UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season

[Minor Miner]

We can't really take the performance of barcelona in UCL as a measurement of the club. I meant the competitors of barcelona in the UCL was weak teams. Barclona may get stolen by real madrid in the upcoming game. Madrid was not only coming with the different squad.
This club is also having everything to beat barcelona at this season started from a good attacking midfielder and striker at the same time. Some wingest that were coming back again after they was hibernated like vini due to the injury and many more.
I think that there's no reason to call that if barcelona will be dominating the current game. In fact, barcelona is slowly but surely was going through hard fixtures that will come soon.
Barcelona was also playing so well in UCL but it was only against weakest teams that being placed in the same time. Im still doubting barcelona at this moment. it seems like that this club will not able to beat madrid with the current suqad.
The club needs someone like lewandowski. Barcelona didn't have great attacker this time. Lewandoski was always able positioning himself better than barcfelona

If you look at Barcelona's performance in La Liga, I also doubt that Barcelona this season will be able to go far in the UCL, but currently in the group phase the Barcelona team is very lucky to be joined by a team whose quality is weaker than them so up to now there are no obstacles whatsoever for Barcelona. in the UCL match, later in the know out round it will probably be the real decider when Barcelona faces a stronger European team.
The Barcelona team under Xavi's guidance is slowly improving to become better, but when compared to the top European teams I think they are still very far behind, so it's natural that many people don't favor Barcelona in the UCL this season.

the group phase will probably be easy for Barcelona. but looking at the next phase which will bring together strong European teams, it will not be easy for Barcelona. If they meet Madrid or Man City in the last 16, it will be a loss for Barcelona. Facing a very strong team will be pressure for Xavi's team. we know the quality of Xavi's team play. they are not weak but often when facing a stronger team like Man City, Xavi cannot do anything because his strategy can be very easily known and dealt with by opponents.

The teams in Group H are relatively weak. The strongest team in this group is Barcelona. And we're pretty sure Barcelona will secure the Round of 16 as champions of Group H. However, the teams that qualify in the round of 16 will be relatively strong. It will be difficult for Barcelona to qualify for the quarter-finals. But we must not forget that this is the Champions League. Barcelona will definitely need to play well if they want to qualify for the quarter-finals. A weak and erratic performance cannot do well in the Champions League. And I think Xavi knows this very well. I guess Barcelona won't have too much trouble qualifying to the quarter finals.

[redsun114]

Their condition with the lack of consistency on every line, the high level of ego of the players such as Bruno or Rashford and internal problems, especially the injury of these players, clearly makes it difficult to predict for Manchester United but seeing the current condition they should have realized with a few matches that have been lost and should be able to fix it. Indeed, for now apart from Bayern for the second position in group A it is still difficult to predict who will qualify but this is actually a good thing for Manchester United because with this indirectly they still have the opportunity to compete in the Champions League.

Agreed about this all situation is not good for the Manchester United to hold second spot in this group because their performance is not consistent, and they are also having no depth in players they need to settle internal politics if they want to have positive results from them few players are surely creating mess up which is never been suitable for any team which is looking for the better results now next month they are going to visit Copenhagen which could be big test for them if they want to go through then surely they need to win this and have much better performance.

Ten Hag policies and strategy surely not ideal to handle current situation with this we can't expect anything good specially having good spot into Premier League which is now having the toughest teams at the top and these are not going to have anything relaxed for the Manchester United.

[len01]

The teams in Group H are relatively weak. The strongest team in this group is Barcelona. And we're pretty sure Barcelona will secure the Round of 16 as champions of Group H. However, the teams that qualify in the round of 16 will be relatively strong. It will be difficult for Barcelona to qualify for the quarter-finals. But we must not forget that this is the Champions League. Barcelona will definitely need to play well if they want to qualify for the quarter-finals. A weak and erratic performance cannot do well in the Champions League. And I think Xavi knows this very well. I guess Barcelona won't have too much trouble qualifying to the quarter finals.

