UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season

[rendravolt]

I will not blame the red card received by Upamecano because from the start Bayern Munich played very badly. How can it be that one of the teams that is nominated to win the Champions League this season can't even break into Lazio's goal and they couldn't even get a single shot on target in last night's match. It is very strange to see Bayern Munich's performance continuing to decline since the defeat against Leverkusen in the domestic league.

On the other hand, I see that Lazio is even better and can control the tempo of the match as much as they want. Even though we know that Lazio can only put up a strong defense when facing a team that has an attacking style like Bayern Munich, they can at least shoot on target 4 times. Well, Lazio's only goal was scored by Immobile from the penalty spot and that was because of a foul committed by Upamecano. In the second leg, Bayern Munich must be able to reverse the aggregate if they don't want to be embarrassed in front of their fans.

[joniboini]

But if we look at the last few games, we can see that the team is playing against the coach. Tuchel must overcome the egos of his players.
Musala thought he was Messi and Sane was Ronaldo.
Coaches and all players must be questioned, and cannot stop at just the big names. The team needs to wash it thoroughly.

Not sure how much of that is caused by Tuchel's own doing though, especially with his latest comments on Barcelona's job. Anyway, hard to know the inside story without any bias as an outsider, but match-wise it is clear that Bayern failed to create any decent chance with 0 shots on target iirc. Maybe they got a bit unlucky too with the red card, seeing that they managed to arguably control the game to some extent before but failed to capitalize on it[1]. On the other hand, Lazio has a higher xG which might suggest they are more dangerous on the counter/attacking phase compared to Bayern, so 1 goal difference is probably deserved.

But what happened was the opposite and one of the Bayern Munich players also received a red card, which I had never thought about before the match started.

I'd be surprised if anyone managed to predict they would get a red card. Seeing from the stats, it seems like any interesting development happens in the 2nd half, so that's that. CMIIW.

[1] https://fbref.com/en/matches/ae96ef57/Lazio-Bayern-Munich-February-14-2024-Champions-League

[pusaka]

I will not blame the red card received by Upamecano because from the start Bayern Munich played very badly. How can it be that one of the teams that is nominated to win the Champions League this season can't even break into Lazio's goal and they couldn't even get a single shot on target in last night's match. It is very strange to see Bayern Munich's performance continuing to decline since the defeat against Leverkusen in the domestic league.

On the other hand, I see that Lazio is even better and can control the tempo of the match as much as they want. Even though we know that Lazio can only put up a strong defense when facing a team that has an attacking style like Bayern Munich, they can at least shoot on target 4 times. Well, Lazio's only goal was scored by Immobile from the penalty spot and that was because of a foul committed by Upamecano. In the second leg, Bayern Munich must be able to reverse the aggregate if they don't want to be embarrassed in front of their fans.

I have a different view on this, because it is undeniable that the goals that Laazio can create come from there so that they can create the only goals that come in this match. But I don't mean to blame, because in a match anything can happen.
Here Lazio clearly managed to apply a defense that was very difficult to penetrate, so Bayern Munich did not have many open opportunities that they could convert into goals. Apart from that, Bayern Munich failed to be creative in building attacks, they could not find weak points that could be exploited. Perhaps Lazio's victory can be said to be lucky and can be said not, because they cannot be said to be lucky because they show solid defense, while it can be said to be lucky because of the goals that were born due to Bayern Munich's mistakes.

[Slow death]

The game with Bayer revealed obvious problems (especially in attack) for Bayern, so I strongly doubt that everyone was expecting a victory yesterday, especially considering that this is the first away game. In the end, what the skeptics expected happened - Lazio was able to turn off Bayern's attack from the game, while they themselves were able to score a goal. It’s too early to say that Lazio got a ticket to the next round since in any case there will be a return game and it’s hard for me to believe that Bayern won’t score a single goal in two games with Lazio, but still now Lazio has a slight advantage.

Although Lazio had an advantage to play in their own home, but I didn't expect Bayern Munich could lose against them because Lazio isn't really strong in this season. I thought it's either draw or Bayern Munich win, with this lose it surely make a lot people think Bayern Munich can't able to become a champion.

