Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 413. (Read 141787 times)

I also expect Bayern to focus more on the Champions League this season. Because in the Bundesliga Leverkusen already leads the standings with a difference of 8 points from Bayern. But that doesn't mean Bayern has to give up in pursuing Liverpool in the Bundesliga. But for now they really have to prepare their squad to be able to beat Lazio who will come to visit Bayern's headquarters. Tuchel must be able to create the best strategy for Bayern for this match. Because if Bayern loses then not only will Bayern be eliminated from the UCL but Tuchel's reputation will also fall as a coach there.

Oh yes, today Bayern has a match against SC Freiburg and I think in this match Bayern will win easily.

Bayern Munich needs to focus on this competition, seems like the Bundelisga is going to the Leverkusen hands (until Leverkusen dont do a Borusia Dortmund clasic finish), so they need to win this key against Lazio, setled down and think and prepare the quarterfinals in a very serious way.

Maybe some key player can return from injury and that can help a lot.

I also think like that after seeing the achievements and strength of Arsenal and Bayern Munich this season, so it is quite possible that Arsenal has the potential to be a more serious threat to Manchester City than Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Because the tension in the Champions League is still quite high, a team that is experiencing internal problems will not be able to perform better in the Champions League, unless they are blessed with luck.

I share your enthusiasm about Manchester City's season. I'm bullish about their triple chances because Pep Guardiola is a master at winning. It was great having Gundogan lead last season, but now it's De Bruyne's chance to thrive, and I'm here for it. Again having Haaland lead boosts me confidence. I share your worries about the Premier League; Liverpool and Arsenal are making it difficult. For the Champions League, I think City is the team to beat. Why wouldn't they win two trophies with their skill, planning, and Pep's brilliance?

Bayern will not able to pervent city in defending its title. Bayern munich was unable in defending its domestic title and how can it disrupt city to defend UCL? Let's talking about the fact if manchester city is still as good as last season. Bayern munich itself has small chance to qualify for the next stage if lazio will play well in the upcoming match.
So, considering the fact that if manchester city has greater chance to qualify for the further stage instead of bayern munich. The possibility of Leverkusen winning the bundesliga this season is becoming increasingly likely, and if they do, they will not only secure the title but also surpass Bayern's decade-long record in the bundesliga.
It will make sense if you mention other club like intermlan or real madrid to prevent city from defending its trophy. The chance owned by intermilan is very big to go back again into the final of UCL.

I hope so and this will be far interesting rather than having too various candidates came from the same league. The competition will be even stricter when we will have sufficient clubs from the different league compete in the quarter final. That will come real caused by mostly of weak team will be eliminated after this round.
The club like copenhagen has no chance to go to the next stage as city was destroying it when it was playing away. I would like to see that manchester city to face real madrid or intermilan. There must be a match between two of strongest team to create the big hype for UCL this season.

This is quite possible because the Champions League is the only trophy that Bayern Munich can achieve. If this fails, of course Tauchle will be fired or even leave on his own, there is nothing to hope for in the remaining matches this season.

Personally, I still quite believe that Bayern Munich will be able to turn things around in the second leg, there are many reasons that make me so confident, especially that Bayern Munich will play at home and the quality of Bayern Munich is much stronger than Lazio.

I also share the same sentiment as you, I really don't see this current Bayern Munich as a threat to Manchester city quest for this year champions league glory, I expected arsenal to be in the mix because I think they will be more of a threat to Manchester city than this Bayern Munich you are talking about.

Another thing is that, I mentioned arsenal because, since it's a team of same league, they knows Manchester city the way Manchester city knows them, and if they are being pared against each other, it will be more difficult for Manchester city compared to this Bayern Munich team, if they can actually progress past fc Porto in the reverse fixture in the round of 16 match between them.

I doubt with Bayern Munich is difficult opponent team for Manchester City defending their UEFA Champion League tittle, had bad performance in domestic league and losses on first leg match on round of 16 I doubt with Bayern Munich has opportunity for qualifying to quarter final or stopping Manchester City for winning Champion League tittle. I see Real Madrid and Inter Milan is two top teams will make difficult for Manchester City to be Champion League winner, both teams had consistent performance in domestic league and Inter Milan one step closer will be the Serie A winner and most focus for playing in Champion League.

