UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season

[shinratensei_]

Seeing how bad the performance from chelsea in the domestic league makes me think that chelsea gonna be even worse in UCL compared to the domestic league. The chance for chelsea to beat real madrid in its current form is very small at this moment.
I do think that if chelsea may always play defensively against real madrid. Chelsea needs to bring back some old players like kante to compete with madrid in UCL. Real madrid will be coming with fully talented players.
The first leg gonna be a match with very high tension. Im thinking about if chelsea will able to make its comeback with the help of luck.

Chelsea needs the luck to be able to beat real madrid. I see no chance for chelsea to make it happen at this moment after seeing how bad its performance in EPL.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Indeed, PSG can also win without Neymar, in the previous match, they played with a 4-4-2 formation and deliberately backed down to accept the defense to take advantage of the space behind Bayern Munich's high defense, they were wrong to use that tactic. I think they need to push the lineup like they did at the end of the game and this time start with a 4-3-3 to look for a goal as soon as the game starts and their defense needs to be more cohesive, not messy, disorderly as recently. Perhaps they must do so to expect a victory over the mighty and comprehensive Bayern Munich.

I think they have to play a little aggressively if they want to win this second leg, as well as the strategy they have to implement as well as possible, because this match is important for them, they need a little extra strategic encouragement especially when they face Bayern Munich who have been very good so far. competition, as well as Bayern Munich they have to be observant / thorough in the second leg, will determine who will qualify for the next round, I think Bayern Munich themselves have prepared very well.

I haven't seen any outstanding performances from PSG in the Champions League so far. The team is the best ever for League One. After adding Lionel Messi to the team, I did not notice any extraordinary performance.

Messi and Mbappé are what are taking the team forward,it may be that now as Ney is injured and his injury has spread,they have to solve it with what they have,if Mbappé is not selfish he can give Messi the leadership he has always had and that makes it goals, something that PSG really lacks in the UCL,PSG has always been a very strong team, they show another level of fútbol,but the ones in the UCL aren't just any team, they're the best and that always makes the difference, in particular I want Real Madrid to win again, because it is a team that I see as more complete.

[rendravolt]

Seeing how bad the performance from chelsea in the domestic league makes me think that chelsea gonna be even worse in UCL compared to the domestic league. The chance for chelsea to beat real madrid in its current form is very small at this moment.
I do think that if chelsea may always play defensively against real madrid. Chelsea needs to bring back some old players like kante to compete with madrid in UCL. Real madrid will be coming with fully talented players.
The first leg gonna be a match with very high tension. Im thinking about if chelsea will able to make its comeback with the help of luck.

Chelsea needs the luck to be able to beat real madrid. I see no chance for chelsea to make it happen at this moment after seeing how bad its performance in EPL.

Even if Chelsea had to carry out a defensive strategy in the first leg match later, it would surely end in conceding goals first. Because we know the first leg match will take place at home to Real Madrid and of course the Los Blancos squad want to win the match, as well as score lots of goals to widen the aggregate gap in the second leg later at home to Chelsea. But indeed Chelsea have had bad luck so far in the domestic league and they are still trying to find their best game. It's quite difficult and maybe they will be eliminated early via the decider in the first leg later.

[Jatiluhung]

Seeing how bad the performance from chelsea in the domestic league makes me think that chelsea gonna be even worse in UCL compared to the domestic league. The chance for chelsea to beat real madrid in its current form is very small at this moment.
I do think that if chelsea may always play defensively against real madrid. Chelsea needs to bring back some old players like kante to compete with madrid in UCL. Real madrid will be coming with fully talented players.
The first leg gonna be a match with very high tension. Im thinking about if chelsea will able to make its comeback with the help of luck.

Chelsea needs the luck to be able to beat real madrid. I see no chance for chelsea to make it happen at this moment after seeing how bad its performance in EPL.

