Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 258. (Read 58914 times)

Sparta Praha team cannot be called weak at the moment. Sparta Praha lost 3-2 away match against Galatasaray. But Sparta Praha made a great comeback in the home match. The team won the home match by a huge margin of 4-1 and qualified for the round of 16. Sparta Praha's players proved their mettle. So it would be foolish to think that Liverpool can easily defeat Sparta Praha. The match will certainly be competitive. Sparta Praha players will do their best to win. Liverpool will have to perform well if they want to win. Liverpool have little chance of beating Sparta Praha, especially if the defenders don't play well.



The Liverpool team is under pressure at the moment. Firstly, several key players in their starting XI are injured. Especially the two main attacking players Salah and Nunez are not with the squad due to injuries. Also, Liverpool have a very busy schedule right now. Two days after the match against Sparta Praha, Liverpool will play against Manchester City. City must be beaten if they want to win the Premier League title. So I think Liverpool coach Klopp will not take the match against Sparta Praha seriously. Their main target is to perform well against Manchester City.

Playing in front of your fans will give you more spirit to play better. I don't literally agree with what you said above. There are many journal regarding the impact from the fans to boost the mentality from their favorite clubs. You would be feeling even more confidence to play in front of your fans rather than away.
It's caused by your fans would chant in supporting their favorite club. It doesn't even make sense if you were not even seeing how big the impact owned by the fans. The match between roma and brighton is still very hard to predict but consider the recent performance from brighton and i pick roma to win the game.

AS Roma are in better shape than Brighton in the Europa League. Brighton are not in better shape currently, even in the Premier League. They have been experiencing bad times, although I cannot guarantee AS Roma winning as I don’t know what the match will be for them, but I’m sure they will deliver their polling unit positively because they have been consistently playing in the league this season, and obviously Brighton are even better than them in any way as long as the Europa League is concerned this season. Although for me, I cannot predict these matches as you just confidently gave AS Roma winning, but I’m sure they will do well.

Furthermore, AS Roma are going to play at home, so playing in front of their fans will give them more motivation to do more than we are expecting from them, and as it’s now, they were performing well last season, so they will do their best to see that they get the same thing or even the title this season. However, let’s wait and see how Roma are going to perform against Brighton.

I don't think Liverpool is at their best, to be honest. Their position is good, and they can score, but the team is a bit shaky atm. They were forced to play their academy kids and while the result is promising, their gameplay is arguably worse compared to before. It is understandable since they fielded a lot of new players with so little experience, hence why if nothing changes I believe the chance to defeat Liverpool is quite decent. Things will be difficult at Anfield, but if Sparta can hold them back, they will have a bigger chance to hit them back at home. This next month will be a fragile period for Liverpool IMO, even if they have a great mentality you can't really use that to fix a lack of coordination or experience playing in Europe for the youngsters.

As we are heading for the round of 16 which is going to play next week things are looking tricky for the few underdogs like Sparta which done impressive performance against Galatasaray and beat them at home for the qualification now going to host Liverpool which is currently at his best, but sadly due to injury things are looking not easy but still compatible for them but spirited Sparta can create too many problems for them which they need to be handled with into their limits because if they are not going to do things as they needed surely we can expect any upset in this game.

Liverpool is currently leading the Premier League, and they are also having EFL Cup into their pocket with they are looking for the best end of this season, and they are having three trophies under their radar which they can steal from their opponents but surely this need hard fought games to win and also having all players at their best hopefully we will have this match with full of entertainment for the all soccer fans.

Yeah, now in recent years we have no home advantage for the teams with quality and consistency is more important for the teams with like already mentioned we have too many games in last few days which were badly lost by home teams as they were not capable of handling opponents as they were expecting this match between AS Roma vs Brighton & Hove Albion is going to be challenging for the both sides even we have good improvement in AS Roma after change of coach but still they will never underestimate their opponent which is also having good performance in this season, and they are still doing their best for another UEFA event in coming season which is not easy but still possible for them.

