Kante is a very good and strong midfielder, he is very much capable of holding Chelsea's midfield as soon as he returns to the starting team. I agree Koulibaly has not made so much impact since joining the club, but I think he needs a little more time to settle in and find his form. Enzo Fernandez has been magnificent, his work rate seems balanced to me.
I have opposite opinion about koulibally. So far, he was contributing a lot to the club when some main backs were injured like thago silva and azpilicueta. Koulibally has been starting to find his best performance with chelsea again. Enzo was also slowly adapting with the play style of chelsea. The new players always need time to adapt. People were always judging them all to adapt to the team instantly which is impossible. Cucurela may play so well during a match against dortmund but remember that cucurela was making so many blunders that almost made chelsea face lose in various matches. Wesley fofana is actually underrated back at this moment. So far the player that is still underperformance is mudryk. I can only hope mudryk will find his best performance as soon as possible. |
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 Brentford vs Leicester City is an interesting match, because so far Leicester city is trying to avoid the degradation zone and try to raise a moment to not lose again. So when we look at the odds, Brentford is the favorite, yes sure, I don't doubt they will win at least 2 goals. but what makes me worry is, Leicester city is maybe fighting a struggle to just try to raise its position. Draw is possible, but Leicester lost is almost possible. All in brentford. this team is not as bad as leicester city, vardy is an old player now and he can do nothing to help leicester city go to the middle standing position in EPL right now. The odds were represending the trust of the bookies. brentford has more winning probability compared with leicester. Leicester was losing against chelsea last match with huge scores. It seems like the same story gonna be happening again when leicester will be facing brentford. Brentford is a very hard team to be beaten even by the big clubs. Leicester must have faced brentford away which is also adding more disadvantages for leicester city. Brentford's odd is very good. Leicester city gonna go to the bottom again soon. Brentford will steal three points easily from leicester city. I just try to compare both based on the overall statistic and brentford is above leicester in everything. |
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Maybe this is very sensitive, but we hope that there will be no more opinion polls regarding the results of this quarter final draw. We can't say much more because it's a clear draw and even though the Italian team didn't meet a team from another league, I think maybe it's been a lucky draw for Napoli, Inter and Milan.
Indeed we have to accept all the truth, but for Real Madrid vs Chelsea I think this is a draw that has 2 sides, one side that is definitely difficult for blues fans to accept and the second side chelsea wants revenge in the previous meeting and Real Madrid certainly wants to get rid of chelsea like in the previous season. It might be true. The only problem is if i personally thought that if that would better if real madrid will be facing italian club just like ac milan which has never coached by ancellotti. That would be so good to see that but chelsea has been facing real madrid three times in a row (included this one ). That's a bit boring to see that. It seems like the rivalry between real madrid and chelsea become even more serious. Ancellotti has also ever coached chelsea as well. Some madrid's players are also thinking chelsea was toughest opponent in UCL.  We still remember very well how Real Madrid's aggregate point comeback was in the second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu, it was an extraordinary comeback moment for a club that has a winning mentality. Indeed, real madrid is not even giving up after chelsea was making comeback. The match between real madrid and chelsea always ended with a very dramatic story. I remember when tuchel was still coaching chelsea. Chelsea has also won against real madrid before last season when chelsea has become a winner of ucl 2020/2021 |
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Atalanta team managed to equalize early in the second half which was good considering they dominated the first half and they ended up conceiding a goal in the last minutes, now they seem in control of the ball and i think its a matter of time before scoring the second one.
Atalanta was actually dominating the match against empoli. The result from match is easy to predict since the match has been started. Atalanta was dominating the empoli. Atalanta was winning the game with 2-1 as the main result.  Atalanta was dominating everything over empoli. Ball possessions, total shots, total shots on target. It's easy to predict even since the match has not started yet. Glad to see that atalanta was able taking full points from empoli. Atalanta was always giving pressure to the empoli during all of minutes. |
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Even in the quarter-finals chart, we can see it is a bit strange. Some weak teams are on the left side and some strong teams are on the right side. I think this is illogical for the draw this time, but still there will be winners and losers. Like the matches of 3 teams from Italy, it's possible that we won't see the final of the Italian team in the UCL this season and Manchester City vs Bayern Munich we can't see the two teams in the final later. I found quite an entertaining meme regarding this quarter final draw.   Source: https://twitter.com/TrollFootball/status/1636691002600685568?s=20Nice meme LMAO. The draw was very strange caused by it just let italian club go to the final in the easiest way. I hope that benfica will able to go to the final. The result from the draw was unacceptable for sure. How can all of italitan teams were not even face team from another league? That meme is actually true. It seems like that something shady was going on but yeah that's reality. We can only accept the truth. The thing that i can't even understand it. How can chelsea meet madrid three times in a row? That's quite surprisingly for me to be honest cuased by chelsea is always facing real madrid again and again. So many people were also feeling quite strange with the result from draw. |
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Chelsea will really get tough test from Real Madrid in the quarter-finals. Manchester City must meet German representatives Bayern Munchen, while Napoli and Milan are the most common matches to look forward to, but Inter and Benfica are the least imagined.
