UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season

[armanda90]

Of course, all the teams who qualify for the next round are the strong teams. If they are not strong enough, they must be eliminated already.
However, I think there are some favorite teams to got to the final round because we see their performance looks more consistent than other teams. Man City, Bayern Munich, and Real Madrid are 3 teams to be in the final based on the prediction of many people. But if we look at the result of the matches in the current round, only Bayern Munich and Man City deserve to be the favorite teams. Real Madrid looked a bit difficult to win against Leipzig, not sure if they can deal with the next opponent. It seems, the most convincing team is Man City. Will Man City be the champion again this season?  




Source: uefa.com

The quarter final qualified are strong teams and had impressive performance since group phase until 16 of round, left few hours later before quarter final match drawing and expected which the super big match are there any Spanish team will face each other on this round regarding they have three teams qualified to quarter final.
Indeed Manchester City had impressive performance since group phase until 16 round I don't sure they are favorite team, I want to see Manchester City have to face Bayern Munich or PSG on quarter final.
Regarding with quarter final teams left seems Dortmund is the only one weakness teams and most expected by all team face in quarter final, most lucky if quarter final drawing face with Dortmund than facing other difficult teams such as Madrid, Barcelona or Manchester City.

[SeriouslyGiveaway]

Atletico Madrid should never be underestimated when it comes to big tournaments like the Champions League and Europa League.
The equalizing goal by Griezmann was a little bit lucky, the Inter Milan defender should have cleared the ball far away, but he missed and Griezmann was at the right place in the right time. It seems to me that the Inter players weren't prepared for the penalties, while the Atletico players had trained penalties before the match.

The psychology of facing decisive penalties is never easy. Training only supports their technique, but the stress factor is something that we can feel only after the match takes place. Same with yesterday's match, I clearly saw the tension of the Inter players when taking penalty kicks. Maybe letting Atletico come back in the last minutes greatly affected the psychology of Inter players. Simeone is still too cunning in developing his playing style for Atletico, they still calmly play when they were ahead by Inter. It must also be added that in this match, Inter lost their own victory when they had a 2-goal lead but could not maintain their defensive style of play. They had 2 situations facing the goalkeeper at the last minute, but unfortunately both Thuram and Barella missed out.

[Barikui1]

Of course, all the teams who qualify for the next round are the strong teams. If they are not strong enough, they must be eliminated already.
However, I think there are some favorite teams to got to the final round because we see their performance looks more consistent than other teams. Man City, Bayern Munich, and Real Madrid are 3 teams to be in the final based on the prediction of many people. But if we look at the result of the matches in the current round, only Bayern Munich and Man City deserve to be the favorite teams. Real Madrid looked a bit difficult to win against Leipzig, not sure if they can deal with the next opponent. It seems, the most convincing team is Man City. Will Man City be the champion again this season?  




Source: uefa.com

The quarter final qualified are strong teams and had impressive performance since group phase until 16 of round, left few hours later before quarter final match drawing and expected which the super big match are there any Spanish team will face each other on this round regarding they have three teams qualified to quarter final.
Indeed Manchester City had impressive performance since group phase until 16 round I don't sure they are favorite team, I want to see Manchester City have to face Bayern Munich or PSG on quarter final.
Regarding with quarter final teams left seems Dortmund is the only one weakness teams and most expected by all team face in quarter final, most lucky if quarter final drawing face with Dortmund than facing other difficult teams such as Madrid, Barcelona or Manchester City.

Among this team listed here, I think the most likely winners of this year uefa champions league is between Manchester city, Real madrid and Bayern Munich, because even if they are not doing that well, you can't take your eyes off them because Bayern Munich is a force in European football, underrate them at your own cost.

And as for the likes of arsenal, psg and  atletico madrid, I know that on their day, they are actually good, but I don't think they have all it takes to go all the way and take this title away from the likes of Manchester city, real madrid and Bayern Munich, I just feels like they are not good enough for such a task now, but they are going to play an important role on who is going to win it this year.

