UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season

[JoyMarsha]

Xavi in Barcelona was very impressive and I couldn't expect to see Barcelona winning the La Liga title when he started working there because Xavi is not experienced as other coaches. However, in last season Barcelona couldn't play in the champions league but I think in the next season when they are racing with other teams like Real Madrid and Machester City, they can even have the chance to win the champions league title if we see the same performance from this team in the next season.

Barca don't need to have the same performance of last season,if not they might not be able to win the next champions league. Barca needs to improve in their performance so that they can be hopeful to win UCL. The champions league is a competition that brings the best clubs from different leagues to play amongst themselves and more is expected from most clubs. Winning your local league hasn't given you a guarantee that with the same performance you will win a competition played by the best clubs in Europe. I still believed that with the little change in the players Barca will do perfectly well in the champions league this season. As they will want people to believe in them by impressing their fans with good results.

Barca will only impress their fans with good results, not for them to win the champions league. That's far from them. When we talk about the clubs that are likely to be champions of the UCL, we will be looking at clubs like Manchester City, Real Madrid, Inter, and some other clubs before the possibility of Barca lifting the UCL will come to people's minds.
It is either Barca has a more improved performance this season or has a bad one. Their last year's performance won't be the same as this year's because changes have been made in their team. They signed a new player(Gundogan) and sold or loan out old players.
I expect  Barca to have a memorable season this season, let them lift the Laliga trophy at a stretch

[arimamib]

I also noticed that condition with Barcelona in the Champions League last season, but one of the other factors that made them fail was that Barcelona joined the group of hell last season. Regarding the Champions League next season, of course Barcelona has a higher chance of qualifying for the round of 16 (at least), but it still depends on who will be their opponent in the group stage. If Barcelona are going to be in the group of hell again, I think it's difficult to see them qualify for the higher stages.

About Barcelona, ​​I know they have changed. Xavi is responsible for improving the quality of Barcelona in the last 2 seasons, but I agree that Xavi has not been able to convince many of his fans about the Champions League at the moment. Dembele will join PSG and a verbal agreement has been reached, it will cost Barcelona their firepower next season.

Not the hell group for Barcelona in the previous season in the Champions League, but indeed their strength is not too strong when they have to face other teams. Barcelona was very difficult to win matches in the champions league last season because they were not consistent in the matches they played. However, this season Barcelona will try their best after the player's confidence begins to rise after winning the Laliga trophy.

For Xavi, he really wants to bring Barcelona to go far in the Champions League so he needs better performance from his players when playing in Champions League matches. I'm sure Gundogan presence will be a source of strength for them next season because Gundogan can provide his best experience to help Barcelona beat their opponents next season.

[KTChampions]

I bet that Haaland not only will continue to score goals like that, but he will also score a lot more. The main reason is that everyone is tightly marking Haaland now, which results with him not being able to score that easily, but if he can't score easily, then how could he score more?

The main reason is that after first few weeks, like maximum of 10 but probably less, teams will realize that Haaland is not their only scorer, and City is using him as bait, you fear him scoring, so others score easier. Then teams will end up defending normally, and that will make Haaland score a lot easier as well. That's how I think the season will go, first 2 months not that great, after that it is all goals galore for him until the end.

Interesting theory (I don't believe in it) but with City having at least a couple of very weak teams in the group stage, Haaland could try to score a record number of Champions League goals. The bar set by Ronaldo is very high, but so is City's degree of dominance. Therefore, if he manages to make a hat-trick a couple of times in the group stage, then everything is possible.

[Iroh]

The main reason is that after first few weeks, like maximum of 10 but probably less, teams will realize that Haaland is not their only scorer, and City is using him as bait, you fear him scoring, so others score easier. Then teams will end up defending normally, and that will make Haaland score a lot easier as well. That's how I think the season will go, first 2 months not that great, after that it is all goals galore for him until the end.

