UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season

[hyudien]

People are more focused on the high profile game between Manchester City and Bayern Munich but I think the most unpredictable fixture will be the Benfica vs Inter Milan Match.
Benfica has been on an incredible form lately, although they lost their last match to Porto over the weekend. Before the Porto game they have won the previous six games they have player. That's a lot of consistency. Lets also not forget that Benfica is at the top of the Portuguese league with seven points ahead of Porto.

The match that is waiting for a few more hours will invite many predictions where Benfica will face Inter and Man City will face Bayern Munich. As you said, Benfica may be more able to outplay the game than predict Manchester City and Bayern Munich. I'm sure Inter Milan will have a hard time in this match, statistically, Benfica is showing a very improved performance. For that, I will also bet on Benfica win.

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[Leviathan.007]

Inter Milan are playing very badly in their recent games and they have even dropped out of the top 4 spots on the table in the Italian Serie A. I think Inter Milan might try to force a draw upon Benfica at the 1st leg game between these two teams, and hoping they could send Benfica crashing out of the Uefa Champions League when both of these teams play the 2nd leg game in Italy. I guess this match might ends up with a draw at the final whistle today.

yes as we saw a poor performance in the league I think inter milan might be focusing on the UCL match against benfica later, I'm sure intermilan might have proper preparations to fight benfica, I'm also not sure the result will end in a draw because I know intermilan is working hard up to this point, I predict that Intermilan will steal a narrow victory even though playing as a guest at Benfica.

Not just talking about Serie A or the Europa League, Inter Milan had poor performance in recent games we saw from them, regarding their performance in the Europa League they won the game against Porto in the last game they had but in fact, the performance of Inter Milan was not good at all and they couldn't even make enough goals opportunities in this game.

[gabbie2010]

So the action is back in tonight with Benfica waiting Inter and City waiting Bayern.I think both games can as well end in a home victory as I think Benfica is fully focused on the Champions and their recent performance has been great in the home league while Inter has been suffering a lot in their home league and as such I think Benfica will win tonight.In the other game City has missed so many times to win the Champions League and this is a golden opportunity for them,they have Haaland now in their squad to make a difference as it looks like he was the missing piece for City to do well in the Champions League and most likely they will win tonight.

For Benfica, I also think that they should win, but there are doubts about City, after all, Bayern is a very serious opponent. Their performance in recent matches doesn't look very confident and they concede a lot, Sommer doesn't always manage to show a good game, and Haaland is in great shape now, besides, I think City are also in better shape in general. So City should win, but I also do not rule out a draw in this match, Bayern's victory looks doubtful.

From my own analysis Benfica vs Inter Milan match can be won by either side or end in a draw, Inter Milan not doing in Seria A notwithstanding this a UCL match thus I am different ball game from the visitors and Seria A has more quality than Portuguese league though Benfica are currently the top leader of the leader, however Inter Milan who are 5th in Seria A hasn't perform badly because just little points separate them with clubs above them except Napoli.
Meanwhile Man City vs Bayern Munich will be a tvery ough match Tuchel had once defeated Man City in UCL finals when he was in charge of Chelsea and UCL being the coveted trophy that had been elusive to Man City will motivate the players to play attacking football and try to win the match.

[shogun47]

Chelsea under Frank lampard won't be able to spring up any surprise against real the confidence is lacking in the team and the players are not blending, the only positive is that kante is back but he alone can't inspire them in the UCL...

Based on the Frank lampard experience in football, I think there is a hope for Chelsea to get it right in this Frank lampard tenure because the new coach is trying to bring back some potential players that can make their game strong in this season and to improve to encourage their president that there is a hope for them to win this title. I think, things will definitely change positively in Chelsea, because their players are well prepared to improve so that their fans can smile again. Kante is among the talented players that made Chelsea strong last season that made their coach to bring him back to the team so that he can handle his position so that people will start experiencing good performance from Chelsea.

The Frank Lampard talk is so ubiquitous that I think some people think he is a kind of magician or something. The only thing he can really do is to talk to his players and try to get them moving mentally in the right direction. You can't really practice certain plays or game situations. It could have an impact if he is able to motivate the players better than Graham Potter could, but how many percentage points does that help the team to improve in a best case scenario? I think realistic expectations should still prevail. If Chelsea wins, everybody will say it is Lampard's achievement, and if Chelsea loses, everybody will say that he couldn't anything anyway or that he didn't change anything because he is as bad as Potter.