[klidex]

Arsenal is good, but I don't see them carrying the champions league, The leagu is still much open ended. There are stronger teams in the competitions and these teams are still waxing strong and poses a great threat to their existence in the competition because they have more champions league experience and are in a good form too. I love to believe that Arsenal FC has broken the deadlock of not being able to cross UCL quarter finals for the first time in very many years. I wish them the very best, but i still don't see them lifting the trophy, Maybe I can be wrong, so I'll love them to prove me wronng This time around.

Arsenal is indeed performing well, especially in the Premier League, but in the Champions League I think Arsenal is still having a little difficulty because the level of competition is more difficult, especially since there are still big clubs who have good experience in the Champions League. I think Arsenal only has a small chance, because Manchester City , Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are still quite difficult rivals for Arsenal to overcome in this competition, unless two of them have been eliminated and Arsenal is still in this big competition then they have a big chance. Especially if Manchester City and Arsenal finally reach the final and meet, I think Arsenal could break Manchester City like their previous meeting in the domestic league.

But yes, this is just speculation, we also want unexpected surprises so that the Champions League will be interesting to watch, I also want to see Arsenal reach the best level in the Champions League like Manchester City last season who won the treble winners. Who knows, Arsenal also has a chance to get it even though the chance is a little small in the Champions League.

[BlackBoss_]

The Champions League always presents surprises, so it is difficult to predict who will win the trophy this season, we will wait to see how the draw for the quarter-finals turns out first. Manchester City, Real Madrid and Arsenal should be considered as the main candidates, followed by Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Barcelona, PSG and Atletico Madrid.

I really don't classify Arsenal as one of best candidates to win Champions League. Manchester City, Real Madrid are best candidates and I even think Bayern Munich belong to this group.

Clubs like Arsenal, Barcelona, Dortmund will have less chance to win as they have less experience or have worse squads than these best candidates.

All the teams that have qualified for the quarter-finals are the strongest teams so far, even though some of them are not very consistent in their Domestic League, but we have seen that some of these teams are able to create surprises, experience and mentality in dealing with pressure is very decisive in Champions League.

Being qualified for quarter finals, it is not true if we say any team are a weak one. They are strong enough to go to this round and knock out matches provide weaker team chances to win against a stronger team in one or two direct matches.

Arsenal are even stronger than Barcelona and they are a best underdog in quarter finals.

[el kaka22]

I feel like Arsenal one was pretty close, but many assumed that Arsenal would win that game anyway, and the fact that they still won, even though harder than anticipated, makes it a bit different than this one. It was definitely an insane ending, there is really no doubt that it was one of "those" games.

In this one, Inter has been going so well all season long, and they were expected to win this one as well. The fact that it went to penalties and then the team people didn't expected to win ended up winning makes this legs best game. Simeone is a great manager, like him or hate him this dude manages to put his team to overachieving one way or another and that is why he has been at the helm for so long at the same club.

[bering]

Yes, Arsenal had to fight hard to get a place in the quarter-finals, but I think they deserved to win it. Arteta managed to take his team to the quarter-finals and he became the other Spanish manager to reach that stage. Previously, Pep Guardiola, Xavi and Luis Enrique had reached the quarter-finals and we hope that the competition between these managers will be presented in the quarter-finals.

Arteta should focus his attention to the champions league. Arsenal need to win a champions league title. It is the most important title for them in my opinion. They have never won it. Winning the champions league will give Arsenal fans the bragging rights they need to get back at their rivals in the premier league.

Winning trophy is a bonus and arsenal must be going to the final first. It's too early in talking about the possibility of arsenal to win the trophy since this one being unfavored to win the trophy this season. City and real madrid are still holding the biggest chances to win the UCL trophy this season.
Arsenal needs to go to the semi final first before we can continue to talk how big arsenal's possibility to win UCL this season. Club needs able to perform even better compared to the last time when arsenal played in UCL. Arsenal was unable going to the current round last time and team is just showing another improvment happened to the club.
It's very good for arteta to put all of his focus into the UCL and EPL. Arsenal is leading the way to get EPL trophy but UCL seems still very far for the club to get it. It sounds too good to be true for arsenal to win UCL this season. Being able to play in the final will be good enough for the club.

