Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 409. (Read 141787 times)

Bayern's internal problems have affected their performance, which has resulted in a slightly lower probability than before to compete for the trophy in the Champions League this season.
Their squad is still very good and their style of play is still very good but the problem of lacking chemistry and relying more on Kane is a problem in this case because when Kane is troubled to score then indirectly Bayern becomes difficult to get momentum in scoring goals.

In addition, looking at Tuchel's current situation they are still very busy with domestic competitions where some unexpected events disturb them because seeing from Leverkusen's extraordinary performance this season makes Bayern seem unprepared so that they are currently confused in the competition in domestic competitions because the difference in points is still very large with Leverkusen who are at the top of the standings.

I believe it too, moreover I think it's more likely than their defeat, they are objectively much stronger than Lazio, they only need to break their defence to start scoring, because in the first match they failed to do so. As for Tuchel's ambitions I don't know, but it will be a shame to realise that he has put his hands down and is just keeping the team from dropping even lower in the standings

I think consider it for the next matches because yes, in this last 16 phase it is clear that the seeded teams will be able to qualify for the quarter-finals. Therefore, it might be worth considering teams that have a good chance of making it to the semi-finals and therefore, teams like Inter and maybe also about PSG are still worthy of consideration to be able to advance to the semi-finals. But indeed, I also agree about Inter being impressive this season in Serie A, because Inter still has very good dominance in Serie A until now. Therefore, it is possible that Inter will become an obstacle or possibly a threat to title candidate teams such as Manchester City and Real Madrid.

Bayern Munich are no longer considered favorites for this season's Champions League title. The team has a lot of problems within the squad. And now their performance is erratic. With such erratic performances, it is difficult to survive in the Champions League.
Inter Milan, PSG and Arsenal cannot be considered weak teams. However, PSG team is not considered by many as favourites. PSG did not perform well in the group stage matches either. But now PSG's performance is good enough.
I would say the favorites for the title are Real Madrid and Manchester City. Both the teams have strong squads and have continued to dominate the Champions League platform consistently.

Last year City were the only favorites for the title and unfortunately they were able to win it (although their victory in the final looked unconvincing), Real and Bayern did not have a serious attack, one could say that the clubs were understaffed. This year, everyone thought that the title would be played by the trio of Real, Bayern and City, but Bayern, judging by the results, still has not come out of the crisis. Besides Inter, it seems to me that Arsenal have a good chance (it’s not for nothing that bookmakers currently rate them higher than Bayern). And although they have a bad record in head-to-head games with City, I think they can knock them out this year.

This season we have indeed lost two clubs that have been quite respected because they have quite a long history in the Champions League, Liverpool and Milan, both of whom are currently competing to be the best in the second tier of European Competition, but I think, they absent both teams from the league champions is not something to be sad about (unless you are a fan from one of these two team), because currently we are still seeing how other European teams can provide matches that are really interesting for us to watch this season.

So far, it seems that many teams have unequal strengths, but wouldn't it be a surprise if a team like Lazio was able to beat Munich?
I think it is still difficult for us to predict which team will win this season because as said before, if this season the strength and performance of the teams in the champions league will be uneven, so it is possible that we will see a lot of bigmatch  in the last 8 rounds,If we talk about favorites, maybe I agree with you a little, if Madrid does have a chance to reach the final and so does manchester city who might accompany Madrid in the final later.

It is very difficult to predict which team will win the Champions League title this season. Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Arsenal are all in very good form at the moment. So every team has a great chance to win the Champions League title. However, Bayern Munich have lost form in recent times. Hopefully very soon they will be able to solve the problems within the squad and continue the good performance again.

The PSG team is also considered as the favourite. With the help of Luis Enrique, this team is now very strong. Despite not having a strong squad like previous seasons, PSG have a fairly stable squad this season.

Sorry friends, but what I mean is that Tuchel was successful in making a good contribution to the domestic league, not to the champions league and if we talk about Bayern Munich's failure to win the champions league title, even Nagelsmann, who once served as coach of Bayern Munich, also failed to provide good achievements in Munich.
The problem is that we cannot compare the past with the new era which is clearly very different and for me Bayern's success in winning the title in the Bundesliga last season was not an accident of Dortmund but because dominance has become like Bayern Munich's legacy.

Bayern Munich last won the champions league title when Hansi Flick was coach there and if Tuchel wants to learn Hansi Flick's strategy it will definitely be easier to get the champions league trophy.

What are you saying? I never thought you'd be one of these folks and user's writing such a thing. Arsenal haven't won the Champions League Competition since it was formed and since it came out, have you heard anything like they're a curse in the Premier League or the Champions League?
Y'all can do better, Harry Kane is not cursed you could use the word unlucky but not ones superstitious ditty believes.

People would definitely go ahead to talk about his performance but he has done extremely well this season.

When blames should be shown to Thomas Tuchel who is the management, and manager, they're busy doing what's never mandatory. Thomas Tuchel would be sacked and asked to leave if he doesn't have that good game coming up next during the nedy

It's not only going to be a great achievement but also a record because I think I'm a very long time this happens to to be one of such that a team will stay unbeaten and still win the bundesliga trophy even Bayern Munich who wins the trophy most often has not done it unbeaten in a very long time so Leverkusen is about to bring up a record which hasn't beeñ seen in the bundesliga in a very long time. The fact that the resilience of Bayer Leverkusen has brought about more competition to the German bundesliga is enough to even laude their efforts so far this season a d I'm very optimistic that even if they get to loose a single game later before the end of the season, they are most definitely going to win the trophy this season and Bayern Munich will have to try again next season.

