Topic: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season - page 352. (Read 49231 times)

Yes, Marcus Rashford has speed and strong pressing to put pressure on opposing players, Erik ten hag was not wrong to choose him as a temporary option to fill the striker position at Manchester United. If later Manchester United meets Barcelona it will certainly be a fun match, in my opinion both of them have a chance to win the match.


You are right, it is true that Manchester United now needs a striker to fill the attack line and that is not caused by Ronaldo's departure. So here, Erik ten hag has to really consider the players he needs, don't be like the previous coaches who were not competitive in selecting players in the transfer market.

I believe that Erik is already working on the next transfer as we discuss here, and therefore I expect at least one player out of these 3 to join the club in January: 1) Cody Gakpo 2) João Félix and 3) Memphis Depay. Also I expect Manchester United to beat Barcelona, because I don’t expect Barcelona player’s to be motivated while playing in the Europa league and lastly Xavi would like to fully focus on winning the La Liga league hence I expect Barcelona to lose and crash out of the Europa League.

Erik ten Hag does have to look for new players for Manchester United's attack line in the transfer market at the start of next year and that's not solely because of the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, but Erik ten Hag should be looking for. After all, before confirmation that Cristiano Ronaldo would leave Manchester United, he also did not play in full in every match. Which means looking for other players in Manchester United's attack line is not solely because of Ronaldo's departure, but because of the needs of the Manchester United team itself.

Well, about the Manchester United forwards I see an improvement for Marcus Rashford, it seems that under the coach of Erik ten Hag it can make Marcus Rashford's performance even better. Even so far Marcus Rashford is the only player who has scored many goals for Manchester United in all competitions, so I don't think Ronaldo's departure is a problem for Manchester United's performance.
But about whether Manchester United can be a successful team to win the Europa League title this season, I personally am still not completely sure.

Indeed, I am also quite sure that Manchester United have a chance to beat Barcelona, because Barcelona did not do very well in the Europa League considering last season. But even so, even if for example later Manchester United will qualify because they beat Barcelona, but I'm still not completely sure Manchester United will win the Europa League title.
But yes, after all Manchester United is having good progress with Erik ten Hag, it will be interesting to wait to see how far Erik ten Hag can take Manchester United in this Europa League.

He has successfully knee surgery several days ago and still struggling to recover his injured but there was no exact information regarding how long he cannot play for Arsenal that some of people says 1 month or more than it and admitted or not Jesus is the key player for Arsenal and losing him will have bad impact for Arsenal performance but there are still few months remaining before round of 16 started so maybe he will be recover before February so there is a chance for Arsenal to playing him
This season Arsenal don't have any players who can be suitable to replaced his position and i have to say there were no players who had equal quality to him for forward lines so Arteta have to find best solution to solved this issue and this is the risk why world cup is held in the middle of a regular competition because the players possibly can got injured because of tight schedules and i think other clubs might be will suffers the same consequence

There might be few who favor Manchester United to win the Europa League, but I do like the ending with them. Especially after Cristiano Ronaldo left, the Red Devils players could control the entire field more with their creativity. However, to strengthen Erik ten Hag's attack, he must think about buying a pure striker who is still young and good in the next season's transfer market, so that all the coordination of all the players can run smoothly.

Big teams are always placed as the seed in a tournament, but we cannot avoid the surprise that can happen when the seeded team is eliminated by the unseeded team. Several incidents in the World Cup have become a warning for top teams not to underestimate other teams, they must always give their best game to whoever the opponent they face.

The Barcelona vs Manchester United match will be presented at a high tempo. Barcelona strength, which is getting better, needs to be watched out for by Manchester United. Barcelona is more productive in scoring goals and their game is always consistent before the break, Manchester United must be able to maintain their form of play to balance Barcelona strength.

Let's wait to see who becomes the champions because there are tough teams in the europa league, and let's not underrate any team in the competition. There's chance that any team can qualify or be crowned european champions. Like last season when barcelona we're eliminated by Frankfurt, nobody expected that, the results came as shock to most people because during that period, barça were one of the top levelled team with excellent performance. The ball is in all the team's court, let's see the outcome of the competition.

