UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season

[wiss19]

Results are the most important factor in football, and Leipzig lost. In the first minutes, RB Leipzig's players overwhelmed Real Madrid. Great-grandson said that they were not satisfied with the result because they had more chances to score but failed to do so. Leipzig can turn the situation around but must play well in the return leg. Because in the return leg they will have to face Real Madrid's strongest squad. They must go to the Bernabeu and play with the highest determination.
Real Madrid went through a really difficult match in Germany. With only 1 goal in this match, Real Madrid won with minimal effort, so they only had a slim advantage. In football, unexpected things always happen.

In Champions League always we have unexpected results which is real beauty of this game and in first leg even Real Madrid won but still things can take turn and RB Leipzig can go through which could be normal even it's not easy because while they will play at Bernabéu things could be toughest for the German club but still all is possible.

Real Madrid is doing good job and keeping things at the best level which is good advantage for them, and they are surely having quality and consistency which is allowing them to stay into touch for the best end in both leagues RB Leipzig was in good touch but sadly in last few games their performance is on decline, and they are losing matches consistency which are concern for them with in last three away games they fail to win anyone which is surely not good deal.

[tusandii]

Things are going very good for real madrid right now. Real madrid can still win the game aaginst leipzig away is good enough. Why do we need to expect more if real madrid has already achieved what we wanted? it doesn't even make sense to hear that. I think that rela madrid will be going it even better.
The second leg if gonna happen at home for madrid. it's time for us to make sure we can get madrid to go to the next round. Leipzig will be losing against madrid soon.

I agree with you. Even though it was a 1-0 win, a win is still a win and it will be an advantage for Madrid in the second leg. Real Madrid is the host and has an aggregate goal advantage of 1-0. Madrid is able to perform very well at home and I think it looks like Leipzig no longer has a chance to win. Leipzig is very unlucky because they have to play Madrid in the round of 16 because Madrid is one of the favorites to win the Champions League this season.

This win for Real Madrid will however ease some of their pressure as they secured a 0-1 win in the first leg. Although this one goal will give Real Madrid a lot of advantage going into the second leg, they must be careful that they will attack normally and lose the match. However, Real Madrid are in good form at the moment, and they will surely attack to win and if they can successfully score two goals in the second leg they will surely be impossible to beat. And I think that no matter how attacking Leipzig is, they will never be able to match Madrid, because the second match will be played at Madrid's home ground, so they are much stronger.

In this case, real madrid has not yet played with the best line up. We can also expect bellingham to recover again soon. it's gonna be a tough game for leipzig coz it will be facing real madrid away and leipzig will be at so many disadvantage started from losing the aggregate against real madrid.
That's a horrible situation for leipzig and i think the chance is very very small for the team to get up again. Leipzig has been performiing so well in the first leg but it was missing many opportunities in the second leg. Im feeling leipzig will be humiliated by real madrid soon.

For me, it is more convincing that the guarantee of qualifying is very big for Real Madrid even though the players are not complete because Bellingham cannot appear in the match but competing at home will not be a big problem for Real Madrid but it will be a tough job for Leipzig when competing at Real Madrid's home ground made Leipzig players mentally decline.
In Real Madrid's history, the club has always been able to qualify from the round of 16 and betting on Real Madrid's win is very convincing, but always consider a draw because even though they can win, if Real Madrid divides the score into a draw, we will still be surprised and I hope Bellingham will be in the 2nd leg could come with a strong performance.

[Velvet78]

We are only halfway through the first leg of this round. Next week there are some really attracting games such as Inter - Atletico Madrid and Napoli - Barcelona.

I think both of these games are big candidates to be very competitive and lovely to watch. My favourite sides for these games are Inter and Napoli honestly. I don't think Inter would lose or draw with Atletico Madrid home while they are in a great shape. When it comes to the other game I don't like Barcelona at all this season. They are really weak at defending. This can be a good advantage for Napoli home together with Osimhen's return from AFCON. 

