UEFA Europa League 2022/23 Season

[asriloni]

There is a significant improvement in Leverkusen's performance these days. Their form in the Bundesliga has been on the rise for five weeks as they are on a winning streak. Bringing Xabi Alonso has helped them a lot. It looks like their main problem has was the management of the team. After seeing this great form in their domestic league I've started to be expectant in the Europa League as well.

Their matchup is against Monaco as you know. Monaco are a dangerous team of course and they are also doing a decent job recently. I expect this matchup to be very competitive in both legs. It feels like Leverkusen will be one step ahead to advance for now. Because their chance to qualify for any tournament in the Bundesliga is not very high.

I'm almost a team because of their bad start to the season. But it seems that now they have started to find their lost form, yes, they have started to get victory after victory and it was not an easy match. Their 5 consecutive wins in the Bundesliga have made their morale rise again, as well as their ranking in the standings continues to show improvement. Now they are in 8th place with 24 points collected, just like you I started to give hope to them in the Europa League.

Monaco is far better compared with leverkusen. Leverkusen is having bad performance again on its domestic club. i would not be surprised that if leverkusen will be losing easily against monaco. monaco has been performing so well compared with leverkusen.
This gonna be the easiest match to predict. Im sure that 100% if monaco will be winning the game against leverkusen. leverkusen's performance is dropping again at this moment.

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[Altryist]

Barcelona and Xavi are aiming to win the La Liga title and the Europa League title. On the other hand, Ten Hag and Manchester United's main goals are to qualify for the Champions League and the Europa League title. Arsenal will also continue to fight for the Europa League title. It is difficult to predict which team will win the title. But every team has a good instinct to win the title. United and Barcelona's performances have been somewhat unstable, but both have strong squads. But both the teams have enough time to organize themselves and strengthen the team.

In fact, it is very difficult to say now what priorities Arsenal, Manchester United and Barcelona will have in the EL. It is possible that Arsenal and Barcelona will have to focus on their championships and since I think that they have already secured a place in the Champions League for next season, the EL may not be their main priority tournament, and they may sacrifice it if the situation requires it.

[Sterbens]

Barcelona and Xavi are aiming to win the La Liga title and the Europa League title. On the other hand, Ten Hag and Manchester United's main goals are to qualify for the Champions League and the Europa League title. Arsenal will also continue to fight for the Europa League title. It is difficult to predict which team will win the title. But every team has a good instinct to win the title. United and Barcelona's performances have been somewhat unstable, but both have strong squads. But both the teams have enough time to organize themselves and strengthen the team.

In fact, it is very difficult to say now what priorities Arsenal, Manchester United and Barcelona will have in the EL. It is possible that Arsenal and Barcelona will have to focus on their championships and since I think that they have already secured a place in the Champions League for next season, the EL may not be their main priority tournament, and they may sacrifice it if the situation requires it.

Yes it is a situation that will drain them to do their best in these 2 competitions. Their main objective is definitely in the League, but when they get a good chance in the Europa League then I'm sure they will make the most of it and won't miss the chance that comes their way. Arsenal and Barcelona are in a good situation in the league table, they will definitely try to prioritize that first. The term if all they can get why not.

[TheGreatPython]

Monaco is far better compared with leverkusen. Leverkusen is having bad performance again on its domestic club. i would not be surprised that if leverkusen will be losing easily against monaco. monaco has been performing so well compared with leverkusen.
This gonna be the easiest match to predict. Im sure that 100% if monaco will be winning the game against leverkusen. leverkusen's performance is dropping again at this moment.

No doubt about Monaco performance in Ligue 1 but they are facing some issues in defense which is surely needs to be fixed because with this most of the time they are conceding goals and having problems, but Leverkusen is surely having the worst start of the season but now after change of coach having amazing impact, and now they are on five matches winning streak which is surely amazing and with this we can expect good fight in this competition because their new coach is working on attack and defense as well which is surely having good impact on their performance and giving good result for it is not easy game for the both teams because these both teams can do good and having equal chance to win this match and qualifying for the next round.