Arsenal indeed have to hard struggling to eliminate Porto because seems Porto is not weak opponent for Arsenal even this team can successfully to pushing Arsenal to playing until 120 minutes before they can win through an penalty shoot out and i will looking forward to see how far Arsenal will go in this competition because in Premier League Arsenal probably can recognized as strong team especially in the last 2 season Arsenal always be joining with Manchester City for race title but i personally still considers Arsenal is not strong team in Champion League especially under Arteta Arsenal was never performing well at European Competitions

But at least Arsenal under Arteta had just make a history that finally after 14 years always be stuck at round of 16 finally Arsenal can advances again to the quarterfinal so this is impressive progress from Arsenal but indeed Arsenal is not a strong team in Champion league because just like i said above Arsenal have never won a trophy in this competition before and so far Arsenal highest achievement is when they can able to reach to final match on season 2005/2006 but unfortunately at that time Arsenal have to lost from Barcelona

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Winning trophy is a bonus and arsenal must be going to the final first. It's too early in talking about the possibility of arsenal to win the trophy since this one being unfavored to win the trophy this season. City and real madrid are still holding the biggest chances to win the UCL trophy this season.
Arsenal needs to go to the semi final first before we can continue to talk how big arsenal's possibility to win UCL this season. Club needs able to perform even better compared to the last time when arsenal played in UCL. Arsenal was unable going to the current round last time and team is just showing another improvment happened to the club.
It's very good for arteta to put all of his focus into the UCL and EPL. Arsenal is leading the way to get EPL trophy but UCL seems still very far for the club to get it. It sounds too good to be true for arsenal to win UCL this season. Being able to play in the final will be good enough for the club.

Arsenal main focus at the moment is to improve their game, indeed so far Arsenal performance in the league has been very good and managed to score many goals, but for the Champions League it seems that they must be able to improve their mentality and performances to be even better because the competition in the Champions League is tighter, currently the Champions League League leaves a strong and experienced team,  So Arteta should have used the experience against Porto as a lesson, I think Porto was a slightly weak team in the last 16 yesterday but Arsenal had to work hard enough to beat him and get here, and now they are awaited by a team that is maybe 3 times stronger than Porto.

At the moment Arsenal should not talk about trophies or even qualify for the final, because indeed their position is a little difficult and better for Arsenal to continue to focus on improving their performance ahead of the quarter-final match later, because surely Arsenal will also not be able to avoid big teams like Manchester City and Madrid in the Champions League in drawing later.

[Agbamoni]

For a team like Arsenal who haven't been in the Champions league for 8 years now. They do not really know how things works out in the semifinals, quarter finals to move to the finals. All they have in their mind now is that they would play very well to win any team they are giving to play in the semifinals. It is not an easy one for them in this UCL. Porto gave them a tough time, and the remaining team that qualified is stronger and better to do them more than what they enocuntered with Porto.

Football is all about expreicne sometime. In my opinion i want them to have this expereince playing with Barca, Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Athletico Madrid, Manchester City and Real Madrid in this competition. Even they may not qualify for the semi finals. I just pray they give them Dortumund yet in this Quarter final so that there may be hope for them. As i believed Dortmund is the weakest among all of them followed by PSG.

[Velvet78]

Why avoid them? It's like finding yourself in a battle field right in front of your enemies, it's either you draw out your sword and fight it you'd see yourself burnt down or die by the sword.
It's football you see, they might have been the best so far but they're humans just like myself, only if everyone on the pitch would take responsibility for himself, then they can take on any of these supposed strong and hot sides to play.

Most likely to leave the next round are Barcelona, Paris Saint Germany and lastly, Borrussia Dortmund. The Champions League team of the week came out and I had no much issues with some of the names mentioned.
Props to Atletico Madrid, I did voted against them though.