OMG!!! The same match was coming again between real madrid against chelsea. As far as i remember that if chelsea was almost kicking out real madrid from UCL last year. The match between city against bayern look very interesting too. Bayern knows so well about how to prevent haaland as haaland was a part of dortmund in the past. Napoli gets an easy game to face milan next month as well as benfica. To be honest the most interesting match was chelsea vs real madrid and city vs bayern |
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Sporting CP is one of the best team in the Primeira Liga, they deserve a chance to advance to the next round in the UEL
Now Arsenal can return to focus on the EPL, they must not miss the chance to win the Premier League this season. Arsenal's failure in the Europa League this season will soon be reward because they have confirmed a ticket to the UCL next season
Sporting CP performs better compared with arsenal. That's why sporting deserves to be qualified for the last 8 unlike arsenal which was underperforming. I don't know what's wrong with arsenal but it seems like that arteta was the main problem that makes arsenal lose in europa league. "Tomiyasu looks pretty serious from his reaction straight away and what he said to me, but it's very early and very difficult to know. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/12835640/mikel-arteta-backs-arsenal-to-recover-from-sporting-lisbon-loss-against-crystal-palace-but-gunners-sweating-on-injuriesThe defeat by sporting lisbon was giving more disadvantages to the arsenal started from some important players who potentially injured during the match against sporting. Even when arsenal was playing with gabriel jesus was not even enough to beat sporting. Sporting was really strong and under rated team at this moment. People were feeling so confidence to bet on arsenal compared with sporting. Tomiyasu and saliba may not play against crystal palace as the continuation of EPL |
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Liverpool has been very inconsistent this season and that has cost the the Champions League and the premier league as a matter of fact they're even struggling to make it to the top four which I don't think is realisable even when it's not impossible Liverpool had no choice other than always winning the rest of games in EPL. There will be a very strict competition to get the UCL spots. Manchester city and arsenal have been securing two spots for UCL next season. It's now the time for liverpool to make its comeback. I think that if liverpool will able to do that caused by it's still having a good squad but the match against real madrid can't be considered a good measurement to determine the possibility for the Liverpool's squad enter into the competition to get UCL spots. Klopp must think wisely to use all of its main players in any game. Some players who have been performing so bad must be replaced. But their match against Fulham this weekend I don't think is gonna give them so much concerns. I'm not trying to be disrespectful to Fulham nor am I underrating them but Liverpool will be playing like a wounded lion and I don't think Fulham has what it take stop them from victory
fulham is strong enough. You can call that if liverpool will able to win against fulham easily but i think that sometimes a team like fulham will give us a surprise yet the match against fulham already postponed and liverpool will be facing manchester city.  Well, manchester city becomes favorites club in the upcoming match. |
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I agree that Arsenal were unlucky to face Sporting. Sporting played very well in the first game and played just as well in the second. But you could say they were lucky to win on penalties. But it can also be said that Arsenal is not as strong a club in the Europa League as everyone has said. Now it's even harder to pick favourites.