[doomloop]

Barcelona and Xavi are aiming to win the La Liga title and the Europa League title. On the other hand, Ten Hag and Manchester United's main goals are to qualify for the Champions League and the Europa League title. Arsenal will also continue to fight for the Europa League title. It is difficult to predict which team will win the title. But every team has a good instinct to win the title. United and Barcelona's performances have been somewhat unstable, but both have strong squads. But both the teams have enough time to organize themselves and strengthen the team.

In fact, it is very difficult to say now what priorities Arsenal, Manchester United and Barcelona will have in the EL. It is possible that Arsenal and Barcelona will have to focus on their championships and since I think that they have already secured a place in the Champions League for next season, the EL may not be their main priority tournament, and they may sacrifice it if the situation requires it.

Even right now, predictions are not easy for the few events but still things looking interesting because Arsenal is already having good season with they are leading in Premier League and have fair chance in UEFA Europa Cup and same happening in case of Barcelona which is leading La Liga and can go through for this cup as well.

But, we are really surprised with Manchester United now they are having spot into EFL Cup with fourth spot in Premier League and their hopes are also alive for the FA Cup and UEFA Europa Cup mean they are strong in these all four events and surely wants minimum two in their dream season because this will be amazing after many years they are in this position and have strong case for the win even still sometime needs to have better view but still they are at their best with current squad and coach Ten hag.

[Davian144]

I am a United fan, and as a fan, I would be very happy if our favorite team could beat a team as big as Barca

I love the progress so far in the Man UTD team. Marcus Rashford is on another level right now.
Ten Hag has managed to steer the club in the right direction. A well-rounded individual and a great coach.
ETH will bring lots of trophies to Old Trafford

You really have to be more optimistic about Manchester United because you are the fans. But in terms of matches in the Europa League this season, actually Barcelona and Manchester United have both improved with strengths that are not much different so that their matches can be sure to run competitively. Although I also hope that Manchester United can win the match so that it can bring even better changes to the team this season.

[rahmad2nd]

On several occasions, Xavi said that Barcelona is serious about targeting this competition trophy. even one of their strikers, Lewandowski, once said that he and his colleagues had the ambition to win the Europa League trophy. so it's clear that Xavi really cares about this competition trophy besides prioritizing winning the La Liga trophy.
I can't predict what will happen in the match between Barcelona vs Manchester United. because after all, this fight is a crucial match for both teams. plus, their coaches will compete tactics and strategies.

IMO from my point of view both coaches will focus on the midfield battle. why, because Barcelona have an advantage in their midfield over Manchester United. just relying on Casemiro, that's not enough, Ten Hag needs a tactic to counter the midfielder that Barcelona has.
This fight is a tactical war game. and if Xavi applies his formation like the El Clasico match, by relying on two Pivots and two attacking midfielders plus Dembele and placing Lewandowski as the sole striker. I'm pretty sure Man United will have a hard time facing Barcelona. however, we will find out later after this bout has taken place.

Well, that's mainly because it is the only acceptable result. Think about it this way, if they lost at semi finals of UCL, would anyone say anything about that? It would be fine and they wouldn't really be hated for losing there, but in europa? They need to either win it, or even losing at finals would be a bad situations, no matter what they do, unless they win it all, it will be a bad result for them.

This is why it's clear that they need to keep on improving and being better. United or Arsenal or any other team, no matter who they end up facing, they need to end up winning and that's an important distinction to make. I believe they are capable of winning, but being capable and being able to are different things.

I think the scenario is not like that, no team wants to lose and it doesn't matter what the competition is. Xavi is ambitious or has a mission to target trophies in this competition besides La Liga. win or lose, that is another matter. because, if in football it can be predicted according to mathematical calculations.  then, any match will not be interesting anymore.

after Barcelona slipped from the UCL, Xavi learned a lot from his team's weaknesses and mistakes in implementing his strategy. In the second half of this season, Barcelona has developed quite well even though it has not shown a very solid form of play.  fail or not, that is another matter for them.  most importantly, Lewandowski and his team-mates will give their all.

