Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 419. (Read 141787 times)

In my observation, last season Bayern Munich appeared to secure the Bundesliga title through a stroke of luck, as you previously mentioned. The team's performance seemed to decline since then. However, I'm inclined to believe that Tuchel's management might not have adequately addressed this decline. Perhaps if Tuchel had scouted and acquired more talented players to replace the aging ones in the squad, Bayern's fortunes could have improved. Furthermore, it's possible that Tuchel's managerial approach isn't quite suitable for Bayern Munich.Even with the current roster, a capable manager should be able to steer the team towards success. Leverkusen squad is not as prestigious as Bayern, is proof that adept management can yield positive results even with lesser-quality players. Therefore, Tuchel's management style might indeed be influencing Bayern Munich's performance negatively.

 

Even though Arsenal didn't emerge victorious in their recent match against Porto, it doesn't imply they're neglecting their Champions League ambitions. Sometimes games unfold unexpectedly, and despite Arsenal's efforts, Porto managed to secure a win, perhaps through a stroke of luck. It's worth noting that Porto isn't a weak team; they're also performing admirably in their domestic league. Looking ahead to the second leg at the Emirates Stadium, there's optimism that Arsenal will give their all to clinch a victory and secure qualification to the next round. With confidence in Arsenal's abilities, fans eagerly anticipate a spirited performance in the upcoming match.

If that be the case, then Xavi is not the problem of Barcelona and it is just their lack of financial capability that is stopping them from performing the way they are suppose to. If it is players, to me they’ve quite a number of good players that can shape the play of the game entirely with only few additions to some positions in the team. Xavi is a great coach and he proved it last season when he won the La Liga title for Barcelona. This season is just a little too complicated for him and his aim of having new players to better the entire squad wasn’t activator as a result of lack of funds from the management. They shouldn’t lose him now but rather give him another chance to prove himself worthy of his current position again.

The new owner may bring significant impact for Barcelona. We can see Man City as one of the examples, they can succeed after they change the owner of the club. After Sheikh Mansour became the owner of Man City, we can see a big improvement of Man City. Well, we can deny that the money has a big role to increase the performance of the club. Barcelona management may think the solution of having the new club if they want to fix the crisis of financial.

I agree that Barcelona can't blame the coach because the coach has no ability to buy expected players if Barcelona has no money. Xavi actually is a good coach, he still can win the La Liga title last year although Barcelona has no really good squad. If he can't compete for the title in this season, it is because Barcelona has no competitive squad anymore. Meanwhile Real Madrid has a better squad for this season, they are stronger than the last season. If Barcelona wants to compete with Real Madrid, they need some new players.

They definitely need to rebrand because it's starting to show up from their lack of performance and even goal scoring and that's why we can't compare the two squad being Bayern to Madrid. The Madrid squad is filled with alot of tenacity and hot young blood that can really out play and also outrun their opponent hands down and this has been a secret to their success and the most important thing is that they play with such a high amount of understanding and teamwork.

It can be understood that Madrid, Man City and Bayern Munchen are the favorite teams to have the potential to win the Champions League this season, it's just that Bayern is currently in a bit of doubt about being the best in Europe. In my opinion, Madrid and Man City deserve to be placed on equal footing, and Bayern is below these two teams, unless Bayer shows a different performance between the Bundesliga and the Champions League. Bayern condition for qualifying is now a challenge, because Lazio won 1-0 in the first leg yesterday, Tuchel team must work hard to turn things around if they want to win the UCL trophy. However, that doesn't mean I underestimate Bayern, it's just that City and Madrid consistency this season is better than Bayern. Therefore, we cannot underestimate the chances of other dark horse teams, each contestant has a chance to qualify for the quarter-finals, depending on how they manage their team.

Regarding Barcelona, it seems that Xavi will be able to bring his fleet through to the next round, because they will act as hosts. In the first leg they drew 1-1 against Napoli, I think Xavi can beat Napoli in the second round. The financial crisis means that Xavi cannot have his dream squad, because their finances are unable to recruit good players, and currently the Blaugrana chances of advancing to the final will be very small, unless the favorite team experiences a setback.

Barcelona does not want to be acquired by a new owner but now Barcelona is not easy even maybe it cannot be acquired by anyone so it is difficult to sell Barcelona.
Please note that Barcelona is not owned by an individual like the Glazer family who own Manchester United or Sheikh Mansour who owns Manchester City, Barcelona has a system where they are owned by many owners who are members of the club members of FC Barcelona or Socio.

