Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 411. (Read 58914 times)

Real Betis are through last 16 round once again indeed. It has become pretty much a habit for them in the recent years as well. Because they were able to achieve the same success in the previous two seasons too. However in none of them they were able to make it to upper rounds. We will see whether they can do it this time.

But they were really unlucky with draws in both of those seasons at the same time. In the previous season they faced Manchester United in their good times and the Red Devils destroyed them. Before that season they faced Frankfurt which ended up being the champions too.  

Even if Sparta Prague wins this match, it has to win the next match as well, it does not seem like it will have a chance with only one match. Also, Real Betis has played very well so far and managed to win in the previous match.
It will be a very critical match for Sparta Prague, but I do not think they will be able to get points from this match. I think Betis will win this match and finish the group as the leader. Maybe if they draw, there may be one last chance for Sparta Prague, but their chances are quite low right now

Real Betis last season can able to advances to the round of 16 but unfortunately at that time they have to lose from Manchester United with aggregate total 5-1 but i think they have a good chances to repeat their achievement from last season because currently Real Betis still able to occupy first place on group C and for their upcoming opponent on 5th match Real Betis will faced Sparta Prague and first meeting looks good for Real Betis because they can win with narrow scores and this time they will playing away at Sparta Prague home ground and mathematically Real Betis only required draw result to qualified but i think they can able to win again from Sparta Prague considering from squad quality Real Betis is far better from Sparta Prague

I think this is still a major difference between the Europa League and the Champions League. What Sevilla has done in the Europa League last season given how they played in La Liga, is a very rare occurrence. There have been teams not doing that well in their leagues, but still did quite well in the Champions League. But the way that Sevilla was winning round after round in the Europa League while struggling in La Liga so hard that they temporarily had to be thinking about the relegation zone, I think this is not something I have seen happening in the Champions League.

I did not expect Sevilla to do particularly well in the Champions League for that reason. At some point if a team is constantly fighting quality battles, it is because they don't have enough of it and in the Champions League, having quality is a must.

Sevilla playing in the Europa League will no longer surprise us; they always play in this competition and always dominate it over all other teams who compete in it. After winning the Europa League last season and receiving automatic qualification to the Champions League, I expected them to play and perform incredibly well in the Champions League, just as they did in the Europa League. Their chances of qualifying are very slim because they wasted some opportunity that would have given them an advantage. Due to the number of talented clubs that will compete if they return to the Europa League, it will be a highly intriguing competition to watch at the knockout stage of the competition. For Liverpool and Leverkusen, they seem to be a very dominant team in the competition so far and are also worthy of winning the Europa League title amongst the number of many teams involved in the competition.

Liverpool team is very strong. Liverpool's defeat against Toulouse in the last match was a completely unexpected result. None of us were prepared for such an outcome. I think many gamblers lost their money in this match. However, I expect Liverpool to win in the upcoming matches. And Liverpool will remain at the top of the points table. However, the Liverpool team cannot maintain consistency like Leverkusen. The strongest teams in the Europa League so far are Liverpool and Leverkusen. However, Liverpool's main target is to do well in the Premier League. And so we don't see a very good performance from Liverpool in Europa League matches. I am not even sure if the Liverpool team will qualify for the quarter finals of the Europa League. Last season we saw Barcelona, who played poorly in Europa League but won La Liga.

Yes, sometimes Liverpool make mistakes which result in their defeat, like what Liverpool did when they visited the Touluse stadium, as a result Liverpool were unable to maintain their consistency, but so far Liverpool are still strong in the European league and are still leading group E and in Liverpool's remaining 2 matches I am sure Liverpool will show their best performance so that they can maintain their consistency like their rival Leverkusen is currently doing, which has not yet suffered defeat. I don't see other teams that have the strength like Leverkusen and Liverpool being strong candidates, but we can see whether clubs that didn't qualify for the Champions League can preventing Liverpool and Leverkusen from fighting for the European league title.

Winning europa league must be a good achievement caused by it will give liverpool one of important trophy and UCL spot freely without needed to fight even harder for the EPL trophy. Klopp shall have targeted europa league this season but the club needs to put more effort caused by there will be some strong clubs that is going to prevent it to happen soon. People rarely mentioning roma in this competition.

They seem forgot with what achieved by roma. This club is strong enough to win europa league this season. Liverpool is going to have some strong competitors.
There will be more to come from UCL. Klopp can prepare his club much better to face all of the strong clubs in europa league. UCL has become the main target owned by klopp at this moment.

I hope he will able to bring liverpool to win europa league again. bookies still favoring liverpool rather than other club.

Indeed. Liverpool and Leverkusen are the most favorite teams to win Europa League title this season. I really hope these teams will be in the final round, it will be an ideal final. Liverpool has a strong squad, their squad quality have been proven enough, they even can beat Man City in EPL. Sure, Liverpool has the capability to beat any team but unfortunately they sometimes do unnecessary mistakes and it leads to the losses. Sometimes, Liverpool players play underperformance, especially their attackers. If they can play consistently and avoid the mistakes, no doubt Liverpool will win this competition this season.

The confidence is a bit odd I agree because being confident about winning a title requires a remarkable performance across all competitions with essentially zero mistakes all the way. Liverpool has had some problems in the Premier League although they are doing well at the moment, but they have also lost a game in the Europa League. It wasn't the most important game, but still a team that people are confident in winning the Europa League at this early stage of the competition should also pay attention to the little things and not give away a game in the Europa League like they did against Toulouse. This can also happen if the game is more serious against a stronger opponent.