Even if Chelsea had to carry out a defensive strategy in the first leg match later, it would surely end in conceding goals first. Because we know the first leg match will take place at home to Real Madrid and of course the Los Blancos squad want to win the match, as well as score lots of goals to widen the aggregate gap in the second leg later at home to Chelsea. But indeed Chelsea have had bad luck so far in the domestic league and they are still trying to find their best game. It's quite difficult and maybe they will be eliminated early via the decider in the first leg later.

I also have the same thoughts about the first leg match Chelsea vs Real Madrid. because Chelsea's consistency is even still unstable at this time. although there has been a slight improvement in Chelsea's game. but this will not be enough to compensate for Real Madrid, which has had good consistency from the start. and a defensive strategy could possibly be a worse outcome for Chelsea . because this is the same as giving Real Madrid the opportunity to build more attacks. And as we know, Real Madrid's forwards are very good at creating gaps in the opponent's defensive area.

[Razmirraz]

This is clearly something that is difficult to predict because indeed the two teams currently deserve to be in the final even more difficult than the previous PSG and Bayern possibilities.
But of course this will be interesting because if you look at the previous conditions Madrid also passed the same club as Bayern now and of course if Bayern wins in this game when talking about matchology last season their chance of the final will be there.

I believe that Real Madrid has the ability to beat Chelsea over two legs in this Quarter-Final round, but the obstacle is the other two big teams like Manchester City and Bayern Munich where one of them will also qualify for the next round and that will be a big obstacle. for Real Madrid to get to the Champions League final this season although I also wouldn't be that surprised if Real Madrid were able to make themselves better to get to the Champions League final again this season.

Bayern Munich and Manchester City are another problem, which Ancelotti has to do is how to beat Chelsea to take his team to the semifinals. The opponent Real Madrid is facing this time is one of the big teams who have yet to find their best form, Chelsea have just been held to a draw by Everton in the Premier League and are still stuck in 10th place.
The lack of consistency in Chelsea appearance has made Real Madrid very favored to go to the semifinals. Now Ancelotti focus is on Chelsea, after that he will think about how to beat Bayern Munich and Manchester City to get the UCL Trophy.

[bering]

Chances for Serie A team to advance to the Champions League final depend on the outcome of the Benfica vs Inter match, if Inter can beat Benfica then for the first time since the 2015 season when Juventus made it to the final it will come true again this season. Looking forward with Inter Milan could eliminated Benfica and make Serie A team get one slot for Champion League final team.

I think the most chances Italian team who possibly qualified to final match is Napoli but for Inter i think very hard for them to reach final match and Inter opponent is Benfica who can be recognized as dark horses team but personally i wouldn't underestimate Benfica because this season they have outstanding performance that whether it on their domestic league or champion league Benfica had stable performance

And since group stage people didn't counted Benfica as the favourite team who qualified to round of 16 because at that time they are in a group with strong teams like PSG and Juventus but in fact they can overturn people's predictions with being an group champion with unbeatable status so in my opinion Benfica had more good chances qualified to semifinal than Inter

[shinratensei_]

Even if Chelsea had to carry out a defensive strategy in the first leg match later, it would surely end in conceding goals first. Because we know the first leg match will take place at home to Real Madrid and of course the Los Blancos squad want to win the match, as well as score lots of goals to widen the aggregate gap in the second leg later at home to Chelsea. But indeed Chelsea have had bad luck so far in the domestic league and they are still trying to find their best game. It's quite difficult and maybe they will be eliminated early via the decider in the first leg later.

If chelsea will be going to the fully defensive and it must be so important to be parking bus strategy which was very effective to prevent real madrid, this strategy has ever used by barcelona before and yeah that was making madrid frustrated caused by madrid was unable to making a goal against it. As far as i remember if chelsea has ever used this strategy in the past but i don't even know whether stupid potter will try to consider it or not. It seems like that potter never learns from his mistake in the past.

It's not always related to how lucky chelsea is to win or lose during the match in EPL. it's about how smart the coach to take a very good decision during the match. Look at when chelshea has been dominating the match and potter was urgently changing the strategy which is a very stupid decision.

