Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 243. (Read 58988 times)

I never expected Leverkusen would struggle with quara berg that much, for me I saw it as a game Leverkusen has won already even before the kick off, because I considered Leverkusen's performance all along and how they have performed facing even rough clubs, so against quara berg was looking like a game they would have dominated well enough especially with goals but then it turned out otherwise that quara berg turned out tough.

I think this is a lesson for Leverkusen to understand that they shouldn't play or joke with any team as they may get surprised and get their first loss this season from a weak team or a team we generally considered weak especially here in the Europa, let's hope that in their second meeting Leverkusen would be able to do much better and not allow this Small team become so much of a problem to them that they will struggle again, underestimating any team will be the weakness of such a team because they will be thinking they don't need much to be able to win their opponent until it's game over.

This draws is going to exert some kind of pressure on Leverkusen because they will definitely try to cope with this alongside with that which will be coming from bundesliga, they will now have  to make sure to win their second meeting in the Europa if they must be able to retain their position, because Leverkusen cannot afford to be loosing to such a team where they are considered much more better and it's just knock out stage not even yet at semi or quarter finals.

When Slavia Prague was down to 10 men, it was clear that Milan would win. Although they reacted immediately to Milan's first goal, they conceded two more in quick succession before the end of the first half and their morale collapsed. Slavia Prague will now try to defend and avoid conceding more goals. Even this score is enough for Milan, but they want to score more goals and secure the round in this match. Giroud and Loftus-Cheek's contribution is enormous. I played over 1.5 goals for this game and to be honest the game was boring until the red card, but in the second part of the first half the game suddenly changed. The bet came easily.

Xabi's strategy of starting without Xhaka and Wirtz and resting them didn't work in the first half. The team was completely confused and the usual processes of the last few weeks and months hardly worked. Because of this and with a little luck, the underdog was able to quickly score two goals. Luckily, Xabi corrected that at halftime and suddenly Leverkusen's successful game worked again. Wirtz in particular brought momentum into the game so that they were able to score 2-2, was is a good foundation for the second leg.

A weak performance from Brighton as they were unable to score any goal against Roma. Roma won on clean sheet, and this shows that De Rossi is working on this players and preparing them for the challenges ahead of them. It is obvious that Roma have an automatic qualification into the quarter finals, because I don't see how Brighton WI be able to win Roma 5-0 in the second leg.

This is the first time that Brighton has lost three consecutive matches. It seems that they have decliner in their performance recently.

HALF TIME
MILAN : PRAHA : 3 : 1

Milan immediately took the lead again a few minutes later. with 3 goals in the first half, Milan had a much greater chance of winning. Yes indeed, it cannot be denied that if it is 11 vs 10 players, Milan should be the one who really benefits.
Now, the second half started and Milan still dominates the match.

AS Roma - on fire.....
Wow, surprising. They had the party.

Slavia Prague were very good, started the game very well, they were able to force AC Milan into defending, but after the red card to one of their players, the deficit reduced their advantage. AC Milan were able to make sure that they take good advantage of the ten men and score enough goals before the coach of Slavia will have the opportunity to make the halftime changes. AC Milan are very good scoring with their head.

Leverkusen if they continue with the second half strategy that got them the two goals will win the game. Coming back to almost winning a game from two goals down is not easy, but the team did it.

I expected Roma to win, but did not expect anything close to the dominating performance they put up tonight. It appears managers have come up with a good counter play to the style of play Roberto Di Zerbie uses. He loves his team to play out the man through the press, while taking out 3 or 4 players, then use the width to open up space.

De Rossi brilliantly countered that and had a brilliant attacking response.

Lervekusen barely kept their unbeaten run alive and Liverpool made easy work of Prague

- Jay -

The only two matches I wanted to see today were the headline ones featuring Liverpool and Leverkusen. It's interesting how everyone thought Liverpool will have a hard time against the Czech Republic current league leaders only for those quick goals to go in and put a strain in Sparta's performance. Another fun fact, Liverpool players scored all 3 goals including the Sparta goal which was scored by Bradley after coming up for just a minute.


