⚽UEFA Europa League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Winners: Eintracht Frankfurt!

[KTChampions]

For the second leg, I see two scenarios. First: Galatasaray will try to win from a position of strength and we will see open football, given that Barcelona's defense is not perfect, we can see a beautiful match with a big score like 3-2 in favor of one of the teams. Second: Barcelona will again be engaged in rolling the ball in the center of the field and Galatasaray will not interfere with this. Then we'll see a boring 120 minutes and possibly a penalty shootout.

It's quite extraordinary that Galatasaray can beat Barcelona with a 0-0 result in Leg 1. Automatically there is still a big chance in the second leg for both teams to win tickets. Even though Barcelona looked to be able to take 1 goal at that time. Galatasaray does have the determination to qualify in Leg 2 later. They are a club that always provides surprises, so there's nothing wrong with putting up a little resistance to keep Barcelona's new attack from breaking through the defense.

Even before this match, based on the game against Elche, I wrote that Barcelona is an ordinary middle peasant with big problems in converting scoring chances. And the fact that when playing against Galatasaray it had several of them, but could not score, is logical. In the second leg, either outcome is possible (Galatasaray is also bad) so I won't bet here.

[Slow death]

I really didn't think that Galatasaray would be able to resist Barcelona until the last moment of the game. I was expecting a Barcelona win by at least two goals. Galatasaray did a huge job by defending them very well but the job is not done of course. I still think that Barcelona can do the same against Galatasaray too after doing to Napoli. They destroyed Napoli by 4-2 away after getting a 1-1 draw in the first leg. Galatasaray should play very carefully in the second leg also. Otherwise, all this effort would be for nothing.

Galatasaray was a team that knew how to manage the game well and with this result they can prepare to do the same thing again, while barcelona still has some difficulties in attack and Galatasaray has already noticed that and they know that it is enough that Galatasaray have a good defense and score 1 goal they can beat barcelona. barcelona will need to score 2 goals in the first half of the game so that they put pressure on Galatasaray so that they win with greater confidence

[ingiltere]

Galatasaray had a really lucky match, Barcelona could not score despite many chances and I am very happy about this situation I knew he didn't have much of a chance and I didn't expect such a result, but this time there was no goal in the match. I think Barcelona will play a much more aggressive and offensive football in the next match

It was funny when Xavi talked about Pena, he was so angry that a B team goalkeeper shined in European competition game against his team. I think it's Barca's fault to not score in the game, they should've found a solution for it. I don't think they will do same mistakes in second leg. They will try to find an early goal to upset Galatasaray's defensive plans. Antidote of this system is to find early goal. Adama is so predictable lately, he should enrich his game and work on his finishing.

[snipie]

I really didn't think that Galatasaray would be able to resist Barcelona until the last moment of the game. I was expecting a Barcelona win by at least two goals. Galatasaray did a huge job by defending them very well but the job is not done of course. I still think that Barcelona can do the same against Galatasaray too after doing to Napoli. They destroyed Napoli by 4-2 away after getting a 1-1 draw in the first leg. Galatasaray should play very carefully in the second leg also. Otherwise, all this effort would be for nothing.

Barcelona draw against Galatasaray was quite unexpected. I assume many lost their bets in this match. The second leg will be interesting and Barcelona should qualify otherwise it will be a catastrophic season for the club.
Now that match wasn't the only weird one, Atalanta won vs Leverkusen, I already said that they shouldn't be underestimated. Rangers 3 goals and Braga 2 goals were quite unexpected imo too.
2nd leg matches will be challenging for sure since many favourites teams dropped in 1st leg

[herurist]

I really didn't think that Galatasaray would be able to resist Barcelona until the last moment of the game. I was expecting a Barcelona win by at least two goals. Galatasaray did a huge job by defending them very well but the job is not done of course. I still think that Barcelona can do the same against Galatasaray too after doing to Napoli. They destroyed Napoli by 4-2 away after getting a 1-1 draw in the first leg. Galatasaray should play very carefully in the second leg also. Otherwise, all this effort would be for nothing.

Barcelona draw against Galatasaray was quite unexpected. I assume many lost their bets in this match. The second leg will be interesting and Barcelona should qualify otherwise it will be a catastrophic season for the club.
Now that match wasn't the only weird one, Atalanta won vs Leverkusen, I already said that they shouldn't be underestimated. Rangers 3 goals and Braga 2 goals were quite unexpected imo too.
2nd leg matches will be challenging for sure since many favourites teams dropped in 1st leg

Honestly I'm quite disappointed with this result and indeed as you said the expectations for Barcelona are quite high and I am very confident in placing my bets there.
But the results are really disappointing to see. Their match was monotonous and there was no excitement there even though Barcelona played the ball with full control but still they were very difficult to score goals until the end of the game.

[kawetsriyanto]

Don't know what is xavi thinking about , he seems too much making experiments despite yeah it's 1st leg .. he could slipped by conceded a lot of goals and hard to make a comeback in the second leg , luckily it's just another 0-0 draw.

