Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 232. (Read 58988 times)

I don't think so. IMO brighton will lose but with a smaller aggregate compared to the previous game, playing at home might be motivating brighton to play even better compared to the last game against napoli. The most important thing that shall be noted that if brighton is getting more motivation to win the second leg.
The club shall at least try to score one or two goals to ensure that it won't lose its face. Things are getting even worse for brighton caused by it lost with very big aggregate in the first leg. It was also giving the bettors impressions that if brighton is unlikely winning the second leg.
Even if brighton will have been trying so hard to perform better and it is still useless. It's caused by the gape is too big.



If I must choose which option, is still very best to bet, and I would say that I will pick Roma. Brighton is only getting more advantage when it plays at home soon, but I'm concerned about the mentality owned by the club. Roma is leading the way compared to the brighton.
It means Brighton has a big chance of losing against Roma. I consider the players' mentality the most important thing a club needs to win the competition.

Look at the odds and how big bookies have given the odds for roma to win the current game. it seemed to me that if roma is likely winning the game soon

The only team that surprised me was Roma, after all, Brighton is a strong team and they did not deserve such a defeat. The rest of the teams performed at their level and by the way, there are questions for Milan since they conceded 2 goals from not the strongest opponent.
As for Bayer, even if the game ended 2-0 in favor of Karabakh, I would easily bet money on Bayer qualifying. In the game in Germany, I think they will simply destroy them.

West Ham vs SC Freiburg, probably draw because West Ham's performance wasn't good, but since they will play in London, they will have some advantage.

Leverkusen vs Qarabag, it looks like Leverkusen will win, but since the odds is too low, betting Qarabag for fun is good to go.

Atalanta vs Sporting, Atalanta should able to win.

Rangers vs Benfica, although Benfica looks stronger, but Rangers will play in their home, if they can make a draw on away, they should able to win in home.

Yeah, better think twice before bet on this match, Liverpool definitely will do some rotation with their key players due to the FA cup quarter finals against Manutd 2 days later.
But we dont know either if Sparta still has a will to win this one or not. If I have to bet on this match, I will pick both teams to score or over 2.5.

Roma managed to take advantage of Brighton weakness with a big win in the first leg. It is very difficult for Brighton to make a comeback with a four goal difference, especially since Roma's performance is currently very good. Roma improved performance under De Rossi management opened up opportunities for them to get rid of Brighton in the second leg. Roma could play safe by keeping their goal from conceding more than three goals. The landslide victory in the first leg means that Roma are now very favorites to qualify for the quarter-finals. Brighton currently needs a miracle to thwart Roma progress in the Europa League.

Liverpool won big even at the Sparta Prague's home stadium so now they return to their home land and host Sparta Prague at Anfield. There is no chance for Sparta Prague to beat Liverpool at Anfield and they even need a very big win to go to quarter final.

It is impossible for Sparta Prague and Liverpool can play carefully to defend their big advantage and think of quarter finals as well as Champions League.

For gamblers, the challenge for them is to skip this match or bet and if bet, bet on goals, corner kicks or the match result.

Before losing by 4 goals amidst a decline in Brighton's best performance, AS Roma was still questioned as to whether they would be able to win against Brighton amidst AS Roma's good performance since being handled by Rossi. Some former AS Roma players and AS Roma legends such as Totti predict that Roma's chances of qualifying are 50:50.

For Brighton, who will welcome AS Roma in the second leg, it will be difficult for them to achieve an aggregate of 4-0 even though they are playing in front of the public at the American Express Stadium.
I predict that AS Roma will be one of the teams that qualify. Even if Roma loses in the second leg, the 0-4 aggregate will not be able to be matched by Brighton.

I also wouldn't be surprised if Roma won against Brighton. But the 0-4 defeat was a big defeat that was beyond my expectations. Yes, this is Brighton's first season playing in the European League in the club's history. And we have to respect Brighton for making it through the group stages in their first season playing in Europe. Brighton will host the second leg of the match. I think they should win the match even though they won't qualify for the next round. It would be nice if Brighton could win the game in front of their fans in their own stadium.

Liverpool won the away match against Sparta Prague by a huge margin of 5-1. Sparta Prague did not perform well at home. The team was badly defeated. I thought Liverpool would win by maybe 1 or 2 goals. But Liverpool won by 4 goals. And after winning by such a big margin, the Liverpool team has undoubtedly secured the ticket to the next round. I don't think it is possible that Sparta Prague will defeat an experienced team like Liverpool by 5 goals in the second leg. Liverpool's defense is very strong this season. Breaking this team's defense is very difficult for any experienced team.



I don't think the second leg will be competitive. I don't even consider Liverpool as favorites to win the second leg. Because this match is not important for Liverpool. My guess is that Liverpool will play with their second tier squad in this match. Klopp will rest the important players of the squad. It is now more important for Liverpool to perform well in Premier League matches than doing well in this match. This is why we will probably not see some of the key players of Liverpool's squad in the starting XI in this match.

Agree with you. Brighton's defense was very bad in the first leg, if you look at the first leg match, and several times Brighton played in the domestic league they made the same mistakes. I noticed that their defense had a lot of problems, especially when the goalkeeper gave passes to the midfielders, their defense. The midfielder was unable to withstand strong pressure from the opponent. In short, their problem is the passing accuracy of the goalkeeper, defenders and midfield.

In the second leg it looks like As Roma will easily qualify because the aggregate is very large so it is very difficult for Brighton to score more than four goals. Apart from that, the reality is that As Roma is an established European club with top level players who know how to win matches. The combination with that atmosphere was too much for Brighton, although I'm sure they will come back stronger but that won't change anything as Roma will definitely progress to the next round.