As for Leverkusen, like I said earlier, Alonso mitigated the situation by bringing some of his OG first team players into the for.

De Zerbi got destroyed by Roma.

Wasn't he supposed to be the new Guardiola

I expected that Leverkusen would be able to win this game without having major difficulties, that's why I put Leverkusen in my parlay, but to my surprise I see Leverkusen having difficulties in beating a team that is not in the best leagues in Europe, while Bayern and a leading team from a big league in Europe, the result of that game really left me very disappointed, with this result I lost my bet, I hope that in the second round Leverkusen improves in defense and be very careful with this opponent because if Leverkusen Don't try too hard, then you might end up losing in the second leg and you will be eliminated. When I placed Leverkusen I had in my head that the main teams to win the European League

they are liverpool, roma and leverkusen, that's why I put these 3 teams in my parlay, but I see that leverkusen may not be able to reach the final. while liverpool beat them very easily, in a game in which liverpool scored 5 goals and conceded only 1 goal, in that game nunes scored 3 goals, they are a player who has scored goals frequently, I remember the During his first few months at Liverpool I kept saying that he didn't score goals and that it was a mistake to sign him, but today he is proving the opposite, he is showing that it was a good signing and with this result it is clear that Liverpool will move on to the next stage. . Rome also won easily

they scored 4 goals and didn't concede any goals, this shows how well the Roma management did in hiring this coach, with his arrival Roma has played very well in attack and defense, all of Roma's good attackers have managed to score goals, with With this result, I think Roma will move on to another phase and I hope that in the other phase they will play against a weak team so that they can win. At the moment I write this post, Milan are winning, they have already scored 3 goals in the first half, but conceded 1 goal. It's not guaranteed that Milan will win this game, but they have a good chance of winning.

This is a match result that is essentially unexpected. Many people think that Leverkusen can win this first leg match easily considering their performance in the Bundesliga, but in reality this is not true. Leverkusen struggled hard to score 2 goals after being 2 goals behind in the first half. It's strange, but this is truly surprising.

In the second leg, Leverkusen has a big chance of winning because they are playing at home. The match will take place in mid-March and basically both teams have the same chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals. Leverkusen has home advantage, but this is not a guarantee that they can win the match and qualify. Meanwhile Liverpool and Roma have established themselves with big wins against Brighton and Sparta Prague, so the pressure is starting to disappear.

Yes, the second goal was only 2 minutes later, and AC Milan scored the first goal created by Giroud in the 34th minute. Slavia Prague then scored a goal in the 36th minute through David Doudera's hard kick which Mike Maignan was able to parry but Mike Maignan managed to parry but still went in.
And the current score is 3-1 and I think this match will definitely be won by AC Milan. And it is not impossible that AC Milan will score another goal in the second half and in my opinion it will end with a big score for AC Milan, and AC Milan must be able to make good use of the 10 Slavia Prague players.

The match was very tough for leverkusen tonight,at first I was thinking leverkusen will drop the unbeaten record tonight,but to my greatest surprise they dominated the second half with 2goals that's to make it 2:2 what a great come back for leverkusen tonight there performance in the second half of the game was overwhelming.

We all definitely predicted that the winner will be Leverkusen from this match against Qarabag FK. But, it seems that this time, Xabi's strategy, especially in the first half, did not go smoothly. So they actually conceded 2 goals. Xabi finally immediately changed tactics and also introduced their main players in the second half. And finally, they were finally able to score 2 goals too. They should have been more optimal if they included their main players from the start. However, maybe Xabi has other tactics. And this match result will become a precious result for his next decision. Yes, at least,  the result is a draw, and then, they should be leading again in the second leg. Well, at least, Leverkusen's unbeaten record so far has not been broken, with quite a lot of goals scored so far.


Source: Leverkusen unbeaten record

Exactly, well, actually, Liverpool could have predicted from the start that they would definitely be the ones who were superior in this match. However, 5 goals in the first leg, this really gives the green light to progress to the next round.