[Jody.Drummer]

We are only halfway through the first leg of this round. Next week there are some really attracting games such as Inter - Atletico Madrid and Napoli - Barcelona.

I think both of these games are big candidates to be very competitive and lovely to watch. My favourite sides for these games are Inter and Napoli honestly. I don't think Inter would lose or draw with Atletico Madrid home while they are in a great shape. When it comes to the other game I don't like Barcelona at all this season. They are really weak at defending. This can be a good advantage for Napoli home together with Osimhen's return from AFCON. 

Barcelona this season cannot be expected to be in the Champions League, they have repeatedly shown something that is not good. Yes, they have felt this problem for a long time, especially when they started to falter in their finances. Now in the Champions League maybe they will be able to go further and get past the round of 16, but after that I increasingly doubt they will be able to get through round after round well.
Napoli this season has declined very much after they managed to become champions last season. A balanced match considering the performance of these two clubs, although personally I still see Barcelona as better than Napoli. The 2 matches between them will be very decisive, and maybe they will beat each other when they play as hosts, either Barcelona or Napoli.

[fullhdpixel]

How good Bayern is, this season in the Champions League. I think Lazio doesn’t pose any special problems for them. Let’s look at the arguments in favor of both teams. Lazio is the home field factor, oddly enough, at home Lazio plays a little better, and Bayern away is much worse than at home. two scandalous and devastating defeats of Bayern this season were on the verge. It’s just a different class of teams, this season Bayern can focus on the Champions League, since there are big problems in the championship.

In this season, we have no best of Bayern Munich even they bought Harry Kane which is goal machine, but their performance is below with sacking of Julian Nagelsmann is also having not positive impact and Thomas Tuchel fail to give results which were expected before his arrival now in last two away games they fail to score any goal and already conceded 4 goals which are surely worst for them chance for the Bundesliga are already ended with 5 points difference and now Champions League which is only hope is also not going into their favour they need to be improved their performance and finishing specially against Lazio they have 17 shots but fail to hit any goal hopefully now coming games could be better, and we will have some positive results.

[Xcode7]

How good Bayern is, this season in the Champions League. I think Lazio doesn’t pose any special problems for them. Let’s look at the arguments in favor of both teams. Lazio is the home field factor, oddly enough, at home Lazio plays a little better, and Bayern away is much worse than at home. two scandalous and devastating defeats of Bayern this season were on the verge. It’s just a different class of teams, this season Bayern can focus on the Champions League, since there are big problems in the championship.

In this season, we have no best of Bayern Munich even they bought Harry Kane which is goal machine, but their performance is below with sacking of Julian Nagelsmann is also having not positive impact and Thomas Tuchel fail to give results which were expected before his arrival now in last two away games they fail to score any goal and already conceded 4 goals which are surely worst for them chance for the Bundesliga are already ended with 5 points difference and now Champions League which is only hope is also not going into their favour they need to be improved their performance and finishing specially against Lazio they have 17 shots but fail to hit any goal hopefully now coming games could be better, and we will have some positive results.

I see that Bayern's performance this season tends to be inconsistent and it looks very strange, sometimes they have quite good performance but sometimes the opposite is very significant even though there are no problems whatsoever in the team.
Thomas Tuchel's position as Bayern coach is quite vulnerable now, I don't think that he should be responsible for all the chaos in this team, but it seems that the Bayern players are not playing with all their heart.
Now Bayern are struggling to defend their Bundesliga title and they are in danger of being knocked out in the last 16 of the UCL. Really the Bayern team is in quite a difficult situation right now.

[Blitzboy]

Things are going very good for real madrid right now. Real madrid can still win the game aaginst leipzig away is good enough. Why do we need to expect more if real madrid has already achieved what we wanted? it doesn't even make sense to hear that. I think that rela madrid will be going it even better.
The second leg if gonna happen at home for madrid. it's time for us to make sure we can get madrid to go to the next round. Leipzig will be losing against madrid soon.