As for United, IMO, Erik Ten Hag's squad has not yet reached the maximum level. maybe next season, United will appear much more solid than what they are currently showing. for Arsenal, this team is my favourite. they have a high fighting spirit, chemistry and bonding that are increasingly solid, their mentality is increasingly formed after playing match after match.
So far, the Gunners are still my favorite and whoever will play Arsenal later. The Gunners' young squad, will always be ready to face it.

[rby]

I am a United fan, and as a fan, I would be very happy if our favorite team could beat a team as big as Barca

I love the progress so far in the Man UTD team. Marcus Rashford is on another level right now.
Ten Hag has managed to steer the club in the right direction. A well-rounded individual and a great coach.
ETH will bring lots of trophies to Old Trafford

You really have to be more optimistic about Manchester United because you are the fans. But in terms of matches in the Europa League this season, actually Barcelona and Manchester United have both improved with strengths that are not much different so that their matches can be sure to run competitively. Although I also hope that Manchester United can win the match so that it can bring even better changes to the team this season.

It didn't take Erik Ten so long for him to turn around the ugly situation of Manchester United to a good one. Dr. Rashford is one of the players that has found their good form under Erik ten Hag. The young guy is on fire and very hot.
The overall performance of the Manchester United team has also improved. They will not meet Barcelona with fear, rather they will be more careful of them.

[X-ray]

Barcelona meets Man United, Barcelona is not doing well in UCL but is doing well in their domestic league (La liga) at least based on the position in the league, it's a different story for Man United (as they are still in transition at the moment) but the result of this match remains depending on how many players in both teams are still fit/injury free after the busy schedule of these few matches.

In history Man United have always struggled against Barcelona, but I think Man United know it has been fixed and are ready. Man United vs Barcelona is by far the biggest Europa league game of all time.

This is another chance for manchester to prove it if the new MU would be different compared with the old MU who was always losing against Barcelona. I do know that if MU has a very bad head to head against Barcelona. That's why bookies was giving very big odds for united as bookiers prefer to take Barcelona as a winner in the upcoming match against mu in the europa league. MU must try to use the strategy that used by another team who was always beating Barcelona like bayern munchen.
I think that will be very effective in preventing the attack that will be making by Barcelona. Barclona was using tiki taka again. It's quite easy to prevent it

[rendravolt]

Monaco is far better compared with leverkusen. Leverkusen is having bad performance again on its domestic club. i would not be surprised that if leverkusen will be losing easily against monaco. monaco has been performing so well compared with leverkusen.
This gonna be the easiest match to predict. Im sure that 100% if monaco will be winning the game against leverkusen. leverkusen's performance is dropping again at this moment.

Yes, seeing the progress of each team in their domestic league makes Monaco slightly superior. I don't know whether Leverkusen will be able to give its best performance or not, before the European League play-off round starts again. But if you look at Leverkusen's first leg match which will host and that makes the match entirely belong to Leverkusen, it's just that if Monaco can provide fierce resistance and Monaco manages to steal the aggregate points in the first leg, it will be Leverkusen's loss in the second leg later.

[Merit.s]

Barcelona meets Man United, Barcelona is not doing well in UCL but is doing well in their domestic league (La liga) at least based on the position in the league, it's a different story for Man United (as they are still in transition at the moment) but the result of this match remains depending on how many players in both teams are still fit/injury free after the busy schedule of these few matches.

In history Man United have always struggled against Barcelona, but I think Man United know it has been fixed and are ready. Man United vs Barcelona is by far the biggest Europa league game of all time.

