I don't blame Arsenal if they lose Martinelli, because players sometimes are hard to convince when renewing contract. And clubs like Barcelona are hard to turn down. I still think they need a winger. If you look at Barcelona their wingers always prefer to play from the right wing. The only player that plays from there is Ansu Fati who is always injured. And with Lewa almost looking to leave possible next season then it is a right move for Barca.
On their transfer issues it is still ridiculous how they sign players and still say there having financial issues. I just think laliga officials are turning a blind eye to there financial dealings
Martinelli have mentioned on different occasions that he is bent on extending his contract with the club and wants to stay so I don't understand where this news of a possible move is coming from. Barcelona have many wingers in their squad, I'm quite confident that Martinelli will stay and extend his contract with Arsenal for more years to come. Martinelli for me is the future of Arsenal and is showing great potencial. Arsenal needs to start making a team for the upcoming years. They are on a good way with how good they are playing and it looks like Arteta knows his job. Barcelona wont buy Martinelli they already have too many attackers |
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France is likely in my mind, but Brazil confuses me a bit as well. Due to Netherlands not looking great, and Argentina looking better, I feel like Argentina will come out of there, but they are the team that lost to Saudi Arabia in my mind, so Brazil should beat Croatia and then beat Argentina.
On the other side, Portugal should easily defeat Morocco, seems like child’s play but you never know, and England is great but France looks even better, Mbappe factor is big and he could get the game himself if he plays wonderfully, then beat Portugal. So, finals of Brazil and France is on everyone’s mind. I am guessing anyone could win at this point but this is likely situation.
I would like to see a duel between Argentina and Brazil but for me Brazil is really strong and Argentina without Messi is nothing. So other teams really need to focus mostly on Messi because everything is played around him. Portugal has the easiest opponent out of all other matchups |
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If a miracle happens and Morocco and Croatia qualify for the final, who will be the champion? I know that the Brazilian national team is the favorite on paper to win the championship. What do you think, is Croatia capable of overthrowing the Samba team?
Who do you think will qualify for the semi-final match between Argentina vs Nederland?
I sure hope we (Croatia) will rise up to the occasion and make it though for Brazil. They are much stronger side but I feel like we have our shot. This is the time when final goal justifies all means necessary and if I were in charge of Croatia I would try to provoke them and stop the game as much as possible. Not very popular tactics but could be very effective with some Brazilan players. Of course all that can only work if we stop Brazil from scoring in first 60 minutes or so. I see Argentina getting trough tomorrow. I just believe Messi factor will be enough to tip the scales in the end. Really rough match for Croatia against Brazil,they will need to defend really hard and Croatia`s defence isnt at the very top. If Brazil scores first it will be gameover fast but at least they can make it hard for them. Argentina also has a difficult opponent and i think Argentina need to step up if they want to win |
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Messi, Neymar and Mbappe all are still continuing in the World Cup which must be worrying news for PSG. Because even if one this great trio gets a serious injury then they might have a really big problem against Bayern Munich. PSG have got a very tough draw in last 16 round already. I assume they were hoping to face a weaker team. Now it is more important for them to keep their best players healthy.
Especially Neymar is very injury-prone. He already got an injury too as you know but he is good now. If he gets another one then it might be more serious. Because we are in the later stages of the World Cup and teams would try to defend their opponents harder then before.
PSG will be effected the most with this world cup with how many players are still active for their national teams. For PSG is good that champions league is still 2-3 months away and ligue 1 dosent put much presure on them because they can even play that league with a second squad |
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Bayern Munich wouldn't give up on Musiala already now. They are not the Dortmund type of a team. I mean that Dortmund would have been okay to selling him for a big amount of money to increase their profits in the season. Because their main goal is just to make the profit in their target by buying and selling skilled young players. They aren't fighting seriously for the Bundesliga title like Bayern Munich. However Musiala is a Bayern Munich player and we all must be knowing how much they care about keeping these skilled youngsters in the team.
I assume Kimmich would be a great example about this. They signed him while he was 20. Now he has a very important role in the starting eleven.
