villareal is a very inconsistent team, I won't bet on them anymore when they play against some strong team, just see that they conceded 3 goals in the europa league against a weak team, and when they arrive to play in the la league they lost against betis and couldn't score at least 1 goal, their next game will be against hapoel who in my opinion won't even surprise me if villareal loses in this game in the europe league, then they'll play against sevilla in the la liga which for me also won't be surprised if they draw in this game, the villareal is a team that i will not bet on them in the next 2 games, maybe i will only bet on them when they play against cadiz. about osasuna, it believe they can only enjoy winning points in the next game against getafe, because after the game against getafe they will lose points It is true that Villarreal is an inconsistent team, well like many others including ATM, but it is a team that we cannot underestimate. I mean it can surprise bigger teams. I am aware of their defeat against Betis for example, but Betis is a good team. They are favourites against Sevilla and Cadiz, meanwhile, in football everything could happen. As you know, even big Bayern has bad results lately in Bundesliga! |
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PSG is one of the strong team we have in the Ligue 1, they have several keyplayers in the club. Kylian Mbappe pattern of game is quite different from Neymar and Messi in the club. He's stunning in his style of games but there's something about him I dislike which is his refusal to pass ball when given the chance to pass. Like the game they played against Juventus in the champions league, Neymar made an incredible assist to Kylian Mbappe which he converted it to a goal to open the scoring sheet. Mbappe would have record an hattrick in that game but due to his inability to communicate with Neymar and Messi on the pitch, he failed to scored to make it 3 for him. He needs to be humble like Messi and he should try to work with them, I know it's not easy to try to adapt entirely to new pattern.
It is about experience and playing less selfishly. Many players have this default and with time, this attitude will be reduced. We cannot compare Mbappe to Messi or Neymar since their experience are very different. PSG is not only the strongest team in Ligue 1 but I consider it the only hope for France to lift Champions League these years. Even in the other european leagues, it isn't obvious to see the other teams lifting something unfortunately.. |
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Also teams involved into European competitions , will sometimes prefer to risk the game in Serie A in order to get points in UCL or Europa League or even Conference. Meantime , let's see how Inter performs today against Plzen.  Like there is a doubt about Inter victory  Inter won with 2 goals, scored by Dzeko and Dumfries, vs 0 to Plzen which I expect them to get 0 point in this group. Underdog and unlucky team. Milan will have a game tomorrow vs Zagreb, Napoli will face Rangers and Juve - Benfica. Italian teams have the advantage and they should win. |
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The difference between Manchester City and Liverpool this season is night and day. I have no explanation for Liverpool's extremely weak performance. If you're going to compare the players individually between City and Liverpool, that could well be the reason. If City has a bad day, you always have De Bruyne with a great inspiration or Haaland who is always in the right place. if things are not going well at Liverpool, then you really only have Salah who can score a goal but he can't be served. A long and difficult season. It would be nice if Arsenal could compete for the championship one day.
No one would expect Liverpool will perform horribly this season. The overall performance of many players dropped significantly and the place of Mane is still empty, not filled completely exactly.. Tomorrow they will face Ajax. I see odds are better for Liverpool, anyone betting on them? Then they will face Brighton in October. They will have much time to think about the best strategy for the team.. |
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The match between Osasuna vs Almeria will start in the next half hour, and the line-up of the two teams has appeared. Almeria uses a 4-3-3 formation and osasuna use a 4-2-3-1 formation
Because playing at home to Almeria, most likely the final score of this match is a draw
At the end, the game finished with only 1 goal for Osasuna.. Although Almeria is playing home but they barely collect points. Until now Osasuna has positive results, their games so far are easy except vs Betis where they lost it. Starting from October they will drop points vs Real Madrid and Villarreal. |
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Didn't imagine they would come back this early. They care about their traditions so much that I assumed it would be nothing this week, and only like starting from Friday we would be seeing some sort of sports coming back.
Well AFAIK these matches including Chelsea and Liverpool were postponed due to the police being redeployed for the funeral? I think there is another issue for the Brighton game. It is a Premier League decision for these 3 games. They were able to postpone it all but the schedule will be harder later. It is already very tight for many clubs. |
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Until Bayern Munich become more reliable in the league I don't think of placing any bet on them. Who could have thought that they would draw with their opponents three times in a row? Maybe it is related to Lewandowski's departure or to the Champions League. Because since the Champions League started they have been focusing on that tournament more. But they will need to balance things otherwise their championship streak can be broken this year for real. It is difficult to assume what team in the league would manage to do this for now.
