Topic: UEFA Europa League 2024/25 Season - page 70. (Read 20342 times)

He is indeed a quality player, but before joining Galatasaray, his performance had declined a bit, and this reflects the inconsistency in Osimhen's quality. I wouldn't say Osimhen is bad, but he just needs a strong push from other players and support from the management.
During Osimhen joined with Galatasaray, I haven't fully grasped how he is performing at the moment, but seeing his display in yesterday's Europa League match made me think that he just needs a little more time to score bigger so he can land a more popular team.

That's normal to see surprises like this can we cannot predict anything to be a hundred percent sure about the result of the games. For example, as you said Leverkusen was one of the best teams we saw in the past season and they had a perfect performance because not lose a single game even after playing against many strong teams like Bayern Munich but still they lost the game with a 3-0 result against Atalanta and now Atalanta is playing in the Champions League as the winner of Europa League. But think this won't happen again for them this time.

The performance in the domestic league hasn't been the best indicator anyway in the past. Sevilla was so incredibly bad in La Liga the year they won the Europa League. Back then Sevilla has beaten Manchester United 2-5 in aggregate! In the semifinal they have beaten Juventus Turin and in the final they have beaten Roma. Now if you had to guess which position they finished in La Liga, you wouldn't think they finished 12th and didn't win the last four consecutive games. At some point they were fighting against relegation. That's why I have stopped predicting based on how a team is doing in the domestic league.

Osimhen is a very quality football player, I am sure he will contribute a lot to the team. But we should not forget that he will not stay in this team for too long and will move to a better team. It is very important for him to contribute to the team in European matches. The teams in the Turkish league are not very strong, Galatasaray will win against them without much difficulty. But European teams are strong, we will watch a good fight this year

Manchester United put their faith in their current manager and they may have thought that their current manager would do well for Manchester United but in reality Ten Hag never proved himself to be a good manager. When appointing a new manager to a club, the management has to think about many things such as whether they will be able to hire a better manager than before and whether a good quality manager will agree to take charge of their club. If everything goes well in batting, big teams change managers. Manchester United may not have had such an opportunity, which is why they are relying on their current manager for one more season. However, we should not rely too much on this manager because he is proving his skills in every match.

He started to score by the way. He scored 2 goals in a domestic league match for Galatasaray yesterday. It is nice to see that finally.    It must be really important for himself to break a leg too that he celebrated it with a jersey having a writing like "FINALLY" behind. 



Galatasaray are just enjoying their time with him this season. They will surely miss such a world class striker after he leaves. Chelsea is already pushing for him.

Next time they are playing away against RFS. I think another satisfying win for Galatasaray fans is on the way.

I agree withyou that Europa League winner thos season is unpredictable because the club that you think is veey strong based on their performance in their domestic league do disappoint their fans and the world because a club that is not in your mind will cone from nowhere and kick out the strong team thay you think is the favorite. The league is always full of surprises.

This is one of the reason why currently, I cannot predict who will be the winner because it turns out to be the opposite. Imagine with the high level of Liverpool and Leverkusen performance last season a club that finished in 4th position was able to mess them up and went home with the league. It will be better for one not to rush into conclusions but keep watching the league and with time we can pick out the two best to know which of them will be able to win the league.

Osimhen tries to make criticism a motivation for himself, that's what a player should do, it's a smart way to silence those who doubt him, rather than having to respond with words it's better to prove it on the field. Osimhen is indeed one of the players who has very good abilities, but it's quite unfortunate when it's not accompanied by good luck. Why do I say that? because his future was uncertain with Napoli, he was lucky enough because finally there was a club that was serious about bringing him in even though it was only on loan. But don't be discouraged, because if he can perform very well with Galatasaray then many clubs will want him again and they will even be willing to buy him dearly from Napoli who are still the official owners of Osimhen.

2 goals, 4 assists in 4 games is certainly quite impressive, Osimhen has shown a real contribution to his new team. Despite the criticism, he has once shown his quality with Napoli, by becoming the top scorer in the 2022-2023 season. The Turkish Super League is clearly easier for Osimhen, because it is not as competitive as Serie A, it is unfair to criticize him too early because he also needs an adaptation period. Osimhen goal tally can continue to increase if the manager continues to rely on him, this will be an impressive and profitable season for both parties. The addition of Osimhen to the team has raised expectations for Galatasaray, both domestically and in the Europa League.

That same Victor Osimhen that's been backlashed for not scoring goals was able to score a brace today in Galatasaray league game against Kasimpasa. Victor Osimhen before today haven't scored a goal for his new club but we can't deny the fact that he's always instrumental to their wins since he's arrived. He's provided three assists and was also responsible for Galatasaray's first goal in the UEFA Europa League during the mid week against POAK.
I understand that strikers are judged by the amount of goal they scored or could score but we must learn how to give credit to strikers who are always creating goal scoring opportunities whenever they can't score.

Osimhen played for Napoli in Serie A for years and he was playing at a different level with a different atmosphere and this will take some time for Osimhen to get adopted after he joined Galatasaray and I think Considering the age and the siation of Osimhen it is totally worth for Galatasaray to give this payer more time.
Also, Osimhen couldn't have a good situation in Napoli which definitely affected this player mentally and maybe that's why he was not successful in scoring goals for Galatasaray otherwise we all know he is a player with good performance if the coach knows how to use his skills for the team.