This is true. Ever since Boniface was signed in Leverkusen he has performed very well. It surprised me a lot how he was able to adopt to the team play and the country lifestyle. Definitely his ex-club Liverpool will be missing his absence while watching how he strikes for Bayern Leverkusen. Currently he is their most esteemed striker so if anything should to him, there will be a lot of lapses in the team. Boniface has seven goals in eleven matches, and he is currently in a race for the highest goal scorer in the Bundesliga.

EPL rankings, we can sight Liverpool at second position and they're rivals with Manchester City for the league title, indirectly they're in competitive race with City for the trophy and also competitive in Europa league. Jurgen Klopp have plans to achieved major trophies this season and he's working towards ensuring everything becomes tight spot and closer for his team. Liverpool chances of winning the Europa trophy keeps improving every day because the more the days passes by, the stronger Liverpool becomes in the league and less competitive are their oppositions.

I mean why wouldn't they, Liverpool is doing great at EPL too, and that is even harder to be fair, if you ask me which one is harder to win europa or premier league then I would say premier league. Liverpool is by far the best team here and that's not even that close, they are like twice as good as the closest team to them, so to think that they will win is not a crazy thought.

There isn't a single team that can beat them right now, we will have to wait and see how it will goes but I think it is going to be quite good. I hope that we are going to end up with a situation that will be a bit different when the teams from UCL comes here, that will definitely may include some teams that may put Liverpools changes at risk.

I hope that won't happen and it would be a shame if the two candidates to win the European League this season meet early. But if that really happened, I think it would be crazy and it would be certain that one of them would be difficult to stop until the final round of the European League. The arrival of several teams from the Champions League might make the competition more exciting but that will not change the existing advantage and either Liverpool or Leverkusen should be able to beat the strong teams that were eliminated from the Champions League without any problems.

These two team so far have been tops in their performance and results in both their domestic league and the Europa league so far where they both top their group and Leverkusen topping both their group and their domestic league but Liverpool is at second position I their domestic league which isn't a bad one too.

I just have a feeling both team may meet at the finals this season but before then they may meet after the group stage, na do have for some fears that other teams who will be joining from the champions league would most likely be some kind of problem to them because they look stronger than the other teams back in the Europa as there are only but a few good teams in the Europa the others could be seen as average team, for me the main game begins after the group stage.

Maybe Boniface is the most productive striker now but he isn't the only productive player in the team anyway. For example Grimaldo (6 goals) and Hofmann (5 goals) have also been really productive as for scoring goals.  

Schick's absence is really bad for Leverkusen indeed. But Xabi Alonso has built such an amazing system that the team are still playing very amazingly. The teamwork is so strong that they are still scoring many goals in most of the matches they play and getting comfortable wins. Maybe sometimes they can drop in form but I don't think it would last long with a system like this.

It's true that I also feel that the competition in the European League this season is quite tight. Overall, teams like Laverkusen show fairly stable performance in the two best competitions they participate in, the Bundesliga and the Europa League. We also don't miss teams like Roma who show different performances between Serie A and the Europa League. We will soon see how they perform next because the international break is almost over.

Currently, it is difficult to predict the clubs that will join here from UCL, but we can see the picture by positioning them in their respective standings. Apart from that, there may be a lot of changes after this break, several clubs are faced with a storm of player injuries, which will definitely affect their consistency in achieving targets.

Regarding Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp squad will start week 13 in the EPL by facing Man City. If they manage to beat City then I will not hesitate to say that the Reds really deserve to be favorites here.

It seems that you are too confident, we don't even know for sure how their progress will be in this competition. However, that doesn't matter, especially if you are a The Red supporter. Actually, I can understand that. Unfortunately, we cannot be sure of anything and what the final result will be. So far we have only talked about, feel confident about, data, statistics and performance. but I will say again, that in football it is unique. Even a strong team can fall against a very weaker team. there are many matches that we have seen, we can even refer to last season.
Imagine, which team will beat United when they are On Fire. In fact, one by one their players fell due to injuries which ended in United being humiliated by Sevilla. even though at that time, Sevilla's performance was very messy. In fact, we don't need to refer to their reputation in this competition, but the facts that occur in the field are valid evidence.

But okay, we agree that Liverpool has a pretty good chance of becoming a candidate to win this trophy. However, there are teams that actually perform better. Apart from that, teams that drop out of the Champions League cannot be underestimated. Regarding the Man City vs Liverpool match, yes, we agree that nothing is impossible if Liverpool can beat the home team. However, for some reason, even though several City players were injured, they were still favored by the bookmakers. City with @1.72, while Liverpool with @4.30. if I had to bet, I would prefer the home side.

But before, that you said about, it's not yet time for Liverpool to get the Europa League trophy. I think it's funny, when you express about "not yet time" because anyway, basically Liverpool not always play in the Europa League because Liverpool is a team that plays more often in the Champion League. Therefore, even at this moment it is still not easy for Liverpool to get the trophy because the competition is not easy. But still, because Liverpool have good quality then of course, Liverpool will be a title candidate team this season. Although yes, I also realize that it is just a prediction and does not guarantee to be a reality either. But ya, because we are on the topic of predictions, it is not wrong if we predict it and not just wait for the actual results to happen later.

With their good achievements so far, Leverkusen and Liverpool are in the top position in fighting for the European league title and that is a very natural thing considering their very consistent performance in any competition. It is possible that we will see other big names who will soon join the European league and it looks like one of them, namely Sevilla, is likely to enter this competition after their chances of qualifying for the Champions League group stages are very slim. Competition will get tighter and we can conclude that this year's European league will be more exciting than before.