Topic: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season - page 315. (Read 49207 times)

Barça facing manchester united present form, wouldn't be an easy task for the bluagrana. United in their best form and they're suddenly aiming to fight points with arsenal and city. Barça on the other hand are topping the laliga table with three points ahead of real madrid which is also a solid contender for the title. The both team are quite doing an impressive job in their individual league, but hopefully the clash will be witnessed by more fans. 16th Feb is the date, already kept in mind, slip booking already done with multiple goals from both teams.

The Ten Hag effect has begun to unite with Manchester United, Barcelona must be careful with the revival that Manchester United recently experienced after Ten Hag was able to mix the team together to become more solid. Manchester United had just won a big game, the victory over Manchester City sent a dangerous signal for Xavi. Manchester United could be a big obstacle for Barcelona to move on to the next round.

It's no different from Barcelona, after their failure in the Champions League, coach Xavi will make sure his team wins matches in the Europa League.
This is the right moment with Barcelona's new squad this season
Xavi's toughest challenge is dividing the team's concentration between the Laliga and Europa League competitions
They still have a big chance to win La Liga, as well as in the Europa League

Xavi has had an equally positive impact on Barcelona, so it is very difficult for me to understand which team has benefited more from the change of coach. Rashford had already been showing great performance before ten Hag but now he got more playing time and more space due to the absence of Ronaldo and this was his chance and he took it.

To some extent, these are equal teams, perhaps Barcelona has the best defense, but in general they are very equal teams and I probably still cannot give an advantage to any of them.

I've said it in many posts. if at Bayern there is Nagelsmann, at Man United there is Erik Ten Hag.

He was able to bring United in a relatively short time to compete at the top four Premier League level. although at the start of the season United did experience some problems, the fact is that Ten Hag was able to bring The Red Devils to 4th place in the Premier League. in fact, if United are able to overthrow Manchester City in this ongoing match. that way, Newcastle's ranking will be shifted by The Red Devils.

especially if this January, Ten Hag actually brought in one of the attacking midfielders. I think United will again be one of the strongest challengers in the Premier League. so, it's not an easy matter for Barcelona to overthrow United in the playoffs later. except, if Erik Ten Hag is not so ambitious to win a trophy in this competition.

I think Manchester United are experiencing the Ten Hag effect, I will clearly agree that Erik Ten Hag has impacted positively to the team with his disciplinary measures, his tactics and style of play is now proving productive which we can obviously see on the team's outstanding performance lately, the most surprising part of it for me is how well he has transformed Marcus Rashford to be more lethal in front of goal.

Frankfurt was not playing in europa league again. This time there are so many big clubs that were playing in the play off. Some clubs were also at the top of their domestic league which gives different view to the current europa league.
This time europea league looks more interesting compared with last year. there are so many changes happened with the current competition. im so glad that to see so many big clubs were clashing between one to the each other.
Sure. I think almost all of matches in the europa league is also very interesting like champion league now.

Sevilla have very bad season in La Liga but they are a big name in Europa League and they might prove it again in this season.
Roma are not too strong but they are improving and with Mourinho, they can play with relevant formations to challenge other clubs.
Bayer are big name in Germany but I don't think they have good ability to win in Europa League format.

So will we see a final match between Roma and Sevilla? I don't check they belong to different branch or a same branch so that they can meet earlier than the final match.
Seasons ago Roma tried to hire Monchi to build up long term plan for them but after two seasons, they were separated and Monchi returned to Sevilla. If two clubs meet in Europa League, it will be a return of Monchi to Roma after a few years.

By the way, I thought that in order to repeat the situation when one country sent 5 clubs to the Champions League at once (which happens infrequently) like Germany this season, the Europa League should be won by one of these clubs: Bayer, Sevilla, Roma (not a fact since Roma can get into the top 4), Union Berlin (also not a fact).
What do you think if you take this group of teams, what are their chances for the title against all the others? I think about 20 percent (mainly due to Roma).

Based on your opinion last two season winner in UEFA Europe League taken by small team and will happen in this season the winner chance not dominance by bigger team like Arsenal? I know fact about unpredictable UEFA Europe League winner last season when Eintracht Frankfurt success made new history become the champion.

Europe League participants in this season difference than last season, right now many bigger team are eliminated from Champion League and have to play at Europe League. Arsenal, Juventus, Manchester United/Barcelona and Ajax Amsterdam are bigger team will make new achievement in Europe League this season.

Even though there are many smaller teams in the Europa League the champions have still been big teams for many years. Still teams like Villarreal and Frankfurt won the title in a row in the recent two years though. This might have made people give more chance to such teams from now on. But this season looks different to me.

There are so many powerful teams that have come from the Champions League as well. It feels like this time the title winner will be one of those big teams. It is bad to see Barcelona or Manchester United saying goodbye already though but hopefully we will enjoy this matchup anyway.

