Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 192. (Read 58988 times)

Even though Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen have high hopes of play in the Europa League final, but there will always be tension in every match that will be played during this journey. Because of course, Liverpool is still very focused on the Premier League because the competition for trophies there is also very tight and difficult, but Bayer Leverkusen is of course in a comfortable position at the top of the Bundesliga standings. But even so, I am sure that the teams that will face Bayer Leverkusen in this phase will certainly put in their best efforts to break Bayer Leverkusen's unbeaten record throughout this season. Therefore, I am sure there will always be tension and the difficult competition in the Europa League will remain interesting even though indeed, the biggest candidates are Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen.

Yep. Liverpool journey in UEL this season looks quite easy although they got 2 losses in group phase. But it was when Liverpool performance was still very unstable. Now, Liverpool performance is very stable, they always consistently got 3 points in each match in domestic league. In the last 5 matches in EPL, Liverpool only got 1 draw, the other matches ended up with the win.

Agree, Atalanta isn't likely to stop Liverpool. Atalanta performance in domestic league looks badly. In the last 5 matches, they only won 1 match, 2 draws, 2 losses. With this fact, it is very doubtful if Atalanta can challenge Liverpool. I even think Liverpool will destroy Atalanta easily.

Liverpool won't have a problem to face Benfica or Marseille. The level of these teams is still far below if we compare to Liverpool. I believe Liverpool must go to the final round. I'm also confident with Leverkusen, they are strong enough to beat any team in UEL this season. We must realize that Leverkusen is unbeaten in any competition. So, the final of Liverpool vs Leverkusen is very possible to happen.

Not only you, but me and many other people who want to see the final match between Liverpool and Leverkusen. This is still the quarter-finals and they have to compete step by step and give their best so that they can be in the final. Likewise with Leverkusen, they have to prepare themselves as best as possible so that they can give their best performance and reach the final.
Actually, if we look at their statistics in the domestic league, then Leverkusen is better than Liverpool. Leverkusen have never been defeated in the Bundesliga and have only received 4 draws. Meanwhile, Liverpool have suffered 2 defeats and 7 draws in the Premier League. However, I still think this is a very normal thing because in comparison the English League is more competitive than the Bundesliga. In the English League there are many very strong teams, while in the Bundesliga only a few teams can be said to be very strong, such as one of them being the ruler of the Bundesliga for the last decade, Bayern Munich.

Before they daydream of getting a higher position, they must now try to beat Milan in the quarter-finals first because this is a complicated situation considering that statistically Milan are certainly better when compared to Roma so there is no need to daydream higher to get to the final if in the end they cannot win this match.

Now with the presence of De Rosi does provide a good injection to Roma's performance but Milan is clearly the favorite for the quarter-finals this time so they must try to find a way how to beat Milan now which in fact Milan must also be eyeing the semi-final position considering that at this time the hunt for the scudetto in domestic competition is almost closed.
This is a tough road but it does not mean that this is closed to Roma because indeed for the Europa League sometimes there is always an unexpected situation and Roma could repeat the history of Frankfurt and Sevilla in previous seasons.

Yes, last season there were strong competitors like Sevilla, in fact everyone knows that Sevilla can be guaranteed to lift the UEL trophy, but the problem is that this season only Leverkusen and Liverpool are the strongest in the UEL so the strongest candidates currently are between the two clubs.
Most UEL fans want these two favorite clubs to meet in the final round but there is no guarantee that they will meet in that round and I guess it looks like these two clubs will meet in the semi-finals.
For the Roma vs Milan match, I think I am a little hesitant to bet because these two clubs can give surprises which are very difficult to analyze unless before the match starts there are several players injured and at that time we can predict easily.

Milan has had better consistency than Roma this season, and Pioli squad has more advantages to beat Roma. De Rossi has indeed made Roma become better than before, but they need great luck to beat Milan. Because in the match against Lecce we could see that they had difficulty winning, even though we know that Lecce is a team in the middle of the standings. Beating Brighton with a large goal margin is worthy of appreciation, but their chances of beating Milan are quite low.

Roma journey to reach the Europa League final like last season is now considered very difficult, because there are several teams that have better quality than them, including Milan. In the last five meetings between Roma versus Milan, De Rossi squad was only able to record 2 draws, the rest they lost. Apart from that, the first leg match will be held at the San Siro, it is clear that Milan will be very fortunate to win. Pioli will try to bring Milan to win the Europa League trophy this season, because in Serie A their chances of winning the Scudetto are impossible.

It hasn't been a much problem for Liverpool until reaching this phase really. Atalanta can be considered as the biggest threat so far but I don't expect them to be the team to eliminate Liverpool either.

Liverpool's next competitor will be Benfica or Marseille next time in this case. I don't think any of them would be able to beat Liverpool also. I'm also one of the people who want to see a Liverpool - Leverkusen finale. But Leverkusen's job to reach this phase is more difficult compared to Liverpool though. Let's say they got past West Ham their next competitor will be one of Milan and Roma. I wouldn't be surprised to see Leverkusen being eliminated earlier.  

