I assume it has been a very long time since we last saw an Italian team in the Champions League finale. Now there is a huge chance for watching an Italian team there and that team are most likely to be Napoli of course. Napoli have been mesmerizing with their high effort so far. This is one of the rare seasons for them in which they perform really effectively. They have already secured their Serie A title undoubtedly but they don't have any intention to stop at a certain point.
They want to go for more which means even the Champions League title. While they are playing incredibly it would be cruel to say they don't deserve the title. The thing is that they have faced only Liverpool as a very big team so far. We still don't know about what they can do against a tournament favourite like Manchester City, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich.
We all will be happy if such comes to pass. Though so many are lovers of Spanish, and Englaand football. but this time around, there is no England team that is mentally feet to compete in this remaining round of UEFA. Champions league to the end. Like many others, I will love to see Napoli raise this title instead of Bayern or any other, cuz they may not go this far in Europa competition by next season. Many people keep underrating Napoli that they cannot win the Champions League, the more you look down on Napoli the more the boys show more wonders, especially Victor. One thing about Champions League is that it is played home and away and if by mistake Napoli's able to beat you at their home, then they can get a draw at away. They have easily qualified. So the wrong thing to do is to underrate in-form team like Napoli where everybody is working their ass off in order to make the club proud. In this competition Napoli was never gets the trophy before even when Diego Maradona still playing in this team Napoli was never talk more and always be eleminate on early stages so i think it's normal if people placed them as underdog status and underrating them but indeed this season is quite different that so much improvement from Napoli which makes this team can playing more consistent than previous season and also they have good chances to qualified to semifinal matches But in my opinion champion league is clearly different from Serie A that maybe they were good at their domestic league but don't mean it will be automatically to being an the champion of this competition and for me the teams such as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester City can be strong favourite this season than Napoli but i will looking forward to see how far will they go in this competition |
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The lack of consistency from some teams is frightening. Take Freiburg and Leipzig for example. Both failed to win their last games, although both had opponents they should have been beaten. They are lucky that the pursuers are not playing very well either and are not really a threat to them. That has been the case for a few weeks now. If they will not win the next games it will be hard to keep place 6 at least.
Frankfurt could come from behind and threaten Leipzig and Freiburg right now. There is still a difference of 5 points between them, but that shouldn't give any comfort. If Frankfurt wants to take part in the Champions league, it must at least finish in the top 4 places. That's why I'm sure the champions league race will be more exciting. Frankfurt were failed to managed their consistency recently and they were losing so many points previously and their positions even threaten by Wolfsburg which is only 2 difference points below to them and if their target want to finish at champion league zone i think Oliver Glasner should be evaluate Frankfurt previous matches and i know 5 points isn't huge difference because it still possible to be achieved but it became so hard if we see other contender such as Freiburg or Leipzig can playing more consistent them Frankfurt next opponent is Bochum and if they want to joined the race for top 4 i think they shouldn't be losing points anymore and defeat Bochum apparently isn't easy task considering this team has showing impressive performance recently and even last week they can surprising us with able to beat Leipzig |
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Liverpool are thinking possibilities to withdraw to gets Jude Bellingham from Dortmund this because they feel it's hard to joined the race to get Bellingham with Real Madrid and Manchester City because we all know these teams has strong financial abilities and with the current financial for Liverpool it's very difficult to get him this summer
And probably Liverpool will looking for another player instead of Bellingham and recently Mason Mount name appears because rumour is this player almost be certain to leave Chelsea this summer and confirmed if the negotiations between Chelsea and Mount do not reach an agreement then he will left Chelsea immediatelly and Liverpool is the most serious team to get him so far and according to the price tag Mason Mount had 50 millions and this price is much cheaper than Bellingham price which is probably will be above to 100 millions
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Roy Hodgson has been appointed Crystal Palace manager until the end of the season. I don’t know how to feel about this. I mean they shouldn’t have let Patrick Vieira go in the first place. The team was always improving and with the extra cash they would have been better. Anyways Roy Hodgson has been a fantastic manager over a illustrious career in many countries, but he is out of depth in the current football league. I think it's a safe appointment with no aspiration. Hopefully Crystal Palace can aquire the manager they need going forward into the new season.
