Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 550. (Read 141787 times)

If PSG underestimate Real Sociedad, perhaps PSG will fail to advance from the round of 16. Don't look at Real Sociedad just looking at the La Liga standings. However, if you look at their matches against Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and REal Sociedad lost all three matches. however they were the more dominant team but were ultimately unlucky, failing to capitalize on the easy chances they usually convert and conceding goals to Barcelona and Atletico in the final minutes.

I mean, Real Sociedad is good enough to impose their style of play against any team, even PSG, and as long as they convert their chances, they are good enough to beat anyone. There is a reason why all supporters of the top team Laliga call Real Sociedad a Super team. So PSG should not take Real Sociedad lightly or some even say that PSG has the easiest opponent against Real Sociedad.

Well you're right, Messi and Sergio Ramos really needed to leave the team, it needed immediate structuring that's why had to let go of the Super stars Messi and the rest, sell off Neymar for a worthy offer to the Saudi side, to fund new young talented recruits, well though they didn't start up quite well, but they're doing pretty good currently and with the right coach like Enrique who's achieve quite a lot and with experience, I think their new project would he quite successful sooner or later.

 Well judging from Enrique's past experience, it was quick sure that doing very good in their domestic league was assured, even though, Nice tried to pull a stunt at the beginning of the season by shaking PSG a bit, they've still humbled and PSG is at their rightful position. Enrique have tried in capturing their domestic league but now he has to work on helping them doing better in the UCL even though it means them reaching the Semi's, it would really boost them to do better, next season with or without the presence of Mbappé.

I see no reason for De Bruyne not to be on the pitch in 1/8, he's fully fit now. As for Haaland's goals, I'm sure the team's tactics have changed a bit and Haaland can't score as much now for that reason. Purely theoretically they can make it to the semi-finals, but looking at their game and condition I think they have something wrong and are hardly a contender to win this season

They was slightly opportuned to make it to the round of sixteen to be very honest. Only if Newcastle United had made good effort at the last stages of the game in the group stage, they'd have been occupants of this Paris Saint Germans position.

They have a slim chance of winning the Champions League, they're not even close and they shouldn't come amongst the first six clubs if I'm to predict who will be winners of the Champions League Competition.

Luis Enrique anyways has been a good coach who dealt with a club like Real Sociedad in the La Liga Competition,now they meet again after many years. Believe me this is a good chance to see the league one giants qualify for the next round. Real Sociedad are no match to em.

PSG sold those players because they failed to win the UCL trophy. They are also old players, PSG wants younger players to rebuild their squad. The current players of PSG aren't mediocre players, you must know that there are many top players there. And the current coach is Luis Enrique, he was the coach of Barcelona. Luis Enrique already won varied trophies with Barcelona and he ever won the best coach award in 2014-2015. So, you're wrong if you said PSG didn't have a top coach. 

Indeed. PSG players have no winning mentality in UCL competition. They often almost reaches the big matches but they failed to win the match because of weak mentality. PSG needs a coach who can improve the mentality of the players. Luis Enrique is a great coach, I think PSG already hired the right coach for this season.

The current owners and management of Paris Saint Germaine have invested hugely in the club over the years to make sure they win the UEFA Champions League trophy but despite all their efforts, their best season in the competition was in 2019/20 season that they reached the final of the competition before they were beaten by eventual winners Bayern Munich.

This season in the champions league, Paris Saint Germaine's performance haven't been that convincing as they struggled to progress from the group stage but I expect them to still have a great season in the competition because they've got all the quality players needed to win it. Their current manager Luis Enrique won the competition with Barcelona in 2015 and isn't ignorant of how difficult the competition is.

The way PSG buys star players like that I think is not entirely appropriate because after all, the players PSG buys are old players. Unlike about Real Madrid and Manchester City do, they have star players who have great potential at a productive age. Not only that, Real Madrid and Manchester City also managed to develop the potential of the players they had to be very good so that ya, Real Madrid and Manchester City also succeeded in the Champion League and not only in the domestic league like PSG. Therefore, basically PSG needs young players who have great potential and at the same time, PSG must have good management as well to form a better squad, and they cannot just rely on Mbappe.