I see and understand your logic there. But I think it would work more in the premier league. Haaland might just continue to score more goals for Manchester City. Defenders would be automatically drawn to seriously mark him as he’s an obvious threat and capable of scoring goals. Well, so are almost if not all the players in the first squad of Manchester City.
 
Everyone is a threat and capable of scoring goals but perhaps some could be considered more of a threat than others. Manchester City is that good. They don’t actually need to rely on Haaland to score goals.
A coach of any club playing a match with Manchester City should know that while Haaland is the striker, center back players also scores goals as well.

[Leviathan.007]

Barca don't need to have the same performance of last season,if not they might not be able to win the next champions league. Barca needs to improve in their performance so that they can be hopeful to win UCL. The champions league is a competition that brings the best clubs from different leagues to play amongst themselves and more is expected from most clubs. Winning your local league hasn't given you a guarantee that with the same performance you will win a competition played by the best clubs in Europe. I still believed that with the little change in the players Barca will do perfectly well in the champions league this season. As they will want people to believe in them by impressing their fans with good results.

Xavi has prepared the team to bring Barcelona to compete with other big clubs from different leagues, this time the toughest competition will come from the premier league team, Manchester City, Arsenal and Manchester United are the three teams that will give their best performances to survive in this competition. Newcastle also cannot be underestimated, Newcastle's performance last season was very good, they managed to outperform other teams such as Liverpool and Tottenham to secure a ticket to the Champions League.
Barcelona appeared in the UCL this season as the La Liga champions, they must perform optimally in order to maintain the chances of achieving their goal of winning the Champions League this season.

That Xavi Hernandez and Barcelona team has potential to win the League games but not enough to make them win the Champions League. They had the best defense last season, seeing the recent signings they will go far than we expect.
Arsenal has proper depth now they lacked that last season, and another club to keep an eye on is Manchester City they have all it takes to win the Champions League again. Barcelona will not be able the win the Champions League not this season.

Xavi made a great team in this season for Barcelona and when they were in a bad situation he survived whole the team while other teams like Real Madrid were in better situations and they could even hire better players and they even had a coach with the better situation and more experience like Anceloti, but still Barcelona win the last La Liga title.
I think if Xavi continue this magic for the next season they can even have the chance to even win the champions league title.

[borovichok]

I see and understand your logic there. But I think it would work more in the premier league. Haaland might just continue to score more goals for Manchester City. Defenders would be automatically drawn to seriously mark him as he’s an obvious threat and capable of scoring goals. Well, so are almost if not all the players in the first squad of Manchester City.
 
Everyone is a threat and capable of scoring goals but perhaps some could be considered more of a threat than others. Manchester City is that good. They don’t actually need to rely on Haaland to score goals.
A coach of any club playing a match with Manchester City should know that while Haaland is the striker, center back players also scores goals as well.

In his first season with Manchester City, Erling Haaland won the UEFA Champions League. He's unpredictable and possesses the fundamental characteristics of a striker; all Pep Guardiola needs to do is devise fresh techniques to deploy against opponents. Erling Haaland is an outstanding objective goal machine for Manchester City, and his signing was primarily due to his confidence and outstanding positioning in front of goal. He scored a solid number at Etihad Stadium, and he hopes to score more; there is virtually no limit to what he can accomplish in his new squad.

[marcous]

In his first season with Manchester City, Erling Haaland won the UEFA Champions League. He's unpredictable and possesses the fundamental characteristics of a striker; all Pep Guardiola needs to do is devise fresh techniques to deploy against opponents. Erling Haaland is an outstanding objective goal machine for Manchester City, and his signing was primarily due to his confidence and outstanding positioning in front of goal. He scored a solid number at Etihad Stadium, and he hopes to score more; there is virtually no limit to what he can accomplish in his new squad.

I hope that next season there will be fierce competition for the EPL top scorer position, of course Halaand can easily be on the list. However, the movement in the transfer market for EPL clubs this summer has brought in several other talented strikers. Last season on the UCL stage Halaand also won the top scorer title, with competition getting tougher every season this will be even more interesting.

