Topic: UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season - page 357. (Read 49207 times)

In this case, I quite agree with you, but judging from his current condition, it seems that Ferran still hasn't shown something that is his greatest ability at Barcelona because I really prefer to see the side where Dembele or Raphinha are when Barcelona play.
But indeed in this case Barcelona has some good things because Dembele is more priority in terms of skills especially for one on one but Raphinha is also very good in the speed he has.

Arsenal and United are not as favorites as we thought at the beginning of the tournament. This is mainly because a number of strong teams have now been added. I also see Juventus coming to an end and Barcelona is always one of the favorites in my opinion. They could probably have gone far in the Champions League as well. Barcelona only drew poorly, but they can also see that as a sporting challenge at the club. I think they have a great sense of honor there and they want to become champions by beating all the best teams. Barcelona - Arsenal would be a nice final.

If you look at the players you mentioned they are all attacking players. Barcelona are quite ok at front but the defence isn't balanced. Just an injury to Araujo and everything was shaky. This was due to the signings of Both Christensen, Marcos Alonso and Hector Bellerin. I feel this are not players of Barca standards now and more young and energetic center back is needed.


I see you have already ruled out Manchester United as you predict Barca advancing but I don't see any thing differentiating both teams.

Further more this isn't the sevila of Unai Emery so I don't see them advancing to the finals as they having a disaster of a season.

Nothing is impossible in football, but we also have to consider how likely they are to do so. Juventus is indeed in an unstable state, but when compared to Nantes it will be a very big difference. Moreover, Juventus have started to find their form, although not as perfect as when they became the defending champions in Serie A. However, today's Juventus are a much better team than their opponent, Nantes.

Nantes might get a free win maybe depending on the decision about Juventus' future. I don't know if the situation they are in now would affect only the Serie A. Maybe they wouldn't get away with only being relegated from their league. Maybe they might be out of the Europa League after that as well.

But these are all just predictions of mine. If they don't have any problem in the Europa League in that case I still don't think that they would have a decent mental to show a good performance there. Because they might be even on the verge of losing some players in January. We will all find out about these after the World Cup finishes.

I agree that it was a bad decision to let it be in November. Any nation that can't host it on July should be forever gone, that's it, you either put it on July or you don't put it there at all. It was already uncovered that they got bribes to host it in Qatar, so it is clear that they were never really deserving of a World cup at all, this isn't even a secret anymore, from writing to mails to proof, it all came out and Qatar paid bribes to Fifa people and they were even fired for it as well.

So, it was already known that it would be a terrible one, and ruin the momentum clubs had going in, and that will hurt plenty of clubs as well. Sad situation but we have to learn to live with it, it's nearly over.

I put Arsenal as the main favorite club compared to Barcelona and Juventus. Why? Because Barcelona and Juventus still have to go through the play-off round first, everything is possible, right? Especially for Barcelona because they have to deal with a club that will be difficult for them to beat Manchester United under Erik Ten Hag who is starting to show improvement. Manchester United also has the right to be the favorite status because it is one of the big clubs in the Europa League this season. Meanwhile, other clubs that were knocked out of the Champions League who will compete in the play-off round such as Ajax Amsterdam, Bayer Leverkusen, Salzburg, Sevilla, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting CP will also provide fierce competition in my opinion, although there are several clubs that are currently in a slump like Sevilla represents La Liga and Bayern Leverkusen represents the Bundesliga.

Barcelona, Juventus daArsenal have indeed performed well this season in the domestic league. But, regarding the champions, we must not forget Sevilla. In the history of this club, Sevilla is one of the teams that won the UEL title. Indeed, this is not a measure of Seville's success later. However, if the team manages to get the title, the desire to get it back can certainly increase the motivation of Sevilla players to beat the favorite top team in UEL (Barcelona or arsenal).

If may I know Raphinha scored for Brazil against which country.?
Of the two matches that Brazil has played in the group stage, Richardson scored two goals when Brazil beat Serbia and when Brazil beat Switzerland, Casemiro scored the only goal Brazil got.
Apart from Dembele and Ferran Torres, there are several other names from Barcelona players who have performed well in the world cup. Lewandowski, Gavi, De Jong, Pedri and Kounde. The improvement in the performance of Barcelona players during the world cup really helped Barcelona, which was improving its appearance after being eliminated from the Champions League.

Now they are not out of the form they are improving and having positive development which is surely good change for them but suddenly now with the off field issues they can suffer again which could be never been good for them and their future because in last few matches they were doing good job and having positive results with many players were also coming back from injuries which give them good boost and now things looking good for them in UEFA Europa Cup because here they can give good performance and having chance to be gone until last four or two spots.

Many feeling they are the strong contender for the title, but it's never been easy because we have too many big clubs also in this competition and they all looking for recovery from their poor form into Champions League, so things can be tough for these all with few teams already having good time in this event in early round.

I don't think with Arsenal and Barcelona only are the team have favorite for Europe League winner because still have Juventus back to consistency performance at last six matches, right now Europe League tittle race most competitive for winning the second competition level on European. Honestly, Arsenal have better quite appearance in this season at domestic league and European League but I doubt can consistency because next round of European League begin on February next years.

Many predicting the winner of European League between Barcelona and Arsenal but the problem right now Barcelona have against with United on play off round.

