Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 534. (Read 141815 times)

yes. PSG are currently better than Real Sociedad, and with all the performances and squads that PSG have gathered and how they have been performing all this while, I don't think Real Sociedad will be a challenge for them because we know that PSG are doing well, and for them to allow Real Sociedad to defeat them will be a disappointment to them. Therefore, they will put in effort to see that they succeed. They also want to qualify for the next round of the competition, which will make them tough for Real Sociedad, although they are doing better than them. With the aim of qualifying for the next round, they will dominate the match.


Yeah. Any club that qualifies for the round of 16 will show more talent to join the race for the title unless they meet another club that is tougher than them or stronger and plays more than they do. Although you know it happens when a club qualifies, due to performance, they may meet another team that, whatever the performance they have, if there is another club that is stronger than them, they will defeat them. And PSG will meet some strong squads that will be coming their way, which are the teams you mentioned: Manchester City, Bayern Munich, and Real Madrid. All these clubs will be a challenge for them, in my opinion, so let’s wait to see if their performance will boost after qualifying and be able to join the race with these clubs.

PSG's star-studded lineup since Neymar's time has cemented their top club status. Messi and Mbappe's arrivals only raised their status. However, PSG's history shows that a superb team doesnt always prove successful. Their failure to capitalise on their talent in important occasions raises issues. Their future is unknown with Mbappe expected to leave.

Yes, PSG should win their match against Real Sociedad. Football surprises, as you mentioned. Real Sociedad may not have the same experience or celebrity team, but that doesnt rule them out. Impressive recent form, and anything can happen in a one-off contest. These games make football entertaining and surprising.

I don't think Real Sociedad is superior in terms of tactics and squad depth compared to PSG, so I think PSG is the team that is likely to come out on top and qualify for the quarter-finals. Of course, I am not underestimating Real Sociedad and the abilities of its players and coaches in that tight match, but PSG, which is a top European team with good squad depth, should be the favorites in the round of 16 match.

The probabilities of the two teams for the first leg show a very striking difference. PSG are favored at home and they are favorites to win, but Real Sociedad certainly won't give up without giving their best throughout the match. I agree that both teams have the same chance of winning and qualifying for the quarter-finals, but in fact the probabilities for the two teams are completely different.

Even though many say Real Sociedad can beat PSG because they are not a farmer's league, I still admit that PSG is much better than Sociedad in terms of team quality. I am sure PSG will be able to beat Sociedad and advance to the next round. I don't underestimate Sociedad because we know they are performing quite well in the league and are ranked 6th in the standings. But with the quality of players both have, I think PSG is clearly far superior.

It's too good to be true. Barcelona can't even solve its financial issue and how can barcelona build the best club again? The club can only count on the players from its academy. So many times barcelona used the players from its academy as the best solution owned by the club.
Barcelona needs to sort out its financial problem and the club can think about how to build the squad to be even better after that. The good thing if barcelona is getting one of easiest route to play in the UCL.
It was helping barcelona to qualify for the further stage far easy compared to the other club. I can't even imagine when barcelona will be placed in the group F. Xavi has been also commenting regarding the bad gameplay of barcelona.
He has been apologizing his mistake caused by he was not able helping the club to perform as good as like season. I think that barcelona is gonna be trophyless this season.

It is very difficult for PSG to win the Champions League  title this season. Manchester City, Munich  and Real Madrid are much stronger and  organized teams than PSG. PSG cannot even be considered favorites for this season's Champions  League. But it is possible to win the Champions League title even if not the favourite. Chelsea did it a few years ago.

I would not say that Real Sociedad team is very weak. This  team has not lost a single match in  the Champions League group  stage. Out of 6 matches they have won 3 matches and drawn 3 matches. Real Sociedad qualified for the  round of 16 as group champions despite  being in the group  with strong teams like Inter Milan. And so even if PSG team is considered as favorite in this  match, PSG must win by performing well. PSG  will not be able to qualify  for the quarter-finals if they do not perform  well. But the way PSG have performed  in the last few matches, I am  quite optimistic that they will be able to do well against Real Sociedad as well.

