Currently, through Arteta's statement, it seems that Arsenal will continue to look for players, especially those participating in the world cup this time, to continue to make them stronger. and indeed this is a good thing, especially since we also know that they have to do something like this in order to continue to strengthen them on every front.
On the other hand, I quite agree with what you said about hoping they find a team that can be said to be easy to face in the draw later, especially if you look at the current condition of the Europa League, it is quite scary because it is filled with several big clubs.
In fact, with many players playing in the world cup, it provides its own advantages because their physical condition is maintained during the one month competition break, but on the one hand, Arteta must also be aware of the condition of players who return to the club later suffer injuries and have to change the composition of the players, especially Arsenal in their performance. which is pretty good at the moment.
Arsenal need waiting for drawing against team on Europe League at next round because waiting result on play off matches, have several team need pass on play off round and Arsenal can't expected which one opponent. Currently Arsenal have ready which one opponent team for next round with consistent performance I believe with Arsenal chance get Europe League trophy in this season.
You have to see my previous post because I have already discussed the problem of injury there and indeed the anticipation is that at this time it seems that Arteta will return to bring several players to the Emirates Stadium in a later transfer and currently there are several players who have been linked with Arsenal even though it is still a rumor. .
On the other hand, for the play-offs, they still have to wait, especially since there are several great clubs that have dropped out of the Champions League, so this is still something to watch out for, especially between Barcelona and Manchester United, the one who wins there will definitely be a champion candidate too.
The truth is that I had also thought the same for me the champion is between these two teams, of course this is something that we could say for now, we do not know if new players will enter or leave in January, well when the transfer window begins there are already many movements that will produce relative changes in the teams and will be quite beneficial for glunos, another team that I see that can be prepared very well will be Juve and Roma, since they are Italian teams that will have everything to come out with a good victory, I have seen improvement in these teams, they have very good players who can make a difference, I think that is the secret of everything.
Manchester United's performance in the group stage was really good? I don't think so. Although Manchester United won 5 out of 6 matches. But they have to fight hard to win every match. Even against comparatively weaker teams, they cannot dominate the match. If they can't dominate against weak teams, how can Manchester United win against big teams like Barcelona or Arsenal?
However, whether the Manchester United team is worthy of winning the title will be proved in their upcoming matches. Manchester United will undoubtedly become favorites to win the Europa League if they beat Barcelona.
I would say if you won 5 out of 6, no matter how you played, that should be considered as you played good and that's enough. I know it is not going to be that much convincing to just say that, but at the same time it doesn't need to be convincing, it just needs to be as good as possible for them to be there.
In the end, United will face Barcelona and they are a great team so they could of course end up losing to Barcelona, that's understandable, but that wouldn't mean that they were bad so far, they were amazing in europa and played very well. Sure some of the teams were weaker and it was harder than it suppose to, but they got the win in the end anyway.
Personally I don't like Manchester United's performance. They won though. But their performance was not satisfactory. I was not happy with their performance as they could not dominate even against a weaker team.
As they will play against Barcelona in the next match, it will be very difficult for them to win this match. If United could dominate every game in the group stage, I'd say they'd be able to beat Barcelona too. Besides, Manchester United's performance in the Premier League is not good. United is quite weak compared to Barcelona. And so I don't think United will be able to win against Barcelona.
For me, both teams are very deficient, they are not at the level they should be, especially Manchester United, Barcelona are known to be going through a very difficult process, where most of the blame in regards to me would be placed on Xavi, but nevertheless, I can point out that they are currently first in the League, which for me is something temporary, because teams like Real Madrid can surpass them, in the Europa League they have to do very well, it is the only option Who do they have to stand out, I see it as very difficult, at this point I would be thinking that both Barcelona and Manchester are at the same level.