Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 424. (Read 141787 times)

Makes sense.
And this theory will come true

Tuchel will improve the attacking approach in the second leg. IMO
However, the players must push themselves physically and mentally to achieve a better result.
The defenders should avoid wasting time passing the ball back and forth and instead focus on passing directly to the wingers.
If Tuchel starts De Ligt and Eric Dier together in defense, Bayern's defense will be more stable.

We’ve reached the 2nd leg of the Round of 16 tie of the UCL and the whole fun and surprises of this competition we’ve started seeing in the forst leg of this tie and will still see more as we begin the 2nd leg phase. The UCL usually holds different surprises as you see a less expected club coming to challenge on the big boys and dumping them out of the competition. The first leg had some very sweet results and also some crazy results that’s now resulted in more topics as we approach the 2nd leg.

 We can see 2 of the top contenders, Manchester City and Real Madrid already having one foot in the last 8 because of the wide win marging achieved in the first leg of the tie. Manchester City having a 3 goals lead in the first leg is something that’s pretty expected and there’s no way Copenhagen will be able to come back from this lead; rather I think they’ll hold their heads up high and try to get a draw and get out of the competition. They’ve really proven a point by qualifying from a group and dumping out Manchester United and Galatasaray that’s really an achievement for this club and it’ll be best to get a draw in this 2nd leg as there’s no hope of them bouncing back.

 PSG are also well placed though they can’t be relied on as they’ve not had some great performance away from home in this year’s UCL right from the group stage. Real Sociedad are their opponents though seen as week but remember it’s the UCL, meanwhile I don’t think Real will be able to do a comeback in this match. Real Madrid against Liepzig is going to be an easy one especially as we could have Jude returning to Madrid side and featuring in this match. Our main focus this week will be on matches like Bayern at the Allianz Arena and what they’ve got to offer. Bayern lost the first leg tie but it was just with a goal; which means more work for them if they want to qualify from this stage. Well I don’t think Bayern will be able to go through as the team morale is real low this season and they’re not performing on optimum frequency like they did last season and previous seasons. So I see this match being very difficult and tempting to predict.

Porto must be careful for the second leg. FYI, people are not concerning about the huge margin trends when arsenal was playing at home. look at the average goals produced by arsenal when it was playing at home. I will mention the data here why porto must pay more attention when it will go to the emirates stadium.


https://www.skysports.com/arsenal-results

From the picture above and i will take some matches which are happening at emirates stadium and it's starting with.

vs Newcastle
vs Liverpool
vs Palace

Arsenal was only losing against liverpool at FA cup but this club has been developing even better from that match. As you can see that if arsenal beats liverpool again in EPL game against liverpool at emirates stadium. The improvements happened to the arsenal.

Talking about the odds arsenal got pretty small odds which was around 1.27, the hope for arsenal to get into the next stage is very big compared with porto even when this club was leading the game with 1 goal aggregate. Assuming porto to play offensively against arsenal and it meant porto was doing suicide.

The only best way to go fully offensive. Porto shall not really care with what people said if it will play parking bus or something else that puts a lot of player in the penalty box. As long as it can defend arsenal to get draw and it's win.

Source: standing


Bayern Munich is a strong team in the home match. They have won 10 of their 12 home matches in the Bundesliga and lost just one. But in every home match we have seen the dominance of Bayern Munich. Therefore, the Bayern Munich team is considered as the favorite in the second leg match against Lazio. But the performance of this team is somewhat erratic now. We have seen the Bayern Munich team fight hard in the last few matches. Bayern Munich players need to be more confident if they want to beat Lazio. Bayern Munich have no chance of winning if the players are not confident.



Lazio will only aim to draw the match in the second leg. The team will not be able to win the away match against Bayern Munich. Because Lazio knows very well that it is very difficult to win against Bayern Munich. And they were very lucky to win the home match. Lazio will be tactical in the second leg. And will play a completely defensive strategy. It will be very difficult for Bayern Munich's players to break down Lazio's defence.

In fact, any score turned the return game into a nightmare. You have already described 1-0. Now let's say the visitors won 2-1, in which case all they could do was play the bus in the return leg and hope they didn't lose by 2 goals, a 1-0 defeat was completely acceptable. It was a real mockery of football and fans.
And yes, it’s completely absurd when the overall score is, for example, 3-3, but one of the teams goes further “just because.” It's hard for me to praise UEFA here since they just corrected their own mistake, but it's good that it happened.
I hope the same thing will happen with the Swiss system, in my opinion it looks unviable.

