Bitcointalk is a pure bitcoin forum and mostly bitcoin maximalists, so I don't think you'll get a second answer. Even investing in altcoins is frowned upon by many, so investing in stocks or anything other than bitcoin will also be rejected here. And the reason people here will only choose bitcoin is because they want to control and manage their assets themselves. So if you ask them to choose any concentrated asset, you will only get one answer.  |
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I agreed, BTC raised very hard after COVID-19.
4 Years ago they called me crazy psycho. That 3k+ per Bitcoin would have never happened if COVID never took place, it felt like it's the end of the world was coming to an end and people panicked. If covid never happened we would have never seen that 3k+ for Bitcoin at the time, only handful of smart investors took advantage of the low price and pressed the buy button. It did felt like the world was coming to an end, death news here and there, total lockdown everywhere, it was a very scary time, by the way, the actual value of Bitcoin then was over $3,000, I believe it was $3500 or $3700. The Covid pandemic was something no one expected and at that time there were many more important things than bitcoin, so it was not unusual for people to dump bitcoin to get money to prepare for everything. I believe that at that time many people knew about the potential of bitcoin, but they were not mistaken in considering choosing their family's daily needs more important than holding bitcoin. I believe that many people did not easily make the choice to sell their bitcoins at that time. I really sympathize with the people who sold their bitcoins at that time. During that pandemic year, many families in my country didn't even have anything to eat, so what was the meaning of holding bitcoin or money at that time? |
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 Chelsea will theoretically be able to afford Victor Osimhen in the summer, but the transfer would require a major sacrifice, according to a report.
The Nigerian sharpshooter has become the Blues' top target for the upcoming transfer window. Osimhen has long since been one of Europe's most prolific number nines and Chelsea hope that his goals would be able to catapult them back into relevance.
Signing Osimhen will be anything but straightforward, however. The Napoli striker recently extended his deal by a year, adding a €130 million release clause to his contract. In addition to his hefty price tag, there is the issue of Chelsea being, well, not very good. Source: https://www.footballtransfers.com/en/transfer-news/uk-premier-league/2024/03/chelsea-transfer-news-victor-osimhen-green-light-napoliEven though Chelsea has the capability to actually get Osimhen, I Believe he is probably not going to go to Chelsea because of the current performance of Chelsea. I hear that Manchester United is looking for him and Harry Kane as well. But I believe they will not be able to get either of them. Kane is not going anywhere anytime soon in my opinion. PSG is also in the race for getting Osimhen because Mbappe is leaving for sure. I think Chelsea can try to get him but he should not go to Chelsea unless they change the coach. If they change the coach and bring someone who has actually some credibility I think he might choose to go to Chelsea. Otherwise, it is definitely a no-go. |
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Looking at the results, it seems the majority is correct in predicting that we are going to hit above $71k. But for me this is just the beginning, we are not even in the block halving and yet we have established new all time high already.
So we might be seeing $100k at the end of the year. I remember the last bull run or at least the halving year in 2020. We never thought that we can crossed $50k at that was the prediction before. If history going to repeat itself, I have no doubt that 6 digits is going to be reach this year alone and in 2025, another parabolic rise and we see the all time high for this bull run.
But we also have no guarantee that after the halving bitcoin will definitely continue to go higher. Since the ETF was approved, the market cycle has broken down and I see things becoming more unpredictable than we thought. It is true that bitcoin hit its ATH before the halving and most of us were happy to think that the bull season would come sooner. But having an ATH earlier than expected is no guarantee that bitcoin will continue to conquer other all-time highs. Has anyone ever thought about the scenario where bitcoin will enter a bearish cycle after halving? |
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After Sri Lanka lost three batsmen for 43 runs I thought Bangladesh team will win today's match too. But with Pathum Nissanka and Asalanka's excellent batting, the match is now completely under Sri Lanka's control.
At the end of 41 overs, Sri Lanka collected 251 runs with the loss of 5 wickets. Sri Lanka needs to collect only 36 runs from 54 balls to win. It is not a very difficult task. If the batsmen can stay at the crease, Sri Lanka will easily win today's match. Pathum Nissanka returned to the dressing room with 114 runs and Asalanka had 91 runs. Besides, no other Sri Lankan batsman can bat so well. These two batsmen changed the entire scenario of the match today.
