Arteta is really good at solving Guardiola's game and collecting important points against him. He was his student at Manchester City before in the end right?    After all this effort it would be a pity if Arsenal still don't achieve the PL trophy this season.    They really have a tough fixture waiting for them in the last weeks though.

I'm okay with a champion except Manchester City. Because I want their domination to be broken. It isn't nice to see the PL turning into a farmers league you know.

If Arsenal do this job it would be a huge success after a 20-year break. If Liverpool do it Klopp would say the best kind of goodbye to this 9-year journey.

Barcelona Las Palmas'ı oynatmasa da kendi de çok iyi oynadı diyemem. Las Palmas'ın daha 24. dakikada gördüğü kırmızı karta rağmen Barcelona anca 1-0 yenebildi. Raphinha daha önceden attığı golün VAR'dan dönmesi üzerine 2. yarıda tekrar golü attıktan sonra VAR inceleme hareketiyle gol sevinci yaptı. 

Lewandowski bu maçta pek iyi oynayamadı. Geçenki Atletico Madrid maçında çok iyi iş çıkarmıştı. Lewandowski artık eskisi kadar katkı veremiyor ve belki de bu yaz onunla yollar ayrılabilir bile. Yıllık 27 milyon euro alan bir forvetin bu kadar az gol atması yönetimi memnun etmez.

Alonso is really keen on joining a bigger and more capable team lately. He has been clearly showing his interest for seats that might be available next year. If he is being transferred by Mercedes or maybe even Red Bull it would be really interesting. I would be very keen on watching him fighting hard against his teammate whoever he will be. 

Alonso is still very competitive. He wants to achieve one last title before his retirement. His reflexes are still in incredible shape. I still can't forget his rivalry with Perez in the Brazilian GP last year.    But we'll see. If Aramco makes a move to buy Aston Martin like it is rumoured then maybe Alonso can be convinced to stay with big targets.

Didier Deschamps has been managing France for like 12 years... Such a long time isn't it?    In the meantime he achieved World Cup and Nations League titles once each. Do you think France board would think of replacing him if he doesn't become successful in Euro 2024? The reason why I ask this question is Zidane's interest in the job also.

Zidane hasn't managed any team for almost 3 years after leaving Real Madrid. He hasn't had any interest other than managing France since then.

I believe Zidane can make France more successful. Because he is really good at winning titles with teams that have a great squad. We have seen his work with Real Madrid like winning the CL title 3 years in a row. 

Sevilla are a really special team in the Europa League though. Even if they have a terrible season in the La Liga it is still not an obstacle for them to win an EL title.

Just look at their dominance in the EL in the last 10 years:



It is incredible work right?    However we don't have them in the EL this time. They just finished their Champions League group at the last position. But if they somehow managed to make it to the EL then I would definitely add them among the biggest contenders no matter what.

By the way Emery has also been very successful in these years. 3 titles with Sevilla and 1 title with Villarreal also.    He is also a great manager with a solid career.

Mourinho is actually very keen on returning to his job at a team soon. He was interviewed by Fabrizio Romano some days ago and here is the video to that on official Fabrizio Romano YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvBecycojo

Mourinho was linked with Napoli once but the rumours dropped a short time later. Now they are spreading rumours such as he can be Milan's next manager. However I don't think it will happen either. Mourinho should choose his next team wisely. He has a traditional system depending on defending. Milan are rather an attacking team as you know. 

Mourinho rejected Saudi Arabia offer once while he was managing Roma. But now maybe he could find that option reasonable for himself, what do you think?

I really don't understand either when a team has really good attackers but still becomes obstinate to play rather a defensive game.    Who is managing Poland, Mourinho?    The fans had better not be much expectant from Poland while playing a boring football. They literally qualified for Euro 2024 by 0 shot on target and penalty shootouts after.

Ronaldo has decided to help his teammates one more time to win another Euro title after the one in 2016. I wasn't expecting him to play for his national team this long truthfully. However I'm not feeling like Portugal will win the title. The qualifier performance could be tricky because their group was just too easy you know. 

