Topic: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season - page 354. (Read 49231 times)

I can't believe in Barcelona completely after seeing their performances against big clubs. They have had really unsatisfying results in those games. This was even the main reason why they couldn't qualify from their Champions League group. Xavi's priority should be to fix this first. Because they don't have any other issue than this actually to be successful in multiple tournaments.

Manchester United are just as usual. They are still not a very consistent team. They are dealing with big issues about having comfortable wins. Because their attackers are not having a great time. If this scenario continues they are likely to stay as the underdog. I still see Barcelona one step ahead as long as they deal with their main issue.

I would guess that they can add any new players they want if we are talking about just financially, but that doesn't mean that it will help them all that much quickly. It is not a one season thing where you get someone in the middle of the season and suddenly become champions. Even Liverpool can't do that and they already have a good roster.

It is more about the fact that we are not seeing anyone really do anything big in the end with just one big name coming at the half of the season. However, they could give it a try, like get the player and give them time, but if it doesn't work then do not push it too much neither, just stick to what they already have.

Barcelona has a problem when dealing with the big European teams and we saw that in the Champions League preliminary rounds. But they will definitely evaluate why they can't compete with other European teams at the moment. Xavi Hernandez has had a very long preparation time, so we shouldn't look back at what they did in the Champions League when they were beaten 2 times by Bayern Munich and only got a draw against Inter Milan in the second leg.
Manchester United are also in the same situation as Barcelona, I even think they are no better than what Barcelona is doing. We will see the proof of these two teams in the play-off round.

Arsenal have bigger opportunity to win European League tittle in this season with consistency performance in domestic league and lead to 16 round at Europe League as managed group standing. I can't remember with Arsenal achievement in European competition except lead to final round in Champion League but beaten by Barcelona.

If can continue with consistency performance, I believe with Arsenal opportunity in this season with  Europe League become their first achievement in European tournament after longer time missing with any trophies yet. Next round in Europe League, Arsenal still waiting for until play off round matches result for drawing which one team opponent.

Arsenal is playing team football and that is why I believe them to continue doing well in the English Premier League and if possible to lift the EPL title 
Where I am having doubt is in terms of injuries. I was fearful that if anyone among Metilini, Jesus and Saka is injured, the attacking flow will be spoil.
I have heard that Gabriel Jesus is injured and will miss some Arsenal matches

There is one thing you forget, Barcelona had some problems after the international break. unmitigated, 6 of their 3 players received serious injuries so that Xavi could not maximize his players. especially the players who are the team's needs during the crucial matches they face. the absence of Ronald Aroujo, Konde, Andreas Christense, made Xavi have to play his veteran players who incidentally did not play properly, they played very underperformed. in the end, Barcelona is weak in defense.

Depay's injury also cost Barcelona, ​​even though he rarely played. at least, it can be an option when Barcelona's front lines are at a stalemate to score goals. Finally, Xavi's strategy hasn't changed much, which means it's easy for the opponent to read the flow of Barcelona's patterns.

In essence, Barcelona still has a number of problems that Xavi must fix to deal with when the league has been rolled out again, as well as preparing his troops for the Europa League playoff matches. if Xavi has found every weakness of his strategy that he always applies, and he is able to fix it. I am quite optimistic, Barcelona is a formidable challenger in the Europa League competition. Even though I prefer The Gunner's young squad, Barcelona is also a pretty tough opponent.

As Arsenal have started the season and continued their form, they are undoubtedly the frontrunners to win the title this season. Arsenal is financially sound. I think they will try their best to win the title this season. And if necessary, they will spend money to add new talented players to the squad. Arsenal is still 5 points ahead of Manchester City. They will definitely want to maintain this gap.

There is no doubt about quality and performance of Arsenal in this season but still things are not easy for any team because now competition is increased, and we will have some tough matches in coming days with few teams are already dropped from Champions League and now looking for better end of this season even mostly peoples are feeling these teams are not going to have any good contribution into UEFA Europa Cup but still it has never been easy to win competition like this.

In this season Arsenal is doing amazing job, and we can expect improvement in coming weeks but can they keep this momentum, and we will be able to watch them as winner of the two titles because they are capable of having amazing stuff and new player's entry can bring more success with good and strong competition.

Comparison of the quality of the squad owned by Barcelona and Manchester United places Barcelona as the superior team. You can't forget one thing in football, anything can happen on the pitch. Who would have thought that Japan could humiliate Germany and Saudi Arabia could beat Argentina in the 2022 world cup, the same thing could happen to Barcelona vs Manchester United.
Barcelona has performed well in La Liga and managed to secure first place, while Manchester United could also be a team that can give Barcelona defeat if Xavi is not consistent in maintaining his team's appearance on the pitch.

Manchester United have quit well current performance in group stage this season and have the same points collected with Arsenal, I don't think what your reason about Manchester United have underperformance this season after win 5 matches and have 1 loss at group stage. I think with play off round match against with Barcelona looks unlucky moment for United because loss difference goals with Real Sociedad although last matchday success beat Sociedad at their home.

Still have possibility for Manchester United with Europe League tittle actually if can beat Barcelona in play off round begin at February 17th for first leg and second Manchester United playing home on 24th February.

