Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 189. (Read 58988 times)

 I am not expecting any surprises in this match and if it is about recent and league match performance, Bayern Leverkusen have it more than West Ham United. What happened in the round of 16 with Qarabag will be hard to repeat itself and if it does, we all know what Bayern Leverkusen will do immediately, always having a comeback or a win that is close to the end time of the match, which has always giving them a good chance over all other teams in terms of confidence and trust in them to qualify for the next round of the competition.

Where I am expecting to see a fierce match is the match that will be coming after this round, they will either be meeting AS Roma or Milan depending on the team that gets the qualification to the semifinals. As for this their quarterfinals match, it shouldn’t stress them a lot because with all proofs, they will win this match and advance to the next round of the competition.

Liverpool,  Bayern Leverkusen and Ac Milan has good years before in this European League football,  they would try to do same yet again in the coming weeks.
I want Liverpool to win it for Kloop anyway,  he has done well for rhem after all these nine successful years.
But ad he leaves I am sure all these player will leave with him because a different pattern and coach will be brought in who may not handle them in the right sense.
Ac Milan are also striving but not securing this one would mean sack for that coach.  He has a bad season already.

Liverpool was built with an expensive squad, while Bayer Leverkusen was lucky because of the great success that Xabi Alonso made and thus, of course, basically the quality of the Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen squads is clearly different. But even so, of course we also realize that Bayer Leverkusen is still in a very extraordinary trend until now so that Bayer Leverkusen is also a team that is a candidate for the title in the Europa League this season. Indeed, there will still be difficult matches to be played and as such, of course there will always be considerations about whether Bayer Leverkusen will succeed or not to reaching the final match of the Europa League this season. Therefore, the competition that occurred this season is really very interesting and yes, this is because of the extraordinary results that Xabi Alonso managed to produce for Bayer Leverkusen.

I didn't say that this is their first appearance, understand me correctly, if you look at the area I highlighted in my write up I believe you understand the meaning of "milestone" because literally, if you check Leverkusen European competition appearances I don't think they were unbeaten till this stage they are now and the resilience and energy they've shown so far have never been witnessed in the club's European competition history before so for them to be able to maintain such form is applaudable of the coach, the team and it's management.

It is not the first time Leverkusen joined UEFA Europa League. Before this season, Leverkusen already joined it in the season of 2010–2011, 2012–2013, 2015–2016, 2018–2019, 2019–2020, 2020–2021, and 2021–22. So, Leverkusen is experienced enough in UEFA Europa League. Although they never won UCL or UEL trophy but they have enough experience in the top European football competition.

I think both Liverpool and Leverkusen won't underestimate AC Milan or AS Roma. However, AC Milan or AS Roma seems not to eliminate them even if they must play against them in the semi-final round. Liverpool and Leverkusen look very well prepared to reach the final round for this season. Moreover, Leverkusen has no problem anymore with injured players.

I think this game will be the most interesting match and for me I think Leverkusen might just edge through because of the things they know are at stake. For Liverpool it's a slot at the next round of the champions league but for Leverkusen it's two things involved which is their glorious unbeaten run and also a chance at lifting a European competition for a very long time because I believe Liverpool are by the only team that will certainly pose a threat to them.

I have doubted Leverkusen a lot in this season. But they have proved themselves again and again. So I am not going to doubt them anymore. And the performance that they have shown so far, I am pretty convinced that they might actually be able to lift the Bundesliga title, the Europa League, and the DFB Pokal as well.

I am actually a little bit confused between Milan and Roma. Because both of them are performing well right now. Yes of course Milan is ahead on the table in the Serie A. But I don't know if that is good enough evidence to say that they are going to win in other competitions as well. I think this is going to be a tight one.

Regards

Duke

It’s true that weak teams couldn’t get into the quarterfinals, here you need to respect every opponent, but Klopp understands this well, he is a coach with vast experience. Liverpool is my favorite in the EL, I don’t see who could stop them from becoming champions, even Bayer can’t do it. Although it is also not correct to say so, if some team can play well enough in defense and bring the matter to post-match penalties, then there is already a lottery.

