Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 971. (Read 141760 times)

Bayindir suffered hip and back injuries last season. Because of the above problems and the damage in April, Bayindir had to sit out until June. It is understandable that Man Utd is concerned about this goalkeeper's health. It is unlikely that Bayindir will have a starting spot when Man Utd meets Galatasaray. Ten Hag should give him a chance to compete if he's healthy. This could help Onana stabilize her mind and play better. And compete for them to grow.

Galatasaray's quality is not only due to possessing excellent names like Zaha, Icardi, or Mertens, but they also play cohesively and with great determination. The match against Galatasaray is crucial for Man Utd. They are currently ranked bottom of Group A with no points.

Why would any one try to compare Arsenal with Manchester United at the moment in time. That's like comparing an Iroko with another flowering plant. What I'm saying in simple terms is that, Arsenal has a way better performance than the Manchester United. I will begin this evaluation with the last match both team had together not quite long, where Arsenal scored Manchester United three goals ahead of the one goal scored by Man U on the beginning of last month. Similarly, Manchester United ar 10th in the EPL table as Arsenal battles for the first position of the Premier league at 3rd position. Thirdly, since the beginning of this season, Arsenal have 5 wins, 2 draws and Zeno losses but on the other side, Manchester United has only 3 wins, Zero draws and four losses? Ten Hag really needs to seat up and go back to his drawing board.


Any one who has been keenly following up with the situations could easily draw into same conclusion before the match started. PSG has gradually become a One Man Squad, meaning Kylian Mbappe and others. This singular act has made the club unattractive to players out there. You can't compare a rising effort and an ambitious Newcastle to a weak PSG. Newcastle is so hopeful this year and I'm sure they will strive to do more after breaking yet another long time record of the team scoring in the UCL since 2003. I expect the Newcastle club to be stronger to win more subsequent matches after they thrashed PSG. Since PSG is a strong force in the table that they should ordinarily be scared of. Now reverse will be the case.

Regarding the game between Barcelona and Porto, we know Barcelona won the game with a 1-0 result against Porto most of the Porto fans think the referee was not making good decisions because they wanted a penalty kick on Taremi against Konde also they scored a goal and this goal was not accepted by the VAR.
On the other side of the story, João Cancelo, a palyer from Barcelona is also unhappy because of the referee and he thinks the referee used a yellow card more than he should have against Barcelona.

Altay Bayindir has been known as a promising goalkeeper for a long time. However he started to make simple mistakes at Fenerbahce and this went on for some time until leaving the team. But I don't also believe he is a bad goalkeeper in fact. He must have lost his concentration in the recent times which must have led to that result.

While Onana is making mistakes quite often Altay might be really given a chance by Erik ten Hag soon. They don't have anything to lose about this topic. If not much thing changes then they have nothing to do other than waiting for one of their goalkeepers to improve or signing a new goalkeeper.

Among all the four teams that are currently leading their Groups with 6 points I consider City to be the strongest contenders for the trophy, the are the title defenders and are performing brilliantly even without one of their star player Kelvin Debruyne that contributed majorly to their success in winning the trophy last season, I won't be suprised if City reach the finals again or even with it this season.

 However Realmadrid and Barcelona are very serious this year in the Champions league and I believe both teams would go far especially Realmadrid that are looking to win back the Champions League trophy after an embarrassing disqualification  last season by City, I'm not very sure about Bayern Munich their squad looks okay and they're doing fine in their group but I'm not quite sure if they're strong enough to reach the finals or semi's.

Onana has been criticized for weeks for his performance. Altay Bayindir is a good goalkeeper. Erik ten Hag should give him a chance. Altay Bayindir can perform better than Onana these days.

Galatasaray are becoming a better team day by day. After 3 weeks I have no doubt that we will see a better Galatasaray in the match against Bayern Munich. It's easy to say that already. I wish we had won against Copenhagen, then I would have been braver about our chances of qualifying for the next round.

You're right. Man City, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Barcelona got full points. They won all the early matches in the group stage. However, it is still too early that we assume these teams to win the UCL title although they are the most strongest teams in UCL this season. There will be always a chance for a surprise in UCL. TBH, I still expect that there will be some clubs to give a surprise. It will make UCL competition this season to be more interesting.

Regarding Dortmund and Man United, it is difficult for them to qualify for the next round. I agree that they seem leaving the competition early, eliminated in the group stage.

Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona all won the first two matches. Undoubtedly, their performance was very good. I also consider Arsenal and Inter Milan as favourites. Both these teams have  the potential to qualify for the semi-finals. On the other hand, I do not trust  the performance of barcelona and Madrid. Barcelona's performance is still a bit slow. And Madrid's performance depends on their middle order. If Kross, Modric or Bellingham get injured in the middle order, I think Madrid's performance will deteriorate.

Bayern Munich and Manchester City have the perfect squad to win this year's Champions League title. These two teams are very strong this season. They also have enough talented players in their squad.

