Will Inter drawing against Victoria Plzen be more weird than it would been for anyone to predict that Club Brugge would be top of their group at this stage and be the only team in the champions league yet to concede a single goal, while it's going to be a difficult feat for Plzen, however the fact they have nothing to lose would make the pressure much less on them.

Not trying to portray Barcelona as a team to beat, but Bayern Munich this are utterly shit themselves, and their performance even in the Bundesliga is more than enough to buttress my point, so getting a win against Bayern for Barcelona shouldn't much of an uphill battle, because even despite losing the first leg, Barcelona were pretty much the better side, and Barcelona chances of qualifying doesn't solely depends on getting a win in their next two fixtures, but rather hoping Inter slips in both of their and that's also highly improbable.

You can't help but feel bad for Omonia at the end of the day, they were very resilient all through the game, but they got broken by a Scott McTominay's goal at the very end of the game, that put Man United on the best route to making it to the knockout stages.

Group F is about the toughest group, Lazio failed to win over Sturm Graz again and that leaves every team on the group with 5 points each and every team with equal opportunities of getting through or getting eliminated.

I most definitely would not have had a penny on PSG, knowing Messi would be miss the game, and not just that but because Benfica are also an absolute class so far, and the awful game from PSG in the weekend was a factor for me, the one trap I fell for was Juventus to win against Maccabi Haifa, Now Juventus are probably eliminated already, Maccabi Haifa was their ticket out of the group stage after they lost both first 2 fixtures, a win for Benfica against Maccabi Haifa will definitely send the through to the next stage, while Juventus face Benfica and PSG, I honestly don't see them winning both games.

Yes, I'd literally agree with you that Mourinho his tactically outdated, and plays a very boring form of football to be honest, but we must not forget that's got a winning mentally and he'd get it at whatever it would cost, and If Mourinho should ever be incharge of the team, I'm sure there will be an overhaul of the mentally they've currently got with several players being overly egomaniac and feels bigger that any of the coaches that PSG have always brought, so despite the changes of coach after several years, it's obvious that PSG approach to football and their tactical ideas still haven't change one bit, hence the need of a coach that'd have the balls to impose he's own personal tactical ideology and approach to football, and Mourinho and Guardiola are the to first coaches that came to mind, because even Thomas Tuchel never seemed to have been able to handle that team as he would have ideally loved.

PSG lack of competition or success at the biggest stages is down to their poor chemistry or performance as a team, even with a number of aged players, one can literally argue that PSG have the best squad in Europe or in the world at large, that's talking about their players as individuals, they've got the needed qualities in the every part of the pitch right down from attack to their midfielders, and defenders, but collectively as a team they look like the most overrated team, in terms of expectance and what they deliver and it's somewhat hard to guess what the exact problem is because you can hardly pick them out for their individual flaws, but as a team, they're just awful and it's going to take a gutsy coach like Mourinho or Guardiola to make a meaning of the kind of team they have.

I'm literally stunned! Club Brugge were the underdog of the group, but they dominated the group, and without conceding home and away from Atletico Madrid, Porto and Leverkusen.

Barcelona are probably out, I really don't want to have my hopes up, having to depend on beating Bayern and hope Inter doesn't isn't something worth being very hopeful about.

1.  Wilder
2.  Over 4.5 Rounds
3.  Round 9

I already have that planned out already I have just two Man City players and I'm not selling either of them, I'll only drop them to the bench, because I really don't see an easy fixture that's what it's worth taking them out for just to bring them in the next game week while losing some team value, Kane that I could have opted for is up agaisnt Man Utd, so I don't find it worth it, I'll just settle for two players from bench and I'll be fine with, and I'll just be able to bring in a couple of Arsenal players after the GW12, Free Hit would be absolute waste imo, except you have 6 players combined form City and Arsenal, but you can be rest assured that there is still weeks with even more blank games to be ahead that the free hit will feel more justified towards.

If you have 6 six players from Arsenal and City and you have two transfer, you can also make two transfers out for the players you feel you can go without for the next two weeks and then bring in your bench players, if you've got players like Andreas and Neco Williams on the bench you can sure some valuable points from them too, so you'll only lose points from just one player.

18,679 EUR

Username: Harkorede

1. CHI
2. CHI
3. CHI
4. Yes
5. Over
6. 3rd
7. Odd
8. Odd
9. WAS
10. CHI

Final Score prediction 23-17

My first half of the season as Barcelona would have been made already if we're able to win both against Inter and Real Madrid, I'm more worried about against Inter due to what's at stake, we can't just draw or lose then have all our hopes on having to beat Bayern just like it happened last season, Real Madrid seemed to be doing just fair enough, but I don't perceive them to be any better than Barcelona for this season, tbvh. I'll have my money on Barcelona to score Over 1.5 goals against them.



Too bad for me, I was one of the naive ones that went for the visitors to win. 

I don't think Haaland will be slowing down soon, and the fact is that he doesn't need to do too much in the current City setup, he just needs to conserve his energy for those 4-5 attempts he'd get every game, and it will take while before teams will be able to adjust to his style because of the minimal involvements he often gets in the plays, and focusing on him might be costly to when you the likes of Foden and De Bruyne lurking around.


