Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 784. (Read 141787 times)

Erik Ten Hag's last season is enough backing, too much criticisms but it'll definitely take time before good and great things happen. He as a coach should know that he's been given too much time to turn things around. He's also been doing his best, it's just that some important players are absent and most of his plans can't work without these players.

Last season was a sexy one to an extent, Manchester United fans knew that, they didn't get enough high blood pressure like they've been getting this season. The Pre-season was clear that they'll be having a very tough season, it was difficult for some new players and old players in the club. It's said that they be suffering from the high intensity wanted by Erik Ten Hag and that broke players down. I do think that's the main issues with Jadon Sancho, taking lots of funds but can show working with his skills and pace on the pitch.

A team should never be underrated though, but Galatasaray should not be a threat to Manchester United if they had a good season from the Premier League. How well you play in the Premier League reflects on the Champions League games too.

For some reason, Milan seemed like the weak link to me from the very beginning, now they have become the weak link due to injuries, and you are right, I don't give them much of a chance. So, we have to ask who is the strongest team in Group F, so I cannot speak clearly for this.

Dortmund is first in the group with seven points and they will play against Milan, I think they will easily get points from this match, so I think Dortmund will be the most advantageous team. I cannot predict the PSG and Newcastle match at all, but I can say that it is a great match.

Learning from PSG when signing many top players they can't manage well with some of star player not playing as working team but more ego of them, PSG' manager when have many top players Christophe Galtier faced difficult how to make their teams playing well as one unity team regarding many of the show their individual skill only. PSG can't win UEFA Champion League tittle although have signed Lionel Messi and there are most danger attacking line such as Neymar and Mbappe.

Difference with Manchester City dominance by many top players but Pep Guardiola can manage well with team working and many of them not ego for priority their team mates who has bigger chance for scoring goals. In this season, PSG have secure six points left two matches if want qualify to next round and Luis Henrique have to motivate his player how most important on Champion League matches left if want get one position in 16 round.

I have heard some Manchester United fans saying Ten Hag should be sacked and i am sure this will only take a matter of time before it gets to the ears of the United board and it’s directors and if the teams doesn’t show any improvement soon and they eventually get knocked out of the champions league in the knockout stage then i think the board will also like to consider sacking him except if otherwise they still somehow believe in him and his strategy. Ten hag’s team was way better last season that i got surprised that they were able to make it to the yop 4 despite struggling for some time.

To be certain if they want to secure a spot in the next round they would need to win both matches because the three remaining teams still have the same point and they will all want to make it to the knockout as well. Winning Galatasaray away from home will be very difficult but it is not impossible as you said they just need to perform extra and better than they used to, Galatasaray is a stubborn team and they will also want to fight their way to the knockout round. And also winning Bayern will be necessary just incase of a different outcome between Copenhagen and Galatasaray in their final game but i doubt if United can pull this off, i doubt if they can win bayern munich who are one of the most in form team in Europe currently.

Ancelotti can always rack his brains in fixing and overcoming the problems experienced by Real Madrid regarding several of their recently injured players and just look, even though there are several players who are absent, they can still appear quite impressive in every match.
Moreover, Real Madrid has pretty perfect squad from the core players to the reserve players, they are great players and the UCL is still in the group phase and you can be sure they can qualify easily.
And when they have passed the group phase, there is big possibility that all the players who are undergoing recovery period can return to play for the team and fight for the UCL title or win the La Liga.

I sure they will be able to get through all this with strong ambition and show that even though there are players injured they will still perform as well as before.

Galatasaray is very good in times of performance than Manchester United because Galatasaray has made a lot of good winings on this season champions League if you check there previous meetings against other teams you will agree with me that Galatasaray is in a good form compare to Manchester United because they have made more winings than Manchester United.

And perhaps I don't think Manchester United stannce a chance against Galatasaray because if I can recal very well on there last meeting which was within October Galatasaray win Manchester United when they were playing away, so however if Galatasaray could win Manchester United away is it when they are playing from home they will not win them?

As "sacrifice" has two meanings which are intentional and unintentional I hoped that I would be clear about my words. But I should have chosen a better word for that, apologies. 