I agree with you that one of these four teams for sure will be the winner of the tournament.

But I think as you said, the winner of Manchester United versus Barcelona might also win the tournament as well. Gabriel Jesus getting injured has been a big blow for Arsenal. I personally don't think Juventus have been as good as they used to be 2 or 3 years back.

So, I guess one of Barcelona or Manchester United might have an edge over the other two teams. But I think Barcelona have the most chance as United have been really inconsistent in terms of their game. On top of that they have even released Cristiano Ronaldo which is quite unfortunate. I think only time will tell who the champion will be.

The truth is that I had also thought the same for me the champion is between these two teams, of course this is something that we could say for now, we do not know if new players will enter or leave in January, well when the transfer window begins there are already many movements that will produce relative changes in the teams and will be quite beneficial for glunos, another team that I see that can be prepared very well will be Juve and Roma, since they are Italian teams that will have everything to come out with a good victory, I have seen improvement in these teams, they have very good players who can make a difference, I think that is the secret of everything.

For me, both teams are very deficient, they are not at the level they should be, especially Manchester United, Barcelona are known to be going through a very difficult process, where most of the blame in regards to me would be placed on Xavi, but nevertheless, I can point out that they are currently first in the League, which for me is something temporary, because teams like Real Madrid can surpass them, in the Europa League they have to do very well, it is the only option Who do they have to stand out, I see it as very difficult, at this point I would be thinking that both Barcelona and Manchester are at the same level.

First of all I should give some information about Jesus' injury. I have seen on some news sources like Jesus' return will be in early March. If this is true than it is really sad news for Arsenal.

However Arsenal have already proven how strong they can play in Jesus' absence also. Jesus couldn't score any goal after the last match he did on October 1. But Arsenal still didn't get affected by that in a negative way. They still continued to get very positive results by scoring many goals in total. They lost only once which was in a Europa League match. They won nearly all of their Premier League matches in this period of time. This is a proof for how strong they can play as a team even in this kind of situations.

Therefore I'm still seeing Arsenal as the biggest favourite here also.

Well after the jesus injury, I do agree that it would be a lot harder for Arsenal to win the tournament as well. I am not saying that it would be impossible, but it would be a bit harder than usual and it would be a bit more difficult.

I do agree that they do have a big chance, between Juventus, United, Barcelona and Arsenal, these four teams are the big clubs that could have a chance at the title but aside from them I am not sure if there are any teams that could win the title and it could be quite difficult to achieve. Long story short Arsenal is not the biggest candidate to win, whoever wins out of United vs Barcelona will be the biggest chance to win, but Arsenal is not too far from it neither.

I actually don't know much about their finances now, they are often talked about always having financial problems but their spending this season is really crazy and it's not fair to say they have financial problems because of their determination.
At the moment they will prioritize free players, Azpilicueta was one that was always linked with Barcelona in the previous season but in the end he extended the contract but still did not rule out Barcelona chasing him moreover they still need a defender especially Pique has also left now.

IMO, from my point of view. Barcelona has players who are not below standard, even now they are at the top of La Liga even though they are 2 points away from their rivals. the Barcelona players fulfill the requirements, becoming one of the strong challengers in the Europa League competition. with one condition, must overthrow Manchester United in the playoffs later.  unfortunately, Barcelona still has some weaknesses and I totally understand that. because after all, currently Xavi is rebuilding Barcelona's strength. at least, it takes process and time. from the front line, Barcelona has a very dangerous striker. it's just that, their young midfielders still need high flying hours so that their skills and talents are getting honed.

On the Man United side, the pattern of strategy that Ten Hag put into practice has gone according to the plot. it's just that, the Red Devils do not have a sharp pure striker. Rumor has it that in January several names will be brought to Old Trafford.  thus, Manchester United cannot be underestimated. the schedule for the match between Manchester vs Barcelona still has a long gap, at least the two coaches will prepare their respective troops.

