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I don't know what is surprising more, a PSG draw vs Toulouse, although they pushed Mbappe and Dembele into the game, or Lyon losing by 4 goals to 1 vs Montpellier.
Montpellier last season wasn't that good at all. Lyon started this season horribly with 2 defeats including this harsh one vs Montpellier.
Otherwise Luis Enrique must be in an awkward situation with the dysfunction that his team have.
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It seems Chelsea spending too much money made Pep Guardiola to talk about this team, he said if he was spending too much money like Chelsea they wouldn't keep him alive.
While we all know Chelsea spent too much money after Todd Boehly owned this team because Chelsea spent more than one billion in this time and spending this huge amount of money by this team made Pep Guardiola to talk about their team.
Spend whatever you want but the most important thing is to see your team compete for something if not winning a title. So far the Chelsea has nothing and people are waiting to see if they have another zeroed season or not.. Today's match came with Manchester City victory vs Newcastle even if it was with 1 goal and Manchester United defeat by 2 goals vs Spurs. Such a bad news for ManU fans and for Ten Hag too. |
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And Napoli already won their game with a superb performance of Osimehn scoring 2 goals.
Remember he is the target of many top clubs he still have time for leaving them.
I don't think Osimhen will leave Napoli this season at least. He renewed his contract with them if I am not mistaken! And yeah that was a nice start from him, scoring two goals just in the beginning of the season. That's promising. In addition to Napoli victory, there is Martinez who scored also two goals for Inter and Fiorentina won by 4 goals to 1 vs Genoa. Juve, Lazio, Roma and Atalanta will play tomorrow with a clear advantage for them, dunno if they will be ready enough to win. |
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Today Real Sociedad will host against Celta Vigo
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My prediction is very clear that Real Sociedad will win this game at least 2-0 or 2-1.
Real Sociedad are leading with 1 goal to 0 in the first half of the game vs Celta Vigo. The goal was scored in the 22th minutes and Sociedad kept dominating the game while Celta Vigo are trying to get a draw. I expect Real Sociedad to win too. Real Madrid will play later vs Almeria and I think they will win with more than 2 goals difference. Barcelona should win tomorrow vs Cadiz and the hardest match is between Atletico Madrid and Real Betis by far this round. |
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I don't understand what's going on with this Liverpool side, is just funny how the goalkeeper and the defense act like it's their first time of facing the Bournemouth side.
Well, Liverpool didn't let those two errors get them down, they restarted their style of play and got a spectacular goal from Diaz and later on a penalty scored by Salah. I expect Liverpool to come out and get more goals in the second half.
The captain (van Dijk) of the side needs to wake up, he's getting very slow by the day, I think Liverpool need to get a better CB.
Liverpool 3 - 1 Bournemouth, the goal scored few minutes after Mac Allister got a red card which I assume it was abusive, I mean he made a mistake by touching the leg of Bournemouth player but the referee could gave him a yellow card in my opinion. Liverpool had many opportunities including Salah when he tried to pass the ball under the goalkeeper legs but he failed. |
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Harry Maguire has grown to be a problem for Manchester United
Well, Harry Maguire want to stay in Manchester United and Ten Hag doesn't seem to be annoyed by that. At the opposite, he said in an interview that he welcome Maguire in the team and that he has to prove himself to be able to play with them during the season. That's a turning message with a clear consequences that will be taken by Maguire... He will just stay. |
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Champion Bayern Munich opened the league with a comfortable win again. Sane continues where he left off. "I'm here," Kane said, scoring the first goal. Werder looked very bad to me. For Bayern, this game is not a measure. Many games this season will be like this. The important thing will be what they will do against strong opponents such as Dortmund and Leipzig.
It is good seeing Kane scoring a goal in his first appearance with Bayern Munich in Bundesliga. He was unfortunate to win with them his first title in SuperCup. He has to help them now winning Bundesliga again, DFB-Pokal and Champions League eventually. Sane made a good job also scoring 2 goals. As usual the first team to face Bayern Munich in their first game, just gets trashed badly. Poor Werder Bremen. |
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Cancelo is going out from Manchester City.
In case his deal with Barcellona will not go to his end, he will leave for Saudi League, according to rumors he already has a potential deal there.
