Ronaldo can really join Chelsea side next summer. It depends on especially Manchester United's being able to qualify for the Champions League this season. Maybe this is the main factor but I can predict a side factor that can strengthen the probability of him to leave also. This side factor is that Erik ten Hag still doesn't give him any chance to be in the starting eleven of EPL matches. If Ronaldo continues not to get much chance then this can cause him to be more decisive about leaving.

Chelsea have Aubameyang now maybe but it seems like they can lose him to PSG indeed. Let's say they kept Aubameyang then there would be an interesting challenge between him and Ronaldo in the team. Because they both are playing in the same position so one of them would need to wait in the subs.

Salah was like a ghost in this match. Klopp subbed him off after 70 minutes. Something interesting has happened to Salah since he signed his new contract. He doesn't seem like he is caring about showing a solid performance just like in the old times. We aren't accustomed to see him this much ineffective in a season.

Liverpool are still struggling with serious defense issues and this continues to cost them loss of points. They conceded three goals again just as it happened against Brighton one week earlier. Liverpool were not even close to this poor level of defending last season so I wonder what's changed now. As long as crucial defenders like van Dijk don't play consistently, Liverpool have nowhere to run.

Napoli - Ajax could be the last chance for Ajax to maintain their claim for the next round in the Champions League. Because Liverpool would defeat Rangers easily again. Maybe it is too difficult but Ajax have no other choice than winning against Napoli in Italy.

However this seems a really far possibility now. Because we all watched what Napoli did to Ajax in Amsterdam (6-1). There is even no way Ajax are getting close to even stealing one point here. Napoli demolished Liverpool by 4-1 home before. They can get a similar result against Ajax as well. Their offense and defense both are way stronger than their opponent. Ajax have been struggling with serious problems for two matches in this tournament and I don't expect them to solve them completely until this match.

Marseille should have been able to win this match but even lost it by 2-1.

Balerdi's own goal was really unlucky Marseille found two important goal chances while we were getting close to the end but they wasted them both. Bamba Dieng wasted an unbelievable chance. If he was able to become a little more patient then they could have at least scored the equalizer in the last moments of stoppage time. They should consider themselves lucky because PSG also lost points this week. The red card was effective in that point loss. However Marseille have lost their place to Lorient already. But I don't think only this loss would affect them very badly about their form.

FIA were a huge fiasco today. I really wonder what kind of people are in race control now. This was an important race for Verstappen to announce his second title. I don't know how FIA can't get more prepared for a special race like this. They made really unbelievable mistakes. Some of them were like:

- We saw a tractor coming in before the drivers entered pit lane.
- They finished the race one lap early.
- Gasly got unbelievable penalties like 20-sec time penalty and 2 penalty points for speeding under red flag (But as for FIA's huge mistake about the tractor, there is no problem according to them  ).
- They shouldn't have given full points for this race because it wasn't even a full race.
- They weren't even sure of Verstappen's championship for a while.  

I think Leclerc's penalty was fair because he pushed Perez outside while Perez was trying to overtake him. We see 5-sec penalty being given in this kind of situations actually.

I believed in Eternal Fire with my bet but they showed another poor performance and lost. Rather than disbanding I think that they need some more changes. First they should replace imoRR immediately as he has literally no game sense. I don't have any bad words for his aim because it is really impressive. But aim isn't adequate by itself if you are playing for a team. You need to improve your vision and you should be able to think sophisticatedly. If you just focus on peeking everyone at any time then you don't deserve your position in that team.

As we are getting interesting results in the RMR I really wonder what kind of Major we will have this time. There are already some big teams that have been eliminated before reaching that stage. It is good to see some different results to make things more competitive but it's still interesting to see these big teams losing to much lower teams by big scores.

I'm really mad at Barcelona as my betslip lost only because of their not being able to defeat Inter. But I really appreciate Inter's resistance against them because there was totally a different team there. It was like there was no sign of the Inter that played against Roma and lost by 2-1 home. Now they have a nice advantage of being three points ahead of Barcelona in the group.

However in the match in Camp Nou, I expect none other than a Barcelona win. I've checked the odds and Barcelona have a 1.46 odd for the win. This is a convincing odd for me to add to my new betslip for the CL. They must have learned their lesson from their mistakes in the previous match. I expect Xavi to prepare his players much better for next time. I can't stand watching Barcelona in the Europa League once again so they must win this one of the important matches.

Inter are considering of extending with Hakan Calhanoglu after hearing about some interest in him. Everton seem to be among the teams interested. However I don't see any reason for Calhanoglu to choose to play for them instead of continuing his career at Inter in a much better way.

