The poor performance you speak about is as a result of poor quality from the home grown players. This tournament combines the international players with local and that's a bad mixed as the international players tends to adapt to the style of the home grown players which then affect their play. Let not also forget this big player are coming form league with world class facilities and treatment. They definitely can't get such treatment over here and this is because of the poor investment from the football governing body of the continent.


Well that's your personal view as the AFCON isn't a small tournament, this is the biggest tournament in Africa and the football lovers all know about the tournament. It has been ongoing before the big players you speak about today leaving their respective clubs to come play. Infact this tournament is the birth of many African stars you hear of today as they get discovered from their participation.

I'm just going to stick with the New York Knicks -4.5 vs OKC Thunder, and Miami Heat -3.5 vs Houston Rockets, I really don't trust the Lakers or Dallas Mavericks, those could have been my 2nd choices.

GL Everyone... Wish you all a splendid year ahead!

What a fantastic game to begin the year its truly unfortunate to see lyon on this situation but even psg are not on top form and they lost many points i think we will see a competitive game but it will depand on lyon performance.

inter will have a very easy game

Atalanta may also have a chance of getting 3 points

Milan can also have a chance to win

Juventus may also have a chance to win

The goal Ronaldo scored was one of the easiest goals in entire football career he had. Just because we see him scoring on the sheet doesn't mean that he had a good game, if you watched the game you know that he didn't really had a good game at all, he missed a few chances as well. His passing seems to be improving a bit more though, not that he didn't pass before but usually he is a end of the pitch guy, so he either scores or assists, that's all he did, nowadays his playmaking is improving as well and seeing players that are wide open, which is a great thing.

United had a good game that's for sure, Sancho for example played amazingly. I am guessing that this would give them some morale boost but the reality is that we will not see them doing all that much better, we will see them doing just a tad bit better and probably be in some European competition.

I heard the news that Morata will leave Juventus in January and there is already a personal agreement with Barcelona to move there, so this clause will happen?
It's just waiting for approval from Jeventus, so I think this rumor could be valid.

According to what I read Icardi is very suitable to move because he has no place to become a regular player and it is said in the news that Icardi is still at war with Messi I don't know if this is true or not what is clear if Icardi moves to SerieA again it will be very perfect for Juventus.

as an African and as someone who has been following African soccer I can say that African soccer has no quality anymore, when I watch the games I get very angry with the poor quality of these games, players make mistakes that are very childish, there are few goals. this deficient system is linked to the corruption that exists in clubs in africa.

Valencia vs Espanyol 1 - 2

The red card had a positive impact on Espanyol's success in winning today's match. Evidently, after Valencia lacked 1 player, they conceded 2 goals in less than 10 minutes. Unlucky day for Valencia after managing to lead 80 minutes with 1 goal, it must be painful. Valencia's failure today is an advantage for Barcelona to try to widen the points gap between the two. Barcelona will play vs Mallorca, this is a good chance to get 3 points for Barcelona.

Lol Mbappe to Liverpool, this has flown around the rumour mill so many times I wonder who's smoking what to keep legs on this. It's not that Liverpool don't need a striker, it's not that they don't have the money, it's not that Mbappe doesn't want to go to Liverpool, it's that this is not the way Klopp or the club do their deals, and it's just not the type of buy that fits the way we've dealth in the past 4/5 years.

Now, who can tell me if the Saka to Liverpool move is true? I don't think it's happening, but I've always rated him highly... can't say he's right for us though.

^  If anything, I think it’s Liverpool that’s gonna start having problems when the Africa Cup of Nations start next month.  Klopp will be missing two key players, Mane and Salah.  Expect them to start losing points and Chelsea to solidify second spot at the table.  At least that’s what I think.

Anyway, had a bad run of bets.  So I’m doing a degen parlay...    HT/FT draw and City to win, Norwich team total under 0.5 goals and draw for United vs Wolves.  Total odds at 40.73.  25 bucks wins a tad over 1k.  Lezzz gooo!

They couldn't reach a draw, they really lost.
I expected Liverpool to win, but Leicester did very well. Even though in the last few minutes they gave everything to try to win, they couldn't.

Congratulations to those who bet on Leicester victory.

Maybe Tottenham agree with Manchester to draw  then let West Ham secure it just kidding. after all by coincidence what happened to manchester so also to Tottenham
Whatever the reason it's a loss for Tottenham this opportunity doesn't come every time  but wasted. I doubt seeing Tottenham get a champions league ticket this season.

Dude Norwich are turning out to be one of the worst PL teams ever. I see what you’re trying to do though to pick up clever points. I do it a lot too, it’s probably why I’m doing so badly

Here’s hoping LFC batter Leicester.

^

Newcastle sure as hell deserved to have won the game, Cavani and De Gea saved the day for Man Utd win tbh, despite not having the lion share of the ball possessions, Newcastle made various amount of threat in attack and could have been 3 goals up in the second half. Too bad they had to lose a couple of their players to injury, I'd tip them to avoid relegation this season if they can keep up this sort of performance.

It was so surprising to see Nuri Sahin as the coach of Antalyaspor, at the age of 33. It seems like they are starting a huge rebuilding with him, and made a contract of 5 years. Let's see how it turns out. At the game, Galatasaray had a rough first half but managed to score at the last minute. And then an amazing goal at the second half from Kerem Akturkoglu. Still, they struggled quite a bit and seems like they will continue to struggle hard till the end of the season.

Aubameyang is leaving the team for certain as far as I can see. And this is very likely to happen in January also. There are some big clubs in line to sign him already and Barcelona are one of them. Maybe Lacazette wouldn't leave in the same month but he is also likely to leave next summer I believe. Arsenal want to renovate their attacking line. And maybe En-Nesyri would be one of the proper choices.

Real madrid I think will be seeded in this match because even though they are both top of the table in their respective league positions but on the other hand there is a stark difference in their performance in the UCL and even compared to their team I prefer to wait to see Sergio against his teammates first.
On the other hand, Athletico is again faced with a team in which there is Cristiano, it is very interesting how in some of the previous UCL matches they were always eliminated with a team in which there was Cristiano as a player.