Chelsea should continue to take the ball possession and never let everton touch the ball but potter was giving chance for everton to always making counter attack by changing the club into the defensive strategy.

[Despairo]

One from Napoli or Milan will be eliminated and most likely the one who will be eliminated will be Milan.
On the other hand, Inter is actually still at risk of going home sooner. Benfica this season has been quite strong and the proof that they are on top beating PSG and destroying Club Brugge in the round of 16 is definitely proof that they are very different this season. Even though Inter is different from Club Brugge, of course, Benfica's defense is also very strong now so this possibility is very difficult for Inter to escape easily.

Inter Milan doesn't have a good performance, they only win with small margins for 1 or 2 goals, while Benfica is really beat their opponent with big margins. Benfica and Napoli are nothing to lose playing in Champions League, because they don't have any pressure just like the other clubs who have a lot fans and everyone are hoping they will become a champion. In this matter Benfica and Napoli can play like they want without any fear.

[BlackBoss_]

Inter Milan doesn't have a good performance, they only win with small margins for 1 or 2 goals, while Benfica is really beat their opponent with big margins. Benfica and Napoli are nothing to lose playing in Champions League, because they don't have any pressure just like the other clubs who have a lot fans and everyone are hoping they will become a champion. In this matter Benfica and Napoli can play like they want without any fear.

Inter Milan will meet another club from Portuguese League after beating Porto. Benfica will be a next opponent of Inter Milan and if they win over Benfica, they will have chance to reunite AC Milan after many years and again in semi final of Champions eague.

Inter Milan have less difficult matches than AC Milan that will play against Napoli and I don't think AC Milan will be able to beat Napoli after all. However Inter Milan must focus on Benfica first before they can think of possible matches with AC Milan. Benfica at least lost part of their strength in winter transfer by selling Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea. Inter Milan will have sort of advantage from this change in Benfica midfield but maybe it is not a big enough advantage for them.

[X-ray]

Bayern Munich on the other hand are doing really good despite losing a very important player in their attacking line like Lewandowski. I wonder if their disciplined game plan will be helpful for them to eliminate Manchester City as well. But I'm favouring the English team for the semi finals.

It must not be a problem as bayern has a good replacement for lewandowski and that's choupo moting who has become a secondary striker before once lewandowski was still playing in bayern. Moting is also as good as lewandowski as he has saving bayern so many times.

Just because there was not lewandowski and you think that bayern was so weak compared with manchester city with haaland. Nagelsman is also very optimistic to get manchester city as a new opponent in the last 8.
Bayern and manchester city were also facing each other last season when manchester city was ably eliminating bayern from UCL. Nagelsmann has been learning a lot from the previous meetings against city and bayern will come back stronger.

The different thing must be in haaland caused by manchester city didn't have him as main striker. bayern will see that as a huge challenge for the club to go to the semifinal.

I think that nagelsman will be trying to prepare a strategy that will be stopping haland.

[Naficopa]

Bayern Munich on the other hand are doing really good despite losing a very important player in their attacking line like Lewandowski. I wonder if their disciplined game plan will be helpful for them to eliminate Manchester City as well. But I'm favouring the English team for the semi finals.

It must not be a problem as bayern has a good replacement for lewandowski and that's choupo moting who has become a secondary striker before once lewandowski was still playing in bayern. Moting is also as good as lewandowski as he has saving bayern so many times.

Just because there was not lewandowski and you think that bayern was so weak compared with manchester city with haaland. Nagelsman is also very optimistic to get manchester city as a new opponent in the last 8.
Bayern and manchester city were also facing each other last season when manchester city was ably eliminating bayern from UCL. Nagelsmann has been learning a lot from the previous meetings against city and bayern will come back stronger.

The different thing must be in haaland caused by manchester city didn't have him as main striker. bayern will see that as a huge challenge for the club to go to the semifinal.

I think that nagelsman will be trying to prepare a strategy that will be stopping haland.

