Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 628. (Read 141787 times)

True, coaching is not an easy job, because they have to think not only in terms of players, but also they have a responsibility for the future with the club itself. But it is also a risk if the coach is the first person to be blamed when the club he leads cannot play well, even though it may not be entirely their fault.
Many coaches fail at one club, but succeed with another. Management support will also be crucial for them, but management should not interfere in terms of player recruitment and strategy, because that will also be very influential. Many clubs fail because management interferes in the affairs of the coach and again the first person who will be blamed is certainly the coach himself.

PSG performance has improved much more than since the start of the season, but they need to be even more solid in the Champions League because the competition in the future will be even tougher. The opponents they face in the round of 16 are slightly weaker than PSG's squad, but Luis Enrique should not underestimate Sociedad because their ambitions are very big this season.
The Champions League always provides unexpected surprises, PSG, who have qualified for the round of 16 with great difficulty, need to play more solidly to reach the quarter-finals. After that I can't say much more about PSG if they make it through to the quarter-finals because the fewer clubs that survive the smaller their chances.

A club and squad with Pep Guardiola shouldn't be underated, he's done it before, he could still do it again. I always want to see amd observe how he thinks. With Rodri currently out Injured, I'd love to see who he deploys to play as a single pivot for Manchester City. Though, I believe he'll be definitely back before their first round of sixteen game  come February.

I'd love to see who Bayern Munich brings into the squad during the transfer window before I can say they'll end up as winners of the Champions League. They have a good goalscorer ( Harry Kane ) but, they need the upgrades in midfied.

Real Madrid remains my favorite even without a central forward. They're capable of running causing damages to any club with or without them very best players.

In my opinion, Real Sociedad should be appreciated for having a pretty good mentality even though they are not used to being in the UCL, but Real Sociedad can actually dominate Group D which is filled with experienced teams in the UCL. So PSG please be careful and not consider Real Sociedad escape as mere luck. I see that there is a kind of big motivation from the Real Sociedad players who don't want to fall early, in the Domestic League they appear inconsistent but in the UCL they are very good without losing.

I agree with you regarding Barcelona, the main problem is only financial while in terms of players we clearly know that it is filled with quality players Lewnadowski, De Jong, Pedri, Ferran Torres, Gundogan, Raphinha, Felix, Cancelo including goalkeeper Terstegen. There is nothing lacking in terms of squad depth, but when faced with financial conditions, the players feel that their future is not so secure, which affects their performance on the field. Every football player certainly needs financial guarantees because they don't play for free for the club.

PSG are a good side but they've not really been so good as one would expect them to be. Even their advancement was a narrow one and then they're fixed with a new coming team to the UCL who are eager and hungry to compete and still go far in the contest. PSG still got a shot though, well let's see how far they'll get this season in the UCL tournament.

Not trying to be little Sociedad but PSG has got players with UCL experiences and then judging with that they've got an upper hand but for Sociedad, even though they're newbies to the tournament, they had an intriguing record in the group stage ans so they ought to be given that respect that's deserving of them. They're still a threat. They're doing well also in the La Liga and they seem like real goal getters. All will be concluded after the first leg results in February.

Barcelona had quality players, but it has financial problem. The main point is barcelona has quality players and what's the difference? I don't even see the different from these things. In fact, barcelona is still having quality clubs and this can't be argued.
The financial trouble has come due to the management of barcelona was doing shady things. Xavi is still having quality player at this time. Xavi is still having a chance to make it happen as long as he can defend the current players.
I have heard that barcelona will be selling so many players and this is going to be another problem for barcelona. The chance owned by barcelona is pretty small to compete with some big clubs in EPL.
Im not being so skeptical with barcelona but if we are talking about the fact of barcelon is still far under some clubs like madrid or munich.

Coaching is not easy as we all think, we have different goals and also expects ourselves to become very competitive when dealing with challenges. Manchester City is an elite EPL club that's currently the best club in the world of football currently, not easy for the players and the coach to hook up City to these standards. Pep Guardiola knows what he's doing and allow him to whatever he pleases freely. He's experienced and have been in the football managerial business for years, he certainly know how to take down his opponents and win his targets.