It will be a top work by Emery if Aston Villa finish the season in top 4. Because this was never Aston Villa's main goal at the beginning of the season. But here we are witnessing another 'Emery effect'.    He is really good at carrying average teams to much higher levels. Doing this in the most quality league realy deserves applause.

However their remaining fixture includes really challenging matches such as Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. Besides both of Tottenham and Manchester United have a missing match to play also.

Do you think Emery will manage to complete this mission by a CL qualification?    I think they deserve it.

It doesn't look like Napoli will be able to reach top 4 this season. Is there anyone who still believes in them to do this now?

This would have really negative consequences for this team truthfully. Like not being able to prevent some of their valuable players from leaving this summer already.    Napoli were already not a consistent title contender before though. Only the last season was like a dream for them thanks to Spalletti. This was what motivated their best players to stay longer.

However now players like Osimhen, Kvaratskhelia could seriously think about leaving... No Champions League means no success for them of course.

Osimhen bu sezon Serie A'da Napoli'nin maçlarının nerdeyse yarısını kaçırdı ve 17 maçta 11 gol attı. Geçen sezona kıyasla çok iyi bir istatistik değil tabi ama sakatlıklar falan derken çok maç kaçırdı. Ayrıca bu sezon Napoli takım olarak da kötü oynuyor. Osimhen bence istikrarlı bir takıma giderse orada bireysel yeteneklerini daha iyi gösterebilir.

Şu anki piyasa değeri 110 milyon euro olarak görünüyor ki Napoli bundan daha fazla para isteyecektir. Günümüzde böyle yetenekli oyunculara çok ciddi fiyat biçiliyor ve bu konuda ne yazık ki yapacak bir şey yok.    Zengin ve böyle bir oyuncu ihtiyacı olan takımlar çekinmeden bu parayı öderler.

It must be really annoying for Porto to be behind Benfica by 9 points still even after they destroyed them by 5-0 in this month. Probably the gap would go down to 6 points again as I expect Porto to win against Estoril without problems. But it looks like there won't be a miracle like Sporting and Benfica both start getting poor results for weeks.

Porto won't be able to qualify for the Champions League also if things go on like this. Because the Liga Portugal has only 2 spots one of which is not even directly for the group stage. 

When it comes to who will become champion I believe Sporting will make it. The Sporting - Benfica match on April 6 will play a huge role in this. 

Real Madrid - Athletic Bilbao maçı biraz dişli geçebilir bence de ama yine kazanan Real Madrid olur diye düşünüyorum. Daha önce deplasmanda Real Madrid 2-0 kazanmıştı ama bu maç ligin daha ilk haftasında oynandı. Oturmuş bir oyun düzeni ile Athletic Bilbao Bernabeu'dan bir şeyler koparabilir mi göreceğiz.

Olur da Real Madrid puan kaybederse ligin son haftalarında şampiyonluk rekabeti açısından heyecan biraz daha artabilir. Real Madrid'in yine de 8 puan gibi bir avantajının olması Barcelona için işleri ciddi derecede zorlaştırıyor. Bence bu fark kapanmaz ve Ancelotti 1 sezon aradan sonra tekrar şampiyonluk yaşar. 

I haven't been following CS tournaments for a while until the Major. I must admit the competition has been going on really lovely until now. 

I'm thinking of placing some bets for the remaining quarter final series. The current odds on TrustDice are like below:



While Natus Vincere doesn't have s1mple in the roster and Eternal Fire are shining like a star I'm trying my luck with Eternal Fire @1.90.

For the other series I think it is worth adding MOUZ to win to the parlay. They are really close teams these days but MOUZ's increasing graph really impresses me. I'm going with their win @1.65.

Let's see how things go down. 

Euro 2024 grubumuzdaki rakiplere şöyle bir bakınca üst tura çıkabiliriz demek istiyorum.    Portekiz en büyük tehdit ve muhtemelen bizi yenerler. Buna rağmen biz hem Çekya hem de Gürcistan'ı yenip en kötü 2. olarak üst tura çıkabiliriz. Bu turnuvada kesinlikle bir şeyler yapabilmemiz lazım. Çok yetenekli oyunculara sahibiz bunu iyi değerlendirmemiz lazım. Euro 2024 elemelerinde Montella geldikten sonra daha iyi oynamaya başlamıştık. Aynı azmi grup aşamasında da gördüğümüz sürece iyi iş çıkartırız bana göre. Hazırlık maçındaki kadro seçimi ile ana turnuvadaki aynı olmaz.