My prediction is that if Mbappe officially joins Madrid, this nomination will be even fiercer and will create new competition between Mbappe and Halaand. Reminds us of Messi and Ronaldo in the last decade.

[rojan]

Today in UEFA Champions League BATE vs Aris Limassol match between two teams, Aris Limassol won the match by scoring 5 goals. The performance of both teams was very good in the first half of the game. BATE scored 3 goals in this match. The goalkeeper of BATE team performed very poorly.  In the match I thought it would be a draw. I thought it was a hard fight between the two teams. The first goal was scored by S. Babicka in the first 8 minutes of the game. And the 2nd goal was scored by Y. Gomis in the 26th minute. Both teams played very well.

[SquirrelJulietGarden]

In his first season with Manchester City, Erling Haaland won the UEFA Champions League. He's unpredictable and possesses the fundamental characteristics of a striker; all Pep Guardiola needs to do is devise fresh techniques to deploy against opponents. Erling Haaland is an outstanding objective goal machine for Manchester City, and his signing was primarily due to his confidence and outstanding positioning in front of goal. He scored a solid number at Etihad Stadium, and he hopes to score more; there is virtually no limit to what he can accomplish in his new squad.

With his first season in Manchester City, Haaland won three titles including two big ones, Premier League and Champions League. He also won a personal award as a best scorer in the league and more impressively he broke the all time record for best scorer many years ago. To sum up, Haaland actually achieved some big things after leaving Dortmund and he is young, professional and ambitious enough to improve himself in future.

The success of Haaland makes some other star players like Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe lost their patience with their clubs and want to move to bigger clubs. With Kane, he wants to join Bayern Munich and with Mbappe he wants to participate in Real Madrid. Mbappe has more drama than Kane but I believe both star players will have new clubs to play in September.

Xavi made a great team in this season for Barcelona and when they were in a bad situation he survived whole the team while other teams like Real Madrid were in better situations and they could even hire better players and they even had a coach with the better situation and more experience like Anceloti, but still Barcelona win the last La Liga title.
I think if Xavi continue this magic for the next season they can even have the chance to even win the champions league title.

Barcelona are not competitive enough in Champions League and Xavi is not experienced enough as a coach for tough tournaments like Champions League. They must improve together to play better in Champions League. It is irrelevant to compare Xavi and Ancelotti at coach positions as well as compare Barcelona and Real Madrid in terms of their ability to compete in Champions League. Ancelotti and Real Madrid are more experienced and successful than Barcelona and recent years, they have been stronger and playing better there too.

[bering]

Panathinaikos, Olimpija Ljubljana, Aris Limassol and Slovan Bratislava has successfully to secured a spot in the 3rd qualifying round that these teams has been qualified because they can able to beat their opponents and Olimpija Ljubljana has been make epic comeback because after playing draw in the first leg they were successfully to beat Ludogorets 2-1 that Timi Max Elšnik has became an Olimpija Ljubljana hero because he was scores 2 goals and bringing Olimpija Ljubljana to win the match but on the other hand fantastic performance was showed by Aris Limassol that after they can able to win with huge scores 6-2 in the first leg today they also were successfully to beat BATE fc with scores 5-3 and total 11-5 aggregate which make Aris Limassol the most productive team during qualification matches

[len01]

Xavi made a great team in this season for Barcelona and when they were in a bad situation he survived whole the team while other teams like Real Madrid were in better situations and they could even hire better players and they even had a coach with the better situation and more experience like Anceloti, but still Barcelona win the last La Liga title.
I think if Xavi continue this magic for the next season they can even have the chance to even win the champions league title.

