Benfica plays out at Dynam Kiev and is already leading 0-2 while it is only now half-time. It is too early to say that the game is over, but it is clear that the prospects for Benfica are very good. Had a top season in the Champions League last year and now they seem to be qualifying again. If Kiev still wants to have a realistic chance of qualifying, they should not lose this game at home because Benfica has a strong team and a new trainer (Schmit)

I have no idea if Musk is interested in a club, it's a businessman and business, and that doesn't go hand in hand with United. They have enough problems and don't even play champions league this year. Musk can buy almost any company he wants. United is a big name, but from a sporting point of view it is not good. And being completely last after 2 matches is also a good result. I do wonder how much time Ten Hag will have before they intervene. Suppose they have won 1 x and lost 5 x after 6 matches, isn't it time to send them away and get a trainer with a lot of experience? Ferguson could get them out of this lousy situation.

Not many things happen in the CL tonight, but at Rangers PSV we don't have to be bored. There it was 1-1 at half time and now it is already 2-2. I think that will also remain the final score, but it is still a total of 10 minutes, including injury time. If Rangers don't win at home, it will be difficult for them. PSV will continue to the home game with a draw as favorite, but the away goals no longer count. If it becomes 2-2 I think the chances are 65-35% in favor of PSV to qualify for the group stage of the CL.

An extremely disappointing result from Liverpool. That is already the second draw in the competition and Manchester City will continue to win for the time being. I think it will be a very boring season at the top of this year, in other words Manchester City will go for the title without any problems. I think the gap in the winter break will also be very big. For Liverpool it is now a matter of limiting damage and winning some matches. AND what are we to think of United? Lost 2x to mediocre opponents and the game was also bad. Perhaps Ten Hag did not make good purchases from Ajax after all. When you buy players, you draft them right?

A lot of things happen at Verona - Napoli. Napoli led twice and Verona equalized twice. Now Napoli is ahead (2-3) for the third time and still has more than 25 minutes to play. They're not going to give that away for the third time, are they? Napoli have a much better and stronger team than Verona, but really seem to be making it unnecessarily difficult. Enough chances and dominance in the field, but as long as the difference is 1 goal, Verona can still hope. I thought that Napoli would still be an outsider for the title, then you should be able to beat these kind of opponents without any problems.

Real Madrid just have to be one of the favorites again to win the title? There is no other team that has had as much success in the CL in recent years as Real Madrid. And they won last season even without Ronaldo. They have been very lucky in certain matches, but I think that as a good team you can also force luck. then it cannot be a coincidence. It would be too much to say that they are now the top favourite, which is still Manchester City. Although I think Bayern Munich is at least as good on a good day. By the way, the best match I've ever seen in the CL was the Man City - Bayern Munich match, memorized around 2015. They were really great, rarely has a team played as well as then.

There are two games going on in the Tukse highest league and both games it is now half time and in both games the score is 0-0. Very boring. Live streams of these relatively unknown competitions are also not that easy to find. Or your computer is flooded with popups and advertisements. I think there will still be goals in both games, but not very much. Maybe they need to get used to the competition, especially in Turkey it can be very warm around these months towards 40 degrees. Then you don't feel good on the football field.

Bayern Munich are also on their way to another easy win. At halftime it took a little longer for them to appear, but in the end they went into halftime with 2-0 and now it is still 2-0 after 64 minutes. Had actually expected a few goals in the 2nd half, but they have not yet materialized. Maybe they will come, Bayern Munich is a team that can easily score 2 times in 10 minutes. Mainz - Union Berlin was a very boring match and the 0-0 final score is therefore no surprise as far as I am concerned.

At the moment we have seen little spectacle at the Chelsea game against the Spurs, but it is also a nice temperature there, of course. Actually irresponsible to have to play football with such temperatures now. Chelsea are a better team and were better in the first half, but 1-0 is a meager and not a sure score. Tottenham Hotspur is not yet convincing, but many teams do not succeed at Old Trafford either. We'll have to see how it goes in the second half, I don't expect many goals anymore. I'm thinking of something like 2-0 or 2-1 as the final score.

However, it is strange what happened. They literally spent years preparing everything to set up a game schedule. And then a game schedule is set up (which I initially thought it was strange that the organizing country had not been assigned the opening game in the first place) and then you will be told 3 months before the tournament starts that 2 other countries will play the opening game . What can we say? Bad organization goes a long way to say but it is sloppy. And why suddenly Qatar the opening match?

