Mick Schumacher is leaving Ferrari Driver Academy at the end of this season. His connection with Ferrari is officially ending and it is sad to see a Schumacher doing this of course. However Mick's performance at Haas hasn't met the expectations so far. He made simple mistakes and had expensive crashes for his team. Haas are thinking of replacing him with a decent driver who can be Ricciardo as @FanEagle also mentioned. However I'd like to watch a driver like Ricciardo working for more competitive teams. This move would block the way for him to return to his old days.

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FP1 has ended and seeing Mercedes drivers at the top made me feel interesting. In the recent times, Mercedes started to be able to compete with Ferrari at the same level. We saw Russell being faster than Leclerc and Sainz in the previous race. This is really alarming for Ferrari already now. It is early to talk about this race yet. But if we see Mercedes this powerful until the race then they might be ahead of Ferrari with both drivers this time.

I wasn't wrong about fnatic today. They really managed to win on Ancient by 16-14 and at least didn't give up earlier against NaVi. Starting 1-0 behind might make some other teams in trouble maybe but NaVi were quite cold-blooded about that. They won 16-8 on Mirage and 16-7 on Inferno. This was still a comfortable matchup for them in general. However this was a good sign about fnatic to reborn slowly again. If they continue to play well we can see them among tier 1 teams again after some time.

There was a big difference in s1mple's performance between Mirage and Inferno maps by the way. Even though he was very ineffective on Inferno, electroNic and Perfecto were there to carry the team. It is very important for NaVi to do this when s1mple plays inconsistently. This shows how capable they still are when he isn't in charge.

Even though Liverpool are shown as the second biggest candidate for winning the Champions League, I doubt them honestly. Because they have been struggling in the Premier League. Their performance is changing very often. For example after having a run without a win they destroyed Bournemouth 9-0. But right after that they hardly defeated Newcastle by a last minute goal. If we see this kind of a performance in the Champions League also then it is too hard for them to even make it to the final.

Klopp is searching for a way to fix the current issues. It is defense-related rather than offense as it seems. I wonder what have changed after that great season. van Dijk isn't injured but they still can't get ahead of conceding goals easily.

Tottenham really just destroyed a nice betslip. I wish I put BTTS as @igehhh thought. 

Tottenham were helpless in the second half especially. West Ham wasted many important chances. It was like an example of the Southampton - Manchester United match actually. But the only difference was that West Ham were able to score. Actually I didn't understand how Tottenham's performance dropped this much quickly. I knew that it was a derby match but West Ham looked really weak at the beginning of the season. Their effort in the Aston Villa match wasn't satisfying at all despite winning that. But Tottenham were even almost losing the match because of giving too much space in defense to them.

I was just shocked to see that result. NIP lost both maps by 16-4. Let's say I understand Ancient because of NIP's being really bad there. But Overpass was a very positive map for them. How can they lose that too by the same score? hampus was just terrible in this match. 4 and 5 frags on these maps were no help for the team. But I don't think that he was the main problem of course. They are still out-of-form as a team and this form can cause them to be out of top 10 in no time also.

NaVi - fnatic and NIP - Vitality are the remaining good matches of the day. Navi @1.22 and Vitality @1.43 are pretty nice options. Maybe fnatic's defeating a tier 1 team can increase their self-confidence but I think there is no way they are doing the same against NaVi. Maybe they can win one map by picking a map NaVi are relatively weak. Vitality should be able to get past a this much weak NIP comfortably also.

Gakpo and Simons are the most attention getting players for PSV now with 6 goals each. It really makes me feel like PSV have changed the roles with Ajax by this season. Because we have always seen Ajax winning matches by big goal differences like this. This might be a proof for PSV to be more challenging for the league title this time. Consistency is still going to play a key role of course and Ajax have been better at it so far.

The closest match between PSV and Ajax are on the 13th week. PSV can't defeat Ajax in the league since September 2018. If PSV manage to turn things around against Ajax then they can be much closer to the title. The results in big matches would determine the champion I believe. In addition, Feyenoord are also very impressive now. They are a candidate to be a tough opponent for PSV and Ajax both. But I don't think Feyenoord can maintain their title fight as much as those two.

I'm really surprised to see s1mple like this for some matches. Since he was gone and came back, he hasn't been like the s1mple we've known so far. We've been used to watching him carrying the team nearly in all of the matches. This time Perfecto and b1t did this job on each map.