This is another chance for manchester to prove it if the new MU would be different compared with the old MU who was always losing against Barcelona. I do know that if MU has a very bad head to head against Barcelona. That's why bookies was giving very big odds for united as bookiers prefer to take Barcelona as a winner in the upcoming match against mu in the europa league. MU must try to use the strategy that used by another team who was always beating Barcelona like bayern munchen.
I think that will be very effective in preventing the attack that will be making by Barcelona. Barclona was using tiki taka again. It's quite easy to prevent it

Manchester united will play their best football pattern in other to win Barca who has being winning Manchester united in Camp Nuo,this match for will be a difficult one for Barca since this is a new squad formed by ETH. I just hope that ETH will make the right decisions and changes in that day. Barca are well to do and have a good opportunity over Manchester united because they are playing at home. Rashford has picked great form as he do score in all the matches he plays recently and I hope he will score on that day.

[ilovealtcoins]

Barcelona meets Man United, Barcelona is not doing well in UCL but is doing well in their domestic league (La liga) at least based on the position in the league, it's a different story for Man United (as they are still in transition at the moment) but the result of this match remains depending on how many players in both teams are still fit/injury free after the busy schedule of these few matches.

In history Man United have always struggled against Barcelona, but I think Man United know it has been fixed and are ready. Man United vs Barcelona is by far the biggest Europa league game of all time.

This is another chance for manchester to prove it if the new MU would be different compared with the old MU who was always losing against Barcelona. I do know that if MU has a very bad head to head against Barcelona. That's why bookies was giving very big odds for united as bookiers prefer to take Barcelona as a winner in the upcoming match against mu in the europa league. MU must try to use the strategy that used by another team who was always beating Barcelona like bayern munchen.
I think that will be very effective in preventing the attack that will be making by Barcelona. Barclona was using tiki taka again. It's quite easy to prevent it

Manchester united will play their best football pattern in other to win Barca who has being winning Manchester united in Camp Nuo,this match for will be a difficult one for Barca since this is a new squad formed by ETH. I just hope that ETH will make the right decisions and changes in that day. Barca are well to do and have a good opportunity over Manchester united because they are playing at home. Rashford has picked great form as he do score in all the matches he plays recently and I hope he will score on that day.

Manchester United's attacking players are in good form. But overall Manchester United's performance is still not stable. They consistently fail to perform well. More importantly, the match will be played at the Camp Nou. Barcelona is always strong in home matches. And so considering the home match, I consider Barcelona as the favorite. Moreover, Barcelona's match strategy has now changed. If Barcelona's defenders can perform somewhat decently then Barcelona will win.

[zuzie]

Monaco is far better compared with leverkusen. Leverkusen is having bad performance again on its domestic club. i would not be surprised that if leverkusen will be losing easily against monaco. monaco has been performing so well compared with leverkusen.
This gonna be the easiest match to predict. Im sure that 100% if monaco will be winning the game against leverkusen. leverkusen's performance is dropping again at this moment.

Yes, seeing the progress of each team in their domestic league makes Monaco slightly superior. I don't know whether Leverkusen will be able to give its best performance or not, before the European League play-off round starts again. But if you look at Leverkusen's first leg match which will host and that makes the match entirely belong to Leverkusen, it's just that if Monaco can provide fierce resistance and Monaco manages to steal the aggregate points in the first leg, it will be Leverkusen's loss in the second leg later.

The statistics for Leverkusen's home matches are quite stunning, they very rarely lose when playing at the BayArena which is Leverkusen's pride stadium
I believe Leverkusen will steal the lead in the first leg of the Europa League when they meet Monaco. This is support by their consistency in the Bundesliga lately. Even though they had a bad performance at the start of the season, Leverkusen was slowly getting better

[LUCKMCFLY]

I think Man United's performance is slightly better than Barcelona, where in their last 7 matches Man United always won, while Barcelona had to draw 2 times and win 5 times. Man United also managed to score 17 goals and only conceded 3 goals, while Barcelona created 16 goals and conceded 9 goals. The numbers above are not a guarantee for a victory because there are indeed other factors that have a big influence on a match. But those statistics can still be considered that Man United is currently having a better trend than Barcelona, and of course, they have a chance to beat Barcelona.