It is typical that things are not going smoothly at Barcelona yet. The club is still 0-0 at halftime, this is not going to be the final score, is it? if they start in Barcelona with a 0-0 draw in a home game against Rayo Vallecano, this could be a very long season. It seems that no substitutions have been made yet. Lewandovski will not be easily impressed by a long 0-0 score. He has often decided matches on his own for Bayern Munich against any opponent. Would Xavi bring in De Jong?

Xavi Simons immediately makes his mark in this team again. He has scored 2 goals and the young star player seems to feel completely at home in this team. PSV looks fresh under the new coach of Nistelrooij and is 2-4 and it will be over in a few minutes. I think PSV and Ajax have just as much chance of becoming champions this season, PSV seem to be much more organized than last season and also in the Champions League this week they were mentally very strong against Monaco. However, we have only had 2 matches so it doesn't say a lot yet.

Do I see that correctly that Frenkie de Jong is not in the base? It is normally undisputed. But due to all the vicissitudes in recent weeks and months, a lot of unrest has arisen within the club. I think that at the moment De Jong doesn't feel like being cheerful and playing football. He will still be able to fill in, but a possible departure of De Jong is certainly a possibility and with that mindset xavi might want to rebuild this team.
This team from Barcelona would be good enough to beat their opponents tonight.

Last week's 1-2 defeat to United does not seem to have been a coincidence. Now they are already 2-0 behind and we have just played 20 minutes. What the hell is going on with this team? We have seen that they have put in good results in the pre-season, but now that it really comes down to it they still drop a lot of stitches and 2-0 behind Brentford is in itself a bad result. If you don't want criticism, you will have to win this match, otherwise it will be for Ten Hag to talk himself out of all the criticism. Against these kinds of opponents you have to win with little preparation.

Success stories are the stories you always hear the most and are only too happy to make the news. How often do you read on a gambling site that someone has won the jackpot or that someone has wagered 1 euro with a return value of 100,000 euros? We do not know the flip side of these stories and are often not reported to us. There are a lot of people who gamble and who end up with an empty bank account, those stories don't make the newspapers and the media. That wouldn't encourage other players either, so it's understandable in a way. It is also a bit of marketing, of course, to see which stories are and are not told.

Nantes is currently leading 1-0 against OSC Lille. We have already seen more surprising (intermediate) positions from the start of the competition. Lille should normally win this match but that will be a difficult story now as we are already in the 2nd half. Little can be seen of the game image of the champion from 2 seasons ago. In any case, PSG do not have to worry again that Lille will take the title. Not that I want to start a whole discussion, but how did it come to be that Lille became champion 2 seasons ago and PSG didn't? Does anyone know what the odds were then to bet on Lille that they would become champions?

People are now pretending all positive reviews are fake. I do not think so. There are plenty of players who play at 1xbit and if you stick to the rules, players will really get paid. Fraudsters are complaining in the forum for betting on rigged matches or actively participating in courtsiding. And then they also expect 1xbit to pay these players while these players are scamming things over and over again. All bookmakers should take tough action against fraudsters and people who cheat. 1xbit can be seen as an example for the gambling industry because they handle this situation very well by handling it this way. A lot more gambling sites should do that. There are many players that play happy with 1xbit.

Mane and Salah seemed to me to be the best 2 African players of the EPL until this season. Now, however, Mane has left so there is no longer any doubt. I think Mane is underestimated by many people. He has often played for Salah. If Liverpool hadn't had mane in all those years, Salah would have been much less noticed and much less successful I suspect. There are still more African players around in the EPL, but none can practically compare to Salah and or Mane until this season. But last season it was just a little less with Salah. In the end, he is still too erratic.

Djokovic will not participate, but how is he going to solve that in the long run? Of course, Covid has been pushed into the background a bit more, but it won't go away completely. So that means that certain countries continue to impose rules to be vaccinated. I would also like to know what exactly is the reason that Djokovic does not get the medicine. He knows it won't make him sick, I have the feeling that this is now purely a matter of principle and he has come to see this as a kind of fight.

PSV's match last Tuesday was the most exciting of the evening. It was to be expected that it would be an even match, Monaco was actually stronger. When Monaco was 1-2, they had even more chances to make the 1-3 and Monaco also hit the post at 2-2. PSV's 3-2 came out of the blue. PSV is not there yet, and has missed the Champion for years. It's a wonder Gakpo is still playing and hasn't gone away. He had the choice of the clubs after all. I think Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, PSG and City are the favorites for the title. It's about time PSG is also what is going to show because there is millions and millions in that without a Cl title. City ditto.