Right now soccer mean business and players are just like machines for these clubs and owners, so they are doing things which are increasing their profits and having better marketing it's simple formula working around the world even they have big pools for players but still quality is the issue for them, and they can't go with same quality and performance which is surely the biggest issues.

Covid-19 brought big changes in players clubs with now this world cup is also having trouble for the players as well because they are already having tough schedule and now world cup and UEFA Nations League is having big impact on their performance and body language but right now no one thinking about this all because they are feeling they need more money for themselves which is main point.

barcelona has excellent players you can see in this world cup they playing for example some good barcelona players:

Raphinha - excellent player for barcelona and who in this world cup scored a very beautiful goal for brazil and who is in the center of attention since he is playing in the world cup

Ousmane Dembélé - another great barcelona player who is in the spotlight at the world cup for france, you can see him when he plays for france how he is an excellent player

Ferran Torres - another great barcelona player who is also being the center of attention at the world cup when spain is playing

barcelona has a lot of good players this season, they don't need to sign more players for the team, xavi just needs to create good strategies


Arteta has been at arsenal for 3 years, he had a lot of time to study the team and create a good strategy for the team, that's why arsenal is performing well, Arteta had time to analyze which players he could put in the team and do with that the team played well, that is the difference that Arteta has with xavi, in barcelona xavi will need years to make the team strong. in the case of Arsenal, I think their main objective is to win the Premier League and they have a great chance of winning the Premier League this season, but City will be a big obstacle for them.

arsenal has a big obstacle in the europa league because arsenal challengers in the europa league are the big team teams that were knocked out of the champions league. So it's too early if we consider Arsenal as a strong candidate to win the Europa League trophy. I think barcelona, ​​juventus, ajax and roma are the teams that will disrupt arsenal performance in the europa league. indeed the quality of arsenal this season is quite good but they need to work hard in the europa league to be able to get a trophy.

on the other hand juventus is a team that is targeting the europa title after being eliminated from the champions league and barcelona also has the same hope. In fact, we will actually be entertained by the Barcelona vs Manchester United match before we look at the next round.

You have said well and I agree with some of what you contributed but how you expect them to win two different trophies with such a blunt squad is something that is not well explained to me. Arsenal can win the Premier League by chance though but the Europa League they have to show working, do you see how Frankfurt did last season they impressed bit managed to win just one with the help of the counter attacking football they play. Arsenal can not win these two trophies I do not mock them in any way however.

Actually the two championship trophies this season are very important for Arsenal. Whether it's a trophy in the Premier League or a trophy in the Europa League, because Arsenal have gone through changes and obviously have to be able to show everyone that Arsenal are a winning team in a different competition this season.

So that next season Arsenal will be even more reckoned with by their opponents and in terms of team focus or consistency towards different competitions this season, I think Arsenal understand this very well because they also don't want to run aground in the middle of the road just because of problems from player fatigue.

It is unfortunate that covid-19 has spoiled the calenders of thr World. Many things are not happening in their time anymore and this time around it is about FIFA and Qatar with their weather. There is no rest in football anymore. If not FIFA, it is European Nations league,  champions league, Europa league and even conference League that is very unnecessary. Including the local league and cups .There is no space again in football and it seems like that is how it will continue for a long time.

The consistently didn't matter a lot in this case. A surprise can come from both juventus and arsenal. Juventus was slowly moving up on italian league but the problem is appearing since there are so many juventus top officials have been resigned due to the scandal that faced by the club caused by allegations about some things happened with the financial of club. Arsenal is also strong but it's hard to say if arsenal can win against juventus easily. The draw could also happen as the result from the match.
It seems like that the current scandal happened with the club may create chaos in the club. As far as i know juventus is under investigation by the investogator. that puts players under huge pressure as if a bad thing gonna happen with club and that may affect the career from all of players in juventus

Juventus is still out of form, this is no longer acceptable. Juventus started the season very badly. But they have been able to fix their weaknesses to a large extent. Now Juventus team can not be called strong but they are quite a stable team. I say this because they have won their last 6 matches in Serie A. Winning 6 matches in a row is not easy. The Juventus coach has managed to do this. However, there are still many weaknesses in the Juventus team. Nantes is not a weak opponent in the platform of the Europa League. But if Juventus give their full effort in this match then I think they can win against Nantes.

The Europa League means a lot right now for Barcelona fans, I was on Facebook some time ago and there were some memes indicating that they were going to the Europa League, and I know there were other memes where they said they didn't want to return to the Europa League, but here there are several questions, is this Xavi's fault? because very strong games will come, just see Man United (without CR7) who could win? partly if they don't play with CR7 because of the multiple problems they would be very disarmed, and if they put in Maguire it would be a total disaster, then we could say that Barcelona could breathe a little more.


Yes, in this order of ideas, as you put it, it can be positive, obviously when you return from a World Cup, the players are very tired and the fact of having a rest in December helps them to recover a lot for their games, I think some they will return with the firm position of winning in their pending games, some will transfer to other teams and others will arrive new ones, this Europa League will be very exciting and I like that, after having a good dose of football in the World Cup, there is nothing Better than being in a rather voluptuous UCL and Europa League, there are many changes in many clubs, and some are in trouble like Juve, Man United.