Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 214. (Read 58988 times)

I wouldnt write Liverpool off after that FA Cup loss. One terrible game doesnt make them weak, especially against Man United. Leverkusen didnt dominate that Europa League encounter, despite their Bundesliga streak. Perhaps we shouldnt rush to support Leverkusen.

Liverpool usually step up under pressure. The Champions League is different, but they have the experience to win after a hard time.

I dont think Liverpool didnt care about the FA Cup loss. Sometimes things dont go well or the other team plays well. Every team has bad days, but it doesnt make them bad.  Leverkusen hasnt been invincible lately either. I still like Liverpool's chances!

If in the end Liverpool has to face Leverkusen then it will indeed be the toughest match for Liverpool in the European League. But we still can't predict everything at this time. Will Liverpool and Leverkusen be able to continue to progress further. Or it could be that Liverpool and Leverkusen could meet earlier, such as in the semi-finals. Because sometimes the favorite teams actually meet earlier. Just like Man City and Real Madrid, who actually met earlier in the UCL. And it surprised everyone but it also happened a few times. Because in several previous seasons the same thing happened.

Unexpected events always happen in matches. Liverpool defeat to Manchester United in the FA Cup was very surprising, Manchester United's comeback knocked Liverpool out of the competition. Even though I'm not a Liverpool fan, I'm still optimistic about their chances in the Europa League. Being eliminated from the FA Cup means Liverpool can focus more on the EUL and EPL because these two competitions are more prestigious than the FA Cup.

Of the eight teams remaining, only Liverpool and Leverkusen have the most potential to win the hunt for this trophy. I'm not considering other teams as weak, but in terms of consistency in maintaining their performance, Liverpool and Leverkusen are superior to other teams.

I agree with that, B. Leverkusen is the favorite at the moment


Qarabag did a great job in both games, and even Lerverkusen is not invincible, and they knew how to play against the German team, maybe it's a lesson to West Ham to try to beat Bayern


A final between the Milan x Liverpool is possible, but I think Bayern are better at the moment, better than Milan and better than Liverpool
But all three are teams that can grow in any difficult competition, especially in knockout matches

The competition is very good this year

There are two possibilities for Liverpool's elimination in the FA Cup against Manchester United. It is very likely that Liverpool will focus on winning the Premier League and the Europa Cup. Let's put aside Liverpool's defeat against Manchester United. Even though they are candidates for the Europa Cup, Liverpool vs Leverkusen seems like it could happen.  but on the other hand we also cannot underestimate the strength of other clubs who have big ambitions to enter the Europa Cup Final, in my opinion there are still many big clubs there who deserve this championship.

Of course, Benfica only needs to do that to ensure their chances of qualifying are more secure and they must win at home, even if it means a landslide victory. We know that Marseille has played very well recently at home and that is certainly something Benfica doesn't want to experience when they play the second leg. As much as possible, Benfica must avoid a draw in the first leg and must make the Marseille players mentally down.

Benfica is not the favorite to win the European League but I think other teams should also be wary of it because we don't know what will happen next. It could be that after eliminating Marseille they will fight harder to win this title and in fact they have the ability to do that. So, in my opinion Benfica is the underdog team but on the other hand it can surprise other teams.

Even though this is the Europa League and I don't really focus much on the league and given that Liverpool is strong this season and have been unbeaten by many clubs throughout the season, I also believe that Bayern Leverkusen are not going to be a challenge for them if they meet. Although I am aware of how strong Leverkusen are this season, they are also unbeatable in the Bundesliga, but Liverpool are one of the favorite clubs in the Premier League competition this season, so with this, I don't think Leverkusen will challenge Liverpool because the Premier League competition is tougher than the Europa League, and they made it to the top, so you can see that there will be no issue. they can also do the same thing here.

Although some clubs don't have the strength to perform well in all competition, but I think Liverpool are doing better than Leverkusen at the moment in the Europa League, so let's see what the outcome will be if they meet. Maybe Leverkusen is going to dominate the match too and may to surprise. 

I'm not much confident about Leverkusen's having a bigger chance than Liverpool.    Because I didn't like their most recent performances in the Europa League. While they are struggling against a much weaker opponent it is difficult for me to believe in them to have more chance for the title as well. If Leverkusen advance to next round they will have another tough challenge against Milan or Roma.