We haven't seen better bowling from Taijul today. Taijul gave 32 runs in 4 overs, but could not take a single wicket. If Taijul could bowl well, maybe Bangladesh would have been able to win today's match. Taskin and Shariful are bowling very well today.
Sri Lanka were 3 for 43 and the forth wicket went down at 228. Pathum Nissanka scored 114 runs but Charith Asalanka was unlucky to miss century by just 9 runs. Sri Lanka at the moment in comfortable position as they need 31 more runs in 44 balls and still have 4 wickets in hand. With this win the series will be levelled and third ODI will decide fate of this series. Bangladesh team has given a decent target but there bowling is not much effective today. In the end Sri Lanka won the match. Hasaranga's innings of 25 runs off 16 balls made it easy for Sri Lanka to win the match. Bangladesh lost today's match only because of their bad bowling. Although the performance of the batsmen was not very good, the Bangladesh team managed to set a target of 287 runs. I was very annoyed by Taijul's bowling in today's match. If he bowls like this, he will not be able to stay with the Bangladesh squad for long. Taijul is basically a bowler, he can't even bat well. Taijul gave 43 runs today after bowling 5 overs. Fans certainly expect better performances from experienced bowlers like Taijul. However, the series is now tied at 1-1. The last match will be held on March 18. The third ODI match will also be held in Chittagong. Same pitch. If Bangladesh wants to win, the batsmen must bat better. There is no alternative. |
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I don't think $68k is the deep, we saw some days ago how it went down to $61, and at any moment it could have a massive crash, is about a wale deciding to sell a big amount to send it down to $40k, remember there are some early investors who are holding a big amount of BTC, and if any of them decide to sell then the markets will be in pain.
Feels like the party is over, the right way to buy in the deep was 1 year ago when price were down to $16k.
Maybe $68k or $66k is not the final drop but there is no guarantee that bitcoin will fall further. Bitcoin is still bitcoin, no one can predict it. So the best solution is DCA to not miss any cheap buying opportunities. Making predictions and waiting for lower prices to buy also causes many people to miss the opportunity to buy at a good price. As I remember when bitcoin dropped to $16k in 2022, many people kept predicting it would go to $12k and they waited, but in the end they missed bitcoin's low. |
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This is the most difficult draw by UEFA because this both clubs have a very impressive champions league records though Real Madrid had better champions league record than Manchester city but in recent years, Manchester city has always been a strong force in the champions league so there is no doubt that this match between this both teams is the hardest for this quarter finals.
Manchester City and Real Madrid have many chances to play head to head in four latest seasons. Again they will meet each other in this season. Their matches in quarter finals are like an early final match of Champions League 2023 -2024. Real Madrid are more experienced than Manchester City and with not too good defense of Manchester City, chance for Real Madrid to have a win after all. Real Madrid with better solution, is perfect for his friends. Since 2020, Manchester City have faced Liverpool three times. It will be the fourth time this season. And every time these two teams faced each other, the matches were very competitive.  Manchester City have won 4 matches in 6 matches over three seasons, and Real Madrid have won just one match. Although the matches were competitive, the result was in favor of Manchester City. Real Madrid failed to beat City. But this season's scenario is different. Manchester City's performance has been somewhat erratic due to injuries to De Bruyne and Haaland. The team is not playing well consistently. Manchester City is not even able to occupy the top spot of the Premier League. So if Real Madrid's performance is stable, they have the potential to qualify for the semi-finals. |
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In the second ODI match of Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka, Bangladesh team batted in the first innings, and they scored 286 runs with the loss of 7 wickets. Although in today's match, Bangladesh team batsmen played well in the first innings, and they collected a good number of runs due to which they set a target of 287 runs to Sri Lanka. However, the Sri Lankan team came to bat in the second innings and may easily meet the target set by Bangladesh. And today the batting performance of the Sri Lankan team is so great that they have lost only three wickets so far and are batting brilliantly to win. The partnership between Sri Lankan batsmen Charith Asalanka and Pathum Nissanka has been fascinating and both have batted well. Pathum Nissanka has scored 108 runs as of now, and he is still unbeaten, Charith Asalanka is already batting brilliantly to score a century scoring 81 runs he will soon succeed in scoring a century. And today's match will definitely be won by Sri Lankan team and Bangladesh won the first match so if today's match is won then the game will be 1/1 between the two teams.
