I don’t think Sanji can take an L, tbh. Maybe his fans can, but not the actual character.
Cause if Kizaru or Saturn demolish him, meh, why would I expect otherwise? Bit disappoining, but not exactly wildly surprising. I don’t see a Shanks annihilating Kid moment coming, but if it did, can’t say Sanji’s done much to think anything else would happen.
If he does what I expect and holds off either for a time before being beaten, it’s not really a big deal either way.
If he actually does a bit of damage to Kizaru (doesn’t really matter what happens to Saturn, Franky just blew a hole through him and he was fine) then that’s vastly exceeding expectations.
Zoro can take an L though
I don’t think Zoro vs Lucci is important. I don’t think Oda thinks it’s important either, from the little that’s been shown of if.
My expectation is that when we cut back to the fight Zoro will one-shot with the first actual attack and that Lucci has just been delaying Zoro from his actual role in the end of the arc
If we get an actual chapter called Zoro vs Lucci with a real fight in it, I’ll be pleasantly surprised. I would still expect Zoro to win fairly easily though, a d then to move onto something else with the whole crew. If Lucci actually does some real damage to Zoro, then Zoro’s done poorer than expected for me.
And if Zoro doesn’t actually beat Lucci and the next chapter of them is the two doing a Mihawk Vista and postponing because of the Buster Call, then Zoro has fallen massively below my expectations for him and would need a big finale in the arc (S Hawk or Kizaru being the only likely options) to make up for it.