I wouldn't be surprised if Leverkusen don't make it to the finale as well. But I must also admit that the finale matchup I want to see the most is Leverkusen - Liverpool.    If we see such finale I guess Leverkusen would already guarantee the Bundesliga title to focus on the Europa League title more.

We will need to see endings of quarter finals to see will Liverpool and AC Milan still exist in semi finals. If they will participate in semi finals, we can predict a final match between Liverpool and AC Milan that will be another meeting after they met each other in Champions League final many years ago in Istanbul.

AC Milan will need to beat Roma first and possibly Leverkusen in semi final. Both opponents are very strong and AC Milan actually have bigger challenge than Liverpool. I believe Liverpool will join the final match but I am not sure about AC Milan as they can beat Roma but how about Leverkusen. AC Milan even have risk to lose against AS Roma in quarter finals.

It gets worse before it gets better, all they need do is work on the club and sell of lads not worthy of the badge and club ( Manchester United )
Liverpool did well though but Klopps decisions backfired him as they couldn't keep up with Manchester United. Poor defense from Liverpool was also seen.

We might still see a Liverpool - Ac Milan finals. I'd never be sensible to write them off in European Competitions like this so I'm to shut up my mouth and learn.
This is not about De Rossi and shit, AC Milan would definitely be tue club to knock him out of this Competition. I could say yes they'd have a chance if it was Jose Mourinho but, hell No!
Marseille are also up against Benfica, let's see what they can achieve in between.

Actually it's not really easy to have been able to maintain your form this far just has Leverkusen has, their unbeaten record is actually across Europe and not just in the bundesliga alone so it's expected that at some point in some of the leagues especially those which aren't in great priority for them, they will most likely drop in their form and performance but their kind of mindset is such that they only get a draw in worse case.

In the case of the Europa I think it's in high priority for Leverkusen's and I doubt if they would allow such performance as seen in their last game to continue, rather they will make sure to fix their form and be in the best form they can be till the next fixture again for the Europa league. Leverkusen is really bent on possibly getting a trio this season and they would include the Europa, bundesliga title and the German dbf polka. I think it will be easier for them with the DBF polka and the bundesliga than the Europa because that has to be the tough duse to the presence of Liverpool.

Bayer Leverkusen is very likely to be sure of two leagues already but unsure of the Europa because Liverpool is definitely going to fight for the Europa seriously as they have just it and the premier league to tackle, they actually had the FA cup aswell to tackle but until over the weekend when they lost to Manchester united their league battles were then reduced to be around these two and they are to focus more especially in the Europa because it's one od the trophy they have not lifted in quite a very long time especially since klop became the head coach of their team.

Two matches with Karabakh showed that Bayer is not as good as it looks, they clearly have problems in defense and perhaps the level of the Bundesliga is simply not capable of showing these problems. Frankly speaking, Karabakh was better than Bayer, but El without Bayer would have become more boring, so we have what we have. Perhaps they are a little lucky that their opponent will be West Ham, they are definitely not the strongest opponents, Milan, Roma, or even Benfica could make life difficult for Bayer.

Yes indeed some of us here will think Liverpool can win against Atlanta easily, but I think that's not the case in football, we can't say Liverpool are more consistent, stronger or anything else that makes our reason to say Liverpool will be able to easily destroy Atlanta, all possibilities can happen in that match especially the two teams have only met 2 times and result both are quite drawn,  So it will be very difficult for us to predict the outcome of the game even though on paper Liverpool are superior as you say.

At the moment I think Atlanta also has a quality squad and of course Liverpool should not underestimate Atlanta just because Liverpool are favourites in the game later, I do not deny that Liverpool are stronger and more consistent just like when many of us here are believe if Liverpool will win easily against Manchester United before the FA Cup starts, let alone we think it is impossible for Manchester United at that time to give resistance to Liverpool because Manchester United has been in poor form so far, but in reality?
I think that's why if football is not so predictable with easy , especially when a team has reached the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of course all possibilities can happen including Atlanta maybe beat Liverpool later.

To concentrate on two big competitions at the same time isn't an easy task for any team. We have seen it clearly from Leverkusen in the previous round as well. Qarabag were so close to eliminating them despite the red card they got. With this level of performance I don't even know whether Leverkusen will manage to get past West Ham obstacle.  

