Real Betis are through last 16 round once again indeed. It has become pretty much a habit for them in the recent years as well. Because they were able to achieve the same success in the previous two seasons too. However in none of them they were able to make it to upper rounds. We will see whether they can do it this time. But they were really unlucky with draws in both of those seasons at the same time. In the previous season they faced Manchester United in their good times and the Red Devils destroyed them. Before that season they faced Frankfurt which ended up being the champions too.  |
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Bayern Munich are surely expected to do much more than the previous season. Because especially after Harry Kane's arrival there is a big difference in this team. I wouldn't like to overlook Tuchel of course don't get me wrong. He is also able to apply his system successfully after being given some more time. Now Bayern Munich should technically be able to be competitive in the Champions League as well. But so far I'm not convinced with what I have seen from them. But maybe they are keeping their best performance to later rounds who knows.  |
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Manchester United are said to have plans to sign Antoine Griezmann in January by offering a really profitable deal for him. They are said to be planning to offer 435k euros per week which would be nearly double his weekly salary now. Marca says like it is triple the amount he earns now but as far as I can see he earns 240k euros per week.
Anyway even if this attracts Griezmann's attention I don't feel like Atletico Madrid would let him go in the first place. Because he is at home now and showing a really valuable performance to the team. I don't even expect Griezmann to leave in January while Atletico Madrid are in a much better condition than the Red Devils.
Antonio Griezmann has been Atletico Madrid best player this season amongst Alvaro Morata who have both seen themselves scoring a joint Fifteen good goals in the Spanish League. Diego Simeone already expressed how much of a core player he has been to the club this season nad how he was meant to play for Atletico Madrid. He should have their DNA intact! Why not offer same contract to a much younger, talented and skillful Kylian Mbappe? Kylian Mbappe would be a better player for Manchester United to consider than Antonio Griezmann who has aged and doesn't have that energy for Manchester United. Manchester needs to also build around the youngest and best players around the world. Manchester United can of course make the best offer they can for Mbappe. However I don't know what the board are planning exactly. Besides even if they meet Mbappe's demands about money I don't know whether he would still like to prefer the Red Devils to for example Real Madrid these days. Because there is a huge difference now. Mbappe would like to be playing for a winner team from now on if he leaves PSG. I mean they are winning the Ligue 1 title regularly of course. But it isn't the same as winning the Champions League title. |
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The first game lost to Borrussia Dortmund wasn't expected, they was at home and gave out three points, they be making claims of injuries but they didn't talk about it when they won against Arsenal ( With a goal that wasn't worth it )
The second game they was shit, Borrussia Dortmund bossed them down in midfied, they tried to go through the wings and was outplayed. Injuries might be part of the issues though, a lot of pressure comes with the Champions League and European Competitions.
Last season, they was the best defending club in the Premier League.
They'll be hosting the blues who had a disastrous season which affected every single players mentality in that club. Chelsea have found themselves to an extent under Pochetino, even if we do feel like, he's not the right man for the job.
The blues have done quite well against Clubs we felt they shouldn't have. Good game for them there.
This is another game I see the blues winning. Newcastle has always be toxic at home when facing Chelsea, but I'm tryna be positive over a win here for the blues.
Seeing news of Luke Shaw returning to training and Lisandro Martinez got me hard ASF! These are the defenders alongside Rapheal Varane that brought a huge boost to Manchester United defense. Aaron Wan Bisakka included, with Harry Maguire in a good mental state now, I think Manchester United can comfortably attack from the defense.
The first game against Dortmund was really unfortunate indeed. They wasted important goal opportunities. There were shots hitting the post. But in the second game they were just inadequate. They tried to do something in the second half of the game but it was in vain once again. At least I want to see a fighter in them during the season. Every team can have poorer time periods but the key thing is to put an end to it as soon as possible. Newcastle have been doing a really good job with the current squad for two seasons. I hope they can maintain that level with Eddie Howe. They are actually very rich but for now they can't just turn into a team like Manchester City in a short time. |
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I have learned about Rudi Garcia's departure from Napoli newly. I got really surprised as well because it seems like everything happened so quickly. Now Walter Mazzarri has taken over and I'm quite curious about how good Napoli will be from now on. He has a history with managing this team many years ago at the same time.
Those times weren't too bad as far as I remember so this is why I'm curious about him now too. If he manages the team at a level between Rudi Garcia and Spalletti then I think the board would be okay with him to move on to another season.