I thought Crystal Palace will sign Patrick McCartney as new manager but apparently McCartney only as interm manager status and seems this is valid news that Roy Hodgson has decided to come back from his retirement to being an new manager of Crystal Palace and the management targetting him to bringing Crystal Palace to avoiding relegation zone And i don't know this is good for Crystal Palace or not although Hodgson is the coach with plenty of experience in premier league or other league but during his career his achievement is not too impressive for me and last year he was choosen as Watford coach and the management were targetting him to bringing Watford to survive in premier league but unfortunately he was failed and Watford was relegated at that time |
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Milan v Napoli is like a Serie A match to me. I don't see any difference between their looks in the Serie A and Champions League as well. Napoli are very strong here as well while Milan don't have a very reliable performance. Maybe you will say that Milan are still good here due to eliminating Tottenham. But it was mostly due to Tottenham's being really terrible against them. Tottenham were a big disappointment just as they were in the most of the season. But it wouldn't be the same scenario against Napoli.
Napoli are a very competitive team in the Champions League as well. They really want the best achievement they can get here. It isn't very difficult for them to make it to the final stage too considering the draw.
Napoli is playing really well in the Italian League, there is no doubt about that. But in the Champions League, I wonder how they are going to perform. This is a match that they are very familiar with. So they should not have too many problems beating Milan. Personally, I do not want to make any predictions before watching the first leg. I want to see the first leg to have an idea. Now the general prediction is that of course, Napoli is going to win. But this is the champions League. It is not going to be as simple and easy as the Italian League. I have to say Napoli a bit lucky in this competition this because since group stages until quarterfinal Napoli didn't met any strong teams so often and so far only Liverpool is the strongest team they had met but Milan and Napoli were plenty to met on Serie A before so although this is champion league match i think it's not so different because they already know the strength and the weakness each other But in my opinion the result of this drawing was very favorable for the italian teams because whoever the winner of the match between Napoli vs AC Milan at least Italy has 1 representative team in semifinal but interesting to see whether Italian teams can able go to the final or not and last time the team who can reach to final match was Juventus on 2017 but unfortunately they were lose 4-1 at that time from Madrid |
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I really wonder how the match between the two clubs will be, arsenal now is 8 points ahead man city with one missed match for city, let's say the gap will be 5 points how arteta will start this match, I don't think playing defensively is a good idea because man city can score against any team easily so i believe arsenal must try to score in the beggening of the match
Playing defensively is making arsenal have a very big risk. I meant manchester city is also having a good attacker. Playing defensively was only making arsenal be under pressure by city. If this will happen until the end of game and that will increase the chance for arsenal to lose against manchester city. I can't even deny the fact that if city is also having best attacker in the world. it's better for arsenal to play offensive rather than defense. Playing defensively was just making its players stressed due to the so many pressures that will come anytime. I think that you should aware of how good manchester city was when it was coming to attack its opponent but i would be so glad if arsenal will take such decision. Manchester City will be the toughest team which Arsenal faced if we compared to other teams on their schedules this because only Manchester City is the team who Arteta cannot be defeated in the last 5 meetings but regarding the match indeed i don't think playing defensively isn't an option for Arteta because Arsenal under him were never been playing with this style even during this season we can see Arsenal almost be dominate for each matches and playing full attacking If i am not mistaken Arsenal vs Manchester City will be held on week 33 which mean 5 matches remaining before season end and i can say this is crucial match for both teams because the outcomes of this match will be determined who is the winner of premier league title and if Arsenal want to locked the title early i think win result is mandatory for them but beating Manchester City at their home is quite difficult and so far only Brentford who can able to do that so i was wondering what strategy will Arteta use to beat Manchester City later |
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Definitely a shocking result, and with about 9 games left that looks like a big deal to see Bayern not leading the league, we aren't used to having less than 10 games left while Bayern is not leading, I can't even tell you the last time that ever happened, maybe it's more recent than I remember, or maybe it is not and they had this before and overcome it, but I feel like it has been years since that last happened.