However this play of s1mple on Nuke was really delightful. He got 4 AWP kills on bomb site B: https://clips.twitch.tv/CorrectTsundereBisonBCouch--KNOmoWK9QyL_pl7?tt_content=url&tt_medium=clips_api

It was an easy peasy match for Vitality also by 2-0. Endpoint weren't even close to their quality. Now we have a NIP - fnatic match which started moments ago. The map choices are Ancient, Overpass and Nuke. fnatic are playing great on Ancient and I believe they will win this map. NIP are most likely to win the next one. However as for the decider, fnatic might have a chance to beat their opponent because they have a 100% win rate on Nuke in 8 matches there. The only question mark is whether they will manage to beat a tier 1 team after a long time. The new roster is getting better but I still doubt this match a lot.

I think that Arsenal @1.55, Tottenham @2.06 and Liverpool @1.30 are really good choices to make a betslip.

To tell the truth, I don't expect Arsenal to lose any points again. Fulham's getting ahead first was scary but it was due to a defensive mistake which Gabriel made up for it very nicely later on. Arsenal's general performance is still very credible to me as a result. I found Tottenham's odd quite high honestly. Of course their opponent is not too easy but West Ham started really badly. Their first win against Aston Villa wasn't comfortable also. I know that Tottenham couldn't beat them in their last two head-to-heads but this West Ham don't seem that strong to steal any point from them. Lastly, Liverpool must be in a great shape after that unforgettable 9-0 win. I don't think they will leave some points against Newcastle in Anfield also. I remember the Newcastle - Manchester City match but Liverpool would be in control of the match in their home stadium hopefully.

If we are talking about the winner of this season I'd also like to say something about it.

I had some difficulties in making a choice between Manchester City and PSG for the title. Because I believe that this is the year for one of these teams finally. No matter which one of them makes it, it's going to be for the first time as you know. The reason why I didn't go for PSG is that I have some doubts about their new manager Galtier. Because he is quite inexperienced for the Champions League. I know that he experienced this place before but he doesn't have any striking success with a team. On the other hand, Manchester City have completed their squad with a great striker like Haaland. Together with Guardiola's tactics this time it can really be their time. We all remember how they were eliminated by Real Madrid last season so I hope they won't have a similar result after this unpleasant experience.

Here we go, NaVi - Spirit has started as the opening match of the ESL Pro League.

Spirit are a really interesting opponent for NaVi. A few months ago we saw Spirit climbing to even the 5th position in the ranking. But they haven't been a successful team recently and this performance kicked them out of top 10. Maybe they aren't a tier 1 team anymore but NaVi should still be careful here. However s1mple's existence is a big morale for the team after missing some matches lately. They have zero match history against each other as it seems. However Spirit don't seem to have the strength to make big difficulties for them. I would like to remind you that Spirit played their last official match 7 weeks ago also.

I expect NaVi to win on Nuke - Dust2 both and complete the match as the winner by 2-0.

The referee literally ended Fenerbahce by a horrible decision. Valencia shouldn't have got that red card there. The referee didn't even see the incident properly but he quickly showed a red card to him. I really don't understand how things are still going on the same in the Super League even though there is the VAR system. The conditions were balanced after Konyaspor also got a red card. But they still managed to beat Fenerbahce 1-0 by a header. Ikpeazu was very impressive in this match honestly. Fenerbahce defense had a really hard time defending him. He was nearly scoring a goal in the last minute if his shot didn't bounce off the goal post.

I think the federation should find a solution to these simple referee mistakes otherwise this league will never be more qualified than this.

The point gap between Verstappen and Leclerc has gone up to 98 now. Perez has also left Leclerc behind in the driver standings now. Ferrari are just experiencing the nightmare in a season they could have done much better than this. But it is their fault mostly at the same time. Making the right decisions would have kept the championship race between Verstappen and Leclerc alive now. The last race was another disaster and I don't have expectations from them in the remaining races anymore.

The Dutch GP is closing in on us. It is this weekend and it is the home GP for Verstappen also. I expect nothing different than a Verstappen win here like he did last season.

I'm really speechless at the moment. I never expected Vitality to stay this much weak against G2. While saying weak, I mean that their nearly losing the series by the second map was a sign of weakness. And on last map, Vitality had big difficulties. Mirage is more like a CT-sided map as you know but Vitality played the CT-side really poorly which made things harder for them to make a comeback. If they were able to win the 29th round G2 were going to stay eco or half-buy maybe and they would have one last chance by OT.

After seeing HooXi's clutch and jks' improved performance I was already afraid of Vitality to lose the series. Spinx was really inadequate on Mirage and this hurt the team quite much too. Vitality still have a chance for Fall Final stage maybe but they just made things more difficult for themselves when they could have won right here.

