I'm also having difficulties in believing that Arsenal would keep this up throughout the season. They have generally failed when it comes to doing this. For now they have seemed like a more reliable team. At least they aren't making simple point losses for now. They might still not manage to stay as solid as Manchester City during the whole season.

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Manchester City have a much stronger system thanks to Guardiola. They don't drop their guard down that easy. However Arsenal aren't in the same condition. I don't see much change in their game plan actually. They are in a really good mood when it comes to team effort these days. New transfers are making a really nice contribution to the team as well. But when the time comes and they start being shaky I wonder how good they will be able to deal with it. I'd like to remind you that Arsenal were doing well in the second half of the previous season but they started a really bad form on the final weeks and missed top 4 chance by a small gap.

Porpoising problem is back, really?

I thought that all teams have solved this problem already and we wouldn't see it anymore. If Ferrari really have to make a negative change in the height of their car then Leclerc and Sainz both are likely to have even a worse race than the previous one. Verstappen is already way faster than them and this will just make things easier for him. This is really a nightmare season for Ferrari and they must be begging for it to end as quick as possible. They will need to work on their car even more to have a cleaner season next time. It is the same when it comes to the people in their crew also to drop the individual mistakes to minimum.

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These are statistics for Gabriel Jesus's last season with Manchester City. Haaland has already scored 14 goals and made 1 assist in only 10 matches. Can you see the huge difference between these players?

Of course I'm aware that these players have different characteristics. Haaland is like a complete forward while Gabriel Jesus is more like a deep lying forward maybe. But the most important thing for the team is to get as much efficiency as possible from their strikers. It was obvious that they needed a forward like Haaland. They were interested in Kane before as you can remember. After failing in this task they went for Haaland. And it looks like they have made the best move they could. Maybe Kane wasn't going to be as effective as Haaland.

Guendouzi scored two goals today but one of them was an own goal.    I had an expectation from Marseille to lose points today after a winning streak of five matches. Rennes' scoring first made things more difficult for Marseille. Rennes also had a good performance actually but they must have been tired mentally and physically both after the Fenerbahce match in the Europa League. Otherwise they might have even won here.

Marseille have captured the lead despite the draw of course. But they will hope for PSG to lose against Lyon to be able to keep their lead. However this is a quite far possibility for me. Maybe PSG are focused on the Champions League more these days and Lyon are one of the teams that can take advantage of this. However PSG don't have any Champions League match next week. They wouldn't have any problems with focusing. Lyon might still get one point of course which is depending on the performance of the amazing trio of PSG. They were really impressive against Maccabi Haifa as each one of them scored a goal.

According to rumours, there are four teams after Jude Bellingham now. These teams are Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United.

To be more realistic, I'd eliminate Chelsea and Manchester United options for him. Because Chelsea aren't having good days and Manchester United aren't in the Champions League for now also. On the other hand Manchester United have a little advantage in this as well. Because they have Sancho who might convince Bellingham to come here. But if I were in Bellingham's place I'd choose Real Madrid or Liverpool. They are winner teams unlike Chelsea and Manchester United in the recent years. He can develop his skills and shine more at those teams.

I feel like Bellingham will choose Real Madrid. It's like a dream for most of young and skillful players to play for Real Madrid in some part of their careers.

The only obstacle Manchester City have on the road going to the championship is themselves actually.

They have everything they need for being the champions this season. Erling Haaland has helped the team to be completed finally. Guardiola already has one of the best strategies among all the teams. They didn't have a good luck last season as Real Madrid performed a miracle against them.    This time they need to get lucky also to achieve the title finally for the first time in their history. Guardiola's main target has been winning the Champions League title for years. I don't think he is thinking of leaving the team before achieving this title as well. Maybe this can be their season finally.

Eternal Fire are the biggest favourite in this closed qualifier for ESL Challenger Rotterdam. They couldn't start well by a 2-1 1WIN loss but their return was really great. They had their revenge on 1WIN by this solid 2-0 win as well. Their performance on Dust 2 was really impressive. XANTARES really carried the team on this map. One of his rounds was really amazing as he got three kills with two bombs. 