I still believe Bayern Munich will win the second leg, it's really shame if they lose.

No one expected that for sure.Lazio completely dominated the game and did not let Bayern for a single moment to come to their dangerous play as they play usually,yesterday it was quite the opposite,they were dominated and were not dominant like they usually are.In here a lot of memes going on with the best one being "you hear son,that is the sound of ripped tickets from Bayern Munchen loss" which for me summarizes well what happened yesterday night.

There are always accidents in football, many people are making a big fuss about Bayern losing against Lazio, it seems like Bayern conceded a lot of goals and were eliminated when that is far from being true, Bayern conceded a goal thanks to a penalty, it was a accident and this happened in the 69th minute of the game, with a reduced player and we are not talking about just any player, we are talking about Dayot Upamecano who is a defensive player, with this reduction the Bayern coach would no longer have any reason to risk being attacking a lot, he needed to focus on defense to get out of this game with only 1 goal conceded, that was the best solution. With this defeat of just 1 goal conceded, Bayern has a chance to reverse this result in the next game

this season bayern lacks more good strikers like kane, before kane arrived at bayern, they had serious problems in attack, but kane cannot play alone on the field, in my opinion they should sell the remaining strikers and only keep kane, and then they would buy other attackers who could play with kane. This in my opinion is the best solution. In defense, Bayern needs to improve a lot too, they should sell some defensive players and hire other players for the defense. These improvements have to be made in the next transfer window if Bayern wants to win the Bundesliga next season


Yesterday PSG showed an excellent performance in the game against Real Sociedad, they managed to score 2 goals, didn't concede a goal and had 63% possession of the ball. It's true that as they were playing at home, they had a greater obligation to win, but the fact that it was a game in which PSG managed to dominate, to emerge victorious without conceding a goal, gives hope that with this current coach, perhaps PSG will reach further in this season's champions league. I don't know what's happening with Real Sociedad in the league, they haven't won 3 consecutive games and in the last 5 games they've only won in just 1 game, if they continue with this poor performance in the next games, then in the next game PSG could win again .

[Dzwaafu11]

Having more trust in Bayern Munich is what makes everyone think they will win the game, forgetting that Lazio has a well-arranged set of defenses. which Lazio end up playing a defense game since they know their opponent Bayern Munich is a stronger team than them. To me precisely, I will say that Bayern Munich should go and focus more on their performance to face Lazio in the second leg and to make sure they are able to have not less than 2 goals; if not, they will definitely be knocked out by Lazio. It will be very disappointing to see such a strong team knocked out by Lazio in the round of 16; that means they were not even able to meet up to the quarterfinals. It will definitely look somehow for a team like Bayern Munich.

Things like this are happening. People have too much hope for Bayern Munich that they are going to win the game, so it surprises everybody that they lost to Lozio, and it's too bad for a team like Bayern Munich to lose to Lozio because Lozio is a weak team when compared to Bayern Munich's current performance. Seriously, Lozio were lucky to win the game, and it was tough for Bayern Munich to break their defense because that is what Lozio did in that game; they played defensive game. Although I know that they played defensive game, even if Bayern Munich scores, it shouldn't be much, but it happens to be that they are the lucky people to win the match.

[Distraction]

I wish I didn't add Bayern Munich to win to my parlay also.    I hoped to see a day with no surprise results again but I shouldn't have been very optimistic about that. I was confident about PSG but was having second thoughts about Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich just showed a terrible performance last night. 17 shots but 0 on target...

They wasted unbelievable goal chances also. Upamecano's very dangerous foul just brought their end. I think he definitely deserved the red card there even though it wasn't intentional.

Probably we will watch a way better Bayern Munich in Germany but there is no return for my loss. 

[X-ray]

Very very bad performance from bayern munich. I never imagine that if it will be ended with 0 goal attempts against lazio. I must be honest that if serie a club has very strong defensive line. Im thinking that if bayern may also get the same result for the second leg. I think that if bayern needs to learn a lot from this game.
The club was obviously did nothing in that match. Im feeling so amazed with napoli caused by it was able to hold bayern munich with narrow score. Even though lazio was leading the game but the situation can change anytime depending on the result from the game.

