Topic: UEFA Europa League 2023/24 Season - page 427. (Read 58914 times)

Brighton's performance has improved after losing to AEK Athens. Brighton drew against Maseille and they managed to take 6 points from Ajax both away and at home. Brighton will certainly hope to avenge their defeat against AEK Athens in the next match to ensure they qualify for the next round, but a draw in the next 2 matches will not harm them either.

Brighton must win one of the next two matches between AEK Athens or Marseille. AEK Athens also couldn't win the match against Brighton and repeat its success like the first meeting, but I believe Brighton has learned a lot from that defeat at home.

Brighton's performance is unpredictable. but overall their play has improved from last season. Brighton held Marseille to a draw but lost to AEK Athens. These are just the results of the matches against AEK Athens and Marseille. If Brighton can overcome both of them, it can ensure a ticket to qualify for the next round. but in my opinion, there is a chance that Brighton can get a ticket for the playoffs.

Unfortunately, Brighton now seems to be experiencing a decline in performance. we can see the results of the last few matches which I think were bad for Brighton. but hopefully, they can perform optimally in the European League.

Brighton, since the last three seasons, are a team to watch. many teams know how they play, that makes them well-anticipated. lost their best players also affects them badly. De Zerbi is still working on settling their group of players while having different players to rely on.

I think Brighton will win against Ajax. beside Ajax are on a bad form, Brighton love to play against teams that play open football like Ajax. Brighton can get good results against teams who play intense pressing, but they struggle against teams that play with deep defense. Ajax in the league so far have just won 3 games, that's so bad for a them. and Brighton are 8th on Premier League table, but they haven't won in the last 5 games.  

Brighton is slowly but surely playing better than before. You can see how brighton was climbing up so fast after it was getting two wins in a row. Brighton needs to get another win to lock a spot to the top 16.
It won't be so hard for brighton. Zerbi has been successfully fixing the problem in the brighton. Brighton has three points gap to the AEK.
As long as brighton will take full points in the upcoming game and i think that's enough to secure brighton's position at the top 16. The upcoming match is very hard to predict. brighton is still showing inconsistent performance.

The key owned by brighton to lock its spot to go to the next stage is quite big. I think that brighton will be doing it pretty well soon.
Zerbi is not willing to miss opportunity.

Loss from Toulouse not really bad result for Liverpool still manage top position have two points left, but they can't qualify as soon possible to next round and need waiting until end of group stage matches with two matches left. Jurgen Klopp will evaluate after losing from Toulouse exactly its not strong opponent teams because first meeting on Anfield Liverpool won bigger score 5-1. Liverpool have all out on two matches left if won't qualify to next round trough playoff round because will be difficult position if have to play in playoff round against with team relegated from Champion League.

Left two matches against LASK and Union Saint must win and take six points to secure first position and qualify automatically to 16th round without play in playoff round. In Group F, Toulouse and Liverpool looks favorite team will lead to 16 and playoff round looking Union Saint have gap three points from Toulouse.

Yes indeed, when the season has not started the fact that Brighton is quite favored to have a good performance in this season both in the Premier League and also in the Europa League. But ya, the reality is that Brighton has experienced performance instability so far this season but even so, at least Brighton can also still guarantee to qualify for the next round in this European Lige by finishing in the top two in group B. But yes, if Brighton is currently expected to be a title candidate, then it seems that the prediction is no longer valid because it is difficult for Brighton to maintain a stable performance this season. Moreover, at this moment there are Liverpool and also Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League, which of course Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen have better quality compared to Brighton.

Personally, Im not as shocked as some people are that Roma lost to Slavia Prague. Everyone thinks Roma is the better team, but sport is always unpredictable. What matters now is that they get those big wins in the last few games. They should definitely try to finish in the top three to avoid the playoffs, but its not enough for them to just win; they need to do it easily. They feel like they need to make a point. Not to mention Mourinho's unexpected tactics. This happens a lot, especially when they are playing away, and it doesnt always work out. Sure, they're talented, but they need to be more constant in how they play, especially in games like these that are very important.

