Topic: UEFA Europa League 2024/25 Season - page 44. (Read 28918 times)

I'm not saying Atalanta is a weak club but I'm saying that usually the club that is favored from the start cannot perform as expected (Liverpool and Leverkusen) in many posts last season many people talked about Leverkusen and Liverpool and not many talked about Atalanta but in the end this club was able to give a surprise by beating Liverpool but even though they were able to beat Liverpool many people still favored Leverkusen to win the Europa League title because this club has created many wins compared to Atalanta in its domestic league but in reality many people made the wrong predictions.

We will watch a big match between Manchester United vs Bodø/Glimt, why I said it's a big match? because we don't even know what the results.

Even Bodø/Glimt had a terrible results, but they're not completely lose because they dominated the ball possession, shots on target and expected goals. They're also at top 1 position in Eliteserien.

While Manchester United was struggle to beat Ipswich Town, so they're not that good.

I speculate it will end in draw.

I hope tomorrow will be a good day for us. There will be a match between 3 teams representing our country.
Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş. I hope they all win tomorrow night.

Galatasaray match will be good, I think there will be a lot of goals.

I don't think it will be an easy match for Fenerbahçe.

Beşiktaş's opponent is weak, I hope they win easily.

Top 25? What did I miss? It is the same mode as the Champions League is being played, which means they either make it into 9th - 24th or the top 8 or otherwise they would be eliminated. It is 24 clubs which get the chance to move onto the next round. At the moment they are 20th with not the best score difference and they are only 1 point ahead of the ranks that do not get promoted to the play-offs. I wouldn't be too positive for them as they are not playing too well.

I don't think they will win anything against Tottenham, which throws them further back and then no easy game is waiting for them. Last game will be against the 2nd from the Bundesliga and they have another game away from home, everything is possible and I do not exclude the option that they will the most altogether.



If this doesn't look frightening to you, then what does? It is not looking for them given that the next game is Tottenham Hotspurs. It will harm their score difference and it will put them out of the safe zone. If they can make something happen, it could be a draw at best, but they won't win the game.

Mismanagement could take any team to lower levels, the only reason why United isn't relegated like other mismanaged teams is because they make way too much money, and that means they are capable of getting players which are bad, but not bad enough to relegate. They are spending title winners amount of money, but they are staying at midtable at the very best case, this season doing even worse.

So I am assuming that it won't be really that great for them, seems like it could change a lot on the long run, and I do not think that we should be considering them doing all that kind differently after this change. Amorim will probably try his best to win Europa at least, because he knows he can't do all that great at premier league, but it won't be easy.

Which cup will Tottenham win by the end of this season? Will it be the Premier League (which I doubt), the EFL Cup, or the Europa League? It's been a long time since Tottenham lifted any of these trophies. I agree that they may become tired which could prevent them from winning any trophy this season, despite their impressive victories over Manchester City in both EFL and Premier League matches. However, Tottenham has a home match in the Europa League against Roma in two days. I anticipate a win for them, which would help them secure a spot in the 3rd to 5th place in the Europa League table, depending on the results of other teams ahead of them.

It has been a terrible start to the season for AS Roma. They are also playing very badly in the Italian league. They also fell short of expectations in the Europa League. When Roma is mentioned, everyone thinks of the old Roma, full of success. However, Roma is far from their old performance today. They changed their manager and Ranieri is trying to pull them together a bit. I think they can stay in the Europa League in the Play-offs. The opponent they will face in the Play-offs is very important. If they beat that opponent, we will see which team will come in the top eight. Roma will find themselves in time. They are a team that can also advance to the upper rounds in the Europa League.

At least, AS Roma only need to be in the top 25 because then, AS Roma will enter the play offs but it is still difficult for AS Roma with the situation and conditions that have not improved like this. But at least, Ranieri may be said to be still quite lucky, because he does not have to work hard to make AS Roma enter the top 25,b ecause AS Roma is already in the top 25. Thus, Ranieri should  still be able to make AS Roma enter the play offs,although the chance for AS Roma to qualify and advance further remains difficult. But at least, Ranieri still has to make his best  efforts to be able to make AS Roma back into a great team in Serie A and also in the Europa League with the fast  recovery needed.

It would be unfair to call Atalanta, who won the Europa League, weak. Atalanta is a very strong team. They also defeated Bayer Leverkusen, who only lost once last year and that defeat was also against Atalanta, in the final. They also won this match with a clear score of 3-0. Lookman put on a show in that match. It would be very unfair to call Atalanta weak. Yes, Premier League teams are shown as favorites for the championship, but we have to say that teams like Atalanta continue to have a chance to win the Europa League. My surprise favorite this year is Galatasaray.

Recently i have checked upcoming schedules for Roma and after Tottenham they will facing Braga, AZ Alkmaar and Frankfurt and compared to between these teams probably Braga is the easiest team who possibly can beated by Roma but Roma has just changing the manager and i am not sure Ranieri can able to bringing Roma to performing well again in the short term and in my opinion rather than thinking about Europa League i think Roma should be more focus to Serie A and improved their position on League standings and i think this is much better for them because i have to says Roma chances even to finish at play off stages is a bit difficult considering they still unable to performing stable

Don't forget that it's not only English clubs that are in European competitions other league clubs are also involved, and the fact is that English teams are not much compared to Italian teams and Laliga because their performance last season was very impressive. I don't see too much stress or the players, neither are they over working themselves because that is their profession, and they love it. All other clubs in various leagues are also passing through the same tight match schedules but it shouldn't be an excuse for a weak performance, because that's what we can use to determine the strongest.