When it comes to the fact that you mentioned I really agree with that. Sometimes people indicate it like teams are just overlooking a tournament while focusing on another. I mean there is no way they would do that. Because while you have a chance to have a better achievement why would you turn down one of them?

It seems to me that Ten Hag will not have time to make up for lost time and take the team to a new level and even to the level that was before. Now there is a lack of trust in each other in the club. Maybe I’m wrong, but there are changes for the better, but not entirely significant. This is catastrophically not enough for Manchester United's victories.

But indeed, talking about Real Madrid is quite a difficult thing because after all, currently there are still a lot of their players who are recovering from injuries which of course this will have an impact on their stability even though there is indeed a benefit where now they are quite comfortable because they don't really need points because Madrid has qualified for the next phase.
It's just that the current injuries will be a nuisance and it's certain that Militao will still need a long time to rest. In addition, now Vini is also having the same problem and will not be in the squad for a few months which is certainly a nuisance.
For Milan this is worse because it could be that with the condition they lost several core players made them have to withdraw early from the Champiosn League competition.

Anything can happen in a football competition that will surprise you like what happened between Manchester city and Chelsea in the premier league that ended up draw 4-4, but it will be difficult for Arsenal to win the champion league title easily because there are many teams that are well organized to frustrate their efforts not to allow them to win the title. They have defeated many teams in this season, and draw with some small teams but Manchester city and Liverpool will not allow them to win the title but they can struggle for second position to make their fans happy. If you watch some of the tough matches Arsenal played with Chelsea and Brentford, you will know that they can end up in second position in this season , but it will be difficult for them to win the title.

Even PSG has spent billions for nothing. No doubt that if this club is still trying to take another chance again. The upcoming match against newcastle is going to be the most important match for both of clubs. Newcastle really needs three points from PSG but i think that's quite inmpossible to happen since PSG will come with full suqad while newcastle will be missing various players. I can't sure about eddie howe. Newcastle was losing against dortmund two matches in a row.

It shows newcastle is still under problem at this moment. It's caused by the club needs to put more effort against PSG away. Newcastle has no choice anymore, three points or out from the group. Tehre's no chance for newcastle to be placed at the third place.
The club may goe back again to the UCL soon. I can't even wait the most important in the group F. This is going to be another hyped game in UCL. The group F is very interesting to watch as there are some clubs have its last lives.

Ac Milan's injury cases are causing loopholes in the certainty of them progressing in the champions league, they're struggling to conquer the group stage phase and there's increasing probability that they'll be out of the contest, they're currently at a time that they'd need to put in more proactive solutions to help them out of their current predicament.

 In their domestic league as well, Ac Milan have not really been up and doing as they're known for, their matches can't even be confidently predicted because they're lagging behind, they're not currently the Ac Milan that we know, the coach himself is experienced with them therefore there's a probability that he'd rectify the default in no time but they really have to up their game if they want to progress through this season without issue, no doubt player's injury causes a backslide in the team but there has to be an alternative replacement for the absent player.

Indeed, in group F now the atmosphere is simply tense.
Milan will not have an easy game and perhaps they will be defeated by Borussia and this will be a shift to last position and perhaps they will remain penultimate in the group. A miracle is needed for Milan fans.

One of the factors that affect most team or rather club is having excessive star players because most people feel that having all the strong players in one team could boost there performance but on the contrary it doesn't work that way instead it will reduce their performance because nobody will listen to each other.

So however when PSG bought so many stars like Lionel Messi, Mbappe, Neymar, sagio Ramos and so many other good quality players with the belief that they would outperform other clubs but on the contrary they were finding it difficult to perform or wining most of there matches, and even some smaller clubs use to win them, so perhaps with that squad they have losing matches shouldn't have be an option for them, but however since some of there players like Lionel Messi and some other left, PSG was able to breathe and they are playing well more than before.

Perhaps more time is needed, but you must agree that at the end of last season Manchester United looked much better than now. The most important thing is that ten Hag understands what the problem is with such a decline and is able to correct it, because he may not have much time. What if Manchester United’s participation in the Champions League ends now at the group stage, will Ten Hagu be allowed to remain as the team’s coaches?

