I do NOT think that the changes will be so dramatic. The teams in Laliga have increased their level and Barcelona without Messi is not so scary for them. Therefore, they will show more aggressive play against her than before. And Barcelona now has no strong players who can oppose such a game. There will be victories, but it is not worth demanding a victorious march from Xavi. He will have a very difficult job.
Barcelona has entered a different era after Xavi and Iniesta are no longer in the team as players. They lost a lot of important players like messi, Suarez and some other players in the last few season. The quality of the team has decreased while there is no worthy player to replace them all so Barcelona is on a different level. This is clearly a concern that Barcelona will be eliminated from participation in the Champions League every season because they are not able to compete with other team that continue to develop. There's nothing wrong with expecting something good from Xavi's return to the team as coach, that's good in my opinion. Many things will be changed and also regarding the application of rule and sanction for players who violate, it will never be superfluous to apply because a good start starts with discipline. Xavi has indeed been in Barcelona for quite a long time and he is also a living legend for Barcelona, but I personally highly doubt that later Xavi will be able to bring about a complete change to the Barcelona squad, I agree that his capacity as a player so far has been quite extraordinary in Barcelona, but as a coach, to be honest, I still highly doubt it, even though he managed to bring Al Sadd to victory in the Qatar League but we know that the Qatar League and La Liga have quite a big difference. |
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Juventus can do much better from their current form which will bring them to some better position for this year's end, even now they are not strong enough for having any chance of win.
Juventus is basically a new team since the end of the first Era of Allegri. The team now has only 3-4 over 30years old players, Cuadrado Bonucci and Chiellini. The majority of players have between 22-27 years, they need time and more quality to perform better. The bigger problem is the midfield. Apart from the midfield, juventus also has a pretty bad defense so far, just imagine they have conceded 15 goals from 12 matches in the league and 2 goals in the champions league, in my opinion, if juventus still wants to get back on a positive track and be able to compete in the big four Serie A standings this season, they must really be able to take advantage of the summer transfer market to improve their squad and one of the things Juventus must focus on is their defense which looks quite fragile. |
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My predictions for the results of the world cup qualifiers 2021/22 on Friday:
Germany 3 vs 0 Liechtenstein
This prediction looks very conservative in my opinion. I mean i can see why you only expect 3 goals for Germany given the fact that in their first match against Liechtenstein they only managed to score 2 goals and that Germany also has lost 5 players for todays match with Niklas Süle, Joshua Kimmich, Serge Gnabry, Jamal Musiala and Karim Adeyemi because of the positive Covid Test of Süle. I still think tough that the Germany has just so much more quality in their squad that they should win with 4 goals or even more today and they are also in much better shape than they were back in September in their first match against Liechtenstein. Even though Germany has locked a ticket to the 2022 world cup in Qatar, Germany, which acts as the host, will be the main motivation to keep playing well at home, besides that I seeing the 9 bad records of matches played by Liechtenstein and makes me personally very sure if Germany will be able to score at least 3 goals in that match, besides, with so many german main players injured, isn't this an opportunity for the second tier players to prove their quality in front of the coach? Surely this will be a separate motivation for the second tier players to score a lot goals in the match in my opinion. |
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Maybe Freiburg are having a solid season too but it seems like Dortmund are the only team that can hold Bayern Munich back from winning the title again this season. Because they have the second best lineup quality among the rest of the teams in the Bundesliga. Of course, the lineup is not everything all the time. But to dethrone a dominator like Bayern Munich, you need to have a solid lineup. Even it might not be enough for succeeding in this.  Defeat against bayern munchen is certainly very painful, especially now that the difference between the two teams is starting to be quite far and it will be impossible to stop bayern munchen dominance in the bundesliga this season, actually I personally really hope that freiburg is able to at least hold a draw with bayern munchen in that match, but indeed on In fact, Bayern Munich is a very difficult club to beat.  |
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^^ Well yeah it would have been great if he would have accepted it with some little more time with Rangers but well he has now accepted the job and is officially the new manager of Aston Villa. Guess he desparately wanted to get back to England and take over some tier 1 English team.
Let's see how he manages Aston Villa now.