I want to see in quarter final round the top teams such as Madrid, Manchester City and Inter Milan not face each other early before semifinal or final stage round. Most ideal and final dreaming of UEFA Champion League season 2023/24 between Real Madrid vs Manchester City regarding both teams have quit well performance.

Haaland is not as good as last season. Because this season he even struggled without Bruyne at the start of the season. And when Bruyne returned it turned out that Haaland was the one who had to be absent due to injury. And after Haaland recovered from injury, he lost a little confidence and failed to score goals in several matches. But in the match against Luton we saw Haaland play well again and scored 5 goals. And I hope that will be a turning point for Haaland to be able to perform optimally again.

And regarding De Bruyne, he is prone to re-injury. But I hope he can avoid injury and can continue to accompany Haaland and help the attack line with his always classy touches in providing passes.

Pep is indeed a smart coach. He was able to see the potential in the club he was going to join.

Winning Champions League is biggest goal of Bayern Munich because it will help them to get big money from Champions League reward pool. It is also because they assume that they will win Bundesliga easily that is proven not true at least in this season.

Tuchel deserves to be fired if Bayern Munich won't win Bundesliga and with time, it's clearer that he will be fire as Leverkusen are moving closer to Bundesliga title. In Champions League, Bayern Munich still have chance to win it but they will have to beat Lazio first and then go through 5 more matches to win it. It's not easy as there are many strong teams in Champions League.

Pep Guardiola is smart and a great coach but he chose clubs to work with very carefully. He joined Bayern Munich and Manchester City because they are strong and rich. After success with Barcelona, Pep Guardiola does not want to take risk and only choose clubs that can help him to buy star players with good transfer budgets.

In this season, two big changes in Manchester City, they no longer have Gundogan and don't have good contribution from Jack Grealish. They are defending their Champions League title and will harder to win it like the past season. Haaland can not maintain his performances as good as past season and it will affect Manchester City in big matches. Kevin De Bruyne is sensitive with injuries and it will be big loss of Manchester City if he injures again in last months of season.

Tuchel will leave Bayern Munich at the end of this season, but if Bayern Munich fails to recover against Lazio in the second leg, it is likely that Tuchel will leave Bayern Munich sooner because he will be fired.

Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga certainly has no hope of getting a trophy because Bayer Leverkusen has appeared strong from the start of the season until now and is still consistent, Bayern Munich's chance of getting a trophy is currently only in the UCL league. So you could say that the second leg of Bayern Munich vs Lazio will be a gamble for Tuchel's career at Bayern Munich. So far, we know that Bayern Munich always gets a trophy at the end of the season, but under Tuchel's guidance, this season Bayern Munich has the potential to end the season without a trophy.

If Manchester City wants to win the UCL title this season, the only way is to stop the steps of these three clubs, Madrid, Munich and also Inter Milan, which might be a serious threat to Manchester City, as we saw last season that Manchester City beat Munich and Madrid to achieve last season's UCL final, finally beating Inter Milan in the final, that's what enabled Manchester City to win the title this season. so they have to be able to get rid of the strongest clubs before thinking about becoming UCL champions this season.

I know that Manchester City's strength is quite good but sometimes they are not always good at facing strong clubs at the moment, in fact in the domestic league against Chelsea it is difficult to win let alone beat them even though they play with full players but they can only draw, I think Manchester City must be able to improve their strategy and attacking power so that they can be sharper and can score goals easily like last season. I see there is a slight difference in Manchester City's strength last season and this season, so make sure that if they want to win the title this season at least conquer the three clubs above at the start.

I believe sooner or later he will gets fired, either when they have no possibility to become a champion in Bundesliga or in the end of season. It's a shame for Bayern Munich if they can't become a champion in Bundesliga.

Honestly I'm really interested with the two upcoming matches which are Bayern Munich vs Lazio and Arsenal vs FC Porto.