If we have Madrid as the ruler of the UCL so far then Sevilla is very worthy of being said to be the king of the UEL, Sevilla is one of the teams that has an extraordinary journey and glory in the UEL so seeing them absent in the UEL this season is a sad thing, but to favorite the Spanish club as the champion this season based on the glory of Sevilla is not logical,  Considering the poor performance shown by the La Liga team in UEL this season, to be honest, if you look at the current team opportunities Lazio, Tottenham and Ajax in my opinion deserve to be favorites, because we are not here talking about Sevilla glory from La Liga as a reference for favoring Bilbao and Sociedad to become champions, because I think performance, the quality of the squad and consistency are the main factors that we should pay attention before favor a team.

Manchester United was once a traditional team in Premier League and they had good players in every position but they can't hold their place now. 
In the last few years something bad has happened with Manchester United and in these few years Manchester United could not do anything good be it in the Premier League or the Champions League. During this period, the team changed ownership several times, the team manager changed and a lot of money was spent on the team, but the performance did not improve much. Recently Manchester United sacked their former manager and appointed a new manager to improve their performance. Naturally, this manager is now the most trusted by Manchester United. Let's see if this manager can pay a price worthy of that trust. But the important thing here is whether the current manager of Manchester United will get full financial freedom from Manchester United management? 
If he is given financial freedom then I believe he can change the situation of the team by bringing in the players according to the plan.

Will Roma make it to the playoffs?

Roma currently in not a safe position and they will meet Tottenham, which I think high unlikely they will beat Tottenham.

However, the teams below Roma rank also unlikely to win.

Real Sociedad vs Ajax, Ajax likely to win.
Braga vs Hoffenheim, Hoffenheim looks strong recently.
FC Twente vs Union St.Gilloise, FC Twente might able to get at least one point.
Nice vs Rangers, Nice might win.

There's need 4 teams to kick Roma to not reach top 24 position, but what I listed above, only two teams are possible to win.

Almost every season of Europa League is like that, there are so many surprises that happen here and quite a lot of favored teams are actually eliminated first, and that will also apply for now so I think there is no team that has a big percentage to win the Europa League title this season, as well as for Lazio I don't think they will be favored even though so far Lazio continues to show its best performance and even what Lazio has shown in all competitions is quite a significant improvement compared to last season.

Honestly the only cups they could win would be EFL or FA or Europa. They are not going to get premier league, that is not possible and we are not going to see them suddenly go on a 20 winning streak season, that's not how it works at all and shouldn't be an issue at all. We are going to see how they will do in other ones, Europa seems like it's quite unlikely and we are not going to see that be great.

The schedule English teams have is a lot, they play in four different competitions, and with that in mind, even though some of them are less games, it's still games and they go on with 2 games a week for a very long time and that's not an easy feat at all. Tottenham could just end up being tired by the end and fail to win any of them, which they have done before so it wouldn't really be a shocker for them. I am expecting them to do fine this season and maybe get one cup, it would be a first and I believe that will definitely make them quite happy as well.

The European League every season is always difficult to predict. Because even though there are always many strong teams that are favorites, in the end, more teams that we never expected to win the title actually won the title. For example, Atalanta last season. even though last season Liverpool was also in the European League. But yeah, Liverpool actually lost to Atalanta in the quarter-finals. And this season, the new format makes everything even more difficult for us to guess. Lazio temporarily looks the most solid. But we don't know whether it will survive until the end or not.

Apart from it being a bit difficult to determine which team will be able to win the trophy in Europa League, the team that will enter the final is also difficult to determine because here usually the teams that are not so competitive in the domestic League can be quite competitive in Europa League so that it can make it difficult for everyone to make their predictions. Now everyone just needs to see how each team tries to put themselves in a much better position in the standings so that they can have a chance to qualify for the next round.

You do not see who will win the title during the group stages, this was true back when groups were just four team groups and all that, this is true right now as well, it is not going to happen to be true and we are not going to see it. I have a feeling that we may actually see these UEFA competitions become some league structure fully as well, not like they will be playing just 8 games, but literally play against each other, all season long, that could be very fun, then the end could be top 8 teams going for playoffs, that would be very fun, in that case maybe we will see something before the group stages end.

But at the moment, it makes no sense to say that we are going to see teams which are playing great now, will end up winning as well. You do not end up seeing teams who will win just be good at group stages, they could be awesome at group stages and then have one bad game and be gone, that's why we need to wait and see who faces who before we decide anything.

I don't think too many people were enthusiastic about ten Hag's arrival I have to say. I never thought he is a great coach. He never got the people behind him because the guy lacks empathy and he is so unlikable. What he did with Ajax Amsterdam was something every other coach could have done with them, but the expectations for Manchester United were high and when they brought him in, I was full of doubt that it was the right decision and after just a few weeks it could be seen that he would never really arrive at the club. He got lucky since he got some good results when other Premier League teams had their own problems, but Manchester United never played the football that they were known for in the past. It was an up and down until the very last day and it only was a question of time until he gets sacked. I think it was more of a surprise that he somehow managed to hang into it for so long. I would have waited so long until I'd have fired him. What a dick he was in many cases when he could have been more thankful for his job and more agreeable for the players. He was playing with power and that's one of his biggest weaknesses. It's a difference whether you earn respect and expect the same from the players or whether you abuse power to fight against your own players.