It's likely going to be a vastly one sided prediction in the pool, I guess. However, Liverpool just seem to always find away with City, sometimes it's always due to Guardiola trying to tweak the team too much, or playing a formation that only him probably have an explanation too. I'll likely go with Man City to win, but I don't think it's going to be a landslide victory for them.

I don't think Aubameyang will struggle that much at Chelsea, I'm very sure he'll get a reasonable amount of goals this season so far he's getting enough playing time, It will not take him that long (20 games) to score 5-7 he might even be in double digits in 20 games, Erling Haaland would have been a better choice for Chelsea, but that move was never on the cards for Chelsea, because Haaland was literally only interested in joining Man City.

He's already showing some impressive performance, and he can only get better as the season progresses imo, and he's got 2 goals already in 4 games, and he's not even playing the 90 entire minutes yet, I'll tip him to score at least 12-15 goals this season so far he stays fit and Graham Potter gives him enough opportunities.

12. Alexa Grasso
11. Cub Swanson
10. Askar Askarov
9. Jordan Wright
8. AJ Cunningham
7. Misha Cirkunov
6. Brandon Davis
5. Nick Maximov
4. Victor Henry
3. Pier angela Rodriguez
2. Tatsuro Taira
1. Pete Rodriguez

Match 12 winner Total Strikes: 91

I've only been managing to stay visible in the pool, but the last 4-5 round have really brought about a lot of upseting results, and it's really hard to get them correctly, but the entire table is still a very delicate on, If you look at it from the perspective that the last in the tbale is only about 5 correct scores away from the 4th place, ~6 away from first position, all it takes is just about one flawless week or at most to good game weeks to be a very decent position on the table.


That's a tough one to say the least, both teams played draw against Bayern, Union Berlin have impressive defensively, I believe they have the best defensive record so far this season in the Bundelisga right ? So it's going to be a thriller, and I might have to back Union Berlin especially for their discipline defensively.

I strong agree with your opinion about about how terrible the performance was from Barcelona, Celta Vigo really deserve at the very least a point from the game, I wouldn't blame Lewandoski from being absent from the match really, I think it's pretty much about how Xavi sets up the team to play, Lewandowski was isolated in the game because the attack really barely had him involve the playing setup, I'd give kudos to Celta defense for that, Lewandwoski is very much effecttive when he's invlove in the play, rather than just the players on the flank trying to find in with cross or cutbacks, Xavi played the game entirely on wide areas, and even one of the commentators mentioned it that Xavi was found instructing Raphinha to stick very close to the flank as many as 6 times within the space of the opening 15 minutes, meanwhile both players on the flank Ferran Torres wasn't up to par, while Raphinha seem to be somewhat off too, since he didn't get chance to play really close to Lewandowski, that's why Gavi and Pedri and Ter Stegen are my best Barcelona for the night, Gavi was literally every where on the pitch from tackles to making very decisive passes, and Pedri was an absolute class today. I'm not so worried about Lewandowski not getting the enough scoring opportunities, but I'm sure where they arrive, he'll definitely be ready for it.

I guess you missed it, it's been discussed a number of time here, especially with Buwaytress asking a couple of game weeks ago, you can play almost any playeable formation, aside from 3-6-1 which, you could go 3-5-2, 4-5-1, 5-4-1, 3-4-3, it solely depends where you want to prioritize your best players but a lot of people have opted for 3 at the back because of the inconsistenticies from the premium defenders, so that's why Tripier, James and Cancelo are like the defualt template.

I'm really finding it hard to ever place any blame whatsoever on TAA because he was used for his attacking abilities, the whole team is shit and TAA need to be absloved of every form of frailty, he's probably the third best attacking player after Diaz and Firmino, for a team that's got the almighty Salah who's beem nothing but an absolute burden to the team, the fact that he's playing on the same flank as TAA makes TAA even more vulnerable imo. I'd agree TAA is not at his best, but we must all agree that so is Salah, if yes then what's the absolute point of having both players on the field at the same time ? because that means in attack you have only one player TAA on that flank, and in defense you have next to zero player on that flank, I'd rather Klopp deviate a lot from the 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 for the time being, he'd be better with off with a 3-4-3, 3-5-2 where there is at least 5 players (4 minus TAA) when defending and an extra body in attack... The typical 4-4-3 and 4-2-3-1 is becoming more obselete except if you've got wing backs with high defensive awareness and your wide attacking players aren't much of a defensive burden like Salah and TAA having been.

How is having James any better with Chelsea keeping a clean sheet and he was left on the bench for most of it, lol. I had plan of taking an -8 hit to get him (James) and Rahsford in, that would have been an epic fail of -5 point and I also would have lost 6 points that I'd get from Andreas, that's a potential 11 point disadvantage for this gw. Maybe Aubameyang not playing too, is actually a blessing in disguise, because if he had ended up with just one or two points, there will be no Andreas getting auto subbed in.

I'm having a night mare of run to be honest barely getting above or below the weekly average, the wildcard seemed to have done more harm to me than good, I should have sticked to my GW12 idea of using it, but it is what it is and smooth see never makes a good sailor.

Finally I can bring myself to getting rid of Salah with that injury, not me think Arsenal would be a redemption plan for him, but then again... I'm already navigating a 12 point deficit for game week 10