Yeah fame is another factor of course. He is a 7-time world champion driver also therefore Ferrari wanted to go for him right away when there was an opportunity available. I hope Ferrari also get better in time and they can give Hamilton and Leclerc a strong car that can compete with Red Bull. Otherwise they will have to wait for another season. 

Having Horner, Newey and Hamilton all at Ferrari? It would be insane.    Besides Bono is also likely to follow Hamilton right behind to Ferrari. If these things all happen we might start watching the team at top changing finally.

Newey is just a great engineer. He can design wonderful cars for Ferrari also.

Mehmet Şimşek'in görevden affını istemesi beklenmedik bir gelişme olmaz bana göre de. Çünkü son zamanlarda çok garip açıklamalar da yapmaya başladı. Beklenen güveni oluşturabildiği söylenemez. Açıklamaları iktidar kanadında oy kaybına bile yol açabilir. Kim gelirse gelsin tam bağımsız bir şekilde hareket edemiyor tabi ama bu şekilde Mehmet Şimşek ile devam edeceklerini de sanmam.

Enflasyon üzerinde olumlu bir etki görülene kadar bana bu değişiklikleri çok görürüz gibi geliyor. Ayrıca en başta faizi aşağıda tutma inadı olmasaydı şimdi durumlar daha iyi olabilirdi.

What do you think, is the old Brazil back after these results? 

Joking aside it is of course not easy to make an assumption depending on just a friendly match. But especially in the match against Spain Brazil players looked very ambitious. It was like we were watching a World Cup finale you know.    When they made the score 3-3 their happiness was like they won an important match in a competition.

They had better show the same ambition in the World Cup qualifiers immediately. Otherwise they might even risk their quota for that. I guess things wouldn't come to that point but it is always better to take precautions in time.

Buna kesinlikle katılıyorum. Her seçim şöyle sistem kuracağız böyle takip edeceğiz diyorlar sonra yine sıkıntılar çıkıyor. Ülkede seçimlerin sonuçlarının doğruluğunu takip etmek bu kadar zor olmamalı. Geçen seçimde bir de herkes kendi sistemine göre kendini önde gösterme çabasındaydı. Bunun adı seçim değil başka bir şeye dönüşmeye başladı. Tarafsız bir sistem oluşturulsun o zaman kimse müdahale etmesin. Yok Anadolu Ajansı iktidar tarafını önde başlatıyor yok ANKA muhalefeti önde gösteriyor muhabbetleri yaşanmaz böylece.

England and France are quite highly favoured for the championship. However I wouldn't have expected England to be favoured the most truthfully.    I don't know maybe their reaching the finale of Euro 2020 was also a factor in this. But I would rather show France as the biggest favourite anyway. I believe they are still the strongest among these teams.

When it comes to England they really have an amazing squad which is full of so talented players. But their problem has been with the management. That's why they can't win a title even for once for many years. 

Southgate isn't the right guy for this job I mean. England officials should consider a change to start off with a clean slate.

Uğurcan Çakır aslında oldukça yetenekli bir kaleciydi ama gittikçe kötüleşmeye başladı. Motivasyonunu mu kaybetti ne olduysa dün gece de çok kötü bir performans ortaya koydu. Normalde çıkarabileceği basit goller yedi. Tabi ki tüm maçı onun üzerine yıkmak gibi bir niyetim yok yanlış anlaşılmasın. Onun yetersiz performansının yanında takım olarak da kötüydük. 

Kadroda o kadar yetenekli oyuncu varken Avusturya'ya 6-1 gibi ezici bir skorla yenilmek üzücü. Belki de bu, ilk 11'de çok fazla oyuncu değişikliklerine gitmemizle alakalıdır. Takım uyumu çok önemli bir şey o yüzden Montella belli bir ilk 11 oturtup üzerinde fazla değişiklik yapmadan takım kimyasını artırmaya odaklanmalı.