When he left Milan to join their biggest rival like Inter, Milan fans were really disappointed and angry at him. He played great there and he continues to show a good level of performance at Inter as well. He scored a really nice goal against Barcelona also and it was important for the win. As a result I think Inter would reach an agreement with him for extending his contract for at least two more years. Everton had better focus on their game first because there is nothing attracting in them to convince him to come.

Lyon have started to the match very fast by getting 1-0 ahead in the 2nd minute already. It's like Toulouse haven't been winning against Lyon for so many years. It's since 2014 I mean. Lyon would benefit from this psychological predominance very well also. Maybe their current conditions in the league table aren't too different from each other. But Lyon still have a dominance in this matchup considering the qualities of these teams.

I know that Lyon have been terrible lately as they lost their last 4 league matches. But this can't always go on like this in the end and this seems to be the match they rise again. By the way it was pretty interesting to see Lyon starting to screw things up very quickly after a good start. I wonder if they will be able to maintain a good form after winning this.

Most people were expecting Atletico Madrid and Porto to qualify from the group but now things have got really interesting. Now these teams are both having a worrying run in the group matches. Porto have newly got their win against Leverkusen. On the other hand, Atletico Madrid lost their last two matches by not scoring a single goal. There are still three weeks in the group stage of course. There is an equality in points among Leverkusen and those two teams in the end.

But one thing is pretty clear indeed that Club Brugge would finish the stage at the first position. Depending on their opponent in last 16 round they might even qualify for quarter finals. Because they are very consistent in the Champions League just as they are in the Jupiler League.

The Turkish team Eternal Fire started to make up for their losses so far by defeating Aurora today. It could have ended by a 2-0 victory also actually but they handed over a good advantage to their opponent on Mirage. After overtime Aurora kept their hopes up on the last map. But Eternal Fire didn't mess up things on Nuke. I still don't like their team performance at all. If you check the individual stats carefully you can see e.g. XANTARES being one of the most performing players in the tournament now. But they are losing a lot as for team effort. imoRR should be replaced immediately. Btw, paz's performance on Nuke was incredible (22 frags) as it was very effective in taking the win. XANTARES was already amazing by 29 frags as always.

Tomorrow they have a matchup against fnatic as Cloud9 lost to NIP. If that match ended the opposite way then G2 were going to be their opponent. I think fnatic matchup is better than that but they should still be very careful in this one. fnatic were nearly defeating FaZe but they lost to B8 also which was shocking to see. I think Eternal Fire can defeat them by a slight gap if they play better as a team. I'll give them a chance @2.27.

Arsenal - Liverpool is obviously the main event on this week. Arsenal are in a pretty solid condition in the league now. It was important for them to win against Tottenham and they did it by a solid effort. Maybe the red card was a help also but Tottenham were already not as effective as Arsenal before that too. Arsenal play really different in Emirates. I mean they are more capable of controlling the match without looking at the opponent.

Liverpool are still having defensive issues. Even van Dijk isn't reliable recently. I wonder if Klopp will be able to find a way out. The win over Rangers would be a boost in their morale but I still can't trust them much here. If they can't get better at defending in this one then Arsenal can win this. Besides both teams should be able to find at least one goal easily.

Lazio actually were so close to getting ahead if Immobile's goal wasn't disallowed by VAR due to offside. They could have won the match then I think.



Besides Lazio don't care about the Europa League much as it's seemed so far. I'd like to remind you of their 5-1 loss against Midtjylland on the previous match week. It was the biggest surprise for people and that was the moment we understood how much they care about the tournament.    Therefore I don't recommend anyone to add Lazio to their betslips in the Europa League. But they are really credible in the Serie A these days.

PSG really lost two points huh.

It was a very lucky moment for Benfica I believe. Because they were really helpless in the second half. PSG did everything they could to get a win here but somehow it ended by a 1-1 draw. PSG are still comfortable in the group of course. But maybe they might have missed the opportunity of guaranteeing their lead by the fourth group matches already.

PSG are not very comfortable in the Ligue 1 as there is a Marseille threat right behind now. Therefore PSG had better secure the lead early here to focus on the Ligue 1 more until last 16 stage in the Champions League starts.

Spirit's losing to Sprout was a surprise for me too. There is a significant gap between these two teams normally. Sprout are a team on the decline while Spirit are the opposite. But Sprout's amazing 10-3 CT performance on Mirage helped them get the win.