I agree with you. Even though it was a 1-0 win, a win is still a win and it will be an advantage for Madrid in the second leg. Real Madrid is the host and has an aggregate goal advantage of 1-0. Madrid is able to perform very well at home and I think it looks like Leipzig no longer has a chance to win. Leipzig is very unlucky because they have to play Madrid in the round of 16 because Madrid is one of the favorites to win the Champions League this season.

Madrid's second-leg prospects are mine too. They're happy after winning 1-0. The fact that they've been so well at home helps them. Leipzig will face a mountain, especially with Madrid's excellent form. Not to mention, Madrid hasnt even played their top lineup. Bringing back Bellingham will be a challenge for Leipzig. They'll never beat Madrid, especially with their current edge. Leipzig has few chances, and I expect Madrid to come alive in the second leg.

[tbterryboy]

Initially I was quite doubtful about PSG because PSG this season played less than optimally in the Champions League group stages. We could see they almost lost their spot in the round of 16. If it weren't for the goal difference from Milan, maybe PSG would fail to qualify for the next round and PSG would still have luck this season and still fighting in the Champions League and it turns out that PSG was able to take advantage of this opportunity well so that they don't make mistakes like before I'm happy that finally PSG is on the winning path against Real Sociedad, it's not easy but PSG was able to beat them in this first leg.

Yes, I hope that in the second leg PSG will win again or at least maximize the draw so they can still qualify for the next round, it is difficult for Real Sociedad to be able to break through PSG defense by more than 2 goals because PSG defense is very strong at the moment and they don't want to stop here of course, especially since Mbappe want to show his best before he leaves PSG.

No doubt too many concerns about PSG performance specially while they were in group stage matches things were not going into their way, but they have done good job and now having good advantage which is going to help them for having good win in coming matches but here mostly members are not talking about Real Sociedad which is also now on decline with having no goal in their last five games is surely worst every from top tier team in La Liga as we have things in this first leg match now we can feel PSG is surely going to be in next round because they can handle this all in Spain for the second leg game if Real Sociedad is still going to play like this but still they need to improve their finishing which is surely problem for them.

In first leg having difference of two goals is good against a team which is now down and most chances they are not going to have any fair chance for the jumping again at the top level with their performance and quality which is having no improvement.

[swogerino]

Things are going very good for real madrid right now. Real madrid can still win the game aaginst leipzig away is good enough. Why do we need to expect more if real madrid has already achieved what we wanted? it doesn't even make sense to hear that. I think that rela madrid will be going it even better.
The second leg if gonna happen at home for madrid. it's time for us to make sure we can get madrid to go to the next round. Leipzig will be losing against madrid soon.

I agree with you. Even though it was a 1-0 win, a win is still a win and it will be an advantage for Madrid in the second leg. Real Madrid is the host and has an aggregate goal advantage of 1-0. Madrid is able to perform very well at home and I think it looks like Leipzig no longer has a chance to win. Leipzig is very unlucky because they have to play Madrid in the round of 16 because Madrid is one of the favorites to win the Champions League this season.

Madrid's second-leg prospects are mine too. They're happy after winning 1-0. The fact that they've been so well at home helps them. Leipzig will face a mountain, especially with Madrid's excellent form. Not to mention, Madrid hasnt even played their top lineup. Bringing back Bellingham will be a challenge for Leipzig. They'll never beat Madrid, especially with their current edge. Leipzig has few chances, and I expect Madrid to come alive in the second leg.

It would be a huge surprise if Real gets eliminated during the second encounter with Leipzig which has shown quite a lot of inconsistent results during this season and surely has not the firepower to turn things around.Real when playing at home even against much stronger teams than Leipzig the times when they have lost at home in such stage of the Champions League can be counted with the fingers of just one hand so I exclude the possibility of Real not qualifying further.

