I'm trying to understand how individuals who bet on Manchester City and Manchester United to win in their respective matches must have felt about the gravity of the match defeat they suffered today against their opponents. The defeats of Manchester City to Wolves and Manchester United to Crystal Palace at home, respectively, are both terrible.
Many gamblers would lose their match wager today because Manchester City lost to Wolves. I think many people, like me, would have backed Manchester City to win but would now feel let down by the outcome.

the league is getting much more competitive this season, looking at the table:



looking at the small difference in points between the big teams, it shows that the team that loses points in games against small teams, will then lose the chance to become champion this season, Al - Nassr has an easy game against Abha which is a team that in the last 5 games has not managed to achieve good results, and in 5 games they have only managed to win 1 game and will come to the game against Al - Nassr coming from 3 consecutive defeats, so I see Al - Nassr winning this game with some ease . but before that game Al - Nassr will have a game in the AFC champions league, so if they have an important player getting injured then it could affect a lot in the next game in the Saudi Arabian league

AI - Hilal will also have a very easy game, they will play against an opponent that in the last 5 games they have only won once and will also come into this game with 2 consecutive defeats and so I also hope to see Al - Hilal coming out with an easy victory in this game. now Al - ltthad's situation will be different from the other 2 big teams, because they will play against an opponent who has had an acceptable performance, and in the last 5 games they have only lost in 2 games and can achieve at least a draw in the game against Al - ltthad. In my opinion, I see the game being very difficult to predict the result and a defeat for Al - ltthad in this game could open up space for Al - Nassr to stay in second place. I highly doubt that Al - Hilal will lose the first position anytime soon

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Edit: Liverpool's player has just received another red card, namely Diogo Jota and currently there are only 9 Liverpool players left, can Tottenham take advantage of this good opportunity to score the second goal. If not and only get a draw until the end of the match, it means Liverpool is much better than Tottenham.

Mbappe took advantage of the opportunity very well, but what is certain is that PSG will not lose money with his behavior. However, as a club, PSG will be full of calculations in financing each of its players, both in terms of bonuses and paying player salaries. As you mentioned he did not miss the golden opportunity to get a big bonus from PSG, and on the other hand PSG also took advantage in the same form from Mbappe for staying at the club. At first glance, Mbappe transfer process is very long-winded and full of speculation, in the end Mbappe is as a player who looks very selfish.

On the other hand, I think PSG movements in the transfer market last summer were an attempt to convince Mbappe that the club would be able to win the UCL in the near future. This would certainly be in line with Mbappe hopes of moving to Madrid, because he saw that his chances of winning the UCL were one step better than PSG.

In my opinion I think for Mbappé to remain at PSG next summer depends on their performance in the Champions League and even if they win the league trophy it won't be enough to keep him in the team, lets not be quick to forget that he almost forced himself out of the his current team, and even had a secret contract negotiation with Realmadrid, which made PSG to increase his release clause and I was surprised to see him sign another 1 year contract with them.

But in the new contract he signed, Mbappé is free to  negotiate with any team of his choice after this season but PSG would sell him for the right price though they would still try as much as possible to keep him but like I said earlier, their performance in the Champions League determines whether Mbappé would remain in the team or not, else I think he could move to Realmadrid by summer.

Leipzig   vs   Bayern Munich

Leipzig managed to take a 2-0 lead in just 26 minutes against Bayern Munich. Even though it was Leipzig's home match, Bayern Munich were considered favorites. But it was unexpected that they would back off so quickly. The Leipzig team is in great form. They have won their last 6 matches. And in most matches, Leipzig won by large margins. Looking at their performance in today's match as well, it seems that the team's only aim is to win this match.

If Leipzig wins today's match, the team will move to third or second place in the table. And if Bayern Munich lose today's match they will be fourth in the table. As Munich aims to win the title, every match is very important for them. Bayern Munich has a chance to make a comeback even after going down 2-0. The second half will probably be more competitive

To qualify for the group phase, I'm sure Barcelona can do it. now they have enough players to compete although Xavi's fear is injuries to some of Barcelona's pillar players.
Last season Barca was able to appear very consistent in La Liga, but currently, Xavi must have another target in the Champions League.
entering the top 16 is very possible for Barcelona. but the competition after that will only be strong European teams which will be very difficult for Xavi. I hope Xavi can rotate some of his players in matches that look easy for them and prepare the best squad performance for the Champions League match. does not lower the quality of the players in the Barcelona squad. but Xavi must be aware of his team's current shortcomings.