Cancelo relationship with Pep Guardiola isn't ok, that's why he is asked to leave and Barcelona are more than happy to accept it at low price as usual. The problem is that Barcelona are willing to take him as a loan with a possible buying option after finishing some objectives in Champions League and after playing 70% of the matches tho. This deal is not fully accepted by Manchester City since they don't want to see him with them next year. |
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Still not compete yet with promotion team Metz after first match in Ligue 1 defeated by Rennes 5-1 and current score until 50th minutes, Metz loss from Marseille 0-1 from Emran Soglo goal in 14th minutes. I doubt with Metz performance enough to stay in Ligue 1 next season current last two games failed to get points although left more minutes against Marseille.
Looking on statistic until 50th minutes, Marseille is not really dominance with ball possession and Metz success balance it with ball controlling 50% but has weakness with Metz less contributing shots on goals.
Metz 2 - 2 Marseille, another bad result for Marseille these days. After their defeat vs Panathinaikos in Champions League, they failed vs Metz which was just defeated by Rennes by 5 goals.. They will slide soon from the first place to the 7th place if they were lucky. That's without counting the help they give to PSG of course by wasting easy points as usual.. |
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The first match of the day was Mallorca vs Villareal.We can say that Villareal made a bad start to the league after losing to Real Betis at home in the first week.The opponent made a good start with a draw away to Las Palmas. If we look at the last matches between the two teams, we can easily say that neither side has a clear advantage over the other.We knew that this match was more important for Villareal in terms of the league progression before the match started.In general terms, both teams did not play very well, but Villareal was the side that scored the goal and won.
Mallorca 0 - 1 Villarreal. That result is normal when seeing the performance of the two teams. Villarreal defeat in the previous match was also normal since Real Betis is a hard opponent. In the other hand, Mallorca failed to win in the previous match vs Las Palmas which just promoted to La Liga. Las Palmas is now playing vs Valencia and the score is still 0 - 0 in the first half of the game. |
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Anyone watched the Partizan match? My team with 0-2 down in the first leg got 2-0 back in the second and won over penalties. Not a convincing game from Partizan but they pulled through in the end and will go into the playoffs. Ultras from Partizan are still not coming to the games due to their fight with the owners
I was surprised about the result of Partizan in the first leg but they improved a little in the second leg and qualified throughout penalties. A successful day after all for them before facing a team From Denmark in the play-offs. There is other teams that got wake up in the second leg including Rapid Wien and Midtjylland with 5 goals victories and teams that saw the table turn on their heads like Poznan and Arouca. Dynamo Kiev survived also thanks to penalties and Austria Wien was beaten badly by Warszawa, another surprising 5 goals in the second leg. |
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Sweden is favorite for the third place Holder,they have been outstanding in this Tournament regardless their hard luck in the competition. Third place will better for them. But Spain will definitely win England for the title on Sunday.
I find both games interesting. Sweden vs Australia might end in an unexpected result since Sweden look favourite, its odds are quite better but the game is in Australia after all which might give a push to the Aussie national team. Spain - England in the final match where the odds of Spain is better while the history is in the side of England. I don't back any of the teams since the result might be hazardous but I tend to follow what bookies say. |
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I think they are relying heavily on Salah at the moment. Mane, Firmino both have left and Salah is the regular player on left wing now. He is the most experienced and a goalscorer on whom Liverpool is relying this season also. I think despite being 31 he is still performing very good. Last match he had some good shots and made an assist to the only goal as well.
Liverpool count most on Mohamed Salah but it is hard to achieve something without the help of the others including Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz and the rest of the players.. Mohamed Salah could play good in few matches but he will get exhausted in few others and Klopp needs to diversify his team positions and tactics. |
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It was a win that was expected even on penalties. Sevilla is a tough team in Europe so it's only natural that they really forced Manchester City to fight harder in that match. Congratulations to those who won the title, it's a great moment to celebrate.
I don't understand Sevilla at all. They play poorly in La Liga and when they play in European competitions, they do it like lions. It is like having another team that could stand vs the best teams of the world and even beat some of them. Dunno why they fail to keep that spirit the whole season in La Liga! |
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Injury problem I think Dembele's injury is not as bad as Neymar's and we all know how Neymar when on the field often has problems because the injury has not fully recovered and for Dembele he has a less severe injury so even though he doesn't have the same talent as Neymar he is still able to strengthen Paris SG especially since there is still Kylian Mbappe who can help to become stronger.[/left]
Dembele style is different than Neymar and no one wants him to be a copycat from him. Ligue 1 is less stressful and the gameplay is more calm than La Liga so I assume injuries will be less for Dembele. There is a lot of efforts for Dembele to do to be able to prove himself as a good replacement for Neymar and to let fans forget a little about Mbappe. |
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It is very unfortunate that De Bruyne got injured and he is probably absent for a long time. It becomes more complicated because Bernardo Silva got injured too. In this situation, Man City is very possible to make a plan for signing a new player. Lucas Paqueta looks a good player to replace the position left by De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva. Man City needs an experienced AMF, it is not enough to rely on Cole Palmer for the whole season.
