Topic: ⚽UEFA Conference League Discussion Thread -- 2022/23 | Round of 16 - page 4. (Read 8507 times)

I already made my conclusion a long time ago that Chelsea would win the Conference League. Chelsea has about 46 players in the team. This means they have 3 teams or 4 teams in one. Most of these players are as well good players even if they don't play for the first team. We can all see what the smaller teams are doing in the conference league, so we do not expect to see Cole Palmer play.

What you have said so far is nothing but the truth. Enzo Maresca would not want to see Palmer injured when he is aware of the strong games, he has in the EPL. Let's take it or leave it, Chelsea is now a title contender, and they may end up winning the league if Liverpool fails.

I'll also suggest that Fiorentina shouldn't be underestimated if they meet Chelsea in the final. They are very good at scoring goals. Whether home or away, a big team or a small team. What makes a winner is not possession of the ball but who got the highest goal in the match. Chelsea is good but in the final, he might be forced to start some important players to seal the win against Fiorentina completely. If it turns out this way.

Let's be honest, Chelsea should've been playing in the Champions League with this huge budget squad. They are too big for the Conference League. Astana's total squad value is 5 million Euro. Chelsea is about 222 times that There won't be any surprises from such a match. It's good that Maresca cares about this league. While he's focused on the Premier League, he's using the players who don't have much space in the rotation here. Chelsea already have one of the biggest squads, maybe the biggest in the whole Europe. Therefore, it's only natural for them to progress in all competitions. Chelsea have no rivals in this league. Maybe Fiorentina can push them a bit, but other than that it will be one of the easiest championships in history, barring a surprise.

Chelsea saved all of their main players for the premier league and went with youngsters in this match against Astana and still they won so easily. I was watching the first half only but it looked like they could have scored from every chance they got. Even the third or fourth squad of Chelsea is on a bigger level then Astana

Chelsea played in a -14° weather conditions today at Astana and just like you, I also thought their 100% start to the UEFA Europa Conference League was gonna be ended by the home team but surprisingly, it was the English club who first scored three goals before their hosts scored the last goal of the game. Another mystery that's very worthy of noting is that Enzo Maresca played the game with his second XI and still delivered an outstanding performance. At this moment, I don't think there's any team in the competition that can stop Chelsea from winning it this season.

Conditions were OK, it was just cold. Probably it's better to play in cold than in potato field or flooded pitch.
It's so boring that Chelsea with 2nd or 3rd squad face no competition here. It shows level of tournament...
For now it looks that only team in whole Conference league that can compete with Chelsea is Fiorentina, they also don't face difficulties so far.

I was expecting a draw or even a close match from Chelsea due to the players that Chelsea will be using and the weather conditions of the place, which I was thinking will affect Chelsea players, but the match was kind of easy for Chelsea, and they were able to secure three points in the match, which makes them to maintain the first position.
 
Even before the match started, I knew Enzo Maresca would be making use of Academy players because he already complained about where they will be traveling to and the weather condition of the place, and we all know that Chelsea will be playing against Brentford on Sunday, so I knew he won’t be traveling with the main squad. Enzo Maresca didn’t even travel with the main squad because he doesn’t want them to be tired, and it’s going to affect them against Brentford.

Chelsea are currently in their best form, performing well and consistently, where the team is unbeaten in nine consecutive matches. So, it is not surprising that Chelsea can easily win when facing Astana. Their ball dominance and attacks were shown in this match, but it is very unfortunate that they were unable to maximize every opportunity they got. Because of the approximately 20 shots directed at Astana's goal, only 12 kicks were on target and from the 12 kicks only 3 goals were scored and one of them was an own goal. so even though in this match Chelsea won with a score of 3-1, Chelsea must again improve the sharpness of their attack line, so that every opportunity they get can be utilized well.

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On the other hand, Fiorentina is currently facing Lask Linz, the match has only touched the thirties minute but it seems that Fiorentina continues to show its sharpness by leading 2-0 early over Lask Linz. The match is still long and it is likely that Fiorentina will continue to increase its advantage.

And Fiorentina is one of the strongest teams in this league, so it is quite natural that they can win so easily in this match.

I was not happy in the beginning of the game when Chelsea conceded a goal because I never expected any team to defeat Chelsea in this UEFA Conference League because no team come close to Chelsea among all the teams in that league; however, Chelsea delivers well by ending the game 1-3; they showed quality and proved to the whole world that they don’t belongs there.

Chelsea remains the top favorite team to win the UEFA Conference league, and I am expecting them to win the tournament unbeaten because I don’t think any team can defeat Chelsea in this competition.

I didn't really watch the full match cause i was kinda busy when it started but i had a strong believe that we'll win Astana, despite the lineup. A friend of mine texted to complain about resting some key players and how we could end up having our first lose but i wasn't pressured much cause i recently started developing a strong believe for our coach so I trust his decisions.

 Funny enough same friend called and was laughing when we were 2 goals ahead and I joined him to laugh cause I knew how pressured he was that our coach rested key players that would deliver the goals. Anyways I'm impressed with the coaches decision, not only because it payed off but he's created chance for lots of youngsters to have playing time and show how ready they're to make the starting 11, those key players would have enough time to rest and also train hard ahead of our next league match against Brentford at Stamford Bridge.

As you have predicted in this match Chelsea will win with a score of 3-1 over Astana. and of course this is a fairly easy match for Chelsea to win considering that Chelsea is currently so consistent in its last few matches, and even in the English league they managed to rise to second place in the standings by shifting Manchester City and Arsenal.

Chelsea is the strongest club in this league, with the dominance they continue to show in every match. In my opinion Chelsea does not deserve to be in this league, they deserve to achieve more in the UEFA Europa League or Champions League. But the less than satisfactory results last season have brought Chelsea to the European conference league. And I think the only equal opponent for Chelsea in this league is Fiorentina, but it is very unfortunate that they did not meet in this qualifying round.