Even though Bayern Munich are performing at the highest level in the Bundesliga, the quarter-final match against Manchester City in the Champions League will be very competitive. If Bayern Munich want to beat Manchester City, they will have to play at their maximum and apply new tactics.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Even if Chelsea had to carry out a defensive strategy in the first leg match later, it would surely end in conceding goals first. Because we know the first leg match will take place at home to Real Madrid and of course the Los Blancos squad want to win the match, as well as score lots of goals to widen the aggregate gap in the second leg later at home to Chelsea. But indeed Chelsea have had bad luck so far in the domestic league and they are still trying to find their best game. It's quite difficult and maybe they will be eliminated early via the decider in the first leg later.

The almighty Santiago Bernabéu stadium that you're talking about, isn't that the same stadium Chelsea went with a lesser quality squad last season than we have now and defeated Real Madrid 3-2 the last time we meant. We were even leading 3-0 until the later minutes of the game that they tried performing
their usual comebacks bit couldn't although they still progress due to winning the first game at Stamford bridge. If any club is scared of Real Madrid it isn't Chelsea. The only thing I'm scared about is our manager Graham Potter, he's used to making substitutions that spoils games instead of making them better and that's my only worry playing Real Madrid.

Seems we're forgetting so fast that we defeated Real Madrid in our road to lift the 2021 trophy before they did the same thing in their way to lift the 2022 trophy. I don't see Real Madrid lifting this years trophy so I have a very strong believe they can't defeat us. Lets forget how we're playing in the premier league, champions league is different. Chelsea vs Real Madrid last five meeting has ended with both clubs winning two games each and a draw so they aren't like a top team when they play us and we aren't scared of playing them. I think where we might have some challenges, is playing Bayern Munich in the semi finals.

[mamesso]

~Snip~

I also have the same thoughts about the first leg match Chelsea vs Real Madrid. because Chelsea's consistency is even still unstable at this time. although there has been a slight improvement in Chelsea's game. but this will not be enough to compensate for Real Madrid, which has had good consistency from the start. and a defensive strategy could possibly be a worse outcome for Chelsea . because this is the same as giving Real Madrid the opportunity to build more attacks. And as we know, Real Madrid's forwards are very good at creating gaps in the opponent's defensive area.

The Real Madrid vs Chelsea match is no stranger to the Champions League and there are unique facts when these two teams met in the UCL.
In the 2020/2021 season, these two teams met in the semifinals, Chelsea won 3-1 on aggregate and managed to lift the UCL trophy that season. Next, in the 2021/2022 season, Real Madrid and Chelsea met again in the quarter-finals. Real Madrid won over Chelsea 5-4 on aggregate and managed to become champions at the end of the season.

If we look at the conditions of the two teams this season, Real Madrid is superior in all respects to Chelsea. Consistency in matches is one of the factors that strengthens the assumption that Real Madrid will move on to the semifinals easily.

Will the winner of this game be the UCL champion again?

[D-law]

~Snip~

I also have the same thoughts about the first leg match Chelsea vs Real Madrid. because Chelsea's consistency is even still unstable at this time. although there has been a slight improvement in Chelsea's game. but this will not be enough to compensate for Real Madrid, which has had good consistency from the start. and a defensive strategy could possibly be a worse outcome for Chelsea . because this is the same as giving Real Madrid the opportunity to build more attacks. And as we know, Real Madrid's forwards are very good at creating gaps in the opponent's defensive area.

The Real Madrid vs Chelsea match is no stranger to the Champions League and there are unique facts when these two teams met in the UCL.
In the 2020/2021 season, these two teams met in the semifinals, Chelsea won 3-1 on aggregate and managed to lift the UCL trophy that season. Next, in the 2021/2022 season, Real Madrid and Chelsea met again in the quarter-finals. Real Madrid won over Chelsea 5-4 on aggregate and managed to become champions at the end of the season.

If we look at the conditions of the two teams this season, Real Madrid is superior in all respects to Chelsea. Consistency in matches is one of the factors that strengthens the assumption that Real Madrid will move on to the semifinals easily.

Will the winner of this game be the UCL champion again?