In summary, they need to recover very well and need to get a winning streak without a doubt, at least until Dortmund loses, maybe that will be next week, maybe that will be few weeks later, but they need to keep winning until that happens.
Bundesliga is not so bored again because we can see other teams can be compete with Bayern Munich for race title and we will see who is the most consistent team in this competition for 9 matches remaining whether it Bayern or Dortmund but indeed just like i said before Dortmund had more advantages than Bayern because they didn't playing again for other competitions so Dortmund can be more focus to Bundesliga only Bayern has slightly different this season after losing some of key players in the beginning of season and buying players that are not as expected makes them has slightly unconsistent this season and this also makes other teams such as Dortmund and Union Berlin can pursuing them but this makes people will be more excited to watched because probably the league champion will be determined at the end of this season |
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At least my prayers was coming true and Bayern Munich has lost there game against Leverkusen even when my bet was placed for a win for Bayern.
If you looking on the table right now it looks for sure better with Dortmund on the first place.
Sad a bit that Frankfurt has lost there game against Union Berlin.
Union Berlin recently infamously lost in the Europa League without scoring a single goal. And yesterday they managed to beat Frankfurt 2-0. Now a really interesting situation in the standings with Dortmund in first place, Bayern in second and Union Berlin in third. I think that for the rest of the season there will be an interesting contest for first place between these clubs. I didn't expect Union Berlin can be humiliated by Saint-Gilloise with huge scores on europa league before because i put them as the favourite on that match but luckily Union Berlin can able to bounce back and beat Frankfurt and this result makes them strong at 3rd below to Bayern with 4 difference points but sadly for Frankfurt that they have lost so many opportunities to earn points and now after lost from Union Berlin their position are threaten by Wolfsburg And disappointing results were also obtained by Freiburg that playing away against Mainz they were can take a lead with goal from Ritsu Doan but Karim Onisiwo had saved Mainz from defeat with scoring goal to equalized in the last minutes of second half which makes both teams must be satisfied to share points |
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Franck Kessie's goal in 90 + 2 minutes made Barcelona make a sensational comeback against Real Madrid.
This El Clásico match was quite tense and dramatic, Real Madrid's mission to hold back Barcelona's points at the top of the standings has failed and it is certain that Real Madrid must give up the La Liga title for Barcelona this season, a difference of 12 points is no longer possible to catch.
although there was a bit of controversy in the 81st minute when Marco Asensio's goal was annulled because it was declared offside, regardless of that it must be admitted that the final result was for Barcelona's victory and they deserved the win after playing better in this match.
it is over for Real Madrid for the tittle race, Barcelona has been so determine to win the title this reason. they have been eliminated from several cups this season. so they will hold the title so strong. Real Madrid will focus on the champions league title, which is very position this season. xavi has to take the title race very serious I have told this before the match begin that Laliga race title will be determined depend on the outcomes of this El Classico and if Madrid can win the match they still have any chances to overtake Barcelona position but if they lose i think Madrid have to give up and indeed mathematically 12 points still possible to be achieved but considering Barcelona performance is more consistent than Madrid then it's almost be impossible to pursuing Barcelona I think Ancelotti has realized these situations and it's time for him to focus to other competitions besides Laliga and if Madrid want to gets another trophies this season they still have a good chance on champion league and Copa Del Rey especially on Copa Del Rey although in the first leg Madrid have lose from Barcelona but they still able qualified to final match if can able to beat Barcelona at least with 2 goals margin and for champion league we all know they are strong contender for the title since the beginning of season |
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Aston Villa are rumoured to be interested in signing Romelu Lukaku in the summer. I think Chelsea would prioritize selling him instead of loaning him to another team. Inter don't seem willing to extend his loan contract now. Because he is far away from his much better performances right now. After a long-term injury he hasn't been very effective. His performance in the World Cup was also poor.
Aston Villa should be able to reach an agreement for him as long as the demands aren't too high for him. Because he couldn't keep his value much high after having a bad period for a long time.