Yep, it was quite lucky that Barcelona only got a draw result in the first Leg. It will be a very bad experiment if Barcelona were conceded 2 goals and couldn't make a single goal in the first Leg. I think Xavi doesn't need to make another speculative experiment when he knows it is very risky, especially it is an international match and it is in the elimination phase. If he wants to try some new lineups or a new strategy, it should be in the group phase, not the elimination phase. Well, just forget the draw result in the first Leg, I think Xavi has got some lessons and he must provide a better lineup in the next Leg (2nd Leg).

[baeva]

Galatasaray had a really lucky match, Barcelona could not score despite many chances and I am very happy about this situation I knew he didn't have much of a chance and I didn't expect such a result, but this time there was no goal in the match. I think Barcelona will play a much more aggressive and offensive football in the next match

It won't be easy in Turkey. They couldn't beat them at home with the support of their fans - that's bad... The support in Turkey is crazy, but if Barcelona play really aggressive, they will have all the chances to win. Galatasaray fought really well in that match and it will be the same in the return... I talk about support because it is very important psychologically, especially when the stadium is huge.

[terrorJR]

Galatasaray had a really lucky match, Barcelona could not score despite many chances and I am very happy about this situation I knew he didn't have much of a chance and I didn't expect such a result, but this time there was no goal in the match. I think Barcelona will play a much more aggressive and offensive football in the next match

It was funny when Xavi talked about Pena, he was so angry that a B team goalkeeper shined in European competition game against his team. I think it's Barca's fault to not score in the game, they should've found a solution for it. I don't think they will do same mistakes in second leg. They will try to find an early goal to upset Galatasaray's defensive plans. Antidote of this system is to find early goal. Adama is so predictable lately, he should enrich his game and work on his finishing.

Even though the result in this match is a draw, there are still many who are disappointed with their performance in this match. They had almost 90 minutes but couldn't make anything interesting there.
From the experiment of 16 kicks only 4 opportunities that really lead and even then are not too threatening.
This of course is a mistake and indeed in Leg 2 later they have to make mistakes like this more minimized

[BitcoinHunt3r]

Galatasaray had a really lucky match, Barcelona could not score despite many chances and I am very happy about this situation I knew he didn't have much of a chance and I didn't expect such a result, but this time there was no goal in the match. I think Barcelona will play a much more aggressive and offensive football in the next match

It won't be easy in Turkey. They couldn't beat them at home with the support of their fans - that's bad... The support in Turkey is crazy, but if Barcelona play really aggressive, they will have all the chances to win. Galatasaray fought really well in that match and it will be the same in the return... I talk about support because it is very important psychologically, especially when the stadium is huge.

You could be right but so far I don't see Barcelona ambition in this competition Barcelona doesn't seem to want the title here I don't know what's the reason, I hope I'm wrong
Maybe Barcelona are embarrassed because the level of this competition is lower? anyway I don't expect more in the second leg the same result can be repeated who knows
I will avoid any betting and better just watch.

[Joca97]

Galatasaray had a really lucky match, Barcelona could not score despite many chances and I am very happy about this situation I knew he didn't have much of a chance and I didn't expect such a result, but this time there was no goal in the match. I think Barcelona will play a much more aggressive and offensive football in the next match

It won't be easy in Turkey. They couldn't beat them at home with the support of their fans - that's bad... The support in Turkey is crazy, but if Barcelona play really aggressive, they will have all the chances to win. Galatasaray fought really well in that match and it will be the same in the return... I talk about support because it is very important psychologically, especially when the stadium is huge.

I think it will be a lot more difficult if the stadium in turkey is full. Its such a heated atmosfere that it will be a really close match.  Like you said they couldnt beat them at home how will they beat them there. Barcelona has a much bigger presure then Galatasaray in that rematch

[Pulsar77]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

[blackened515]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

Galatasaray tried in resisting Barcelona. Although, Barcelona dominated the game, and had 4 shot on target. But, Galatasaray's defense was solid, which Barcelona found difficult to penetrate and score any goal. Despite, getting 4 shot on target. However I think the 2nd leg will be more tough, because Barcelona will surely struggle to win. Nevertheless, if Galatasaray secure an early goal in the rematch, I think they might enable them to eliminate Barcelona. But, it don't be easy for Galatasaray to score against Barcelona.

[AndySt]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

Galatasaray tried in resisting Barcelona. Although, Barcelona dominated the game, and had 4 shot on target. But, Galatasaray's defense was solid, which Barcelona found difficult to penetrate and score any goal. Despite, getting 4 shot on target. However I think the 2nd leg will be more tough, because Barcelona will surely struggle to win. Nevertheless, if Galatasaray secure an early goal in the rematch, I think they might enable them to eliminate Barcelona. But, it don't be easy for Galatasaray to score against Barcelona.

