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Talking about favorites, we already know the team that will reach the important stages in UEFA Champions League this new season. You're absolutely right about picking Real Madrid, Manchester City, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. The Seria A clubs putting up stunning performance this season in UEFA CL, and other elite competitions. Last season, we had three clubs from Seria A that made it to three finals, and they all got defeated and went home without a single trophy. I guessed this season will be different one, expecting Inter, Juventus and Napoli to pulled a competitive race for UEFA Champions League this season.

I totally agree with your insightful thinking my friend.
Also for me these strong teams you mentioned are the best candidates to win or at least reach the final stages of the UEFA Champions League. We will see, but i think yes.

Barcelona don't seem to be included in this circle, I wonder why anyone still believes Barcelona will be a title candidate team in the Champions League this season. Because the fact is, that Barcelona in the last two seasons always failed in the Champions League. Also Barcelona not only failed in the Champions League, but Barcelona also failed in the Europa League and obviously, it was a bad achievement for Barcelona. Although yeah, Barcelona has a star player in the squad but still, Barcelona still does not have the quality or ability to be a candidate for the title in this Champion League this season. Lol!

Personally, I also don't think that Barcelona is the favorite team for Sirupi, putting the champions. Barcelona team is strong. Their squad is good enough now. However, there is no consistency in their performance. Barcelona's performance is still erratic. The team lacks the ability to consistently perform well in competitive venues like La Liga and the Champions League. However, Barcelona have added Gundagon to strengthen their squad. With the help of Gundagon, Barcelona's midfield will be stronger. If the performance of Fati, Raphinha and Torres improves in the attack, maybe Barcelona can play well in the Champions League. But so far I haven't seen any better performances from Fati, Raphinha and Torres. They perform well in one match. But cannot consistently perform well.

Barcelona's team has performed brilliantly in La Liga for several seasons but have not been able to show their best in the Champions League. But with the kind of performance the team is doing at the beginning of this season, it can be expected that Barcelona will show something great to the fans in the Champions League this time.

Barcelona has indeed performed very well in the LA Liga, but Barcelona has often performed poorly in the past few seasons due to financial factors and injuries to several players which have been the cause of their unlucky UCL. Looking at the current composition of players, Barcelona should be able to perform in the UCL better than last season where they were forced down to the Europa League. The presence of ilkay gundogan as a creative midfielder should be able to present a game that fans miss in their heyday like in 2015

Barcelona needs to try this season to go far in the Champions league because they need to also show that they are capable of lifting this trophy and not only Laliga. The present squad of Barcelona and their playing pattern can fetch them the trophy is the are consistent.

I don't think that it will be easy for them to lift the trophy since we have strong clubs like Real Madrid and Man City who will not easily give up on the race. Gundogan is a good player and he is a good player that will add positive impact to the club performance just like he did in Manchester city.