Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 344. (Read 141787 times)

After Arsenal’s qualification from the round of 16 to the quarterfinals, that’s when a more bigger challenge awaits them to accomplish to continue going further in this competition. FC Porto might have given them a very tough time before making it to the quarterfinals, but at this stage they should be extra prepared to have a more challenge pose on them before making it to the semifinals. I don’t see any team in this round that will be faced with Arsenal for them to have an easy passage to the quarterfinals, they will definitely fight their way through with so much hardwork for their dream to come true.


You didn’t mention Bayern Munich amongst the team they may be scared to face in the quarterfinals alongside Manchester City and Real Madrid. They could pray to have a team like Arsenal and Dortmund but not. Barcelona and PSG whom they also have good records in the competition for long now also. I won’t underrate any of this teams too much when they’re faced with Atletico Madrid to play. They could get a more leniency when matchup with Dortmund or Arsenal, but for the rest of them, it will be as tough as hell for them to pass through into the semifinals. The next round of the competition will be entirely different and full of drama irrespective of any team any of the teams will be facing.

The team that competes through the penalty shootout certainly has a good mentality. because a penalty taker must have a good mentality so that his penalty execution runs well and successfully.

The Champions League always presents surprises, so it is difficult to predict who will win the trophy this season, we will wait to see how the draw for the quarter-finals turns out first. Manchester City, Real Madrid and Arsenal should be considered as the main candidates, followed by Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Barcelona, PSG and Atletico Madrid. All the teams that have qualified for the quarter-finals are the strongest teams so far, even though some of them are not very consistent in their Domestic League, but we have seen that some of these teams are able to create surprises, experience and mentality in dealing with pressure is very decisive in Champions League.

Besides that, everything could be very different if the draw resulted in a mini-final, meaning that the favorite teams met too early in the quarter-finals, for example Manchester City versus Real Madrid. It is clear that one of them will qualify for the semifinals, this is also very possible and it is definitely very difficult to predict the outcome of the match. Regarding Arsenal, they are indeed in the best performance, which in my opinion Arteta squad has a big chance of advancing to the semifinals this season.

Arsenal is good, but I don't see them carrying the champions league, The leagu is still much open ended. There are stronger teams in the competitions and these teams are still waxing strong and poses a great threat to their existence in the competition because they have more champions league experience and are in a good form too. I love to believe that Arsenal FC has broken the deadlock of not being able to cross UCL quarter finals for the first time in very many years. I wish them the very best, but i still don't see them lifting the trophy, Maybe I can be wrong, so I'll love them to prove me wronng This time around.

Intermilan has made some mistakes. It cost club a lot at the penalty stage. Executing a penalty is far more difficult compared to scoring through open play, and this is something that Intermilan doesn't own. The club looked very amateur in executing the penalty, and this also made the situation even worse for the club.
It's now out from UCL and many people made meme about this club by called that if inter had terrible penalty executors. Lautaro Martinez has become the main target of all the haters. This is not something unimaginable since intermilan was performing perfectly in the domestic league.
UCL totally far tougher compared to the domestic league and intermilan must have known it.

There will be fierce battle in the upcoming rounds and i hope they are all doing very well in the upcoming games.

That's right, talking about the Champions League is not as easy as talking about the local league because there are many strong competitors from other leagues we know Arsenal is the strongest team in the Premier League but we know they have little experience here there are still other teams from the Premier League who have greater experience and opportunities, yes as you said Manchester City is one of the main candidates.

This season we have 4 leagues that will compete with each other 2 from Premier League, 3 from Laliga, 2 from Bundesliga and 1 from League 1 each of these leagues has a favorite team and potentially reach the semifinals. Bookies have provided betting markets for this tournament and so far Manchester City is still the favourite the 2nd option is Arsenal and the 3rd is Real Madrid. I don't expect the final to be between Manchester City vs Arsenal lol because we have seen them compete in the Premier League.

