, because none of them will be planning on losing the quarter finals. The strongest and most lucky will qualify to the semifinals. Who knows if the winner of the match will also be the champion league winner this season.

If you look at Arsenal's squad at this time under coach Mikel Arteta, you can see that they have more uniform personnel on all three lines. It is difficult to point out which position is Arsenal's weakest link right now because every individual is in high form. This is definitely the most significant difference between the current Arsenal and the past. Meanwhile, Bayern has gone through an unstable period under coach Thomas Tuchel and has only played well in the last 4 matches in all competitions. In terms of experience, Bayern will definitely defeat Arsenal's young squad. However, the Gunners have youth, desire, solidarity, and bravery that have been somewhat forged under Arteta's hands.
This is a highly anticipated match because everyone wants to see how the Gunners will play against the opponent who has crushed them in the last 3 clashes at the most prestigious playground on the continent. With the current situation, the Arsenal will put all their effort into this match. Arsenal are in a very different position, maybe they will beat Bayern Munich.

Real Madrid - Manchester City is going to be the matchup to be watched the most obviously. I would have really liked to see such finale in fact. But the positive side of their draw in this round is that we are going to watch 2 matches. 

Real Madrid are getting close to the La Liga title week by week. They are having a better season there with Ancelotti. However I didn't like them against Leipzig here in the last round.    They really need some improvement until facing Manchester City. Otherwise Guardiola's team would really be merciless just like they did in their last draw against each other in this tournament. Bellingham - Vinicius Junior's performances will play an important role. The injury problems in defense line shouldn't reach a higher level again too.

Bayern in the Bundesliga doesn't look good. Even Bayern is 10 points behind Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. And yes, this is Bayern experiencing its worst season this season. Because it is already difficult to regain the top ranking in the Bundesliga. And actually this could make Tuchel focus Bayern on being able to play better in the UCL. And maybe this will be a difficult challenge for Arsenal. But yes, I actually predict that Arsenal will be superior if Arsenal can remain in their best performance. It's just that Arsenal needs to strengthen their defense when facing Bayern. Because sometimes Bayern's attacks always succeed in making things difficult for their opponents. But actually this match will still be difficult to predict. Because of course both of them will play fiercely and only produce a slight advantage.

I'm not a fan of Bayern Munich but I have to say that I don't see Bayern Munich performing badly at the moment even though they experienced a bad situation, but believe me, Munich has improved its performance quality again.
we can see in several matches in the domestic league that Munich is able to score big scores whereas previously they always lost against weaker teams and the result of the last match against Lazio was a special performance.
I'm not saying Arsenal is bad or doesn't have a good performance this season, but actually it's not Bayern Munich that will have difficulties in the next match, but Arsenal will have difficulties against Bayern Munich because in terms of quality of performance, both teams are far superior to Bayern Munich.

simple question we have to understand is, when was the last time Arsenal won a UCL title? or maybe never at all.
we definitely know the answer and that's the reason I say Bayern Munich will easily get rid of Arsenal because in terms of experience Bayern Munich is also more experienced and the arrival of Kane in the attack line makes Munich even more fierce.

Arsenal's performance this season is quite consistent in the Premier League, currently he is in first place, from last season Arsenal's performance was also quite good and he almost won the Premier League title but unfortunately he failed to get it, but now he is competing with Liverpool and Manchester City and he is still strong enough to compete for the Premier League title. As well as in the Champions League he wants to go further and beat Bayern Munich and he has also learned a lot from mistakes because in the last few seasons Arsenal have not played in the Champions League therefore he does not want to waste that opportunity again.

However, beating Bayern Munich is not an easy thing for Arsenal because Bayern Munich has Harry Kane who is very active in attacking and he still has strong stamina in this big competition as long as Bayern Munich doesn't have any problems and Harry Kane is still in the Bayern Munich team. Arsenal dont just give up and Arsenal also have to prepare a strategy from now on to face Bayern Munich later and not be humiliated like the last meeting in the Champions League.

Apart from the Arsenal vs Bayern Munich match, actually the Barcelona vs PSG match is also quite difficult to predict because PSG played strongly in the round of 16 against Real Sociedad but basically this club has no experience in the Champions League so it's only natural that PSG beats them. but meeting Barcelona is not something that is easy to beat and vice versa, Barcelona's performance has improved but PSG's performance is also quite consistent even though PSG always fails in the Champions League but PSG is always in the Champions League every season so we don't know whether PSG's performance this season is good. whether it has improved or not, let's see if PSG can reach the final in their final season with Mbappe.

Arsenal has no good head to head against bayern and this shall become a very important thing that needs to be anticipated. Bayern was also very often in beating its opponent with huge scores in the past but things are very different when it comes to the this season. Bayern has been performing so badly in the domestic league and this is also greatly impacting the performance from the club. Bayern needs also to make sure it will not bottling this game. The first leg is gonna happen at emirates stadium and this gonna be a hard test for bayern. Bayern is not yet in good shapes and im expecting bayern to lost with narrow score against arsenal soo.
Bayern can win the game if club will able to win against arsenal in the first leg.

It seems like I'm not the only one who was quite disappointed with the results of the draw for the quarter-finals which brought Manchester City and Real Madrid together early. Even though I prefer to save the excitement of the match between the two club giants for the end. But now we have to see the two meet earlier. Although I had suspicions about this from the start. But I didn't expect that to happen. But for the teams that have qualified for the quarter-finals this season, it seems that they have met many people's expectations. Only Inter Milan unexpectedly had to be eliminated in the round of 16. For the Real Madrid vs Manchester City match, I'm still confused about who to favourite. Because Real Madrid sometimes they are always able to make it difficult for teams from the Premier League. But because the opponent is Manchester City, I doubt that Real Madrid will be able to have an easy match.

Yes of course. Everyone favors City and Madrid as the strongest candidates to win the Champions League this season. And it is very appropriate for both of them to play in the final. The results of this drawing surprised me. It's a shame when one of them falls early. City are very strong this season and they want to beat Madrid again like in the previous final. But Real Madrid this season is also playing very solidly. Even though they achieved unsatisfactory results against Leipzig, what needs to be noted is that they were still able to win the match. I think Madrid will be able to surprise everyone by beating City. Madrid is also very motivated to win the match because it is to take revenge for last season.

As a Real Madrid fan, I prayed for the club to meet Manchester City this season that the team is now better than they were last season. Manchester City did not just eliminate Real Madrid from the UEFA Champions League competition last season but they humiliated them in one of the most embarrassing fashions ever in the history of Real Madrid in the knockout stages of the competition.
Real Madrid management were able to sign few quality players to the squad last summer transfer window and their presence have actually helped the team improve significantly. So I'm happy that Real Madrid will be now take their revenge on the humiliation from Manchester City last season.
Manchester City without doubt is a very strong club that's capable of beating any club in with but I'm very confident thar Real Madrid is gonna eliminate Manchester City in that particular tie