Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 408. (Read 141787 times)

Tuchel has to work hard to get out of the big pressure even though his career will end at the end of the season. The only opportunity available is in the Champions League, if they fail to eliminate Lazio in the second leg, it means Bayern Munich will end the season with zero titles. It is very reasonable for management to take a policy of terminating Tuchel contract early, because the former Chelsea manager failed to manage the team even though he had good squad depth. Kane's recruitment from Tottenham looks in vain, he cannot carry the team alone, where the goals scored will be useless as long as Bayern Munich defense is very fragile.

You still think Inter has an opportunity of lifting the trophy very generous of you to think that way but not underestimating them I still believe either Real Madrid or Mancity are the ones to lift the trophy. Mancity are not under playing I think they are still in form. Real Madrid are the ones on lesser form judging from their last match seeing them play that way won't secure them the trophy.

I love this post and it's explained everything. Inter Milan are off course the best attacking side in all of Seria A Competition and no one come close, though Juventus could be able to prove otherwise but they couldn't when Inter Milan showed class from the last meeting they had with Juventus.

With the Champions League, I do think that failure is a good teacher and a good way to come back to succeed. They did go far ( Kilometers ) last season but Manchester City was in a much better state last season than Inter Milan when it comes to winning the Champions League. This season is not same with them, Manchester City are not consistent and we all can see but with Inter Milan, they're a driving force and whoever they play against must feel it.

I've said this before that the way they play in the Italian Seria A can be shown in the Champions League, it's a step by step until the finals. But come the second leg against Atletico Madrid? They'd knock them out.

Apart from Manchester City and Real Madrid, Inter Milan is on my watch list. This season Inter Milan have a very different appearance from the previous season, I can say Inter Milan are much better prepared now than last season. It can be seen from how they play, they are strong in almost every position. Unlike last season, when they managed to penetrate the final match I think it was because they were very lucky, because if you look at their appearance I feel they don't deserve to be in the final. Maybe we have different views and that's my view of Inter Milan.
As the defending champions, Manchester City definitely have a place to be the favorites, especially since they are still playing well, although I agree that they are not as good as last season, or in other words they have also decreased this season, but not significantly. Speaking of Real Madrid, there is something interesting about them this season, they are dominated by young players and they combine them with senior players, so far it is a combination that goes well. Not only that, but their rotations have also been successful, so they should be the favorites, as always.

The champions league finals between inter Milan ad Manchester city wasn't actually really boring, I'd you recall Manchester city secured their winnings at the tail end of the game, they were well covered by inter Milan and they could confirm that it wasn't just an easy game for them as they literally had to struggle to get the win which was actually deserving for Manchester city but then have two champions contend at the finals will actually feel very much different than it has with others, Manchester city and real Madrid have almost the highest records of the champions league trophy to have been won by a team, they have both won the champions league for then twice although not in a row for Manchester city but Real Madrid has won it in a row twice, so I can be sure in the fact that it's going to be a really interesting game to watch as so much action is expected on the field of Olay aswell as so much thrills, I'm even speculative of the nostalgic effect the game will have on some of the fans.

Anyways we are yet to get pass the round of sixteen so it will be better if we at this point slow down on the expectations and allow these teams get pass this stage first unto the next then we can be sure they will be able to meet at the finals and probably give us the anticipated thrill. Their next fixtures for both teams doesn't look like such that they won't be able to get pass so I'm anticipating they both get pass the round of sixteen.

You are actually right on this, Manchester city are still the favorite in this year champions league, but they should be careful because their performance hasn't been that good compared to last seasons performance.

An another thing is that the way champions league is difficult to win, let's not be surprised if this Manchester city side is knocked out before the finals by an English opponent like Arsenal if they can progress past Porto in their own reverse fixture in the round of 16 second leg.

I say so because in football in general, nothing is certain, anything can still happen, even arsenal and Bayern Munich that are not taken seriously now might raise their standard and be even more stronger than this Manchester city and Real madrid we are talking about, so to me, it's still in the early days, let not just conclude first.

Are you very confident that Inter can do what you say?
Sorry, I don't mean I don't respect your opinion and indeed we will never know what will happen, but speculating about Inter Milan getting the Champions League trophy seems a little impossible this time.
Yes, I admit that all popular clubs can learn from past mistakes, but do you consider all that to see how Manchester still has players who are feared by all clubs in the Champions League, such as Haaland and de Bruyne, who are very terrible players because these two players have always can create a playing style that is difficult to predict and if you talk about experience, isn't Pep Guardiola more experienced after winning the treble winner last season?

All the clubs that are still in the Champions League up to now all still have the opportunity to reach the final but not all of them have the opportunity to get the title this season, a lot has changed, such as Manchester City, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and other big clubs, but that's all. It can't be a guarantee of winning the title because I'm sure you only judge from performance in the domestic league, whereas in the Champions League it is very different, all clubs will perform optimally to be able to fight for the title, but Manchester City is still the favorite.