Both of big teams lose in the first leg, but still Lazio and FC Porto become underdogs considering they're leading. Maybe taking risk to bet Lazio and FC Porto with small amount money seems to be wise option.

Pep Guardiola always has a good touch at every club he visits. And the peak is that perhaps he will be even more respected if this season Man City can win the treble again. And I think the opportunity is still wide open. One thing that was different was that last season there was Gundogan who led the squad on the field. And this time De Bruyne is the center of the Man City squad on the field. With the spearhead still being the same, namely Haaland, I think this season Man City will win at least 2 trophies. My doubts are only in the Premier League. Because Liverpool still looks strong. Likewise with Arsenal. Meanwhile, in the UCL, I feel that Man City can still be considered the strongest team to date.

It would be better for Tuchel to be fired, not because he is unable to give his best, but because the demands of this season alone will be tough, winning the UCL trophy is certainly not a guarantee that can be obtained easily. The Bundesliga potential is clearly far behind Leverkusen. For this reason, Bayern Munich officials who want trophies from club conditions like this should look for a new coach. Tuchel is too burdened with big responsibilities even though he has only played 2 seasons. Rather than forcing opportunities without supporting player consistency, it would be better for Bayern Munich to leave and let them reassemble this team.

It takes quite a long process to build a team to be able to excel on the European stage, not just quality but building a strong team mentality is not an easy thing and Manchester City have gone through all of this process so that they managed to win the Champions League last season.
Being able to win it again this season is not easy, Real Madrid is the only team capable of winning the Champions League back to back.

If we talk about the opportunity, of course there is still a very big chance for Manchester City to win the Champions League again this season because Manchester City has everything, consistency, performance and mentality, but it is not an easy thing and I think the percentage is a little smaller.

We certainly know how Manchester City was built since the arrival of the Arab owners and since then this team has started to win various major titles over the seasons. They do all this because they have large funding to get great players and at the same time they can be processed as trophy-making machines. However, it was only last season that Manchester City was able to win the most coveted title, namely the Champions League, and everyone was questioning their chances of winning back to back titles this season.

From me, the opportunity is still there even though we know that the challenge for Manchester City will be more difficult than before because the big European teams will try to take this title from them this season. Maybe Pep Guardiola should be aware that this competition will be even fiercer than before and therefore he needs to provide different tactics and strategies that will be difficult for his opponents to read later. I believe they will still be able to win it because in terms of squad depth they are still using the same squad.

Even though the rematch is in Germany I think Lazio still have an important chance ahead to reach quarter finals. Because Bayern Munich are still performing in an unreliable way. We can see it clearly in the Bundesliga also lately. Lazio will just need to play as smart as possible. They need to be prepared against the way Bayern Munich play in home matches.

This situation reminded me of Bayern Munich's Villarreal matchup in the quarter finals two years ago.    Who knows maybe this time Lazio can repeat this success after Villarreal. 

Kane is in a very good shape so Lazio had better concentrate on defending him as strong as possible. I won't bet on Bayern Munich to win in regular time truthfully after what I saw in the first leg. 

This time it seems to me that this task becomes even more difficult, because I see how Ancelotti managed to strengthen Real Madrid, and I believe that for City this will be the biggest test in the Champions League. As for the Premier League, this year they have Liverpool, who are also aiming to become champions, since Klopp announced his retirement, and it is clear that they would like to make this his best season. If Guardiola can overcome all these obstacles and win the Premier League and the Champions League, then this will definitely be the strongest team.

Theorically, they can do that. Let's make it clear if there were no lots of changes happened to the club. The reason Pep was signing new players was solely to ensure that all the available positions left by the old players were adequately filled. Manchester city is still having the same squad compared to the last season.
You do see grealish, haaland, de bruyne even foden and alvarez in the club. This indicates that there have been no notable alterations made to the club.

Pep has been also doing his best to fix all of weakness spot owned by manchester city but the consistency is still something debatable for city. The defenders are not strong enough, and this is being noticed by some strong clubs who played low block against city in the EPL.
It will be so amazing city to get treble winner again this season. it will also break the new record as the only team that was winning back to back treble winners in EPL.