[Iranus]

Inter Milan are playing very badly in their recent games and they have even dropped out of the top 4 spots on the table in the Italian Serie A. I think Inter Milan might try to force a draw upon Benfica at the 1st leg game between these two teams, and hoping they could send Benfica crashing out of the Uefa Champions League when both of these teams play the 2nd leg game in Italy. I guess this match might ends up with a draw at the final whistle today.

yes as we saw a poor performance in the league I think inter milan might be focusing on the UCL match against benfica later, I'm sure intermilan might have proper preparations to fight benfica, I'm also not sure the result will end in a draw because I know intermilan is working hard up to this point, I predict that Intermilan will steal a narrow victory even though playing as a guest at Benfica.

Not just talking about Serie A or the Europa League, Inter Milan had poor performance in recent games we saw from them, regarding their performance in the Europa League they won the game against Porto in the last game they had but in fact, the performance of Inter Milan was not good at all and they couldn't even make enough goals opportunities in this game.

Inter Milan is in a very bad situation right now. Although they drew in their last match, Inter Milan has lost their previous three matches. Inter Milan can't win against relatively weak teams. The overall performance of the team is very poor. On the other hand, although Benfica lost 2-1 against Porto, I think this team is in good form. This team is stable compared to Inter Milan. If Benfica's defense doesn't collapse badly against Inter Milan, I expect Benfica to win. Inter Milan is definitely a Renowned team. However, I think Benfica is the favorite in this match.

[SOKO-DEKE]

I also think Benfica can beat Inter, but their head-to-head stats have never ended in a Benfica win... Hopefully today will be a historic moment... I made a multi bet on the home side's win, although I think there could be any outcome in both matches today...

Betting for Benfica does look more convincing for this match. But I won't dare to bet big for this match because Inter Milan could surprise us in this match. Likewise with the Man City vs Bayern match. I will probably bet on Man City because the position as the host seems to bring high motivation for the Man City players to win this match. But I don't think this game will score a lot of goals. because the two teams do have almost the same level of strength so the fight will definitely take place fiercely.

If we had to assess based on their most recent performance in their domestic league competitions, I would say that benfica have the edge of defeating inter Milan tonight because inter Milan has not been playing well lately in their local league.Since inter Milan may have more champions league experience than benfica, I can also say that inter Milan has advantages of also winning. As a result, both teams have good chances to win, but if I had to bet, I would bet on benfica to win because of their home advantage. But let see how the game will turn and the team it that may be lucky.

[Inwestour]

People are more focused on the high profile game between Manchester City and Bayern Munich but I think the most unpredictable fixture will be the Benfica vs Inter Milan Match.
Benfica has been on an incredible form lately, although they lost their last match to Porto over the weekend. Before the Porto game they have won the previous six games they have player. That's a lot of consistency. Lets also not forget that Benfica is at the top of the Portuguese league with seven points ahead of Porto.

Milan on the other hand have been the opposite of Benfica in recent time. Inter Milan have not won a single game in their last six matches, that is really poor for a team like Inter. Because of their poor performance recently, they keep slipping down on the Italian league table. At a point they were 2nd position on the table, now they are 5th and not sure if they will be playing ucl football next season.

I'm going with Benfica to win in this fixture. The worst that Benfica can get out of this is a draw, which won't be a good result for them because they are playing on home soil.

I would not focus on Benfica's last loss as we all understand that the team was preparing for the Champions League match, besides this defeat was not critical for Benfica, as they are still 7 points ahead of Porto. Inter's performance in recent matches is not impressive, the last time they won was at the beginning of March, after that there were three losses and three draws, this indicates a clear decline in form.

Benfica's advantage at Estadio da Luz seems clear, but Inter will try to draw today's match, they succeeded against Porto, but I'm not sure if they can repeat it with Benfica.

[asriloni]

Betting for Benfica does look more convincing for this match. But I won't dare to bet big for this match because Inter Milan could surprise us in this match. Likewise with the Man City vs Bayern match. I will probably bet on Man City because the position as the host seems to bring high motivation for the Man City players to win this match. But I don't think this game will score a lot of goals. because the two teams do have almost the same level of strength so the fight will definitely take place fiercely.