Otherwise I would also like to see the same effort from them which they make in the Bundesliga. In that case I wouldn't see any other team than Liverpool to stand in their way in the Europa League. No matter what this season will be unforgettable for Xabi Alonso as he is doing this great work in his first season of his career.  

Bayern Leverkusen this season has been able to appear impressive not only in the Bundesliga but also in the European League. In their last match in the round of 16, Leverkusen's performance declined slightly and they qualified with great difficulty, but even so, the players were able to work hard to seal a ticket to the quarter-finals.

In my opinion, it is not easy for Alonso to organize the starting XI because he has to share his concentration between the two competitions they are currently involved in. I probably quite understood the situation and the players seemed very tired. Yes, in my opinion, Bayern Leverkusen does not need to have full ambition in the Europa League because they really prioritize becoming Bundesliga champions, it is very unlikely that they will be able to reach the top in these two championships. But if it is successful then it will be a golden record for Bayern Leverkusen and Xabi Alonso.

Liverpool are always top and they deserve to get that if Klopp's plans always run normally, meaning there are no non-technical problems that could disrupt the Reds' performance.

You are right that Liverpool not only has priorities in the Premier League, but they also prioritize the Europa League because these two competitions are equally important for Liverpool. Maybe apart from these two competitions, Liverpool doesn't really prioritize them because Liverpool also has to limit the portion of the players' strength so they don't use up all their energy and experienced a setback at the end as a result of which Liverpool was unable to win any title, just like Liverpool was defeated by Manchester United in the recent FA Cup competition which caused a lot of controversy because a club as strong as Liverpool was defeated by Manchester United which was in an unstable condition, in my opinion it is not a problem which needs to be regretted for Liverpool because can focus on 2 more important competitions.

Against Atalanta is not a big obstacle for Liverpool, I don't mean to underestimate Atalanta, it's just that if you look at Liverpool, they have a more consistent and strong performance, while Atalanta is not so consistent, their difficulty against Sportinh CP makes everyone believe that Liverpool will definitely get rid of Atalanta and Liverpool will play aggressive football as usual, but because Atalanta knows that Liverpool's attacks are very strong, maybe Atalanta is just trying to play a defensive strategy so that Liverpool doesn't score many goals against Atalanta.

11 players perform in a team but among the 11 players there are some important players who are declared without the important players and it is not possible to perform poorly against the opponent. Liverpool has some important players, if those important players of Liverpool get injured then it is definitely a concern for Liverpool. But so far the Liverpool team seems to be injury free and if important players are injury free then surely the performance of the team is expected to be good. They have to play ahead according to the plan according to which they have played so far. If they can play this plan till the end of the season, surely they will reach their goal.

Until now, Leverkusen is still unbeaten in the Bundesliga. But Leverkusen did not play as we expected in the last 16 of the Europa League. Because Leverkusen only qualified for the quarters with a fairly thin aggregate. So I started to think that Leverkusen had a weakness at the back. So I'm also not sure Leverkusen will win the title in the European League if they even have difficulty in the last 16. But regarding Liverpool I think they are still as solid as ever. Maybe they lost to Man United in the FA Cup but I don't see Liverpool losing easily in the FA Cup. So in my opinion nothing has changed with Liverpool's performance. So Liverpool might still be favorites in the European League.

Liverpool is in UCL level now and it's not comparable to the atlanta. Liverpool is in the same level as intermilan and does it make sense to call it equal to the atalanta? i think that it doesn't even make sense considering the fact liverpool is always winning the game in europa league with huge scores. Atalanta gonna be another victim from liverpool soon.
The big win in the first leg will be enough in making the club to go to the semi final easily. The only key to destroy atalanta is scoring as many goals as possible at anfield. it will push atalanta to perform the worst in the second leg as the big aggregates pressuring atalanta to perform even badly.

Liverpool has demonstrated their ability this season by attempting to dominate every game they have played, which should give them high expectations for their upcoming matchup against their opponents. Liverpool has moved straight to the final stage because they strive to work hard and produce solid outcomes.

All though Liverpool try to work hard at the skill every season, but their incapable to win the championship game. But Liverpool is invincible so far this season based on their present form. Liverpool is unbeatable this season. Liverpool will meet with Leverkusen, and I know how difficult the match will be for them. Because they can receive so much pressure from the Liverpool.