Barcelona are not competitive enough in Champions League and Xavi is not experienced enough as a coach for tough tournaments like Champions League. They must improve together to play better in Champions League. It is irrelevant to compare Xavi and Ancelotti at coach positions as well as compare Barcelona and Real Madrid in terms of their ability to compete in Champions League. Ancelotti and Real Madrid are more experienced and successful than Barcelona and recent years, they have been stronger and playing better there too.

lets take something simple from this case. like Real Madrid have that finance. fine while Barcelona has a little bad finances and this problem prevents Barcelona from recruiting more qualified and talented players to always perform well in the UCL. and from the lineup Real Madrid still has the top players and has talented young players and all of them are mixed into one squad to strengthen on every front, while Barcelona are only senior players and the rest are free players. then Xavi and Ancelotti are both very different in terms of experience and for me experience is not everything that matters the teamwork and coaches are strong to try together to achieve what they want and Barcelona is more focused on La Liga competition and Real Madrid is more focused on the champions league.
I hereby conclude that these two teams have the same dream of winning the Champions League title, its just that their current conditions are very different and what is most visible is that the finances of the two teams are different.

[Oneandpure]

UEFA Champion League qualifying have been third round, one step closer for several teams will participate in Champion League season 2023/24, there are have twenty teams participant in third or last qualifying round and ten teams winner will automatically get place at Champion League group stage next season. There are have six matches for second UEFA Champion League qualifier round for second leg and I am interested with match Galatasaray vs Zalgiris, first leg both teams get draw 2-2 and second leg will be final match for both teams if want qualify to third round and have chance for participating in UEFA Champion League next season.

Get draw first leg of second round UEFA Champion League qualifying, both teams have the same chance lead to last round of qualifying but Galatsaray as host have advantage playing in front of their fans give motivate for winning match.

[LittleBitFunny]

UEFA Champion League qualifying have been third round, one step closer for several teams will participate in Champion League season 2023/24, there are have twenty teams participant in third or last qualifying round and ten teams winner will automatically get place at Champion League group stage next season. There are have six matches for second UEFA Champion League qualifier round for second leg and I am interested with match Galatasaray vs Zalgiris, first leg both teams get draw 2-2 and second leg will be final match for both teams if want qualify to third round and have chance for participating in UEFA Champion League next season.
Get draw first leg of second round UEFA Champion League qualifying, both teams have the same chance lead to last round of qualifying but Galatsaray as host have advantage playing in front of their fans give motivate for winning match.

Personally, I don't think Galatasaray will have any problem winning against FK Zalgirls. Galatasaray is a much stronger team than Zalgirls. But even then they could not defeat the Zalgirls team in the first match. Galatasaray's performance was also not good in this match. At the same time, I will say that Galatasaray were a bit unlucky in this match. Zalgrils equalized the match after 90 minutes. However, the next match is Galatasaray's home match. I don't think Galatasaray's players will make any mistakes in the home match. Galatasaray is an experienced team. The team will try their best to qualify for the Champions League.

[RockBell]

Barca don't need to have the same performance of last season,if not they might not be able to win the next champions league. Barca needs to improve in their performance so that they can be hopeful to win UCL. The champions league is a competition that brings the best clubs from different leagues to play amongst themselves and more is expected from most clubs. Winning your local league hasn't given you a guarantee that with the same performance you will win a competition played by the best clubs in Europe. I still believed that with the little change in the players Barca will do perfectly well in the champions league this season. As they will want people to believe in them by impressing their fans with good results.

I don't see Barcelona winning the Champions League because the rating of their performance last season is very low. Even winning La Liga is luck to me because Real Madrid's attention was all on the Champions League and to some extent Madrid is also not serious, they played well during the first League against Manchester City and second leg i wonder what happened and they were clear beating by the city to qualify for the finals, I believe Barcelona should stick to La Liga since the Champions League is truly very competitive if you are not prepared, be prepared to dance to your own song outside of the league.

Barcelona's performance in the Champions League last season was disrupted because several players were injured. Their defense was a mess and it looked very different when they played for La Liga. Xavi tends to trust Alonso as a left-back compared to Balde or Jordi Alba, it's also a form of mistake because Alonso is not in good form as a newcomer.