Musiala wont leave Bayern Munich anytime soon,i think that he will stay in the club for a very long time and he is their project. Bayern Munich always makes a team for a couple of years in advance. Musiala can only leave the club if he isnt attracted to play in the bundesliga. |
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Raheem Sterling back for England but I expect the three lions to beat France without him. Just as long as Kyle Walker can limit Mbappe.
Luis Enrique fires (or did he quit?) from the Spanish national team, he should go back to Real Madrid once Ancelotti retires (well, I think he used to coach Madrid, anyway).
This will be a boost for them but i dont think he will play from the start. He will probobly start from the bench but it will be an intresting match. If Walker plays it will be because of his experience. I dont think Luis Enrique would go to Real Madrid because he is a Barcelona fan |
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I had just gotten used to playing 3 matches every day. That's now a few days of rehab, but they can go again on Friday. I think the bookmakers think very low about Croatia, Brazil is of course the favorite, but aren't the odds of 1.40 a bit low? Croatia has a strong team, have beaten France twice in the Nations League and were the losing finalists of the World Cup in 2018. I think the levels are closer together as the bookmakers are now estimating.
France and Brazil are very worthy teams for this year's World Cup final. The style of play of both the teams is highly commendable. In the match between Brazil and Croatia, I am very sure that Brazil will win. Both teams play similar and have showed they are really good. Brazil might struggle a little with Croatia but i think they will overcome them easily but at this stage anything can happen and i think all of the matches will be really intresting to watch . |
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We will see if Napoli will make some changes in their squad in January as well. I guess that they would focus on keeping the quality high and maintaining the harmony of the team well at the same time. They shouldn't part their ways with any of their good players yet. They need to achieve a title first to think about that.
Maybe we will be able to see another strong team that is in first place in the Serie A standings if Napoli fail to maximize their consistency at the start of the league match later. Because they will compete against Inter Milan, Juventus and AS Roma. If they manage to win the first 3 matches which I think are very important, they will actually have more chances to get the Scudetto earlier. I might be a little skeptical of Juventus and Milan this time around. The reason for Milan at the moment is that they are still having financial problems and most likely they will only be with the same squad after half of the season and will only experience a few changes in players. As for Juventus they have more serious problems now so this could affect their performance when they are on the rise. Napoli`s chances this season are bigger and bigger. I dont see anyone that can stop them from winning the title in Serie A this season. Milan dosent have that firepower to compete with Napoli and Juventus after the recent shock will probobly fight only for top4 to just reach the champions league somehow. |
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I expected that it will be more difficult game for Netherlands, they didn't impressed me in group stage and I liked how USA looked there. But today Netherlands remind me team that they had in 2010-2014. Argentina - Australia. Unbeleavable, but true - Messi scored his 1st play-off round goal in his 5th World Cup. Argentina controlled game until Australia scored goal out of nowhere and it made last 15 minutes very interesting. That moment when Australian defender went through maybe 4 Argentina players and almost scored goal was amazing. Argentina - Netherlands in 1/4 final, this is where big games begins  I will add Mexico and Serbia too.
Germany, Uruguay, Mexico were doing everything but because of the result from other matches, they had could not qualify even after winning their last match with dominance.
Well, before tournament Mexico reaching next round didn't looked like obvious scenario, they're not that much better team than Poland. And Serbia, they have some good players, but they never had good perfromances at big tournaments. Personally, in FIFA predictor I marked both these teams on 3rd place before tournamnet. Argentina vs Netherlands will be really intresting and i think that match will go in to extra time,i really dont see anyone winning in the first 90 minutes both teams are at same level as far as i seen at this world cup. Serbia had big expectations but ended up last in the group with some big players in their squad. |
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Australia started good especially in defence up to the 30th minute then they dropped, took the first goal then the second one was a huge mistake from the goalkeeper, otherwise the result could be a draw unfortunately for Australian.
For the moment, Argentina 2 - 1 Australia, only few minutes left in the game. For a team playing rarely in World Cup, Australia did pretty good job.