From what we've been able to see this season in the UEFA Champions League competition, it's very clear that the four teams that have won their first two matches of the UCL competition are surely the favourites to win the competition this season.
Manchester City though haven't been at their best since the start of the season in terms of convincingly winning games like they were doing last season but they've been able to win their matches. Some of the club's first team players who were out injured are back to the squad which will further strengthen their performance

There must be disappointment between the two, because after all, their target is to get more points. Currently, what's more, they are in 3rd and 4th place, so they really have to fight even harder. But indeed, the competition in group F is really the toughest compared to the other groups. So this won't be easy.
Because maybe at that time Rafael Leão actually really hoped to be ahead of Dortmund, because maybe at this time, he felt that Dortmund was the most likely to be beaten. But apparently not, some of the opportunities they had to score goals were lost and could not be optimized. Therefore, this will be an even tougher struggle in the future. Moreover, later they have to meet PSG, which will not be easy for them.

By the end of the second round in this group stage of Champions League, there is only four teams that got 6 points: Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Real Madrid. These teams are serious contenders for the title this year especially Manchester City then comes the others.
There is also unsuccessful teams like Manchester United and Dortmund in the bottom of the tables of their groups.. I think they will leave the competition at this stage, maybe it isn't a bad thing for them this season.

The match between AC Milan and Dortmund ended with 0-0 result and they got one point from this match but Rafael Leão, the palyer of AC Milan seems very unhappy about this. After the match against Dortmund, he said just like in the game against Newcastle they could make enough opportunities in this game but they could score a goal and this result was not good for them.

However, when it comes to the strength of the squad and the experience of both of them, PSG is truly superior in several ways compared to Newcastle. However, it turned out that until the end, PSG couldn't add any goals at all, while on the contrary, Newcastle was able to add 1 more goal.
Score 4 - 1 for Newcastle's victory over PSG was a very impressive result for Newcastle, as well as a result that really hit PSG. I don't know whether Newcastle will have the same opportunity to slaughter PSG again or not in the next match, but for now, they are really celebrating.

My target, Madrid drew but they finally won and I'm happy. Anceloti did not choose the Young midfielder to be his player. Bellingham established himself as Madrid's best player. Hopefully he doesn't get tired and get injured until the end of the season. Because it will make Madrid difficult. At the moment I am waiting for Guler's debut, because it seems that if he plays Madrid will be even stronger.

In a sincerity, I was stunned that Newcastle united could win their match. The team is indeed full of surprises. Along with other English teams like Arsenal, Manchester city who are participating in the UCL, I think Newcastle united is the most underrated team and they have alot to prove, but first they get to qualify from their group as it stands.
PSG also surprised me. I would like to think that these first matches was just to test the opponents strength and strategy. The return match would determine the better sides.

Before start of this event mostly were calling this group as death but after first two games we are having surprising results as weakest side is at the top and others are struggling badly and after end of first half most chances we will have Newcastle United at the top and others will be suffered badly specially Dortmund is having no chance for going at the better spot because their next game is at the St James Park where Newcastle United will try to keep their unbeaten record and have three points as well.

Milan and PSG are currently in same boat specially PSG is having bad time with conceding four goals mean things are going into negative and need more than their current performance for having better result and AC Milan is having good defensive games, and they can steal good points at home against Dortmund and PSG which will be positive for them.

It will be a disaster if PSG fail to make it out of the group stage, but it is still very much in their hands to avoid that disaster, it is quite early for PSG to push the panic button, they are second in the group. PSG's next two games in the group is against Ac Milan, both home and away, it is after those games that we can start to give our predictions as to who'll make it out of the group, if PSG get a good result in both games, then they might be in a strong position to qualify, but if they don't, they could actually be eliminated, which would be a huge shock and a disappointment to everyone associated with PSG.

Onana's performance is really poor, his poor performance is really affecting Manchester United's performance. Onana was too hyped when he was about to be signed, but unfortunately, his performance is really poor. I just hope he will be able to improve his performance, or it’s really going to have a negative impact on Manchester United's performance. Manchester United's defense is also weak, that’s why Onana's weak performance is kind of obvious. If their defense is strong, they will be able to defend some balls that won’t get to their goalkeeper, and they will be able to cover up for Onana, so ten hag have to work on his defense and goalkeeper.

We all know that Onana's performance has been really poor since he got to Manchester United, United conceded 3 goals against Galatasaray. Everyone is blaming Onana alone, and they are not talking about Manchester United's poor defense. United’s defense is really weak, which makes it very easy for opponent teams to penetrate. United are always dominating matches, but any opportunity that their opponents have, they are always converting it into a goal because United’s defense is always easy to break.

In UCL, we should permanently erased the mindset of underestimating teams because there's basically no average team here, infact for a club to be among the best four teams in a league, it means they're very competitive and strong enough to handle tough games in UCL. Feyenoord starting the game with brilliant performance from the players but failed to balance the game till the end, not after a comeback win from Atletico Madrid who were also incredibly impacted. Diego Simeone have targets lay out for this season and he's ambitious on achieving them without within the range of time set.

Even though Feyenoord is not the favorite in this group, we know that they will give the other teams a hard time. Because they are in better form than they have ever been in the last year and they will probably finish 2nd in the group. I don't think Lazio are stronger than Feyenoord, Lazio are far from their old performance but they are an experienced team here and they managed to win with a last minute goal away from home. If Celtic had taken points from this match I would have said that maybe they could be 3rd in the group but after this time it seems difficult.