Leipzig got a really impressive performance today and I must commend them because going form loosing a game to now winning with a very good difference in the score is such that deserves every commendation, although their opponents had a red card but then they still were at the top of the game.

In my opinion, Bayern Munich and Arsenal can turn things around and qualify for the quarter-finals, even though in reality Lazio and Porto are holders of a 1 goal deficit. There is always room for surprises, and it could be that Bayern Munich and Arsenal are eliminated early. All the teams appearing in the Champions League are very serious about fighting to advance to the next round, including those who are not favorites such as Lazio and Porto. In terms of squad depth, Bayern Munich and Arsenal should have been able to beat their opponents in the first leg yesterday, but this failed to happen. The second chance must be utilized well, because it is the determination of their next journey.

Manchester City and Real Madrid are now the two teams most favored to win the trophy, and Bayern Munich is no longer on par with these two teams after appearing unstable recently. It could be that this season there will be another surprise team that will be able to reach the final round, like Inter Milan last season. It's true, everything will be answered by itself, we just need to wait first how the second leg will end. It would be a shame if Arsenal and Bayern Munich failed for the second time, and the squad depth they have cannot help them talk much in the Champions League this season.

It's sad to see Liverpool failing to qualify for the champions league last season. If they where here, they'd have been an interesting option considering their recent form. The long gap makes the teams much different than what they were during qualification.
It's easy to predict most of the team reaching top 8 except for a few and top 8 is going to be the interesting one where even the large teams would fight with one another.
Surely Real Madrid are again the favorite. I don't think anyone could compete against them, both bayren munich and barcelona are having bad times, Manchester city and PSG too are not in their greatest and Inter milan too might not pose the threat to Real.

After this stage, many teams will be noticed and the level of seriousness because teams like Arsenal and Bayern Munich be cause they also have good team that can compete for the Champions league together with Manchester City and Real Madrid.
Nonetheless, this second leg will give us the most hint on who to be the favorites because even Manchester City and Real Madrid can be surprised at any moment of the competition.

Real Madrid vs. Manchester City will be one of the most entertaining Champions League finals to watch. But is this even possible? We could see a look-alike final match before the actual final, which will take place in the Champions League, similar to what happened last season.

The match between Real Madrid and Manchester City, which eliminated Real Madrid from the competition, was more akin to a final than the semifinals. The same thing could happen this season, and we won't be able to watch them meet in the finals.

Many other teams appear to be very capable of making it to the finals; without naming names, most of Europe's top teams are still in the competition and are likely to make it to the finals, aside from the two teams we expect to face in the finals.

This round only shows until now what all the people think before and this is, the only two serious contender are Real Madrid and Manchester city, like the past year, i dont see any other team in that level, maybe Inter again, but i dont think they can beat Manchester City or Real Madrid in a head to head.

You don't need to write them all out yet because the champions league is yet decided and who knows what can happen as they can just within some time get the right formula and things will work out for them, when it comes to players they all have the players that can definitely do well atleast they have a world class striker on their team who can definitely deliver if the situation is right with him.

You are wrong. Tuchel also failed to achieve success last season, even though he managed to win the Bundesliga trophy, but if you look back at last season's Bundesliga, this trophy was indeed the result of an accident by the Dortmund team who failed to win in the last match. so that Bayern Munich automatically becomes Bundesliga champions. Not to mention, in the UCL League last season, under the old coach, Bayern Munich performed well, but when Tuchel arrived, Bayern Munich was immediately eliminated from the UCL League.

For this season Tuchel really failed miserably, in the Bundesliga he failed %100, in the UCL league I think they will also have difficulties because Bayern Munich's confidence is now decreasing, just look at the last match against Freiburg which can be said to be a weak team they only got results draw. Bayern Munich is currently experiencing critical times and this will continue until the end of the season. So I doubt they can make a comeback against Lazio in the second leg of the UCL league.

In fact Manchester City could have destroyed Copenhagen in the first leg by a much bigger goal difference.    Copenhagen must be really thankful for Grabara's great goalkeeping skills. His making many saves helped them not lose the game by an embarrassing score. However I don't know if even Grabara can save Copenhagen in the second leg. 

I liked Manchester City a lot in the Luton game they played a short time ago. Especially Haaland and De Bruyne were just marvelous!

As long as this duo is very productive I would always expect huge performances from Manchester City in every competition. 

Manchester City did not look strong. Manchester City are strong no doubt, but I think Manchester City are doing much better in the Premier League than the Champions League because I can see that they concur with many clubs there than here. Although I don't focus on the Champions League like Premier, Real Madrid are strong too. But seriously, I can’t predict between Manchester City and Real Madrid. Although Real Madrid has shown some signs that they are ready for the title this season, to me, Inter Milan have been dominant throughout the season, so let's wait and see how the remaining matches will go. Maybe Inter Milan will remain dominant and no team will concur with them, so let's see how they will do.

Bayer Leverkusen are on their way to ensure they don't slide back but keep pushing forward on the table and also in matches, its a great achievement if they're able to win the Bundesliga title with unbeaten run. This is definitely the time for Xabi Alonso to implement every formidable strategies to win. What's the job of the Bavarians boss? Thomas Tuchel is not showing any good signs of improvement with the club, they're definitely going trophyless this season and it is huge frustration for them, Bayern Munich drawing ties with Freiburg is not encouraging.