Aston Villa signed steven gerrard on a three and a half year contract until June 2025 and of course it will be an amazing experience for us to see the liverpool legend again in the premier league, so far he continues to be rumored to be the newcastle coach but in the end aston villa who managed to bring him back to the premier league, steve gerrard's journey with the ranger is certainly very extraordinary in my opinion because they were able to destroy the domination of celtic so far in the scottish league, but even so the english league is not an easy league and of course it will require hard work and a lot of time for steven gerrard to improve the performance of aston villa today. |
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%27 shares of West Ham United sold to Czech businessman, I wonder if it will affect club much. West Ham United is going really good already this season, if that boost the club's finance positive we may see them competing in Champions League next year. It would be interesting to see them there because lately always same English clubs play in Champions League.
West Ham United made a four game winning streak and those clubs were big, not a low tier clubs. There is a big probability that West Ham end up season in top places.
27% of west ham shares have now been officially acquired by Daniel Kretinsky, so Daniel Kretinsky will automatically become a member of the current westham board, I think the acquisition made by Daniel Kretinsky will certainly have a positive impact on the development of the club in the future, especially now westham now can reduce long-term debt that is already quite a lot, I think this season with a healthy start to finances, of course Westham will be one of the competing clubs in the big four English league. |
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My predictions for the results of the world cup qualifiers 2021/22 on Friday:
Azerbaijan 1 vs 2 Luxembourg
Georgia 0 vs 2 Sweden
Russia 1 vs 0 Cyprus
Armenia 1 vs 1 Macedonia
Ireland 1 vs 3 Portugal
Greece 1 vs 2 Spain
Malta 1 vs 2 Croatia
Slovakia 0 vs 0 Slovenia
Germany 3 vs 0 Liechtenstein
Romania 1 vs 0 Iceland
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Next game we will have a partial answer. We will have Napoli Inter, now if Napoli will win we can assume a fight with Milan till the end but if they are going to draw or lose... I told you to wait until December to judge Napoli. a game that is very dear to be missed, the match between Naples versus Inter Milan, although many want Napoli to beat Inter Milan, but I personally am very optimistic that Inter Milan can beat Napoli, if we look at the statistics between their two meetings, Inter Milan is clear better than napoli.. The match between Napoli and Inter will certainly be very interesting in my opinion, because this match will be an opportunity for Napoli to be able to maintain an unbeaten record this season or maybe Inter Milan will give Napoli the first defeat later, now Napoli are at the top of the Italian league standings , but unfortunately they can't take advantage of the match against verona to be able to stay away from ac milan who is currently ranked second, I think napoli should be able to win against inter milan otherwise ac milan will certainly be able to benefit because only against Fiorentina which this season is relatively weak compared to AC Milan. |
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Xavi is a legendary player of Barcelona. He will definitely work for the good of the team. His feelings towards the team will definitely be different from other coaches. Xavi should now focus more on young players. He need to focus on how to make young people more experienced and how to get better performance from them. Barcelona's financial situation is very bad now. So it will benefit Barcelona in every way to get young experienced players to join the team.
Barcelona often creates quality young players from their youth academy. Maybe Xavi can find the figure who will be the star player again from their youth academy. As you mentioned they don't have enough money to buy star players, academy is the only way for Xavi to get players without spending a lot of money. I agree with what @masulum said, La Masia football academy is the best football academy in the world today, and it has been proven that if they have succeeded in producing many football stars so far, of course with Barcelona deteriorating financial condition as it is today, buying expensive players is not The right solution and it can be said that if possible orbiting new players from the academy can at least slightly solve the two main problems faced by Barcelona today, namely Barcelona poor performance and also the problem of the financial crisis. |
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Well, that's what I hope with the current PSG squad at least PSG should get the UCL title too, but so far it seems like something impossible. Basically the chemistry between the players I believe has already formed in the PSG squad, because even though Messi is a new player at PSG, in fact Messi is already familiar with Neymar and Di Maria as well. With already established chemistry and great individual skills, the coach should be able to take advantage of it. I can't imagine if Tuchel is still at PSG, I'm sure PSG is now very visible to be a strong candidate to win the UCL, but in the current Pochettino era PSG can't be seen as scary for other teams.
