I do recall some social posts admiring the way he managed Al Sadd and developed their play style with passing game and making the game more easy like he used to play at Barcelona. I think managing a bigger club is a new challenge for him but I think if he succeeds then he will revive Barcelona to its earlier days.

Regarding Guardiola, his usually managing style is to keep the possession but when he was at Barcelona it was actually the players in my opinion who took into another level with tiki taka and all. Guardiola has managed so many big clubs after Barcelona but I have never seen those clubs playing with tiki-taka style.

Hard to call as G2 have been flawless in PGL so far. It would be interesting matchup between the both. Couple of popular major players like Niko and device so I must say this is the best fixture out of the two for today.



Well VP player well but some of the miss shots and wrong calls put drifted the 3rd map far away from their reach. They were showing signs of comeback but it was too late. Still not surprised given their drop in performance in recent matches so kinda expected Heroic to win this one.

Well I was expecting Liverpool to score few more and maybe some goals from Atletico as well as they also wanted to avoid a tough contest later on but guess Liverpool just wants to make things easy for themselves as early as possible.

Liverpool have qualified but they have made things quite interesting for the rest of teams in their group. Now for Atletico they need to win both the matches in order to qualify.

Actually Man United never contacted Conte to take over Man United as their manager. Ferguson and others decided to give Ole one chance in their match against Tottenham and he proved himself so they never really contacted Conte. On other hand, Spurs sacked their coach Nuno but it was hard thing to convince Conte for the Spurs job but Patrici convinced Conte with the ideas and plans they have. Its not the money thing actually for the managers, its the ideas and plans which is much bigger factor for manager to choose a job IMO.

Both teams have their respective Europa and CL matches ahead of their PL fixtures so the players won't be 100% fit for the match. West Ham are a very good side and there are some players to look out for in that team. They are not just average team of PL now and last season they proved that after they won a ticket to Europa. I still think it would be quite some challenge to mount as they have to score goals against Liverpool and also keep Liverpool attackers at bay at the same time.

Yeah Atletico will avoid getting into rough situation in next match so they could also try to score some but really against Liverpool it feels so difficult. They might find one or two but the main challenge is to stop Liverpool from scoring goals as well and right now they are at best form in scoring. Actually Atletcio Madrid are up against best scoring side of PL right now. With Mane, Salah and Firmino all scoring and contributing it really feels hard that Atletico will able to keep their nets clean.

Liverpool are in a very good scoring form. They are also linking up very well in the midfield area. The game is at Anfield and I am sure it will be totally different from the last match. Griezmann is a key man absent for Atletico but despite that I think Simeone will roll out Joao Felix and Suarez in attack and that certainly will put Atletico in contest but I think Van Dijk and co. in defense should able to hold them down.

I predict 3-1 for Liverpool.

What about Luuk De Jong, I know he hasn't made that of a spectacular debut for Barcelona ever since he came and has been missing some easy shots but he is a good striker in my opinion. He had scored quite some good number of goals for Sevilla when he was there. They can use them for now as a temporary patch and hope he performs as it is a good chance as Barcelona are having problems with not much fit strikers.

Let's see how upcoming manager(most likely Xavi) selects his squad.

Thanks for the links and will consider this when I find myself in need.

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So news just arrived that Nuno has been sacked after long conversation between Levi and Patrici. Now they are having talks with Conte to took over Spurs manager job. So now United manager target is now being considered as a priority for Spurs manager job and I think this might happen.

Conte as Spurs ... Looks very promising to me given the squad Spurs has.

Newcastle can show their interest on whoever they want and I understand their targets given the new ownership but they really have to do hell of a convincing to do to bring some players with good name. Their best shot is to stick to some potential players who can be star players in future and climb the ladder on the table and then try some experienced players.

It will be and I have no doubt about it. It would be hell of a match with all the stars in both teams. It would be interesting to see how well both team coordinates with their players in this high intense match. Navi is been favoured by the bookmakers but really NIP also have good shot at winning this one. With the likes of REZ, Hhampus, device I think they can make things quite challenging for NaVi. Right now I couldn't think of another team than NIP who is closer to NaVi level.

They had quite some difficulty till some point but it all fell apart for Newcastle after the first goal. Good continuous pressure from Chelsea and it ultimately paid them off. Also their players in quite some form and every player in them is making good contribution into the games and that what makes them one of the strong title contenders.

Also Newcastle were doing good holding Chelsea back but they really were sloppy after conceding the first goal.

Actually Shaw and Bissaka have been performing poorly and I think it was really smart from Ole to give them assistance offloading some defensive duties off them. However it could become a problem if one of those defenders gets injured and then Ole has to be back with his old formation I think. Another thing is that there are lot of players like Greenwood, Sancho, Lingard, Martial, who might not see much of playing minutes under this.

Like I said earlier, it was same like Chelsea formation. 3 main defenders, 2 wing backs , 2 defensive midfielders and attacking midfielders and striker. If we compare both the teams formation, then the major difference is that Chelsea works out with two attacking midfielders and one striker while United today dropped two strikers and one attacking midfielder- Bruno Fernandes to link them up.

The main change I saw from the deployment of the formation was that it gives the team more possession and helps the players to adopt some new roles. For the formation to work better it needs players with good passing and ball winning abilities to work the formation to the best. Right now United players aren't at their best but the formation should work for them for a while.

So lineup for Spurs vs United is out and I must say, some interesting changes coming out from Ole today. So no proper players on wings on attack, instead lot of defensive players in the formation today. Kinda bit similar to formation Tuchel plays - just defence and mid. In Chelsea, they have two players in attacking mid and one as a striker but in United case today, they have deployed two strikers so really a smart plan I would say but given the performance of the players this smart plan might become no use.

A good sign coming from Arsenal now. We defeated quite some big teams recently - Tottenham and Leicester City and surely team is performing very well. Players are stepping up to their respective roles and performing for the team so that's a very good sign. Still its still to early to jump with joy right now. We have a real test coming on against Liverpool on 20th November which would be the one Gunners should be prepared and give their all out.

I don't think he is gonna come back. Yes he is been out of form but I don't think he wants to move to Chelsea first. Would need to see some sources linked to the news. Secondly, even if he wants to come back, I don't think they want him back. They have everything in the team right now and I don't think they will pay huge sum of money to get back their former player back in the team.

I don't think its gonna go down.

Lets not call the 3 points for Everton that easy. Everton last time had hard time defending Watford after having the lead and Wolves are much better than Watford IMO. Its just that they are having problems but they have some really great players. Jimenez and Hee chan could be problem for Everton but lets see where it goes - the Everton way or Wolves. From my end I see that both can have fair chance to get with points, possible could be draw also.

Yeah today Acor kinda lift them up to put MOUZ in Legend stage. Now the the 1st round matches of Legends stage is so exciting... I am kinda looking forward to CPH vs G2 as CPH have been breathing fire and burning all big guns in Challengers stage. Astralis, BIG , Heroic - and to thrash all of them with 3-0 in challengers stage says a lot. On other hand G2, have been kinda in out of form so I am expecting CPH to thrash them in 1st round. Might go betting on CPH tomo.

Vitality vs Virtus is a nice one to watch, NIP vs Mouz would be exciting too.