I doubt if Man City can sign Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, it won't be easy to sign a top player like him. I am sure Man City may have a bigger chance to sign Florian Wirtz, Julian Brandt, or Lucas Paqueta.
I don't think he is a direct replacement of De Bruyne but I like that Julian Alvarez will start more matches. I think he might just be what Pep needs, and I'm sure that what he lacks for in finesse he will make up for in sheer determination. Still, like you said if City want a replacement they have plenty of options to choose from. Napoli will not let Khvicha Kvaratskhelia leave the club that easily and they will try to hold him harder than Victor Osimhen. He is the pearl of the club and even fans of Napoli said many times that they want him to remain with them. Manchester City will think about a replacement for their stars if their absence will be long enough, otherwise they will figure a temporary solution. |
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Dinamo Zagreb lost 2-1 at home to AEK and lost a big advantage for the away game. AEK scored in the 90th minute of the match which was tied in the last minutes and got an important result for themselves in the away match.
Dinamo Zagreb was leading in the first half, things seemed to be OK before AEK Athens got the draw in the second half and a late goal made Zagreb be in an awkward position in the next match in Athens. The match between Sparta Prague and Copenhagen was very competitive. Both teams gave everything to get through the round, but in a match where only one team would advance, Copenhagen advanced. In the match, which ended 1-1 in normal time and 3-3 in extra time, Copenhagen won 4-2 on penalties.
Copenhagen passed this stage with difficulty vs Sparta Prague. Penalties were in their side this time. They will face Rakow next, not an important opponent but definitely they will not be an easy one. Rangers also had a hard time qualifying and Panathinaikos kicked Marseille from the competition  |
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Bernardo Silva is staying at Manchester City and he has reached a verbal agreement for a new contract with Manchester City. He will sign a contract extension until 2026 and it will make Manchester City's midfield as safe as last season. It seems that several clubs that were interested in him now have no more hope except to wait for Bernardo Silva to leave as a free agent in 2026 and at that time he will already be around 32 years old. So for any team will get the same opportunity to secure his services. But for now it is clear that Bernardo Silva will only focus on bringing Manchester City to win the EPL and other competitions because that is a target that must be achieved for all players in Manchester City.
And then he will join Saudi Professional League  Most of football players can only survive in top league until 33 years old, after that the team will sell him or not extend his contract. I think Manchester City is still strong until 2025, it's when many of their good players already old and they need to replace with other player. Manchester City need to use this moment to win Premier League and Champions League. Saudi league welcome all players that are ready to move there and they are eying the best players, so it will not be a surprise if Bernardo Silva or Haaland find himself in that league after few years. Manchester City will face Newcastle in Etihad stadium and they are favourite to win this game, even though Newcastle seems in a good shape after their big victory against Aston Villa. |
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this is not only about the top European players but about the existence of the club
True. The Saudi teams are competing themselves to stay in the first places in all competitions obviously but also they have larger goals to achieve. First they did indirectly heavy advertisement to their league, attracting the attention of everyone and surely more viewers, more TV ads, more shirts to sell, more copyrights to sell, so they are spending funds but also collecting crazy money. Second, Saudi Arabia want to host World Cup and having a good league + a bunch of international and famous players to support it, will make their candidature stronger. Neymar is one of the last players to confirm joining Al-Hilal, but surely others will follow in order to make the ambition of officials in Saudi Arabia true. |
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Tonight, there are UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second leg. I will prefer to watch Galatasaray-NK Olimpija Ljublja match. Galatasaray won the first match 3-0. In my opinion, the favorite team is Galatasaray
Galatasaray finished the first leg match with 3 goals to 0 so they are psychologically in a better situation than their rivals. Now they are leading with 1 goal scored by Icardi in the first half. They almost terminated all Olimpija chances of recovery. Same goes for Braga, punishing badly Tapola with 3 goals difference in both matches, well the second one is still running. There is few matches that already finished. Aris Limassol after their good second qualifying round, they lost both games vs Rakow and had to leave the competition. Otherwise, eyes on Copenhagen and Marseille! |
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