Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 266. (Read 58914 times)

This is really a tough Europa League and actually a competition that I am looking forward to. Of course the Champions League will always be king, but there is a multitude of options for a final in the Europa League that would really be top notch!

AC Milan, Benfica, Leverkusen, Liverpool, I would say those are my favorites and if were allowed to pick the finalists right now, I would enjoy Liverpool vs. Leverkusen the most. But a lot has to happen in order for that to become possible, not least that they don't play against each other before the final takes place.

But yes Benfica is playing an amazing season in their domestic league. No more need to talk about Leverkusen here and what they are doing in their domestic league. The same counts for Liverpool and I think that AC Milan is a team that can always win a game even against a superior opponent.

So my favorites are Liverpool and Leverkusen and if I had to go with one team, I would go with Liverpool because I think the energy in that team would be maxed out given the whole story that will be enfolding towards the end of the season as Klopp is leaving. What a goodbye would that be!

your choice is very right and the most important thing is that the main candidates to reach the final round are only Liverpool and Leverkusen who are currently considered very strong in the european league this season and I will not ignore Milan even though this team is also very consistent but it seems very difficult if In the quarter finals, Milan had to compete against Leverkusen and Liverpool, which would be a big disaster for Milan and the opportunity to reach the final would be more difficult if they had competed against one of the two strongest teams in the quarter finals.

but that's all just a momentary prediction that I'm thinking at the moment because after all in football there is always something surprising and something that happens that doesn't match our predictions and even strong teams can sometimes lose to being displaced a team that looks weak.
well, fortunately Sevilla didn't qualify for the european league after failing to get a seat to go to the european league and I can't imagine that if Sevilla could join the european league everything would definitely change in a surprising way like a strong team would be displaced Sevilla like last season when Sevilla won the title in the european league.
for now, we can pretty much predict with the limitations we see now, but after entering the quarter finals, it will be easier for us to predict more precisely.

The fixtures are tough for some of these gamblers to predict but it's rather consider simple for the experience ones. I'm solely behind Liverpool to lift the Europa title this season, they failed to qualify for the UCL spots and winning the Europa will be consider as an illustration for this particular club. The round of 16 remained competitive because the club's I'm seeing here are not mediocre but elite team. We know what it means, these elite teams will execute outstanding display on the pitch. Leverkusen and Liverpool are the promising clubs to reach the Europa final.

I so much love the progress of Brighton this season, Most especially in the Uefa Europa League Competition, they have just qualified for the very first time no doubts but take a good look at hoe far they've have come with Roberto De Zebri in this very competition. They've come this far and wouldn't have done it any better without the support of the fans.

The fixture with As Roma is by far the toughest in this round of the tournament whoever wins would definitely go a long way in this Competition.
The clubs between Bayern Leverkusen and Liverpool are games they can definitely win. Ac Milan are big dogs in the European Competitions from way back. I can not day nothing about them.

Sporting Lisbon versus Atalanta, and Marseille against Villarreal are games difficult for me to predict.

I'll try to make my prediction until the finals hehe, I'll think about it for a while

Sporting will have a great opponent, despite having escaped Liverpool and Bayern Leverkusen, Atalanta are doing very well in the Italian championship and have won their last games, it will be very complicated, but with conditions for both teams, and in my opinion, it's almost a 50/50 chances

Benfica will face Rangers, who are top of the local league, and it won't be easy either, as they qualified first in the same group as Betis and Sparta
In this match, I'd say Benfica have a slightly better chance of qualifying

On the Left side, The teams I predict will win their games are Liverpool, Roma, West Ham and AC Milan

On the right side, Marsellie, Rangers, Sporting and Bayer Leverkusen.

For the finals, I predict Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen.

The most difficult game in the fixtures is Roma against Brighton.