This season will surprise you the kind team that will lift this trophy because, Manchester city performance has dropped down since two of their players return back from injuries and it will affect them not to have the strength to withstand Inter Milan because that is the team many people have confidence to win this trophy.

I believe you know that this is UEFA champions league competition and, many teams use to take this tournament serious more than any other tournament, Real Madrid and Manchester city will not have the opportunity to win this trophy because Inter Milan has learned their lesson from last season that made them to made some mistakes to lose the trophy which they will not accept such mistakes in this season.

That would definitely be one of the most watched finals of all time, we are talking about two teams who has faced before and never at finals and everyone assumed that they both would have beaten everyone else but faced up too early. It's almost always that people said whoever wins their game, would win the title as well and most of the time that's true in recent years.

All in all, I bet that it would be the most watched UCL finals ever, looking at how they had City vs Inter, which was as boring as it gets, I can see that City vs Madrid would be much more fun to watch as well. The talent level in both of those clubs are just insane and would make a lot of sense because that's the two best teams in the world right now.

Manchester City did look very strong last season where they were able to humiliate Real Madrid in the semifinals with an extraordinary score and Manchester City's defense was also very strong so that Real Madrid had difficulty breaking through Manchester City's defense. But this season everything has changed indeed Manchester City still has the same players but the strength is different because maintaining strength is not an easy thing. Kevin De Bruyne is very careful at the moment because the injury he experienced is afraid of repeating, likewise Erling Haaland doesn't want to get injured again, so Manchester City's overall performance is different from last season, they even have a little difficulty in being there at the top of the Premier League standings because the competition is quite tight, although it does not rule out the possibility that Manchester City still has this opportunity.

Yes, you are right, it is too early to predict now because clubs like Real Madrid, Manchester City, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan still have to fight to advance to the next round and we also don't know who will advance to the semi-finals. Then surprises can still happen because we haven't entered the quarter-finals yet and there are still big question marks, you said that Manchester City is still one of the favorite clubs but for me Real Madrid is the favorite club to win the Champions League this season because their performance is much stronger than last season.

There is no doubt that Bayern Munich's squad is strong. There are plenty of talented and quality players in Munich's squad. However, the team's performance has been erratic. They are also having trouble winning against weaker teams in the Bundesliga. In particular, I would say that Munich's defense is relatively weak now. Also lost 1-0 against Lazio in the Champions League. For these reasons, the Munich team can no longer be considered favorites for the Champions League.

Thomas Tuchel is under a lot of pressure right now. The team has no chance of winning the Bundesliga title. The team is trailing by a big margin with Leverkusen. Now Tuchel's only target should be the Champions League. In the second leg match against Lazio, the Munich team must win by a big margin. None of us want Munich to be knocked out of the Champions League after losing against a team as weak as Lazio.

Considering the current performance of Bayern Munich, I think it's understandable when someone says they're not strong enough to win the UEFA Champions League title this season but totally writing them off at this time of the season I think is absolutely disrespectful to Bayern Munich as a club and their manager as an individual. Bayern Munich I think has all it takes to improve their performance and form which might likely make them lift the UEFA Champions League title at the end of the season. Last season, they were humiliated by Manchester City in the UCL but I don't think such embarrassing result is gonna happen this season because as we all know, Bayern Munich signed a very deadly striker last summer and since he arrived Munich, the new striker have been scoring a lot of goals. The striker is Harry Kane who has been able to play in the UEFA Champions League final once in his entire career and would do anything possible to help his current team reach the final.

I don't want conclude that Bayern Munich will at least reach the semi final of the competition but I'm definitely gonna bank on them to reach the quarter finals by bettering Lazio's first leg win their round of 16 tie. Football as we know is always full of surprises but I don't think Lazio will be able to pull that huge surprise of eliminating Bayern Munich from the UEFA Champions League competition this season. If there's any time that Thomas Tuchel will stand up and prove himself while shaming his critics, I think this is that awaited moment.

UEFA Champions League comes with alot of surprises and there are some games that portrays as fixed games. Then, there are some games that proves to become unpredictable and the one's aiming for greater heights are merely competitive but not strong enough, we br referring to Gunners. They're doing everything within their reach but don't stand in the forcible space to pave their own spot for the next UCL phase. Perhapes there's a whole number of other elite teams to look out for because their performance are inconsistent.

Let's start with Bayern Munich, who lost the first leg but are confident they will win the second leg; the same is true for Arsenal. We know they are elite teams that are actively pursuing League titles. You don't feel Arsenal has a better chance of eliminating Porto from the UCL round of 16 in the second leg. We know how intense the UEFA Champions League competition can be, but when it comes to elite clubs against the median teams, don't place your hopes solely on the elites because the event produces astounding outcomes. Mikel Arteta will cook something technical for Porto because that's one of the fantastic strategies to stand strong on the table.