I thought that if bayern will be winnin the game against lazio but i was wrong. This is what i called that if serie a team can't be underestimated. We do know that how good the squad owned by bayern munich to win the game but everything seems become useless after bayern was scoring the only
Bayern is just going even crazier than before caused by it looked like a very weak team after tuchel was going there. I hope that he can be replaced as soon as possible caused by it was a shame for a club with 1 billion valuation unable to score against it.

[airfinex]

Yesterday PSG showed an excellent performance in the game against Real Sociedad, they managed to score 2 goals, didn't concede a goal and had 63% possession of the ball. It's true that as they were playing at home, they had a greater obligation to win, but the fact that it was a game in which PSG managed to dominate, to emerge victorious without conceding a goal, gives hope that with this current coach, perhaps PSG will reach further in this season's champions league. I don't know what's happening with Real Sociedad in the league, they haven't won 3 consecutive games and in the last 5 games they've only won in just 1 game, if they continue with this poor performance in the next games, then in the next game PSG could win again .

Teams of different levels. Sociedad has too many losses and too energy-intensive football, and PSG under Enrique knows how to endure and stifle, another thing is that PSG's midfield is still their weak point. Zaire-Emery is mega-talented, but very young, Ruiz and Vitinha are too weak for level of the Champions League. They will easily pass Sociedad, but against Real and City with such a midfield there is little chance. It was lucky that they got RS who miraculously came out of first place. In 1-4 with such a game it’s not that there is nothing to do, there are just very, very few chances .

[knowngunman]

Unbelievable, can’t believe Bayer lost
Back-to-back defeats for Bayern and no shot on target against Lazio. Tuchel is no longer seen as a brilliant coach.
The truth is that Bayern Munich didn't play anything and deserved to lose.
The team is playing with no confidence, no attacking, no counterattack, missing the net on opportunities while the opponent had more desire to win and deserved to win.
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Thomas Tuchel has really turned this mighty Bayern Munich into an average team. It's now two straight loses in a row but this time around with a zero shot on goal for 90 minutes. I don't understand why he keeps benching one of their best defender game after game. There's more much more confidence when de Light is on the pitch. Upamecano has been making too many mistakes since last year especially in crucial matches and it seems he is not learning from his mistakes because it's getting worse. He costs the team some precious previous matches and now he has done it again.

I think Tuchel game plan is not suitable for these players. They have more to offer far beyond Tuchel's imagination. They have proven their best performance during Nagelsmann. With available players, they managed to win but everything has changed now absolutely.

[Cryptmuster]

Thomas Tuchel has really turned this mighty Bayern Munich into an average team. It's now two straight loses in a row but this time around with a zero shot on goal for 90 minutes. I don't understand why he keeps benching one of their best defender game after game. There's more much more confidence when de Light is on the pitch. Upamecano has been making too many mistakes since last year especially in crucial matches and it seems he is not learning from his mistakes because it's getting worse. He costs the team some precious previous matches and now he has done it again.

I think Tuchel game plan is not suitable for these players. They have more to offer far beyond Tuchel's imagination. They have proven their best performance during Nagelsmann. With available players, they managed to win but everything has changed now absolutely.

I expressed my opinion about Tuchel for Bayern a long time ago, he is not yet ready to be the coach of such a team, his decisions regarding players are simply ridiculous, I don’t know what he bases his choice on, but it was his mistakes that led to Bayern’s defeat in the match with Bayer and also the same thing happened in the match with Lazio. In the match with Bayer, Bayern made one shot on target, in the match with Lazio, none, something is clearly wrong with Bayern...

[Swordsoffreedom]

Having more trust in Bayern Munich is what makes everyone think they will win the game, forgetting that Lazio has a well-arranged set of defenses. which Lazio end up playing a defense game since they know their opponent Bayern Munich is a stronger team than them. To me precisely, I will say that Bayern Munich should go and focus more on their performance to face Lazio in the second leg and to make sure they are able to have not less than 2 goals; if not, they will definitely be knocked out by Lazio. It will be very disappointing to see such a strong team knocked out by Lazio in the round of 16; that means they were not even able to meet up to the quarterfinals. It will definitely look somehow for a team like Bayern Munich.

