Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 515. (Read 141778 times)

There are a lot of probabilities in your post!

But you seem to forget that it all depends on the draws for the quarterfinals round. If PSG were to play against Real Madrid or Manchester City, I think that would be the end of their Champions League story for this season. But if they advance to the next round and then play against Dortmund or Eindhoven, I think PSG still has a chance to advance to the semifinals. There is Napoli vs. Barcelona, both teams are not that strong either and I think PSG would have a chance against them.

So after all we got to wait what the next round would be looking like, but I agree that against most of the possible opponents PSG would probably be in trouble.

The game will be happening away for atletico madrid. It must be noted that if intermilan is the strongest team in serie a now. It has very balanced team in the defensive nor attacking lines. So, there's no reason for atletico madrid to play openly against interimlan. It will be only destroying themselves if atletico madrid forced to play openly against intermilan. We did know that how intermilan was always kicking out barcelona from UCL many times. La liga team is facing the strongest team to beat the la liga club. Atletico madrid can use option to play defensively against it.

This may not put the team into the risk and getting draw will be enough for this. Atletico madrid needs to be careful caused by losing huge margins against intermilan will be lowering atletico's chance to go to the next round.
Lautaro martinez was the biggest threat in intermilan. Intermilan seems have a lot of old players but they were always performing very consistent. This is the specialization owned by intermilan. The club is always able in maximizing the performance from what people called that as old players.

This is the toughest match for atletico madrid. If atletico will be losing more than 2 goals then it's game over for diego simeone's squad.

And the other thing about PSG in the group stage is that they couldn't even beat Newcastle who were in poor form at the time. And actually lost 1 time to Newcastle with a big score of 4-1. So I personally only predict PSG will only be able to reach the quarter-finals after beating Real Sociedad. And after that they will probably struggle in the Quarter-finals and will probably fail to get to the semi-finals. Because the opponents to be faced in the Quarter-finals will definitely be very heavy for them at this time. For Mbappe who might be leaving PSG would definitely want to make a good impression at the club and he will definitely fight better in his last season with PSG but the problem is having Mbappe alone is not enough for PSG if they want to go further in the UCL. And well I can't include PSG in the favourites for the title either. Unless there is a surprise like last season when Inter Milan reached the Final and everyone didn't expect it to happen.

Agree with you. PSG best era was when they had trio strikers Messi-Neymar-Mbappe. If in that era they couldn't win the trophy, it is more impossible to win it in the current era. We don't forget that they are very difficult to qualify to knock-out round this season. They were almost eliminated in group stage by AC Milan because they have the same total points. How they can win UCL trophy if they were difficult to qualify to the current round? Sure, it seems hard to achieve the semi-final round. Let's hope PSG can win against Real Sociedad first before predicting PSG to be the champion. It Real Sociedad defeats them, there is no way to win UCL trophy for PSG.

Achieving success and leaving the team after a trophy is possible. Winning a trophy does not signify that he will not leave the club immediately if he does. If Klopp wins the league title of the premier league, I don’t think that will stop him from changing his initial plan of leaving the club. Winning a trophy and staying back at that team cannot be in correlation unless there is a coincidence for that to happen. Pep Guardiola having not announced whether he will continue with the team or not is not enough proof to be begin share rumors that he will leave the club after this season.

The champions league competition have not getting to a point that we can start saying a particular team will win the league yet. We still have both small and big teams in the competition and the matches can take a turn when you least expected it. We still have favourite teams and Manchester City still remain one of the  topmost teams to win the title amongst others like Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Arsenal.