If Haaland is not in the squad, Man city will still win their matches, but if De Bruyne is not in the squad, a big problem for Man city a d they might have difficulties winning matches. Man City is on the relieve now that De Bruyne is back because he is a key player in the team. However, I don't think that Haaland will do all those goal scoring if Dr Bruyne is not in the match because De Bruyne assist is what hpd him to score more goals. What a bad season for Haaland, he has not scored much goals this season and I don't think he will be among the highest goal scorers this season. Round of 16 is a win win for Man City, but the next round might be difficult for them because they be meet a strong team.

PSG qualify in the round of 16 and the team they will face doesn't seem to be a threat for them. Real Sociedad are completely no challenge for PSG. Luis Enrique is a promising coach but winning the UCL trophy in his first year managing Les Parisiens have slim chances and personally, I don'tsee that happening, probably not now. Lifting the UEFA Champions League title this season won't be an easy task for Les Parisiens because they need to apply strong force of concentration. I can't justify the act that Paris Saint-Germain are not giving up but pressing for good results.

Currently there is no player superior to Kevin De Bruyne and even if there is, it will take a long time. Every generation always brings up talents that we rarely see and maybe if there is a player who can be on par with Kevin De Bruyne, it will be in the next 3 to 5 years. Currently there are many great midfielders but to approach Kevin De Bruyne's level is very rare.

Of course these two titles will be Manchester City's priority, especially since they are still the main favorite team to win the title of king of Europe. I think that with consistency and development of the potential of each existing player, this can be achieved and the role of Pep Guardiola or other staff is very much needed in this matter.

I wonder if these numbers are before or after taxes. Although in any case these are absolutely cosmic numbers and they only matter in a mathematical sense. I very much doubt that in ordinary life a football player can feel how much money he has in his account - 50 million or 100. Maybe after the end of his career this will be felt (if he wants to buy his own football club like Beckham, then every ten million is important), but now he should think more about sporting achievements and not about money.

Messi left as a free agent, if I'm not mistaken, so did Ramos. they let go of Neymar, because PSG saw an opportunity to profit from Al Hilal. moreover, Neymar is very prone to injury. currently PSG only has Mbappe, there is no choice for PSG to change their philosophy. from mega star projects, now it is dominated by young players. PSG actually doesn't recruit mediocre players, Dembelle is Barcelona's mainstay player. Goncalo Ramos is a young talent, Kolo Muani has talent that can be developed. plus, the current PSG coach is quite accomplished, at least he won the treble winner if I'm not mistaken with Barcelona in his first season. Apart from that, in the second season Enrique won two wins with Barcelona. at least, he was a pretty good coach. the reason is, not all coaches are able to handle a top team filled with many stars. there are egos among the players, there is also competition, but Enrique is able to handle it well, especially in the dressing room.

With PSG, he did the same thing. now, disputes between players can no longer be heard despite the departure of Messi and Neymar. Just look, how Enrique brings PSG better than Galtier without Messi, Neymar, Ramos and several other players. he proved his worth, that he is a worthy coach. in this season, I'm sure that Enrique is fully aware that his team is not strong enough to compete with other top European teams. But at least, he and his squad will always try to work as hard as possible. In the next season, if Enriue is still trusted as PSG coach, maybe he will be given full support to bring in the players he wants.  Apart from that, Enrique's current task is to build his team so that it becomes more established and brings out the talent and potential of its players. that means, he is building the team's mentality to achieve what both the coach and the club want.

If De Bruyne should leave Manchester City at the end of this season, some part of Manchester City will fall and if they don’t have a good replacement there, they won’t be able to perform well in the pitch again. What I want to emphasize on is that, De Bruyne is a type of player that when in a club and not even playing, the players will have that zeal of hope that they’re still going to win the match. As far as the midfield of Manchester City is concerned, the person handling it effectively is De Bruyne and without him the midfield will leave a big void that will affect the success of the team in all competitions. I don’t see him leaving soon until they are sure of a good replacement for him.