What is very satisfying is Roma's performance under their new coach. Roma's big win over Birghton with 4 goals was very satisfying. and we might not think that far ahead of the number of goals. And Brighton had absolutely no chance to score a goal. Excelletn, this time, Roma is truly excellent.

Just now, Giroud finally opened up a big opportunity for Milan, with MIlan's first goal in this match. Milan also benefited because the opposing team, Slavia Prague, received 1 red card, so there was still another chance for Milan to score more goals.
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OMG, have just finished typing this post, and Slavia Praha also scored a goal.  
Milan - Slavia Praha
    1    -      1
in minute 40

I think Qarabag could surprise us in the first half because Xabi Alonso used Leverkusen second lineup. Just look at the starting lineup, there are too many substituted players there. When Xabi Alonso released some main players in the second half, they could score 2 goals. The two goals were made by Florian Wirtz and Patrik Schick. These 2 players were in the bench in first half, they just played in second half of the match.

If Xabi used their main lineup, I'm sure Qarabag will have no chance to score goals and Leverkusen must lead the match since the first half. I don't know why Xabi prefers to use their second lineup. He may want to let the main player to have enough time for rest. And he will focus to play all out in the Leg 2, when they are playing at home.

There were two destructions this evening, the destruction from Liverpool whom the scorers were Mac. Alister, D. Nunez(2), L. Diaz & D. Szoboszlai and that of AS Roma whom the scorers were P. Dybala, R. Lukaku, C. Mancini and B. Cristante. great credit to El Sharaway for his double assists that Led to the two last goals. I'm particularly happy for Lukaku for  scoring at least today. They really destroyed Brighton and I seriously doubt they can turn things around during the return leg. I wouldn't even dare mention that of Slavia Prague who lost by such margin from home. Its very obvious that they're no match for Liverpool though, but a bigger ass beating awaits them at  England upon their visit. I love what De Rossi is doing with AS Roma. Its a beauty to watch their match, the offensive pattern of play is clearly converting.

I was already saying this would be them first defeat of my the season and these lads turned the game around, I still don't know how they did that during the last few minutes of the game cake to conclusion. Lol, they're so fckkn stubborn and has also decided not to lose a single game.

Liverpool showing working ahead of the game against Manchester City, who should go home with all three points I can't say but I'm sure it'll be a tough game to see. It would definitely be a battle between Erling Haaland and Darwin Nunez who is currently in a high form this season.

I knew Brighton would not be able to withstand As Roma. The management indeed made a good decision sacking and also appointing De Rossi, he gives me same vibes Xabi Alonso gave me when he took over the job last season.

Not far off from the prediction that Bayern Leverkusen did well in the remaining time of the match, they managed to equalize the 2 goal deficit in the 70th and 90+2 minutes.
Their enthusiasm in every match does not hesitate if their position is behind. They managed to do it also in the previous match.

If in the match against Qarabag FX Xabi Alonso is able to practice this, then in the second leg there is a big possibility of winning the match and qualifying.
No wonder Xabi is in demand to fill Liverpool's coaching chair.

My prediction was not wrong, Munich managed to reverse the lead and go through. I feel confident because Lazio are statistically below Munich. The win in leg 1 was due to a penalty, so the 1 goal was a gift not a strategy. Kane and Lewandowski were outstanding. The one two touch strategy made Bayern Munich manage to make Lazio difficult despite piling up many players in front of the penalty box. At least this is enough to give temporary pleasure to Munich supporters.

Wow, I'm surprised by the big victories of Liverpool and Roma, but the most interesting match in terms of results is still Karabakh - Bayer.
Firstly, Karabakh was really close to breaking Bayer’s phenomenal streak (but apparently it’s so phenomenal that it would require some kind of miracle).
Secondly, the very fact that teams that have already played in the same group are playing in the 1/8 is ridiculous (I think UEFA should fix something here).
The third point is probably a repetition of the first, but still Karabakh, after games in the group where it lost both with a total score of 6-1, was able to give a serious fight to Bayer. I can imagine that in Germany Bayer will take it out on them to the fullest and we will again see something like 4-0 or 5-0.