I hope Xavi can really learn from Barcelona's mistakes and his strategy in the last two seasons in the Champions League, so he should have a good plan for next season's Champions League. But still, I don't think Barcelona has a big chance to win the Champions League title soon.

Some clubs need to start having serious back up against injuries, relying on a specific player on a specific position can be dangerous, Real Madrid suffered the same thing when Benzema went on injury, Alonso case the player needs to understand field communications to make team work more effective, Barcelona actually had some defaults last season, which is why I stated that winning even La Liga was pure luck. Personally, I don't see Barcelona winning the Champions League either; Inter Milan performed significantly better and may potentially have a chance this time.

[SOKO-DEKE]

I don't see Barcelona winning the Champions League because the rating of their performance last season is very low. Even winning La Liga is luck to me because Real Madrid's attention was all on the Champions League and to some extent Madrid is also not serious, they played well during the first League against Manchester City and second leg i wonder what happened and they were clear beating by the city to qualify for the finals, I believe Barcelona should stick to La Liga since the Champions League is truly very competitive if you are not prepared, be prepared to dance to your own song outside of the league.

I believe we should consider more than just how they performed in the previous season when assessing how they will perform in the upcoming one. Barcelona's performance in the Champions League last season was not great, but I don't think it was so poor that they shouldn't be considered one of the favorites to win it the next season . Personally, I think Barcelona will give it their all in the Champions League the next season.

Barcelona won La Liga last season, but I don't think it was luck; I think it was their hard work because they snatched 10 points away from Real Madrid in second place, and once again, these aren't the only two clubs vying for the league. Therefore, I don't think it is enough to persuade me considering that Real Madrid's focus was on the Champions League. Teams' success in the Champions League does not imply that they neglected their domestic league if they perform poorly there.

I hope Xavi can really learn from Barcelona's mistakes and his strategy in the last two seasons in the Champions League, so he should have a good plan for next season's Champions League. But still, I don't think Barcelona has a big chance to win the Champions League title soon.

I think Xavi ought to have learned from his errors from last season, and I'd venture to suggest that Barcelona will do better in the Champions League the next season because their team is not particularly weak. However, let's wait and watch what happens if the upcoming Champions League begins.

Some clubs need to start having serious back up against injuries, relying on a specific player on a specific position can be dangerous, Real Madrid suffered the same thing when Benzema went on injury, Alonso case the player needs to understand field communications to make team work more effective, Barcelona actually had some defaults last season, which is why I stated that winning even La Liga was pure luck. Personally, I don't see Barcelona winning the Champions League either; Inter Milan performed significantly better and may potentially have a chance this time.

In a team, backup is undoubtedly crucial. Teams who wish to win trophies must always consider having a strong replacement for each of their players, as this has a significant impact on how well the team performs.Because they have backup players for each of their players, Manchester City consistently outperforms other teams in various competitions, which is why we hardly ever observe the team lose form like other teams.

[fzkto]

UEFA Champion League qualifying have been third round, one step closer for several teams will participate in Champion League season 2023/24, there are have twenty teams participant in third or last qualifying round and ten teams winner will automatically get place at Champion League group stage next season. There are have six matches for second UEFA Champion League qualifier round for second leg and I am interested with match Galatasaray vs Zalgiris, first leg both teams get draw 2-2 and second leg will be final match for both teams if want qualify to third round and have chance for participating in UEFA Champion League next season.
Get draw first leg of second round UEFA Champion League qualifying, both teams have the same chance lead to last round of qualifying but Galatsaray as host have advantage playing in front of their fans give motivate for winning match.

Personally, I don't think Galatasaray will have any problem winning against FK Zalgirls. Galatasaray is a much stronger team than Zalgirls. But even then they could not defeat the Zalgirls team in the first match. Galatasaray's performance was also not good in this match. At the same time, I will say that Galatasaray were a bit unlucky in this match. Zalgrils equalized the match after 90 minutes. However, the next match is Galatasaray's home match. I don't think Galatasaray's players will make any mistakes in the home match. Galatasaray is an experienced team. The team will try their best to qualify for the Champions League.