Things like this are happening. People have too much hope for Bayern Munich that they are going to win the game, so it surprises everybody that they lost to Lozio, and it's too bad for a team like Bayern Munich to lose to Lozio because Lozio is a weak team when compared to Bayern Munich's current performance. Seriously, Lozio were lucky to win the game, and it was tough for Bayern Munich to break their defense because that is what Lozio did in that game; they played defensive game. Although I know that they played defensive game, even if Bayern Munich scores, it shouldn't be much, but it happens to be that they are the lucky people to win the match.

A lot of gamblers lost their money in this match. I would  say it was an accident. No one expected Bayern  Munich, one of the strongest rivals fighting for the Champions League title, to lose against a mediocre team like Lazio. This result was completely unexpected.

However, I was not happy  with Bayern Munich's overall  performance in this match. I thought Munich would  dominate the match, but Munich could not dominate the match in the first half. Munich's performance  slowed further after Dayot received a red card in the 67th minute. However,  despite not winning the away match, Munich still have  a chance to qualify for the  next round. Munich should win the home match by a big margin.

[Frankolala]

I will not blame the red card received by Upamecano because from the start Bayern Munich played very badly. How can it be that one of the teams that is nominated to win the Champions League this season can't even break into Lazio's goal and they couldn't even get a single shot on target in last night's match. It is very strange to see Bayern Munich's performance continuing to decline since the defeat against Leverkusen in the domestic league.

On the other hand, I see that Lazio is even better and can control the tempo of the match as much as they want. Even though we know that Lazio can only put up a strong defense when facing a team that has an attacking style like Bayern Munich, they can at least shoot on target 4 times. Well, Lazio's only goal was scored by Immobile from the penalty spot and that was because of a foul committed by Upamecano. In the second leg, Bayern Munich must be able to reverse the aggregate if they don't want to be embarrassed in front of their fans.

I have a different view on this, because it is undeniable that the goals that Laazio can create come from there so that they can create the only goals that come in this match. But I don't mean to blame, because in a match anything can happen.
Here Lazio clearly managed to apply a defense that was very difficult to penetrate, so Bayern Munich did not have many open opportunities that they could convert into goals. Apart from that, Bayern Munich failed to be creative in building attacks, they could not find weak points that could be exploited. Perhaps Lazio's victory can be said to be lucky and can be said not, because they cannot be said to be lucky because they show solid defense, while it can be said to be lucky because of the goals that were born due to Bayern Munich's mistakes.

Will you say that what Upamecano did inside the 18 yard box was a mistake, I don't think so and that was an intentional act. Before the penalty kick, Bayern Munich was finding it difficult to breakthrough Lazio's defense and Lazio was able to breakthrough Bayern defense several times in the first half, but they couldn't find the back of the net. It was a victory that Lazio deserves.

Imagine Bayern Munich had 15 shots, but none of them was on target, this shows how strong Lazio defenders are, for making sure that Bayern shots were not accurate to their goal post. Bayern needs to work on how they can penetrate Lazio defense in Germany because the Romans might be this dangerous in the second leg.

[legendbtc]

Thomas Tuchel has really turned this mighty Bayern Munich into an average team. It's now two straight loses in a row but this time around with a zero shot on goal for 90 minutes. I don't understand why he keeps benching one of their best defender game after game. There's more much more confidence when de Light is on the pitch. Upamecano has been making too many mistakes since last year especially in crucial matches and it seems he is not learning from his mistakes because it's getting worse. He costs the team some precious previous matches and now he has done it again.

I think Tuchel game plan is not suitable for these players. They have more to offer far beyond Tuchel's imagination. They have proven their best performance during Nagelsmann. With available players, they managed to win but everything has changed now absolutely.