No man, if you were saying like that and it's pretty much the same like what already bought by barcelona were bad. The fact that lewandowski has become top scorer in la liga but the problem is on the team itself. In term of head to head and barcelona is winning a lot compared with MU but the problem is EPL club can give you surprise anytime. Barcelona can lose against it like when it was lose against frankfurt last year in the europa league. Barcelona needs to find some more quality players but this club didn't have any money left. That's why free transfer player the only choice that can be taken by barcelona as a way to save the money from buying some players with lots of money again. MU will be also coming with the new squads as it will be buying lots of players in january

Given the competitive competition in the Premier League, they still need to strengthen the squad they currently have. Also they definitely want trophies here, so it's only fitting that they spend some money to sign some quality new players. We are still waiting for their opponents in the Europa League at this time, and of the several names that are there, Arsenal are one of the favorites to win the title this season. The compactness and teamwork they showed made them have the upper hand to win the title.

@Oneandpure, I think I disagree with you on the point that Arsenal will be the winner of the tournament. Personally, I think that Barcelona is a better team than both them and United.

Manchester United have not been playing very well football this season, and on top of that, they had that Cristiano Ronaldo controversy as he was released from the team.
Compared to that, Barcelona have Robert Lewandowski, who will be a key weapon for them during this tournament, whereas Arsenal/United lack such a player.

We all know how deadly Lewandowski can be in front of the goal. We have seen him score hundreds of goals for Bayern Munich and also score tons of goals for Barcelona this season.
So far he has scored 13 goals in 14 matches for them in the league, which is a pretty stellar stat.

I think Barcelona will win the match against Manchester United and progress to win the tournament.

Well this is also a panorama under which many more scenarios can be generated, it is obvious that now we can speculate a lot, I say about Real Madrid because I am quite realistic, for now Barcelona is doing well and there is nothing that can stop them, yes, but when we refer to a League where anything or any result can result, when Real Madrid presses to leave the other teams behind, it does so without thinking, so at this moment Xavi is a coach who is not bad, but if he still has a lot to learn, and I think that even if he has very good players and one in particular like Lewa, maintaining the level is not easy at all.


Xavi's problem is going to look much bigger for now in this January 2023 when he finds out that he cannot integrate another player into his team because he knows that the team does not have that much money, and that he has to work with the ones he has, although for me that is not a bad thing, only now it is what I can speculate, in any case, I have to wait, I don't know if Barceloa's plans are to sell some players so that they have sufficient capitalization, the economic problems are something that He stopped this team from everything, and one of Barcelona's mistakes was that Xavi chose everything, and each one of the managers trusted him and it hasn't given results, for me it's a pity, because Barcelona is one of the best teams they have in the League.

‘I think Xavi understood’ - Azpilicueta discloses how he rejected Barcelona




Source: https://www.barcablaugranes.com/2022/12/5/23494474/i-think-xavi-understood-azpilicueta-discloses-how-he-rejected-barcelona

Agreed, at least this also happens in the Champions League but yes, basically Premier League teams have better represented teams. Because when compared to representative teams from other leagues, at least they may only have one or two teams that will be considered to go further, such as for example Real Madrid and Barcelona, then Bayern Munich and also PSG.
Unlike the teams from the Premiere League, at least they have better and stronger teams, but for some reason it is always difficult for English Premiere League teams to win titles in the European arena.

Indeed, if we examine further at least there is still a team from La Liga that is very good in competition in the Europa League and that is Sevilla.
But unfortunately, Sevilla this season is a very chaotic team so this season's title race for the Europa League I think it will be a competition of teams from the Premier League and also teams from Serie A. But maybe also teams from the Bundesliga, because I thought they would probably be an opponent not to be underestimated at all.

Manchester United is surely struggling with on and off the field issues specially now situation is not clear after Cristiano Ronaldo statement but most chances they will settle and having improved performance after this break because now Ten Haq is doing amazing job, and he can handle this all in positive way which is surely going to be new era for the Manchester United after Sir Alex Ferguson which done historic job here.

Now for the match between Barcelona vs Manchester United here we have few things which are surely needed to be done like Barcelona is doing good job in La Liga, and they want to be retained their top spot which need better concentration from them and their exit from Champions League is surely big setback, but now they are trying to recover this with the win of La Liga title in 2023 and Xavi is also working on adjustment which keeps them better in La Liga instead of Europa.