If they failed to win it when they had Messi, Neymar and Mbappé, then I don't think they can do it this season. I even have doubts if they can reach the Semi Finals. Mbappé alone is not going to help them. I saw how thy played in the Group stages and although their group was labelled as group of death, 2 draw and 2 losses far low for a team looking to challenge all the way to the finals

Even though Man City is currently in a good trend and Bruyne has not returned from injury, they should not take Copenhagen lightly because the first leg will be played in Copenhagen. From the last meeting, Man City failed to get a full pin when they visited Copenhagen. Apart from that, Copenhagen this season performed so well in the UCL that they were called underdogs, but they managed to score eight goals and concede eight goals during the group phase. However, not conceding in the last two matches, including against Bayern Munich, proves that Copenhagen's defense is very solid. Even though Man City managed to get full points in the first leg, it won't be easy, this match will be tough.

They came so close towards winning the Champions League Competition that year but the french international Kingsley Coman scored the winner of the game which saw Bayern Munich win that Competition with just a goal in the finals.

Paris Saint Germans would have to do better if they must win the Champions League at the endd of the season. They would need more better and determined players who're ready to fight for the club.
Luis Enrique has a god experience of the Champions and he's won it already before with Barcelona.

But there is still Real Madrid and I doubt that they are that far behind. If they are behind at all, then it is only by a very small margin and I think for now I would say both of them are favorites to win the title. But I agree that if it is time for the final and these two teams would play against each other, I would choose Manchester City as a mini favorite. But it is not really as if they had a big advantage over Real Madrid. If Vinicius Junior, Bellngham and all the other players are in great shape, it is a fact that they are extremely dangerous and can score goals at any time during the game and from every situation.

Well I don't know your parameters for judging the strength of a team but then to the vast majority pep has got a strong team and even with your judgement I'm very optimistic you wouldn't want to classify them as a weak team even if they don't really look strong to you because that will be blunder from your judgement.

Peps team has got one of the best squad dept if you take your time to examine them and so far they aswell have one of the best squad in England and Europe too because they have got at least two players who tanks amongst the to give best in the football world across Europe currently so I don't know what else would better describe them as Strong, even in England they have one of the best form currently and can be seen as one of the top three teams amongst others and if they are lucky to defend the two trophies they have had earlier them again they will be the best team across Europe so what other strength would you have them posses.

The problem of the tight schedule and the players who are too large portions make the condition of fitness and even injuries always a problem for big clubs but indeed it is a real risk that they must bear because after all if they really want to be a big club then they have to be ready with conditions like this as well as Manchester City. They must know that they are now a club that is always taken into account in every competition that is undertaken so they must be prepared with the risks that will be faced.

At least now some Manchester City players are back in the squad and that's a good thing for them because indirectly, with the core players who are ready to play then it is certain that they will experience an increase in terms of performance because the quality of their attacks will become more alive.

I don’t why you people are underrating Arsenal. You guys always think that Arsenal will not even go far in the Champions League just because they have been absent in the tournament for long forgetting that Arsenal team can actually go far this season because the young players in the team are willing to win something for the team since they have missed up in the FA Cup and Carabao Cups in the England side; only Premier League is left for them to fight for which I think will be hard, but if they were able to go far here, the team will be proud of the players.

Pep teams are not too strong as many expected because the players that left the team were not completely replaced perfectly, but KDB, Rodri  and Earling Haaland and there I keep moving the team forward.

If we measure the depth of the team's strength, Copenhagen will definitely experience difficulties in their meeting with Manchester City in the round of 16. Manchester city, as the best team in the world, of course we no longer doubt the quality of its players and this will be an obstacle for Copenhagen because they have opponents who will probably be quite difficult for them to beat. However, I'm sure Copenhagen will play with confidence and maybe there's no miracle for them to beat Manchester city.

On the other hand, Copenhagen also did not appear impressive enough in the domestic league and with their inconsistent performance, of course it will be easy for Manchester city to beat them. For Manchester city, maybe they are the favorite team to advance to the last 8 because their opponents are not equal in strength to them.