Erik Ten Hag was able to make the Manchester United team even tougher, he did a pretty good job, barcelona and Manchester United need good tactics and strategies in the upcoming matches, seeing Manchester United's performance increase is quite high, I think Barcelona really need to be careful heart with Manchester United, under the tutelage of Erik Teh Hag who remains stable, I'm sure Barcelona will be overthrown by Manchester United.

Ten hag has been transforming MU to the a team that is having a very good team work. Manchester united shall have learned from so many previous matches about what's gonna be the weakness from barcelona. Manchester united shall focus to the barcelona's winger. Lewandowski can be prevented easily but it seems like that barcelona's winger has become the main key for the barcelona. It's too early to say that barcelona will overthrown MU.
You shall learn from the match Barcelona against frankfurt. There would be lots of lessons that can be taken.

I don't think Barcelona's win or loss against any other team will be enough to say that they will overthrow Manchester united or lose to them in the Europa league. It will be a very interesting match to watch cuz both clubs are doing well. Every Single player in that Match will be dangerous, especially the attackers. so I don't agree with your idea that paying more attention to Robert Lewandowsky will weaken Barcelona.

Well, in my personal opinion, it's not for nothing, but Barcelona is at a very good level of football, I see them playing with more inspiration, I don't know if it's because of Xavi's effect that now they have to win or win, but regarding the Man United I see Barcelona as much stronger, Man United could have beaten a Man City on Sunday that caught them completely asleep, but Barcelona in this competition is light that they do not want to return and want to leave here with first place, this It is something that Man United will have a very difficult time, in a possible fight, despite the fact that I am not a fan of Barcelona, I think that the reason would make me bet in favor of Barcelona, because I see that they are doing things better than United .

What I have noticed about Barcelona this season is that their performance in laliga is different from other leagues competitions, that is why am not convinced of Barcelona can defeat Manchester United.  Before now Manchester United performance in Europa league have been very impressive. Barcelona focus more on laliga and might not put too much seriousness in europa league.  It is true Manchester United  have always been struggling with Barcelona but  a different case might occur.

I am a United fan, and as a fan, I would be very happy if our favorite team could beat a team as big as Barca

I love the progress so far in the Man UTD team. Marcus Rashford is on another level right now.
Ten Hag has managed to steer the club in the right direction. A well-rounded individual and a great coach.
ETH will bring lots of trophies to Old Trafford

This is highly controversial, on the one hand Barcelona fans say they can beat Manchester, Manchester have a lot of faith in their team and I really see both teams well, I'm not going to deny it, I see Barcelona much better, It should be noted that the BVarcelona team has won the Spanish Super Cup, and although it is not such an important award, it is good enough to raise the spirits of their boys, and they can do things even better, I think this will help them It has served a lot, because they beat their great rival of a lifetime, now they have to pass another rival who is very strong.

Interesting:

Expert paints a very grim picture of Manchester United’s alarming financial shape – The Athletic

That Manchester United is struggling financially is an open secret.

This was witnessed this month as the club failed to attain Erik ten Hag’s reported primary targets like Cody Gakpo and Joao Felix, whose transfers would have commanded high fees.

United instead turned to Wout Weghorst, who was available for a cut-price figure reflective of the club’s crippling cash crunch.

Source: https://thepeoplesperson.com/2023/01/26/expert-paints-a-very-grim-picture-of-manchester-uniteds-alarming-financial-shape-the-athletic-258869/

[bitgov]

I am a United fan, and as a fan, I would be very happy if our favorite team could beat a team as big as Barca

I love the progress so far in the Man UTD team. Marcus Rashford is on another level right now.
Ten Hag has managed to steer the club in the right direction. A well-rounded individual and a great coach.
ETH will bring lots of trophies to Old Trafford

You really have to be more optimistic about Manchester United because you are the fans. But in terms of matches in the Europa League this season, actually Barcelona and Manchester United have both improved with strengths that are not much different so that their matches can be sure to run competitively. Although I also hope that Manchester United can win the match so that it can bring even better changes to the team this season.