Graham Potter is a local champion and what Chelsea needs us a good coach
He cannot defeat Real Madrid, the winners from this fixtures won't be the Champions League winners
History don't have any thing here, Real Madrid are in a better position to win the game.

[Uruhara]

The results of the UCL draw are very unpredictable. I think that the Man City vs Bayern match is the final too early. Because it so happens that the two teams are the most favored in percentage terms for the UCL champions this season. They had also beaten each other in the UCL the previous season and had been in the same group in the group stage. Though I hope they can meet in the final. But how else can that be the result of the drawing, you have to accept it as it is.

Like the match between Barcelona and Manchester United, the match between Bayern and Manchester City will be like the UCL final.  I am happy to watch 2 beautiful matches.  Bayern have the power to knock out Manchester City.  As a result of these double matches, the team that will go to the next round will probably be the champion.

it's a shame these two strong teams have to meet early. so that one of them will end up in the quarter-finals. Bayern and Manchester city are indeed the superior teams, even since the group stage we have all been talking about the advantages of Man city and Bayern. And I think we definitely don't want to miss this fight. because surely many are waiting for it. even the level of play might feel like it's in the final. so yeah this match will be very interesting. I personally can't see which one will be superior. but I prefer to support Man City in that match later.

[bekti3]

One from Napoli or Milan will be eliminated and most likely the one who will be eliminated will be Milan.
On the other hand, Inter is actually still at risk of going home sooner. Benfica this season has been quite strong and the proof that they are on top beating PSG and destroying Club Brugge in the round of 16 is definitely proof that they are very different this season. Even though Inter is different from Club Brugge, of course, Benfica's defense is also very strong now so this possibility is very difficult for Inter to escape easily.

Inter Milan doesn't have a good performance, they only win with small margins for 1 or 2 goals, while Benfica is really beat their opponent with big margins. Benfica and Napoli are nothing to lose playing in Champions League, because they don't have any pressure just like the other clubs who have a lot fans and everyone are hoping they will become a champion. In this matter Benfica and Napoli can play like they want without any fear.

Indeed in this case what you say is true, but of course when you look at the conditions with Benfica's better productivity I think it is also becoming more and more difficult for Inter here.
The conditions are still quite balanced but in this case I am still leaning towards Benfica who are currently very good in the Champions League and in their domestic league. Even though from an experience point of view Inter is better, seeing their condition in terms of goal productivity, I honestly doubt it.

[Spack17]

It feels like this is the end of the road for Milan in the Champions League. But they have come a long way with this performance level in this season anyway.

Because I don't see there is any way for them to eliminate Napoli. Napoli are not only dominating the Serie A. They are amazing in the Champions League as well. They demolished Frankfurt on aggregate without having a difficulty. Milan might be a little better than Frankfurt now as they have pushed Tottenham outside the tournament. But they are still way below Napoli in terms of effort. Napoli are strong in every way and they already defeated Milan in this season before. I expect Napoli to win both legs.

[Uruhara]

It feels like this is the end of the road for Milan in the Champions League. But they have come a long way with this performance level in this season anyway.

Because I don't see there is any way for them to eliminate Napoli. Napoli are not only dominating the Serie A. They are amazing in the Champions League as well. They demolished Frankfurt on aggregate without having a difficulty. Milan might be a little better than Frankfurt now as they have pushed Tottenham outside the tournament. But they are still way below Napoli in terms of effort. Napoli are strong in every way and they already defeated Milan in this season before. I expect Napoli to win both legs.

After seeing how Ac Milan got a crushing defeat to Udinese in Serie A, of course, everyone will doubt Ac Milan in the Champions League. because from the match against Udinese we can see how Ac milan's defense has many gaps and this must be corrected before going against Napoli in the quarter finals later.

whereas Napoli they have miraculously kept their consistency since the start of the season in Serie a. even Milan have also suffered defeat before by Napoli in Serie A. So Napoli will indeed be superior and have a great chance to win in the first or second leg later.