I also think that they have a good chance to qualify. Because they have a three-point advantage compared to the team that is right behind them. They are currently in the second position and obviously do not see how they can face too many problems with qualifying for the next stage of the competition from where they are right now. But again, they should not take things easy at all. Underestimating any opponent is actually the worst mistake that any team can make. That's how the big teams actually end up losing against the weaker ones.

As far as they are in the Eorpa League with 2 wins 1 draw and 1 loss I think it's not a bad achievement for those who are first time in a big competition like this and are in second place and above Ajax which we know what their history is like actually it has been very good for Brighton to date.
Now they only have to be able to secure 1 win if their target is the play offs but with their current points situation which is indeed quite close it would be great if they are still aiming for the main position in this group phase because sometimes the Play offs are increasingly difficult because they have to fight some of the teams that come out of the Champions League so in the last 2 matches, especially when facing Marseille they must be able to lock 2 wins so that they can directly qualify without making a play off first.

There were many surprises in the fourth match, not only did Roma lose but Liverpool also lost, which was clearly a surprise. Surely many bettors have lost a lot of money because of these two match results, whether because they entered it in a multibet or single bet which turned out not to go as predicted.
What is surprising is how Roma were not able to score goals and also the chances they created were not many whereas Prague played very well and another thing that was also quite bad for Roma was how they did not have a single corner kick while Prague had 7.
Prague's strategy was more effective in scoring goals in this match than Roma's, and this time Lukaku was unable to break his team's deadlock as he is usually the player who successfully lifts his team when things don't go as expected, and I'm still quite confident that Roma will win in the next match to qualify for the group phase without having to go through the playoffs.

The games against Ajax were a big opportunity for Brighton to make up for their bad results in the group before. However I still can't be sure of them when it comes to being assertive for the Europa League title. They were considered as one of the top title contenders by bookmakers before the tournament started.

But now we see that they are quite an unbalanced team. Maybe they will be likely to move on to next round but it is very difficult for them to be more successful with this inconsistency. They are even worse in the Premier League recently as they couldn't win a game for a long time.

The result of the match will not affect Liverpool's chances of winning the group because they have collected nine points. This defeat provides an opportunity for Toulouse to catch up on Liverpool's points in the remaining matches and if Liverpool are careless again like when they faced Toulouse then they might fail to win the group. However, I think this will be a special consideration for Jurgen Klopp and he will definitely try to evaluate this match so that it doesn't happen again in the remaining matches.

Having players who are much more capable should be a good asset for Liverpool to achieve victory. But if you look at the match Liverpool had difficulty developing their game and a number of opportunities were still poor in the final finish. Only in the 70th minute did they start to show their usual rhythm of play, but unfortunately until the match ended they failed to add a goal because Toulouse players were solid in defense.

Leverkusen current achievements are so strong that even in the domestic league this team has higher consistency and in this european league Leverkusen is also able to appear very stable, always able to secure victory in every match and all this is thanks to the strategic contribution of Xabi who really understands the character the player.

but what you have to pay attention to right now is that maybe currently Leverkusen is in its best trend in the european league but when Sevilla does not qualify for the UCL and has to appear in the european league I think Leverkusen will get a strong challenger because in history the holder of the most european league titles is only Sevilla who is more experienced.

Well, that is also true. They wanted to give a chance to the irregular players because this match does not matter too much, to be honest. But still, I wanted to see Liverpool win this match. But to be honest, since they themselves did not want to win this match, what can I do about it? But I have to say it was a good decision made by Liverpool now when I think about it.  Keeping players healthy is a big task for almost any team right now. And they made the right decision. It is pretty clear that they are serious about keeping the players, healthy. And no, I do not think at this point, there is any chance for Liverpool to not qualify.

