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Re: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season
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Patrol69
on 04/03/2024, 15:54:51 UTC
It's interesting indeed, because even though Bayern Munich this season will fail to win the Bundsliga trophy but yes, basically Bayern Munich still has good quality if we only compare Bayern Munich with Lazio. But yes,theresult in the first leg was a surprise because apart from losing with a score of 1-0, but in fact that Bayern Munich also had no shots on target at all in the first leg. Therefore, in the first leg it can be concluded that Bayern Munich played very badly or perhaps, Bayern Munich underestimated Lazio too much so that Bayern Munich was not in good focus in that match. So yes, with a very bad result in the first leg, then Bayern Munich should produce a better result in the second leg because Bayern Munich will also be playing at home.

It seems to me that there should be no such thing as underestimating an opponent at the Champions League playoff stage ,any team that was able to pass the group stage should by default be an opponent that is worthy of respect. Bayern simply were not ready for Lazio to play so well in defense, I think this is the main reason. But Bayern have the second leg where they will have a chance to turn things around, the difficulty for them may be, that their defense is not the best, and if Lazio can score again and try to play just as well in defense then there could be a sensation.
Tuchel has failed to bring Munich to win the title in the Bundesliga, it seems they only have a chance in the second leg, Munich must be able to win to convince everyone that Munich is still a club to be reckoned with in the UCL, since experiencing poor results in the domestic league made everyone feel less confident in supporting Munich because they have not performed well recently and disappointed all their supporters because the results were not really satisfactory in the domestic league.

Tuchel must be able to pressure his team to play more aggressively even though Lazio's defense is quite difficult to penetrate, just like in the first leg which made it difficult for Munich to score a goal in return, in the end they had to recognize Lazio's strength and admit their defeat, where Lazio deserved to win, I don't know in the second leg match whether Tuchel will apply the same playing style and strategy as the previous second leg match, of course if there are no changes then it will be difficult to win the second leg match later, all eyes will see how Tuchel convinces everyone that Munich can rise.
Bayern is not performing as expected from people. Their performance is not as good as we thought it is, for them to be able to win the match, they must come up with a game pattern that will be able to  breakthrough Lazio defense, so that they can score as many goal as possible. Apart from this, it will be difficult for them to score Lazio, who have love for defensive game.

I think that is Lazio's own strategy that they have come up with, so that they can use it to send Bayern packing from the league. On the one hand, Bayern should not be underestimated because they lost the first leg in Italy. Germany is their home, and we know how clubs use to be very strong when they are playing at home, and they do make use of home matches as an advantage to win any of their visitors. Lazio is leading, but they can still lose, and not qualify to the next round. This is why if Bayern needs the ticket to the next round, they need to make sure they will the match.
At the start of the season, Bayern Munich have not been able to perform as much as the fans talked about and expected from this team.  Bayern Munich built a team to win the Champions League tournament but for some reason this team is not performing very well. Bayern Munich have strengthened every position and then assembled the team and the players in each position are good quality players but despite having such good quality players it remains to be seen how this team will do in the Champions League. This team is not performing well in their own league, so it goes without saying that their next rounds in the Champions League will be much more difficult. There are good quality players in the team so the manager needs to show them the best strategy to make them perform well. If the quality players can play the best strategy then this team can definitely come back.