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Clear and easy victory for Inter Milan visiting Empoli, where other top teams have sometimes stumbled. The focus can be on the competition for a while, since the CL will only be played again in a few weeks. In the back of the mind, the players and especially the supporters are working on that. In the league, they must ensure that they at least qualify for the CL for next season, and further concentrate on limiting injuries and ensuring that players stay fit. And try to keep the selection together in the run-up to the next season in Serie A.
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Only Real Madrid seems to be a serious challenger for Manchester City. Most of us have all seen what happened in that game last season and especially how Real Madrid managed to go through. Things like that can happen in Madrid. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happens again tomorrow. The Bookie think City is so good that they even consider City their favorite at Real Madrid in Spain. That says a lot. That Haaland missed a penalty, of course, means nothing. All in all, Bayern Munich really managed to score 4 goals, but they are missing a real killer that they had in Lwandowsky for a few years.
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In any case, Italian football is doing well. Quite successful in international football in the EL and CL. But that Juventus now has the 15 points back is a very strange story. Not that it is unjustified, but Juventus has played all the last matches with the intention that it would make it to European football and I think you go into those matches with a different intention. Then you are actually dealing with an unintended form of competition distortion. But even then Juventus are not even sure of a 2nd place, as Lazio are still in 2nd place. It's sour for teams that would otherwise finish 4th and would have been admitted directly to the CL.
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It was a big mess at United, especially in the back And the 3-0 was not even undeserved. Based on 2 matches and especially on the basis of commitment and fighting spirit, Sevila is the deserved winner. But how can a contrast difference in 2 games be so big between United and Sevilla both? Since they both gave a completely different picture of the game last week. United then stepped off the field as losing as they couldn't get past 2-2 there and that was a loss in itself. Furthermore, Bayer Leverkusen won very easily against Union St Gillois from Belgium, which I did not expect. AS Roma - Juventus suddenly seems like a serious final.
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Big winner so far seems to be Newcastle United. I wonder what the mood is like in London at Arsenal, the proud league leaders in the EPL, but things could have been even better if they had just won both games with a 0-2 lead. Then the world would have looked very different and they would have had 4 points more in the current position, those are crucial points that they have now left behind. You can still become champions, but I think City is now the favorite to win the title. I think Arsenal are just not good enough to continue at this level until the end of the season, but maybe I'm wrong.
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Nice that we will see all 3 Italian teams in action next week. It will be 1 semi-finalist from Italy anyway. I know a lot of people like it when the underdog beats the favourite, but if Napoli are out we might get a semi-final we don't really want: AC Mian - Inter Milan. We would all rather see Napoli - Inter Milan, right? I can't remember that there were 2 Italian teams in the semi-finals of the final. In that respect, it is a great year for Italy internationally, because they are also still active in the Europa League. There is a chance that an Italian team will win the Cl and the El.
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Juventus is also far from certain of a place in the semi-finals. They're not that good at it. They did win their game, but that was absolutely not convincing and Spprtig threw arsenal out in the previous game, so they really have a team that can ball. In the game of Juventus against Sporting we also had a 1-0 score for a very long time until the 73rd minute. So they were lucky that it ended that way. Juventus really have to do their best to ensure that they are not eliminated next Thursday. AS Roma has a similar job, have lost out and have to clear a backlog in Roma.
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In any case, Juventus was much better than Sporting in that match. 1-0 is a poor reflection of the game, in which Juventus should have scored more goals. But in principle, Juventus should not get into trouble in Portugal, right? Sporting is the 3rd team in Portugal after Benfica and Porto, and Juventus is normally the best team in Italy. But on a Portuguese evening it can sometimes start cooking in the stadium. Not comparable to Spain, but Sporting still has a lot of support from the home crowd. |
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PSG has also had a mediocre start. But the worst start was perhaps from Lyon. For a while they were just below average. And that is normally one of the teams that can make it difficult for PSG. Monaco finally floated to the surface after a long time. PSG has also devoured quite a few trainers in recent seasons. But the championship was still won by PSG. Now trying to keep the squad together, I think that will be a bigger challenge for PSG. Would Messi and Mbappe still want to stay in Paris? Messi might go back to Barcelona.