[Ojima-ojo]

We are only halfway through the first leg of this round. Next week there are some really attracting games such as Inter - Atletico Madrid and Napoli - Barcelona.

I think both of these games are big candidates to be very competitive and lovely to watch. My favourite sides for these games are Inter and Napoli honestly. I don't think Inter would lose or draw with Atletico Madrid home while they are in a great shape. When it comes to the other game I don't like Barcelona at all this season. They are really weak at defending. This can be a good advantage for Napoli home together with Osimhen's return from AFCON. 

I agree too, but the fact that football is a game that is filled with lots of unexpected outcomes, is possible that what and where your thought is for the winnings may become the losing side and for that, we should not underestimate any team.

But Athletico Madrid and Inter Milan or Napoli are all clubs that have the same category of performance and sometimes, what makes the difference between them is the luck factor in the game process and how the players make use of the opportunity to make a mark during the games.

[rendravolt]

Barcelona this season cannot be expected to be in the Champions League, they have repeatedly shown something that is not good. Yes, they have felt this problem for a long time, especially when they started to falter in their finances. Now in the Champions League maybe they will be able to go further and get past the round of 16, but after that I increasingly doubt they will be able to get through round after round well.
Napoli this season has declined very much after they managed to become champions last season. A balanced match considering the performance of these two clubs, although personally I still see Barcelona as better than Napoli. The 2 matches between them will be very decisive, and maybe they will beat each other when they play as hosts, either Barcelona or Napoli.

If in the end the two teams beat each other in two legs then that will definitely result in a lot of goals being scored. It is impossible for there to be only one goal or two goals and both teams will compete with each other to beat the aggregate if they want to qualify. But it doesn't rule out the possibility that in the end both teams will have to go through a penalty shootout to determine their qualification for the next round.

But it is true that the two teams are almost no different, both Barcelona and Napoli are still down with inconsistency results obtained in the domestic league and it is very difficult to bet on the winner. I wouldn't expect more from Barcelona and vice versa for Napoli, regardless of their current situation, they actually won't be able to face their next opponent. Well, it's only the best for these two teams and whoever wins or passes, they should only be able to give a minimum performance.

[QueenVera]

Ernque understood with the strategy used by real sociedad. I do agree with you since he was also coaching barcelona in the past and that has given him a lot of experience as a coach. The result against sociedad has proven that if everything can perform very well as long as we did know that the main weakness of our opponent.
PSG has been playing perfectly in this match. Losing two goals against PSG was making the club under the big pressure. I do believe if PSG will able to get the perfect result in the second leg. Yet psg shall aware if sociedad will be playing fully offensive against psg.

This match is quite easy to predict unlike bayern vs lazio. I think that if tuchel must have learned a lot from the match against lazio. PSG is still performing very well this season and im feeling if PSG will be going to the next stage. Having greater aggregates will put PSG in so many advantages even though it must be playing away.
Enrique may be fully preparing the club not to play aggresively in the second leg. This is the only best strategy that must be used by PSG to win the second leg or at least get draw against sociedad.

Well Enrique is a great coach and we trust his improvement pattern with this psg squad. He understood the game against Sociedad and he delivered the best result for the team. This kind of result is a big boost for the the team, heading into the last 8 as they won’t be playing under pressure as compared to how Real Sociedad team will be. And this match can be easily predicted as we can see Psg already going past this stage.

 When compared to the Bayern vs Lazio game where the 2nd leg will be quite intensed as Bayern will need to overturn the 1-0 lead of Lazio and try to get a full time win with maximum number of goals. This is going to be a big task for Thomas especially as he’s not used to the attacking play style but I believe he’ll be a level to get past Lazio but I’m concerned about him going past the Quaterfinals.

[shinratensei_]

We are only halfway through the first leg of this round. Next week there are some really attracting games such as Inter - Atletico Madrid and Napoli - Barcelona.

