It's quite unlucky for Brighton not to have been able to get at least a goal yet within the fist half, they were the better team and it was not even my a close margin, Brighton have had 20 attempts and 4 on target, Nottingham Forest are still yet to make even just an attempt, let alone having any shot on target.

The second half just began, and If Brighton are able to keep up with the level of performance they portrayed in the first, and pressurize Nottingham further, it's just a matter of time before they'd get to score a goal or 2.

I would have gone with Salah too, but I didn't have the financial capacity, If not I'd have traded Grobb for him, and I'd rather not sell Trossard with an easier fixture for Salah and get another -4 points for that, especially when I'm not even guaranteed a great performance from him.

I had to bring in Mount even before his two on Sunday for Maddison who's due a suspension and his fixture doesn't look so great after the suspension, while Potter seemed to have fallen in love with Mount, I'd probably be the only person in our pool with Aubameyang as captain, I hope him and Potter doesn't make a fool of me.

It depends when the deadline actually is, I'm sure I got the notification on calendar since yesterday, and it'll still in remainder all, and I still get like 3-4 notifications about 24hours, 6-12 hours and about that of about an hour to go too.

Woah!

I had no idea that I have won the Yellow Cap, that's twice in three weeks for me, not a bad one  , but I'm still very short from the leaderboard, I still on the 5th position with several points behind, perhaps a few more yellow cap in the next few weeks will help me out  

The only adverse effect I get is that the better I'm doing in this pool, the worse I'm getting in the La Liga pool :

If you use an iPhone or have google calendar on you phone, you can actually get all the deadline synced to your calender,  and enable notifications for it, I'll share my phone's home screen so you'll see what I'm referring to.



Note in the mid-top left corner is just about literally fine for me, but you might want extra notification too.

I've had my own fair share of being unlucky too, my wild card has been my biggest curse so far this season, everything was going fine until I used it and every move I've made since then has turned out for the worse, I'm already taking a 8 point hit, but I'm 0.6m short of funds.

I'll probably find away around it, but that might cost me another 4 points deficit, ffs!

14. Charles Oliveira
13. Aljamain Sterling
12. Petr Yan
11. Beneil Dariush
10. Manon Fiorot
9.  Belal Muhammad
8.  Caio Borralho
7.  Nikita Krylov
6.  Zubaira Tukhugov
5.  Magomed Mustafaev
4.  Abubakar Nurmagomedov
3.  Armen Petrosyan
2.  Muhammad Mokaev
1.  Karol Rosa

Match 14 winner Total Strikes: 79

1. AZ
2. AZ
3. AZ
4. Yes
5. Under
6. 3rd
7. Odd
8. Odd
9. AZ
10. NO

Final Score prediction  23-15

Is Sergio Busquets an experienced midfielder, most definitely! but is Busquets obsolete and no longer essential, literally the freaking truth! He shouldn't be out there starting every game, he should be dropped, I'd rather have a Gavi, Pedri, Kessie or De Jong, both De Jong and Kessie can play as a CDM, or even Gavi who has been very energetic and got great passing accuracy and covers most distance on the pitch than most of other Barcelona players in most of the recent games.

I don't think Real Madrid prove to be the best team in La Liga just by their victory against Barcelona yesterday, I don't think any club scores as many as 3 goals just by a fluke or based on luck, so indeed they had duly deserved their victory, but Barcelona can also be said to have played somewhat well imo, but what matters in the end is the result, and that was in Real Madrid's favor, but it's still early into the season, there is still everything to play for.

I really wish Xavi would consider dropping Busquests, like he's done with Pique and Alba, I'd love to see a Gavi, Pedri and Frenkie De Jong or Kessie.

Xavi could well with Pedri and Kessie in LM and RM respectively, then play a double pivot with Gavi and Kessie, with a back line of Kounde, Araujo and perhaps Christensen or Eric Garcia, Busquests as the DM have the them very expose and vulnerable, which also affect the players build up front, regardless that the goals haven't been coming for Barcelona, I'm still very please with our attacking players and what they each have to offer.

I shipped Salah out for, James and Trossard, how typical off me, I'm defo taking a -8 points hit for the next game week, it's in evitable for me 


I really don't blame Xavi one bit, he's approach to the game wasn't bad, we got unlucky and very exposed at the back, and it's down to the injury list, honestly with the game I'm watching Barcelona play lately, I've not been feeling too bad, but the result just haven't been in our favour, and there are just a very little things to be amended.

