Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 265. (Read 58914 times)

Before this, Rosa was unlucky in the penalty shootout, so we can say that yesterday luck returned the favor to Roma, but yes, they had a real chance to finish their performance just yesterday.
But now Brighton is ahead and there will be no easy games at all. I haven’t checked the odds yet, but as I understand it, Brighton are serious favorites for the first game in England and overall are a slight favorite to reach the quarter finals.

Yes, you are right, Sparta Prague cannot be underestimated because they have fought hard to beat Galatasaray with an aggregate of 6-4, Sparta beat a club that was relegated from the Champions League and that is a very good achievement as we all know Galatasaray's strength is of course greater if we compare it with a club like Sparta. Sparta Prague was defeated in the first leg with a score of 3:2 and in the second leg Sparta was able to score more goals and more than Galatasaray scored so Liverpool have to be wary of this club because they could put quite a lot of pressure on Liverpool in the first leg and hopefully Liverpool can keep their defense tight.

The match between Brighton vs Roma can indeed be said to be quite difficult, even though Brighton itself is a Premier League club which Roma certainly cannot take lightly. While Roma themselves when facing Feyenoord seemed to have a little difficulty and if it weren't for the penalty Roma might not have qualified for the match. Even though its the same club on average I prefer Brighton in this match to win because it seems like they are more favourites.

There are no doubts now things are going to be interesting as we have top 16 teams in this round and these matches are going to have something special while Roma will host Brighton and Sporting going to face spirited Atlanta Marseille which done good job against Shakhtar now having another challenge as they will host Villarreal which is struggling but can bring good performance in this match and Freiburg which eliminate Lens now have to face West Ham which is currently at worst level with no win into Premier League for last few games, but surely they can do good in this event and have good chance of win as well.

For me most chances Roma, Atlanta, Marseille and West Ham these will be gone into next round because these are having good experience and good performance into their last games and with the same level they can jump into round of 8.

Tight game between As Roma and Brighton. The debut of De Rossi is currently going well and smoothly and he has just lost the game he played against Inter Milan and there was no way he would've won that game.
Roberto De Zebri had also pushed this players this far in this competition, nobody would think ofnrhrm heading this close.

Atalanta should be my pick between them. I would say they need to sack that manager and get a much younger one. I have always wanted Gennaro Gattuso to succeed successfully, I would also love to see him qualify against Villarreal.
Westham United are not so well, they're not the side aid look and say ohh God! Lol.

The match between Sparta and Liverpool should not be underestimated and take Sparta as the underdog in that match. They had to beat Galatasaray in order to get to this point, so I don’t think a team that was able to defeat Galatasaray be underrated in this matchup. Liverpool looks so clear that they will win this match but for them to win they’ve to play a better football and not underage Sparta in this match.

Another match that is clear to be a difficult one to predict is the match between Brighton and Roma. Both teams are average teams in their respective leagues and are both fighting hard and giving bigger teams a difficult time to win them in any match they meet. So I take them both on the same level and an unpredictable match that cannot be decided without it being played yet to see the strength of each team in this competition.

Is obvious that the best candidate is Bayern Leverkusen and Liverpool because they are both the best team of this league season, just like I mentioned on my previous post there is no way the trophy will skip Bayern Leverkusen or Liverpool because we have known how far they have gone in terms of performance on this season especially on there normal leagues, for example Bayern Leverkusen has the best performance on the Bundesliga and this is something that's very rare for them because for a long time they have not perform this good were as beating Bayern Munich on there league table, so is obvious that Bayern Leverkusen targets is to win the Bundesliga and at the same time targets the Europa League because the energy at which they are coming is very serious so right now is still hard to predict the exact club that will certainly win the trophy because Liverpool on the other hand is currently on a good shape and currently they are also leading on the premier League table and the energy and performance they have there targets may also be the both leagues, so right now the competition is within Liverpool and Bayern Leverkusen on this league because there is no club worthy to challenge them.

if I refer based on the team's statistical performance in the Europa League competition, based on the reference I refer to. there are three teams that have the best average scores, namely, Leverkusen, Liverpool and Benfica. Despite the fact that Benfica played with a bad performance in the Champions League, for some reason it was rated as the best team. but what we are discussing is actually not that. but at Leverkusen and Liverpool. Sparta Prague will play Liverpool, Leverkusen will play Qarabag. On paper, referring to the team's performance, Liverpool and Leverkusen have a fairly high probability of qualifying for the next round.