Indeed, several players owned by AS Roma could not show their best game. Even though they can give their best game, it only happens occasionally and when the next game comes they return to their usual game. This is a problem and the coach must think about why his players cannot play consistently at their best.

In my opinion, perhaps one of them is chemistry that has not been formed properly, because it cannot be denied that this will affect their game. The coaching staff led by De Rossi must first find the root of the problem why their players are like that and if they have found the root of the problem they can slowly make their players perform better again.

Because after all this is important, because looking at teamwork alone, they actually haven't shown very good teamwork, or in other words, they still have many shortcomings that they must immediately overcome. This will definitely require a process and I hope they can be quick in that process.

I agree with you, from the performance of the teams in the competition, it is very possible to see them come out according to your listing but on the other hand, football sometimes may not end as expected as the team with the biggest odd to win the competition may end up not getting to the finals. From your list and my personal observations, it is very possible to see AC Milan which is ranked 3rd best according to the list to be ahead of Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen because the two teams are not just fighting to win the Europa league alone but they are also fighting to win their different league and this may divide their concentration in focusing on the performance in the Europa sincw they will be playing both league games and the competition also.

AC Milan has a better chance of reaching the Europa league finals if they perform very well because in the league Inter Milan has already won the league looking our the gap between them so Milan will need to focus more on the Europa league to make sure they get to the finals and win the trophy as it will increase their confidence as a team.

I feel like Milan has a little bit better chance. Doesn't mean that I do not give Roma any chance to win, of course Roma could end up winning this game as well and that is a possibility, and there are two legs so they will have two chances to win. But at the same time we need to make sure that we know which team is the better one and in this case I would say that Milan is the better team if you ask me.

This is why I believe that Milan will see semi finals and Roma will be the loser. This is just assumption and of course nobody knows what is going to happen in a game, we are just trying to figure out what could be the situation after a while and in most cases we are usually not right about it at all, we need to be careful.

If teams want to hold good performance in both domestic and UEFA, they needed few things for this firstly is having huge funds like PSG and Manchester City if they can't afford this other way is just keeping with coach like we have Jürgen Klopp or Mikel Arteta and give them time for establishing team which can happen in 4 or 5 years this is the best option for them otherwise winning in both leagues are never been easy for them.

Every team can't be lucky like Bayer Leverkusen who can win title after having Xabi Alonso in first season with surely not it's never been easy for the teams to have things on positive track while we are having competitiveness is coming and many teams are doing their best for keeping themselves at the better way of competitions, but it's surely not easy for anyone.

De Rossi gave the team new strength, but I agree with you, it will be very difficult for them against Milan, but for Roma this is most likely the only way to get into the Champions League, since in Serie A it is almost impossible after the last draw. Milan are stronger than them, there is no doubt about that, but if Roma manages to play at least one match as well as theys did against Brighton, then they will have a chance.
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You must have seen how Roma had to struggle very much when playing against Lecce in the Serie A match yesterday, and the bluntness of the front line was certainly one of the main factors that made Roma lose 3 points in the game, when facing Lecce, De Rossi failed to give Roma a victory, then how could he be able to beat Milan who are actually very strong and balanced in terms of the quality of the squad they currently have?
I don't mean to underestimate Roma against Milan, but I prefer to look at all possibilities realistically and I think it will also be difficult for Roma to beat Milan later.

Roma's performance has indeed begun to improve in the league, but in this case they are still very nervous when dealing with stronger teams, Roma's position in the league is actually still very good, and of course their chances of being in the Champions Zone League next season are still wide open on the condition that they no longer lose points and also the most realistic is to expect Juventus to continue to slump in the rest of the season,  Indeed, the Europa League can be an alternative for Roma to get a ticket to the Champions League next season, but precisely to become the champion of the Europa League this season is somewhat more difficult for Roma than competing for the top 4 position in the Serie A.

Whether I would describe the Italian teams as giants, I don't know. Inter Milan is a giant, maybe AC Milan just passes the test whether it can be a called a giant, but neither Atalanta nor Roma are giants. They are running behind the top in the Serie A and that doesn't quite attest to their status as a giant.

Liverpool, however, is leading the Premier League ahead of Arsenal and Manchester City. Sounds quite gigantic to me. Leverkusen is leading the Bundesliga ahead of Bayern Munich with 13 points! Sounds quite gigantic to me. These teams are the title favorites for a very good reason in the Europa League.

As you are already mentioning things are unpredictable about winner of this season because now we have all top teams in this event with last eight from the top leagues of the UEFA are remaining, and any team can go through for the win from the start of this season mostly peoples are predicting we will be having winner from the Liverpool or Leverkusen, but now situation is completely different we have Italian giants are also involved and can give shocks to these teams even I am feeling West Ham could be also not easy team to beat even Leverkusen is at his best but still things are not easy for them to predict about the winner of this match.