I don't think that it will be easy for Sparta Prague to play Liverpool, who is one of the strongest or if not the strongest club in the league, and they should know that they will be going home, because Liverpool will not allow them to come from behind, and win the match just like what they did yesterday. It was a great victory for Sparta Prague yesterday against Galatasaray who was winning the game with goal aggregate on the first half, but became weak on the second half to the point that Sparta Prague scored 3 goals in the second half, and snatched the qualification to the round of 16 from their visitors. This is the first time since 2016/2017 that Sparta Prague has qualified to the round of 16. Liverpool will put a stop on them.

In general, Galatasaray had a series of 10 wins before the match with Sparta Prague! Ten matches in a row Galatasaray only won, including match with Sparta in Stambul, but then there was a game in Prague, which Galatasaray lost 1:4, although the match is the most important for the team. Turkish teams very often fail in such matches, although they play quite well before, but they can not tune in to the decisive matches.

I think no one from the management and the team will suffer here, because before this game Galatasaray played great and is still leading in the local championship.

Turkish teams really needs to make something, is a always a shame their participations in europe, they lose against much weakers teams and having a team full of well know or already stars in their starters, all player who come from the top 5 leagues.

What a luck for Sparta Prague man.... first Galatasaray and now Liverpool.

There are still two more rounds to reach the final, each team has the potential to fall in the round of 16, even though the draw results bring together the seeded and unseeded teams. I predict AC Milan, Leverkusen, Liverpool, Sporting, West Ham, Benfica, Brighton and Marseille will advance to the quarter finals. This is only a temporary assumption, because the opportunities for these teams may change in the future, they may improve or they may experience setbacks. Liverpool is the favorite team to win in this seasons, after that there are Leverkusen and AC Milan. However, the European League is full of surprises, fortunately Sevilla did not appear this season, they failed to qualify for the play offs because they finished in fourth place in group B of the Champion League.

The match roma vs brighton must become the toughest one. Im not seeing other interesting match than this caused by liverpool, acmilan and leverkusen got easy draw in this round. They will be qualifying to the next round easily. Brighton could become the toughest test for roma. Roma was unlucky caused by it's always getting tough opponent.
I can't even imagine that how disappointed roma is right now. The club was rarely getting easy opponent but it's a common thing. yet roma needs also to make fully preparation against brighton caused by its opponent was a strong club. Brighton is starting to perform well in EPL.
I can't say which team that will be dominating the game but i strongly believe that brighton may be qualifying for the next round. Roma is good but it's not as good as bayern. This match will be the only interesting match from the draw.
Very disappointed to see that some strong clubs were getting weasy opponents and they can got o the next round easily. Things are not going so well for roma and the fans need to pray for this club to perform better against brighton.
We can't see brighton as unfavored club this season. People rarely mentioned it but brighton is still a club that was making the big clubs in EPL struggle to beat it. So, this is the main point from roma to bear brighton when the continuation will happen soon.

Yes, I agree, of the teams that have qualified for the round of 16, I think Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen deserve to be potential Europa League finalists, but that doesn't mean other teams can't get there. However, looking at the two teams whose performance is consistent in the League and Europa League, what's more, there are two coaches whose expertise in putting together teams certainly makes the Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen teams worthy of meeting in the Europa League final.
Although initially Liverpool hoped to meet AC Milan to be able to repeat the 2004 and 2007 Champions League Finals, seeing Milan's inconsistent performance made me a little doubtful that Milan could qualify for the final.

It was a tough night for Galatasaray, and it is definitely a shame that they lost that badly, and I believe that they are going to do something major with the team about that. They failed to have the full squad ready and we are in February right now, to think that a few players couldn't be ready for February games should mean that there is something wrong with the team, and that is why I believe that they are going to end up with much better transfers from here on out.

The problem with clubs is that they are not really that consistent with the staff, and when staff learns their lessons from mistakes, they end up getting fired for those mistakes and never show how they improved. Next season, I bet they will get players who are much more ready to play.

Nice drawing match result for UEFA Europe League round of 16, there are not any top teams have to face each other exactly Liverpool and Bayern Leverkusen will not face in 16 of round.  Regarding the Europe League drawing for round of 16 I think interested with AS Roma vs Brighton. Its first time for both team face each other due first time for Brighton Albion success lead to Europe League.