As for the Serie A teams, Milan, Atalanta and AS Roma, I quite doubt they will be able to qualify easily. which means, it is not certain that the three team representatives from Serie A will be able to qualify for the next round. personally, I quite doubt that the Serie A team will advance to the next stage. because Roma will face Brighton, Atlatanta against Sporting. while Milan played the match against Slavia Prague. well, maybe Milan has a chance to qualify for the next phase, if we refer to their big names. however, from all the existing teams. Since the start of this competition, I have favored Leverkusen who will be in the final round. OK, so let's just follow the match that will be presented later. because, each result will be determined when each match is held and we will know the result which team has the right to qualify for the next phase.

Yesterday's Europa League knockout round play offs was an encouraging game outcome for a couple of teams considering that they had to struggle through from the group stages and even were able to advance to the next stage of the competition. Well everyone knew it'd be tough for most teams as they were striving to have a meaningful outcome but only a few could be victorious. Sadly for Lens, Rennes, Toulouse from the French Ligue 1, yes they did their best to stay in the competition and they made meaningful impacts so far in their domestic league games and even in the Europa league but just a little goal margin they weren't able to cover up costed then their advancement. Even though accepting the fact that their opponent wasn't as easy for them, they still tried to stay in the competition both in the first and second legs too.

 The qualified teams though definitely earned it and it's something to be proud of as I'm even as the game and tournament's tempo was high, they didn't bulge or shrink in performance. This only means that the advanced teams would have an extra job to do to be meaningful as every advancement stage means a tougher battle ahead. These teams have all time being best and epic in their respective leagues which also earned them the qualification ticket too, as in the UCL, the UEL is another European contest umbrella that's tough and has a lot of competition in it. One would sit back being patient to predict the winner of the tournament as jumping into predictions now will be risky. These teams left are tough and won't take the tournament easy on themselves. Every team wants to come out victorious, so no one can actually place how much intensity each team would bring to the pitch on matchday.

Of course Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen are the main candidates for the title this season. But Milan can probably do well too, they played well in the qualifiers. I also like Sporting Lisbon, who also did well. I think this Europa League season could easily be a surprise. It could happen that for example Bayer and Liverpool meet before the final.

There have been excellent draws today and I believe that the most interesting games of these round of 16 are
Rome vs brighton
Sporting vs Atalanta
Marseille vs Vilillaal
Freiburg vs West Ham
For me they are the games to be kept more but the others are also quite interesting

The match was very close and yes I must have to say Roma was actually pretty lucky to win the match in penalties. Actually, we all know that in the penalties it can go either way. I thought Roma was pretty lucky to finally win this match. And I also thought this match shouldn't have gone the distance that it had.

Do you guys think Roma will go the distance in this tournament? I actually do not think so.

Actually, the difficulty that they are already facing is pretty incredible. And I think right now they are also fighting really hard in the Serie A.  
So they will have to be really concentrated on that as well. Might be hard for them to concentrate on two competitions at the same time

With all due respect to these clubs, such pictures must be accompanied by text because not every football fan knows the coat of arms of Karabakh or Slavia 
In addition to top pairs like Roma - Brighton, I would pay attention to the Sparta - Liverpool pair, despite the fact that Sparta will be a clear underdog it can cause a lot of problems for Liverpool (which is focused on the Premier League), their victory over Galatasaray impressed me.

Liverpool and Leverkusen are the main candidates to win the title, meanwhile Milan, Atalanta, Roma, Villareal are teams that could also provide a surprise in the Europa League this season. We don't yet know which team will advance to the final, but considering the performance of each team in the domestic league, Liverpool and Leverkusen are two of the 16 best.

Personally, I tend to think Liverpool can advance to the final round of the Europa League this season, but other teams are simply not worth taking lightly. There will be 8 teams that will qualify for the quarter-finals and some of them are easy to predict. Leverkusen, Liverpool, Milan, Roma, Benfica, Atalanta, Villarreal and West Ham are my favorites for the quarter-finals, but of course there is no guarantee whether they will actually qualified.

What did you mean, mate?
When I posted it, the match has ended and it ended with penalty shootout. Check the information there. 

That's it. But unfortunately, after that, Feyenoord was really able to match Roma in every way. even Feye was more offensive. For away matches here, Feyenoord could be considered quite good and tough enough, especially in Rome. Roma itself has several advantages when it comes to shooting penalties, some of their executing players were more superior to Feyenoord, both in terms of skills and mentality. Moreover, this match was in Rome.