Isn't that surprising? because PSG has been an ordinary team in the UCL for the past few seasons and it's no surprise that this season they are the same team without any significant differences. PSG will only be a quite troublesome team but will not be able to win the Champions League because their squad is only capable of completing their mission in the domestic league.

It looks like Real Sociedad could beat PSG, but only if they manage to hold PSG to a draw or can win on aggregate in the away match to PSG's headquarters. However, if that is not realized then it is clear that PSG will send Real Sociedad home in the round of 16 this season. The strengths of the two teams are quite different and PSG has something more if only to get through to the quarterfinals and that's an easy matter.

I see other considerations in this case it seems because of course there are priorities that Manchester City needs to pay attention to.
They are well aware that because the situation of the players is not too good because they are too compressed with a busy schedule, their priorities will definitely be a little different.
Indeed, until now we also know what Manchester City   EPL performance is like because in the last few matches they have not been too reliable but indeed Manchester City's priorities before must be in the Champions League so in this case im not too worried about what is happening for them especially now that some players like Haaland and KDB have now appeared and participated in training which will certainly provide an improvement for Manchester City
 performance.
Pep is quite good at utilizing situations so with the experience he has now and Manchester City  current performance i still have no doubts about Manchester City. 

Yes I am of the same opinion and when I give my guess, it is just a guess as the word says. However, I believe that PSG's dependency on Mbappe is too high and that means whenever another team is able to shut him down, PSG is in trouble. Now can they win one or two rounds in the Champions League? Definitely, and they can also win games when Mbappe doesn't score. But I am questioning whether that could work for the next seven games on the highest level against all the best teams. Maybe Dembele and Kolo Muani can improve their game with every challenge that's coming their way. I thought they would have one of the deadliest attacking lines in Europe, but they are still not there.

Even top teams with big finances are not always able to play at the highest level, recessions are a normal phenomenon and this is normal not only for the team but also for the players. Haaland showed excellent results in the previous season and set many records, do you think it’s so easy to exceed your achievements every year? Don't worry, Guardiola is a great coach and if he needs new players he will find them.

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Don't worry. Lautaro will be back in the couple weeks later along with dimarco. have you seen that how the secondary players are also performing so perfect in the match last match? im not even worrying it for serie a but UCL kinda different compared to it.
Im valuing lautaro martinez as the main weapon that was helping intermilan to threatening other big club like rela madrid and bayern munich. I can patiently wait for those important players of intermilan to recover from their injury.

The news from sempre makes me feel lautaro may take a few weeks to fully recovered from his injury, as long as he will able to play and the chance of intermilan to get into the final is quite big.
We can also aim inter to enter into the quarter final too. Intermilan has lautaro martinez as a player that was always threatening other club. Atletico madrid needs to make sure it has strong defense before the club faces acmilan next months.

Do you know how long Kevin De Bruyne have been away for Manchester City? If I'm recalling correctly, he's been out Injured since the Super Cup finals against Sevilla and during that game he didn't play for too long, no direct contact was seen from any player and someone here be saying we evil for giving our own opinions on matters. If they're not mature enough to ignore things, they should try not to become a prick.

For long term plans, I feel like they should plan ahead for a possible replacement. Check the performance of Erling Haaland, is it same as that of his first season? He has the best passes and combination from Kevin De Bruyne. He be still the leading goal scoring player but has seen a drop also struggles with his goals and contributions.

PSG's performance in the Champions League is a bit doubtful because PSG doesn't seem to have the enthusiasm to play in the Champions League, they are just trying to fight hard to qualify for the round of 16 and look like they are having difficulty getting there, but indeed PSG is in quite a tough team like Milan and Dortmund so that This made PSG have to fight hard to qualify and it was fortunate that PSG was able to qualify with only a goal difference from Milan.
Meanwhile, Real Sociedad is also in a tough group like Inter and Benfica, but Real Sociedad has not experienced a defeat at all, even though this is the first time Real Sociedad has competed in the Champions League, but this club was able to emerge as group winners even though it has the same points as Inter.

