Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 671. (Read 141787 times)

This is a deserving outcome for their dismal performance. This might be the most disappointing version of Manchester United for me since I started watching football. Watching them play against Bayern at Old Trafford, I feel heartbroken for the previous generations who put in so much effort to build a strong and stable reputation for Man Utd among the fans. However, it seems that Ten Hag and his mess are destroying it all. They play vulnerably and lack the essence of a big team. Loyal fans are turning away, as evidenced by many supporters leaving before the match even ends. It's truly sad for the current state of Manchester United.
Real Madrid's record and performance in the Champions League are truly admirable, and they rightfully hold the title for the team with the most championships in this competition. Over the past few seasons, we've witnessed Real not performing well in domestic leagues, but when it comes to the Champions League, they present a different face, standing as an indomitable monument that is hard to surpass in this tournament.

I saw the game Newcastle played and lost in the EPL and I was like, ok they have a good reason for losing that game but this game against Ac Milan was so annoying to see the home side getting that goal that should have been the only lifeline they had but they couldn't defend to the last. I expected more from the EPL team (Newcastle) but they played like fatigue had gotten hold of them all.
To me I prefer the Newcastle of last season to this one we're seeing now, these set of players are not really up to the task and I don't see them coming back to compete in the UCL next season, this is the end of Newcastle playing the champions league.

Yeah this season Sevilla played poorly in all competitions including  in the Champions League even of all the participants in the Champions League, Sevilla is the second worst team based on points and total goals they only collected 2 points and -5 goals even though they were in a normal group, there is only Arsenal as the main competitor while the other 2 teams are still under Sevilla base on level but that's the fact that Sevilla must be eliminated this season and now La Liga leaves 4 teams in the Champions League. Sevilla like Manchester United, ended the competition at the bottom of the group and they are not eligible to go to the Europa League only the team that finishes in 3rd place can take a place there unfortunately they finished in 4th place. Manchester united, Sevilla and Newcastle have been knocked out early even though they were usually reliable in the past, the elimination of Newcastle and Manchester United now leaves only 2 teams from the Premier League in this Champions League meaning the EPL dominance has ended and replaced by a team from La Liga who sent 4 teams.

It look as if Newcastle has taken the slot at the end of first half. I never expected AC Milan can come from behind to take the slot from them.

It has been a disappointing Champions League season for Newcastle United. If I remember correctly, they collected 4 points in their first two games and in one of them they scored 4 goals against PSG. I thought they would qualify for the next round and I'm sure most Newcastle United fans thought so too. However, at the end of the day they finished last in the group. We can say that they are inexperienced in the Champions League compared to their rivals. I'm sure they will be more careful when they come back here in a few seasons. Maybe they can also come here with a better squad.

Well, that could be a reversal from what they did this season. In fact, I think Inter Milan is stronger this season and they will learn from last season defeat to improve this season. The champion candidates are still held by strong teams from various leagues such as Bayern munich, Real Madrid or Manchester City and also Inter Milan. That way there is still hope because there is still a long way to go and each team must be able to perform better than what they did in the group phase.

Even for Barcelona, ​​they cannot be considered weak because this season they have several players who are quite experienced and have previously succeeded in winning titles, such as Gundogan, who are ready to help Barcelona go further. I find it difficult to guess which team is the strongest compared to the other teams because all the teams are strong and they will compete strongly to beat their opponents.

I am quite disappointed in Newcastle United; for failing to take advantage, do the needful at home to AC MIlan that would enable them qualify for European places. Kudos for AC Milan for triumphing and getting atleast europa league spot.

Now the next round is here, who are you tipping for success?

Lol,,, something that makes the bundesliga a boring watch sometimes, no offense to the Germans here but, it’s often less intense when you can almost with all certainty predict who would win the league (Bayern) through every season and most games. Although, we’ve had some really challenging teams like Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund and a few others but, the Bayern dominance is just much.
So yeah, based on that, I get your point. I didn’t really view the Sevilla game though but,

Antwerp 3:2 Barcelona, that was fired up. Antwerp so much wanted to show the home fans that they could do it, their defense was tightly coordinated and proved very difficult to penetrate. I did feel Zavi was confused judging by the many substitutes he made just to search for that but of luck but, luck ran out on them with that plus minutes goal and Antwerp got all 3points of the game. It was just a well deserved win for the home side.