The main purpose of bringing in Neymar, Mappe and Messi was actually to be able to win the champions league trophy for the first time for PSG, so far we know that PSG continues to fail in the Champions League, and that forcing them to continue to bring star players into their squad, and so better We'll just have to wait and see if this season they can get a big ears trophy this season or do they fail again? I think if PSG just wanted to be the rulers of French football, surely they wouldn't have spent a lot of money on signing star players in recent years, because since 2013 they have dominated Ligue 1 until now. |
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think United can get into the title race this season, I'm just worried that there will be disharmony between Ronaldo and management, considering Ronaldo can't always take the pressure he's under.
Not sure if Ronaldo cares about the team's success, he moved to the Premier League to gain more media attention, which he did, because he realized that all of the emphasis was focused on Messi because La Liga receives more coverage than the Italian league. Whether United loses or wins, Ronaldo is always the center of attention. He wants to be considered for the Ballon d'Or one again, but his time has come and gone. I do not agree with you. Ronaldo wants to touch the Champions League title again. For this, you have to perform well as a team. Ronaldo alone will not be able to win the Manchester United title. However, Manchester United is not able to perform well as a team now. The players have lost the match-winning mentality. They have to come back in full energy again. Otherwise, they will not be able to win the Champions League title. At the same time, they will lose the qualification to perform in the Champions League next season Although Ronaldo desire is very great to be able to win the English League and Champions League again, but it will be in vain if Manchester United does not immediately make improvements to their squad, apart from the coach, Manchester United this season must immediately improve their fragile defense, especially if they lost varane of course we can see how easy it is for the opposing strikers to penetrate their defense, I think besides Ole manchester they also have to get rid of players like maguire in January. I don't think the sack of Ole will improve Manchester United's performance. Ole's strategy may be weak, but Manchester United's players are not playing well. Their performance is poor. No player of the defense can play well except Varane. Midfielders Pogba and Bruno are also out of form. Players need to be more hardworking. Otherwise, I don't see any chance of Manchester United's performance improving this season. Isn't it the role of the coach to improve the performance of his players? What you are saying is true, now the game of manchester united is no longer as interesting as it used to be and the lack of tactics possessed by Solskjaer makes the game even worse, that's why I say that manchester united must find another coach and also some better defenders, in a a club that prefers to use a formation that tends to attack like Manchester, a strong and solid defense is very important in anticipating counter attacks from opponents and we don't see that in Manchester today. |
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I think now PSG have players who have a winning mentality and even many of them are very experienced in the champions league, but from the few matches played by PSG, we can see if it looks like they are very difficult to win and even they are only able to get results draws against clubs like brugge and leipzig, I'm also starting to think if PSG current weakness seems to have been with their coach, with so many star players in the current PSG squad, of course it would be a shame if they failed to win the champions league title for the first time this season.
With the players that PSG have, there should be no reason to fail to win the Champions League trophy. But so far PSG's performance has been inconsistent in the Champions League, PSG drew with Club Brugge and Leipzig, which should both teams be defeated easily by PSG. But I'm still optimistic that PSG can qualify for the next round. The problem is whether PSG can win the Champions League trophy. If we look at PSG's performance so far in the Champions League, I doubt that PSG can win the Champions League trophy. I saw that Pochettino had difficulty managing the star players at PSG, therefore PSG's game was not systematic. Many PSG players rely too much on individual skills and forget teamwork. Unlike when Pochettino became Tottenham coach, Tottenham's game looks more systematic and teamwork looks very solid. Pochettino must be able to act decisively against PSG players, otherwise it is very difficult to expect PSG players to show solid teamwork. I suggest PSG management sack Pochettino if this season PSG still fail to win the Champions League trophy, because PSG have a squad that really deserves to be champions in all competitions. Pochettino is a pretty good coach, but I think he still lacks experience in coaching a big team like PSG today, and I see that his lack of tactics makes it difficult for Pochettino to form a perfect PSG game with enough quality player material that is quite abundant as it is today, besides that it looks like Pochettino Can't force his strikers like he did at Tottenham before, because of course he will get in a lot of problems if he forces players like Messi, Neymar and also Mappe to follow his wish. That's why we don't find the same style of play he used to play at Tottenham. |
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Although Ronaldo desire is very great to be able to win the English League and Champions League again, but it will be in vain if Manchester United does not immediately make improvements to their squad, apart from the coach, Manchester United this season must immediately improve their fragile defense, especially if they lost varane of course we can see how easy it is for the opposing strikers to penetrate their defense, I think besides Ole manchester they also have to get rid of players like maguire in January.
