In theory, the most attention-grabbing match will be the match between Napoli and Inter. Inter can really interrupt Napoli's fantastic series like a fairy tale without defeats. Despite my certain skepticism about the prospects of Inter in this post-championship season and the departure of the head coach with a number of key players, Inter makes a good impression and is among the pursuers of the two leaders who broke away from all the leaders, taking the highest of them third place. Moreover, not only will the game take place in Milan, but also the victory of Inter allows you to get closer to Napoli by working and quite winning back four points.

With all the advances being made, the management of a club like Barcelona is unlikely to tolerate when the head coach gives out a series of defeats, giving the advantage to young players only because of their youth, justifying poor results by building a team for the future. In such big clubs, there are always high goals and objectives, and any coach should try to achieve high results with the available players. Moreover, as far as I know, Xavi will receive only ten million euros to strengthen the squad in the winter, which by the standards of big clubs looks quite ridiculous. And the result is needed here and now or as soon as possible in the foreseeable future.

Indeed, during the race there was some feeling that Verstappen avoided unnecessary risk. It seems that a little contact with Sainz and going off the track further forced Verstappen to act with more caution. The sprint race was relatively successful for Hamilton and he was able to get close to the leaders, where Sainz from Ferrari, who took third place, intervened among the traditional rivals from Red Bull and Mercedes. Sainz, like Bottas, took a risk and put the tires soft, which allowed them not only to get ahead at the start, but also to take higher places in the end, despite the persecution by Perez and Verstappen, respectively. Disqualification in qualifying cost Hamilton dearly, but it will be all the more interesting to see how Lewis will make his way from tenth place, given the Briton's fresh engine.

The Paris Saint-Germain management was really unhappy that Messi was called up to the Argentina national team for the World Cup qualifiers. As stated by the club's sports director Leonardo, they are against calling a player who is recovering from an injury. The club appealed to FIFA about this and hoped that the player would recover from injury during the period of the national teams' games. Therefore, the situation with Messi looks quite risky, but I perfectly understand the head coach of the Argentine national team, Scaloni, because the help of a player like Messi will be absolutely not superfluous in light of the upcoming battle with the Brazilian national team.

Indeed, it is absolutely not a fact that the new coach will improve the game and the results of Manchester United at once. Such cases as the successful arrival of Tuchel are rare and still despite the fact that Chelsea became the winner of the Champions League, but for all that the club took only fourth place in the Premier League last season. Any new Manchester United head coach will have difficulties in establishing his playing model, because the transfer campaign was carried out without his participation and his wishes. The same can be said for the preparatory training work for the season, which was carried out by the previous coach, taking into account his vision of the process of gaining physical fitness by the team.

Ronaldo's departure from the club on the one hand was predetermined when the club refused to negotiate with him on a contract extension, but on the other hand Juventus did not expect it to happen so unexpectedly. And it turned out that the club was not ready for this transition and did not conduct serious work in this direction in the transfer market. The team had to make some adjustments in tactics and in their attitude to the game. As Leonardo Bonucci recently said about this, the team began to slow down in work, in self-sacrifice, subconsciously hoping that Ronaldo would ensure the result by his presence alone, and now the team is becoming a team.

I think Chelsea will have a certain advantage, because the match will be home for the London club and winning is more important for Chelsea, unlike Juventus, who have already secured entry to the next stage of the tournament. Also about Juventus, I would like to say that judging by the performance in the national championship and the 8th place occupied, the club does not give the impression of an absolute favorite. Chelsea, on the contrary, is the leader of the English Premier League. Another factor may be that in case of a win, Chelsea will equal Juventus on points and will also become the leaders of the group.

I wonder what motivation the players of a club like Manchester United should have? Only wins in all matches in which the club takes part. I understand the lack of motivation when a club goes with a big lead in the championship and just tears up all the rivals in its path. But nothing like this is observed in this situation and victories are replaced by sensitive defeats. Therefore, I would rather not talk about motivation, but about the confidence that comes with victories and allows the team to show their best qualities and achieve the desired result, when uncertainty on the contrary leads to unnecessary mistakes. By the way, here we can also talk about character, and it seems that the alignment of the matches that were unsuccessfully formed before this indicates the presence of character.

Joel Glazer, as the owner of the team, has the right to determine his own style of club management. I don't think he is happy with the current results of the clubs and also probably wants changes in the results. Another question is that it is one thing to reason from the outside without having any responsibility, but it is quite another thing when you are inside the situation and know perfectly well the ins and outs and what consequences rash actions can bring. It is not yet possible to say that Ole Gunnar has already failed this season, when not even a third of the tournament has passed and he has 27 more rounds of the championship left to rectify the situation.

One does not interfere with the other. It's just that football players should know that if certain requirements are not met, they will have to sacrifice something, for example, a certain amount of money. Every football coach sets a certain bar for his behavior with the team, someone acts softer, someone acts tougher. Let's not forget that Xavi is a young coach and such measures to some extent help to strengthen his authority as the main one in the team. But of course, a certain balance is needed in everything, because the team must obey the will of the coach and fulfill his instructions on the field, but on the other hand, this should not enslave the team, making a difficult microclimate in the team.

I think it is rather naive to expect that the arrival of Xavi will soon make Barcelona as strong as before. Because it was really a very strong squad with good coaches and, accordingly, thanks to this, there were very good results both in La Liga and in the Champions League. Such an arrangement of stars, which contributed to this, does not happen often and it is rather presumptuous to hope for a constant repetition of this and the constant appearance of players of Messi's caliber. Therefore, it is necessary, of course, to strive for such a thing, but still be realistic and set more mundane goals. Javi's main task now is to stabilize the team's results and then it will be possible to think about higher goals.