I agree with you and in my opinion there are still other teams that are stronger than Brighton, I see Leverkusen's impressive performance in the European league so far and Leverkusen has the most points in the European league group phase, Leverkusen's performance in the European league and domestic league really extraordinary and I haven't seen Leverkusen's weaknesses so far because Xabi Alonso really makes their squad look tough and impressive in every match.

This season will be interesting because we will see elite teams competing in the European league and we are just waiting for the teams that did not qualify for the UCL and participate in the European league to compete fiercely to win the title this season.

Regarding Brighton, I think that's the case, their chances of winning a trophy are greater here than in the EPL. However, I still see that Liverpool, Laverkusen and AS Roma are stronger than Brighton, because we of course know that this is their first season in the Europa League so it will be very difficult to say much, what is needed is experience and mentality.

Not to mention that the competition will be even fiercer when the teams from the UCL will return here, and will really test the strength of the previously favorite clubs. Dezerbi must add strength in the January transfer window, if they want to build a more competitive squad to compete in any competition, even though they are currently quite good.

Jurgen Klopp seems to be focusing his squad on playing optimally in the Premier League. But even in the match against Toulouse we could see Liverpool playing very well. In fact, they continued to control the game very well. But Toulouse were smarter in taking advantage of the opportunities they got in this match. Meanwhile, Liverpool wasted more opportunities. But Klopp's focus seems to be on the match that will take place today in the Premier League, namely against Brentford. And everyone knows that Brentford always makes it difficult for the strong teams in the Premier League. So Klopp seems to be thinking about this and he wants to maintain the top 4 ranking currently occupied by Liverpool in the Premier League.

But I still feel amazed by West Ham who seem to be focusing their club more on playing more optimally in the European League. Because in the Premier League it seems that it will be very difficult for West Ham, who have currently even dropped to 13th place in the Premier League. So West Ham's hope at the moment seems to be only in the Europa League. And it looks like we can be sure that West Ham will progress to the next stage.

Mourinho always has a brilliant tactic to win the European competition. But the condition of AS Roma was different in the last season, they played quite consistently at that time. For this season, I doubt if AS Roma can win this competition because there are other stronger teams and can play more consistently than AS Roma. I'm even not sure if AS Roma can reach the final round of this European League.

The next two matches may be more difficult for Brighton, but I agree that they are possible to qualify for the next round. Brighton must play all out, they want to stay longer time in this competition. They didn't get good results in EPL, they try to focus in Europa League. The upcoming match, they will play against AEK Athens away. I don't think it will be easy to steal points in AEK Athens home. But I still believe Brighton will get points in that match because they actually have a better squad.

My only concern is that the status quo VAR systems don't perform as excellent S we thought it would during the inception. And also, it's human nature to complain if things doesn't go the way we want them to and has very little to actually do with VAR. Managers of the past didn't do it much because at those times, whenever a referee made a decision, it's final. And yes, I acknowledged the fact that Toulouse was exceptional in that game. I even mentioned it in my reply quoted above.

Yep, even we were surprised by AS Roma's defeat. even though, Slavia Prague should not be a big and very tough team. However, these two teams will qualify if we refer to the points they earn. the difference is, which team will enter the top 16, and which team will have to go through the playoffs later. However, if Roma want to become champions in this group G phase, they have to win the remaining matches with a landslide score. Also, without conceding. In essence, what I said is the same as what you posted in this thread.

Well, let's talk about the progress of this match. In essence, both teams both won the match at their respective headquarters. But what really annoys me is that Jose Mourinho always implements strange patterns for his squad. I mean, in the first meeting Roma won the match with an offensive system pattern. and when they visited Slavia's headquarters, Mourinho changed his pattern and system. even though in terms of player quality, Roma is superior. In fact, the course of this match was quite balanced. Slavia dominated in the first half, while Roma started to be aggressive and dominated in the second half. Likewise, in terms of opportunities, Slavia is much better.
Well, this is one of Mourinho's weaknesses when his team plays away games. they don't have the confidence to come up with an offensive system.

By the way, what I analyze does not necessarily agree with others.