Barcelona are capable of winning Manchester United and I believe they will win and move to the next round.When I take a look at Barcelona and the player they have in there,comparing them to the ones at Manchester United,I can say Barca have that quality to win and qualify to the next round, because if you talk about scoring goals,we have a man like Lewandowski, who even if he is being criticised,he is delivering and scoring goals for them,but Manchester United does not have any prolific goal scorer like that,the only person that would have been available is Ronaldo,but the issues on ground won't make him part of the team anymore,so I still believe Barca can easily go past united to the next round.

I don't think so, Juventus' current problems need quite a long time to be resolved in my opinion and this is almost the same as Calciopoli in 2006 where they will face various problems as long as they are examined now.
Even though the internal problems are not the same as the players but still this is disturbing and we can make Chelsea an example when Abramovich and some of the higher ups there left and there was a massive update on Internal making them shake even to the players. It is not impossible for this to happen to Juventus.

While I consider Arsenal favorite for the Europa League title, Manchester United is not favourite for me at the moment. Manchester United will play their next match against Barcelona. If Manchester United is able to win against Barcelona, then I would say that Manchester United has the right team to win the Europa League title.
I saw Manchester United's performance in the group stage. Neither their performance nor their match strategy was good. If you perform like that, it is impossible to win the title. Their performance will inevitably improve. At the same time, the internal conflicts of the party should also be resolved

I can't be so sure about Barcelona to advance to next round even though I'm supporting them to eliminate Manchester United. The reason why is that Barcelona have played many games against big competitors in this season until now but couldn't get any win. For example, they faced Inter and Bayern Munich in their Champions League group two times each. But Barcelona were able to gain only one point in all those four games. Can you imagine how serious their condition has been in this kind of games?

It was the same for the El Clasico in the La Liga. They couldn't do much in Santiago Bernabeu and just lost the game. Lewandowski has also been disappointing the fans by having scoring problems in these games all. They need to work harder on this problem to be able to move Manchester United out of their way in the Europa League. Otherwise it might end up with another bad result for them.

I agree with you that Juventus this season cannot be said to be a strong challenger in the Europa League this season. The situation that is happening at juventus right now is very big because their board resigned in the last few days which makes this situation will affect the juventus squad because the mentality of the players will be affected by this condition. But juventus can solve this problem quickly before the league resumes after the world cup.

Arsenal and Manchester United are more likely to be teams that have the chance to reach the final point in the Europa League because the squads of these two teams seem to have pretty good formalities in the previous round. even barcelona i'm sure will have a tough road in europa league.

I would say that Barcelona should be capable of beating United, and after that, Juventus and Ajax and Roma do not really have the power to stop them, these are low ever level teams.

Juventus has recovered a bit and looking like they could beat them, but I do not think that they could really beat them, and I believe that Roma is much lower, they might have come all this far, but they do not look great at all, Ajax is the only one that scares me because even after losing half of the team, they still managed to find great young talent just like only Ajax could, and they are still doing great and unexpectedly as well so that's a shocker to me and anything could happen.

Yes, he clearly exposed them, that in the end I don't know if CR7 did them a harm or a favor? because seeing all these things the Club will not want to be left behind, they are currently seen as the Club that is less developed compared to the others, that speaks very badly, because there are players who take this type of comfort into account, and It is something that is not negotiated many times, the lack of updating in infrastructure and in more pleasant conditions is something that must be taken into account, I think that CR7 in the end what he did was good for him, very few have the courage to go out and give an interview of that caliber without flinching to tell the truth, many are afraid to tell the truth, here CR7 showed that he has them well placed.


Yes, this is undoubtedly the case, for me also the PL, the team that has the most relevance so far is Man City, however, in 2023 we have to wait for all the possible transfers, purchases and sales that are going to take place, because for now The World Cup has captured as much attention as possible, so it is very likely that the teams of various clubs already have their eyes on some players in particular who have excelled in the World Cup, I don't know, maybe they are Arabs, Japanese, Koreans, because they are the ones who They have shown a great level of recovery from games, in the end what is sought is that they are quite good in difficult situations. In the Europa League there are many games that are played by very outstanding teams, surely they have already been negotiating, for example for Manchester United, Juventus, Roma.

One of the strongest teams in the Premier League is Manchester City. Their team is very strong. Manchester City has many star players in defense, midfield and forward. Also their coach Pep Guardiola is very experienced. If Arsenal drop a few points in the Premier League then I think Manchester City will take the top spot in the table.

Most of the time if we have big teams dropped from Champions League into UEFA Europa Cup they never play with full force and try to exit which helps them for having better concentration on their domestic league for better result and having opportunity to stay in touch for next seasons Champions League spot most chances we will have same thing in this season as well and few teams like Juventus, Barcelona and Ajax will not go into this competition for good results because these all teams are having tough competition into domestic league and want better results which are more important for them with this I have feeling we will have teams like Arsenal, Manchester United and Roma which are going to be favorite for the win of this competition.

You are right, Manchester City is one of the best clubs in the Europa League. They have one of the best coaches in the club, Pep Guardiola, who is a very talented person. Manchester City has achieved a lot under his leadership and will continue to do so.