Barcelona being able to be in Group H is like luck because they dont have strong opponents and its only natural that Xavi can always maintain his winning dominance to be able to qualify for the round of 16 and what you say is true if Barcelona might qualify but then we not know what is the future in the next round because on one hand there are many teams that are better prepared and have very reliable player to continue trying to get rid of all the teams in that round and even though Barcelona has experience here, in terms of players they dont seem ready enough to be able to qualify for the quarter finals require strength and talent in very quality players, while Barcelona only relies on free players.

that does not mean I am saying Barcelona players are not qualified, its just that the difference in quality with Real Madrid and Bayern Munich players is slightly different, who are more qualified and ready to continue to next round and it looks like Barcelona will only focus on La Liga again.

[wiss19]

AC Milan really performed poorly in the Champions League this season, they were unable to get even one win in their last 3 matches. The defeat with a score of 3-0 makes us think that ac milan is really weak in this match.

Yeah, we could say that, because after all Milan is actually a big club. especially in the Champions League when Milan lost to PSG, maybe this could happen. but the very unfortunate problem was that they lost 3-0 without a single goal in return. Not only that, the performance of the Milan players was also not as good as usual. We understand that maybe because some of Milan's main players couldn't play in the match, that doesn't mean they couldn't compete optimally, right? This result is certainly very disappointing. Moreover, they are currently at the bottom of the group phase standings.

Indeed, they still have several matches left and if they cannot optimize their abilities again and win, then it will really be risky for them not to qualify for the group. because unfortunately Milan is in the group with the toughest competition and every club in that group has a chance to pass the qualifications. because they are a really big club.

AC Milan is the biggest disappointment for the Italian fans with their poor run in this season in this elite competition after three matches 2 points with no goal scored by them is surely not acceptable at this level even their performance in Serie A is impressive with currently they are at the second spot behind city rivals Inter Milan and having good start but now in last two games they lost against Juventus and now PSG surely creating problems for them and their fans with moral is down, and confidence level is also decreasing which could be not ideal for them.

Most chances we will have improvement in coming matches because now they will be regrouped themselves and try to have fight for the spot of next round even it's not easy but still it's all possible with all teams are on level just PSG is having enough space for the staying at the top of the group.

[TastyChillySauce00]

We can't really take the performance of barcelona in UCL as a measurement of the club. I meant the competitors of barcelona in the UCL was weak teams. Barclona may get stolen by real madrid in the upcoming game. Madrid was not only coming with the different squad.
This club is also having everything to beat barcelona at this season started from a good attacking midfielder and striker at the same time. Some wingest that were coming back again after they was hibernated like vini due to the injury and many more.
I think that there's no reason to call that if barcelona will be dominating the current game. In fact, barcelona is slowly but surely was going through hard fixtures that will come soon.

Barcelona was also playing so well in UCL but it was only against weakest teams that being placed in the same time. Im still doubting barcelona at this moment. it seems like that this club will not able to beat madrid with the current suqad.
The club needs someone like lewandowski. Barcelona didn't have great attacker this time. Lewandoski was always able positioning himself better than barcfelona

If you look at Barcelona's performance in La Liga, I also doubt that Barcelona this season will be able to go far in the UCL, but currently in the group phase the Barcelona team is very lucky to be joined by a team whose quality is weaker than them so up to now there are no obstacles whatsoever for Barcelona. in the UCL match, later in the know out round it will probably be the real decider when Barcelona faces a stronger European team.
The Barcelona team under Xavi's guidance is slowly improving to become better, but when compared to the top European teams I think they are still very far behind, so it's natural that many people don't favor Barcelona in the UCL this season.

That's why barcelona can pass the group stage easily. The different story once barcelona got difficult group like the previous season when it must be on the same group with bayern and intermilan.
Barcelona is quite lucky here caused by xavi's club was not having strong opponents in the group. The quality of barcelona is on the top of this group.

It's not even surprising me to see that how barcelona was able in standing at the top of the group this season. The different thing when barcelona will meet the club like bayern or intermilan in the play off.
I hope barcelona will face a strong team like bayern soon. We can use it as measurement how strong barcelona played with young players.

[Mr.right85]

Their condition with the lack of consistency on every line, the high level of ego of the players such as Bruno or Rashford and internal problems, especially the injury of these players, clearly makes it difficult to predict for Manchester United but seeing the current condition they should have realized with a few matches that have been lost and should be able to fix it. Indeed, for now apart from Bayern for the second position in group A it is still difficult to predict who will qualify but this is actually a good thing for Manchester United because with this indirectly they still have the opportunity to compete in the Champions League.