I think both of these games are big candidates to be very competitive and lovely to watch. My favourite sides for these games are Inter and Napoli honestly. I don't think Inter would lose or draw with Atletico Madrid home while they are in a great shape. When it comes to the other game I don't like Barcelona at all this season. They are really weak at defending. This can be a good advantage for Napoli home together with Osimhen's return from AFCON. 

Serie a clubs are having very strong defensive lines this season. It will be very hard for the club from other leagues to beat it. This is the main problem that must be solved as soon as possible. Atletico madrid and barcelona are going to face the big clubs.
Barcelona was always struggling against intermilan but it has pretty good record against napoli but that's only a few match. We don't know what's going to happen with barcelona this season coz it has so many unsolved problems that was also burdening the players to perform better than previous match.
Barcelona will be missing some players like gavi and another advantage for napoli to beat barcelona. The strategy that will be used by barcelona can be identified easily coz barcelona is always putting beautiful football as its philosophy. We can argue that if the best strategy to beat barcelona was through defending straetgy.
It's not my first time to see that how abrcelona was always struggling to beat the parking bus strategy made by mourinho. It's gonna be the most effective way for barcelona to lost some aggregates against napoli. Im hoping napoli to get some aggregates to lead the game.
Playing defensive will be maing barcelona's player feel so desperate to winning the game. The only best strategy can be used by napoli when it played away or home.

[budi691]

We are only halfway through the first leg of this round. Next week there are some really attracting games such as Inter - Atletico Madrid and Napoli - Barcelona.

I think both of these games are big candidates to be very competitive and lovely to watch. My favourite sides for these games are Inter and Napoli honestly. I don't think Inter would lose or draw with Atletico Madrid home while they are in a great shape. When it comes to the other game I don't like Barcelona at all this season. They are really weak at defending. This can be a good advantage for Napoli home together with Osimhen's return from AFCON. 

Barcelona this season cannot be expected to be in the Champions League, they have repeatedly shown something that is not good. Yes, they have felt this problem for a long time, especially when they started to falter in their finances. Now in the Champions League maybe they will be able to go further and get past the round of 16, but after that I increasingly doubt they will be able to get through round after round well.
Napoli this season has declined very much after they managed to become champions last season. A balanced match considering the performance of these two clubs, although personally I still see Barcelona as better than Napoli. The 2 matches between them will be very decisive, and maybe they will beat each other when they play as hosts, either Barcelona or Napoli.

Yes, even though Barcelona's performance is a little disappointing, and Napoli with their new coach has not shown promising performance, I see that both teams have more motivation to qualify for the next round, an interesting match to watch.
a very balanced match, both teams have a fairly balanced history, in my opinion there won't be many goals scored, the 1-0 score that Barcelona will win in the 2nd leg might be the deciding factor, or Napoli could give a surprise by eliminating Barcelona. , If this happens, it will be a bitter farewell for Xavi,

[Jody.Drummer]

Barcelona this season cannot be expected to be in the Champions League, they have repeatedly shown something that is not good. Yes, they have felt this problem for a long time, especially when they started to falter in their finances. Now in the Champions League maybe they will be able to go further and get past the round of 16, but after that I increasingly doubt they will be able to get through round after round well.
Napoli this season has declined very much after they managed to become champions last season. A balanced match considering the performance of these two clubs, although personally I still see Barcelona as better than Napoli. The 2 matches between them will be very decisive, and maybe they will beat each other when they play as hosts, either Barcelona or Napoli.

If in the end the two teams beat each other in two legs then that will definitely result in a lot of goals being scored. It is impossible for there to be only one goal or two goals and both teams will compete with each other to beat the aggregate if they want to qualify. But it doesn't rule out the possibility that in the end both teams will have to go through a penalty shootout to determine their qualification for the next round.