The new opponent in the consolidation final is Iron Branch. Actually they are a weak team compared to Eternal Fire. But they defeated forZe and 1WIN both. They were almost doing the same against Entropiq as well. As a result Eternal Fire should consider them as a dangerous opponent now and prepare well for the matchup. But Eternal Fire have a really good team performance recently. I believe in them to win this matchup by 2-1 in the worst case.

It looks like both teams can really score in the Estoril - Porto match. Because the first goal came from Estoril side a few minutes before the end of the first half. There hasn't been much time since the second half started and I see no reason for Porto not to find the equalizer. They need a decent result in this match after that horrible Club Brugge loss by 4-0. Scoring one goal might be enough to bring them around and make a comeback.

On the other hand they lost to Rio Ave away by 3-1 a few weeks ago. This makes me think about if this could be another match they are losing points. Estoril are even a more challenging team than Rio Ave in the end. This will be a very difficult comeback even if Porto manage to do it. Evanilson and Taremi both are productive scorers normally. They need to take a bigger responsibility in this one.

Galatasaray showed a really impressive performance in offense and deserved the 2-1 win. Even though Icardi didn't score he was helpful for his team. Because he forced a Konyaspor defender to an own goal and their goalkeeper got a red card also after his fight with Icardi. Muslera had another great match also. He was even nearly saving that incredible shot by Endri Cekici too. After having a really poor season Galatasaray are very likely to stay in the rivalry to become champions this time.

It is halftime in the Istanbulspor - Besiktas match now. Besiktas are in the lead by 2-1 thanks to N'Koudou and Weghorst's goals. They are trying to make up for the unexpected Basaksehir loss of course and I see no reason for not to do this by this match. Istanbulspor are one of the weak teams of the league currently and they wouldn't resist Besiktas much. But this is a risky score so Besiktas had better keep a two-goal gap at least to be more comfortable.

It was a quite interesting day. It's really hard to know how Astralis can lose this kind of matches in the group. Complexity and HEET are both teams to easily beat for them normally. But Astralis are still having issues with focusing on this kind of simpler matches as it seems. I mean how can they be this bad at the same time while they are able to beat the current leader of the group?

Speaking of the leader, MOUZ didn't surprise me by defeating ENCE comfortably as well. Their odd was a nice gift which was around 1.90. ENCE were shown as the favourite but it wasn't sensible at all. It was so easy for MOUZ to finish the job on Overpass by a huge win like 16-3. Snappi was the worst player of the team for ENCE here by only 4 kills. I won't be surprised if even HEET get past them and they finish the group at the bottom.

One thing is certain that Real Madrid are always going to be secretly the biggest favourite team to win the Champions League title. 

Because they have a huge domination in the Champions League if we look at how many times they have become the champions in the recent 10 years. Maybe they don't have the best squad among the teams now. But they are using their experience in this tournament very well. Ancelotti also has a system that works very well with the team now. Last season was not easy for Real Madrid at all. I don't know how they still managed to make it to the title despite every problem they had. Manchester City were nearly pushing them out of the tournament for example.

Ronaldo's market value has decreased by 10 million to become 20 million euros in three months.

The main reason should be his not having much chance after starting to do his best to leave Manchester United. He hasn't played properly in the starting eleven for some time until the Europa League matches. I still don't expect him to be in the starting eleven in their next Premier League match. Actually his market value would still decrease slowly because of his age above all else. But his ineffective performance is helping his value to be lower quickly. Depending on his recent performance he has a less chance to find himself a club that is in the Champions League. So he needs to show a better performance to help Manchester United be a part of it next season.

This is the current situation for Verstappen and Leclerc.

Verstappen has a really low odd indeed after starting to win like in every race. I would rather bet on Leclerc and try my lucky with a 5.00 odd.    Hamilton's insane lap in Singapore GP qualifying session is like everywhere and it is really hard not to admire. I wonder if we will see even a better work by Verstappen with this very quick car. It's obvious that this GP is another easy one for Verstappen unless he has some problems with the car. It's too hard for Leclerc to keep up with him with his current car. But maybe he might have an opportunity somehow to benefit from this time. This would increase the competition level a little also as things have been really boring lately.