I want to see how Paris Saint Germain do in the Champions League this season, they are in the round of 16 and will face Real Sociedad who are not favored over them. But given Paris Saint Germain's inconsistent form in the Champions League, it raises my doubts about them.
Maybe they will be able to win the match in this round and go to the next round, but in the next round I am not sure about them, because in the next round their opponents will be much improved from this round of 16.
Their main target every season is to win the Champions League title, but that is not matched by the promising game they can show. It is impossible for them to rely on luck alone, because luck also needs something that can make the luck come, in this case a better game.

Barcelona...    There are a lot of things to say about them truthfully. Because this downfall of Barcelona in only one season is really sad to see. I'm not a Barcelona fan maybe but I don't think this is all they can do in fact. You know how dominant they were in the La Liga last season but now they are much worse there too.

Here in the Champions League I find the odds for their winning the title quite fair. Because they haven't faced a big challenge yet. When they face a real title contender such as Manchester City I give near 0 chance to Barcelona to get past. 

It was always discussed from the beginning. Until now PSG with their initial intention to make them the new los galacticos in ligue 1 has not been a mistake because they are very capable of realizing it with the power of money they have of course it is very easy to do, it's just that they are only too focused on players but not on coaches.
Whereas everything will be good if it starts with a good coach and that is proven for Manchester City where bringing Pep is one of the keys to their success in controlling the EPL to date.

PSG's squad has always been very luxurious over the past few seasons but their luxurious squad has not been accompanied by good management and coaches until now because if we look at PSG coaches from season to season everything looks standard and even always covered by players until now.
Enrique is now predicted to be a good coach but when looking at Enrique's record he is actually no different from Pochettino and only looks good when he is at Barcelona.

PSG can dominated with Ligue 1 only and difficult for winning UEFA Champion League, last two season they have very excellent teams composition from Lionel Messi, Neymar, Mbappe, Ramos and Veratti but have eliminated on 16 round. Lack mentality winning in Champion League is main problem for PSG why can't become the winner and most highest achieving lead to final round last several years ago.
Luis Henrique has huge expectation by management and PSG fans, but I don't think his experienced winning Champion League with Barcelona can help PSG for the first time become the winner of UCL.
PSG have qualified to knock out round depend on their lucky only after having the same points with AC Milan, actually PSG can finish on first standings position but failed after losses points on many important group phase matches.

By February the knock out stage for the UCL will kick off and for some teams, it'll be an easy slide through regardless of the notion of the strongest teams being the ones able to scale into this stage. City and Copenhagen would go against each other and it's very much clear that City would be the survivors.
Their key men are back and set to run and definitely that's enough charge to weigh down Copenhagen.

 Yes, in their home ground, they may try to put up a battle but I'm certain that Manchester City will be capable to overturn them. They're way ahead of them in capacity and ability too. As always, the round of 16 will have as much fun as there can be in it and it's greatly anticipated. Preparations and games would definitely be intense too. Copenhagen as the underdogs would try their best but City would qualify for the next round.

This has been exactly what I have taught of all along, that PSG should have adopted as buy big and notable players was never all they needed to get the best out of their team but then it's some how that they seem not to understand that yet and are still just spending with hopes of winning the trophy.

Just like you did mentioned Manchester city has learnt their lessons and have gotten to the point where they are now much better than they used to be and even more formidable than other teams across Europe, if PSG is focused now on building the current players they have they will make a good team in no time, they have a very good coach already so they don't even have problem with the quality of coach or their team, the problem now lays with their tactical form and their ability to possessing a good team work mentality amongst team members .

Exactly Manchester City can't win the Chmapinos League these sessions again because they lose form, they are not good enough this time because some of their players who played Chmapinos last are no longer in the club, but anything can happen. In my opinion, Real Madrid are the specific club to win the trophy this time, but Manchester City can challenge Real Madrid if they join forces because Real Madrid are lacking strikers and he can affect them because Guadiola is a I believe Madrid will win the La Liga trophy this season since they are in terrific health, and I don't think Girona can top the league any longer because  they draw against Almeria and Real Madrid next match will be against Almeria and I am very sure Madrid will defeat them and give Girona gaps in the league expect Madrid play weak game but I don't think Madrid will lose any point in the league now.