Real Sociedad's enthusiasm cannot be doubted and it looks like PSG will experience difficulties when facing Real Sociedad, but PSG experience competing in the Champions League cannot be denied but if PSG cannot achieve unexpected results, it will still be difficult for PSG to advance to the next rounds.

Yeah I agree with you that PSG is better based on abilities and experience if the opponent is Real Sociedad I think PSG can still be relied upon. Indeed, Real Sociedad cannot be underestimated especially for their good achievements in Group D compete with Inter Milan and Benfica but in my opinion both teams are at a different level PSG is more suitable when compared to Real Madrid or Barcelona. Besides that, the playing style of the two teams is also different PSG prioritizes pressure in any situation I mean when PSG has the opportunity they will continue to put pressure and that can interfere with the concentration of the opponent, except their opponents Barcelona or Madrid will be different because they have experience in that situation while Real Sociedad has not reached this stage, that is why experience is very necessary in this competition.

As you said PSG will take the opportunity in the first leg scoring and collecting goals as much as possible to be in a safe zone then in the second leg PSG will play without burden and keep pressing. As far as I know Real Sociedad is lacking in attack and pressing so if they conceded first then it would be more difficult for them conversely, if Real Sociedad scored the first goal then that will be an advantage for them because Real Sociedad has a good ability in defense it can be seen from the final results in group D Real Sociedad only conceded 2 goals.

For some reason, I also had doubts about PSG this season, they don't seem ready and their strength is only strong in Ligue 1, but not in the UCL league. Even though they are trained by a great coach like Enrique and have star players, they have not been able to show their toughness in the UCL. Just look at PSG qualifying for the round of 16 through luck only with a difference in goal difference with AC Milan.

I think Sociedad will win the match, because Real Sociedad's game is so solid in defense, very good at controlling the ball, and killing counter attacks through player Kubo.

I agree that PSG and Luis Enrique's Barcelona are not on the same playing field. With players like Xavi and Messi, that team was famous. Nevertheless, we shouldn't write off PSG too soon. Yes, especially after that defeat to Newcastle, their Champions League performance hasn't been great lately. It is somewhat unfair, though, to contrast their present performance with Enrique's Barcelona. When that was all over, Barcelona was unmatched. Certainly, Real Sociedad is a serious team, but I wouldn't place my bets on them just yet. The breadth of skill at PSG, in spite of their problems, is still capable of winning a match

Indeed, this is quite difficult to predict because Real Sociedad has quite strong strength this season and in fact it was quite surprising to many people that they managed to escape from the group as leaders of the standings and on the other hand PSG is also unstable in performance and the strength of the PSG team is not better from last season so the percentage of these two teams that can qualify from the round of 16 I think is still the same.

From the experience without doubt PSG far better than Sociedad because although PSG always be failed to gets the trophy from this competition but they always be as champion favourite for each season PSG even can reach to the final match several years ago so they are obviously more better than Sociedad but i have to says this season PSG performance a bit decline because they have to hard struggle to qualified even PSG position on league standings have to determined on the last match of group stages

In my opinion Sociedad cannot be underestimate because at group stages Sociedad performance was more better compared to PSG and Sociedad can successfully to occupy first place at the end of group stages and the recent performance from both teams is equally same because they are still unbeatable at their domestic league in the last 5 matches and for the first leg PSG will playing as a host and i am sure they will be taking initiative to playing attacking and dominate the game and if PSG can able to beat Sociedad then their journey for second leg will be more easy

There are strikers that are confident and can deliver crucial tasks for their clubs and also become saviors of their perspective clubs. I will keep repeating this, the day PSG loses Kylian Mbappe to the transfer market and another elite club secure his signature, that would be one of the great loss of player for PSG this season. I now see reasons why PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi is working extremely hard to keep the player in Parc des Princes stadium. PSG flop against the club's we expected them to beat easily but these clubs turned out to become a big challenge for Les Parisiens and they couldn't net any significant points against them, rather they loses points.