It didn't take Erik Ten so long for him to turn around the ugly situation of Manchester United to a good one. Dr. Rashford is one of the players that has found their good form under Erik ten Hag. The young guy is on fire and very hot.
The overall performance of the Manchester United team has also improved. They will not meet Barcelona with fear, rather they will be more careful of them.

Manchester United is performing well. After leaving Ronaldo's team, they returned to a great rhythm. The next match against Barcelona will be great, because Barcelona are also in one of the best forms. The players of the Barcelona team have made themselves great.

[bitgov]

Barcelona meets Man United, Barcelona is not doing well in UCL but is doing well in their domestic league (La liga) at least based on the position in the league, it's a different story for Man United (as they are still in transition at the moment) but the result of this match remains depending on how many players in both teams are still fit/injury free after the busy schedule of these few matches.

In history Man United have always struggled against Barcelona, but I think Man United know it has been fixed and are ready. Man United vs Barcelona is by far the biggest Europa league game of all time.

This is another chance for manchester to prove it if the new MU would be different compared with the old MU who was always losing against Barcelona. I do know that if MU has a very bad head to head against Barcelona. That's why bookies was giving very big odds for united as bookiers prefer to take Barcelona as a winner in the upcoming match against mu in the europa league. MU must try to use the strategy that used by another team who was always beating Barcelona like bayern munchen.
I think that will be very effective in preventing the attack that will be making by Barcelona. Barclona was using tiki taka again. It's quite easy to prevent it

This match will be highly competitive. Because currently both teams are in the best performance. Manchester United's style of play has improved a lot. On the other hand, Barcelona's young players are proving themselves one by one. I see more chances of Barcelona in this match.

[armanda90]

Yes, seeing the progress of each team in their domestic league makes Monaco slightly superior. I don't know whether Leverkusen will be able to give its best performance or not, before the European League play-off round starts again. But if you look at Leverkusen's first leg match which will host and that makes the match entirely belong to Leverkusen, it's just that if Monaco can provide fierce resistance and Monaco manages to steal the aggregate points in the first leg, it will be Leverkusen's loss in the second leg later.

Don't blame with progress from Bayern Leverkusen when Xabi Alonso first time arriving and right now he was success bring back Leverkusen to 8th current standing in Bundesliga after dropping to relegation zone. Actually AS Monaco have consistency performance in Ligue 1 and success settle at top fourth standing position, but talking about progress Bayern Leverkusen has dramatic progress after change with new manager. Bayern Leverkusen have won last 5 matches Bundesliga in a row and seems they have potential to make change result against AS Monaco on playoff round and possibility will qualify to next round.

[lizarder]

This is a bit tense, yes I think this match will really be the best match for both teams. Barcelona and Manchester United were both coached by new managers, but maybe Xavi understands better how to make his team really able to win match to maintain his good record against Manchester United.

Even though Manchester United had Casemiro, that never guaranteed to beat Barcelona. Believe me, even Real Madrid couldn't stop Barcelona in the final, but that doesn't mean all Barcelona's plans will go perfectly. Both teams have to avoid lot of mistakes and both exploit the opponent's weaknesses, but it seems that Barcelona is the team that is expected to be able to control the game well.

This match will be the most exciting in the Europa League compared to other matches, if Xavi understands better how to maintain a good record against Manchester United, then Erik Ten Hak also wants to set a new record in beating Barcelona, especially when Erik Ten Hak has Casemiro who really understands how playing Barcelona. If it is said that Barcelona is able to control the game, then on the other hand I hope that Manchester United will win even though statistically they lose possession of the ball, because football matches are not always won by those who play well statistically.

There is an interesting record in the Premier League, every time Casimero plays Manchester United's win ratio is above 80% and it turns out he is one of the Manchester United players who has managed to break the attacks that the opponent tries to build in every game. But as I said before, the coach's strategy also plays an important role for a team and the mentality of the players is also quite influential to achieve victory.