Winning trophy is a bonus and arsenal must be going to the final first. It's too early in talking about the possibility of arsenal to win the trophy since this one being unfavored to win the trophy this season. City and real madrid are still holding the biggest chances to win the UCL trophy this season.
Arsenal needs to go to the semi final first before we can continue to talk how big arsenal's possibility to win UCL this season. Club needs able to perform even better compared to the last time when arsenal played in UCL. Arsenal was unable going to the current round last time and team is just showing another improvment happened to the club.
It's very good for arteta to put all of his focus into the UCL and EPL. Arsenal is leading the way to get EPL trophy but UCL seems still very far for the club to get it. It sounds too good to be true for arsenal to win UCL this season. Being able to play in the final will be good enough for the club.

Why avoid them? It's like finding yourself in a battle field right in front of your enemies, it's either you draw out your sword and fight it you'd see yourself burnt down or die by the sword.
It's football you see, they might have been the best so far but they're humans just like myself, only if everyone on the pitch would take responsibility for himself, then they can take on any of these supposed strong and hot sides to play.

Most likely to leave the next round are Barcelona, Paris Saint Germany and lastly, Borrussia Dortmund. The Champions League team of the week came out and I had no much issues with some of the names mentioned.
Props to Atletico Madrid, I did voted against them though.

Arsenal had advanced to the Champions League Final in the 2006 season, their progress in winning this prestigious trophy was stopped by Barcelona with a score of 2-1. Since then, Arsenal have never reached the final again, this season the opportunity is very open. Arsenal squad depth this season is quite good, they just need to have a winning mentality like other big European teams. It is not easy to win this trophy, Arsenal needs to work hard so they can boast themselves in front of other Premier League rivals.

How lucky raya was in predicting some shoots accurately. The Porto player seemed very bad when it came to the penalty, as he was always incorrectly predicting the shots from Arsenal's players. Porto's players need to train even harder when it comes to the penalty as an additional round in this game. I was watching it and yeah porto missed some shoots.
The port's goalkeeper was unable giving a good performance in the penalty since he was always unable to block the ball. Raya also had a lucky moment when the ball was reflecting his body, and it was not going into the back of the net. Poor porto and club has not trained so well in facing the penalty like this.
The club must be able to continue performing even better than in the match against Porto because the upcoming game will be harder for Arsenal. We don't really know what team Arsenal is awaiting, but I hope it's facing Barcelona or Atletico Madrid soon.

I missed the moment when Arsenal faced Barcelona, which was also very crowded. The draw will happen very soon, and many fans are hoping that their favorite club will get an easier challenger for the next round. Barcelona and Arsenal are probably the weakest opponents that will be available in this round.
Many clubs are hoping that they can get easiest way to go to the semi final. The big teams from bundesliga, epl and la liga may able to face each other soon.

I don't think it's time for Arsenal to win the Champions League title with Arteta, I mean this team still doesn't have the winning mentality as expected. Arsenal tend to fail to impress when they are expected to, but they tend to fail when they are favourites. I almost expect them to fail in the last 16 if Porto can convert the penalty well, but that's more luck than pure skill.

If Arsenal meet Bayern Munich or Real Madrid, then their journey this season in the Champions League will probably only reach the quarter-finals. Maybe it would be a different story if Arsenal met PSG or Barcelona, ​​but these last two teams should not be underestimated at all. Instead of hoping for the Champions League title, it is still very possible for Arteta not to lose focus on the Premier League when they are already leading the standings. Liverpool and Manchester City will fight for that place, so things are still difficult to hope for.

Arteta should focus his attention to the champions league. Arsenal need to win a champions league title. It is the most important title for them in my opinion. They have never won it. Winning the champions league will give Arsenal fans the bragging rights they need to get back at their rivals in the premier league.

Honestly, I really considered that Inter Milan would be the one that will finish and continue to QF. Not only because Inter was the finalist in the previous UCL, but also seeing and considering their performance in every match so far. Inter did it much better and more consistent than Atletico Madrid. That's why I  was shocked with the result. But, that's the fact that Atletico Madrid can finish it much better than Inter, it's their way to deserve it.

Yes, Arsenal really deserves to win and brings to QF.
But in this quarter final, there will be many more clubs with much better and stronger squad, so, this will not be easy for Arsenal to face them. Moreover, if their performance is still like in the previous round. They will probably end soon. But, I'm sure that Arteta will see and evaluate it, not again to play ineffectively, with much stronger opponent.