Even though Barcelona management has a club president, it happens because it is the result of a vote from Socio so that when the club president is considered a failure then they can be ousted. In addition, to sell means that indirectly Barcelona must also have a joint decision where these Socio decide to let go of the club and I think it is difficult to happen even seem impossible because in the end this also returns to business unless everyone agrees to change the ownership scheme to individuals but that will also seem very difficult to do.

To me, Bayern Munich performances are not fully okay because if they do, they will do more than they are doing at the moment. However, if a team is losing, we don’t have to blame the manager anytime now that everyone thinks Tuchel is the cause of Bayern Munich's condition. What about the players? Although I won’t say the management is excellent, there are things we need to observe because Tuchel has managed Bayern Munich even in the last season and they were doing well, so now that they are facing some bad conditions, we shouldn’t generalise it on only the coach. I think there are some positions that need to be fixed in the Bayern Munich squad.

 

Yes. Arsenal are not that strong to survive two competitions at the same time because of the pressure in both competitions. However, the Champions League and Premier League are tough competitions, so with these, I believe Arsenal are going to be more focused on the Premier League, and that is what they are doing now. For Porto, they are coming to play at Arsenal's home, and Porto are not that strong to beat Arsenal in their home. That will be too bad for Arsenal, so I believe Arsenal are going to do all they can to win the match. 

You're right about the core team of the last few years, but with Sane, Pavolovic, Davis, Musiala and Tel, Bayern has some good mid-age and young players. However, the average age says little overall if you look at Real Madrid, for example, where the average age is even higher and they play at a top level. Nevertheless Bayern will undergo a major upheaval in the next few years.

Your quite right about strategy but also players and determination can still do a lot in a match, I don't know arsenals plan concerning the champions league, because I can see them more focused on the premier league than any other league, and I don't think arsenal is well built to survive the competition unless they actually become more determined, no easy win would happen if they don't find ways to create more chances and break ports defense, and I think porto would play a more defensive game in their second leg but we know arsenal knows how to touch the ball in small spaces if you see their last match against newcastle they actually did a lot of 18 yard touches, if Porto plans on playing defense then arsenal might have winning chance, I'm predicting up to 2-3 goals for arsenal.

Arsenal needs to come up with a new attacking strategy that they can use to breakthrough into Porto's defense so that it wouldn't be a problem for them to score at home. Arsenal can take advantage of playing at home to win the match if they are not outperformed by Porto's strategy, so that they don't play the game the way Porto wants it. Arsenal also needs luck in that game, because Porto was lucky enough to have a dying minute goal to give them the victory.

However, Arsenal don't go far in the champions league, and I hope that they will put in all their best performance to make sure that they win Porto is Emirate, because they are in a good form, so I don't think that there should be any excuse or reason why they will not be able to win Porto. Maybe we might be underestimating Porto because we just want Arsenal to win, but the facts remains that the club with the best strategy will surely qualify to the next round.

It is true that Bayern is getting older, they no longer have Lewandowski and most of their star players are getting older as well. Musiala is the only young player that is still quite good, and the rest looks to be getting older.

Players like Kimmich and Sane are still relatively young of course, but they have downward spiral lately and not getting any better for the past few seasons, Davies is the only other young player who looks to be quite strong candidate to play for another 10 years, so maybe keep him too. Goalkeeper is one of the most important parts, Neuer is 100 years old, they really need a new one. All in all, a new 3-4 more players could really make all the difference for them and make them so much better.

There's no need to talk about Bayern Munich's chances of winning this competition, but let's just see and determine how Bayern Munich will carry out their match when they host Lazio in the second leg meeting later. Likewise with the Gunners, when Mikel Arteta's squad hosted Porto at the Emirates. These two teams are far favorites if we refer to the betting market. Plus, Bayern and Arsenal both played their matches as home teams. What is certain is that both Lazio and Porto must be prepared for an all-out attack when these two teams play away matches at the home of their respective opposing teams. because, both Bayern Munich and Arsena are likely to play aggressively from the first half whistle. My estimate for now is that the two superior teams will win the match. But regardless of how many goals scored, there's still plenty of time for us to research.

As for PSG, this match is interesting for me. because, I want to know where the strength of Luis Enrique's squad lies when playing away matches. but it looks like Paris Saint-Germain won't go all out. The potential for a draw might be the final result. moreover, both teams have the same odds for a while. Likewise with Atletico, Diego Simeone will not let his team collapse at home when he becomes Inter Milan. In this match, both teams have a chance to beat each other when referring to betting odds. Well, let's just follow along, there's still time until this match takes place.

