Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 880. (Read 141878 times)

Group F is certainly the most interesting in this Champions League group stage match. Almost all of them actually have the potential to qualify. Milan is showing good performance in the Ligue 1 they are not performing well in the Champions League competition. Who knows, maybe they will be able to improve their performance in the Champions League, it is really uncertain which teams are actually going to qualify. The only team that I am confident about qualifying is actually PSG and trust me I really hate saying this.

I do agree with you. The different thing when barcelona will be competing with some strong clubs like manchester city or bayern. I think that we will be seeing how good barcelona when it will be facing strong club. People are being overreacted with barcelona caused by it was only winning in the easy group like that. It must be noted that if the performance from barcelona may be going down so hard after this. Barcelona is not that good with so many young players.
The club is still lack of quality compared with some clubs that have so many great players like bayern or manchester city. Barcelona may perform so poorly when it will be facing great club.

So far I also can't see that Barcelona raises their game and is then able to compete with teams like Manchester City or Real Madrid in the next rounds. I am not sure yet how Bayern will do, but I think that Barcelona would probably lose against them as well. It is not easy to analyze their game and their weaknesses, but something is missing. I still think that betting on Lewandowksi was a mistake. He is still good enough to score difficult goals, but they need these goals on a weekly basis like Haaland is doing it for Manchester City or Bellingham for Real Madrid and now Kane for Bayern. It is going to be tough against any of these teams and these problems can already be seen in La Liga.

I think Barcelona are just lucky to be in a less competitive group, facing no threats from teams, rather they keep their high voltage in every match they play in UCL but for La Liga matches, it's definitely going to be a tough struggles for them, losing yesterday in El Clasico against Real Madrid. Barcelona will qualify in their group H because there's no entertaining actions from their opposition. I'm scared Barcelona will not do well this season, having absolutely nothing to offer but due to injured players in the main team. Xavi Hernandez will create path for his team because he's keen on achieving good points on the table.

Well, we don't know what teams will be at this stage yet, so it's hard to say, maybe there will be a relatively weak team there, and maybe the same will be true for the semi-finals? We can't say for sure yet, it just seems to me that it will be difficult for them throughout the remaining matches. Of course, they are hardly a contender to win the Champions League

Barcelona in UCL does not have a significant burden because it could be said that group H does not contain strong teams. They can easily qualify from the group phase, but in the future I think Barcelona will have difficulty making progress because Barcelona has many injured players and several players need to restore their rhythm, Barcelona cannot perform much better even in a difficult situation for the squad.

In La Liga, maybe it depends on Real Madrid's consistency. If Real Madrid cannot maintain its consistency then Barcelona has the opportunity to compete for the league championship. We know that in La Liga these two teams will definitely be chasing each other to get points, it's true that La Liga is still long but the habit looks like it will continue.

Real Madrid is really exhibiting some good level of brilliance with their performance since this week, they won their champions league game and back at their domestic league the won a strong team going from a goal down to winning the match, they are beginning to show an unmatching strength with most of the teams in the UCL this season, I think they have successfully sent across a message with their win against Barcelona.

Most teams in the UCL will now understand better that Real Madrid isn't here for a joke because if they can win a team as Barcelona in their domestic league, definitely other teams who do not match in strength are definitely not safe from Real Madrid if they eventually meet in the UCL. It wouldn't be too surprising if I see Real Madrid at the UCL finals this season Because they are in a good for and with a performance that could aswell take them there.

Too much has been said, I think Barcelona lost the first El Classico game last season and went on winning the Spanish League last season, they are not so far from Real Madrid and Girona.
Immediately injured players returns, Barcelona will definitely go back to winning ways.
They can still.go ahead to defend the league ( La Liga ) but not the Champions League, they can be seen as a threat with lots of potentials.

I agree with you man, The La Liga would be easier to retrieve, there's no difference from the squad that won last season and this season, maybe they was more determined last season.

Barcelona's performance in La Liga is not as bad as it is said, you definitely know that Barcelona has only suffered 1 defeat in 10 matches even though they are 4 points away from the current leaders. Xavi has a great chance of taking his team to the round of 16 after getting a relatively weak draw group, but everything cannot be guaranteed because the 3 teams they are playing against cannot be underestimated.

Barcelona has won 3/6 group stage matches, especially the first 3 matches. Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester City are 3 other teams that also have the same record, but on paper Barcelona is a team that tends to be weaker than the 3 teams above, but Barcelona is still a competitive team.

I think you misunderstood, it is true that Barcelona now has several young Lama Sia players who are quite competent. Some of them predicted that their careers would become one of the great players. Like Lamine Yamal, this youngest player at the age of 16 has proven his talent and potential. The difference is that even though they are currently joining the main squad, their role will not be as important as that of the more stable and established players. It is hoped that these young talents will become the next Barcelona in the next few years. so, they are a projection of Barcelona's future.

Well, you know, Xavi will still rely on his main players. both in the Champions League and La Liga. Barcelona's performance in local competitions has declined due to the absence of several key players, so Xavi has no choice but to rely on several of their young players to fill the void left by several injured players. So far, Barcelona has progressed quite well.
Even though they lost in the El Clasico match, this was due to the fact that Barca did not play with a full squad. especially De Jong, who is the key in the midfield. Up to this point, I'm sure you understand quite well.
btw, next January, Deco will bring in Victor Roque. So, Barcelona's young players will increase. However, this Brazilian player seems to be more likely to replace Lewandowski. You can be sure that Barca will be ready after January.