I can feel Mino Raiola's handwriting I would be very surprised that such an agent would require the least salary for his ward, and even deprived himself in terms of finances Another question is whether the management of Manchester United agrees to such conditions. The series with the extension of Pogba continues and every week there are new rumors, because just a week ago it was said that Pogba could not agree with his current club and wanted to return to Juventus and sign a three-year contract, even with a salary reduction. I think it's all agency games and stuffing information into the press in order to put pressure on the management of the club.

It's pretty bold to draw the composition of the leading three according to the results of the championship only on the basis of 11 rounds, when even the middle of the championship has not been reached and there are 8 more rounds before its onset. Let's not forget how hard Liverpool fought for the right to play in the Champions League at the end of the season in the last Premier League draw. Everything can still happen and some team can start losing points hard, and the other team, on the contrary, can give out a winning streak. Therefore, it is more correct to name a group of five or six clubs that will surely claim the title of the winner of the Premier League. I think that Manchester United with its squad is quite capable of climbing even higher in the standings in the near future.

In principle, the Juventus squad makes it quite possible to fight at least for getting into the Champions League zone in the championship and if this does not happen, it will be Allegri's personal failure and an excuse for the club's management to find another specialist for the post of head coach. All Juventus' problems so far stem from the fact that the team adapts to the requirements of Allegri and a slightly different style of play, not so spectacular in terms of the beauty of the game, but effective in terms of scoring points in the standings. In any case, the club's management will work to strengthen the squad, for example, there is information about unofficial contacts with Pogba's representatives about the return.

Well, it was relatively fun in the beginning Indeed, the fundamental events for the race took place at the very start, when Bottas could not hold the lead and Verstappen still overtook Hamilton and broke into first place. Further, the main intrigue was only whether Perez would be able to get ahead of Hamilton at the end of the race, because Hamilton himself, judging by the condition of the car, could not impose a fight on Verstappen for first place. Team tactics also played a positive role here, when Mercedes sent Hamilton to change tires before the Red Bull drivers, which eventually allowed Perez to be left behind.

Money is just a tool that allows each person to build their life, but how this tool is used is a separate story in each case. You can use this tool for the benefit of yourself, for the benefit of others, for the benefit of yourself and others, for the benefit of yourself, but for the evil of others. We can partially agree with the statement that money is the root of all evil, but only because in modern conditions of life in human civilization it is almost impossible to do without money and they accompany us in all aspects, both good and bad. Almost the same can be said about religion, when instead of bringing goodness and tolerance into this world, religion, on the contrary, is used for hatred and sowing hatred between people. Therefore, I would like to say that money and health are really akin to religion in the modern world, but you just shouldn't go to extremes and build only these two concepts into the whole meaning of your life.

In any case, the fans and the management of the team can no longer be satisfied with even the good results that the team showed last season. The team has to make a qualitative breakthrough and for the sake of this, the strengthening of the team was carried out, including Ronaldo was signed. Therefore, Solskjaer in any case had to make changes to the model of his team's game, regardless of whether Ronaldo would have returned to Manchester United or these tasks would have had to be solved without his participation. I think that for any normal coach of an above-average level, the problem of how to fit a player of Ronaldo's level is a pleasant headache, and I would not reduce all the current game problems solely to the difficulty of fitting the Portuguese into the squad. The club really does not have a great game discipline and a honed tactical game, and there is a large share of the coach's fault in this. Another question is whether the club management has at least some confidence that Ole Gunnar will still be able to fix it. Apparently, there is still such confidence, or at least hope for it.

I would like to wish Javi every success in his work as head coach at Barcelona, but still I would not compare the beginning of Guardiola's coaching career in Barcelona with Xavi's current arrival at the club. Here I would like to confirm the words of the president of the club Laporta, that it will not be easy for Xavi, because he will have to create a team, and it was easier for Guardiola, because the team was already there. I would also like to say that in this particular situation, Xavi cannot influence everything and fix the club's systemic problems, such as financial problems. On the other hand, Barcelona's squad is not so weak and is quite competitive to compete for the championship's group of leaders. The most important thing in the current situation for Xavi is to establish the psychological stability of the club, the bright apotheosis of the instability of which is the missed victory in the match with Sevilla, when the team turned out to have a small advantage of three goals, which is easy to win the match.

Never say never and anything can happen. But I still agree that it is very difficult to imagine that the Manchester United management, in the event of Solskjaer's dismissal, will consider Mourinho's figure as a priority. However, I still did not compare Mourinho's situation at Roma and Ole Gunnar's situation at Manchester United, because there are completely different things here. With all due respect to Roma, it is difficult for me to put the current Roma squad and the current Manchester United squad on the same level. It is not for nothing that Jose Mourinho has already begun to openly show dissatisfaction with the composition and transfers of Roma in front of the club's sports director. It is also worth mentioning that Solskjaer has been in charge of the club for the third year, and Mourinho has just joined the Italian club.

Juventus has a fairly good squad and a qualified coach, so as not to be in 8th place in the standings, but at least to fight among the leaders. I would not say that the composition of Milan, and even more so of Napoli, is radically better than the composition of Juventus. I would not say that the composition of Milan, and even more so of Napoli, is radically better than the composition of Juventus. I do not think that Juventus' gap from the leaders is catastrophic and we are not winning back, although of course we already need to try not to lose points with middle-class clubs and teams below ourselves. There are still 26 rounds ahead and a lot more can happen, given that Milan and Napoli are losing points abnormally little and may well start it further.