I wouldn't also expect Simeone to be afraid of an earlier challenge against such title contenders. Atletico Madrid have already played a lot against Real Madrid with Simeone. He knows how to play against Real Madrid to increase their chance for the semi finals. They already beat Real Madrid twice this season which should be also taken into account. 

When it comes to Manchester City they are also a team that Atletico Madrid faced in the Champions League like two years ago. I remember how much Manchester City struggled about eliminating them. It was like 1-0 on aggregate.    Therefore Atletico Madrid don't need to be afraid at all.

[len01]

Arsenal main focus at the moment is to improve their game, indeed so far Arsenal performance in the league has been very good and managed to score many goals, but for the Champions League it seems that they must be able to improve their mentality and performances to be even better because the competition in the Champions League is tighter, currently the Champions League League leaves a strong and experienced team,  So Arteta should have used the experience against Porto as a lesson, I think Porto was a slightly weak team in the last 16 yesterday but Arsenal had to work hard enough to beat him and get here, and now they are awaited by a team that is maybe 3 times stronger than Porto.

At the moment Arsenal should not talk about trophies or even qualify for the final, because indeed their position is a little difficult and better for Arsenal to continue to focus on improving their performance ahead of the quarter-final match later, because surely Arsenal will also not be able to avoid big teams like Manchester City and Madrid in the Champions League in drawing later.

all of this depends on Arteta as the coach who manages Arsenal to be able to maintain the physical and fitness of the players and as long as Arteta can rotate players very wisely, Arsenal will certainly be a little more likely to continue to advance to the final round, but I'm not sure.
In this quarter final round, all the teams that qualified were big teams with very good quality performance and quite good experience, but even so, Arsenal still had the opportunity to get a ticket to the final round even though they had to play a difficult match.
and on the one hand it is true what you say that all of this will also depend on the draw of the opponents in this quarter final round because if they face a team of higher quality I am sure Arsenal will fail in the quarter finals this time.

[Luzin]

and on the one hand it is true what you say that all of this will also depend on the draw of the opponents in this quarter final round because if they face a team of higher quality I am sure Arsenal will fail in the quarter finals this time.

In a few minutes, these 8 teams that qualified are all good. Arsenal need hard work, they have made new history.  But if they meet big teams like Madrid, City, Munich and Barcelona it seems difficult. But I think Arsenal's chances are still wide open. They just have to work hard and be confident for the next game. Actually I didn't expect there to be a final in this phase (a strong team match). This is because I don't like boring finals.

[topbitcoin]

Arteta should focus his attention to the champions league. Arsenal need to win a champions league title. It is the most important title for them in my opinion. They have never won it. Winning the champions league will give Arsenal fans the bragging rights they need to get back at their rivals in the premier league.

Focusing on the Champions League does not mean they can become champions in the Champions League especially this is the first season after their long absence in the Champions League which will definitely make this more difficult than imagined especially by looking at what is happening now where the quarter-finals this time are not easy names because currently only the best clubs remain in each major league in Europe.

The Bundesliga takes 2 positions where the regular clubs Bayern and Dortmund are still quite formidable.
La Liga is also the same with their regular clubs where the 3 big clubs Barcelona are back again after 2 seasons out of the Champions league as well as Madrid and Atletico.
PSG as a representative of Ligue 1 also made it to the quarter-finals after previously in the last 2 seasons they failed in the last 16 and the remaining 2 EPL clubs where Manchester City who won the previous trophy and the newcomer, Arsenal.
At the moment looking at the name of the club and the experience of the last few seasons it looks like Arsenal is the most recent to experience the Champions League and it is clearly troublesome if their target is the champion because it is a complicated situation that is a little difficult to happen.

[ndutndut]

I wouldn't also expect Simeone to be afraid of an earlier challenge against such title contenders. Atletico Madrid have already played a lot against Real Madrid with Simeone. He knows how to play against Real Madrid to increase their chance for the semi finals. They already beat Real Madrid twice this season which should be also taken into account. 