Australia has 3 mins to do what they not done in last 90 minutes to score a goal - and take the lead - but Argeninte is making attempts on attempt to score a goal Big chance in the last minute for Australia but Martinez was able to save it somehow. In the end Australia had a chance to go into extra time but didnt take it. Argentina was much better in this match and could have scored in the last minutes but just wasnt able to,but for Argentina it came up good because they won in the end. |
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NEW INJURY UPDATESThis particular update and almost got me really worried, and it is regarding Gabriel Jesus who picked up an injury in Brazil's last game against Cameroon and has been ruled out of the world cup with possible fear of missing out some games in the Premier League, very disturbing news for Arsenal. Alex Telles has also been ruled out for Brazil, another challenge for them. Tite's options on the bench are slowly been reduced by injuries, Brazilian's will be worried if injuries will be the problem of Brazil in this world cup. source I dont know what is happening to Brazil players at this world cup they just keep getting injured,didnt expect jesus to get this badly injured so that he even misses the premier league. For Brazil its good that they have a really huge roster so even 2-3 injuries wont effect their team much and plans for the title. |
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First goal for Argentina from Messi, that was a great goal
yeah first goal by Messi from Argentina . The goal was due to a mistake by Australia. Due to a foul by an Australian player, Argentina got a good chance to take control of the ball near the penalty area. And Argentina took advantage of that opportunity to score a goal through Messi . it was soo great Messi continues to dominate in this world cup and another good goal and its impresive how he finds the space and scores the goal. Australia was attacking decent in the first half but just couldnt score and Argentina and Messi punished them this now means that Australia has to attack even more so there will be more room for Argentina to score. |
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I guess Switzerland will have their job made easy with Portugal. Portugal is not playing well at all, so the Swiss team should have their way opened on to the quarter finals
I'm afraid that the Portuguese squad is struggling with its organization amount other issues as is the trainer relation with some of the players. It already had its toll and it clearly showed its impact on the last game with Korea. So this should be an easy peasy bet.
I think Portugal is playing good in the third match they didnt really need anything and just didnt force their strength. They were mostly saving themselfs and some players played more then the others. In first two matches Portugal really dominated and scored a lot of goals so i think in the match against swiss it will be a different story |
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Finally a perfect result for me ,didnt expect it all before the match and was even worried when usa scored that i wasnt gonna win any points. This 3 points dont mean anything for me on the leaderboard but its nice to at least compete for the weekly ranking
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Today, Argentina are the absolute favourite so I don't expect any surprise in that match. I expect them to even win by at least two goals and Messi to score at the same time. But for the Netherlands - USA match, it is hard to trust anything. Netherlands are favoured maybe but their odd is not that low. I'm uncomfortable with the possibility of USA making it so I won't place a bet on Netherlands.
If I've learnt anything from this particular World Cup, it's the fact that relying on favourites no matter how strong they are isn't exactly a great decision. Argentina can definitely lose while USA can definitely win. Personally, I reverted to live betting instead of prematch bets primarily because of these annoying issues. Anything can happen as we saw in the World Cup match this time, including the United States making a big surprise by beating Argentina. Very difficult, indeed I admit it is very difficult to see such a big surprise. They will try their hardest and give their all. I think Argentina will dominate the game and America will try to counterattack. I wanted to see how effective the strategies the two trainers would implement. For me there are two easy wins today both Netherlands and Argentina will take the win. Netherlands looks really good while im not satisfied with how USA plays and they got pass the group by pure luck. While Argentina will probobly destroy Australia today,they got one of the easiest matches |
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So as far as Cristiano Ronaldo is concerned, at the moment we are on three rumors
-Saudi Arabia for 220 million euros over 3 years.
-Arsenal because of the interview that became famous
-Chelsea has recurring rumors about this sign but nothing concrete at the moment
I hear that the Saudi Arabia deal is o most finished and i think those news would be the worst. I always expected him to play in europe at least by the age of 40. For him to leave there would mean that his career is probobly over and just wants the money. He already has a lot of money and should look for top leagues to try and compete at the best possible level. |
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Cameroon surprised the world tonight. Being the first African nation to beat Brazil in the World Cup. This is a historic win for Africa. They put up a dog fight against Brazil and won the game. They didn't make it to the next round but I’m super proud of their performance. If they had put up this kind of performance in their first game against Switzerland, they would have stand a chance tonight to qualify for the next round. Kudos to them.
Yeah really surprising for Cameroon to win in this match against Brazil and they showed how much it meant to them even tho they were eliminated. Swiss went into the knockout faze and now Serbia and Cameroon are going home and Cameroon at least took that third place |
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