Agreed about this all situation is not good for the Manchester United to hold second spot in this group because their performance is not consistent, and they are also having no depth in players they need to settle internal politics if they want to have positive results from them few players are surely creating mess up which is never been suitable for any team which is looking for the better results now next month they are going to visit Copenhagen which could be big test for them if they want to go through then surely they need to win this and have much better performance.

Ten Hag policies and strategy surely not ideal to handle current situation with this we can't expect anything good specially having good spot into Premier League which is now having the toughest teams at the top and these are not going to have anything relaxed for the Manchester United.

Manchester United are not on the course they were expected to take before the season started. They are witnessing both internal and external problems at the moment. The players aren’t helping and injuries seems to affect their performance. There are some mitigating factors in that poor run but that would not stop the pressure mounting on them. Sometimes I feel Ten Hag doesn’t have the capacity to deal with these things going on in the club. We have seen clubs faced with injuries and the managers devise a means to still pick up points and keep the team intact. Honestly we’ve witnessed plenty of Manchester United managers run into difficulties at the club, I hope that this Ten Hag's tenure would not become a repeat of the challenges those few other managers encountered. Ten Hag needs to solve this situation fast, because the scrutiny on him is increasing with every sub-standard showing.

[rendravolt]

Until matchday 3 of the Champions League, there were only two teams that had not scored any goals, namely Milan and Benfica. Even though these two teams performed very impressively last season, seeing their performance which had dropped significantly even during the group phase, many people certainly didn't expect this. Currently, Milan is in 4th position in Group F and has only collected 2 points from 2 draws, while Benfica is in 4th position in Group D without getting a single point after 3 matches which resulted in consecutive defeats for them.

I think both of their chances have almost certainly been lost and this will certainly be enough to make them both worse off if they are unable to qualify for the next phase. Maybe both Milan and Benfica have to be prepared for the results that will come and they have to keep trying so that at least they don't embarrass their fans.

[klidex]

AC Milan is the biggest disappointment for the Italian fans with their poor run in this season in this elite competition after three matches 2 points with no goal scored by them is surely not acceptable at this level even their performance in Serie A is impressive with currently they are at the second spot behind city rivals Inter Milan and having good start but now in last two games they lost against Juventus and now PSG surely creating problems for them and their fans with moral is down, and confidence level is also decreasing which could be not ideal for them.

Most chances we will have improvement in coming matches because now they will be regrouped themselves and try to have fight for the spot of next round even it's not easy but still it's all possible with all teams are on level just PSG is having enough space for the staying at the top of the group.

AC Milan is indeed in a pretty tough group so AC Milan is not able to compete with these clubs and AC Milan has not scored a goal at all for 3 matches in the Champions League, I think AC Milan chances of getting through to the next round will be increasingly difficult because AC Milan is getting stronger lagging behind in points.
However, AC Milan actually still has a chance to qualify if in the remaining 3 match in the Champions League, AC Milan is able to win the match without losing, but it does not looks like it will be easy because the competitors in Group F are quite difficult for AC Milan to overcome this seasons. I think AC Milan potential there only a little left to escape.

[borovichok]

AC Milan is indeed in a pretty tough group so AC Milan is not able to compete with these clubs and AC Milan has not scored a goal at all for 3 matches in the Champions League, I think AC Milan chances of getting through to the next round will be increasingly difficult because AC Milan is getting stronger lagging behind in points.
However, AC Milan actually still has a chance to qualify if in the remaining 3 match in the Champions League, AC Milan is able to win the match without losing, but it does not looks like it will be easy because the competitors in Group F are quite difficult for AC Milan to overcome this seasons. I think AC Milan potential there only a little left to escape.

We are aware about the challenging games in group F but the best teams always qualify with outstanding performance and results, I don't think AC Milan will make it out. Watching the Rossoneri transforming into an average team is basically out of line, there are levels in football that ought to he maintained. AC Milan are not in good shape this season. They have struggle to win UCL games but recording quite an impressive game in Seria A league games. Stefano Pioli having issues dealing with his players, I think if he's keen on having good results, he have to take an extra step.

[Richbased]

AC Milan is the biggest disappointment for the Italian fans with their poor run in this season in this elite competition after three matches 2 points with no goal scored by them is surely not acceptable at this level even their performance in Serie A is impressive with currently they are at the second spot behind city rivals Inter Milan and having good start but now in last two games they lost against Juventus and now PSG surely creating problems for them and their fans with moral is down, and confidence level is also decreasing which could be not ideal for them.