Regarding how much experienced from AS Roma in their appearances in European competition they will be more favorable team for winning against Brighton Albion.

The presence of Sparta Prague will not be taken lightly by Liverpool because after all this team needs to be wary of because Sparta Prague managed to get rid of Galatasaray in the play-off round with a score that was quite large, making Liverpool feel anxious if Sparta Prague used a fairly difficult attacking strategy, but even though So I'm quite sure that Liverpool can definitely beat Sparta Prague even though they have to work harder because sometimes teams like that can provide surprises that we can't expect.

Yes Liverpool still have enough time to prepare themselves so they can beat Sparta Prague, but unfortunately in this first leg Liverpool have to play away and of course this is very difficult for Liverpool, and I think Jurgen Kloop will prepare a defensive strategy so that they don't concede as easily as before. They faced Galatasaray with a surprising score, but the performance of Galatasaray and Liverpool is very different, Liverpool should be quite strong when compared to Galatasaray in the next match.

Milan, Liverpool, Brighton and Bayer Leverkusen are good teams. One of these teams can win the cup. I think it would be a surprise if one of the other teams wins the cup. I don't think there will be any surprises in this tournament. One of the favorite teams will win the cup. Also, there's one thing I noticed in the table. There are two Czech teams at this stage of the tournament. Galatasaray was eliminated by one of them. I had the chance to watch Sparta Prague and I think they can continue to get good results in this tournament.

For round of 16 i was very interested to see the match between Liverpool vs Sparta Prague because this is their first meeting again after 2011 and obviously those meetings records cannot be used anymore as the reference because the conditions from both teams is clearly different now but Liverpool as champion candidate their performance during group stages is not very impressive because Liverpool only able to gets 4 wins from 6 matches and 2 loses but Sparta Prague today has just made epic comeback because they can able to beat Galatasaray with huge scores 4-1 so they are in the strong motivation to win the match

What i impress from Liverpool is this season their players has strong champion mentality because Liverpool was suffering storm injured several times but it doesn't have any affect for their performance because Liverpool still can able to managed their consistency on Premier League and Europa league and the latest is when they able to beat Luton Town yesterday however i still hope some of Liverpool players will be recover before first leg begin so it would be so fantastic if Liverpool playing with all of their key players in that match but regardless the conditions of Liverpool later but i am still confident they can able to overcomes Sparta Prague and advances to the quarterfinal and first leg Sparta Prague will playing as a host and if Liverpool can able to gets at least draw result from that match then i am sure their journey for second leg will be more easy

Very tough set of fixtures there, here are my predictions:
Liverpool
Marsaille
Brighton
Benfica
West Ham
Atlanta
AC Milan
Leverkusen

I am expecting only 2 of the seeded teams to not make it into the quarter finals.

Does it get any better?

I do not think either Liverpool or Leverkusen would get knocked out till they face each other.

- Jay -

I really admire the work Qarabag did yesterday.    They had to deal with an extra difficulty because of getting a red card. But despite the red card they were still able to do incredible things in extra time. That goal in the last moments of extra time was so dramatic for Qarabag to carry themselves to next phase without penalty shootouts. But now Qarabag are going to face Leverkusen in this phase so I think this is the end of the road.

I would like to say Braga would have played better if this game was played in the Champions League. However I can't. Because after witnessing how horrible Benfica were there it is hard to be sure of Braga there as well. 

For me the most difficult match and even I can't predict the result is the Roma vs Brighton match. Although currently Roma has improved under De Rossi's coaching. But still, against Brighton, who are from the Premier League, it will definitely be very difficult. I prefer to support AS Roma to beat Brighton. But I'm starting to doubt AS Roma who even had difficulty beating Feyenoord. And Roma was just lucky because they were ahead in the penalty shootout against Feyenoord. And yeah it wasn't quite an impressive win. So I am pessimistic about this season for Roma.