Exactly, Svilar made it. His two saves made Roma win the match. Look how his expression and celebration after saving the shootout. It was awesome.

Mile Svilar

Most likely it's very probable that Liverpool is most definitely going to win against Sparta Prague and Prague may just end their journey in the Europa at this point because I don't see klop trading his opportunity to getting to the next stage of this competition for any reason, he would rather have a narrow win than loosing out in this game completely because he's definitely not going to have another opportunity with Liverpool in the Europa after this time.

Sparta Prague isn't really a bad or weak team but they don't have a very good level of experience at the Europa as they have gotten pass this stage only a few times in the Europa but Liverpool is very much experience not only in the Europa but in other elite leagues aswell and this period they are aswell in a very good form that could means that they are most likely to win because Prague may not be a able to put up good resistance to stop Liverpool from winning them at any point but then I would still say Liverpool should give their very best in this game if they must stay in the league and not get eliminated by mistake

It can be said that Milan is the team with the most ambition to win the Europa League trophy this season, because in Series A it is no longer possible for Pioli fleet to overtake Inter at the top of the standings. Liverpool has a good chance of winning the Premier League trophy, While Leverkusen also has a big chance of winning the Bundesliga trophy. But overall, Winning two or three titles in one season is the ambition of all teams.

Liverpool, Leverkusen and Milan really deserve to be favorites, but we also can't ignore the chances of the other contestants. Several teams that have difficulty finishing in the UCL zone in their respective domestic leagues will try their best to win the Europa League Trophy and get tickets to appear in the UCL next season. this background is what I think is very interesting, but I agree that the European League presents more unexpected surprises.

On the other hand, we can see one of the surprises in the play off round yesterday, I didn't expect Galatasaray to be eliminated by Sparta Prague. Does not rule out the possibility that the three favorite teams will be eliminated first in the quarter finals or semi finals, but if we refer to their consistency in the domestic league, Liverpool and Leverkusen are ideal to become finalists this season.

I agree. Yes, maybe Galatasaray was not a very strong team, but they will play against Liverpool in the next match. I think Liverpool is one of the strongest teams in the league. To be honest, today I am saddened that Galatasaray was eliminated in the previous round. When I saw Sparta Prague's opponent, I thought Galatasaray was lucky because Turkish teams cannot play very well against Liverpool and we lost many matches in the past

Looking at the results of the European League draw, I also have a prediction like yours, the team you mentioned will qualify for the next round because they have the opportunity and have good quality players. With the composition of the team that will qualify for the quarter-finals, I predict that the one that will advance to the final round will be Liverpool vs Leverkusen because both teams are both on fire in their respective leagues and of course have a high fighting spirit.

For Liverpool, this trophy will be dedicated to Klopp's departure at the end of the season and for Leverkusen this is their opportunity to marry the Bundesliga and Europa League trophies with the brilliant squad that Leverkusen currently has. Yes, fortunately the European League currently does not have Sevilla because they are the kings of the European League. If Sevilla were there maybe he would be one of the favourites. Because even though in Laliga they are not very good, in Europe their performance is always epic like last year, in Laliga it is very bad but in the European League they are champions.

Very strong teams in the cup have made it to the last 16 and are already scaring their opponents. In my opinion, the favorites for the cup are Liverpool, Leverkusen and Milan. There may be surprises in football and no one can be sure of the outcome, but still the level of these teams is higher than other teams. Maybe they will care more about the matches in their domestic league and will not show much interest in the matches in this cup. If such a thing happens, there may be unexpected teams among the teams that pass the tour.

Especially after the last 16 rounds, the performance of all teams increases and the team can be motivated in a different way. These motivations can lead to matches being played harder and being prone to surprising results.

But at least, on the left side there are other seeded teams apart from Liverpool, because there are also Milan and AS Roma, which were previously discussed in this thread quite a lot about these teams have a chance of becoming title candidates. Therefore, for the next round which takes place on the left side, the seeded teams will bring together and of course it will be a more competitive competition compared to the teams on the right side. Even though there are still famous teams such as Marseille, Benfica, Sporting/Atalanta but still, the team that can definitely advance to the final is Bayer Leverkusen. Therefore, I think the competition that occurs on the left side will be a more interesting competition because it will bring together title candidate teams and make the competition more competitive in the left side.