Since nearly all of the teams are attempting to exert a great deal of effort in order to win the matches, I anticipate that the games will be quite difficult for me. I'm sure that Porto will find it extremely tough to defeat Arsenal in their encounter later this week since Arsenal has the ability to let what occurred to them in their previous meeting with Porto happen again.
To ensure that they have defeated Porto, Arsenal will endeavor to further enhance their performance. because Arsenal has now suffered losses to Porto in two straight home games. Let Watch to see which teams (s) will be the gonna among those teams three teams you mentioned.

Even this all is indeed but most chances we are not going to have decision like this in coming days because it's never been easy to sell this even this is much needed thing if they want to have golden days back with good funds for buying new players and also having good system which bring good results because I have read sometime back there were few things like one Dubai based company were ready to take over.

But, this was rejected with other option was also available to settle debit which create good change, and they will be able to have recover from this worst situation, but this was also rejected so now just wait how they will settle this all, and we have this giant Spanish club back on his feet's in near future because I have feeling currently the biggest issue is bad management which is bringing this club down.

The UEFA Champions League round of 16-second leg will be interesting to watch because clubs like Arsenal and Bayern Munich will want to win with a 2-goal difference or higher to have the chance of qualifying for the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal will start to beat FC Porto in the first half because FC Porto can't stop Arsenal from scoring in the first half at the Emirate Stadium.

You have made an absolutely correct and appropriate observation. I think Xavi is a good coach, but he can only make the most contribution to the team within the framework of the opportunities offered to him. As we can see, they are in third place this year and there is only a 2-point difference between them and the second place. Actually, there is no bad ranking, but when the team is Barcelona, ​​the expectation is that they will be in the championship race. They can only meet this expectation if the desired players come.

That's right, because if Barcelona players can still play well when the situation and condition of the team is bad, then of course we can't blame the players and coaches in situations like this. But even so, I think having new ownership still doesn't fully guarantee that Barcelona can recover because after all, the new ownership and management will also start by learning first and won't be able to quickly restore Barcelona's performance and quality. Because yes, also consider mediocre teams that don't have star players but can be successful because they have good coaches and management. So, at least Barcelona might be able to improve its management factors first because yes, a team's success will occur when the club has a good management team and it's not always about finances.

The strategies were different, but they were all based on the non-equivalence of goals (absurdity, one goal “has more value” than another) and this was unfair.
The Swiss system is just garbage and chaos (for football, for chess it is ideal for holding tournaments with an infinite number of participants). Until the game is played you don't even know your next opponent. After each round, opponents are assigned based on ranking (derived from the results). There are no double games at home - away. Always a new opponent. This is not a group stage, but a group perversion.

I am looking forward to the match between Arsenal vs Porto, I am curious about how Arsenal will turn things around or will they fail after their first leg defeat which they lost 1-0 to Porto. Their task will be more difficult as they have to equalize first before they have to turn things around. I see a high possibility that Porto will play defensively in this match, because if we see in the first match they also actually apply more and I can say it was a lucky goal achieved by Porto.

Inevitably Arsenal must exert all their abilities in this match to be able to turn things around and be able to qualify for the next round. They have to find an early goal so that they can play more comfortably afterwards. If they can do that then the pressure will turn towards Porto as there is no other option for them but to change their strategy. It is an advantage for Arsenal that they will be playing at home, it will make them more energized as they will have the full support of their fans. Arteta must prepare for this match as well as possible to ensure they can move on to the next round.

I believe Bayern Munich will make a comeback in their second leg. Because we have seen this happen many times in the past. Despite a poor performance in the first leg, Milan qualified for the next round with a big win in the second leg.

The Munich team lost only 1-0 in the first leg match. It's not a big gap. The team will qualify for the quarter finals only if they win the second leg match 2-0. And Bayern Munich have the ability to win against Lazio by a big margin.



PSG vs Real Sociedad second leg will be more competitive. PSG is a strong team. They have an experienced coach like Luis Enrique. Enrique will definitely want to do better in the Champions League. I want PSG team ahead in this match. Because the performance of Real Sociedad is very irregular.

On the other hand, Atletico Madrid are not in good form. I don't think they will be able to beat Inter Milan at home. Inter Milan will probably win the second leg match as well.