Benfica has been always winning in domestic competitions. It will be so hard for intermilan to defeat benfica even though intermilan will be playing away. Intermilan didn't have a good squads right now. I expect the result will be draw or benfica may lose with small scores against intermilan. Benfica was superior compared with intermilan but it doesn't even mean that benfica can't be beaten. I saw that how ancelotti was putting benfica as his most favorite team to go to the semi final. Inter milan was over feeling confidence with itself and forgot that if benfica was not the same like barcelona or another club that already faced by intermilan before in the group stages. This time intermilan will be facing far more difficult opponents. It will be so bad if inter will be losing with huge scores against benfica.

I think that benfica will not even waste the opportunity to win against intermilan. it doesn't even matter where benfica play. It seems like that benfica is likely to dominate the match against intermilan

[Unsoldier]

The first leg match between Manchester City and Bayern Munich is really interesting to look forward to. The match took place in front of Manchester City fans at the Etihad which is likely to favor the hosts. Manchester City are in good form going into the first leg, which is great for Pep Guardiola's squad.

So far Manchester City are really the favorites at home despite Bayern Munich being very strong team. I don't think Manchester City are bad about this, but anyway they have to try their best to win at home. I'm assuming Manchester City won, but it's hard to predict with certainty the outcome of that match.

Its seems not matter for Bayern Munich have good away record with 100% winning ration from group stage, indeed how strong Manchester City when playing home but Bayern always won on every away games. But have new manager under Tuchel I am not sure with Bayern will continues the winning record from group stage until quarter final? or has possibility for Manchester City stopping Bayern winning record until 8 games.

Between Manchester City and Bayern Munich are quit well performance in domestic league, Bayern success back to the top Bundesliga standings and Manchester City have impressive performance last several games and keep compete for Arsenal in Primer League tittle race.

Bayern Munich is an experienced side in the UCL competition and you can’t take away the fact that they have been a major contender for many seasons now. They know how to play games at this stage and with the experience of this new manager, I think it’ll be difficult for Manchester city to win.
However, as Manchester City prepare to face Bayern Munich this  night, Guardiola knows that if he does not win the competition with this Manchester City side, just as he did not win it when he was the manager of Bayern, then his time in charge of Manchester city will be regarded as incomplete and his reputation will be diminished.

@Bobrox Bayern’s old nemesis Haaland is bound to hurt them a lot again, and I expect him to score at least one goal and continuously torture Bayern defenders. Also with Tuchel Bayern have a coach who understands City first hand, but that too won’t help Bayern because I feel that City will completely crush them and almost secure their promotion to the semi final’s.

I think Bavaria are grossly underestimated.  It will be very difficult for the Germans to play a rival like Manchester City in England. But we must remember that Thomas Tuchel knows Guardiola very well. Surely the German will find a way to play smart against Man City.
I think this match will be spectacular and Bayern will win.

[bitzizzix]

Betting for Benfica does look more convincing for this match. But I won't dare to bet big for this match because Inter Milan could surprise us in this match. Likewise with the Man City vs Bayern match. I will probably bet on Man City because the position as the host seems to bring high motivation for the Man City players to win this match. But I don't think this game will score a lot of goals. because the two teams do have almost the same level of strength so the fight will definitely take place fiercely.

Benfica has been always winning in domestic competitions. It will be so hard for intermilan to defeat benfica even though intermilan will be playing away. Intermilan didn't have a good squads right now. I expect the result will be draw or benfica may lose with small scores against intermilan. Benfica was superior compared with intermilan but it doesn't even mean that benfica can't be beaten. I saw that how ancelotti was putting benfica as his most favorite team to go to the semi final. Inter milan was over feeling confidence with itself and forgot that if benfica was not the same like barcelona or another club that already faced by intermilan before in the group stages. This time intermilan will be facing far more difficult opponents. It will be so bad if inter will be losing with huge scores against benfica.

I think that benfica will not even waste the opportunity to win against intermilan. it doesn't even matter where benfica play. It seems like that benfica is likely to dominate the match against intermilan

If we talk about the previous meetings between the two teams, Inter Milan is indeed superior to Benfica, and from these three meetings Inter Milan was able to win one victory over Benfica in 2004, and the other two matches ended in goalless draws.
and if assessing the results
The meeting of the two teams, in my opinion Benfica is not an easy opponent for Inter Milan and in the domestic league competition Benfica leads the standings which cannot be chased by domestic teams like Porto and others because of the large point difference.
so I think Benfica vs Inter Milan is an important match and also very interesting to watch, and maybe the result will be a draw and the second leg will be decisive.