I guess I was right after all, the 3 remaining matches for today were somewhat obvious about how majority of the participant would approach them and that was the basis of my assumption of Serab likely to end up as the winner, but in the end I could have been partially wrong because CLS63 was as on 14 points as Serab with Bayern being 4-0 up against Freiburg which was his exact prediction, however, a 5th goal from Bayern changed everything and Serab ended up as the sole winner of the round, congratulations to him!

I think Turkey's group will still be a bit tough, with both Wales and Croatia being in the same group with them, but they look like earning the third spot should be an easy fit at the very least.

Most of the other groups looks like we can easily pick the two teams to qualify from them, but as you've stated we could be in for a couple of upsets, Spain on paper seems to have the easiest group, but I don't think Norway and Scotland will be pushovers.

France, Netherlands and Italy, England respective groups also contain some teams capable of causing troubles, I meant teams like North Macedonia, Ukraine and Greece.

I think I played myself big time today and I lost 6 points for that, I literally had 1-0 win for both Sevilla and Atletico Madrid, but I changed them both to 1-1 draw each just before saving my picks, I couldn't fucked up any worse, knowing fully well that I needed those points, getting just one exact between both games would have at least been somewhat consoling for me, but I'm just likely going to fall down further below in the leaderboard, damn!

Zero points from 5 fixtures so far for me!, and it was like the only chance to reduce the gap that saint-loup currently holds at the top of the table, but that's not even happening for me, but the fact the highest point so far this round is a joint currently 4.5 shows it's a very tough one.

You're still at the top of the table, and I'm only managing to stay in sight every week, I really didn't expect the pool or the results of the matches to be highly unpredictable like this, so it's only made the pool very more interesting.

We've got probable difficult but the most predictable games for tomorrow, it's pretty much likely we've got our winner of the round with Serab already, except someone else is able to get a couple of exact scores and that gives them a huge boost.

I really wished I had waited for Friday or Thursday before making my transfers, I wouldn't have jumped in on the Reece James, I would gone have for Perisic or perhaps Ait-Nori, or the Killman bandwagon, and If Emerson Royal hadn't been stupid for the red card against Arsenal too, that would have been two more clean sheets to my teams, but I'm literally done with the what ifs and buts, so I've got Killman for the next couple of fixtures and might get back to Perisic if Conte is going to give more time too.

Is anyone else thinking of potentially having Andreas into their squad for certain fixtures, if one of their midfield of defenders is bound to have tough game like City or Liverpool for instance.

I really wasn't convinced by Man United performance in the midweek Europa League fixture against Omonia either, but I would like to say the Europa League and Premier League, and Man Utd have been doing better in the PL lately and both Man Utd and Newcastle are both on each other's ass, with Man United barely above them on the table just by a single point, I really think Man United will not going to lose the game, and the least would be a draw.

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Man City vs Liverpool is the most the anticipated game of the week, and I don't think Man City would have wished to play Liverpool at better time than now that they're literally struggling.

I think all Barcelona need is to be very conscious defensively, In attak Barcelona are very brilliant too, but the defensive woes is what keeps putting them in delicate situations and I'm worried about the that Vinicius and Benzema might really exploit those vulnerability, I'm however still confident about Barcelona going to into game against Real Madrid, despite being the Underdog, a win is a very possible reality.

Barcelona are missing a couple of players but Kounde being likely to play is a sigh of relief and Real Madrid will also be without their goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois and star defender Rudiger is also likely to be unavailable.

It's should be an interesting match with goals at both ends, but I'll go for 1-2 in favour of Barcelona.

I don't see any need for panic for Barcelona right, the team is an absolutely perfect shape, it's just rather unfortunate to have lost most of our defensive CB that are top of their game to injuries, that was Barcelona lack in the game against Inter, Pique was an absolute trash, and Kounde or Araujo would have been much better, I'd rather have even Christensen ahead of him, but every other aspect of the team are in perfect shape, Gavi and Pedri, support from Kessie, there's nothing else to wish for imo, and In attack, Dembele is doing well above just good, and Raphihna as well, Fati is also on good track and Lewandowski is just the perfect fit to lead the attack, but the transition/playing out from the back is where the current problem lies, I'd rather the club just weather this storm out and wait for these players to get back, make stupid expenses in the next transfer window.

I also had a 1-1 draw, and I can't say I wasn't surprised by the result because I didn't expected Brentford to win, not even as flawlessly as they did, and given their recent form of concede the least I expected is a goal or two from Brighton, however Raya literally saved the day with tons of magical saves, he was just impenetrable, the Brighton deserved was at least a goal, Raya was equal to every of their 21 attempts and 7 that were on targets, insane performance! Player of the match imo!