Trabzonspor found two critical chances in the first minutes of the match but couldn't take advantage of any. The first half was really poor for Galatasaray. Seferovic can really be one of the worst strikers in Galatasaray history. He is just useless as you must have seen how he wasted all the chances he got. Gomis entered before it was too late but he also couldn't benefit from two important chances. But I won't blame him because he has been the player who is saving the team so far. Mertens also missed an absolute chance and his shot was so poor.

In short, Galatasaray still need a new striker transfer. Maybe the finances might not be good now but there is nothing else to do now. They don't have any problem on finding so many goal opportunities. But as for finishing, they are terrible now. This was a match they would have won normally if they had a good scorer in the team.

Liquid have already entered among tier 1 teams by having a place in top 10. Liquid's incredible climb to this level since the beginning of the year has been like a dream. They have the ESL Pro League and RMR qualifiers ahead and being successful in these tournaments can carry them even to upper positions in the ranking.

We didn't get wrong about NIP by the way. They really made it after 3 maps were played. On Overpass, sjuush and stavn had really poor performances and this was one of the factors Heroic couldn't fight back against NIP much for winning the series. Heroic joined BIG and Astralis in Blast Premier Fall Showdown to have one last opportunity for Fall Final.

I have heard that Manchester United are trying to sign Osimhen from Napoli now. However Napoli's demands are really extraordinary.  

Napoli demand 120 million euros + Cristiano Ronaldo + Ronaldo's full salary to be paid by Manchester United.

This is just insane! Hopefully Manchester United won't say okay to this but I'm still doubting their decision. Because they are known as a team which like to spend a lot of money on nearly any kind of player. They have made many teams rich already.    Napoli must be demanding these because of the intention of showing that they aren't willing to sell Osimhen to any team at the moment. So Ronaldo had better forget about joining Napoli side and the dream of playing in the CL soon.

Actually things aren't going to be easy about this probable transfer. Because according to a report by Transfermarkt, Ajax have turned down an offer worth 90 million euros this time. Ajax are very determined not to sell him while getting close to the end of the transfer window and the beginning of the Champions League at the same time. But he has clearly stated that he wants to leave Ajax now.

Ajax are known by selling this kind of skilled players after not much time passes. But on the other hand they let very important players go already in this window. They don't want to lose him too otherwise Manchester United's last offer was very favourable for them actually.

https://www.transfermarkt.com/ajax-have-turned-down-euro-90m-offer-from-man-united-for-antony-quot-i-want-to-leave-quot-/view/news/410210

The GOAT did the best thing he does and caused Bottas to be out of the race. 

The touch between Hamilton and Alonso just cost Hamilton the race. Alonso blamed him for pushing his luck too much by trying to overtake him from outside. It must be a big disappointment for Hamilton after having a poor qualifying session also.

Verstappen is really unstoppable now. He is climbing the positions like nothing and it looks like he is going to win the race under normal conditions. It is too difficult for Sainz to keep him behind while Verstappen is much faster than even him. It is only the 10th lap and Verstappen is nearly in the 2nd position already.

Arsenal were nearly going to lose points against Fulham in a match they fully dominated. Mitrovic scored a shocking goal and Gabriel made a really big mistake in that. He played with the ball for longer than he should do and Mitrovic punished him for that with a decent shot. However this didn't affect Arsenal even a bit about their playing dominantly. Gabriel still redeemed himself after that by scoring the winning goal of his team. The match was all about him actually.    Maybe football is one of the most loved sports because of containing this kind of nice stories in itself.

Odegaard proved his quality once again in this match by scoring another goal. He has been the most impressive player of the team for two weeks. It was his 3rd goal in the 4th league match. But I'd like to appreciate Ramsdale also for this match. Because he made important saves to help his team. He is showing that Arsenal have made the right thing by signing him after Leno started to be unreliable.

I predicted a Heroic win for this series but Liquid eliminated them by 2-0 after Vertigo and Overpass. I was okay to Heroic's losing the first map but Overpass was winnable for Heroic also. They just lost both maps without making a big effort. jabbi had a really bad day by having only 9 and 7 kills on these maps. Liquid are in a great form these days. The team performance is very impressive. When we check the stats of this series we can easily see that everyone played his role in the way it should have been.

Now Heroic is NIP's opponent and the series is tomorrow. The winner is moving on and honestly it will be a very close series. But if we consider the head-to-heads, NIP have a huge dominance. They won all of their last six matches. If they manage to use this to their advantage their win might be a good option to bet on.