That this that i do like from dortmund is the club alwasy tried to learn from the past mistake unlike newcastle which is playing so garbage af against its opponent. Look at how newcstle consistently losing in UCL. UCL is still far from being called as a worthy club to compete for the UCL title. Howe needs to be sacked and club needs to be revamped as well. No reason to use the current squad to compete for the next UCL once newcastle will be able to qualify for UCL again.

Milan goes down to the europa league and it was also offering milan an opportunity to qualify for UCL as long as it will be winning the trophy. There are so many matches happened but people keep try to put its focusses on the matches in the group F.
Finally, the drama in the group F is already over and newcastle was going out from the UCL. Acmilan was performing the worst but it can still have another chance to play in europa league which is not bad enough.

Newcastle needs to learn from the past mistke. It never gets any improvement even sinve newcastle played draw against acmilan in the first leg.

Another great news is that Sevilla is out, and I do not mean europa out, I mean out out, like fourth place out. Why is that great? I am not one to hate Sevilla, they are a cute team and they keep winning europa so they are a successful team as well, but at the same time I am sick and tired of them winning it, I like to see other teams try. Surely we all are aware that Liverpool is miles better, but for some reason, Sevilla manages to beat whoever they face, doesn't matter how big or small, not every year of course but they are always a danger. With them out, that means other teams could try to beat each other fair and square and it wouldn't be a boring season of Sevilla just getting another one.

It's true that PSG were luckier today and they qualified for the next stage because they had a better goal record, and to be honest, Newcastle disappointed us a bit because initially we thought Newcastle could win this match but unfortunately Milan was able to make a comeback in the second half. As you said, Milan does have better experience in competitions like this therefore it is difficult to beat them in any situation. In group H, Porto also managed to qualify for the next round through a fierce match, total 8 goals were scored in this match and Porto can take advantage of the opportunity to play at home.

Things were going very well at Newcastle. After taking the lead, they found many positions but could not capitalize on them. It was as if Milan's mind was on the other match and was shaping its game with the news coming from there. As someone who loves Milan's squad, I love Milan's quick counter attacks. This is how they showed their difference in this match. Newcastle's failure to score the second goal encouraged Milan and they found many positions with quick counter attacks. Coming from 1-0 down and winning the match 2-1 is a great achievement and Milan did it.

PSG and Dortmund managed to get out of the group. If Dortmund could beat PSG, very difficult times awaited PSG, but PSG managed to finish the match in a draw.

Serie A shown some signals of their return in Europe since the past season with three clubs joined three final matches from Champions League to Europa League and Conference League. This season can be their continuation of this but we will have to wait for clubs from Serie A in Europa League and Conference League.

La Liga, no doubt that they are a very strong league and with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, they are strong enough to move next. Real Sociedad did their matches well in group E too. Together they made an excellent group stage in Champions League for La Liga club. When going further, Socidedad might have more problems with their lack of experience in Champions League but I believe other three clubs can play well.

Manchester United and Newcastle United ended their group at a fourth position and they even will have to completely return to Premier League, no Europa League to play after Champions League. The ending of Newcastle United was expected because it is a first time they play in Champions League after many years and their group is toughest one in this season. However the performance of Newcastle United is very impressive and they create a lot of challenge to PSG, AC Milan and Dortmund.

Oppositely with Newcastle United, the performance of Manchester United is very terrible and unexpected when their group starts. Because in theory, they are stronger than both Galatasaray and Copenhagen but at the group ending, they ended with a bottom position, under those clubs.

The game has ended and complaining about VAR will not change the result. PSG is more goals than acmilan and that makes sense PSG to go to the knock out stage. Acmilan goes down to the europa league to compete with liverpool and leverkusen.
newcastle has become a new EPL club that is going to leave from the UCL after it was placed at the bottom like manchester united. It's very good to hear that the news if

Newcastle is just adding the bad record of EPL team in the UCL after manchester united has been also recording the worst result in the UCL. These EPL clubs are the worst and im not even counting at arsenal caused by it will have same fate like MU and newcastle.
Im still trusting manchester city as the winner last season, i expect city can win the competition again once de bruyne will able to come back again as a player.

MU and newcastle are trash right now. These clubs are not consistent.