Lewandowski departure affected the team for sure but comparing Bayern to Liverpool for example after Mane departure, then we could say that Bayern is somewhat stable. Even in the previous season they have their weak moments but just after they humiliate the first opponent that they found regardless how good it is. Barcelona game will be difficult, not sure if Bayern will be able to trash them again but winning in that game is not impossible. Now, vs Augsburg, it will be shamefull if they lose. |
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FC Empoli - AS Roma
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FC Empoli is a very good team, but they seem to be collecting draws, there are already 4 consecutive draws and on the other side we have Roma who have had good defense, but in the last 2 games they have failed in defense and have some problems in attack, but still roma is better than FC Empoli, of course in this game even empoli can win, but I preferred to take the risk of betting on roma
Roma is leading with 2 goals to 1 vs Empoli with only few minutes left in the game and a red card for Empoli. Roma will eventually win but the risk of a late goal is always present in Serie A games. Juve was able to save 1 point late without counting the offside and the red cards at the end of the game.. |
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The season is competitive for now only. Marseille have been really impressive so far. However they are still not very reliable because we watched them being out of the title competition so many times before. It is normal of course as they can't play at the same level with PSG every week. I'm glad with the nice rivalry between them for now. But it is up to Marseille to stay right behind them. PSG wouldn't lose points easily against much weaker teams. But a tight schedule might change something. It is a difficult task for Marseille but they will need to make an extra effort to benefit from those opportunities.
Well I expected to see PSG having 10 goals difference by the end of the 10th round but it appears that the other teams are still resisting! Marseille have the same number of points, Lens is following them closely with online leay 2 points difference. Monaco dropped earlier in the race but they seems to be recovering. They are leading with 2 goals to 0 vs Lyon before 20 minutes of the game. Overall, Marseille is the only one imo that will keep annoying PSG, assuming they will not lose much points. Not sure if Lens can keep up with this form until the end. |
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Juventus 0 Salernitana 2 in the 1st half.
WTF is happening?
Juventus 1 - 2 Salernitana, 30 minutes left. There is still time to recover tho. BTW, what's going on with Atalanta? Getting a draw vs Cremonese! Fiorentina also has terrible results this season.. The instability here in Serie A is delusional, especially when you gets some flashback about the old good days in Calcio.. |
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About Potter to Chelsea, I think he's lucky to be able to coach Chelsea. I don't see any championship achievements he's ever gotten. But the statistics of him beating the EPL's top Clubs may attract chelsea's new owners to have him.
Let's see I'm actually quite curious because I think they're going to buy another coach who has had more experience. Today potters came up with the rest of Tuchel's preferred players. He has not been able to find many players because the transfer market has ended.
This is a limitant factor itself. The inability to recruit some players to boost the team and make your tactics more useful.. If we start with bringing a successful coach to another club, this will not guarantee success especially in the first matches.. The players have to adapt to his tactics. I am wondering if Chelsea will be able to be as competitive as it used to be.. The team was destabilised in a serious way from the management switch to the inability to recruit players as they want, passing by top players departure.. |
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If this situation lasted the entire championship as in Serie A, then it would really be some kind of special charm. But even now, having a situation where Bayern is not the leader, we know that after a couple of rounds, Bayern will be the leader and will gradually increase its advantage over everyone. And we see random results because the German teams are generally weak - they show the same results in European competitions. Will anyone bet on Bayern in the next round or should we wait for the result of the game with Barcelona to begin with? Bayern to win vs Augsburg with +2 goals difference! They didn't trash a team from some time now. Wait a minute they will play vs Barca next Tuesday  Meanwhile, Freiburg got a draw vs M'Gladbach and it is Union Berlin that got the first place this round. |
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Unexpectedly, Getafe who were not seeded in this match were able to break into Real Sociedad's goal with 2 goals created by Enes Unal and Carles Alena. Real Sociedad can only reduce the position to 2-1 through goals from Brais Mendez. The game still has 30 minutes to go, Real Sociedad will have to try to find an extra goal in the remaining game time so as not to drop points from a team that should be able to beat easily. Real Sociedad players are still trying to press Getafe in the defense area, but the efforts of Real Sociedad players have not paid off.