I guess that arteta was making very big mistake but did not put odegaard in the main squad since the first half. It's all too late when arteta was substituting him during the additional time. It has been proven that if arsenal's goal keeper is not having skill when it came to the penalty. I just try to comment on how slow the response of arsenal's goal keeper when it was trying to block sporting player's shoot in the penalty. It seems like that if arteta was also having some bad decision-makers. that's why so many gunners were blaming him caused by he was not even trying to respect his opponent. Arsenal shall always use the main formation started from the first minute. I don't even understand the way arteta thinks about that. Arteta was underestimating sporting CP. it's not good man. |
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No doubt it has ben rumored since january if benzema will be extending his contract with real madrid since real madrid still sees him as a good strikfor the club. Even though injury was prevnting him to play regularly with the main squad but he was still able to write his name in the current top scorer of la liga which is really good. Since rodrygo is not as good as benzema and real madrid still faces a problem to buy a new striker due to the some clubs that owned these strikers are so difficult to let one of these striker go out and i think that giving benzema another season is the best deicision from real madrid. |
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As a team who has been leading EPL and losing against sporting CP is a big shame for arsenal. What's wrong with it? It seems like the position in the domestic league didn't give a guarantee that the club will be playing so well in the europa league competition. I wonder how many people lose by going all into the arsenal in the match against sporting CP? The result is unpredictable for sure. I meant people were also calling arsenal the most favorites to win europa league but look at how it can be defeated easily through a penalty by sporting. Europa league or even UCL league is not a competition for a team with arsenal's level. Arsenal needs to work even harder than it. Sporting was playing so well. Arsenal can only make a few chances and 1 turned into the goal.
The good result achieved by MU as it was able to beat betis away with small scores. Betis was not even making a goal against united.
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Fenerbahce have a really tough job to do today. They are going to play the rematch after losing 2-0 to Sevilla in Spain. People go all in fenerbache even though sevillla was having more goals aggregates compared with fenerbache. I don't know why but it seems like that most of people think that sevilla can be beaten easily with huge scores by playing at home. that was very wrong. Sevilla was a tough opponent for fenerbache although the game will be happening at fenerbache's home. Actually Fenerbahce could have even won that match but it was a really unfortunate match for them. They wasted so many opportunities and Sevilla got really lucky as well. In the rematch I expect Sevilla to play defensively and just to try to secure their score advantage. Fenerbahce need to take advantage of their chances in the best manner this time. They can still make a comeback it isn't too difficult. Sevilla aren't having a good season in the end. They don't have a good defending style either.
The rematch gonna be a very high tension of game. I see that fenerbache will do anything to make sure if it will able to beat sevilla 3-0 which is impossible to happen. i can't even really be sure if fenerbache will able to make a single goal against sevilla at home. People were seeing sevilla as an underrated club at this moment while the fact said opposite thing. |
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after stopping Dortmund in the round of 16, Chelsea beat Leicester very convincingly. but to be able to rise to the top 6 positions will be quite difficult for Chelsea. they have just started with better form, but they still have games against strong sides like Liverpool, Man United, City, Arsenal, and Newcastle. it will not be easy for Chelsea to consistently get victory points after chasing points. better yet, Potter can focus on the Champions League which might just earn him a name.
Chelsea was feeling better after it was beating dortmund in the last 16. It can be seen from the result vs leicester city. Chelsea was performing quite better and it has teamwork that was making three goals to win against leicester city. The fact that the next game will become another game to prove how good and consistent chelsea is right now. I personally think that everton gonna be an easy opponent for chelsea but i dunno whether chelsea will face a difficult situation against everton or not. I personally think that chelsea will be winning clean sheet against everton. 2-0 was enough to prove that the real chelsea is coming back again. Chelsea won against everton with small score last year. I think that potter will try to use the same strategy against everton. Three backs scheme seems to be the most favorite strategy by potter. |
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Man U probably settled everything with Betis in the first match and will play comfortable football today... It seems to me that even if Betis can win, scoring 3 goals will definitely not work... You could say that Man U will play in the next round...
I don't even think like that. Betis will be struggling to make more than 1 goal against united. United is far more robust compared with betis. I were taking the result from the first leg. Im sure that real madrid will win against betis even though MU will be playing away. The fact that if MU has been even more dominance in the first leg. I see no difference for MU against betis for the second legs. MU will be fully dominating the match and make many goals against betis in the second leg. three goals were a lot in football. I think that you are aware of that. I meant ten hag will be going all-in against betis. MU has been facing a difficult situation since so many players like antony and garnacho will be missing the match against betis. either of the players garnacho and antony must recover themselves from their injury. Lisando martinez already offered himself to be midfield once it's needed by the club |
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It is true that especially those who are injured are star players, we know that this season Benzema has often been injured and he is the only pure striker at Real Madrid, if he misses a game then it will be a loss. Even though there are other names such as Rodrygo, Hazard and Mariano, these three are not pure strikers and that is what often makes Ancelotti confused about setting up a formation or strategy for Real Madrid.