I expressed my opinion about Tuchel for Bayern a long time ago, he is not yet ready to be the coach of such a team, his decisions regarding players are simply ridiculous, I don’t know what he bases his choice on, but it was his mistakes that led to Bayern’s defeat in the match with Bayer and also the same thing happened in the match with Lazio. In the match with Bayer, Bayern made one shot on target, in the match with Lazio, none, something is clearly wrong with Bayern...

I also agree with your thoughts. Tuchel has lost 10 out of 43 matches since taking over as coach of Bayern Munich. Thomas Tuchel is creating disastrous records at Bayern Munich. Therefore, he can completely be fired. Thomas Tuchel showed a poor performance against Lazio. They didn't even have a single shot on target towards the opponent's goal despite bringing the best options in attack, like Harry Kane, Leroy Sane, or Jamal Musiala.
The leadership of Bayern Munich should consider a plan to replace Thomas Tuchel because I think he will have no plan to deal with the football team. There are a series of bright names out there, like Jose Mourinho, Hansi Flick, and even Jurgen Klopp are all ideal choices to replace him. I hope the most is probably Jurgen Klopp.

[Polkeins]

Thomas Tuchel has really turned this mighty Bayern Munich into an average team. It's now two straight loses in a row but this time around with a zero shot on goal for 90 minutes. I don't understand why he keeps benching one of their best defender game after game. There's more much more confidence when de Light is on the pitch. Upamecano has been making too many mistakes since last year especially in crucial matches and it seems he is not learning from his mistakes because it's getting worse. He costs the team some precious previous matches and now he has done it again.

I think Tuchel game plan is not suitable for these players. They have more to offer far beyond Tuchel's imagination. They have proven their best performance during Nagelsmann. With available players, they managed to win but everything has changed now absolutely.

I expressed my opinion about Tuchel for Bayern a long time ago, he is not yet ready to be the coach of such a team, his decisions regarding players are simply ridiculous, I don’t know what he bases his choice on, but it was his mistakes that led to Bayern’s defeat in the match with Bayer and also the same thing happened in the match with Lazio. In the match with Bayer, Bayern made one shot on target, in the match with Lazio, none, something is clearly wrong with Bayern...

Tuchel isn't such a bad coach. Last year he was lucky that Borussia in the last round could not take the first place and this season Bayern looks not so bad, and Bayer and Lazio are not so weak teams, although the fact that Bayern could not even score looks unexpected, but Italian teams can play from defense and give surprises. I think Serie A is the most unpredictable of the top 5 leagues.
Nevertheless, I think Bayern should win the return game and go further.

[Barcode_]

I felt both Lazio and Bayern Munich did not play very well yesterday as both of the teams did not create many goal scoring opportunities in the match, but it was such an amazing moment when I watched the home fans singing and cheering so loudly as a shown of support for the home team throughout the whole match. Even though Lazio did managed to win the match with a penalty scored but I guess it would be tough for Lazio to held on to just a goal lead when they play against Bayern Munich for the 2nd leg meeting at the Allianz Arena.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

After watching the last 16 games so far, I don’t see any other team being capable of beating Man City. I know anything can happen but Bayern were incredibly poor, PSG always choke. My hope is Real Madrid rise to the big occasion like they so often do. Man City embarrassed them last season though. Hopefully Bellingham makes a difference for them this season.

Barcelona are a pale shadow of what they once were, I just don’t see any credible challengers to Man City and I really don’t want them to win it again. It leaves a sour taste in the mouth with them because of all the financial charges they face for cheating.

[Chilwell]

Like everyone else, I thought Bayern Munich would win, but they lost. I really didn't expect this result.
Lazio has an advantage now, but the next game will be played in Germany and they need to be very careful because their opponent is Bayern Munich.

Unbelievable, can’t believe Bayer lost
Back-to-back defeats for Bayern and no shot on target against Lazio. Tuchel is no longer seen as a brilliant coach.
The truth is that Bayern Munich didn't play anything and deserved to lose.
The team is playing with no confidence, no attacking, no counterattack, missing the net on opportunities while the opponent had more desire to win and deserved to win.
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while many fans are saying Harry kane have bring his bad luck from the Tottenham for been Trophyless but still I think it too early to conclude that the effects is from him, let give him another chance, yesterday was shocking to me that Bayern has failed to register a shot on target for the first time since 2019, when they failed to have a shot on target against Liverpool in the Champions league too, My question is can they make it out of this stage because right now kane is in trouble, and also Thomas Tuchel too who have lost 10 games out of 48 matches since became the manager of Bayern Munich.