Congrats on your wins on Cloud9 - G2 bet. After a pretty challenging matchup Cloud9 took the win by 16-13. Ax1Le's extra performance with 26 kills was a big help in this win. G2 are having some difficulties after being eliminated by Vitality in the ESL Pro League but they'd pull themselves together soon I guess.

FaZe were pretty unreliable on the last days so I didn't want to bet on them. They were so close to losing this matchup actually as fnatic were doing a great job on Nuke even though it was one of FaZe's best maps. FaZe had a big difficulty in carrying the match to OT. There was a 19-17 FaZe win at the end. But fnatic's effort was worth watching as it was really promising at the same time. I liked mezii the most as he was one of the top fraggers in the match by 31 kills at the same time. nicoodoz's playing style with AWP is really delightful by the way as it's very brave. 

If Rashford joins PSG then I doubt his playing time there. It's because they already have a great trio of Neymar, Mbappe and Messi. I don't think that Galtier would like to change this trio that easy as long as one of them doesn't want to leave the team next summer. Each one of them is a better player than Rashford now. So if we see Rashford joining them under these conditions he would most probably be a substitute of these players mostly.

Besides yeah, Manchester United are really in danger of losing a talented young player like him for free. Rashford doesn't seem like he is eager to sign a new contract now. Or I wonder if Manchester United haven't even tried yet? The same thing happened with Pogba also and they let him go for free. If they don't do anything about Rashford too then it will happen again.

My betslip lost already after Barcelona couldn't win against Inter. The last match was Juventus win and it looks like they can manage to do this. Even though they are 1-0 ahead now they weren't very dominant in the first half. Maccabi Haifa also had many goal attempts and Juventus didn't have a striking ball possession statistics as well. Allegri had better warn his players to take control of the match in the second half. Otherwise this is still giving hope to their opponent for a draw.

EDIT: Juventus have just scored their second goal which must relieve them a lot from now on. 

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Even though Benfica scored the equalizer I don't think that they can resist PSG. I expect to see a more solid performance from the trio in the second half and win this one. Because I believe PSG would like to finish their job in the group stage earlier by defeating Benfica in both matchups. Because in this way they will guarantee their lead in the group most probably.

Suzuka is definitely Hamilton's track normally. He already loves to push himself harder on difficult tracks like this. He has so many victories gained on this track for example. However he is unlucky that he doesn't have a fast car anymore (at least for now  ). Hence I don't think that he can make any surprise with a car like this even under rain.

I've checked the weather report for Suzuka btw and it looks like another rainy race might be waiting for us.  



Verstappen made simple mistakes in Singapore and missed a big chance to climb to the top. Under similar conditions I expect him to drive more carefully this time. In addition to this, as far as I know winning this race by having the fastest lap is going to be enough for Verstappen to declare his title before the remaining four races. Because after that Verstappen is still keeping the lead even if he doesn't get any points in the last four races and Leclerc wins them with fastest laps. So I think this will be a big motivation for Verstappen to win this.

Messi could have been able to play beside Haaland at Manchester City if the English team made a serious offer for Messi. I don't know if we can see this duo in the same team in the future. Messi is already getting really old and we don't know when he is thinking of retiring. Maybe he would play for long years just as Ronaldo has been planning.

Truthfully I'd like to see Messi - Haaland duo. It feels like these two can have a very good relationship with each other and this would be an even bigger contribution to the attacking power of a team. I don't think that Messi's next stop would be a different team than Barcelona if he leaves. Maybe PSG would bring Haaland in the future in case Neymar leaves. Mbappe can play on the wing also in the end. Then this trio would be much stronger and this time PSG would be unstoppable rather than Manchester City. 

RMR tournament in CS:GO has finally started!

We have left day 1 behind. I can't say that we saw much of a surprise in general. However I was surprised about the FaZe - GamerLegion and Bad News Eagles - Eternal Fire matchups. FaZe were barely able to defeat their opponent after 4 OTs. This was very unexpected honestly. There is a huge quality difference between these teams but there is a very visible drop in FaZe's performance recently. That must be why they had this much difficulty in this one.

As for the other matchup, Eternal Fire should have been able to win this. Dust2 was like one of their best maps and their opponent was also not stronger than them. But at one point we saw Bad News Eagles leading the match by 11-1 which was a nightmare for Eternal Fire. They still figured out a way after starting to play on CT side. They made a great comeback and even got ahead by 13-12. But in the last rounds typically Eternal Fire started to mess up things and their opponent punished them for it by winning 16-14. XANTARES is trying his best but they are still having tactical issues as a team.