I don't think Lukaku will give Aston villa greenlight and he still wants to continue his season in Inter Milan. He's still looking to pull his terrible season around for good. Romelu Lukaku is an extra ordinary player in inter Milan specifically when he's at his peak, but currently, he doesn't have the to stand out to make his teammates and the fans impressed with his performance. The Belgian international was injured for a lengthy period of time and his form gone for this season, he will bounced back but it's just a matter of time. Regardless of his injured issue Lukaku cannot giving his best performance to Inter and after loan ended Inter management has decide will not buying Lukaku and this is probably final decesion from Inter because if they want to buy a new attackers most likely Inter will look for a new player instead of Lukaku and after return to Chelsea his future also will be determined by Potter and if Potter still want him on the team probably Chelsea will giving him contract extension but if Lukaku is not into Potter plan for next season i think Chelsea will release him and if Aston Villa really want him i think this is could be good solution for Lukaku and probably he would find his best performance at Aston Villa |
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How on earth do you even watch, view and make analysis of the Premier League football games ? Crystal Palace has been so disorganized even if they've had Viera ( Arsenal Legend as head coach ) this also is a London Derby, they just got Viera out so I don't expect same strategy. This exactly they should have done much longer but they hesitated.
Arsenal are currently superior in the premier league, the only club to stand and face them properly is Pep Guardiola and Manchester City.
Who has been so consistent for years now.
Been humiliated in emirate stadium is actually a poor results for the eagles, so sacking Patrick Vieira was not a good idea. He would have managed to settled for a draw tie against arsenal, but instead he was relieved of his duty. Crystal Palace lost heavily to arsenal with a thrilling 4-1 victory for the homeside. Mikel Arteta is trying his best to suit the gunners into a standard club with high performance in the premier league. However, Pep Guardiola remained the only man that can stop him from winning the title. Premier league is almost at the end of the season and indeed some people considers Crystal Management is too rush when they were decide to sacked Patrick Vieira but we can't blamed them because since the beginning of season Vieira was unable to bring significant changes to Crystal Palace and now the current coach Paddy McCarthy has hard mission that he have to bringing Crystal Palace to avoid relegation zone and survive in premier league According to the next schedules for Crystal Palace the only strong team they will face is Tottenham and other than that they will only face mediocre teams so if they can playing consistent maybe there is a chance for them to survive but i was wondering what factors are considered for the management when they decide to choose Paddy McCarthy to handle Crystal Palace because i mean this coach is lack of experience in premier league besides that McCarthy only spend his time as a player before and not as a coach |
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I wasn't expecting a matchup between Manchester City and Bayern Munich so soon; perhaps it will be more interesting in the semifinals. They are the two best clubs in the league and the favorites to win it all. We'll be watching an earlier final than usual. These two teams must prepare extensively for these matches because they are competing in the Champions League rather than the regular league. Both of those teams are in excellent form in their respective leagues, so we’re expecting to see a fierce battle. One of the favorite teams will be knocked out in the quarter-finals after Manchester City and Bayern Munich met, they will beat each other for a place in the semifinals. The burden is on the shoulders of both coaches, I think Pep Guardiola is under a bit more pressure than J Nagelsmann. Manchester City must face one of the strongest sides to lift the trophy that has yet to be won in the club's history. Coaches must rotate in several other matches to maintain player fitness and avoid injury, team preparation needs to be done to provide fierce resistance to their opponents. Guardiola finally will be reunited with his former team Bayern and Guardiola said he will very excited to faced this match and actually this match is really difficult to predict and i will considers they have equal strength to this competition but Bayern Munich performance on their domestic doesn't really good that recently Bayern position were overtaked by Dortmund because lost from Leverkusen today And regarding the records Guardiola has been faced Bayern several times while train Barcelona and he has good records from it because never lost before and Guardiola also has been met Nagelsmann several times in Bundesliga while Nagelsmann still train Hoffenheim and he was can able to overcomes Nagelsmann team so maybe these records can be used as the reference to see the outcome from this match and in my opinion Manchester City is slightly the favourite than Bayern |
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Lazio get important winning yesterday from Roma that the match looks equal in the beginning of first half but everything was change when Ibanez got red card that Roma cannot develop their game and must focus to their defense because Lazio were playing with more attacking and pressed them and the result is Zaccagni can scored the only goal in this match and Lazio has successfully to earn 3 points from this match
Inter's loss to Juventus greatly benefited Lazio because now they can overtake Inter in second position and Lazio had not reached this position in a long time i think Sarri has successfully to solved Lazio weaknesses especially for Lazio defense that if i am not wrong Lazio currently has 16 cleansheet from 27 matches and this is impressive records for them
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In the first leg of the quarter final, it looks like Feyenoord will beat Roma, even though we know that in the previous game Feyenoord looked so scary by scoring 7 goals against Shasktar. I think Feyenoord's chances of qualifying for the semi-finals are great because they have been very consistent this season and for Roma they still have to improve on their performance which I think is still not good enough this season. But what is clear is that this is also one of the matches that we should wait for the results.
