Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 7. (Read 54898 times)

While it is common sense that coaches should try to use their bench if their starters are worn out. We should also consider what the club management and even we the fas will say when such coach loses a match. You will begin to hear statements like; why did he bench Vini Junior in such an important match. Play him in his worse and he will deliver.
It is because of these sentiments that make coaches to stick with their beats. If not, real Madrid bench is as good as some top clubs starters.
The game football is a mixture of psychology and business.

The match between Liverpool and Real Madrid is not going to be easy for both teams and this can be hard to predict results between these two teams because both teams have enough good players and both need to achieve the title in this tournament. Real Madrid is known for their good performance in the Champions League and people expect to see Real Madrid beat Liverpool.
But we can't forget that Liverpool's perfect performance, they are currently at the top of the Premier League and they even had a better performance than Manchester City so far.

Even though Liverpool we don't know who will be the challenger for the CL title because all teams are currently still trying to get points in order to qualify, OK, Liverpool is sure to qualify because it will not go through the playoffs maybe other clubs will enter the round but who would have thought that other teams could also beat other big teams.
We can see after the quarterfinals or semifinals to do a scenario of which teams will qualify for the final.

Ancelotti certainly understands the depth of his squad, including the potential of his second-string players. However, due to the demands of the situation that requires him to win every match, sometimes he does not have many options to rotate players. Overall, Ancelotti has done his job well, and he has also given his players a fair chance. The tight match schedule is the main challenge at the moment, the injury factor adds to the difficulty of the situation, besides Mbappe adaptation process is not going as fast as expected, making Real Madrid look a little unstable this season.

Yes, I also agree with you that Madrid have a better bench, but the coach and the standard of the team can’t trust these young players because they will not want risking them since they don’t know if the boys will make them proud.
It is very wrong to be keeping potential players on the bench even when your team is suffering from injuries, and I am sure they will sign some world class players during the transfer window instead of given these young players chance to play.
Madrid is not good in bringing up players from scratch, they always believe in already made player who has already made name for himself, they will sign such players no matter how much because they have enough money to spend.

Real Madrid even have a very brilliant reserve team and why they are yet to effectively put that to use is another things really don't understand and do bother about sometimes, I think it will even be better if they can rest some of this bigger players awhile like they did last season and allow the reserves to play few games as the key players are stressed already, they have the stress from their club side and Still gets almost same from their country sides too when the needs arises so I believe they will get fatigue and injury prone so it will be ideal they are rested at some instance.

Even though they have a good performance, the Champions League is different from La Liga. So I don’t think they will go more than the quarter finals or semi finals because the amount of competition that is in the Champions League is not a simple challenge for them to overcome; moreover, we have been seeing Liverpool at the top of the table. But still, when we give them more time, we will see if they will have a chance to do their best this season, as they have just played 4 games since the start of the season. We will see how they will perform in the future, but no doubt I am not even classifying Barcelona as one of the teams that can win the title of the Champions League this season.

Some times the results we see in some games will make you to right off a particular team even when they are playing good football but because of the previous performance or record they had in the past we will still underrated them till they prove themselves good. Real Madrid playing against Liverpool there are chances of Real Madrid team winning the game because of their history against Liverpool but then the current squad in Liverpool is better this season and they are one of the finest teams in the competition I think they have a good chance to play against Real Madrid but I don't think it's going to be easy to take 3 points against Real Madrid when they understand what it means to them.

I agreed with you, Barcelona are absolutely doing well bit I still doubt they can still win the UCL after so many years. It's not like a curse or something rather facts that they may fall off maybe in the semi finals,  just like last season.

We saw how things went for Bayern Leverkusen and Liverpool last season, they were like the favourite for the Europa League title but sadly fell off to Atalanta in the Europa League, who came out champions. Though Barcelona is obviously not a small team and have much histories than the likes of Liverpool and Bayern Leverkusen but to be honest this is not the first time they have been dominating even in their domestic league and still fails to win the Champions League.

Even though Real Madrid usually wins this cup, this season doesn't look like it will be for them. I am not sure who will win it, I have no idea who would looks better neither, doesn't really look like there is a clear favourite, aside from Brest of course . But looking at the teams right now, we can say that we are not going to get anything major, things will not be that simple and we will not get that many great results at all, we should realize that we are going to get some difficult situations without a doubt.

Real Madrid will not be the one, not right now anyways, it is going to be some other team this season. Real just has too many injured players to win it this year, we need to realize that they are just not that good this season. Of course things could change some other time, but I am not sure if they will all recover and suddenly start playing better and do greatly, we are going to end up with a much worse situation for them this season.

This match is a tough test that Real Madrid must figure out how to overcome, but I think it would not be easy for Real Madrid to win this match because it is not always easy to beat Liverpool at Anfield. Liverpool is still leading the UEFA Champions League table, and they need to win against Real Madrid to be in a better position to reach the last 16 of the UEFA Champions League competition. In this season's Uefa Champions League competition, I don't see Real Madrid as a club that has what it takes to beat Liverpool because they failed to win against clubs that are performing below Liverpool's standard this season.

You can not actually predict what exactly is happening now because a lot of club are showing how they and their is still enough games to determine those that will cross over to the next round and everything will eventually boils down to who is going to win the champions league, and their is a lot of participants in this season's champions league and only few will be able to survive the heat  that it comes with and even Madrid is not stable to take on that challenge.

