This season is still continuing like a nightmare for Leicester. They won only once so far which was against Nottingham. They don't have much problem on the attacking side but the problems on their defense are still at a huge level. The only way to solve this issue seems like signing new defenders. But they still have a lot of time left for the January transfer window. They need to focus on their game as much as possible until then as a result.

Besides, they didn't concede a goal against Crystal Palace which might be seen as an improvement in their defending. If they defend Leeds in the same way they can get their second win of the season finally. But I still don't prefer to bet on Leicester as I can't fully trust them. I just hope that they can win and start climbing the positions.

Nuke is one of the most successful maps for Eternal Fire indeed but it is still hard to trust them about their win easily. Astralis are even ahead by 10-2 which is a really worrying score for Eternal Fire. XANTARES has played passively so far and this isn't good for the team at all.

Because they are relying on XANTARES' incredible aim too much that they struggle quite a lot when he doesn't get many frags. For example, they won on Overpass thanks to XANTARES' incredible performance with 32 frags. But on Nuke things are going even worse by every round for the team. Eternal Fire players are playing carelessly also. They don't check every corner and this causes them to be caught very easily. If they don't find a solution to this they will say goodbye to BLAST Premier also.

Liverpool have been showing a really positive performance in the West Ham match so far. They have dominated the first 60 minutes and they are still in the lead by 1-0. But I believe that it is a very risky score. West Ham have dangerous attacking players and they can punish them unexpectedly. I don't even know why Liverpool are struggling this much to score more than one goal against them. They aren't Manchester City in the end. They could have even scored more goals to Manchester City for example.

But I hope that they will break the deadlock sooner or later and relieve themselves finally. I've bet on Liverpool win so I'm not very comfortable with this score now.    By the way it was nice to see that Nunez scored the goal. He really needs to improve his self-confidence by continuing to score regularly.

Astralis - Eternal Fire is going on with the second map, Overpass.

The first map was a disaster for Eternal Fire. Dust2 was one of their most performing maps actually and they showed it by a great start too. The team had a good system and the score was even 9-3 to their advantage at some point. However they started to make the same mistake they made against ENCE. Astralis suddenly started to collect themselves due to the mistakes of their opponent and made a great comeback. The result was 16-14.

Eternal Fire made a good start on Overpass by bringing the score to 5-0 but they are still making the same mistakes which caused them to lose 2 rounds right after that. It is still difficult to believe in such team to win truthfully. Despite Astralis' bad form it feels like they will win anyway.

I see people are talking about Manchester City for the Champions League title this season mostly. I don't see anyone even mentioning PSG but I still understand that. Because PSG have seemed interesting on the recent weeks of the tournament. I mean that they couldn't beat even Benfica in both matches. I wouldn't like to underestimate Benfica but they are not as strong as PSG in the end. I would have expected to see PSG winning in their home match at least.

This started to make me doubt their performance after the group stage. The trio must focus on their game completely otherwise they might have another disappointment by being eliminated earlier than they expected just as it happened last season. For now, Manchester City seem the closest team to the title considering the performances.

It was definitely the situation. YEKINDAR carried the team literally in the recent tournaments. This is a huge power loss for Liquid as a result and I wonder how much they will be affected by this big loss. I guess we won't find out about it much until the Major which is going to take place on November 5. Maybe we will see Liquid not even being able to get past the group stage there. They really need to find another solid fragger to fill YEKINDAR's place strongly.

TSM might be a nice choice for YEKINDAR maybe as they are entering CS: GO again after a long time. We might see very familiar faces there also like maybe some of the old Astralis players. They don't think of buying any team so they are going to build the team from scratch. YEKINDAR is a huge opportunity to take advantage of for them.

Manchester United - Tottenham will be a really interesting match to follow tomorrow. Because even though there is a 7-point difference between these teams in the standings, this is still a match that is open for any kind of a result.

Their last rendezvous here was a goal duel as Manchester United got ahead three times and won 3-2 finally. This time things are a little more different. Tottenham have strengthened their squad and performance both. They are one of the biggest candidates for the league title I mean. There is some change in Manchester United also by Erik ten Hag's system. But they are still a quite inconsistent team in general. I mean that there is some development about the defense but the offense is still problematic. They missed huge chances of scoring goals against Newcastle last for example. As I don't trust their attacking side and I know how good Tottenham are about it, I just want to give Tottenham a chance @2.80.