Manchester united and Barcelona are tough teams and are doing well in performance,  it is hard to predict games like this because the both teams have the strength of becoming winner of the match. When two tough teams that are unpredictable meets the game is always interesting. By the end of the game the result will tell which among the both team is the strongest.  Manchester United can't afford to losein the game, Ten Hag will make sure his team wins the match.

Well to tell the truth, I think that when we show that a team like Juve is quite relevant, I know that the team has some problems, and if it's true, we all know that they have very good players, but I wouldn't say that it is either. impossible to win it, there are good teams like Barcelona, Manchester United, Roma, but I think they all have the same chances, all the teams have problems and they are not 100%, at least a couple of problems they have, this means that the teams are not totally invulnerable, each of them no matter how good they are, if they are not there to win they do not win, and that was evidenced in the World Cup in Qatar.


Exactly and as I had said before, for me both Barcelona and Manchester United are teams that I saw as equals, although there are some notable differences, like that of each technical director, Xavi is no longer such a rookie, but Ten Hag already has time in this, it is possible that many things could happen, both teams have serious problems, I see Manchester with problems that are more difficult to solve than those that Barcelona has, however, how can they, I think that Barcelona has had many more successes than Man United, so I don't know, but some of these two teams I think the one with the best chance of winning is Barcelona.

They can implement a total defensive strategy in the first leg to open up opportunities, playing openly is good enough, but having the team face Juventus will be very risky for them. At least Nantes didn't concede too many goals to see their chances in the second leg later. Yes, that's a scheme they can do so they can have a chance even though they're not the top favorites to advance to the round of 16. Because in my opinion the first leg is very crucial, especially if you concede a lot of goals.

If Nantes consider themselves unlucky to be playing against Juventus, then Juventus can consider themselves lucky to have come up against a weak opponent in this round unlike Manchester United v Barcelona. But regardless of whether they are lucky or not, I personally think that it will not be easy for Juventus to beat Nantes, because usually they will not immediately play their main squad in the starting line-up in this match.
But if indeed Juventus has a strong target to be able to win quickly, then of course with Juventus playing its main squad in the starting line up then maybe Juventus will be able to score goals quickly in the first half.

I see it differently dude...
It's a normal thing to boast about your club's capability, that's what anyone would do right? But that's never the case in a tournament like this cus -- hyping whichever club you feel like -- has nothing to do with their victory over another club,so that shouldn't be a problem.
It's never determind by a good start off, No!... Things get to change as we all know -- the consistency and uniqueness in gameplay is what keeps the trophy in the hands of the winners; that's prolly the same thing that'll happen this time for sure.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

There is definitely nothing known for now, it looks like it is going to be a close game and it looks like both teams will try their best to win and we can't really make a prediction just yet. Maybe we could give it a go and wager on one of them but we truly do not know which one is the favourites here.

There are other games where you could see they would win, like Arsenal will probably win unless something major happens but that doesn't change the fact that we are not going to end up with anything troubling, we are going to end up with something expected with Arsenal winning that one. But this game is not like that, both United and Barca look like they may win it.

Nantes should consider themselves really unlucky to face Juventus in this round already. Because Juventus are obviously among the title contenders now. It is true that they have been dealing with injuries for a long time. But all of the important injured players are expected to return before the end of the month. If we don't see any surprise Juventus would be ready against Nantes with their full lineup. In that case Nantes' job is going to be very difficult. They are already one of the aimless teams in the Ligue 1 so they want to do their best in the Europa League.

They don't have anything to lose so Juventus should just be careful with their defense. I don't think they will face any difficulty in scoring goals against them.

Yes it is too early to predict this year's winner, it is natural for every club fans to always say that their club will be the winner of the season because everybody wants to be happy and celebrate victories.

This big clubs are making the league to be interesting and unpredictable to know who will be lifting up the trophy. Barca, MU, Arsenal, Juve are strong clubs and I don't think any of them will want to be left out in the race to the finals but those smaller clubs can also surprise us in the league.

We never found out. because after all, the fact is that the playoffs haven't started yet and there is still a time lag for all teams to prepare for that match. so, not a single team has been confirmed to qualify for the next round phase. be it Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Juventus, Ajax, As Roma, As Monaco. even so, they are the team that is the favorite and have the chance to qualify for the next round. What's more, Arsenal are already waiting for which team will be their opponent. Arsenal, Man United, Barcelona, ​​Juventus, As Roma, are eligible to be candidates in this competition. it's just that, we never know whether the underdog team will surprise and win the trophy.

But for sure, only two teams have clearly stated that they are targeting the Europa League trophy namely, Arsenal and Barcelona. whether they can afford it or not, we'll see later whether they can be consistent until the final round of the Europa League, let's wait.