Feyenoord has been quite scary this season, not only in the Europa League but also in the Eredivisie. The first leg will be held at the Feyenoord Stadium which really looks like it will be quite haunted by proving they beat Shakktar with a striking score. Even though Shakhtar and Roma are different, of course Rome has to be aware of this condition because Feyenoord have the upper hand. But indeed there are still a few weeks from now, we also have to wait whether their performance will be slightly hampered or not in the next 3 weeks because this could also be a benchmark. Feyenoord journey in this competition is not too impressive that they were lucky to being an group champion because only good from goals difference and beating Shakhtar on the second leg with scores 7-1 indeed it's very impressive but i don't think this result can be repeated against Roma later and we all know Mourinho is the coach with plenty of experience for european competitions so it's not easy to beat Roma under him My prediction because first leg will be held at Feyenoord home ground so probably Roma will targetting draw result and maybe Roma will attempts to beat Feyenoord at their home on the second leg and if i am not mistaken both of teams has been met on European Conference League final match with Roma as the winner of this match and Feyenoord will attempts to gets revenge this time but in my opinion Roma will be overcomes Feyenoord and qualified to semifinal match |
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Arsenal will have an easy match today against crystal palace, a golden opportunity for arsenal to extend the gap to 8 points waiting for man city missed match, odds are very logic because crystal palace team is having a very bas period while arsenal need to focus now on the EPL after the disqualification from the Europa league
After being eliminated by Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League, the Premier League is Arsenal only chance to lift the title. Arsenal must not lose points that threaten their position, the 5 point advantage over Manchester City must be maintained to continue to lead the standings. Arteta must be able to ignite the enthusiasm of the Arsenal players to always be consistent in the remaining 11 matches. Arsenal must take advantage of the poor performance of Crystal Palace, who have not won in their last 11 EPL matches to get three points. Arteta will considers 11 matches remaining in premier league it just like an final matches so he will do more efforts to bringing Arsenal to gets the winning results for each matches and he don't want to be slipped anymore and Crystal Palace we all know is very weak and Crystal Palace today will fight against Arsenal with new coach that after the management has decide to sacked Patrick Vieira and Paddy McCarthy will make his debut match and i think it's very hard for him because possibly Crystal Palace will losing points again today and for betting options Arsenal win has odds @1.28 this is not the best odds indeed but no wonder why the bookie provide low odds for Arsenal because it's almost be certain Arsenal will win today |
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Chances for Serie A team to advance to the Champions League final depend on the outcome of the Benfica vs Inter match, if Inter can beat Benfica then for the first time since the 2015 season when Juventus made it to the final it will come true again this season. Looking forward with Inter Milan could eliminated Benfica and make Serie A team get one slot for Champion League final team.