But it is true that the two teams are almost no different, both Barcelona and Napoli are still down with inconsistency results obtained in the domestic league and it is very difficult to bet on the winner. I wouldn't expect more from Barcelona and vice versa for Napoli, regardless of their current situation, they actually won't be able to face their next opponent. Well, it's only the best for these two teams and whoever wins or passes, they should only be able to give a minimum performance.

Maybe their target, both Barcelona and Napoli, is not to be eliminated in this round, because as I said before, in front of them they will definitely face tougher opponents, although we don't know who yet, but if you look at the list of clubs in this round of 16 , it is clear they will face a better prepared opponent. Yes, you are right, it is possible that they will compete with each other to determine who will advance to the next round via penalty shootout.
Barcelona have missed many things, usually they are one of the favorites in the Champions League, but that is not the case this season. Even though some people might consider them, in terms of percentage their chances of becoming champions are below other big clubs who have much better performances, one of which is their rival from La Liga, Real Madrid. Just looking at La Liga now, Real Madrid is not under strong pressure from Barcelona.

[Oluwa-btc]

We are only halfway through the first leg of this round. Next week there are some really attracting games such as Inter - Atletico Madrid and Napoli - Barcelona.

I think both of these games are big candidates to be very competitive and lovely to watch. My favourite sides for these games are Inter and Napoli honestly. I don't think Inter would lose or draw with Atletico Madrid home while they are in a great shape. When it comes to the other game I don't like Barcelona at all this season. They are really weak at defending. This can be a good advantage for Napoli home together with Osimhen's return from AFCON. 

Barcelona defenders lack's communication this season and most times, I do see a player trying to show himself meanwhile, I'm aware he does nothing in that defense for Barcelona.
I hope they finally set him for a good price ams valuation and sell him for the right amount. Barcelona did good last season but couldn't go ahead with it this season. Damnit with them finances otherwise some good ins should have turned things around for them.

Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid would be interesting, I'd say Inter Milan and I want to see how they go through this very round. No predicts for Barcelona and Napoli, I just want to watch and see how the gane flows.

[Weawant]

Yes, even though Barcelona's performance is a little disappointing, and Napoli with their new coach has not shown promising performance, I see that both teams have more motivation to qualify for the next round, an interesting match to watch.
a very balanced match, both teams have a fairly balanced history, in my opinion there won't be many goals scored, the 1-0 score that Barcelona will win in the 2nd leg might be the deciding factor, or Napoli could give a surprise by eliminating Barcelona. , If this happens, it will be a bitter farewell for Xavi,

Napoli hasn't been in their very best form and I would say they are not real looking promising a d same goes to Barcelona aswell but then if we are to see osimhen in the Napoli line up then I can be sure to see surprises surfacing but in the man's time I can't exercise certainty with any of both teams.

Xavi and his boys has always had to concede goals in their domestic league games recently and has not been in the best of their performance and this has made me doubt if they will be able to comfortably get a win over Napoli especially with the fact that they will be hosted by Napoli, they have not been really good with away games in recent times so I see it as it could be challenging for them because even in the weakness of Napoli they still will not want to just loose especially as this is champions league and not any other of their regular domestic league.

[Leviathan.007]

Things are going very good for real madrid right now. Real madrid can still win the game aaginst leipzig away is good enough. Why do we need to expect more if real madrid has already achieved what we wanted? it doesn't even make sense to hear that. I think that rela madrid will be going it even better.
The second leg if gonna happen at home for madrid. it's time for us to make sure we can get madrid to go to the next round. Leipzig will be losing against madrid soon.

I agree with you. Even though it was a 1-0 win, a win is still a win and it will be an advantage for Madrid in the second leg. Real Madrid is the host and has an aggregate goal advantage of 1-0. Madrid is able to perform very well at home and I think it looks like Leipzig no longer has a chance to win. Leipzig is very unlucky because they have to play Madrid in the round of 16 because Madrid is one of the favorites to win the Champions League this season.