And the last the season was more challenging than this season and Madrid was able to win and their is nothing else that we can do especially when it comes to predictions. And Barcelona is not doing bad now as it is and don't be surprised that you see Barcelona win both trophies they are the only club that are doing very well this season so their chances of winning is higher.

Real Madrid has an upper hand against Liverpool despite not being in a good form. I can't rule out the possibility of Real Madrid winning a big game as they have all the chances and the reason why they lose will be if they didn't play well in that game but in a game that both teams plays their best, Real Madrid will have the best chances of winning. In the last 5 matches, Liverpool has only managed to draw one game and lost the last 4, Liverpool would want to win but I hope their desperation shouldn't make them do things wrongly and it gives Real Madrid the chances to win. Liverpool scoring first isn't going to save them too as Real Madrid are kings of comeback.

You are still saying because Real Madrid and Barcelona are top rivals. If Liverpool and Barcelona are the top best teams in the champions league competitions now, then it’s also very possible that they will also have the tendency to win the champions league when they go head to head with Liverpool in the finals. The two best teams in the competition are the both of them, so you won’t expect that they can’t do their best as a team to triumph in the competition. The two teams are keeping a lot of consistency in their games and if for any reason they happen to not be playing as expected, they will not be featured for the finals of the competition or amongst team with potentials to win the champions league competition.

In my view, Real Madrid basically has a lot of potential young players and as such, Real Madrid should be fine even if some of its key players are injured. Because after all, the purpose of Real Madrid previously brought in many young players was also to make regeneration work well. Thus, currently many of Real Madrid's key players are injured and that should allow Ancelotti to give confidence to the young players in the current Real Madrid squad. If Ancelotti is really able to maximize the potential of the young players available, then surely Real Madrid will still be able to get good results in situations like this.

If we are taking about title, I will say Barcelona have a high chance of getting the La Liga title, but the Champions League competition is very tough competition with a strong team and players that have experience. Barcelona will find it very challenging and difficult to win the Champions League; their performance is good. I can’t deny the fact,

but still, champions competition is different from La Liga. Barcelona has a tight schedule, which will Make it more difficult for them. Hansi Flick should just focus more on La Liga, where he always has a high chance of getting the title. Bug Champions League title is going to be a difficult one for them to get. 

I do not think that they are the best club in the world anymore. Last season they were better without Mbappe but the point isn't really Mbappe neither, the point is that they are having a lot of injured players and because of this we are seeing them not do that greatly.

I understand the logic behind all of this, and I can see why this could be a big issue, but that doesn't mean that we are going to benefit from knowing this, betting is still hard. I mean this is Real Madrid we are talking about, if they are losing many players then it's still not that easy to bet against them, they could still win, but because they have those injured players, they may lose too. If they were all healthy, we would just bet on them to win, but this way, it's unknown and very hard to bet.

Agree with you. Indeed, Barcelona returned to the top team after being coached by Flick, they even came back strong this season, but to get the Champions League trophy I would also doubt Barcelona's current ability. Because, a team that has just risen usually will not be able to continue to be consistent, especially since Barcelona's squad is actually still very limited. If there are several core players who are injured, their performance will decline, and it will be difficult to score goals, especially since the players are filled with many young players. I don't mean to underestimate Barcelona's young players, but looking at the tight schedule, I think Barcelona will find it difficult to reach the top.

If you are a Real Madrid fan, you should be confident in Real Madrid's revival. Instead of favoring Liverpool to win the UCL title because they have a quality squad, Real Madrid is the same. Indeed, Real Madrid currently has problems in defense and the front line is not in sync in scoring goals, but I am sure Real Madrid will rise soon.

In the Champions League, don't ignore Real Madrid, they look weak but suddenly they have reached the final and this has often happened in previous seasons. Initially, Real Madrid was not considered but they were the ones who got the UCL title. Remember, the UCL league is still very long, and Real Madrid has a different mentality when in the Champions League competition. In the next match Liverpool will face Real Madrid, so let's see later which team has the quality and mentality.

Barcelona had good players already all they needed was the right coach to manage the players properly and that is exactly what Hansi Flick did he managed the players properly and now the result are different from how they used to be but just a few good performances doesn’t guarantee a UCL trophy. I believe because they won against Bayern Munich is why you sound so confident that they could win, even if they eventually win it it will not be as easy as you think and winning just one match doesn’t guarantee winning the trophy.

Madrid fan or not i agree with you on this, Barcelona have improved quite so well and they are competing well in all competitions but the champions league is not la liga and it is not so easy to win after just recently improving your performance.

Barcelona last trophy in this competition is happened on 2015 at that time Messi still playing for this team and since that Barcelona only able to advances to the knockout phase even they have to eleminate early at Group stages several times so i think this is proven won Champion league trophy is very hard task and even Guardiola himself has been admitted this condition and i think it is too early to talking about the title because Champion league is still on League phase

Hansi Flick is experience manager and he has been able to gets Champion league trophy with Bayern Munich on season 2019/2020 so maybe there is a chances for Barcelona to reach at least the final match but for strong candidates i still placed Real Madrid in the first place this because they are the most champion in this competition and for Liverpool i don't dare to expect more because they are in the transition period of changing coaches