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You misunderstood me. Of course I don't mean that they did it intentionally. I mean they lost some points in the La Liga matches while they were doing amazing things in the Champions League. Why would they do this intentionally? Why would I mean such thing man?  Anyway I don't know how much longer they can go on in the Champions League. But remembering what Villarreal did a couple of seasons ago here I wonder whether we would see a similar success by Real Sociedad as well. Because those were the words you used  But it's ok if you clarify afterwards, thanks for doing it. But believe me I am sometimes shaking my head when I read the comments here about how some teams "intentionally" lose games in one competition in order to be ready to focus on another competition and I am repeatedly saying that this is bullshit. No team would do that and no coach would give the order to the players to play with less intensity unless they can afford it because they lead the table by many points. But otherwise every player will take the league seriously. Some here said that players would neglect the Champions League to play better in the league... Of course, a player is living the dream playing in the Champions League but plays bad to have more energy for the domestic league. I don't know how people can come up with that. As "sacrifice" has two meanings which are intentional and unintentional I hoped that I would be clear about my words. But I should have chosen a better word for that, apologies. When it comes to the fact that you mentioned I really agree with that. Sometimes people indicate it like teams are just overlooking a tournament while focusing on another. I mean there is no way they would do that. Because while you have a chance to have a better achievement why would you turn down one of them? |
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Vallecano are holding a psychological advantage in hand because of that. In addition to that Real Madrid couldn't do better than drawing with Vallecano not long ago as well. Combining all of this it seems a little risky to bet on Barcelona here.  Yes, maybe Gavi's injury will have a big effect on Barcelona. They rely on Gavi in the middle and he always featured in the first 11 players (starting eleven). Maybe Xavi should think about starting to look for new players because I got the news that Gavi will take a long time to heal. Historically, Barca have always struggled against Rayo, but that's just a statistic. There is always a miracle before the game is over. Barcelona might be able to bring home 1 point. Gavi was showing a decent performance before getting injured. So his absence would be felt of course. By the way I have read interesting news about him recently. It was saying that FIFA were going to pay Barcelona 20k euros per day during Gavi's injury. Is this really true? If it is then I must admit that I'm hearing about such thing for the first time in my life. Gavi and Pedri both are very valuable players for Barcelona now. They are Barcelona's future so Barcelona are also doing their best to have a long and strong bond with them. |
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Newcastle are really inconsistent these days. It started to reflect on their Champions League games as well recently. Because they lost to Dortmund two times in a row which pushed them down to the fourth position. But I still want to believe that they will recover from this situation as well. Newcastle were pretty impressive last season you know.
This carried them even to the Champions League despite challenging hard against the other top teams in the Premier League. Actually they weren't doing bad until a point this season too. But hopefully they will get better. They have got some bad news additionally like Tonali's suspension but I will expect them to get better in time.
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Charles Leclerc had a wonderful race despite not having anything he could do against Verstappen at a point. He did his best but lost to him due to car difference in the first place. When it comes to driver skills I can say Verstappen is the best on the grid now as well. I wouldn't like to disrespect other very skilled and experienced drivers as well of course. Anyway coming back to the race Leclerc's great attack against Perez there really deserved applauding. He must have given his 100% in this race to have the best result he could. Perez seemed really thoughtful right after the race. |
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Union Berlin this weekend will fight against Augsburg and as a host probably Union Berlin will being an the favourite but Union Berlin performance was completely messed up in Bundesliga because their last winning was happened on August and since that month Union Berlin always be gets dissapoint results and almost be lose for each matches so these results makes Union Berlin have to sacked their manager Urs Fischer
This is really unfavourable situation for Union Berlin because they should be look for new manager immediately although Marco Grote currently will handle this team but he has no experience to train Bundesliga team and next match will be so hard for Union Berlin because they have to fight against Augsburg without experience manager and beating Augsburg is not easy task because this team currently has been showing impressive progress and in the last 5 matches Augsburg was unbeatable
Urs Fischer has finally got sacked after a long losing streak like for 9 games. Marco Grote is caretaker manager of the team for now. I'm curious about how the players will react to this change from now on. Maybe they were very unpleased about Fischer's management before and now they would find more motivation to play better in a different way. Therefore this game is a very risky one to bet on honestly. Augsburg might seem to be going on better than them but they aren't normally as qualified team as them. If Union Berlin start using a better strategy then I would expect them to win this game finally. |
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There is an Everton - Manchester United game as well this Sunday. Everton have got a really big punishment recently you know. This could demoralize the team for a while maybe which we will find out against Manchester United. If that really happens then this means there is a good opportunity for the Red Devils to maintain the winning streak.
They are having a quite hard time beating their opponents these days by the way. The recent wins have all been like 1-0 or 2-1 for Manchester United. Of course the most important thing is to get three points. But still they had better improve their scoring productivity more. I don't know whether they can do it in this game.
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Mou is going to stay for another year. This time he needs to put his focus on how to get three points from udinese. There was no better thing rather than getting full points from this club. I meant if we must also aware about how udinese sometimes is making the big club struggle to beat it. As roma was not as good as last season but it's slowly regaining its momentum again with lukaku that is still consistently scoring for the club. Mourinho is capable enough in digging his potential.
This makes as roma wants to make lukaku as a permanent transfer which is good for mourinho caused by he was getting what he wanted soon. Bookies were favoring roma to win the game.
Udinese has a small chance to beat roma. As you can see that if roma is holding better probability to win the game. Majority of bettors probably betting on it. It's caused by roma has bette quality than udinese.