Chelsea has indeed lived up to expectations as they dealt with Astana. Chelsea who were the away side didn't waste much time to open the scoring. Chelsea open the scoring in the 14 minutes of play when Nato assisted M. Guiu to score the first goal for the visiting side. Five minutes later Chelsea made it 0:2 with M. Guiu on target once again. Chelsea dominated the the game as expected, and in the 40th minutes, it was already 0:3 in favour of Chelsea, before the home side slotted in a consolation goal, to give something to their home fans. Astana only goal was scored by M. Tomasov right before the half time whistle went off. Chelsea continued their impressive performance in the second half, but the home side didn't allow Chelsea to score more goals against them. Although both teams had scoring chances in the second half, but they couldn't utilise their chances very well.The result means that Chelsea have qualified for the knockout stages without losing a single match. This is indeed a great improvement form the Chelsea side. At the start of the season nobody believed that Chelsea could achieve this feat. Congratulations to all Chelsea fans, it was indeed an assuring victory for the club.

I believe Astana is 23rd on the table. I don't watch them so I don't know how good they are, but Chelsea are leagues above them based on the league position alone. I believe using academy players is a good thing since there's no point competing with your first team in a third-tier competition anyway. Not to mention you're first on the table. Chelsea should be in the UCL or Europe League next season if nothing extraordinary happens to them.

Chelsea travel to Astana with almost half of the squad being academy boy as Enzo Maresca believes Chelsea have one of the best academy in the world and that they can face Astana. There are some senior players amongst them, the likes of Disasi, Tosin, Pedro neto, dewsbury hall and few others. Enzo meresca is resting so much player as the flight to Astana is Almost for 12hours and Chelsea will face Brentford at home on Sunday so needs his boys especially the first team players ready for that match that the reason behind him using so many academy boys in Astana.

To be honest maresca is tactically discipline and from his decision making you will see how he is trying to manage this Chelsea young squad and so far they are giving him results.

Chelsea still remain unbeaten in the Uefa conference league still maintaining a 100% record in the tournament so far so let hope this many changes in the squad doesn't spoil the record for him. He believes in the academy boys so I feel they are also up to the task. For sure it going to be a good match to watch as Astana is also a good side.

I think it is a very good strategy from the coach, cole Palmer is about the most important player in the Chelsea squad and the coach wouldn't want to expose his best player to injury especially when the match is not of utmost importance to the team, Chelsea has already booked their place in the next round and do not have anything to worry about and at such wouldn't have to field all their best players since they are now in a position to contend for the premiership title after moving up to second place on the table in the premier League.

Bump.

Tomorrow we will watch Chelsea meet FC Astana, FC Astana is currently rank 2 in their domestic league, but they're weak in Conference League. Surprisingly the odds Chelsea to win is @1.30, this match is an auto win for Chelsea.

Chelsea might able to score 3 goals I guess.

Fiorentina football team played very excellent  against Pafos football team and won the match by 3-2 goals. Kouame was the player who did first goal of the match and he did first goal at 38 minutes of the match and after that we saw second goal from the other team member which was Goldar and  he did this goal at 52 minutes and made match slightly one sided and after that Pafos team did struggle for the goal and did goal at 68 minutes and the person was Jairo and after that Fiorentina team also try to do goal and Martínez did goal at 72 minutes of the match and match was ended with 3-2 result and Fiorentina was the winner of this match.Fiorentina team has 4th position on points table and that team will try to overtake Napoli and let see what next happens.

Although Fiorentina had a defeat and they are classed sixth but I think them and Chelsea are the two serious teams that could get the title this season.
I see Warszawa, in the second place, didn't receive any goal after 4 matches which is impressive, yet I don't find them favourite regarding their results in Poland league and the quality of teams they faced. Even Betis lost against them but they aren't that top either this season.

The Conference League is really like a playground for Chelsea now. They must also be questioning what they are doing there. They didn't even want to include Palmer in the squad for the league phase not to make him more tired. I think it is a smart decision when we see how easy it has been for them after 4 matches so far.

If they don't have a draw against each other early I think Chelsea - Fiorentina is quite possible to be the name of the finale of this tournament.

Did anyone else notice there's still 3 Cypriot teams in the competition? Apple, pafos and omonoia.

For such a small country it's amazing how far these have gotten.
It's very nice that we have conference league now because such teams and such countries can get to the international stage and give their fans unique experiences.

Interestingly Cyprus had a long tradition and passion with football but being such a small island I can only guess it's probably hard to source talent. But this year they are Actually over represented somehow 😅 let's see if a Cyprus stream can get close to what okympiakos did last season.

Buddy there is everything splendid about Chelsea winning against their perceived weak opponent in that match, altleast you have admitted that the most important thing is the 3points which chelsea successfully got, come to think of it what if Chelsea had lost to this same team, though i agree with you that chelsea failed to utilized their too many opportunities to get more goals in that match but realistically their opponent got 11 shots on goal against Chelsea's 9 though all kudos to Chelsea keeper, the blues striking force was not encouraging which should be the major criticism here, although let me believe that chelsea manager took note of all the events that happened in that match to avoid the repetition of such lapses of not securing more goals despite having numerous opportunities to do so.

Yea Chelsea keeper should be giving acolade for such a good job, the keeper was actually Chelsea's Messiah in that match, he was able to make 11 saves with this analysis if he was weak may be we would have been seeing an unexpected result that may not go in the favour of Chelsea, the aggressiveness of Chelsea's opponent in the attack made me to make those earlier statements, yea Chelsea wasnt getting it right but their keeper did and the won for that fact, though they got a job to do because they might not be lucky next time.