Yes, I think that is the more realistic situation for Barcelona at the moment as they are in a rebuilding situation themselves. I think the real contender here are real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Atletico Madrid, and Sevilla. But I think real Madrid has the best chances of winning this League.

Freiberg's performance in this match was good. Just that, Frankfurt was fortunately enough to secure 2 goals within 9 minutes. The result came as a shock toe, because I literally thought the match was going to end in favor of Freiburg. Nevertheless, the match was dominated by the host with 63% ball possession. Anyways, Freiburg are still maintaining their place on the standings, but they are just a point ahead of Bayer Leverkusen. And I think they have to be more careful when playing their next match, it is probably against VfL Bochum.

Napoli unbeaten record so far has finally ended in Intermilan's hands, despite winning 1-0 in the first half, Napoli's game looked less aggressive and they struggled to create opportunities to add goals and the attack initiative built by Intermilan was actually very effective, so Intermilan managed to come back and end the match with a 3-2 advantage, Intermilan who managed to get full points of course is now starting to threaten the position of Napoli and AC Milan with a difference of 4 points now.

After a clean sweep against New Zealand in the T20I series, India teams seem to be flying high. It will be interesting to see if the outcome will be the same as the T20I series or if the Black Caps will fight back tenaciously. Are India's T20s consistent enough to transfer to the Test games and really take revenge on the current ICC World Test Champion?

Stop your sadness, Zidane doesn't want to be at Manchester United, maybe there will be someone more appropriate to bring Manchester United to the front seat with a new coach who is still a question mark. Maybe we think that so far Zidane deserves to be in the chair of Manchester United coach. While the United manager has also offered it first.
Because next Sunday to face Chelsea, of course this is quite a tough challenge.

Everyone has the right to their point of view, but in my humble opinion it is extremely stupid to associate the current not the best position of Barcelona with the figure of Messi. I think Messi may well play for Barcelona not even for half of his current salary, but for one percent But not now, but in a few years when the career of a football player will already be at sunset and the football player will at least want to help his hometown club, like Alves who agreed to play for the lowest salary in the club Well, now, while Lionel is still in a pretty good condition, the hopes of Messi returning to the club for the sake of playing for pennies are very, very naive.

The German government has begun to tighten the rules on vaccinations now including for footballers and team staff who play in the Bundesliga, so far players and  staff have only shown negative results for COVID-19 but now they are required to have a vaccination certificate, the incident that hit the Bremen coach of course It's quite unfortunate, especially since this can have an impact on transmitting the virus to other players and staff, in my opinion, whatever the reason for falsifying certificates is a wrong thing and deserves to be punished very severely, because with the current pandemic conditions of course we are all in the war against the pandemic in order not to spread the corona virus further, apart from Markus Anfang, Bremen assistant coach Florian Junge has resigned from the club because he was involved in the forgery.

Inter and Fiorentina made it difficult for the two of them even it was difficult to move on in the last two weeks even though the points were still quite decent but if they let their guard down again in the next match then the competition would be close, Inter are still trying to chase points and this is indeed deserved to compete in this competition the following week.
I watched Inter vs Napoli, although it was a bit stressful for Inter it proved that they are playing at home pretty sure with such a dramatic result.
An Inter Milan coach Inzhagi can quite manage with his tactics.

You got a very serious and notable point here. In a big team almost all the players are proven good and skillful, so whenever a team is doing bad, it will be attributed to the coach hence the individual players profile is bright.
But for an average club the narrative is different. When the team performs poorly it will be attributed to the average players being used and hence call for new signings. Thanks for pointing this out.
Also whenever a big club coach has a fight with high profile players, the players always win.

Yes Zimbabwe has faced ban from ICC and I dont know what is their fault, surely it was not thr players fault and they are suffering from this. Many of those now become unemployed as cricket was their source of income and they cannot get another job. It is sad to feel that because of these thing players get suffer. Yes a couple of those can play some franchise cricket but what about others

I watched the whole game and i have to say that yes of course bayern was very unlucky because they were just completely dominant but somehow still managed to be 0-2 behind and then it is very hard of course because the opponent will just defend with every player that they have on their team and the space for Bayern to initiate attacks and develop chances is just so little. I also have to say though that in some way i think bayern deserved that loss yesterday as they did not seem to go all out yesterday. In the second half they maybe had 2 or 3 big chances to score and this is just not enough if you need to score at least 2 goals.

Dybala's injury cost Juventus a little, but this was Chiesa's chance. Even though Chiesa's original position was Midlifer Allegri once made him a striker. He became a central striker while playing in ucl against Chelsea. At that time Allegri's courage resulted in a 1-0 win over Chelsea. But seeing them not being well, Lazio and Juventus are continuing to improve their unstable games.

Messi is not a problem of Barcelona but people did not recognize his contribution for the club when he was there. They tried to say Messi is one of their problems. Then when Messi departured them, they blamed it on Koeman. What the board of Barcelona did is blaming on players and coaches. They did not admit their mistake and fix it.

The season will be key for Barcelona. They can pass through all challenge, rebuild the club and come back stronger in next 2 or 3 seasons. It will be smooth only if they don't fall into financial crisis. The failure to get a position in top 4 of La Liga and striked out in Champions League will be nightmare for them.

I don't want to divert the debate from UEFA, but there is only one confederation that is more competitive compared to them and it is CONMEBOL. It is very unfortunate that quality teams like Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia and Venezuela struggle to qualify for the world cup, because there are only limited slots allotted to CONMEBOL. If they were participating from any other confederation, then in all probability most of these teams would qualify easily. For example, Venezuela has never played in a FIFA World Cup to this date.

Yesterday I discussed why United have no plans to replace Ole, today I read some media and found out that there is interest from Manchester United to bring in Zidane. MU is rumored going to make Ronaldo to help this process. Unfortunately, Zidane's wife still has not given permission, and expects Zidane to rest longer from football. But, how strong she can hold Zidane from coaching the club?

I think if this is true then there is a hope for United.

But the issue is the centralization aspect of it, would you trust your bank with 134 millions dollars? If the answer is no then what makes that service deserving of that kind of trust? To me it seems like the first place any government hungry for funds will go to try to steal anything that is valuable there.

Saw this on Twitter and wonder what it portends
https://twitter.com/ki_young_ju/status/1459856955841802243

Maybe not 3-4-1-2 but 3-5-2 which is his favorite formation. Delle Ali is a bit difficult to reserve lineup, if he wants to be a starter he must be better than Kane and Son. In another way, he should be able to play in various positions like winger or playmaker, but that position is filled up by other players like Emerson Royal and Højbjerg, 3-4-3 is good for him, but Conte needs a ball supplier which Delle Ali can't do for it.

Portugal should have lost the game in Ireland as well, and even then it was obvious that Portugal had serious problems.
I would say that Portugal has the same problem as Manchester United and as Juve had and that problem is called Ronaldo.
In modern football, all players must have equal responsibilities and play both defense and attack.
If you have a player who doesn’t play defense then you play with a player less all the time and that’s a serious handicap.
Ronaldo has become bigger than his team and that is the main problem of Portugal.

many big teams with better positions indeed take lightly their opponents who are far below.
it can also provide a trap set by soccer bookies by making bets for the big team with smaller odds. but the reality on the ground will always be different and give a lot of surprises. not a few teams that are at the bottom can also beat big teams who underestimate the game against small teams.