Their first meeting ended in a draw, and Zalgiris managed to score two goals, which shows that Galatasaray has problems. I also think that they should have no problems at home today, but judging by the first match it could be any result. If Zalgiris can score again, the hosts will have to attack more to score and give opportunities for counterattacks.

[Blitzboy]

Barca don't need to have the same performance of last season,if not they might not be able to win the next champions league. Barca needs to improve in their performance so that they can be hopeful to win UCL. The champions league is a competition that brings the best clubs from different leagues to play amongst themselves and more is expected from most clubs. Winning your local league hasn't given you a guarantee that with the same performance you will win a competition played by the best clubs in Europe. I still believed that with the little change in the players Barca will do perfectly well in the champions league this season. As they will want people to believe in them by impressing their fans with good results.

Barcelona's performance in the Champions League last season was disrupted because several players were injured. Their defense was a mess and it looked very different when they played for La Liga. Xavi tends to trust Alonso as a left-back compared to Balde or Jordi Alba, it's also a form of mistake because Alonso is not in good form as a newcomer.

I hope Xavi can really learn from Barcelona's mistakes and his strategy in the last two seasons in the Champions League, so he should have a good plan for next season's Champions League. But still, I don't think Barcelona has a big chance to win the Champions League title soon.

Due to injury, Barcelona struggled in the Champions League last season. The team's leader, Xavi, had to solve this issue. The team won the title when the players improved and returned to La Liga. But the inconsistent defensive methods, such as employing Alonso as a left back, posed major problems.

Xavi must apply his domestic league teachings to the Champions League. In La Liga, Busquets and De Jong functioned well as a center, suggesting they may do the same in the Champions League. The summer transfer window brought in new players to strengthen the club and possibly aid Barcelona in the Champions League. With all these factors in mind, it's hard to determine when Barcelona will challenge for the crown. That appears to be in doubt.

[Pulsar77]

It is actually good to see that PSG signed a different kind of coach. Because so far with their usual strategies they haven't managed to make it to the Champions League title. Luis Enrique is about to change the usual strategies and build his own game for this team from now on. With a different game plan it is going to be interesting to watch PSG. If this works out for them with minimum number of issues then we might be likely to see PSG being competitive for the title for real this time.

I guess Luis Enrique would like to have a great star like Mbappe staying at least for this season. His contribution to the team would be vital in this run.

You may get a sense of what will happen from how each team performs, even though I am aware that it would be unwise for me to evaluate them or even assert that they cannot win the champion league title. Despite my belief that PSG will give it their all in the Champions League, I don't think they will succeed in taking home the trophy because there are so many other good teams who play far better than PSG does. psg is a very large team in league one, one of the best teams that frequently wins league 1, and they also have a good coach because the team consistently spent a lot of money to ensure that the team performance looked great. However, the upcoming champion league will be very competitive, so I don't think psg will win the champion league title next season.

Psg is in the process of acquiring a new player from various clubs, including Dembele from Barcelona. If Dembele joins the team, I think the team's performance will be excellent, but due to another rumour I've heard, Barcelona wants to trade Dembele and Rafhina for mbappe, and the Paris Saint-Germain wants to purchase only Dembele because mbappe wanted to play for Real Madrid. To prevent another issue from the team, I believe PSG needs to resolve everything before the start of the Champions League. This is because the current problem with the Mbappe to another team has turned into another one for the team.

There is no way Barcelona are getting Mbappe in a swap deal like that. PSG want cash to let Mbappe go this summer already. Al-Hilal made a huge offer like 300 million euros for him. I don't think PSG would be okay for a cash plus player deal from now on. Aside from that let's say PSG are open for such deal as well Barcelona can't make a big signing right now. Even if their finances are good enough to meet Mbappe's demands FFP in the La Liga is a hindrance for them now.

If they were able to make such signing their priority would be to bring back Messi in the end.