I don't agree that both have almost the same performance because as far as I know, each club have different performance depending on whether they have quality players or not. Brighton is in a quite difficult league as you said. Brighton is used to facing quite difficult clubs as you mentioned and the competition in the Premier League is very tight and not as tight as the Italian league. Even though both of them are almost in the same rank, Brighton's achievement in 7th place is not an easy thing to overcome, therefore we cannot view both of them as having almost equal performance because in fact they do not have the same performance, but if we look at it from the perspective of Roma's experience has better experience in the Europa League than Brighton, therefore it is natural that Roma is still superior in this match.

Just like you, it is also difficult for me to predict between the two clubs who will qualify for the next round because to be honest I doubt Roma because currently they are no longer coached by Jose Mourinho who has better experience than De Rossi but yes, we also don't know De Rossi abilities yet in all, but if you look at the play off round, Roma seems to a little difficulty against Feyenoord, even though as we know last season, Roma was able to beat Feyenoord in the first leg and second leg in the European league, but this season Roma was only able to draw in two meetings, if not because of the penalty, it is possible that Roma will not qualify for the round of 16 Roma was quite lucky in that match.

There's nothing like taking home advantage, because the current epic moment of football differs, have you not seen a situation where the home team becomes the one to suffer humiliating loss. For instance, Sassuolo hosts Napoli and ended up losing 6-1. The same scenario happen between Luton Town and Manchester City, where the Citizens mercilessly flogged Luton Town at Kenilworth road. We usually understand the Europa matches and it becomes more interesting at crucial phases this season. The game fixtures fixed between AS Roma vs Brighton & Hove Albion becomes tougher and unpredictable. Expect we will be settling for GG from both sides, there's no way both team will nets at the back of the nets.

This should be one of the most toughest match in this round because both teams are high class teams and will give themselves tough time in order for one to prevail. Roma are use to to the league and have had more experience of the European competitions than Brighton has since their qualification to the premier league. AS Roma is a big team in the Serie A and have performed in almost every year’s European competitions, so I feel they have the experience and the talents put together to advance to the next round than Brighton will. Although, Brighton should not be underrated also because they’ve come very far to make it to this competition and are still doing well in their domestic league. Let’s wait to see how the match is being played out because a winner cannot just be decided base on their past performances in the competition.

Most of the teams don't really actively underestimate their opponents, but it is in their minds that they believe there is a gap in quality and therefore the game has been decided before it even started. Getting the mindset right for these kinds of games is the job that the coach has to get done in my opinion. I fully agree with your point of view that a team that has made it into the round of 16 has to be taken seriously no matter what. But deep down in the minds of the players there might be a different opinion about the situation. However,  when you talk about Liverpool, I think that is a team that has the perfect coach to deal with these situations on the one hand, and on the other hand all of the players have plenty of experience and are long enough in the business to know that ignorance can be punished very hard in football. I doubt that Liverpool would be one of those teams that falls victim to underestimating their opponent.

Yes indeed, based on experience as a head coach, of course, De Zerbi has more or longer experience than De Rossi. So of course, De Zerbi has a better chance of being able to provide a good strategy for Brighton in the match against AS Roma later. But at least, considering that De Rossi has also so far been quite successful in providing good results for AS Roma, then yes, at least the match between Brighton v AS Roma will still be a difficult match for the two teams.

Therefore, at least I still think these two teams still have an equally good chance even though indeed, it still seems quite difficult for De Rossi to get good results in the Europa League. Because after all, in the previous match also the fact that AS Roma was not easy to beat Feyenoord and therefore, although Brighton and AS Roma have a good chance but it seems like Brighto will be the favorite team to win and to qualify for the next round.

Your not wrong at all, underestimating any team that made it to the round of 16 is a poor choice, if you have been following up on the league you would find out that they scored quite the amount of goals on a average of 2 in almost every match, and I think sparta is a good team cause I did least expect them to beat a team like Galatasaray which in terms of form was quite higher than them.

Liverpool might have a hard time against them but I am least expecting them to let their hard down against sparta, they have a good defence that sparta might find a hard time breaking unless by counter measures, liverpool is back on form and salah has resumed from injuries, liverpool might be aiming to win the europa league since apart from the fa cup they are not in any big cup.