I think that's just your assumption because if you look at last season Serie A had 3 representatives who qualified for the last 8 but in the end they failed to win the title because Manchester City managed to beat Inter milan in the final match. So, it is not impossible that this will also happen to the Laliga teams that qualify for the next round because we will see how strongly they compete in the knockout round. However, they have greater opportunities compared to teams from other league. I will not measure the number of delegations from each league that qualify for the round of 16 because team from other league are quite strong this season, such as Bayern munich.

It's quite a shame that AC milan didn't qualify for the round of 16 because they are a team full of experience but they failed big in the Champions league this season. AC milan fans were both disappointed and happy because they were disappointed to be eliminated early and a little happy because they could join the European league. As said by other users, Ac milan will also easily lose in the European league because AC milan has been underestimated this season because of their instability in either Serie A or the Champions league.

They might get a chance to grab Europa League title at least if they could beat Liverpool whenever they meet them. I find playing in Europa League more interesting than staying second in Champions League and face very hard times with high odds of being kicked at each time. Serie A title isn't guaranteed since Inter are doing better, besides, I doubt Inter will remain in Champions League, they will be kicked and more fucusing in the scudetto.

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Manchester City struggled to get 3 points, even if they were useless for the ranking but it was interesting to turn over the stuff and see if they improved or not in real life.
Otherwise Inter, Napoli, Lazio and PSG among the others that will have hard teams to face

The teams from Laliga performed quite impressively in the Champions League where 4 representatives from Laliga were able to end the last match in the group phase as group winners such as Real Madrid who led Group C, Atletico Madrid who led Group E, Real Sociedad who led D and Barcelona who led Group H. It seems that if you look at the strength of these 4 teams, I think they will succeed in bringing the UCL title home to Laliga because they have the most representatives who have qualified for the round of 16. And maybe only Sevilla failed to advance because they weren't very strong this season.

Apart from that, of the Serie A representatives, only AC Milan failed to advance to the round of 16 because they lost in goal productivity to PSG. Of the Premier League representatives, only Arsenal and Manchester City qualified, while Manchester United and Newcastle United failed to advance to the next round. From the Bundesliga, only Union Berlin failed to advance. I think this is quite an interesting season for the defending champions, namely Manchester City, because they have opponents who are tough enough to stop them from winning the title.

What is certain is that we cannot yet confirm how they will play in the Europa League competition. Moreover, Milan must go through the playoffs first. If they manage to qualify, we'll see how they fare in the European League competition. Apart from that, I previously predicted that Newcastle would fall and be knocked out in the Champions League group phase and not enter the European League playoffs. and yeah, Eddie Howe's squad was unable to capitalize on the momentum of playing in front of their own supporters. even though, Newecastle had taken the lead first. but in fact, Milan was able to comeback and win the match. Unfortunately, they lost on goal difference to PSG.

As for PSG, it's really unlucky for me to fail in this match. Previously, I supported Luiz Enrique's squad. PSG should be able to win this match, they have many opportunities. Even in the first half, PSG played directly aggressively. Mbappe and his colleagues were unable to take advantage of every opportunity they had, even though they should have been able to maximize it well. one shot hit the post, 4 big chances. and in fact, they were only able to equalize. As a result, my prediction failed for the PSG match. Luckily, they were superior in number of goals to Milan. if not, PSG will have to be eliminated from this competition.

This group is really tough, I can see the two lucky clubs who advanced from the group stage. Dortmund tried to make sure PSG was eliminated from the Champions League after they scored in the 51 minutes of play. I thought that was it, but Warren Zaire-emery made a fantastic comeback in the last 56 minutes to equalized and draw the game, I think PSG will miss him when he gets injury. PSG finishes in second place to advance to the round of 16. Dortmund was also lucky to defeat Newcastle both at home and away, they shouldn't have qualified at this point. Another England club, Newcastle, has been eliminated from the UCL after Manchester united failing to qualified from the group stage.

The injuries to Newcastle's players are having an impact on them. I didn't think Milan will even qualify to the Europa League at all, they've been playing the worst in the group stage, which is why football is unpredictable. Samuel Chukwueze, who was substituted in the 83rd minute, scored a goal in 86th minutes that helped Ac Milan win.

Imo, The Europa league might be a blessing in disguise for Milan — they still have European football to look forward unlike Newcastle that was completely eliminated from European football and with Newcastle's recent results in the UCL, we can't say for sure that they'd be able to earn an Europa league spot at the very least when the season comes to an end. For the Scudetto, there's Juventus and Milan. So yes, it's a win-win situation for Milan.