[arimamib]

I think Bavaria are grossly underestimated.  It will be very difficult for the Germans to play a rival like Manchester City in England. But we must remember that Thomas Tuchel knows Guardiola very well. Surely the German will find a way to play smart against Man City.
I think this match will be spectacular and Bayern will win.

Maybe for me the first leg will be won by Manchester City, I am very impressed with Haaland. He is a former player who played in the Bundesliga in the previous season, of course he is quite familiar with the playing strategy of the Bundesliga team. Tuchel also has good experience time he was at Chelsea and he is a very genius coach in implementing a game plan when dealing with a strong team.

Manchester city will repeat the trend of big wins as they did against leipzig in the previous match. Playing at the Etihad Stadium is an advantage for Manchester City to control the first leg to look for points. Bayern munich this season is very strong in the champions league but unfortunately they are in a sticker crisis this season.

[Die_empty]

The Frank Lampard talk is so ubiquitous that I think some people think he is a kind of magician or something. The only thing he can really do is to talk to his players and try to get them moving mentally in the right direction. You can't really practice certain plays or game situations. It could have an impact if he is able to motivate the players better than Graham Potter could, but how many percentage points does that help the team to improve in a best case scenario? I think realistic expectations should still prevail. If Chelsea wins, everybody will say it is Lampard's achievement, and if Chelsea loses, everybody will say that he couldn't anything anyway or that he didn't change anything because he is as bad as Potter.

Chelsea will just depend on luck in this game because from their performance they are hopeless. I am very sorry to sound this way but any fan that places trust or confidence in his team will suffer from a heart attack. A team that has all it takes to win all competition is struggling to beat relegation-bound teams. Lampard will not perform any miracles because he needs time to rebuild the team. He can be fortunate to get a good result, who knows?

I think the forceful selling of the club by the English government was a mistake, selling the club to Todd Boehly was also a blunder, the sack of Thomas Tuchel was also wrong and the appointment of Graham Potter was also an error. Chelsea arrived at this terrible state because of multiple and consistent blunders. I don't know if the employment of Frank Lampard is a mistake until after the match tomorrow. If they fail to move to the semifinals, I suggest they seek forgiveness from Roman Abramovich and other people they have offended because their problem might be spiritual and not physical.

[boltz]

Benfica has great potential to actually make a great game and obtain a good result tonight against Inter. I say this because Inter is really doing poorly lately in Serie A and their game is lacking vision and pace as well so I won't expect a great overturn from them even if UCL gets out the best from teams.

Benfica are also having a blast in Liga Portugal with 7 points in front of Porto and pretty much champions of 22/23 season. 

[rendravolt]

Today we will be shown with the opening two matches of the champions league quaterfinal round. If we look at the odds offered by the dealer, it's clear that the host will be very favored. But I want to discuss the Manchester City vs Bayern Munich match first. We can see the odds for Manchester City @ 1.63 and Bayern Munich @ 5.20. It's very clear that this is almost unequal and maybe Bayern Munich will lose this first leg. Right now Erling Haaland is on fire and has just broken the latest record in the EPL and maybe he also wants to keep scoring on the UCL board later. But Bayern Muchen I think they will keep trying to get good results in this match. But logically I would bet on the victory of Pep Guardiola's squad.

The other match is Benfica vs Inter, it's quite clear how this match will go because Benfica is much better than Inter and looking at the odds I'm very sure to bet on Benfica's win. Inter will not be able to stop Benfica at home, they are still difficult to score and in this match I think Inter will definitely go home without being able to bring aggregate points.

[bering]

Inter has failed to win in the last 6 matches in all competitions and the latest is they cannot able to beat Cremonese on Serie A and it's obviously they are not in the good shape and for Benfica indeed they had just lose from Porto at their domestic league but i don't think it would have any affect for their performance later and regarding Benfica records in this competitions they had passed 13 matches with unbeatable status

Benfica had good result from Italian teams before because on group stage they can able to beat Juventus twice i think this result probably can be used as the reference that they have good chances to be the winner of this match especially this is home match for them and i am sure Benfica will attempts to get early goals and secured their position

Regarding teams conditions probably Inter will played used their best starting line up considering there is no important players who got injured but the opposite conditions for Benfica that their defender Alexander Bah had uncertain conditions and probably will be unable to play and besides that Nicolas Otamendi will not in the squad because of suspension and i know it's hard for Benfica because these players is their key players but i think they still able to overcomes Inter with the current squad so Benfica will be the winner of this match and @2.28 could be good odds

[blackened515]

I think Bavaria are grossly underestimated.  It will be very difficult for the Germans to play a rival like Manchester City in England. But we must remember that Thomas Tuchel knows Guardiola very well. Surely the German will find a way to play smart against Man City.
I think this match will be spectacular and Bayern will win.