[Xcode7]

One from Napoli or Milan will be eliminated and most likely the one who will be eliminated will be Milan.
On the other hand, Inter is actually still at risk of going home sooner. Benfica this season has been quite strong and the proof that they are on top beating PSG and destroying Club Brugge in the round of 16 is definitely proof that they are very different this season. Even though Inter is different from Club Brugge, of course, Benfica's defense is also very strong now so this possibility is very difficult for Inter to escape easily.

Inter Milan doesn't have a good performance, they only win with small margins for 1 or 2 goals, while Benfica is really beat their opponent with big margins. Benfica and Napoli are nothing to lose playing in Champions League, because they don't have any pressure just like the other clubs who have a lot fans and everyone are hoping they will become a champion. In this matter Benfica and Napoli can play like they want without any fear.

Indeed in this case what you say is true, but of course when you look at the conditions with Benfica's better productivity I think it is also becoming more and more difficult for Inter here.
The conditions are still quite balanced but in this case I am still leaning towards Benfica who are currently very good in the Champions League and in their domestic league. Even though from an experience point of view Inter is better, seeing their condition in terms of goal productivity, I honestly doubt it.

the mentality of the Inter Milan team on the UCL stage is better and because of that, Inter Milan is a little favorite to advance to the semifinals.
while in the other match Napoli vs AC Milan, Napoli will be highly favored because the quality of this team is very different, we can see it in the Serie A league.

Napoli this season is fantastic and I think the possibility of them getting into the UCL final this season is quite big, if they are able to beat AC Milan and Napoli will face Inter Milan / Benfica in the semifinals, the quality of the teams is still not much different and all possibilities are still possible for happen.

[$anounimus$]

One from Napoli or Milan will be eliminated and most likely the one who will be eliminated will be Milan.
On the other hand, Inter is actually still at risk of going home sooner. Benfica this season has been quite strong and the proof that they are on top beating PSG and destroying Club Brugge in the round of 16 is definitely proof that they are very different this season. Even though Inter is different from Club Brugge, of course, Benfica's defense is also very strong now so this possibility is very difficult for Inter to escape easily.

Inter Milan doesn't have a good performance, they only win with small margins for 1 or 2 goals, while Benfica is really beat their opponent with big margins. Benfica and Napoli are nothing to lose playing in Champions League, because they don't have any pressure just like the other clubs who have a lot fans and everyone are hoping they will become a champion. In this matter Benfica and Napoli can play like they want without any fear.

Indeed in this case what you say is true, but of course when you look at the conditions with Benfica's better productivity I think it is also becoming more and more difficult for Inter here.
The conditions are still quite balanced but in this case I am still leaning towards Benfica who are currently very good in the Champions League and in their domestic league. Even though from an experience point of view Inter is better, seeing their condition in terms of goal productivity, I honestly doubt it.

the mentality of the Inter Milan team on the UCL stage is better and because of that, Inter Milan is a little favorite to advance to the semifinals.
while in the other match Napoli vs AC Milan, Napoli will be highly favored because the quality of this team is very different, we can see it in the Serie A league.

Napoli this season is fantastic and I think the possibility of them getting into the UCL final this season is quite big, if they are able to beat AC Milan and Napoli will face Inter Milan / Benfica in the semifinals, the quality of the teams is still not much different and all possibilities are still possible for happen.

Milan is the most successful Italian team in the Champions League, followed by Inter Milan. Meanwhile, Napoli has never tasted the sweetness of this most prestigious trophy. However, even though the two teams from Milano City have Champions League DNA, they are by no means superior, because the performance of the two teams is still inconsistent. Napoli are actually very favored to break into the final, this is indeed very clear because the performance of the team nicknamed the Partenopei this season has been able to appear very powerful. But even though they are superior, Napoli must also concentrate fully when dealing with fellow Italian teams. Napoli must also be aware that the atmosphere of the Champions League is different. Spalletti must instruct his squad to always focus if they want to make their dream of playing in the final come true. because the Milano duo will make every effort to hinder Napoli's progress.