Yes you said it right. I was also wondering and thinking about how good Atlético Madrid is to have played the match and get the victory for his next round Although Atlatico Madrid have played a few matches very poorly from their previous fixtures but they did all of their best to get back to their best morale. And they proved to themselves that they really are Atlatico, no matter how their previous matches went. i was shocked when I san the result of the match and I was thinking that my guess was wrong about Atletico Madrid that they would not be able to beat Inter Milan but the Diego Simeyone guys just dominated the game with attack after attack until they got the lead for the equalizer and after that aggregate equalizer was done on Grizemen's goal and after that penalty shot out Atlatico Madrid won the match. But Butany I was still in doubt about how Atlatico Madrid has changed their tactics from poor to excellent and gotten the victory for his next round at the UCL competition.

Definitely a hard fought win for Arsenal, when they got Porto after the draws I was on about that it wouldn’t be an easy game for them but their fans thought otherwise. Porto brought their A game to the match and could have snatched a victory there. David Raya came clutch for them and it signifies why Arteta seems to trust the Spaniard more, he is a better penalty goalkeeper than Ramsdale and in competition like this you need goal keepers like that. Diego Coasta in the Porto post wasn’t also a bad option in keeping out penalties too just that he didn’t got lucky yesterday, as the five Arsenal players that came to shoot are regular penalty takers and are good at it.

There is a stat around that for the past few years the team that knocks out Porto always ends as the champions league winners if the fate Carries on then Arsenal might be on about it. Many might be doubting them but with there recent performances I think they can go far just that they might be short of experience going that far. But this time I am not ruling out the possibility of it happening because they got quite an incredible team for that

Yes, Arsenal had to fight hard to get a place in the quarter-finals, but I think they deserved to win it. Arteta managed to take his team to the quarter-finals and he became the other Spanish manager to reach that stage. Previously, Pep Guardiola, Xavi and Luis Enrique had reached the quarter-finals and we hope that the competition between these managers will be presented in the quarter-finals.

The quarter-finals this season are really difficult because we know there are 8 big teams that have qualified for this round. Barcelona, ​​Dortmund, PSG, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester City are the favorites, but I really hope Real Madrid can reach the final this season than the others.

Borussia Dortmund did pretty well yesterday. PSV had the chance to break the heart of the Dortmund team and take the game to extra time but they missed their golden opportunity and M. Reus scored a late minute goal to seal the deal.

The shocker of the night was Inter Milan losing to Atletico Madrid. I was betting on Inter Milan to win that game, everything indicated that Inter Milan were the better side, the players were in good form, the stats were in their favour. I did not expect to see Atletico Madrid being the better side last night.

Athletico Madrid has more Champions League experience than Inter Millan, which is why Athletico Madrid has the opportunity to defeat Inter Millan in the Champions League competition. The Champions League will now be very tough because all of the teams that remain are playing well in both their league and the Champions League, which is why they are still playing the competition. Only Spain has three clubs that have qualified for the quarter-finals Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletico Madrid i don't want any of the Spain to join each other in the quarter finals so that the competition will be more amazing to watch when facing other league teams like psg,  Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Dortmund or arsenal. I want Real Madrid to face Manchester City or Arsenal in the tournament again this season since it is a long time since Madrid played Arsenal, and I believe Arsenal had the opportunity to defeat Real Madrid when they met last in the competition.

If I'm not mistaken, the last time Arsenal qualified for the quarter-finals was 11 years ago and that's a long time for the Gunners to penetrate this zone. What they did paid off and their efforts were not insulting at all. The victory against Porto on penalties was still quite tense and maybe if it weren't for David Raya then Arsenal would have definitely been eliminated.

It looks like Arsenal still have a chance to go further as well like qualifying for the semifinals but yes, if Arsenal not get a more difficult opponent. Because I think, considering about the teams that qualified for the quarterfinals such as Dortmund, Atletico, Barcelona and PSG then thus, it looks like Arsenal will still have a good chance of qualifying for the semifinals if Arsenal meet one of the teams I mentioned it. But yes, if for example Arsenal meet opponents like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich or Manchester City, then it will make it difficult for Arsenal to qualify. But indeed, any result can still happen but yes, because at this moment Arsenal are still in a good trend, then at least Arsenal will still have a good chance to be able to advance further.