For some reason, I don't think Galatasaray will play in the same defensive style as in the first match, almost without thinking about counterattacks. It was obvious that the main task of the club was to stand with Barcelona in the first match or at least not to concede many goals. As we can see, Galatasaray coped with this task perfectly and even exceeded it without conceding goals at all and now has a good chance of a successful outcome and reaching the next round of the tournament. I don't think Galatasaray will dictate his terms and attack unrestrainedly in the second leg, but he will counterattack much more often.

[TelolettOm]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

If Xavi is aware of his mistake when the first leg vs Galatasaray, actually they should win in the next leg although they will play in Galatasaray's stadium. In the previous match, Xavi seems to underestimate Galatasaray with the player components, maybe he is overconfident because so far they can win easily from the other clubs. This is actually not good for Barcelona because Barcelona itself is still tiring and struggling to rise up again, so underestimating the opponent is really unnecessary. But in fact, Xavi seemed to do that. Moreover, some good players of Barcelona are on the bench and have too many substitutions so maybe this changed the focus of the game and made them miss crucial moments to score goals. especially this in their cage.

[Rabi3]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

Galatasaray tried in resisting Barcelona. Although, Barcelona dominated the game, and had 4 shot on target. But, Galatasaray's defense was solid, which Barcelona found difficult to penetrate and score any goal. Despite, getting 4 shot on target. However I think the 2nd leg will be more tough, because Barcelona will surely struggle to win. Nevertheless, if Galatasaray secure an early goal in the rematch, I think they might enable them to eliminate Barcelona. But, it don't be easy for Galatasaray to score against Barcelona.

For some reason, I don't think Galatasaray will play in the same defensive style as in the first match, almost without thinking about counterattacks.

they have to take advantage of that draw in Camp Nou, so I believe they won't just stand in the back and pray that Barca won't score, I actually doubted Barca could get any further in the Europa league, but when I knew they were going to face Galatasaray I underestimated them, but now with that draw it's definitely possible that Galatasaray could qualify instead of Barcelona and I won't miss a chance to bet on them.

[Jasad]

they have to take advantage of that draw in Camp Nou, so I believe they won't just stand in the back and pray that Barca won't score, I actually doubted Barca could get any further in the Europa league, but when I knew they were going to face Galatasaray I underestimated them, but now with that draw it's definitely possible that Galatasaray could qualify instead of Barcelona and I won't miss a chance to bet on them.

Galatasaray have advantage held Barcelona 0-0 on first leg because second leg will play as home but still not guarantee easy for Galatasaray because last round Barcelona most stronger when defeating Napoli as away match 4-1. But have different situation between Napoli and Galatasaray where fans as great motivation how to make dreaming as the only one Turkish Primer League team qualify to quarter final of UEFA Europa League, I am so excited if have chance watch directly to stadium with Galatasaray fans atmosphere most excited.

[mia_houston]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

So far, many have said that Galatasaray were just lucky because they could hold Barcelona to a draw, but I don't think it's a luck factor but the hard work that Galatasaray players did throughout the match, Galatasaray no longer have the opportunity to win trophies in the league so they might focus more on the European Trophy league as their target for the end of the season and that way they make every european league match a final, facing Barcelona who are impressive in attack of course defending is a good strategy especially Barcelona have a moral advantage when playing at home, so the only way for Galatasaray is to defend and try good luck when playing at home in the second leg later.

[$crypto$]

I think it will be a lot more difficult if the stadium in turkey is full. Its such a heated atmosfere that it will be a really close match.  Like you said they couldnt beat them at home how will they beat them there. Barcelona has a much bigger presure then Galatasaray in that rematch

Of course Barcelona will be very aggressive and offensive in the future even though it plays very far in Turkey so I think Barcelona should be able to win because they will put pressure after pressure in every attack, I believe Aubameyang or Adama can start the attack well until there is a goal but they should not underestimate it is a concentration that must be perkut in the Barcelona squad.
To be honest I more believe Barcelona can go through and win with Galatasaray later.

[KTChampions]

Tomorrow Barcelona will play Osasuna and the odds of Barcelona winning are very unattractive at around 1.33. I don't rate Barcelona's game very well, but I added this outcome to several multibets because I think that after the draw with Galatasaray, Barcelona will make every effort to play Osasuna with dignity. Given that it will be a Camp Nou game again, the risk is justified.

[xzone]

I was mesmerized by Galatasaray's great defensive performance against Barcelona. It really ended in a 0-0 draw and it made me very surprised. However, I don't think that Galatasaray can eliminate Barcelona. We all know how much capable Barcelona players are and they can play completely different in the rematch. Galatasaray will need to have a counter-attack game plan to have a chance I think. If they play an attacking football also, then they would leave big spaces to Barcelona which would make things easier for them.

Galatasaray has to play a defensive game as it does in other matches. To be honest, the reason why Galatasaray drew was more luck than success in defense. The goalkeeper played very well, but I think the defense could have been better, they found scoring chances almost every minute. Barcelona players played thinking that the opponent was weak and did not perform fully. It won't be like that in the next match, we'll lose if we give it that many chances