When it comes to Manchester City they are also a team that Atletico Madrid faced in the Champions League like two years ago. I remember how much Manchester City struggled about eliminating them. It was like 1-0 on aggregate.    Therefore Atletico Madrid don't need to be afraid at all.

After seeing Atlitico Madrid succeed in getting rid of Inter Milan, I have no doubt about Atlitico Madrid's ability this season in the UCL League, they will be ready to face any team. Because Inter Milan is not an easy team, we know that Inter is a very strong team this season, in contrast to Atletico Madrid who are inconsistent, especially in the domestic league, but they managed to beat Inter Milan which was truly extraordinary. Of course, this victory makes Simeone have confidence in the next round, whoever his opponent is, even though he has to meet a team challenging for the UCL title.

Because Atletico Madrid actually has a good squad, but lacks consistency, it has proven capable of beating Real Madrid twice this season. Of course, in the UCL League, Atletico Madrid must be considered a team capable of surprising the favorite team. I personally really hope that Atletico Madrid meets Man City in the last eight, because sometimes Atletico Madrid's tough play makes the match even more exciting with its players acting to provoke their opponents and it is not impossible that Man City with its luxurious squad will be eliminated by Atletico this time.

[Inwestour]

In a few minutes, these 8 teams that qualified are all good. Arsenal need hard work, they have made new history.  But if they meet big teams like Madrid, City, Munich and Barcelona it seems difficult. But I think Arsenal's chances are still wide open. They just have to work hard and be confident for the next game. Actually I didn't expect there to be a final in this phase (a strong team match). This is because I don't like boring finals.

Now I’m also waiting for the draw to begin, it’s already started, and the first pair:
Arsenal - Bayern

This is a very interesting pairing, I hope Bayern can beat Arsenal, they with Porto didn’t look very good. And here is the second pair:
Atletico Madrid - Borussia Dortmund

Well, it looks like Simione was lucky in the quarterfinals, I think that Dortmund will not be able to beat Atletico. And the third pair:
Real - City

OMG this match is worthy of a final, I think that the winner in this pair will become the champion. And the last couple:
PSG - Barcelona

Here I will give preference to PSG, because Barca is not in the best shape now, but PSG is in excellent shape, I think that Enrique is also very familiar with Barcelona.

[Distraction]

The way they fought back last night was incredible! Simeone is really one of the special managers.

It makes you wonder why they got so defensive in a match sometimes, even against team that are not favorites in the competition they're fighting for in the past.

Yeah Simeone makes his team play much more different sometimes. He actually loves the defensive play quite much. The structure of Atletico Madrid squad has also been built according to this for years. However in my opinion it is really boring to watch Atletico Madrid showing a defense-oriented game. Maybe this helps quite a lot in some big matches but it isn't much appealing to viewers. 

Simeone's system has resemblances to Mourinho's. But if we compare two sides I guess Mourinho has adopted defensive game plan more than him in his coach career.

[Strongkored]

Arsenal vs Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich is the favorite even though they are always said to not be very good this season but facing Arsenal they should be able to handle it well, but vigilance must still be maintained because Arsenal is filled with young players who are motivated to go further in this competition.

Manchester City vs Real Madrid This will be the most fierce and anticipated match, it could be said that the ideal final happens early, their meeting should have occurred in the semifinals, if City were knocked out it would be very disappointing for them.

Atletico Madrid vs Borussia Dortmund, this will be an even match and quite difficult to predict, both teams are not very good in their respective leagues but football often surprises

PSG vs Barcelona, this will also be a match that is quite difficult to predict, if PSG can perform well it looks like they will go to the semifinal

https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/draws/

[Oluwa-btc]

For a team like Arsenal who haven't been in the Champions league for 8 years now. They do not really know how things works out in the semifinals, quarter finals to move to the finals. All they have in their mind now is that they would play very well to win any team they are giving to play in the semifinals. It is not an easy one for them in this UCL. Porto gave them a tough time, and the remaining team that qualified is stronger and better to do them more than what they enocuntered with Porto.