I think the most chances Italian team who possibly qualified to final match is Napoli but for Inter i think very hard for them to reach final match and Inter opponent is Benfica who can be recognized as dark horses team but personally i wouldn't underestimate Benfica because this season they have outstanding performance that whether it on their domestic league or champion league Benfica had stable performance And since group stage people didn't counted Benfica as the favourite team who qualified to round of 16 because at that time they are in a group with strong teams like PSG and Juventus but in fact they can overturn people's predictions with being an group champion with unbeatable status so in my opinion Benfica had more good chances qualified to semifinal than Inter |
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Few more hours El Classico will begin that Barcelona will playing as a host and they had ambition to locked Laliga trophy early because if Barcelona win today they will have 12 difference points above to Real Madrid which mean Barcelona will be closer to their 27th title in Laliga and for Real Madrid there is no other way besides playing fully attacking to targetting early goals and this match will be so interesting to watched
Benzema confirmed he will be fit for this match and he will be excited to faced Barcelona and regarding teams conditions whether it Barcelona and Real Madrid will playing with their all of key players and for Barcelona i have been noticed Raphinha has just make good contribution in the last 2 matches because he can scores important goals and bringing Barcelona to win the match and today too probably he will make some different so Real Madrid should be careful to this player and i feel like Barcelona can able to take revenge today and win the match and the odds for Barcelona is @2.28
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Normally Leipzig are not supposed to lose the game to Bochum but it seems they haven't recovered from the defeat. Bochum are very lucky to win tough team like Leipzig. The defeat of Leipzig can kill their winning mentality in up coming game's.
It is a terrible defeat for Leipzig because I can't remember the last time Bochum defeated Leipzig because Leipzig has been the winning side against Bochum, and their next two matches are not easy either because they will be playing against Mainz and Dortmund, which is a very difficult game for them and may be an obstacle for their top four spots. Both of teams has been met with total 10 times and if i am not mistaken this is first winning for Bochum and before the match i was so confident Leipzig will be the winner of this match but clearly i was wrong about that and after conceded goal Leipzig really playing with aggresive and it showed from the statistics that Leipzig had 22 total of shots during the match and i didn't really remember Bochum odds for this match before but at least they have @12 and this is fantastic odds to those who bets for them however this result makes Bochum can avoiding relegation zone and they were successfully to wided their point gap to 4 points above Hertha Berlin |
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But yes, regarding their match that just ended, the fact is that Tottenham are very close to winning. But unfortunately, Southampton had quite a bit of luck in the last minutes of the match as Southampton's third goal came in the 90+ minute and also through a penalty kick. But anyway, I personally still quite believe that Tottenham still has the ability to maintain its position in the top four.
Southampton really benefited from a penalty in the 90+3 minute. This of course surprised Tottenham even though this was actually their own fault. So they didn't win. The draw of this match is certainly very painful for Tottenham, especially the opponent is Southampton, the bottom club in the standings. Not only that, the draw for the two was not only related to Southampton's luck, because they also played quite well, carried out various attacks that suppressed Tottenham's defense and they also had good ball possession. This time, Tottenham did not play well. Regarding the match i just don't understand to Tottenham player and Conte strategy that after Perisic scores goal and Tottenham leading 3-1 i think there were no effort for Tottenham players to playing more attacking anymore and 15 minutes before end of second half Tottenham mistakes is they let Southampton control the ball and this makes Southampton can create several attempts to scoring goals especially after Walcott make second goals for Southampton it seems Tottenham have lost their rhythm This is very dissapoint result and this is also not good for them although Tottenham position still at 4th but they have already played 28 matches and i think Conte have to evaluate this match because i have seen one of Tottenham weakness is they couldn't play consistently and always conceded a goal in the last 15 minutes of the 2nd half |
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Leipzig conditions is not really good that after defeated by Dortmund several weeks ago and this Wednesday they had been humiliated by Manchester City on champion league with huge scores 7-0 and i think Leipzig should be bounce back and forgot their loses because the competition between the teams in champion league zone is very tight and if they slipped today possibly their position on standings league will be overtake by other teams
Today Leipzig will fight against Bochum and actually it's not too difficult to beat them although this is home match for Bochum but previously they lost points at their home with gets 2 lose and Leipzig will play without Christopher Nkunku this indeed big lost for them but other players such as Emil Forsberg can performing good as Nkunku replacement so probably he will be played since early minutes and i believe Leipzig will return to winning ways through this match and Leipzig win has odds @1.54
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