Most chances we will have improvement in coming matches because now they will be regrouped themselves and try to have fight for the spot of next round even it's not easy but still it's all possible with all teams are on level just PSG is having enough space for the staying at the top of the group.

You need to know that irrespective of AC Milan's performance is the serie A, they played very competitive side in their last two matches. Like Juventus, Juventus isn't a joke at all despite the fact that they are not too consistent but at least when you hear Juventus in the serie A we are talking about one of the biggest club in Italy, so Milan result with Juventus cannot be questioned at all. Okay what of Paris Saint German, PSG has also been a very strong contender both in France Ligue 1 and the Champions League respectively. PSG has lots of experienced and talented players who are ready to devour any team they meet so you can see that AC milan played against two strong contenders in their last matches and tagging them as a disappointment to Italy is not a good one

[tusandii]

AC Milan is indeed in a pretty tough group so AC Milan is not able to compete with these clubs and AC Milan has not scored a goal at all for 3 matches in the Champions League, I think AC Milan chances of getting through to the next round will be increasingly difficult because AC Milan is getting stronger lagging behind in points.
However, AC Milan actually still has a chance to qualify if in the remaining 3 match in the Champions League, AC Milan is able to win the match without losing, but it does not looks like it will be easy because the competitors in Group F are quite difficult for AC Milan to overcome this seasons. I think AC Milan potential there only a little left to escape.

We are aware about the challenging games in group F but the best teams always qualify with outstanding performance and results, I don't think AC Milan will make it out. Watching the Rossoneri transforming into an average team is basically out of line, there are levels in football that ought to he maintained. AC Milan are not in good shape this season. They have struggle to win UCL games but recording quite an impressive game in Seria A league games. Stefano Pioli having issues dealing with his players, I think if he's keen on having good results, he have to take an extra step.

Of the 4 clubs in group F, only Milan does not have the ability to show its ability to try to add points or at least be able to win the match several times, but unfortunately Milan does not have the ability to do all of that. Since the start of the Champions league match, they have not been able to get a win. only ended a draw.
In the series A match, Milan started very well, but as the match schedule progressed, Milan experienced a decline in performance and the last match against Juventus, Milan was also unable to match Juventus performance which ended defeat and with this decline performance, Milan had little chance of qualifying this round is very small.

[Weawant]

You need to know that irrespective of AC Milan's performance is the serie A, they played very competitive side in their last two matches. Like Juventus, Juventus isn't a joke at all despite the fact that they are not too consistent but at least when you hear Juventus in the serie A we are talking about one of the biggest club in Italy, so Milan result with Juventus cannot be questioned at all. Okay what of Paris Saint German, PSG has also been a very strong contender both in France Ligue 1 and the Champions League respectively. PSG has lots of experienced and talented players who are ready to devour any team they meet so you can see that AC milan played against two strong contenders in their last matches and tagging them as a disappointment to Italy is not a good one

I agree with you, in the last two games played by Ac Milan, they have faced teams with good squad, teams that shouldn't be considered weak at all and so their performance against this team alone shouldn't be used to see them as been disappointing so far, it's really not an encouraging results so far from AC Milan not been able to get a goal yet in the UCL but they happened to be in a group with relatively good teams so it's not going to be really easy.

PSG isn't a small team at all both in their domestic league and the UCL, they have so much experience with the UCL, they have participated in the UCL several times and can't be undermined, moreover they were at home and AC Milan played from away so you shouldn't expect that PSG would loose easily or concede a goal at home in the UCL, if AC Milan fails to qualify further in the UCL they can fall back to their local league where they are doing well too.

[piebeyb]

Some people don't believe or think that Manchester City is in bad shape because in the Premier League they have appeared during this season and have suffered several defeats but it is too early to assume that Manchester City is bad.

Since KDB was injured, it seems that Manchester City is not performing better in the domestic league, so they need someone who is right to replace KDB, at least providing mature passes for Haaland so he can score goals, because every time against a strong club, Haaland seems to have difficulty scoring goals, I think so too Guardiola should have placed another player on the front line to accompany Haaland.