When it come to the Champions League football, I don't consider PSG as a big team with big name anymore because of several disappointments they have caused in the past. They will be winning first leg with hope of finishing the stage up with some outstanding performance in the second leg, but they usually gave a bad performance which usually led to their elimination in the tournament almost all seasons. This season, their players are not too good compared to some previous seasons back, they only have Mbappe as a star player, that is why I don't expect them to have an easy game against Real Sociedad that has an outstanding performance in their group stage matches.

all this is just because of the financial crisis which has caused Barcelona to look a little bad and not be favorites in the UCL and most would say the same thing about Barcelona who are currently short of players whereas if management has plans to fire Xavi from his post it will also make Barcelona condition worse.
let's see how Xavi is currently doing a great job in bringing Barcelona to a higher level, even though he is not consistent, but in fact Barcelona can still qualify for the round of 16.
I can't imagine how the match will go when Barcelona is considered unstable due to a lack of players and Napoli is currently having problems with several players and in the end this match becomes a little doubtful to determine which team will qualify for the next round but it looks like Barcelona will be better lucky as others here have said.

If you look at the strength of each player's performance, of course Sociedad is not a difficult opponent for PSG, if only they play seriously and consistently, they can make it possible for PSG to qualify for the next round, this is PSG's opportunity to progress smoothly to the next round. before they meet strong and tough teams like Munich, Madrid or Manchester city, I think they have a chance to progress by winning the game against Sociedad later in the round of 16, at least they can play well and not disappoint all their fans who might hope they are UCL champions .

Every club that has managed to qualify for the round of 16 definitely has the desire to win the UCL title this season, they will do everything to get it to play optimally and not waste the opportunity to play as hard as they can so they can win against other clubs, but I'm not sure PSG will win the UCL title this season, it seems they are not a club that other clubs are worried about, I'm sure if they meet a strong club in the UCL like Munich they will definitely go home earlier than the other clubs.  

Barcelona have worse performance with defense how difficult make clean sheet every match and always conceded above two until four goals last match in Copa del Rey. Its bad capital for Barcelona few weeks left facing Napoli in Champion League knock out round, actually not difference inconsistency performance from both teams with Napoli loss their impressive performance in Serie A and Barcelona can't stable with top level performance in La Liga.

Both teams have typical with offense game play and actually easy scoring many goals when first and second leg match in Champion League knock out round, Barcelona have take advantage scoring as many possibility goals on first leg as away match and must all out on second leg match when playing in front of their fans. Xavi Hernandez must answer with fans doubt after failure in copa del rey and Barcelona still gap many points in La Liga standings position.

I agree with you that Real Sociedad can beat any big team if they give themselves. But I can't call Real Sociedad team strong this season. Their performance is quite erratic. In 21 La Liga matches, Sociedad team won 9 matches and drew 8 matches. We haven't seen a very good performance from Sociedad. And Sociedad are unlikely to qualify for the Champions League.

PSG team on the other hand is strong now. Luis Enrique has managed to minimize the team's internal problems to a great extent. And now the understanding between PSG players is very good. The overall performance of the team is now stronger because of the better bond between the players. And so I think PSG will not lose against Sociedad.

Real Sociedad is a big Spanish La Liga club that's very capable of defeating any club in Europe in their own day age their performance of last season in the Spanish La Liga which ensured their participation in the UEFA Champions League competition this season coupled with their performances in the group stage of the UEFA champions league this season suggests that they're gonna be a difficult team to play against from Paris Saint Germaine.

That being said, I still expect Paris Saint Germaine to eliminate the Spanish club in their UCL round of 16 tie. The French champions boats of top quality players like Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele Kolo Muani and other world class players and against Real Sociedad, I would be very surprised if PSG doesn't progress to the last eight ahead of the Spanish club

I'm surprised at how complex people think this match between PSG and Real Sociedad in the Champions League knockout phase will be. I was initially of the opinion that PSG would have a better chance and probability of winning the match than Real Soceidad because of their experience in the competition and the big name quality team they've been for many years.