That's not as many as barcelona. In my opinion, if real madrid is still having so many substitutions for the injured player. The only problem is the substitution for benzema is not owned by real madrid. In my opinion that if rodrygo must be sold to the another club and real madrid must be buying osimhen from napoli. Hazard was not pure striker like benzema. that's why real madrid has been trying to compete get osimhen from napoli. Real madrid has been linked with several strikers from various clubs. There was also a news about benzema greed to stay even longer in real madrid until 2024. That's very good news for real madrid for sure. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11864973/Striker-Karim-Benzema-agrees-Real-Madrid-contract-extension-disappointment-Man-Utd.html |
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As i predicted before it doesn't need hard work for real madrid to win against liverpool. The same story repeated again as liverpool was losing against real madrid in santiago bernabeu. Real madrid is far superior compared with liverpool.
Winning 1-0 is enough considering real madrid already won three goals aggregates in the first leg. The result of another match between napoli and frankfurt was also the easiest match to predict.
Frankfurt can do nothing against napoli. I were even closing my eyes to predict it without even needing to see the statistif by both teams. Those who did multiple bets must be getting decent amounts of money.
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The price of football players becomes even crazier. The latest news said that if dortmund was putting €150M valuation for his release clause. The main purpose was keeping him to stay in the club even longer caused by the club still needs him until the end of his contract. Today, that new angle comes from Spain, where Cadena SER claim that Bellingham’s relationship with his current club is growing strained as he grows concerned that their €150M valuation of him could block a transfer to England or Spain this summer.
In fact, they claim Bellingham’s frustration and anger is due to having been informed by Liverpool and Real Madrid that at that price they will both either be unwilling or unable to do a deal, while Manchester City have already moved on to other targets. https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/liverpool-fc-transfer-news/2023/3/14/23639478/liverpool-fc-transfer-news-jude-bellingham-anger-at-dortmund-150m-valuation-real-madrid-man-cityThere are some rumors about real madrid prepared around €130M to buy him from dortmund. Is this to prevent real madrid to buy his clause release? Bellingham's release clause didn't even make sense. This pure intention by dortmund itself. Jude didn't even wanna see it to happen. Jude is angry now. LMAO |
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It is true that Marco Reus' role is very important for Dortmund, it is clear how Dortmund plays when one of these veterans is absent from the match. However, Karim Adeyemi's role is no less important so far for Dortmund, he is very fast and agile in dribbling the ball. Several times Karim Adeyemi has also contributed to goals for Dortmund and I hope he will soon be able to appear again in Dortmund matches in the near future.
Dortmund needs those players to comeback as soon as possible to help the team to compete with bayern until the end of the season. Those players contributed a lot to the club. I would not be surprised if the come from those players will able to change the performance of the club. Reus is the most important part in this case as dortmund is always performing so well once reus was playing in the team. Playing without those players are big deal for dortmund. Bayern is also ready competing with dortmund to get the title for this season. |
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Current top 6th Serie A standing position until 26 games and have 12 games left, Napoli still unstoppable looking how many points gap with 2nd standing team Inter Milan, however seems impossible reach Napoli with 18 points left and for all Napoli fans can celebrate early before competition ended because all rival have been over due inconsistent performance. It will never happen. The gap is too big to be chased by juventus. If juventus was not even getting sanction in the past and that will be also impossible for juventus to compete with napoli. As long as napoli will be winning the remaining match until it will have remaining matches that equal with the gap to second place and napoli will be celebrating the win even early. Juventus potentially to get another sanction again after there was bad news that has come about UEFA already received all of files related with the juventus's scandal. Juventus is still waiting for the decision that will be taken by UEFA. Indeed 15 points deduction, seems Juventus still not enough compete for Napoli in this season and there are not any debate any more for Milan, Inter and Juventus fans how capacity and consistency Napoli's performance.
Juventus may even get more points deduction if UEFA will give juventus another sanction again. Juventus has no hope other than winning europa league to be qualified for UCL. Juventus basically is still having a chance to compete for UCL spot but not for the scudetto. |
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Is it Manchester United who will get this chance? Maybe it will lead to Manchester United. It's hard for me to predict anything else, MU will do everything to be able to get this European league champion.
that's wrong. Any clubs have the same chance when it comes to winning europa league. There might be some clubs that have become the most favorites club to win europa league but the problem is you can't even sure if the most favorites team will able to take the trophy. MU and arsenal are the most favorites clubs but i can't even really be sure that if these clubs will be winning the trophy. People forgot to count the participants from serie a like juventus and roma. Juventus and as roma likely to be the toughest competitor for the EPL club. MU has been using what it owned to win any match in europa league but there's no guarantee that MU will be winning it. I prefer to see juventus as a winner. |
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