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The reason why many Manchester United fans blame Harry Maguire is
The reasons Manchester United fans blame Harry Maguire is simply because they hate and loathe him, Throughout this season, Maguire has done nothing wrong. Even in the game against Sevilla, Maguire did nothing wrong; any defender would concede a reflection. The sevilla game was on the coach who withdrew all 4 of his attacking threat thinking the game is donee. Harry Maguire often has a bad impact on Manchester United's final results, at least that's one of the reasons why Harry Maguire is hated. It is very wrong if Harry Maguire is hated but there is no right reason, because if Harry Maguire doesn't make mistakes then surely Harry Maguire will not be hated. So yes, I think Manchester United really don't need to play Harry Maguire and/or extend his contract again, because it looks like Harry Maguire really isn't suitable to play at Manchester United. Maybe Erik ten Hag meant to play Harry Maguire so that Manchester United's defense in the second half would remain strong, but what happened was a blunder which would be a regret. I wouldn't say Magurie was completely the fault in the match against Sevilla, Malacia wasn't good as well. Every decline in any arm of a team always affects whole performances. I will say that's what the match owes and nothing could change it. Eric Ten Hag himself was too confident at recording two goals. This are little mistakes some coaches wouldn't allow. A coach like Guardiola believes not in the goal, he is bent at seeing the results and with this he doesn't stop scoring until the last second of the match. I believe they all learnt from the mistakes in the first leg, let's see what the second leg will bring. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. That can happen. Typical if it is for him, yes. But Malacia's mistake was a real mistake. The goal afterwards through his foot was unlucky, but he should never have let that ball go. That was an error of judgment and that costs the 3 points afterwards. 9 times out of 10 there is no goal. After that, United should have played it out professionally. You could also place the responsibility with Ten hag there, I think. |
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Chelsea - Real Madrid is also a match in which Chelsea can still qualify. The boomakers agree that Real madrid is the favorite to continue here, but they think Chelsea are the favorite to win the game in the head-to-head match in London. Last meeting last season was a true spectacle. Real Madrid seemed to have already decided in the first game in London with a 1-3 win, but in Madrid it became 1-3 for Chelsea. So it can literally fall in any direction on Tuesday. A match to look forward to, just like the Napoli - AC Milan match.
Real Madrid and Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final next match, I'll put Real Madrid ahead. Because of the performance of Real Madrid in the previous match, they cannot stand in front of the leaders of the team. Real Madrid are expected to beat Chelsea to secure the semi-finals. Of course Real Madrid has the better papers, because they have built up a 2-0 lead at home. But a 2-0 lead is by no means convincing. And certainly not given the recent past between these 2 teams, in which Chelsea also easily found the net. And when you see how much money Chelsea has spent on these Chelsea players, you can also expect delivery on the pitch. Could also be that we will soon see 4-1 on the board. Chelsea now has perhaps the most expensive team in the world. They should also be able to decide individual matches. |
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Again and again Barcelona failed to get three points against teams in the bottom zone, or maybe Xavi is making some tactical and strategic experiments that are still not optimal in these two easy matches. I don't understand what happened, because even though Barcelona are relatively safe at the top of the La Liga standings, but Barcelona shouldn't have failed to win because in this match Barcelona only played against mediocre teams.
Lewandowsi also doesn't seem to have a big effort to score many goals in every Barcelona match, so it is difficult for Barcelona to take advantage of the opportunities they get to score a goal. Indeed, it doesn't matter because Barcelona still won 1 point, but if results like this continue then of course Barcelona are experiencing problems in their performance.