Manchester United can beat Galatasaray, but it will be an away game, and they will also have a chance in the match with Bayern, since for Bayern this match will not decide anything, but even in this case Bayern will be a very strong team.

At a time when the competition was very difficult in Group F, AC Milan actually had to lose an important player in their team due to injury, of course this would be quite a big loss, as we all know currently the AC Milan team is inconsistent, which means the squad in their team is not yet qualified and It is almost certain that there are no players who are ready to maintain the team's performance if player rotation occurs.

I think AC Milan's percentage of qualifying from the group is now getting smaller, the competition in Group F is very fierce with teams that have good quality such as PSG, Newcastle and Dortmund.

Several teams competing in the Champions League? That's right because Real Madrid also experienced the same thing but the conditions were different from AC Milan because Real Madrid had already ensured that they would qualify from the group phase, while AC Milan's match against Borussia Dortmund was very important because if they lost and PSG managed to win against Newcastle then it was certain that they will be eliminated from this competition and this result is worse than last season where they were able to reach the semifinals even though they were not the favorite team. Pioli is facing a difficult situation not only in the Champions League but also in Serie A but because he has been at AC Milan for a long time so he knows the characteristics of all the players well so there is a chance he can overcome this even though the doubt that AC Milan will be fine with this player's injury is very big because currently their condition is indeed declining.

PSG no longer have Messi and Neymar but they still have many star players in the club. Star players are not players above average quality but they have higher quality than that. They have a quality coach who have semi final in Euro 2020 with Spain and won Champions League, La Liga with Barcelona.

This group at start was considered as a hardest group in Champions League this season and so far that early prediction is still true. Only two match days left and all four clubs still have their own chances to take one of first two positions and stay in this tournament.

With slim point differences amongst four clubs, a win or a loss in next two matches will decide their positions in this group. PSG have to play with their best and with most carefulness if they don't want to be knocked out of Champions League at group stage after many years. If this happens, their coach Enrique will very likely lose his job as PSG's President and board members will not have enough sympathy and patience to give him more time in Paris.

It cannot be denied that there are many problems within the Man Utd club itself. For example, regarding the sale or acquisition of a majority of the club's shares, there has been no certainty or any drama related to the Glazer family. And actually what we almost forgot about in the transfer market yesterday was when Erik Ten Heg targeted many of the players the club needed. But he had to restrain his ego because the club's spending money was not as big as Ten Heg had hoped. In fact, the club's spending money at that time almost ran out just to bring in Onana. So Ten Heg had to think hard about spending the rest well. So sometimes I don't really blame Ten Heg in this case. But Ten Heg's way of coaching at the club is also worth highlighting. Because there are always players who feel they are placed in unsuitable positions in the squad. Complaints like this have become commonplace since last season.

But I will probably still hope that Man Utd can qualify from the group qualifying stage. Even though Man Utd lost at Old Trafford in their first meeting against Galatasaray. But I'm not sure Man Utd will be embarrassed again in front of Galatasaray fans. If that happens then Man Utd will really be eliminated and maybe won't even make it to the Europa League.

And perhaps Ten Heg's fate at the club will also be a question mark. Although the fault is not entirely on Ten Heg. But it usually seems like the coach is always the one to blame when the club's performance declines. Because after all, the coach is responsible for the performance of the squad being trained.

Apart from having a good coach, PSG also has players with above average quality, depending on how Luis Enrique maximizes them. Group F is the most tense group among the other groups in the Champions League because the competition between the four clubs is so balanced. It is still not certain who will qualify for the round of 16 because the four clubs still have quite a big chance in the remaining two matches. If you look at PSG's chances, it is still quite convincing to qualify because in this group they can always produce surprises beyond predictions and they are also playing important matches at home.

It depends on how they experience the match against Newcastle at home because in their first meeting they were embarrassed by Newcastle with a very painful defeat. The final match will be against Dortmund who are currently in first place in the standings and if they succeed in beating Newcastle then in the last match there will be a little more chance.