It seems like Mbappe won't be leaving the team anytime soon. I mean at least there will be no transfer in January as he stated it that way himself recently. It would have been really interesting if Mbappe decided to leave the team in the middle of the season suddenly. Because he must be still aiming to win the Champions League title with PSG before leaving in the future. Maybe he won't leave even in the summer in case they get very close to achieving the title this season.

I don't include the probability of winning the title for that because I believe that he would definitely leave then. Because he would already achieve his biggest target with the team in the end. If he decides to leave I'm really confident that Real Madrid would be on the line to sign him before any other team.

They must be really thankful for Liverpool to defeat Manchester City magically last week while it was expected the opposite of this incident to happen. It is really difficult to predict if Arsenal can make it to the title already now. Because I still believe that Manchester City are much stronger than all of their opponents in the league this season. They would surely continue to prove this by the results they will get in the future. I expect very positive results from them in most of their big matches. Arsenal couldn't win the Premier League title since the 2003-04 season so I think it'd be lovely to see them winning it after long years.

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Manchester United disappointed me by not being able to defeat Newcastle. Maybe it was a tough match but they could have won this if they didn't waste absolute chances. Fred missed a completely empty goal and I wonder whether Rashford could score if he used the ball himself instead. There was a critical header by Rashford in the last minute but he wasted that chance. Actually before all of this, Newcastle found critical chances with Joelinton but his two consecutive headers in the same attack bounced off the goal post. Maybe things would have been even worse for Manchester United.

To tell the truth, I don't think that the Europa League is fitting one of the biggest teams in Europe like Barcelona. I'm pretty sure that @Daniel91 meant the same.

Because Barcelona have always been known as one of the strongest teams of the Champions League. They won the title five times so they have a great history here. Considering the quality level of Barcelona, the Europa League is dragging them down from that level. They were mocked for joining the Europa League last season and it will be the same for this one also. Some teams don't have the luxury of competing in lower tournaments like that and Barcelona are one of these numbered teams.

I assume that Mbappe has put an end to the speculations about him to leave by making this statement on the link below.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/kylian-mbappe-responds-to-psg-exit-rumours-french-striker-still-linked-with-real-madrid-move/view/news/412353

He refuted all the rumours about him to leave PSG in January above all else. He stated that he was completely happy there. It looks like there is not even one time Mbappe asked PSG for his departure from the team in January so this has been all about rumours then. I also found the January claims not very realistic because I mean what must have happened that could affect him to decide to leave at the earliest opportunity? But I'm still not sure about the summer. Because it might depend on the success of the team. More importantly, it might depend on how much PSG take Mbappe's recommendations into consideration until then.

YEKINDAR has become a free agent officially.

He was first brought as a replacement for buster. But he was one of the most important players for Liquid for a long time. His contribution to the successes of his team recently was really big. It is interesting to see that he has bought himself out of his contract with Liquid. I wasn't expecting such thing to happen honestly because things were going on amazing for Liquid in the recent times. They are the 4th biggest team in the world rankings right now. I wonder what team will be his next station. I hope that he becomes a part of one of the strongest teams. Because he has a great talent not to waste with lower teams.

https://www.hltv.org/news/34814/yekindar-becomes-free-agent

I think that the turning point of the El Clasico might be Lewandowski's wasting an absolute goal chance in the first half. He couldn't score against an empty goal and missed the chance to equalize the score. Real Madrid seemed really strong against them this time. This 3-1 win made up for their huge loss here in the previous season also.

Barcelona actually found quite many chances to score but wasted so many at the same time. I was expecting them to perform better in the La Liga unlike the Champions League. But I didn't see much thing changing. This loss was a signal by Real Madrid to them for the rest of the season actually. If Barcelona don't answer them in Camp Nou in the same way then it would be really difficult for them to win the title this season.

Juventus ve Barcelona bu sezonun hayal kırıklığı yaratan takımlarından gerçekten de. İkisi de şu ana kadar berbat bir grup aşaması geçirdi ve matematiksel olarak elenmelerine de ramak kalmış durumda.

Juventus Maccabi Haifa gibi çok basit bir rakibi ilk maçta yenip ikinci maçta 2-0 yenildiler. Bu maçı kazanmış olsalardı devam etme şanslarını yükseltmiş olacaklardı ama işleri yine de zor olacaktı tabi ki. Allegri'nin kovulma ihtimali üzerinde duruluyor ama ilerleyen günlerde göreceğiz. Serie A'da da başarısızlık gelirse kovulur diye düşünüyorum. Barcelona ise Şampiyonlar Ligi'nde farklı La Liga'da farklı oynuyor. Defansif anlamda Şampiyonlar Ligi'nde çok zayıf kalıyorlar. Inter'e sahalarında nerdeyse yenilebilirlerdi bile çünkü Inter 4. gol için mutlak fırsatlar harcadı. Buradan elenmek finansal anlamda takımı zora sokacaktır.