I agree that Man United's defense is very fragile and makes mistakes a lot. I also don't see Harry Maguire making a good contribution to Man United since he was bought for a very high price. And Maguire's selection of captaincy is questionable, because I don't see Maguire can motivating Man United players. I agree that Man United should get rid of Maguire and buy a better defender. But the most important thing is that Man United must immediately find a replacement for Solskjaer. because some Man United players have reportedly lost faith in Solskjaer. If left like that, Man United players will not be able to bring out their best abilities. And if Man United decides to keep Solskjaer, there is a possibility that Man United will fail to enter the top 4 to be able to play in the Champions League next season. In the last few games of manchester united, it looks like their defense is very easy to break through and there is even no good coordination between their defense and midfield when facing attacks from atlanta and manchester city at that time, and even maguire who is the team captain is not able to lift the morale of the players others and even he himself often makes fatal mistakes, but I don't know what is in the mind of the current management of manchester united who continues to maintain Solskjaer after continuing to get minor results, oh well I think now ronaldo is actually very worthy to be captain of the team, apart from being an important player, Ronaldo is also famous for being able to motivate other players in times of defeat. |
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We have left another weekend behind and PSG are still going on at the top very comfortably. And they will win the league title without having much problem at the end also most probably. They didn't have a big difficulty against Bordeaux last week actually even the result was 3-2. Because PSG made it 3-0 already and Bordeaux's effort to turn the game around wasn't enough. And most of PSG's rivals lost points on the same weekend too.
Yes, actually PSG are quite comfortable and PSG can make a good focus too in the UCL. They need to get some titles this season, considering their current squad is very supportive of it all for a success or achievement to get some trophies. If PSG only get the Ligue 1 title this season then I think the problem will be with their coach. Because of how it is, the coach cannot utilize his skills and some great strategies to achieve victory in his every game with a great squad. I think now PSG have players who have a winning mentality and even many of them are very experienced in the champions league, but from the few matches played by PSG, we can see if it looks like they are very difficult to win and even they are only able to get results draws against clubs like brugge and leipzig, I'm also starting to think if PSG current weakness seems to have been with their coach, with so many star players in the current PSG squad, of course it would be a shame if they failed to win the champions league title for the first time this season. |
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think United can get into the title race this season, I'm just worried that there will be disharmony between Ronaldo and management, considering Ronaldo can't always take the pressure he's under.
Not sure if Ronaldo cares about the team's success, he moved to the Premier League to gain more media attention, which he did, because he realized that all of the emphasis was focused on Messi because La Liga receives more coverage than the Italian league. Whether United loses or wins, Ronaldo is always the center of attention. He wants to be considered for the Ballon d'Or one again, but his time has come and gone. I do not agree with you. Ronaldo wants to touch the Champions League title again. For this, you have to perform well as a team. Ronaldo alone will not be able to win the Manchester United title. However, Manchester United is not able to perform well as a team now. The players have lost the match-winning mentality. They have to come back in full energy again. Otherwise, they will not be able to win the Champions League title. At the same time, they will lose the qualification to perform in the Champions League next season Although Ronaldo desire is very great to be able to win the English League and Champions League again, but it will be in vain if Manchester United does not immediately make improvements to their squad, apart from the coach, Manchester United this season must immediately improve their fragile defense, especially if they lost varane of course we can see how easy it is for the opposing strikers to penetrate their defense, I think besides Ole manchester they also have to get rid of players like maguire in January. |
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The team I expect to be the most active in this transfer period will be from the English Premier League. Newcastle United did not see a transfer window to strengthen their squad after being sold. In this transfer period, they will both make new transfers and part ways with players who should be removed from the squad, in my opinion. I think they will make their priority from the Premier League. Maybe we can hear about the Harry Kane transfer. Of course, they need to establish a strong defensive line. I think we will hear a lot of Newcastle United names in this transfer window.