Liverpool took an important advantage with the away win in the first leg and barring a miracle they are already through to the next round. The Liverpool defense did not perform well in the first leg but luck was on their side. Liverpool will rotate in the second leg and they might start with a reserve squad. So I don't think Liverpool will score too many goals.

Sparta Prague is a team that fights very well, but it is not a team that can turn the round against a Liverpool team that has many deficiencies. It would be a miracle if that happens. This will make Liverpool play more relaxed throughout the match. For the result of the match, 3 or less goals would be a better option than a Liverpool win.

If I look at the aggregate in the first leg, it looks like Brighton would also be very willing if they lost again at home with an even bigger aggregate. Because scoring more than four goals against opponents as tough as AS Roma is something that is not very easy for Brighton, so they will also be very willing if they cannot qualify for the next round of the Europa League this season. So apart from it being difficult for Brighton, I don't think it's interesting to discuss because the team that goes through to the next round is already known.

If we consider it in a single match, a first match between Roma and Brighton, Brighton have bad defense.

If we consider it in Premier League, they have like an average defense, not too weak but not too strong. So far in the league, they got 44 conceded goals, nearly similar as Aston Villa at the fourth position but not much better than Fullham at the 13rd position.

In a first match with Roma, Brighton players shown that they lack of confidence when playing home away and made some defensive mistakes, from their captain to their goalkeeper.

At this point, Brighton are not only weak in their defense game, but I think the club is completely weak, and they need to strengthen their squad because I was expecting Brighton to defeat Roma, not Roma defeating Brighton. However, seeing how their attacking position works, I think it also affects them, so all these positions that are weak need to be strengthened so that they will stop recording losses. Now that they got defeated by Roma in the first leg, I believe even in the second leg the same thing may happen because Roma already know their winning points.

Although maybe it is because some of their players are absent, but even with that I still think Brighton are stronger. How they performed in that match shows that without those players, they cannot do anything until they are around, which looks bad. 

Liverpool's job is like 99% done for me in this phase. Because honestly there is no way Sparta Prague are coming back from an embarrassing score like 5-1 from now on.    By the way I'm not saying it like Sparta Prague were too bad in the first leg. The score shouldn't misguide anyone. It could have even ended 5-3 or 5-4 if Sparta Prague didn't waste big chances.

Klopp will most probably rotate his usual lineup quite a lot in the rematch but Liverpool still should be fine to advance.    When it comes to Leverkusen they should also be able to win home next time. But Qarabag have my respect as well after making a big effort until this phase. Playing solid as a team has brought them to this point.

Brighton has indeed experienced a decline in performance recently and this was also seen in the Premier League match and on the other hand, Roma, who experienced an increase in performance, were able to take advantage of this quite well in the first leg.
However, overall I am not surprised by all this because basically Roma is more favored than Brighton and Roma also has everything that is better than Brighton, both in terms of quality and mentality.

The second leg match will be a mission impossible match for Brighton, even though they play at home but it is unlikely that we will see Brighton able to create surprises in the match later, currently reversing the aggregate score of 4 goals without conceding something that is very difficult for a club like Brighton, even if they are able to score but maybe their percentage is only 10% in the game to qualify for the next round,  Moreover, Roma who come with high confidence, of course, do not only want to defend completely in the game and at least they will surprise Brighton again with their counterattack.

Brighton this season is actually still better than Potter coaching period in my opinion, when I saw Brighton game in the era of the two coaches I actually saw that Brighton had dared to dominate possession and make shots, I think it was only natural for Brighton to lose in the first leg because indeed their experience in the Europa League is very little different from Roma who have been quite experienced when playing in the Europa League, especially this season is first time for brighton played in European competition in the club history and Brighton must  thank to de zerbi regardless of the outcome of the Europa League second leg later.

Betting on your favorite club is indeed very profitable, but you must always consider the opponents your favorite club will have to face because this is football where usually the underdog club can give surprises that we cannot predict, like last season, no one considered Sevilla to be the favorite club because of their performance bad in the domestic league but in fact Sevilla actually got the title at UEL.
There's nothing wrong with always betting on favorite clubs like Liverpool or Leverkusen, but we have to be careful with clubs like Roma and Milan who are currently trying to become strong challengers in the UEL.
Before betting, always look at other possibilities that will happen, for example Liverpool will play Milan and that means there are 2 possibilities for Milan or Liverpool to win and you should avoid betting on the club that wins but bet on other options with risks that are not too high.
It's natural that many people are likely to bet on every Liverpool appearance and I admit Liverpool has great strength but I'm just saying about the surprises that will occur.

I was also quite surprised by the too easy defeat Brighton suffered in the first leg by Roma. I think Brighton is not only bad in defense but I feel they are also confused in building attacks. Brighton had good cooperation and produced passes with a very good level of accuracy. But I feel they are always confused about completing every attack they build. And their midfield is sometimes late in helping the back line when the opponent attacks quickly. I actually liked Brighton when brighton was coached by Potter. I hope Brighton can bring him back there.

I am very impressed by Liverpool performances in this season and their latest match against Manchester City. There are not many teams can dominate Manchester City like Liverpool in that match and I have to note that Liverpool did not have their best players for a squad in that match. If they have fully ready Mohamed Salah, they likely beat Manchester City.

With this strength, Liverpool is considered as a best team in Europa League and I agree that they have high chance to win Europa League. Now they will have to wait for Round of 16 endings, the draw for quarter finals and see their next opponent and potential opponents in semi finals. We will have a better view on Liverpool chance after a draw of quarter finals is done.