So far Haaland has not performed as well as last season, he seems to have difficulty scoring many goals this season so Guardiola has to think about that at least so that this season Manchester City really performs well in the UCL and in the domestic league, as we saw in Manchester City's UCL didn't meet a difficult club in group G, but he will meet later against stronger clubs like Munich and Madrid, I think Guardiola has to set a good strategy to be able to make Manchester City play like last season, if you say it looks bad that's which I have seen since their last few matches in the domestic league have suffered unnecessary defeats

[Davian144]

We are aware about the challenging games in group F but the best teams always qualify with outstanding performance and results, I don't think AC Milan will make it out. Watching the Rossoneri transforming into an average team is basically out of line, there are levels in football that ought to he maintained. AC Milan are not in good shape this season. They have struggle to win UCL games but recording quite an impressive game in Seria A league games. Stefano Pioli having issues dealing with his players, I think if he's keen on having good results, he have to take an extra step.

The extra step that Stefano Pioli will make and take is that he will try to handle his players as well as possible in order to win the three remaining matches in this group stage, because only this can enable AC Milan to qualify for the next round. Meanwhile, the other teams in the same group will also try to win in the remaining three matches, so Stefano Pioli needs to take extra steps for AC Milan if they still want to qualify for the next round of the Champions League.

[naira]

Haaland is a scoring machine, and I expected him to score more goals in this game. They have been performing quite well in the Champions League and are the favourites to top their current group. Much more goals could have been expected against a team like Young Boys, but a 2:0 win is not a terrible result for a team that is leading the group.

Actually, the score was 1-3 and there was even a moment in the match when Young Boys equalized the score and this happiness lasted for 15 minutes ) An interesting thing happens to Haaland in the Champions League, when he disappears as a scorer without scoring several matches, as well as in decisive matches. However, 2 goals in the match seriously corrected the statistics of the striker in the current tournament. Still, 2 goals in 3 matches sound much better than 0 )

There is no reason for Manchester City to perform poorly in the Champions League, none of its opponents in Group G can match Manchester City's players. Because of this, Haaland scored again after playing several matches without Kevin De Bruyne. On the other hand, Young Boys tried their best and even though they lost, they deserved to be appreciated.

After getting the group winning ticket and if Kevin De Bruyne doesn't recover soon, maybe this will be a burden in itself. It cannot be denied that the role of Jenius (KDB) is really needed by Manchester City to really open up more opportunities, including in the Premier League.

[Zoomic]

Some people don't believe or think that Manchester City is in bad shape because in the Premier League they have appeared during this season and have suffered several defeats but it is too early to assume that Manchester City is bad.

It is not that Manchester city is bad but what happened is that they dropped in their performance which was at the climax. Even as they dropped in their performance, they also win matches, so the slight difference between their performance this year and that of last year is what is considered by many people as bad. Even if Manchester city is no longer playing in their peak, they have been able to win their champions league group matches and so, they are still good

We are aware about the challenging games in group F but the best teams always qualify with outstanding performance and results, I don't think AC Milan will make it out. Watching the Rossoneri transforming into an average team is basically out of line, there are levels in football that ought to he maintained. AC Milan are not in good shape this season. They have struggle to win UCL games but recording quite an impressive game in Seria A league games. Stefano Pioli having issues dealing with his players, I think if he's keen on having good results, he have to take an extra step.

I haven't seen the zeal to qualify from the group stage from AC Milan this season. I have tipped that they will perform so good in the group even above Newcastle United but now I am more confident that Newcastle will qualify ahead of AC Milan.

[Plaguedeath]

It is not that Manchester city is bad but what happened is that they dropped in their performance which was at the climax. Even as they dropped in their performance, they also win matches, so the slight difference between their performance this year and that of last year is what is considered by many people as bad. Even if Manchester city is no longer playing in their peak, they have been able to win their champions league group matches and so, they are still good

People always want to see many goals scored by the aggressive team, but they forget if leading two or three goals are already enough since it's already hard for the opponent to comeback. If Champions League is the only league that Manchester City play, I'm sure they will perform all out.

But they're lack of players and they have a busy schedule, so it's make sense they're not want to try harder when it's already a sure win, they can save their remaining energy for the upcoming match.