For the Champions League, in the three matches they played, they won smoothly. Xavi just needs to keep his team consistent, so that they qualify as winners of Group H. Well, Barcelona still has a long way to go in this competition, especially in La Liga.

Honestly they are big enough that nobody is shocked that they will be doing better and going further. It is not about if they will do good for the rest of the group stages, it is more about who they will face at the next stage and the stage after that. Let's realize that these teams are not going to all face different clubs all the time, they are going to eventually face each other, even year there is at least one team that faces another strong opponent at last sixteen and obviously at quarter finals at least one more matchup like that too.

So, it is clear that we are not going to end up with anything that would be all that shocking, we should be looking into this like it is going to end up with a bad result for at least one of the teams.

For the last five weeks in the La Liga I can say that Barcelona have lost some pace. Because they lost 7 points in these games. The last one hit them even harder as they lost in the El Clasico. Everything is fine for Barcelona in the Champions League for now. They are in a very comfortable group to finish as the leader.

However I think Xavi should focus on bringing better results in the La Liga by their upcoming games. The point gap with the leader there isn't big but they need to keep a consistent form not to experience the same thing Real Madrid did last season.

Real Madrid can easily pull away from them after some point otherwise.

And that's why I'm questioning what's the reason for saying Barcelona are doing badly in La Liga, the fact is they're now top of the table with good points too.
In the Champions League they're top of the table with perfect points and given that I'm optimistic they'll go through to the next round. But on the other hand I agree with you that the competition in the Champions League is very tight, and for now I also think the squad they have is not strong enough when compared to other clubs here. and the problem is when they have to lose players due to injury, it will add to their problems.

Barcelona success this season to win the group, because basically Barcelona is in a group that was not strong. Obviously, this factor is different from the previous two seasons, where Barcelona were in a strong group inthe previous two seasons in the Champions League. Therefore, it is natural if at this moment Barcelona will certainly qualify for the round of 16. But despite this, Barcelona does not have a good chance of advancing further, maybe Barcelona can still qualify for the quarter finals. But it looks like Barcelona still no chance of qualifying for the semifinals because, even though Barcelona has a great squad. But in fact, it is still difficult for Barcelona to win in every match and of course, this factor means that Barcelona still needs time to have a better performance in all matches and in all competitions.

I hope you do remember how Barcelona turned into flash in a twinkle of an eye during second leg in Laliga, and that was when Real Madrid start to skip wins in their matches. 4 points differences in a domestic league is too fresh to start to think they will not go far. However, the UEFA stage is excellent condition, having played 3 matches without with 3 wins is something to be happy about, I don't think they will have any problem here perhaps maybe after this point and if they are lucky the way the group stage was easy, it is going to be another inducement to further to Semi final.


Going further, Barcelona don't have any business in group stage, too real to further into group of 16, Real Madrid will go for sure even with Napoli because out of that 4 teams in their group stage, they are the only attested teams that will move out of the stage, the remaining two will go home, one to Europa while the other one will go home to rest and try again next year.

Watching Elclasico yesterday, it embossed my confidence in Real Madrid to win this season Champions League, we now have another Haaland of last year among us and that's like the only guy that is pumping Real Madrid to win this league this season, even Haaland of Manchester City doesn't comes close to what he is doing right now.

Just let xavi to proves his capability in the UCL first. It is too early to call him as the best coach in the world. I think that if we have seen that he was always failed in bringing barcelona to the quarter or semifinal. I don't put a very big expectation toward him at this moment.
People shall need to let him try to give proof if he was able changing barcelona to be even better than before. Barcelona was always strong in la liga but it was weak in the UCL. Wnning the group stage does not guarantee barcelona to go to the further stage easily.
People are always calling him as the best coach in the world which doesn't even make sense. Xavi is nothing than average coach that was helping the club to win the domestic competition.
The coach like ancellotti which can be called as the best coach as he had been winning so many trophies in various competitions. It's too early to call xavi as a world class coach.

Before yesterday's defeat in the hands and f league leaders Real Madrid, Barcelona were the only team in the Spanish top flight that was still unbeaten and I that's why I think it's totally out of proportion to think that they've been poor in the La Liga this season.
The truth is that the current Barcelona squad isn't strong enough to be considered as a serious contender for the UEFA Champions League title but for anyone to say they're currently performing bad I think is a disrespect for everything Xavi Hernandez has done with the team this season

Even some of them only need 1 more win to ensure themselves will qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League this season. They swept all their matches with a win and even the victories they got had no significant obstacles.
I know it's too early to say this, but I'm pretty sure the 4 teams you mentioned will be in the round of 16. I also know anything can happen in football, but looking at the opponents they will face, at least 2 wins is realistic for them.

Meanwhile, the competition in group F is still very tight with a very tight point difference from the 4 teams that are joined there.

Newcastle United definitely has hope, but it is going to be really hard.  Now the thing is they are on the third position and it is still very much possible for them to qualify. However the problem is the whole group is made up of really strong teams, so they will have to work  really hard to win against these teams.  I can see right now Dortmund and Newcastle United has same points, but I don't understand why Newcastle is on the third position because they have a better goal difference compared to Dortmund. But I'm sure it is going to change, so I think we don't have to worry about that too much.

They are bad in La Liga? Are you not wrong to say that?
They're in 3rd place now and is that a bad thing? Sure, they may have lost a big game yesterday, but they can't say it was because they played badly, especially since it was a very draining game and they didn't have a ful squad.
I think they are much better now, although not as good as in their heyday, but if we compare with the previous season then we will see they are much better.
There is still hope for them in the Champions League, at least they can provide competition and not fall in the group stages.