After Real Madrid won the first leg, Leipzig will have difficulty facing Real Madrid in the second leg which will be played at Real Madrid proud stadium. Real Madrid's chances of qualifying for the next round are very big, they have two assets ahead of the second leg that are ready to take them to the next phase. Playing at their home ground and having the advantage in the first leg means that Real Madrid does not have the slightest pressure in the second leg, Real Madrid will try to calm down the next match in order to achieve the targets that have been set since the start of the season.

Real Madrid won a narrow 1-0 away match. And I think that will be enough to qualify for the next round. Madrid is very strong in home matches. At the same time, if Bellingham is with the squad in the home match, Madrid's performance will be even stronger.

Madrid's main weapon in the away match was not with the Bellingham squad. Even so, Real Madrid's performance was good enough. Bellingham's substitute Brahim Diaz scored to win the match for Madrid. Beating Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu is challenging for any big team. Leipzig's performance remains erratic. So it is very unlikely that Leipzig will win at the bernabeu.

Regardless of the result Leipzig got against Real Madrid and lost the game with a 1-0 result, I think they are going to have days before the second leg. Leipzig will face Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga and after that, they should face with Bayern Munich which is not going to be easy for them next Bochum and just after that match Leipzig will play the second leg against Real Madrid for the second legend this is a good reason to bet on Real Madrid even winning the second leg easier than the first game.

[beerlover]

After Real Madrid won the first leg, Leipzig will have difficulty facing Real Madrid in the second leg which will be played at Real Madrid proud stadium. Real Madrid's chances of qualifying for the next round are very big, they have two assets ahead of the second leg that are ready to take them to the next phase. Playing at their home ground and having the advantage in the first leg means that Real Madrid does not have the slightest pressure in the second leg, Real Madrid will try to calm down the next match in order to achieve the targets that have been set since the start of the season.

It is clear that Leipzig will find it difficult to turn things around and it will be difficult for them to create a surprise at the Santiago Bernabeu. It's true, Madrid now has valuable capital, namely the aggregate goals in the first leg, however, Ancelotti must warn his squad not to underestimate Leipzig in the second leg. On paper, Madrid can easily reach the quarter finals, so far their performance is still very stable in every competition. The busy match schedule is not a big problem, and the loss of defensive players due to injury can be handled very well by Ancelotti.

I predict that there will be lots of goals scored in the second leg, Madrid will be very difficult for a team like Leipzig to beat. There is indeed a possibility of a draw, but I tend to believe that Madrid will win. Bellingham injury is not a big problem to face a team like Leipzig, Brahim Diaz managed to take the role of replacing him well. I think that when it comes to player rotation, Ancelotti is truly a genius, his various experiments are running perfectly.

Leipzig should have already known that losing to Real Madrid was unavoidable. Sure there has been upsets before in football, but the fact that City is the last years champions, even treble winners, should have been a good enough point for them to realize they are gone. Leipzig should just be happy that they have made it so far and that should be enough for them, not that they did badly so far neither. Just be at UCL again and again, thanks to their Bundesliga position, and just keep at it.

Eventually, they will build a team that will be good enough, and should be able to go for a title one day, maybe. This requires years and years of development, not just one thing, but they need to be consistently there all the time.

[armanda90]

Second batch Champion League knock out round  matches will play on the middle next week, there are have four matches and seems interested with Inter Milan vs Atletico Madrid and Napoli vs Barcelona. First leg match very crucial how to make more comfortable on second leg match, I am very interested with Napoli vs Barcelona match because both teams have bad result in domestic league match.

Is there any possibility that inconsistent performance in the domestic league will have a significant impact on Champions League matches? Napoli last match defeated by AC Milan and Barcelona failed get three points against Granada as relegation team after being held to draw. Barcelona and Napoli have domestic league match before facing each other in Champion League match, will they make significant rotation and keep focus in Champion League first leg match?

• PSV vs Dortmund
• Inter vs Atletico
• Porto vs Arsenal
• Napoli vs Barcelona