Football is all about expreicne sometime. In my opinion i want them to have this expereince playing with Barca, Bayern Munich, Dortmund, Athletico Madrid, Manchester City and Real Madrid in this competition. Even they may not qualify for the semi finals. I just pray they give them Dortumund yet in this Quarter final so that there may be hope for them. As i believed Dortmund is the weakest among all of them followed by PSG.

It seems like the Champions League draws are out already? Arsenal against Bayern Munich? WTF? Are we seeing another 10-2 aggregate results? I can't wait for these honestly. Arsenal anyways are poor in the Champions League, I don't need talk much about it because Bayern Munich are bigger and better options in this Competition.
Gunner's did so well against Porto though, they tried to keep the scores. Shout out to David Rays, he has really been a good man for them at the back. He was criticized earlier this season after some errors but he got the backing of the manager and players to get back tod a good form.

Real Madrid against Manchester City test again? Damnit!! As for the game between Atletico Madrid and Borrussia Dortmund, the Germans should kiss the Champions League goodbye already because they'd be knocked out. I predicted both Paris Saint Germans and Barcelona to be out soon but here they're facing each other. Lol.

[Weawant]

In a few minutes, these 8 teams that qualified are all good. Arsenal need hard work, they have made new history.  But if they meet big teams like Madrid, City, Munich and Barcelona it seems difficult. But I think Arsenal's chances are still wide open. They just have to work hard and be confident for the next game. Actually I didn't expect there to be a final in this phase (a strong team match). This is because I don't like boring finals.

I agree with you talking about the strength and capacity of all the teams that got to qualify for the quarter finals of the champions league, a critical examination into their performance and you will agree that they all didn't have it easy as they all played a some worth rough game to get through to this stage, although they dis scaled through but it was actually their hard work and resilience.

Some of them like Arsenal did faces a team that was presumed before now not to be such that will caused them much problem but after the first leg they understood that in the champions league there's actually no big or small team as any team can actually get to our preform any team at the slightest opportunity given them so underestimating any team in the champions league will only be to your own detriment, port almost caused Arsenal the champions league but they buckled up so did Barcelona and Napoli after the first leg Barcelona became better.

The next stage of the champions league is actually going to be really interesting because all the team in this current stage are so determined to win the champions league, except for Real Madrid who's still got their domestic league to fall back at if they loose the champions league, most of the teams at this stage has got only the champions league as their hope for a trophy especially Barcelona and Dortmund.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Now I’m also waiting for the draw to begin, it’s already started, and the first pair:
Arsenal - Bayern

I believe every match in the quarter finals will be very competitive. The teams are almost equally strong in every match.

Bayern Munich's performance has been somewhat erratic. However, the team performed well in the second leg match. On the other hand Arsenal team is strong. Arsenal are also fighting for the Premier League title this season. Beating Arsenal against Bayern Munich is certainly very challenging.

This is a very interesting pairing, I hope Bayern can beat Arsenal, they with Porto didn’t look very good. And here is the second pair:
Atletico Madrid - Borussia Dortmund

It is impossible to predict the performance of Atletico Madrid. Atletico Madrid's performance against Inter Milan in the first leg match was poor. However, in the match of the second leg, Atletico Madrid showed great dominance against Inter Milan. I consider Atletico Madrid as the favorite against Dortmund.

Well, it looks like Simione was lucky in the quarterfinals, I think that Dortmund will not be able to beat Atletico. And the third pair:
Real - City

This is the most competitive match of Champions League quarter finals. Because Madrid and City were hot favorites for this year's Champions League title. We thought these two teams would meet in the final or semi-final. One of the two giants will be eliminated in the quarter-finals. The chances of both teams winning this match are 50-50.

OMG this match is worthy of a final, I think that the winner in this pair will become the champion. And the last couple:
PSG - Barcelona

The overall situation of Barcelona and PSG is also very similar. Neither team is weak, but both have erratic performances. And I would say the performance of both teams depends on a particular player. If Lewandowski plays well, Barcelona's chances of winning will increase, while Mbappe's performance will increase PSG's chances of winning.