[tusandii]

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In the Champions League, clubs from the Premier League often dominate and of course it's a tough challenge for Barcelona because they have to fight clubs from the Premier League, one of which is Manchester City, who won last season.
Don't forget that there are clubs that are quite tough, namely PSG and Real Madrid, where there will always be tough competition in every season in the Champions League.

Maybe Xavi has prepared a team to bring Barcelona to compete, it's just that we don't know if they can last until the semifinals, based on the research I did from La Liga, Real Madrid will be stronger, not Barcelona.

Depending on how solid Xavi squad is this season, as we know, last season Barcelona failed miserably in the UCL as a result of failing to qualify from the group stage they were forced to play in the Europa League. Barcelona slowly began to improve under Xavi direction, they managed to win the La Liga trophy and this season they will again compete with other favorite clubs in the UCL.
The journey in the UCL is certainly not easy, they will compete with other strong teams that are tougher. Xavi must find a way for his team to continue to survive among the other favorite teams, we don't know how far Barcelona will go in the UCL this season, but great hope lies in Xavi's ingenuity in dispensing Barcelona in overcoming stronger competitors.

Yes, Xavi and Barcelona failed in the Champions League and also the Europa League last season and for this season I'm still not so sure that Xavi can lead Barcelona to have the UCL title or the Europa League.
Getting the UCL title is not as easy as we all imagine because Barcelona needs a really mature game and can have good defense and attack in every game so as not to get knocked out like last season.

In the Champions League, clubs from the Premier League often dominate and of course it's a tough challenge for Barcelona because they have to fight clubs from the Premier League, one of which is Manchester City, who won last season.
Don't forget that there are clubs that are quite tough, namely PSG and Real Madrid, where there will always be tough competition in every season in the Champions League.

Maybe Xavi has prepared a team to bring Barcelona to compete, it's just that we don't know if they can last until the semifinals, based on the research I did from La Liga, Real Madrid will be stronger, not Barcelona.

I think it's only natural that Real Madrid is currently stronger than Barcelona, because Madrid is in fourth place with the most expensive squad at the moment. Meanwhile, Barcelona occupies position number seven, but this is not a benchmark and parameter. Because Barcelona has its own luck I see, in the midst of setbacks they created consistency so that they won the La Liga championship trophy last season. It's possible that next season they can do it again amid Madrid dominance, at least we can see the strength of the two teams when El Clasico takes place in La Liga.

I think all teams that have recruited new players will experience ups and downs in their performance at the start of the season, because they will certainly encounter various challenges during their adaptation period.

That's true because at this point Real Madrid really has players who are far superior to Barcelona, regarding the current position it cannot be a benchmark for the success of a club in the Champions League because when a club focuses on the Champions League it is likely to survive and fighting for the title.
So far, every club must really be able to share their energy and stamina to play because they don't only play in the Champions League, but there are several other leagues they participate in.

[shinratensei_]

Their first meeting ended in a draw, and Zalgiris managed to score two goals, which shows that Galatasaray has problems. I also think that they should have no problems at home today, but judging by the first match it could be any result. If Zalgiris can score again, the hosts will have to attack more to score and give opportunities for counterattacks.

The next game gonna be difficult for zalgiris. It's caused by the club was almost losing playing on its home. Galatasaray gonna host the second leg, which was also putting zalgiris in a very difficult situation. I hope that icardi will be able to play against zalgiris.
Im sure galatasaray will be able to win easily against zalgiris. Galatasaray just needs to learn from the mistake in the first leg, especially for the defensive line. It's caused by zalgiris was making its last-minute goal due to the mistake being made by galatasaray's defender.

Galtasaray may be able to win against zalgiris with cleansheet. I have no doubt about by galatasaray will be also boosting its morality by playing at home. It will be a shame if galatasaray will be losing against zalgiris at home.
I think this game is easy to predict which club that's gonna win the game. Galatasaray gonna win the second leg without a tough game.