All the teams that managed to reach the last 16 of the European League are of course the best teams and should not be underestimated, as you said, Sparta Prague managed to reach the last 16 by beating Galatasaray which is a club that is strengthened by many star players, Sparta  success Beating Galatasaray proves that Sparta Prague can be a threat for Liverpool to win the European League trophy this season, from the available statistics, so far the two teams have only met twice with 1 win for Liverpool and 1 draw.

Indeed, in terms of the quality of Liverpool's game, it is clearly better than Sparta, but if we look at Sparta's position, which is currently capable of being at the top of the standings in the Czech league, of course Liverpool cannot take them lightly, I quite agree with you, Klopp should not take Sparta lightly because after all it is possible that Sparta will give Liverpool a surprise in the first leg, especially since Sparta will play at home, which will make the Sparta players more motivated to beat Liverpool, so if Liverpool loses in the first leg of course it will make Liverpool have to try harder to win in the second leg, especially now that Liverpool will face a fairly tight schedule that has the potential to make their main players tired in the second leg.

Not entirely sure about it as much as you are, feels like there could be something that may change, and while we do look at it like Roma should be getting a win because they are getting better, Brighton has some amazing young talents that they could use as well.

So I do not see this to be something good, I just see it as a tough matchup, I believe that Brighton has a chance to win as well, so there shouldn't really be anything that would confuse them all that much. I will not be betting on either game to be fair, because I am not sure what's going to happen, I can just assume what may happen, but I am pretty sure that I would be wrong and there is no reason why I should be accepting something like that to be possible for me.

I think Brighton is luckier in this matchup in terms of some facts. De Zerbi knows Italian football well and is a quality coach. On the other hand, his experience is better than De Rossi. He also knows how to motivate his players. When we add the Premier League experience to this, a great team emerges. In my opinion, Rome's chances are very difficult. They must play without mistakes and take advantage of every opportunity.

Brighton performance in the English league does look unstable, but I don't think that can be a reason to underestimate Brighton in the match against Roma later, because Brighton not a club which easy to beat, especially the eropean league made main focuses from brighton for to win a trophy this season, indeed roma performance is still better in the domestic league, but at least we can see that the opponents Roma face in the domestic league are none other than teams that are considered weak compared to the teams that Brighton faces in the English league, so that's the reason why I don't consider their performance in the domestic league as a reference for guessing the winner that the match.

But on the other hand, perhaps as a team playing at home, Roma will of course get a little moral advantage from the support of the supporters, apart from that, Kaoru Mitoma injury will certainly make Roma a little relieved because it will reduce attacking aggressiveness from brighton in the match, Kaoru Mitoma is a vital player for Brighton and In fact, he is one of the most dangerous players that Brighton has at the moment.

Brighton Albion are a mid-table team in the Premier League, but it is very difficult to predict how they will play against Roma. Premier league experience is very important. They are playing against a lot of strong teams and I'm sure they know how to beat Roma. Even if they don't know, I'm sure the technical team can make a few analyzes by looking at Feyenoord matches. A good match awaits us. It will be fun to watch this match.

Galatasaray beat Sparta Prague 3-2 in the first leg. In fact, Sparta Prague played better than Galatasaray in that game too, but in the last minute Icardi scored a great goal to give Galatasaray a chance to advance to the next round.

The Sparta Prague team I watched against Galatasaray was a good team. I don't give them much chance against Liverpool, just like you, but any team that reaches this stage of the tournament has the potential to win the cup. If Liverpool underestimate Sparta Prague, they will be eliminated from the tournament. They have to be careful.

In fact, AS Roma game has changed since De Rossi's presence, but De Rossi abilities still need time to proof and to ensure his strategy will help provide a win in all match conditions. IMO, De Rossi needs to ensure in this match, is how his team can anticipated the fast tempo from EPL clubs. If De Rossi is successful, then it is possible that AS Roma can win the match vs Brighton. Playing in their home based can help AS Roma playing with their good confidence.