Even though with this draw the difference between Barcelona and Real Madrid is still very far, I agree with what you said that if Barcelona continues to show this kind of performance, it's not impossible that they will start to slip in the next game. It is true that Xavi is trying a new experiment in his formation. This can be seen in one of his players, Alejandro Balde, who fills the left winger position, even though this position is usually filled by Gavi, but Gavi, who has several positions, is placed in the midfielder this time. But it seems that the strategy did not go smoothly and instead they are very difficult to score goals. In fact, Barcelona also found opportunities, but Getafe defended very well and managed to avoid conceding a goal. Despite the unexpected loss of points from Barcelona, they are still far ahead of Real Madrid. They are not in a position to jeopardize their league leadership. What we should also not forget is that Barcelona played this match when there was actually nothing more at stake. The prizes in the competition for the champion have already been distributed, so Barcelona sees no reason to put everything on the championship in this competition. If Barcelona should have won this game with, say, a 1 point lead, then you get a completely different game and maybe we will see 0-4 on the scoreboard after 90 minutes. |
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Hamilton has donated the sport for about 10 years, but he has also always had the best car. And there were no other drivers who came to watch at Hamilton's level. Verstappen seems to be the only driver who has a lot of talent. Leclerc is also good but not close to Verstappen. Verstappen has also learned a lot in recent years, which is why he became world champion 2 seasons ago. Last year it was never exciting, not even for Verstappen. I think that will be the case this year as well. No one will keep up with Red Bull. Perez is a lesser driver than Verstappen, but who cares? Team performance is everything at Red Bull. There is not really a power struggle between Verstappen and Perez.
He has done that, but Verstappen is also an outside category. I even think Verstappen is better than the very best ever. But you can't compare drivers like Senna and Schumacher with Vestappen. Different cars, different speeds, different rules and also different jobs. The F1 of 20 years ago was on average 50 km / h slower than now, I think. I don't want to say that those drivers back then weren't as good as they are now, but it is nicer to drive into the corner with 150 than with 200. And then you didn't have all kinds of different tires of course. It has been extensively modernised. At Verstappen, the racing DNA is in the genes, since father Jos was also an F1 driver. But on a whole different level. Father Jos regularly dueled with Schumacher, but could not play any significant role and only had a supporting role in his career. Yet Max owes a lot to father Jos, who of course had many connections in the racing world and then you often don't have to be at the back of the queue. Those are advantages that you need to get the chance to prove yourself. Maybe father Jos never really had the motivation to become world champion because he was allowed to race in a lesser team. Max joined Red Bull when they already had a very substantial car on the market. |
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As usual, few goals today in the Italian league. This reminds me a bit of the games of the 90s in which results like 0-0 and 1-1 were the rule rather than the exception. But it's definitely not as boring as it used to be. The best football in recent years has come from Atalanta Bergamo, which has actually managed to find a connection with the Italian top out of nowhere. This season it is a little less, but all teams that are above Atalanta are basically just better, of course.
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Sadly, ETH has to make do with what he has. I can see some unfamiliar names on the bench like Jurado and Williams. I guess they are defenders. Malacia is seating this one out, he was shit in the sevilla game and ETH made a mistake not pulling him out. I guess he has corrected his mistake by replacing him with Dalot in today's game who has just found the back of the net. This one looks like the game is sealed and it's a 3 points for Manchester United.