[Oluwa-btc]

Their condition with the lack of consistency on every line, the high level of ego of the players such as Bruno or Rashford and internal problems, especially the injury of these players, clearly makes it difficult to predict for Manchester United but seeing the current condition they should have realized with a few matches that have been lost and should be able to fix it. Indeed, for now apart from Bayern for the second position in group A it is still difficult to predict who will qualify but this is actually a good thing for Manchester United because with this indirectly they still have the opportunity to compete in the Champions League.

Agreed about this all situation is not good for the Manchester United to hold second spot in this group because their performance is not consistent, and they are also having no depth in players they need to settle internal politics if they want to have positive results from them few players are surely creating mess up which is never been suitable for any team which is looking for the better results now next month they are going to visit Copenhagen which could be big test for them if they want to go through then surely they need to win this and have much better performance.

Ten Hag policies and strategy surely not ideal to handle current situation with this we can't expect anything good specially having good spot into Premier League which is now having the toughest teams at the top and these are not going to have anything relaxed for the Manchester United.

Manchester United are not on the course they were expected to take before the season started. They are witnessing both internal and external problems at the moment. The players aren’t helping and injuries seems to affect their performance. There are some mitigating factors in that poor run but that would not stop the pressure mounting on them. Sometimes I feel Ten Hag doesn’t have the capacity to deal with these things going on in the club. We have seen clubs faced with injuries and the managers devise a means to still pick up points and keep the team intact. Honestly we’ve witnessed plenty of Manchester United managers run into difficulties at the club, I hope that this Ten Hag's tenure would not become a repeat of the challenges those few other managers encountered. Ten Hag needs to solve this situation fast, because the scrutiny on him is increasing with every sub-standard showing.

Judge from how he makes substitution with lots of bias this season, believe that if he continues with that pattern he will end up losing games he has capacity to win.
He ( Erik Ten Hag ) has been following some ways of coaches that have failed at Manchester United. When I watch most of his games now they only remind me of poor coaches like David Moyes and Ole Gunner Solskjaer who had wrong decision making for Manchester United.

Manchester City in two days and someone keeps telling me that they'll win the game against Manchester City. I don't doubt that but i want to see it happening. Myself? Manchester City winning here or a draw at least.

[BRINIRHA]

We are aware about the challenging games in group F but the best teams always qualify with outstanding performance and results, I don't think AC Milan will make it out. Watching the Rossoneri transforming into an average team is basically out of line, there are levels in football that ought to he maintained. AC Milan are not in good shape this season. They have struggle to win UCL games but recording quite an impressive game in Seria A league games. Stefano Pioli having issues dealing with his players, I think if he's keen on having good results, he have to take an extra step.

The extra step that Stefano Pioli will make and take is that he will try to handle his players as well as possible in order to win the three remaining matches in this group stage, because only this can enable AC Milan to qualify for the next round. Meanwhile, the other teams in the same group will also try to win in the remaining three matches, so Stefano Pioli needs to take extra steps for AC Milan if they still want to qualify for the next round of the Champions League.

Even though in the UCL it seems that AC Milan is really having difficulties, it turns out that in Serie A they are quite dominating the competition and they are quite consistent throughout this season in Serie A. Because currently they are even ranked 2nd in the Serie A standings. This is different from AC last season. Milan is clearly not that consistent. But strangely they were quite good in the UCL last season. Sometimes a team cannot always perform well in all competitions. Sometimes they are only good in one competition. And it looks like this is what is happening to Ac Milan. But with 3 matches remaining, Ac Milan actually still has a chance. Even though it is a slim chance, if they win the remaining 3 matches then they will qualify for the next round as they can do.

But for many people now they will definitely suspect that 2 of these 3 clubs will qualify, namely PSG, Newcastle and Dortmund. Because until now AC Milan has not won even once in the UCL. And that's a pretty bad result.

[Weawant]

Manchester city happens to be the favorite of their team as when placed side by side with others in the same group, they appear to be better and stronger maybe, young boys and Leipzig are good teams in their local league and are not doing to bad but they lack champions league experience over Manchester city, cit have a better level of experience than they do meanwhile crvena have the least of experience amongst them all.

Manchester city is definitely getting a spot beyond the group stage in the UCL as I personally consider them Lucky at group stage to have teams who will stress them less, the struggle for a second position will be between Leipzig and young boys, but Leipzig have a better chance because they already have two points while Young boys have a point. Crvena is most likely to crash out and hope to qualify next season.