Real Sociedad was disappointing in this match, underestimating your opponent isn't a good thing and here is the result.. Both Getafe and Sevilla were able to catch their first win after 5 rounds. Not sure if they will be able to win in the next round. |
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I have much believe in psg that they will surely come out with that three point, beating brest with only one goal is nothing bad there, l love the way the squad are playing they are always given me joy anytime seeing them playing on the pitch, can't see squad winning their next champion league match again.
Psg have won six matches out of seven played same thing applicable to Marseille, Marseille have been in a good form over 7 matches played, can't wait to see them play each other to know who team is in real good form.
Both PSG and Marseille are performing good so far in Ligue 1. The only difference right now is the defeat of Marseille with 2 goals vs Spurs while PSG won vs Juventus. Brest isn't a good team, finishing generally +10 in the ranking while Lille is better so winning vs them is more interesting than beating Brest. Otherwise, the match between PSG and Marseille is scheduled in October 16, by that time we might see some points difference between them. |
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An improtant victory for milan and napoli today which will keep them on that first position for now with the same number of points but atalanta team has the chance to dethrone them and they will have an easy home game against cremonese.
Napoli, Milan but also Inter won their games today and all three by only 1 goal difference. As you said Cremonese is a weak team and I doubt Atalanta won't win against them. The first place will be claimed back tomorrow by Atalanta tho. Juve and Roma should win their games too, without underestimating their opponents. I am particularly interested in Lecce and Monza game, just curious whether Monza will be able to win a game this season or not  |
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That's right especially because the premier league don't have any break during the season so for players this is a Golden chance to take some breath but for fans it's surly a bad think cause the premier league is the only exciting competition currently in my opinion
Everything is calculated and resting now, early in the season, isn't a good thing for many clubs since the missed game will be placed somewhere in the schedule while some teams might need a spare of time to rest its players. Of course, I am not supporting the idea of resuming the games early.. |
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Bundesliga has its own charm with random results every couple of rounds. What makes it interesting is that many top teams have weird results at the same time!
From Leverkusen continuing its bad results to Dortmund losing vs Leipzig to Bayern getting a draw vs Stuttgart. Even Wolfsburg got its first victory vs Frankfurt..
Freiburg will face M'Gladbach tomorrow, they can be first in the ranking soon.
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Congratulations that Barcelona is leading the La Liga standings temporarily.
Yeah temporarily since Real Madrid will face Mallorca tomorrow and the odds are way in favour of Real Madrid. Barcelona continued its positive results with a nice 4 goals forwarded without receiving any. ATM got closer too and Sevilla hardly won its first match.. |
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Hmm... what's wrong with Mourinho? If he is so bad then why did he win the last two European titles for Serie A, and not all the others who are good? And what can you say about Inter and Juventus, which are now lower in the standings than Roma, Udinese and Torino? I think the fans (and management) of these teams also expected a better start. No one will doubt the quality of Mourinho as a coach and his achievements tho The only problem with him is his old school tactics that are known by most teams and easy to counter them. I am not an expert obviously but that's what I am aware of from analysts. His previous experience with Spurs was quite unpleasant for example although he had good players. So if he succeed with Roma and fail with Spurs then it is not totally his fault tho. Good compared to who? And do you remember in what condition he took the Spurs then? He took the team from 14th to 6th. Is this a bad result? And he took Tottenham to the FA Cup final they most likely would have won (City were beaten in both league matches by Spurs). Everyone is used to that Mourinho gives the top result (at the level of a miracle), but he cannot give it with an average team (at least not always). It is hard to compare coaches because everyone has his own tactics but if we look what's the objective of each team, we could say this one is good and this one isn't. Tuchel for example is a good one but with the current Chelsea squad don't expect much from the team. Roma objective in the other hand is to return to the first places and why not another european league. Avoiding successive and shamefull defeats is another important point. The problem with Mourinho with Spurs is the bad results he had. Many points were lost vs weak teams, the team was very unstable.. Even if the overall results were positive, at some point you feel this isn't enough. I will take the example of Klopp and the current Liverpool bad results. No one could say anything about him because he is good but the situation in the club isn't good at all! |
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The premier league matches this weekend have already been postponed as a sign of mourning the death of the queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II. The decision to postpone the events was passed by the English government in a 12 day mourning week. I can't believe there won't be league games this weekend, this will be a boring weekend for me, I can feel it already.
Yeah I read that news and I think it is an expected one. The whole nation is mourning the Queen and you find others two days later having fun at stadium isn't an appropriated thing. We will miss good games indeed especially City - Spurs match unfortunately. |
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