I don't remember Union Berlin joining the Champions League before. This must be their first time I assume. Therefore they are going to be an inexperienced team in the tournament. However I'm pretty sure they will care about it much more than the Europa League. Because they can increase their income significantly by getting positive results as much as possbile.
They need to get lucky with the draw as well though. If they have a really tough group in which all teams look challenging then Union Berlin might not do much. Even if they drop down to the Europa League at the end it would be great for them anyway.
Union Berlin needs to improve far enough if they want to perform well and be able to compete in the Champions League next season, although they get an easy draw and can qualify for the group phase the knockout stage will certainly be different and difficult to survive when facing other teams who have good experience in this tournament, maybe Union Berlin will focus more on domestic competitions to be able to finish in the top four again while continuing to develop their team more and more It's even better.They need to get lucky with the draw as well though. If they have a really tough group in which all teams look challenging then Union Berlin might not do much. Even if they drop down to the Europa League at the end it would be great for them anyway.
The Europa League may be different but wherever they will compete they have to prepare well and with the same good core and reserve players so there will be no obstacles when rotating skuad because they have to play many games due to competing in several tournaments.
Well, I was actually interested to see if they actually qualified for the Champions League competition previously. I actually googled it and this is actually the first time they have finished in the top four and they are going to play in the Champions League competition. It is going to be very interesting to see how they perform. I think we all can agree that Union Berlin has improved a lot in terms of performance.
It will be understandable if Union Berlin is going to be more interested to perform better in the Bundesliga instead of the Champions League. But I think they should at least try and see how the Champions League competition turns out for them. Of course, even though they have improved, they have not improved in such a way that they will be able to win the Champions League competition. But let’s not underestimate them.