Your thoughts on how Real Soceidad has gotten to this point, how they were able to eliminate some big clubs in the group stage of the competition and also make it to the top four spot last season, are something to think about and give them hope that they will be able to beat PSG. At this point, all I can say is that the match will be extremely difficult, and that the team with the best strategy employed in this match will win.

Real Sociedad is a tough opponent for PSG and I think Real Sociedad should not be underestimated even though it has not been in the Champions League competition for a very long time. Last season they were quite surprising as one of the Spanish representatives in the competition and of course they learn every day from experience to be consistent until they finally finish and get a place in this competition.

Real Sociedad's struggle is not easy because they managed to beat several other great Spanish teams to be here and since the group stage some time ago I was immediately convinced that they would be a team that would make things difficult for the elite teams that subscribe to the Champions League competition. PSG must not be lulled by the superiority of the squad they have.

PSG had more experience but that will not become a reliable data to said that if PSG would be winning easily against sociedad. I think that it's too early to underestimate sociedad caused by im sure if it will able to give a tough game for PSG.
I do know that if the gap between PSG and sociedad was so big but it doesn't mean sociedad was bad. The club can perform even better after it has been motivated to beat PSG which will be boosting the mentality from the players.

PSG could be easy bet for us but sociedad's performance needs to be anticipated. I don't wanna see to get a bad result by taking this match as my bet. Im feeling btts is the best choice for this match. Sociedad was always playing offensively in UCL. Im sure it will be repeating the same thing again in the match against PSG soon. It's just matter of time until the match will begin. We are still 2 weeks away from that match and i hope psg will be giving its best performance.

I agree. There is nothing to be shocked about. Barcelona are having a much worse season than the previous one. They are weaker especially in defense as they have conceded more than enough goals so far. They are going to face Napoli which have really effective attackers. Especially Osimhen is a huge threat you know.

I expect to see many goals in this matchup first of all. If Napoli manage to get a decent win home first then I think they won't let Barcelona turn things around. Maybe Napoli are also not the same as their previous season version. But I believe they are good enough to get past Barcelona. 

Barcelona and Napoli both are in the same situation. Barcelona had a good performance in the last season and they won the La Liga title in the last season with a huge gap they had with Real Madrid while they even had financial issues and Napoli won the Serie A title while other teams got much better and stronger players. But now both teams have changed and both teams are not in a good situation that's why I think both Barcelona and Napoli were lucky to face each other while they were not in the good form and that's why both teams can have a good chance of winning the match in the Champions League with the current situation they have.

I agree with you that if you look at Barcelona performance this season, it is likely that Barcelona will only be able to advance to the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. Moreover, Barcelona's performance this season has been inconsistent and Barcelona is far behind Real Madrid and Girona in La Liga. I believe that Xavi main focus this season is to win the La Liga title again because the potential champions that Barcelona can achieve this season are only La Liga and the UEFA Champions League.

We can put psg ahead in going to the next round but I won't say that psg will go to the next round for sure. I have seen many matches where one team has a very high chance of winning and that team has a very high chance of going to the next round but due to a small mistake they cannot go to the next round. PSG is currently one of the most consistent performers in the France league, so PSG are more likely to advance to the next round if they don't make any mistakes.

In football, experience can be really important, especially when two teams that are doing well come face to face. Experience plays a big role in helping a team navigate tricky situations and make smart decisions on the field. However, it's essential to remember that if the more experienced team is not in good form and the opponent is performing well, that experience may not be as effective.

Now, let's look at the upcoming match between PSG and Real Sociedad. Both teams have been in great form lately, making the game quite challenging. While experience gives PSG an edge, as they have more Champions League experience than Real Sociedad, predicting the outcome isn't straightforward. Real Sociedad, despite being a less experienced team, might still have a chance to win if they continue to perform well. In football, surprises happen, and the game's result will ultimately depend on how both teams play on that particular day.