Indeed. Leverkusen and Liverpool often becomes the headlines of our discussion in UEL. I think it is normal because these teams are the most stronger teams in UEL. Both Leverkusen and Liverpool performed impressively this season, they can lead the domestic league so far. So, I think people are very reasonable if they make these teams to be the favorite teams to win UEL.
However, it is true that everything is a speculation or a guess. We only consider it by analyzing the stats of their performance, the squad quality, and the reputation of the coach. In the field, these sometimes can't guarantee to win, the result of the match can be unpredictable. In some cases, smaller teams can defeat favorite teams.
I also think it makes sense that many parties favor Bayer Leverkusen and Liverpool as strong candidates to win the Europa League title if you look at both of them currently in a very impressive domestic league which is even predicted to have the potential to become champions. in their respective leagues.
These parties are considering various metrics to determine which shall be the team to win the europa league this season. Leverkusen has been showing amazing and consistent performance in europa league and domestic league. Can we call it as a bad club? We can't.
Just try to take the fact that if leverkusen even the main competitor for bayern munich in the bundesliga. We do know that how strong bayern munich is right now and it gives us a new impression if leverkusen should be on the UCL instead of europa league with its current level of gameplay.
Look at how good the gameplay of leverkusen compared to the another club in europa league. Liverpool was the only strongest competitor to win europa league this season.
Yes, it's true, sometimes the quality of the squad and statistics are not always the benchmark for easily advancing to the final round, there will be many surprises on the way there, even teams that were previously not favorites actually beat the favorite team. This is what the teams that are favorites to become champions have to be aware of, don't underestimate their opponents in the knockout round because in football anything can happen. And there are also teams in the domestic league that perform poorly but they are good in the European league like Sevilla last season.
Europa league is far hard to be predicted compared to the UCL. We do know that if UCL has been dominated by the strongest in european continent but europa league was sometimes giving us surprise like when sevilla won europa league again last season.
None has ever predicted that if sevilla could do that through dramatic ways. So, im also valuing europa league so high. This means that if this competition is worthy enough to be watched caused by there will always be many surprises to come.