Game 1:  10'  1-1 Draw
Game 2:  10'  3-0 Arsenal
Game 3:  10'  2-1 São Paulo FC

Williams are doing the right thing by getting rid of Latifi as soon as possible.    He is really the worst driver on the grid at the moment. I don't have any idea about how much he's cost to the team so far after all those accidents. He doesn't deserve to be a part of F1 but money talks of course.

Anyway, Nyck De Vries should be taken into account indeed. He is a talented driver who can do a pretty good job in F1 and his performance in Monza GP was like a sneak peek for this. However he is a part of Alpine's test at the same time as they are targeting to determine their new driver. I assume that De Vries would be more eager to drive a faster car next season. But his responsibilities will be bigger at the same time which he should already be aware of.



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There is such a great dominance by Basaksehir in Group A now.

Today they had a home match against Fiorentina and to be honest I was expecting it to be very competitive. It was very likely to end up with a draw I mean and the odds were even favouring Fiorentina by a slight difference. However Basaksehir had an amazing match by winning 3-0. Fiorentina didn't even have many serious goal chances. After it became 2-0 and they got a red card they found two chances but wasted both of them generously. Basaksehir had really great organizations for the goals. Serdar Gurler's second goal was really funny by the way.   I don't know what Gollini was aiming to do there instead of kicking the ball quickly.

This is the goal I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/WKySZt4j0sY?t=280

This is the night for Turkish teams really as Sivasspor also defeated Cluj 1-0. Actually Cluj found so many opportunities to score but had an unlucky day.

Allegri's position in the team isn't solid at the moment for sure. If he continues to get a few more disappointing results then Allegri would be likely to get sacked.

Tuchel is another manager who likes to play a defensive game. I don't know if so much thing can change by his arrival. Maybe Juventus would do a better job with an attacking-oriented game plan. Their usual strategies don't work anymore as it seems. Some change wouldn't make things worse as they are already doing bad in every tournament. Juventus should play a football that wants always more. They shouldn't try to make do with it after scoring one or two goals.

It wasn't an easy match for Fenerbahce for sure. Everything happened so fast in the first moments of the second half. Rennes found two goals in two minutes. This has been like a syndrome for Turkish teams in European tournaments. Fenerbahce were nearly experiencing this against Dynamo Kyiv too. But they couldn't prevent Rennes here. However it was very important for Irfan to score in a short time. This kept the team in this match to be hopeful about a draw at least. After the red card the last minutes were really dramatic and that penalty was a savior for Fenerbahce.

This 2-2 result is still good for Fenerbahce as they already had a tough match. Things would be much different in Istanbul for sure as Fenerbahce would play more dominant there for getting 3 points. They will need to work on their defending more after having those shocking minutes. They should be able to stay more solid after conceding a goal to prevent a disaster.

We have left really interesting matches behind on the first matchday of Group C. Astralis lost to Complexity and this will cause people to lose their faith in them a little. I'll think twice before betting on them for now.    Complexity were a very comfortable team to beat for them but they couldn't focus on this matchup properly. I wish I made a single bet on MOUZ. It would be a nice winning for me as they didn't even lose one map against Heroic. Now MOUZ seem like the most powerful candidate for the lead at the end.



These are tomorrow's matches. After seeing Astralis struggling that much even against Complexity I might prefer MOUZ against them as well. For the second matchup, I think Complexity can use this huge win as a motivation source to beat HEET. Lastly I feel like ENCE can beat Heroic even though they aren't the favourite according to bookies. Heroic just seem weak now as they couldn't do much against MOUZ especially on the second map. By the way, valde and SunPayus shined against HEET today especially on Dust2 by sharing top 2 places in the scoreboard. This is good news for ENCE as they are both new transfers for the team. ENCE will need them to maintain their performance vs Heroic as well.