Tuchel must be able to find a way to overcome the difficulties faced by Bayern Munich, because he still has full responsibility until the end of the season. Playing in front of their own supporters will of course make Bayern Munich luckier, because they will get full support from their own Fans. But before the second meeting, Tuchel must be able to successfully collect wins to increase the confidence of his players in the Bundesliga. The victory over Leipzig is an important asset, and there is one match remaining before the second leg, Bayern Munich will face Freiburg, Which is a good opportunity to improve the team mentality.

Lazio, who have a goal deficit advantage, certainly won't want to be beaten at the Allianz Arena, they will definitely try their best to advance to the quarter finals. However, Bayern Munich chance of beating Lazio is quite big, because they can be beaten by Fiorentita again in Serie A. If Lazio suffers another defeat against Milan next, it could be a good sign that Bayern Munich has a pretty good chance of being able to turn things around in Second leg later. however, the Champions League is still a competition that is difficult to predict, it could be that our predictions are wrong, even though we have seen the details of the strengths and weaknesses of the two teams well.

Playing at home could indeed be quite profitable for Bayern Munich in the second leg at the beginning of next month, because Lazio, who only have one goal in the first leg, will definitely have difficulty preventing Bayern Munich from getting more wins at the Allianz Arena. Because on the one hand Lazio is also not a very good Italian team this season so it will not be that difficult for Bayern Munich to win at home in the second leg with a score of more than one goal.

Bayern Munich will definitely fight as hard as possible to achieve victory even though they have to experience difficulties because we don't know whether Lazio will provide very strong resistance in the match because they are in high confidence after beating Bayern Munich and of course I am also curious about what technique they will use. Lazio used in this match either a defensive strategy or an attacking strategy, but it seems like they used more of a defensive strategy because Bayern Munich will definitely play an attacking strategy because they want to avenge their previous defeat with a big score.

I don't know what happened to Bayern Munich this season even though they already have quality and needed players and Harry Kane also has no injury problems, but why does Bayern Munich seem to lack enthusiasm this season to win either the Bundesliga title or the Champions League title even though Bayern Munich is still have the opportunity to achieve it if they continue to consistently achieve victory after victory.
I doubt that Lazio can win the match in the second leg because many people say that Lazio's previous victory was due to getting a jackpot, but if it was just a jackpot, Lazio must be able to prove it in the second leg by maximizing the draw and that is enough to advance to the next round it's not just luck.

In terms of quality and tactics, Arsenal's game is certainly above Porto. It was surprising that they trailed by 1 goal in the first leg. but in the second leg Arsenal will not let Porto dominate and take advantage of an aggregate of 1 goal. Porto's goal in the first leg was very surprising because it was in extra time in the second half. Arsenal throughout the match had difficulty managing opportunities. Maybe in the second leg, Porto will still use the same strategy. but Arsenal will play more aggressively and openly to turn things around.

In the second match, Copenhagen will continue to try to play as well as possible, but they will face obstacles in being able to catch up with the goal difference from the first match because to qualify, Copenhagen must at least score three goals without conceding a single goal and this looks impossible, because if Manchester City did not field several players Mainly because a few days after this Champions League match they had to face a tough match which was quite decisive for the competition for the title in the English Premier League against Liverpool but Manchester City's second tier players still had better quality than Copenhagen as well as the City coach who was rich in strategy as well. This is a factor that City can still win this second match or at least draw, but I predict City will win with a big score without conceding to their opponents later.

Real Madrid and Bayern Munich will also win convincingly in this second match, the home factor will give them an advantage especially since their opponents are not as strong as them, and Bayern Munich losing to Lazio is surprising but I predict that will not happen Allianz Arena because they will play more aggressively and understand that failing to reach the quarterfinals will make this team even more criticized. Moreover, their opponent is only one goal ahead band Bayern will again show their productivity by scoring more than two goals and keeping their goal from conceding so they can qualify for the quarter-finals.

In my opinion, Manchester City and Real Madrid will have no difficulty in the second leg and indeed their percentage of qualifying is very high.
I am looking forward to Arsenal's match against Porto and Bayern against Lazio, this will be interesting to look forward to because the potential for Arsenal and Bayern to turn things around is very big.

Arsenal, who will play at home, will be very favourites, they are only 1 goal behind and with the strength they have now I am very confident they will be able to turn things around.
This is not to underestimate Porto, but it must be admitted that Arsenal's quality is much better than Porto.

The second leg will be more competitive than expected, Bayern Munich wants to take advantage of the home match to make a comeback from the defeat in the first leg. Lazio who have won in the first leg, will try to maintain their lead and at the same time steal a goal at the Allianz Arena to put pressure on Munich. Munich victory over RB Leipzig can encourage their players to maintain their performance, they still have time to prepare ahead of this match.