Sevilla was shocking winner in last season with usually were feeling Arsenal or Manchester United are main title fighters so this season I have feeling we can expect another upset and things can favour Italian sides for the win as well AC Milan is doing impressive job in this season and their recent performance is also at his best for the win in this event.

Maybe what you say is true. But still, I personally am used to doing it. Namely analyzing a team in all the competitions they play. Even though in the end the results are still difficult for us to predict. For example, last season we knew that in the European League there were even Barcelona and Arsenal. but we saw last season that it wasn't Arsenal and Barcelona who advanced to the final but instead Sevilla and Roma. Well, I see the possibility that the same thing could happen again. Where currently Liverpool and Leverkusen seem to have convinced everyone that they are currently the strongest in the European League. but still the results are still uncertain. But to be honest, I personally hope that Liverpool and Leverkusen can meet in the Final. But my focus is still around the Milan and Roma match which I still find difficult to predict. Because even though Milan is currently far superior in ranking to Roma, I see Roma's rapid development after the arrival of De Rossi.

The Roma and Milan match will certainly be a difficult match for both teams, because indeed both have known the weaknesses and strengths of each team in the league, so far the two teams have repeatedly met in league matches so it cannot be denied if both of them are familiar enough with each team's game scheme, but allow me to laugh  when you equate Sevilla with the two teams, especially Roma,  I think when Sevilla play in the Europa League none of us here will underestimate them, because when you underestimate Sevilla in the Europa League it's the same as you underestimate Madrid when they play in the Champions League all this time, I think maybe you pretend to forget if actually Sevilla is the ruler in the Europa League and so far Sevilla is the most team to win the Europa League with 7 titles,  So when they play in the Europa League it's certainly not a surprise for us.

Leverkusen is indeed quite good at the moment, but comparing the performance and quality of the two teams certainly cannot be a benchmark to say Leverkusen will easily beat Westham, especially if you compare the two leagues that have been opposite so far, I think the atmosphere of the Europa League and domestic is very different, so when one team is superior in the domestic league, they will not necessarily excel in the Europa League.

regarding Roma who will face Milan, I will never say which team will qualify because the chances of these two teams winning cannot be underestimated and if you know or remember last season when a team that was not the favorite candidate for the European League title like Sevilla was actually surprising everyone can make it to the final round and secure last season's title.
in a competition like this, when several teams come from other leagues, they will definitely put in all the performance they have to chase the title and maybe in the domestic league Milan is much better than Roma, but in the European league all that is not guaranteed.

and for Leverkusen who will face West Ham, most likely without any doubt and without using deeper predictions, it is quite easy to predict that Leverkusen will continue to dominate the match.
just comparing the performance of these two teams, it is very clear that Xabi troops are much stronger than West Ham except that, as a surprise, several Leverkusen players are injured and that's when Leverkusen will experience difficulties.

What progress do you want to see on those teams? I think everything is clear enough. Leverkusen has no doubt in domestic league, there are unbeaten. Even in UEL matches, they also never got a defeat. West Ham got bad results in the last 4 matches in EPL, you can see they never won a single match. Considering this fact, no doubt Leverkusen to be the favorite team to win in the match Leverkusen vs West Ham.

Meanwhile for the match AC Milan vs AS Roma, both teams look quite good in domestic league. They never got a defeat in the last 5 matches but AC Milan looks better because they won 4 matches and 1 draw only. But AS Roma only won 3 matches and 2 draws. Because both teams look in a good form, I can understand if it will be difficult to determine which team to win in this match.

There is no bet with no risk. The favorite teams can be defeated, but it is for a rare case. For Leverkusen vs West Ham, I think it is not so difficult to decide our bet because Leverkusen is very clear as the stronger team. But for the match AC Milan vs AS Roma, it is surely difficult to predict. So, only the match of AC Milan vs AS Roma seems the most unpredictable one.

A team can not rely on a single player and particularly Dybala is a player who is very sensitive with injuries. He has more appearances for Roma this season but he is still their problem but it is not his responsibility as he tries best to contribute for them. Responsibility mainly is in Roma as they did not have another creative forward to replace Dybala well.

AC Milan are stronger than Roma and they have more players who can play with each other and replace each other. They don't rely on a single player like Dybala and it makes their stronger strength and it gives them higher chance to beat Roma in Europa League quarter finals.

Dybala has suffered injuries quite often and couldn't even play properly this season. When it comes to Lukaku he isn't playing the same as his performance at his national team.    He scored so many goals in the Euro 2024 qualifiers you know but we can't see the same effort at Roma unfortunately. Normally Roma can be even more productive than now.

If we see the same scenario against Milan here as well then it wouldn't be surprising to see Roma getting eliminated. When it comes to betting I'm thinking of both teams to score as a nice option for the first leg. This could happen even in both legs in my opinion.