I can boast about Arsenal in Premier League Competition even if you want to take a look back, you'll see that Arsenal are infact the one of the worse sides in the European Competitions in general.
In general, I cannot say I would want to support them in this year's Champions League Competition. And even if they progress against Porto to the next round in the Premier League Competition, they'd be knocked out of the competition regardlessly

For Bayern Munich, the complain just too much about it already and it seems like the management have drop a new update of Thomas Tuchel being sacked completely if he doesn't make a good win out of the game against Lazio.

They are actually still in the round of sixteen, i'v always known that the form Bayern Munich has got currently isn't such that will be able to see them through to winning the very competitive champions league especially this season that real Madrid and Manchester city wants to stop at nothing to getting to win the trophy, Real Madrid wants to make sure they win the champions league even if they don't succeed with their domestic League but then so far it's appearing like they will be able to win their domestic league along side the champions league meanwhile Manchester city wants to defend the title again for the second time and possibly repeat the results they had last season this season again but it's not looking like what they are going to achieve just like that because the rivalry this season is very strong and such that will get them to  fight hard if they must win.

If Manchester city wins the trophy it will be their second time in a row winning the champions league, they will be amongst the record of teams to have won the champions league in a row as this will be their first time to win the league in a row that's if they don't get stopped by Real Madrid who's always wanting to be the barrier to any team who wants to win the champions league.

Exactly since the beginning of the round 16, that is when I believe Bayern Munich can't win the Champions League trophy, look how they are playing in the league, you will know that even the Bundesliga they can't carry the trophy, in my opinion they should just sack Tuchel like they do him in Chelsea, I think Tuchel will help the club to achieve their goal, but unfortunately he can't help the team, even the last trophy in carry for the club is just a lucky because is not Every season, Madrid or Manchester City will consider winning the trophy, because it is only them that have strong talented players in a club and he will be very hard if is not real madrid will win the Champions League this time. since Manchester City have win last season he can't be possible for them to win this time again.

But at least, Bayern Munich still has a chance to qualify for the next phase and has a big chance of overthrowing Lazio at the Allianz Arena. referring to the betting market, Bayern is still far ahead. moreover, Bayern Munich's chances in the Bundesliga are very doubtful at all. so there is no other choice but for Tuchel to devote his attention to the Champions League competition. But talking about how Bayern Munich can continue to advance to the final round in this competition, let's just see how they play in the match. especially, when playing against Lazio. If Bayern is able to win with a greater goal aggregate, we can see how Tuchel focuses on his team in this competition. so, let's just follow developments.

We agree with Inter Milan, PSG and Arsenal. in fact, these three teams cannot be underestimated. even so, I have more confidence in the PSG versus Cociedad and Arsenal versus Porto matches. Both PSG and Arsenal will win the match with a fairly large aggregate. PSG plays as the away team, while Arsenal hosts Porto at the Emirates, their home ground. referring to the points of the strongest potential challenger candidates in this competition, it is clear that we all know that Manchester City and Real Madrid are one of the favorite teams. but, let's just follow how the Champions League presents each match they present.

What internal problems? I don't read any news about the internal problems of Bayern Munich.
If Bayern Munich has internal problems, no doubt it will affect to the performance in the field. It will decrease the mentality among the players. Specifically if the problem is between players and coach. This must bring a big impact to the performance of the team.

Yes, the team work and confidence among the players are the problems. Tuchel must improve the players' mentality if they want to struggle to win any trophy. Although Bayern Munich has many quality players, they can't win the competition if they can't play as a solid team.

Tuchel seems trying to improve the performance of Bayern Munich but he got some obstacles. I think it is difficult for Tuchel to win the title of Bundesliga, Leverkusen played much better than Bayern Munich. I think Tuchel can more focus on playing in UCL, they still have a good chance to win the trophy of UCL this season.

I'm sure there are still many factors that are not published in the media, which are the main reasons why Bayern is currently experiencing a setback. Tuchel cannot be completely blamed, and indeed he refuses to be blamed, because according to him, several things within the club are not going as expected. I think Bayern management doesn't seem brave enough to fire Tuchel, maybe they will be obliged to pay large compensation to Tuchel if they fire him.

Overall, the depth of Bayern squad is the dream of all coaches, especially the presence of Kane in the squad. However, sometimes I think that luck is not always on the side of a big team, even though based on players market value calculations, Bayern is number five as the most expensive team in the world according to transfermark data.

Difficult for Bayern to regain momentum to compete with Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, but they still have hopes of having a lot to say in the Champions League this season. Bayern journey will start again at the Allianz Arena, Tuchel is expected to be able to bring Bayern to turn things around against Lazio in the second leg.

I don't know what are you reason including the losses teams on the first leg match in the list for winning UEFA Champion League trophy form this season, Arsenal and Bayern Munich have difficult opportunity for qualifying to the next round after defeating on the first leg match, I doubt how large chance for both teams to win on second leg match above two goals with the opponent teams will play more defensive.

I think not problem when putting Manchester City and Real Madrid on the top list for winning Champion League tittle but for PSG seems difficult for winning although have been close qualify to quarter final. PSG not compete for facing Manchester City or Real Madrid in quarter final or semifinal round and I sure the only teams left are Madrid and City.