If these teams meet, I will stick to my prediction since this thread started. If I favored Leverkusen from any team competing in this competition. If we have to compare the Liverpool and Leverkusen squads, it could be said that Liverpool is more competitive than Xavi Alonso's squad.  However, Leverkusen has a lot of fight and they do it with hard work. What's unique is that Leverkusen's game is no less interesting than Jurgen Kloop's squad. These two teams can be said to be in their best performance. The difference is, Leverkusen is in a safer condition than Liverpool. I mean, Leverkusen almost broke the title that was dominated by Bayern Munich. Meanwhile, Liverpool still has to struggle in their domestic league. The focus of Xavi Alonso's squad could be more on the Europa League, especially if they play their maximum match in the Bundesliga. while Liverpool must divide their focus on their domestic league before they are truly safe without being beaten by teams below their ranking. Moreover, the difference in points is very thin between the two competing teams. However, because it is not certain that these two teams will meet, at least these two teams must defeat their opposing team in the quarter-final match. After that, we will know whether these two teams will meet in the Europa League. although the chance of these two teams meeting is quite big. but still, as I said from the start of this thread. I favorite Liverkusen to win the Europa League. although, this is just my personal prediction. Well, let's just follow how this competition ends and determine the Europa League champion.

Indeed, Liverpool is a big, strong team too, with the experience they have had so much that makes them have a special name or nickname because their play tends to be better from match to match, and this makes Liverpool have an advantage. All teams are definitely chasing victory, of course this is due to extra training and encouragement from their own coach who certainly provides support and direction to show their best game for their own team.

However, even though Liverpool already has a lot of experience and can be called a strong team, that doesn't mean they can't lose, they can sometimes lose against other teams, even though Liverpool is facing a team that is said to be small, they can't underestimate it because Each team definitely has its own strategy to show its best game. Whichever team they face, they must remain alert, lest they let their guard down and cause the match to end in defeat.

Liverpool has good achievements in European competitions history, I am sure in this match, Liverpool can ensure a ticket to the next round. Leverkusen must pay attention to every movement of Liverpool players, because Liverpool's current performance is better than last season.

In terms of squad depth, I think Liverpool and Leverkusen will still be superior to Liverpool because even though these two teams are the teams in first place in their respective leagues, there are very clear differences in terms of squad. Because everyone can see how stressful the game is in the Premier League and the Bundesliga, so from that difference we can take a reference that the squad from Liverpool is slightly better than the squad at Leverkusen. However, the Liverpool team themselves cannot underestimate Leverkusen because they also don't know what strategy Xabi Alonso will use in the Europa League this season if the two actually meet in the Europa League Final this season.

Bayern Leverkusen may seem to be more consistent than Liverpool but you can't compare the experience of Liverpool in European competitions to that of Leverkusen and if I'm not mistaken, this is the first time Bayern Leverkusen is achieving such milestone in their history in European competitions whereas Liverpool have gotten more experience than them.

Bayern Leverkusen and Liverpool may look like the too strongest team in the Europa league currently but let's not underestimate the strength of AC Milan and Roma more especially AC Milan because they have also gotten more European experience even better than Liverpool so a lot will be expected between Bayern Leverkusen, Liverpool, AS Roma and AC Milan.

If you notice West Ham performance in the last several season they have significant progress because since David Moyes handle this team West Ham has been change became an dark horses team in Europa and Premier League and this season too West Ham performance at Premier League is much better than last season because until week 30 West Ham can able to occupy 7th place and in Europa League West Ham performance is very stable because since group stages until round of 16 West Ham only lost twice but i was impress when they can beat Freiburg 5-0 at round of 16

Admitting or not West Ham is more experience compared Leverkusen this because West Ham as Europa Conference League defending champion so Leverkusen will gets hard opponent this time besides that Leverkusen recent match while against Qarabag is not too impress me because they have to hard struggling to eliminate that team and just like i said before i think this match is good to tested the consistency of Leverkusen because if they can able to eliminate West Ham then their journey to the final match will be more easy and first leg will be held at Leverkusen home ground and they have to utilized this match to gets the winning result and if necessary win with big scores

So far West Ham have not been consistent in their matches in the league, but if you look at their ability to hold Tottenham to a draw in their last game in the league, of course it should be for Leverkusen to be wary of Westham in that match, especially before West Ham was quite surprising to beat Freiburg in the round of 16 and I think most likely West Ham will be able to make it difficult for Leverkusen even though they may not be able to beat Leverkusen in that match.