Both Manchesters screwed up tonight with City making the biggest surprise of the league.Normally when a lot of favorites will be playing against weaker teams we will usually have surprises in such league like the Premier League and this is not the same as Bundesliga where quite some times all the favorite win their games.
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Pep was always buiding everything started from the bottom. I remember when he was coming to the manchester city and he has been putting UCL as the main target by the club and pep was able helping city to get its first UCL trophy after so many years.
It makes me feel that if pep was the key factor why manchester city was able getting tremendous success under him. I can remember that when there were still some players like david silva and friends played for city.
It has become the starter of guardiola's success with manchester city. City is also still possible to get second UCL trophy this season. Pep was changing everything.
Pep's era with manchester city has reminded me with sir alex ferguson once he was still on manchester united. MU was getting very big success with ferguson till everything changed a lot when ferguson was leaving from MU as he retired from being a coach.
I think that city will have the same fate as manchester city once guardiola will be leaving from the club in the future. City is in easy group now. The chance to pass the group stage is very big.

Hey, seriously cygan, thank you for the ping. I was so sure at the back of my head I'd submitted pick here ahead of all the other leagues even and realise now it must have been some weird ass fever dream -- entered everything in under 10 seconds, I love the format of kicktipp, tab button is your friend haha.

I went this time with 80% favourites (funny enough this time I was in full agreement with bookies)!

Chelsea should indeed be able to use this match to get points, he has fallen too far under the standings, I myself am quite sad to see Chelsea after a lot of players and new coaches were brought to the club but they did not have significant changes, of course it was very disappointing and harmful .
Do you think that Chelsea will get full points or draw at this week's match meeting? This will be very embarrassing if they lose again and again, even by Fulham, if that happens I think that Chelsea becomes like a small team that always resides under the EPL standings.

Deciding to wait for Mbappe to be free is difficult now because by extending Mbappe's contract for 1 season indirectly this makes PSG still comfortable with selling Mbappe at a fairly high price.
Now indeed the decision is in Madrid whether they want or not to spend money on Mbappe especially I think for now they (Madrid) can be more comfortable to negotiate because Mbappe will definitely be sold in the summer because PSG has no choice now apart from selling Mbappe because the way of coercion they cannot do for a player of Mbappe's calibre.

What was that in the Genoa - Roma game? I never expected this bad performance from Roma here despite their starting the season poorly. I mean they were playing against another team with making a similar start. Apart from that Genoa aren't even qualified team as much as Roma in terms of squad quality too.

However Roma were hammered by Genoa 4-1 still.    Lukaku had a horrible day. Dybala couldn't also make any score contribution. But even if they did this Roma still had huge problems in their defense line. If they concede 4 goals from even Genoa then I don't know what they will do like this.

i think today it will be very difficult to get a point or win in hoffenheim. the PreZero Arena will be sold out with 30150 fans and the team of hoffenheim
has played very good matches this season. hoffenheim has only lost the first match this season.
but they have always won the other 4 matches and are currently deservedly in 5th place in the bundesliga.
i think a 2-1 win for hoffenheim is possible. then hoffenheim would have 15 points and would remain at the top of the 1.bundesliga.

but you have to know....hoffenheim has lost all of its last 4 games against dortmund ! the last hoffenheim win was in june 2020 


source: https://www.fussballdaten.de/vereine/borussia-dortmund/1899-hoffenheim/spiele/   

Kylian Mbappe is believed to have extended his contract with Paris Saint Germaine till 2025 summer which means he'll still have extra one year with the French champions at the end of the season. The reason behind the contract extension is that Paris Saint Germaine wants to make reasonable amount of profits from his sale which I believe is gonna happen next summer when the France international leaves for his dream move to Real Madrid.
Real Madrid is known for their extravagant spending especially on players they really want to sign but not matter how expensive Mbappe might cost them next summer, I don't expect it to be above 150 million pounds

I believe PSG has carefully prepared for Mbappé to leave. Last season, they were ready to sell him. A big team like them won't depend on him. They are prepared to push him to the bench or sell him quickly. PSG is a financially strong team, and recruiting many stars to replace Mbappé is easy.
Saudi Arabia's "money" would make Mbappé the highest-paid player, but he doesn't need this. 'Success,' as you said, Mbappé requires individual and collective titles. A talent like him gradually fades away with PSG.

Hahahaha!!!!. We might later discover that Sepp Blatter received kickballs from Lionel Messi. The Swiss was so corrupt that he was disgraced out of FIFA. However, it seems that there is still some corruption ongoing within the organizer of the Ballon d’Or. The 2021 award that was won by the Argentine was fraudulent. A German newspaper called a scandal and the organizers received widespread criticism. Even a child knows that Messi didn't deserve the award because Robert Lewandowski's performance was far better. But the German striker was robbed of a golden opportunity to be the world's best and I doubt if he would have such privilege again.
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Reportedly the police conducted a raid on the referee's office. They are investigating the office of the referees committee as one of the steps of the investigation into alleged corruption of Barcelona's acting officials' payments. The Spanish Civil Guard searched the headquarters of Spain's Referees' Technical Committee (CTA) on Thursday. UEFA is also investigating the case. Barcelona allegedly paid 8.4 million euros to Negreira and the Dasnil 95 company.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66946236