Exactly, because De Bruyne and Haaland are vital players for Manchester City without them the club would suffer in some games and I think you will notice in some previous games. Manchester City has no problems in the Champions League round of 16 because Copenhagen is a bonus game for Manchester City and they are easy to beat. Copenhagen is performing well, but Manchester City is stronger and they cannot match with them. Manchester United is out of form, which is why Copenhagen has the possibility to advance to the round of 16. Guadiola would like to win another Champions League with Manchester City before leaving, but I don't think he can leave the club unless he retires as a coach. Manchester City and Real Madrid would like to meet again in the quarter finals, let see who will get the chance of winning the trophy this time.

UCL is more serious than before because the clubs competing are strong and ready to fight. There are top clubs that's competitive to win matches but these clubs are usually difficult to comprehend. Pep Guardiola have eyes on the title, he's not relenting but focusing on the big title, he's this man that doesn't relent until his target is finally hits. We shouldn't be counting Arsenal as clubs that would become contenders for the UEFA Champions League title because they're still struggling in EPL matches. We only look at clubs that's having streak winnings in their domestic league.

Of course Pep Guardiola will not underestimate any team they face in this competition, including when they visit Copenhagen in the round of 16 which will be held in the near future. in just a few weeks, the round of 16 will start again. in this match, Copenhagen was the home team to welcome Manchester City to Parken, Copenhagen's headquarters. however, referring to the group stage match played in Copenhagen, Jakob Neestrup's team had to work very hard to finish in second place and qualify to accompany Bayern Munich. unfortunately, Copenhagen was met by the team that won this competition last season. moreover, Copenhagen's performance is not very impressive in its domestic league. so, actually this match is a tough match for the home team. I don't mean to underestimate Copenhagen, but to produce a draw, Jakob Neestrup's team has to work hard.

In the City camp, it seems almost all the players have recovered from their injuries. now, leaving only Akanji who looks like he will return again in the near future. Speaking of Haaland, the City star has returned to play for his squad. even though, he started from the bench. more precisely, when City played the match against Burnley. so, it seems that Pep will be ready to play his main squad again, especially in the Champions League match. Referring to the betting market, currently City is far superior to the home team. Well, we can draw our own conclusions. what is certain is that we are looking forward to this competition starting again.

I feel like those are not really correlated as much as people think that it is. A team that does wonderful at league could do horrible at Europe, and one that does very well at Europe could do horrible at domestic league, it is not really related. There could be a million examples, but lets take just Barcelona as example, because last year they won the league but failed at ucl groups, and this year failing at league and won at ucl groups.

As you can see there are plenty of teams like that and people should be careful about those. Just because one team does well at the league doesn't mean that they will be great at UCL or even europa, it really doesn't matter and these teams try to play different each game they are out there.

The things I can say about Copenhagen is that they really surprised people in the group stage first of all. Their resistance and the way they play in offense were really worth watching. They played fearlessly against even Bayern Munich and stole a point in one of those games against them as well. 

However there has been a really long time period passed since the end of the group stage. It is really difficult to predict such weaker teams on paper. If they can't keep up the same ambition then it would be really difficult to resist Manchester City even in Copenhagen.

It's not nice to downplay Copenhagen's achievements, but let's face it, they beat MU who had exactly nothing to show for their Champions League matches, we all remember that. The same can be said about Galatsaray. The only indicator is that they drew with Bayern, but even then I would not attribute it to achievements.

Therefore, what many people think about a possible defeat against Manchester City is quite an adequate reaction and expectation

Inter Milan vs Athletico Madrid match is one match that’ll be a tensed one as both team have very good qualities that’ll help them progress. From the group stage, you can see that both teams were unbeaten in their run to this knockout phase. KThey both have sharp and quality attackers who could help get the goals when they’re called upon and yes their defense line are both tight and very organized. The winner of this match is kinda hard to predict especially after checking the strengths and weaknesses of the two teams.

 Well I think it’ll be great to see both teams fight it out on the pitch and it’ll be fun to watch. Well the match will be evenly tensed and the scoreline between both teams won’t be much a difference. Though I’m still going to bank on inter milan to win this match and get past this stage of the competition. Well Inter Milan will want to fight more for this competition so as to sail through to the other phase and maybe pose a title challenge.