It was a fantastic second half for Manchester united as they took total control of the game. Anthony played a major role in the game with his brilliant performance, in assisting Dalot on the second goal. Dalot brilliantly scored his goal in a confident style. Anthony is the man of the match,I observed that after Rashford injury,his performance has improved,he now play Rashford role. Manchester united missed a lot of opportunities in the second half but they were able to secure a 3 point on this game to be ahead of Newcastle. I actually underestimated Sancho in the first half due to his poor performance but he did impress me and contributed a lot in the second half. Nottingham forest 0-2 Manchester united A very meaningful victory for Man United because they again won third place in the Premier League. Man United deserved this victory because they are indeed better than Nottingham. This is not much different from what happened in the first half, Man United won possession and dominated the game. They should have won more than 2 goals, it's just that Navas played very well and thwarted Man United's good opportunities several times. Manchester United had three points with a 2-0 win in the game they played more dominantly. This win was of course very important. They managed to get ahead of Newcastle United in the standings. Meanwhile, the leadership race in the league was also very heated. Arsenal took an unexpected draw. If Manchester City win, there will be only 1 point difference. 0-2 win for United indeed. A match they won with minimal effort. But those victories also count, of course. Only I don't know if they are so happy with that in Manchester, of course they would have liked a better starting position in the match against Sevila. But then a 0-2 victory in the competition is a great recovery, I think we should give them those credits. The battle for 3rd place is basically between Manchester United and Newcastle United. I think the favor factor is more with Newcastle, but that doesn't mean anything of course. Manchester United are on the hunt for trophies, the FA cup seems to be the next target. |
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Problems with certain ideas that you often encounter as a player are the limits. Often you can come up with a profitable strategy, but you have the problem that you cannot gamble because you have a limit. Roulette is a well-known example, but there are several slot games in which we have this problem. In that respect, it would be better to gamble at sports competitions, because you often have higher limits there. By the way, this problem is a well-known and at the same time major problem among arbitrage gamblers. They cannot place the contra bet and instead of a sure bet they lose money.
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It is a show game as several top players have already indicated. Organizing a World Cup without the best player in the world and perhaps the best chess player of all time. Can you still take a title seriously? The exact reason for Carlsen also seems to be unknown as to why he doesn't want to play a game. In December he also became world champion in speed chess and rapid chess. So he is undisputedly the best player at the moment. I especially see Firouzja as a potential world champion, both play a lot of blitz games against each other online with varying outcomes.
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Carlsen is someone who really likes the game of chess. He is also the very best, and at certain tournaments you can still collect a lot of money as a world champion. Prices are in stark contrast to other individual sports, but there are also sports that are less paid of course. Carlsen may have wanted to make some kind of statement to FIDE (world chess federation) that he disagrees with the current tournament format. Carlsen himself thinks it is much more fun and better to play an entire tournament, even if you are the reigning world champion. |
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Union Berlin is at a 1-1 score against Bochum and doesn't seem to be getting any further in this match. I think it's a coin flip whether we're going to see another goal or not. Union Berlin desperately needs the points. Leverkusen has put up a good series and seems to be able to qualify for the Conference League in any case. not that they are happy about that, but at least it is European football. If they still win the make-up game against someone then the gap is only 4 points with the number 5 Freiburg. There are also quite a few matches to play, so maybe they can still get the EL.
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Peter Bos is also free and has fired an open application for Ajax. Remarkably enough, the board of Ajax did not respond to this. maybe there is too much pride? Or maybe Ajax doesn't have it at all. I think we will see a lot of shifts of trainers in the summer, there are a number of teams that perform moderately. Would Lampard's appointment be a temporary solution or has he been made for the long term? It's someone who fits the club. He played there his entire career.
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Still a disappointing first half from Juventus, who did not manage to find the goal, I see. A 0-0 half time and we have just started the 2nd half. How is it possible that Juventus has so much trouble with these clubs? They play good football at times, but all in all it is all too changeable. I still think that Juventus will win this match, in the second half they often get steam. I don't know if it is incidental that the teams in Europe are doing so well now, but it seems structural. Good for Italian football.
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United are licking their wounds in today's league game. The opposite is Nottingham Forest, but things don't seem to go smoothly here either. After 67 minutes there is only a 67 minutes standings on the board. You cannot be completely sure that you will win. I think the focus is already back on the El next week. 3rd place in the EPlk is neither good nor bad. I think they should end up about there as expected. They are lucky that Liverpool and Chelsea are doing even worse. Otherwise they are normally both still for United.
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