It isn't certain yet about whether Mourinho will really stay at Roma for longer. His current contract ends in June 2024 which means the end of this season. Roma are expected to make some more progress now. If they still fail in finishing the season in top 4 then I don't know whether the board would like to continue with Mourinho for another season. Because Roma are a capable team that can join the Champions League actually. Their squad is filled with really skilled players. The only thing they need is more consistency. I hope Mourinho can make this team better this season. |
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The French players who are playing for French teams and was a part of France squad against Gibraltar too must be really fired up after returning from national duty. Mbappe is one of them for sure as he performed really great in this game which ended by a very interesting score like 14-0. Mbappe is nearly always above expectations in performance though so there is no need to talk in detail about him. PSG are lucky to have him for now however the team effort isn't impressive most of the time. This is the point which Luis Enrique needs to concern himself with. |
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For the upcoming games of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid I can say that I'm confident about the first and last one to win. However I'm not confident about Barcelona as much as them in their next game. Because it is an away game against Vallecano. Barcelona lost to them 3 times and got a draw in their last 4 head-to-head games in the La Liga. Vallecano are holding a psychological advantage in hand because of that. In addition to that Real Madrid couldn't do better than drawing with Vallecano not long ago as well. Combining all of this it seems a little risky to bet on Barcelona here. |
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Chelsea have such a challenging fixture these days. They are going to play away against Newcastle next time after leaving other big games behind consecutively. However Chelsea seemed really promising in those games. I'm not sure about whether they would have beaten Tottenham anyway if Tottenham didn't get any red card though. But especially that effort against Manchester City under bad weather conditions was marvelous!
Can they maintain this effort against Newcastle as well? I say why not. Because Newcastle are quite unbalanced recently. They are still one of the best home teams in the league though but it is the same for Chelsea in away games too. I think Chelsea will leave by at least one point here.
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Manchester United are said to have plans to sign Antoine Griezmann in January by offering a really profitable deal for him. They are said to be planning to offer 435k euros per week which would be nearly double his weekly salary now. Marca says like it is triple the amount he earns now but as far as I can see he earns 240k euros per week.
Anyway even if this attracts Griezmann's attention I don't feel like Atletico Madrid would let him go in the first place. Because he is at home now and showing a really valuable performance to the team. I don't even expect Griezmann to leave in January while Atletico Madrid are in a much better condition than the Red Devils.
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Dortmund have had some significant decline in their results for a couple of weeks in the Bundesliga. It is normal to see such time periods for big teams of course. But the key point is to put an end to that bad streak at once. Dortmund have a home game against Gladbach next time. I think this could be the opportunity for them to do this.
First of all they have been really dominant in home games against Gladbach in the recent years. We have watched many games ending up with very comfortable victories. I don't know if we would see such result but I expect Dorttmund to win here to put an end to this.
They have a worse point accumulation than the club they want to face over the weekend coming ( Borrussia Monchengladbach ) Borrussia Monchengladbach have seen three game won, a draw and a lose in the last five accumulation of 10 points in the last five, I'm also suspecting a surprise win against Borrussia Dortmund at home. They won't be the first they'll lose to gor they've done against Stuggart and Bayern Munich. They should do well to take chances, defend well and make sure they wrap three points ahead of the Champions League fixture against Ac Milan. Who wins would be hard to say, Ac Milan wins and they'll go higher over Borrussia Dortmund. PSG gets a win against Newcastle United and it'll be case settled. We'll know though, these are just my thoughts! When it comes to their Champions League fixture it is really tough. Milan have gained some confidence after that very valuable win over PSG. As the game is going to be played in San Siro as well it is going to be an extra difficult game for Dortmund. But their progress so far there is impressive. I mean they are the leader in this group of death. They played really well against Newcastle in both games. However they couldn't beat Milan in Signal Iduna Park before. I doubt them to do better away. |
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When it comes to the Atalanta - Napoli game it is a matchup between two very close teams. Bookmakers are thinking the same as well by giving nearly the same odds to these teams for the win. It would be a huge risk to bet on a side here. Because it is open for every kind of result. These teams have nearly the same statistics in the standings at the same time. Napoli are a really solid scorer team in away games so far. Maybe this could help the game become more delightful to watch. If I decide to bet on this game my choice would probably be both teams to score. I don't expect the opposite from two very productive teams here. |
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I don't feel positive about Liverpool to win against Manchester City honestly. They couldn't do this in the Premier League since November 2015. I won't be surprised if this series continues for Manchester City as well. Because they are having their brightest years these days. No matter how much Liverpool have made progress since the previous season Manchester City are still seriously favourite side.
The thing Liverpool can try to do is to get a draw at least. If Chelsea can do that why wouldn't Liverpool do it? However that game was in Stamford Bridge. We can see a way different performance from Manchester City in Etihad in a big game.
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It must be a really sad ending for Poland to the qualifiers. Because they needed to win their last game which was against Czech Republic and hope for them to lose points against Moldova after that as well. However Poland couldn't even manage to beat Czech Republic and this is the end of the road for them unfortunately.
If they managed to win here I think their chance would be quite much. Because Moldova are also fighting for Euro 2024 now. They can even still join the main tournament by beating Czech Republic next time. However their job is going to be really tough.
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