In the January transfer market, it is reported that newcastle will get 200 million pounds to buy a number of players, with this large amount of money, of course, newcastle will be very busy in January and it is also reported that they already have several target players to be signed, if for harry kane I'm a little doubtful if he will move this season, especially now that Tottenham have the best coach and Conte has always led his team to become champions so far. |
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 Marco Asensio is currently not getting a place to play at Real Madrid, and according to reports, if AC Milan and Liverpool are interested in signing him in the January transfer window, currently Asensio still has a contract with Real Madrid until 2023, AC Milan and Liverpool are rumored to be able to get Asensio in the upcoming transfer window for a fee of 25 million pounds |
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Injuries have been tough for Dortmund. They were playing very well so far even without Haaland. But Can be getting injured might be a lot impactful for them as Can plays in the heart of the midfield as he's also a good defensive midfielder so I won't be surprised if Dortmund gets exposed in the defense. Dortmund's squad depth will come into play now and can anyone confirm how long Can will be out for?
Dortmund are currently facing a lot of injury problems for their players, and not only have they lost important players in midfield and their defenses Mateu Morey, Giovanni Reyna, Mahmoud Dahoud and Emre Can will be expected to miss the match, the match against leipzig will be an important one a decisive match for dortmund before the international break begins, a victory later will certainly make dortmund continue to put pressure on bayern munchen in the league and keep them on track to win this season competition. Btw regarding Emre Can injury, until now there is no definite news until when he will be out ,but it looks like Dortmund will lose Emre Can in the next few matches. |
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The best game for me tonight will be the Leverkusen match against the Spanish club Real Betis!! I think that the result of a tie will be suitable for both clubs, and Celtic will work to reduce the difference and get a chance to make it among the favorites to the next round!! That's why I will place my bet in favor of Celtic and draw for Betis.
I am not sure if we watched the same match, but Betis terribly lost against Leverkusen. Shortly before the end it is 4 -0 for Leverkusen. Betis had no chance at all. I didn't bet on the match, but I already saw Leverkusen as favorites after watching the club's last Bundesliga games (with the exception of the disastrous Bayern game  ). Leverkusen really destroyed the calf in that match, even though from the statistics the calf continued to control the ball, but it seems that Leverkusen prefers to play effectively and even they were able to release 11 shoot on target, with this victory now solidifying Leverkusen position at the top of the standings with 10 points, and they are three points clear of Real Betis in second place at the moment, but unfortunately the perfect win was tarnished a bit by an incident that occurred in the last minute of the match and forced the referee to give two red cards to players of both teams. |
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Juventus are sixteen points behind the leader now. This is really terrible for a team like Juventus. They have made one of their worst starts to the season. Even if they have Allegri as their manager, they are struggling to recover now. They lost their last two matches. Fiorentina is another tough target to beat for them. Fiorentina are not playing like they were in the last season. They are stronger. I have my doubts about Juventus to win this. But we'll see.
Talking about the potential to lose to Juventus, I think it's not impossible this time, in their last 2 matches, Juventus could only get 1 point when they drew with Fiorentina at the Artemio Franchi Stadium. Moreover, this season Juventus is not at its best performance, besides Fiorentina although still unstable in the title race, they managed to beat Spezia with a score of Fiorentina 3 - 0 Spezia. The match between Fiorentina and Juventus will certainly be the last match of the Italian league before the international break begins, I personally see that both teams have had the same problem so far, namely inconsistency in the league, even though Juventus are very good at champions but their performance often deteriorates when playing in the league and it can be seen from the draw they got against inter milan and the two consecutive defeats they got from sassuolo and verona, Fiorentina are also not better now even though they have players like Dusan who are quite dangerous, but they can't be stable in the last few matches , I personally see that both teams are still not yet at their best perfomance and most likely a draw will be the final result of the match. |
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