Bayern must have the motivation to achieve victory by more than one goal in the second leg, the Bundesliga trophy will almost certainly be lost to their target after falling behind Leverkusen. Tuchel's final hope is to erase negative assumptions about himself due to the poor results achieved by Bayern Munich by winning the UCL trophy. It is not easy for him to complete this mission perfectly, he must try by taking advantage of the star players he has in his squad.

In a few recent matches, Barca's performance has improved somewhat. It seems that when they learned that Xavi would leave the team at the end of the season, the players did not play as heavily as before, especially Lewandowski. The score of 1-1 in the second leg does not say anything when the home and away goals rule no longer exists, just a little home field advantage for Barca in the second leg. My personal prediction could continue to be a draw, and the two teams will settle in a penalty shootout.
I really did not expect that Bayern's instability would appear at this important time. Before that, I really appreciated Bayern and considered them the brightest candidate for the UCL championship title this season, but it seems that instability is dragging them down. This will be an advantage for Lazio, if exploited well they can defeat Bayern right at home. Besides, having a 1-goal lead also helps Lazio have a better mentality in the upcoming return match.

The atmosphere at Bayern Munich could be worse as it is now but I don’t want to undermine their capability of thriving against Lazio in their second leg of the champions league. Lazio is not a small team who has a very small performance level when compared to high tier clubs. They are also great and can give any of the top teams a difficult time before they can win against them. Bayern Munich prestigious form cannot just be overlooked despite their poor performance outing now, they could take a turn in this match and make things right for themselves again. I still feel this match can still be in advantage of Bayern Munich even after losing their first leg match.

thomas tuchel portofolio only good When he handled chelsea, he only got 1 trophy. and there was also a factor of luck because at that time chelsea in the premiere league domestic league also had a bad appearance but was able to win the champion league title.
But if the opponent is only Lazio and playing at home I think Munich will easily win this match and advance to the next round.

The UCL tournament are mainly for elite teams that have ambition of lifting the trophy. It might not be an easy tasks but most of these teams brings shocking results to the table, however I'm already used their performance. In this game, I'm in support of Bayern Munich, they're elite team and winning shouldn't be their problem. Lazio can enjoy the first leg because they succeeded with a narrow win, this second leg, their lucky star might not shined. Bayern Munich coming with everything they got because winning is very important in this phase of the UCL round of 16. Thomas Tuchel is the problem of Bayern Munich at the moment.

The return leg of the Champions league round 16 is around the corner,and the teams to win with highest goals will qualify,Mancity have already qualified to me, because I don't see any way Copenhagen can win them again,they are the only team to have qualified.For Lazio,Madrid,and Porto who won by 1:0,I still think the battle is very much on because for Arsenal,they might try to win 2:0 in the returning leg,Bayern might want to do thesame,and also Liepzig might struggle it out with Madrid because they really showed how good they are in their first leg.I cant wait to see how the returning leg will be like.

Napoli may know how to make a pressure on the defense of Barcelona but Napoli defense is also rather weak. After Napoli hired the new coach, they never won a single match. They even only could get a draw against a weak team like Cagliari in Serie A. TBH, I'm surprised with the result, it should be an easy match for Napoli. Considering the result of the match, I don't see a chance for Napoli to win against Barcelona in the second Leg. Moreover, the match will be held in Camp Nou.

Xavi is an experienced one in UCL, he often won the UCL trophy when he was a player of Barcelona. Although he is now a coach, he must have the experience in UCL at least. But Napoli has an inexperienced coach for UCL competition. The coach has no experience as a player and as the coach as well. Francesco Calzona only has a career as an assistant manager. With this condition, Barcelona should have a bigger chance to qualify for the next round in UCL.

I think Lazio is super lucky because everything in Bayern Munich is even getting worse. This team is in crisis because of their coach and it seems we are going to see a new coach instead of Tuchel in Bayern Munich soon.
They won the first leg against Bayern Munich with a 1-0 result with Bayern Munich got a red card and these all can help them to even beat Bayern Munich in the second leg too because there is not a good atmosphere in Bayern Munich right now.
Maybe Bayern Munich can get kicked oof of this tournament even before everyone could imagine to see.

These two coaches have both coached Chelsea, but Tuchel had a better portfolio when coaching Chelsea. 
Psychologically, perhaps Munich is the favorite to be able to turn things around when they host Lazio at the Allianz and ensure they qualify for the next round.

In my opinion, Lazio's performance in the domestic league is mediocre, not superior. This opens up the opportunity for Lazio to have ups and downs in performance.
The pressure from the Munich supporters at Allianz could have caused the Lazio players to drop mentally so that Munich could take advantage of it to steal more than 2 goals.
Moreover, in the Lazio lineup there are not many players who have experience competing in the UCL.