[aylabadia05]

I wish I didn't add Bayern Munich to win to my parlay also.    I hoped to see a day with no surprise results again but I shouldn't have been very optimistic about that. I was confident about PSG but was having second thoughts about Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich just showed a terrible performance last night. 17 shots but 0 on target...

Stay cool. Bayern Munich can turn things around in the second leg even though yesterday Bayern Munich narrowly lost against Lazio.
Many bettors who included Bayern Munich in their betting list yesterday failed. That's a surprise. For those who have analyzed Bayern Munich's performance, perhaps including Bayern Munich in the betting list is not the winner.

They wasted unbelievable goal chances also. Upamecano's very dangerous foul just brought their end. I think he definitely deserved the red card there even though it wasn't intentional.

Upamecano's violation was not done intentionally. Upamecano did not intend to make a tackle that could injure a Lazio player because Upamecano's position was only to try to block when the Lazio player kicked towards Manuel Neuer's goal.

[fzkto]

Having more trust in Bayern Munich is what makes everyone think they will win the game, forgetting that Lazio has a well-arranged set of defenses. which Lazio end up playing a defense game since they know their opponent Bayern Munich is a stronger team than them. To me precisely, I will say that Bayern Munich should go and focus more on their performance to face Lazio in the second leg and to make sure they are able to have not less than 2 goals; if not, they will definitely be knocked out by Lazio. It will be very disappointing to see such a strong team knocked out by Lazio in the round of 16; that means they were not even able to meet up to the quarterfinals. It will definitely look somehow for a team like Bayern Munich.

Things like this are happening. People have too much hope for Bayern Munich that they are going to win the game, so it surprises everybody that they lost to Lozio, and it's too bad for a team like Bayern Munich to lose to Lozio because Lozio is a weak team when compared to Bayern Munich's current performance. Seriously, Lozio were lucky to win the game, and it was tough for Bayern Munich to break their defense because that is what Lozio did in that game; they played defensive game. Although I know that they played defensive game, even if Bayern Munich scores, it shouldn't be much, but it happens to be that they are the lucky people to win the match.

Lazio are undoubtedly weaker than Bayern, but this is football and one red card can decide the outcome of any match. I think that in the next game in Bayern Lazio will lose with a completely different score, so not all is lost for Bayern. But yesterday was a good lesson for them.

[HajiBagi]

I wish I didn't add Bayern Munich to win to my parlay also.    I hoped to see a day with no surprise results again but I shouldn't have been very optimistic about that. I was confident about PSG but was having second thoughts about Bayern Munich. Bayern Munich just showed a terrible performance last night. 17 shots but 0 on target...

They wasted unbelievable goal chances also. Upamecano's very dangerous foul just brought their end. I think he definitely deserved the red card there even though it wasn't intentional.

Probably we will watch a way better Bayern Munich in Germany but there is no return for my loss. 

The way Bayern Munich is playing these days seems to be very bad; what is going on with the team? With the way they are playing right now, I'm not even sure if they can make it to the champion league quarterfinals. Is the coach at fault or the players' performance on the team? Since every player involved in the game is a member of Bayern Munich, I must admit that I was quite disappointed in Bayern Munich yesterday. Although they have a strong team, it will be difficult for them to overcome Lazio in their second leg, and if they don't perform well there, they won't be able to advance to the Champions League quarterfinals.

This season, I think PSG can make it to the quarterfinals. The only thing that can stop PSG from winning the champion league is that they lack good players; they have been trying for many years, but they haven't succeeded. If PSG puts in more effort this season, I think they can advance far in the champion league. My initial thought was that Bayern Munich would even play more than PSG, and PSG later win the game without any stress after the match.