As you said, Leverkusen are a pretty strong team but the difficulty against Qarabag certainly indicates that there is a weakness from Leverkusen that West Ham might be able to exploit later, at the moment we know that West Ham are competing in the league to reach the Conference League zone and I think that's why they can't be underestimated right now, the arrival of David Moyes to West Ham has turned West Ham into a club that is quite capable of making things difficult for big teams in premier league, so I think with Moyes' experience so far in coaching of course they deserve not to be underestimated by Leverkusen.

They're not facing no difficulty, they have just been dull during that game and didn't approach the game like they did with other game's. Besides not just in the European Europa League Competition was that seen. They also had game won from behind in the Bundesliga League Competition.
I'm happy for them, they have changed the entire narrative, at least talks of Bundesliga being a farmers league will reduce drastically. These players have fought consistently to win the competition well deserved.

They're in no Competition with Liverpool.
Let the best side win in my opinion, for me personally, I would love to see Ac Milan win it. Been a long time they came close to the finals.

So, that's what you have to watch out for, even though statistically West Ham is not better than Leverkusen, West Ham's motivation in the match will be very high, because they also definitely want to be a club that can give defeat to a club that has not experienced defeat this season in the European League. . They will be excited and maybe they will not think about the final result they will get.

In the previous match (in the round of 16), we saw Levekusen experiencing difficulties when facing Qarabag, it is also something that West Ham will definitely learn how Qarabag can apply great pressure and then they will adopt what Qaarabag did. West Ham may not be a big or strong club, but that doesn't mean Leverkusen can just underestimate them, because all the clubs in the competition can do anything that even seems impossible. Xabi must prepare his team well if they want to advance to the next round and increase their chances of becoming Europa League champions this season.

West Ham this season is not much better than last season so I think Leverkusen should not encounter significant difficulties if we look at the overall strength of the two teams throughout this season.

However I saw a little bit back and the scary things that happened in the round of 16 when Leverkusen faced Qarabag happened again, we can see that Leverkusen had a very difficult time facing a team that was not much stronger than them.

For this reason, I am sure that the West Ham match will continue to be fierce even though Leverkusen is the favorite and it is also possible that there will be surprises.

If Leverkusen is facing difficulties in winning matches in Europa league just like what they faced against Qarabag, it might be difficult for them to reach the finals, even though they manage to reach the semifinals. This is because any c kub that reaches the semifinals will not take their matches easy, since the finals is the target.

However, if they continue with a good performance just like what they are playing in their local league, we will see them in the finals, but I don't think that they will be able to win the finals. This is because Liverpool WI be a head nut for them to crack.

Leverkusen has a greater chance to win the game later, so far Leverkusen has performed quite well in the Europa League but Westham, who also comes from a very competitive league, of course does not want to give up easily even though Leverkusen is currently unbeaten, so far facing Westham may be Leverkusen's toughest opponent during playing in the Europa League and of course Leverkusen should be wary of the surprises that can be presented by Westham in the quarterfinal match later.

So far Leverkusen and Liverpool are the favourites to win the Europa League this season, but I am quite sure if Westham will be very difficult for Leverkusen in the next match, because after all at this time Westham are also doing quite well in the Europa League even though their performance is not good in the league, winning the Europa League this season is one alternative for Westham to secure a place in the Champions League next season,  Although it is difficult, I think at the moment all the teams in the quarterfinals have the same chance to reach the final.