Who's ready for the big game tonight?
The giant of bundlesliga are full ready to matchup the strength of City in Etihad stadium. Thomas Tuchel knows Pep Guardiola and knows the strategy to implement inother to melt down the pressure of the home team. It's definitely going to be a tough game to witnessed top class action from both sides. Ball possession doesn't matter because city will grab that, it's a specific pattern for them but the Bavarians will haunt you like an average club and with the looks of players, Bayern Munich have an edge over manchester city.

[Yogee]

First time looking at the odds about 15 minutes ago and didn't expect Bayern to be such a huge underdog on moneyline hehe. I personally don't care who is going to win as I'm not betting on that but I'm hoping they both score because that's where my money is. Line at 1.70 isn't a bad deal when two European giant clubs collide. I was expecting it to be a lot lower to be honest.

[fzkto]

I think Bavaria are grossly underestimated.  It will be very difficult for the Germans to play a rival like Manchester City in England. But we must remember that Thomas Tuchel knows Guardiola very well. Surely the German will find a way to play smart against Man City.
I think this match will be spectacular and Bayern will win.

Maybe for me the first leg will be won by Manchester City, I am very impressed with Haaland. He is a former player who played in the Bundesliga in the previous season, of course he is quite familiar with the playing strategy of the Bundesliga team. Tuchel also has good experience time he was at Chelsea and he is a very genius coach in implementing a game plan when dealing with a strong team.

Manchester city will repeat the trend of big wins as they did against leipzig in the previous match. Playing at the Etihad Stadium is an advantage for Manchester City to control the first leg to look for points. Bayern munich this season is very strong in the champions league but unfortunately they are in a sticker crisis this season.

Manchester City are favourites on paper only. I believe this could be a Champions League final with equal teams. I think it's very hard to guess who will be the winner here. If you look at the last few home league games, Manchester City look stronger. But this is the Champions League, which is different to other matches.

[makishart]

The match that is waiting for a few more hours will invite many predictions where Benfica will face Inter and Man City will face Bayern Munich. As you said, Benfica may be more able to outplay the game than predict Manchester City and Bayern Munich. I'm sure Inter Milan will have a hard time in this match, statistically, Benfica is showing a very improved performance. For that, I will also bet on Benfica win.

Me too. Even though intermilan's odd is quite high caused by bookies were favoring benfica and i think that intermilan will be facing so many difficulties against benfica. It's quite surprising that if the odds owner by bayern is very big compared with manchester city and it becomes very far. I can't even believe it bookies were seeing bayern as underrated club. Could this be another trap? I can't even imagine how bayern will be getting 5.20 compared with city 1.63. If bayern got at least under 3 and it looks good but 5.20 was very amazing odd for me to see that.

I will be picking bayern for city vs bayern and benfica for benfica vs intermilan. The odds for bayern is worthy enough to take it. Benfica will be winning the game. Picking benfica looks like easy money for sure but draw is also possible to happen.
I can't even imagine how bad bayern in front of bookies's eyes.  

[Coyster]

First time looking at the odds about 15 minutes ago and didn't expect Bayern to be such a huge underdog on moneyline hehe. I personally don't care who is going to win as I'm not betting on that but I'm hoping they both score because that's where my money is. Line at 1.70 isn't a bad deal when two European giant clubs collide. I was expecting it to be a lot lower to be honest.

The odds for BTTS is pretty decent imo, you'd expect the both teams to score (until they don't ), well, i'd not be deceived by the bookies because of the odds given to Bayern Munich, it is pretty high, and tbh i don't know why, prolly because City are at home, because in terms of form, i think the both teams are in pretty decent form, no one is doing a whole lot better or worse than the other. Irrespective of odds, bet slips and other whatnots, this promises to be a really cracking game, i'd go with a City victory, but i'd not put my money on it cause its pretty risky, i think i'd take BTTS too, but i'm yet to decide and the game draws ever nigh.