Last season's UEFA Europa League taught me this same lesson because I never expected Atalanta to even make it to the semifinals, but they won the title. I was expecting either Liverpool or Bayer Leverkusen to win the title because these two teams were the best teams in the Europa League last season because they had good performances in their respective leagues, Leverkusen even won the Bundesliga title undefeated, but Atalanta defeated them in the finals and defeated Liverpool in the Semifinals.
Therefore, I agree with you that predicting who to be the champion in the Europa League will be difficult because any team can win the title.

Yes, the introduction of Victor Osimhen into the team gives the team extra comfort, they are indeed one of the teams to lookout in the Europa League alongside Manchester United because I think that Manchester United can get the Europa League this season if they can be consistent because they are the biggest team in the tournament.

It is impossible to tell who is going to win it but that is essentially the same for all UEFA competitions. Barely anyone thought that Atalanta would make it into the final last season, let alone beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0!

The season before a very weak Sevilla team eliminated one other favorite team after another and won the competition.

The year before that year suddenly Frankfurt went all the way, beat Barcelona and then won the final.

I think it is unpredictable as there are surprises all the time.

It is indeed very unpredictable how the future will occur, we see today based on what we know and believe, you may be right in saying that today it is still too early to say who will win the Europa League in the 2024-2025 season and only see a little data from matches that are still early, but that is the best record we can do when making a prediction of the future.

For me there is nothing wrong with people speculating like that in talking about who the potential winners are, it is based on their awareness of what they see at this time, it is true that there are still many stages to go through in this league, but is it wrong to speculate about predictions?

UEFA Europa Cup and Champions League are always having good surprises and upsets so predicting about winner right now is surely too early because we are having too many rounds left for having spots into round of 16 then things could be much clearer right now just after one match no one can give any view specially while we are having few good surprises which are going to have huge impact on coming matches.

Galatasaray are surely one of the teams to watch throughout this season because after having humiliating defeat in Turkish Super Cup they have done good comeback and bring themselves into good position with now arrival of Victor Osimhen is also having good impact on their quality and performance which is going to have good chance for them to stay into cup for long time but still things are not easy to predict about any teams performance or winning chances.

Before this game things were really challenging for this game as we have good hype about Turkish clubs, but sadly things are not going as expected in UEFA events so we have surely huge surprising result in this game while Ajax which is having unpredictable result in last few years done impressive job and having one-sided big win which bring good confidence for them as now they can go through for better results in coming games.

Three Turkish clubs are having spots in UEFA Europa Cup with two are doing decent job but most chances we will be having no chance for them to go for the title race because still we are having good quality difference and things are also not favourable for them to give their best in UEFA competitions they needed more experience which is important for having win José Mourinho factor going to work for the Fenerbahçe or no also going to be open in few matches.

Yep, it is real that Besiktas was defeated with big scores. They even couldn't score a single goal.
It seems the new arrival such as Rafa Silva and Immobile, have no influence. Besiktas can't play as expected, they look too weak against Ajax. I think Besiktas may have a problem with their tactic. They won't perform well if they have bad tactic, having good quality of players will be nothing with the wrong tactic. I think the coach needs to evaluate his tactics.

As I said above, Besiktas may have a problem in their tactics. So, the coach should take the responsibility. There should be some changes on the tactics for the next matches. He also needs to be more selective in choosing players for the starters. I didn't Immobile on the starting lineup in the match against Ajax, it looks quite strange for me.

I agree, it doesn't look like any team would be looking favourites right now and also there are more sides to a team than just one. The same Galatasaray who played very well and managed to beat PAOK, looked 100% different when playing against Young Boys, they were much worse and looked terrible all together.

Now you may say that "they got better" is the way to go, and sure if they keep getting better than of course they can be champions, but how can you guarantee that they won't revert back with just a single or two injuries and be bad again? We don't know and we just assume that it is going to be a tough one.

However, one thing is certain and that is Osimhen, the most valuable player of the Europa league, is their striker and when you have a striker that good, you end up being at an advantage against almost any team.

We saw their goalkeepr was good, and we know their striker is good, so they have a great chance without a doubt. Osimhen could get used to the system more and more eventually and end up scoring bunch of goals without a doubt, they love Icardi over there, but they need to play Osimhen, when you have someone that good, you just need to play that player and they are going to do just that, and Osimhen could score a lot of goals and take them to title, there is a possibility.

That's right, all contestants still have the opportunity to go further, regardless of the results they recorded in the first match. Each contestant will try their best when playing at home, and I think the teams you mentioned do have the potential to qualify for the round of 16 by finishing in the top 8 of the standings.
The spotlight of the Europa League this season is on Manchester United, I think that's very natural, because they are a team that has a very large fan base, but their journey is not as smooth as we expected. In addition, I did not expect Lyon who are performing poorly in Ligue 1 to show a different performance in the Europa League by beating Olympiakos.
Furthermore, the Porto versus Manchester United match in my opinion is one of the interesting matches, Ten Hag will again have difficulty leading his team to secure full points.
As for Ajax, it seems they will need a lot of luck to make it to the semi-finals, their form in domestic competition has been very inconsistent.

One major issue i have spotted with ten hag is in his inconsistency, if we take a brief look at his performance much before now, he has been of good performance in the first season he arrived old Trafford but later he decided to change his strategy and try something new which is actually a  normal thing every coach would want to do at times when they have some new strategies they believe that can be very useful but then if it turns out the new strategy isn't effective enough, then its to adjust, or go back to the former that has been work all these times but it appears ten hag has failed to take note of this and have sticked to his unproductive and inconsistent strategy, if he decides to go back to the strategy he used during his first season at old Trafford and make sure to improve his relationship with the players too, that will help him a whole lot to building better productivity.