I believe that Leclerc has a really huge potential to perform much better than this. It's just Ferrari screwing things up most of the time. I'm indicating it as "mostly" because Leclerc also makes some mistakes from time to time. He is admitting his mistakes when he does also which is a really professional move by him. But Ferrari should be able to give him a proper car next season.

They had big hopes at the beginning because they had the fastest car on the grid. Red Bull were struggling with big problems like durability. Verstappen and Perez both had bad days then. However Red Bull still managed to fix things very quickly. This time Ferrari had the same problems but the thing was that they weren't capable of solving them. After Leclerc captured a big advantage over Verstappen he was suddenly way behind him. Leclerc deserves a fair fight for the title so I hope Ferrari return better than this.

Tuchel's taking over the England job seems really likely but it is expected to happen after the World Cup ends. But I think that it will depend on Southgate's success rate. If they have a solid run in the biggest tournament in the world then the board might be willing to keep him here for a longer time. He still has a contract running until the end of 2024 actually. However he might decide to leave anyway even if he becomes successful in the World Cup. As Tuchel is one of the valuable coaches he might be a good replacement for him.

But I was expecting to see Tuchel signing for a European team rather than a national team. This made me surprised. It's claimed that he's got offers from some Premier League teams but he rejected them. Most probably they weren't among big teams of the league.

Besiktas - Trabzonspor seems like the match of this week.

I don't think that there is a big difference between these teams on the recent weeks. Besiktas are only one point ahead of their opponent. There is a really interesting look in the standings by the way because even the 7th team are only one point behind the leader. I don't see any clear favourite here even though the odds are showing Besiktas as quite advantageous.

The odds are:

Besiktas: 2.04
Draw: 3.55
Trabzonspor: 3.35

Trabzonspor are coming back from the Europa League match with a huge morale. Because they demolished Monaco by 4-0 home. Besiktas don't have a good record against Trabzonspor in the head-to-heads (home matches) also. They couldn't defeat Trabzonspor here since 2016. I wonder if they will be extra motivated to end this bad series also. Both teams to score seems like the best option for me to bet on @1.69.

Leicester are going to host Crystal Palace tomorrow in the first match of the day. The horrible run is still continuing for Leicester side. They won only once in nine match weeks so far and we are seeing them at the last position in the standings at the moment. I have never seen this team this much desperate in the Premier League. They just experienced everything in this league like becoming the champions and being under a big threat of relegating from the league.

They are still dealing with enormous defensive issues and even Rodgers has no idea how to solve these issues now as it seems. The only way might be signing new players to their defense line but there are still many weeks until the winter transfer window. They have no choice other than trying to win as many matches as possible until then.

For this matchup, I think that Leicester might find a way to win even if they concede goal(s). I'll give them a chance @2.38.

Barcelona haven't performed decently in the Champions League indeed. They are going to the Europa League most probably. But this isn't the case when it comes to the La Liga. People should be able to differentiate this fact now. They are showing a much higher level of performance in this league. Of course they should have cared about the Champions League as much as this league because it is important for them to reach as good level as possible to make more money.

When it comes to the El Clasico I don't think that there is any certain favourite. Barcelona destroyed them here by a huge score last season. Hence Ancelotti had better prepare his players better this time. Lewandowski is in a solid condition and they will need to stay awake in defense all the time. I think that it might be a draw match this time. I believe that BTTS is a quite nice choice which has 1.50 odd.

I wanted to make a betslip of ESL Challenger Rotterdam matches and prepared this one:

Eternal Fire win (1.57)
Outsiders to win first map (1.34)
MOUZ to win round 16 on first map (1.54)

The third one is pretty risky actually but I wanted to take that risk for increasing the total odd to 3.24. I hope MOUZ win the pistol round in the second half.    I believe in Eternal Fire to win against Movistar Riders. They did this in the RMR easily. Movistar Riders are not even close to their old shape since they lost SunPayus especially. Outsiders have a comfortable matchup against Fluxo. Fluxo haven't faced a big opponent like Outsiders for a long time. I don't think they can surprise us by a win.

By the way these matches are BO1 in fact but there are some options like "first map" among betting options and it helps me increase the odd by that. It seems better to continue with those options in this case.