[hahay]

Yes, seeing the progress of each team in their domestic league makes Monaco slightly superior. I don't know whether Leverkusen will be able to give its best performance or not, before the European League play-off round starts again. But if you look at Leverkusen's first leg match which will host and that makes the match entirely belong to Leverkusen, it's just that if Monaco can provide fierce resistance and Monaco manages to steal the aggregate points in the first leg, it will be Leverkusen's loss in the second leg later.

Don't blame with progress from Bayern Leverkusen when Xabi Alonso first time arriving and right now he was success bring back Leverkusen to 8th current standing in Bundesliga after dropping to relegation zone. Actually AS Monaco have consistency performance in Ligue 1 and success settle at top fourth standing position, but talking about progress Bayern Leverkusen has dramatic progress after change with new manager. Bayern Leverkusen have won last 5 matches Bundesliga in a row and seems they have potential to make change result against AS Monaco on playoff round and possibility will qualify to next round.

I also feel that Leverkusen still have a chance to advance to the next round by eliminating Monaco, and even though their position in their respective local league standings seems that Monaco is in a better position. But I think that still can't be a complete guarantee, because Monaco is also sometimes difficult to win when playing against teams who also have equal or better quality.

So, with the ever-increasing performance that has occurred for Leverkusen, I personally will still choose Leverkusen to win this match. Because to quickly rise from the bottom of the table is not easy, but Leverkusen can do that very well at this moment.

[Naficopa]

On several occasions, Xavi said that Barcelona is serious about targeting this competition trophy. even one of their strikers, Lewandowski, once said that he and his colleagues had the ambition to win the Europa League trophy. so it's clear that Xavi really cares about this competition trophy besides prioritizing winning the La Liga trophy.
I can't predict what will happen in the match between Barcelona vs Manchester United. because after all, this fight is a crucial match for both teams. plus, their coaches will compete tactics and strategies.

IMO from my point of view both coaches will focus on the midfield battle. why, because Barcelona have an advantage in their midfield over Manchester United. just relying on Casemiro, that's not enough, Ten Hag needs a tactic to counter the midfielder that Barcelona has.
This fight is a tactical war game. and if Xavi applies his formation like the El Clasico match, by relying on two Pivots and two attacking midfielders plus Dembele and placing Lewandowski as the sole striker. I'm pretty sure Man United will have a hard time facing Barcelona. however, we will find out later after this bout has taken place.

Well, that's mainly because it is the only acceptable result. Think about it this way, if they lost at semi finals of UCL, would anyone say anything about that? It would be fine and they wouldn't really be hated for losing there, but in europa? They need to either win it, or even losing at finals would be a bad situations, no matter what they do, unless they win it all, it will be a bad result for them.

This is why it's clear that they need to keep on improving and being better. United or Arsenal or any other team, no matter who they end up facing, they need to end up winning and that's an important distinction to make. I believe they are capable of winning, but being capable and being able to are different things.

I think the scenario is not like that, no team wants to lose and it doesn't matter what the competition is. Xavi is ambitious or has a mission to target trophies in this competition besides La Liga. win or lose, that is another matter. because, if in football it can be predicted according to mathematical calculations.  then, any match will not be interesting anymore.

after Barcelona slipped from the UCL, Xavi learned a lot from his team's weaknesses and mistakes in implementing his strategy. In the second half of this season, Barcelona has developed quite well even though it has not shown a very solid form of play.  fail or not, that is another matter for them.  most importantly, Lewandowski and his team-mates will give their all.

As for United, IMO, Erik Ten Hag's squad has not yet reached the maximum level. maybe next season, United will appear much more solid than what they are currently showing. for Arsenal, this team is my favourite. they have a high fighting spirit, chemistry and bonding that are increasingly solid, their mentality is increasingly formed after playing match after match.
So far, the Gunners are still my favorite and whoever will play Arsenal later. The Gunners' young squad, will always be ready to face it.

Xavi has set Barcelona up brilliantly. A few days ago, the Barcelona team was going through a very bad situation. The young players of the team have been able to develop themselves brilliantly, behind which Xavi has played a big role.