Batting against the target of 286 runs given by Bangladesh, the Sri Lankan batsmen were under a lot of pressure after losing wickets at the beginning. But from there Pathum Nissanka and Charith Asalanka led the team to victory. Pathum Nissanka and Charith Asalanka played responsible batting. Pathum Nissanka scored 114 runs off 113 balls and Charith Asalanka scored 91 runs off 93 balls. Current score of Sri Lanka team is 238 runs for 5 wickets in 40 overs. Looking at the playing situation of the Sri Lankan team, it seems that they will easily win against Bangladesh in today's match. After Sri Lanka lost three batsmen for 43 runs I thought Bangladesh team will win today's match too. But with Pathum Nissanka and Asalanka's excellent batting, the match is now completely under Sri Lanka's control. At the end of 41 overs, Sri Lanka collected 251 runs with the loss of 5 wickets. Sri Lanka needs to collect only 36 runs from 54 balls to win. It is not a very difficult task. If the batsmen can stay at the crease, Sri Lanka will easily win today's match. Pathum Nissanka returned to the dressing room with 114 runs and Asalanka had 91 runs. Besides, no other Sri Lankan batsman can bat so well. These two batsmen changed the entire scenario of the match today. We haven't seen better bowling from Taijul today. Taijul gave 32 runs in 4 overs, but could not take a single wicket. If Taijul could bowl well, maybe Bangladesh would have been able to win today's match. Taskin and Shariful are bowling very well today. |
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Unfortunate. All you can do now is to make sure to not make the same mistake. Don't leave funds on centralized exchanges unless you frequently/actively trade them; if not, then always use hardware wallets and non-custodial wallets to prevent disasters like this. https://NotYourKeys.org/I'm using exodus but I'm very concerned how I haven't discovered any sort of 2FA Feature before sending funds by now. - They have actually saved me from losing my money once so far when my old PC suddenly stopped, thankfully I was logged onto my same wallet using another PC I do plan on making the switch in the future to a hardware wallet, probably the next time I have lots of money in crypto. I do not have much in crypto but random virtual items and @ handles which they've probably all gone up fairly as well since people have more money to spend. How much is a hardware wallet? $100 or $200? And you have seen over 4k dollars turning into 12k? There is no excuse for you to not get a hardware wallet, because you are already risking lots of money on Bitcoin, you need to get one straight away. You don't have to wait till you have a lot of money before buying a hardware wallet, believe me I was like you, and losing my Bitcoin was when I lost my cool and took out some funds in my crypto wallet to order for a hardware wallet instantly, between a week it was shipped to me. You want to wait till you lose some assets first? Just like I did? Learn from my mistakes mate, the best route is a hardware wallet, a hardware wallet like Airgapped that's always offline keeps your crypto safer than others. If I remember correctly, the Trezor hardware wallet I only bought for $80. What's confusing is that many people always give hundreds of reasons when someone advises them to own a hardware wallet to protect their bitcoins. Like OP, he used to own a large amount of bitcoin and had transactions worth tens of thousands of USD, but he said he could not afford to buy a hardware wallet for less than 100 USD. He also received a valuable lesson from the collapse of FTX, but it seems he still hasn't awakened to anything? It's strange. |
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Bitcoin broke history by creating an ATH before the halving so I think it is no longer correct for us to continue to rely on history to predict what will happen next. But I also think bitcoin has a sharp correction ahead, it won't happen this month or next. But after the halving ends, when people start to believe in the story that bitcoin will continue to grow stronger, that is also when the entire market will have a correction. But we should not rule out the possibility that bitcoin will continue to increase in price without any major correction occurring.
Hard to say. It's too soon to say that Bitcoin's cyclical price actions are things of the past. We had a huge, new factor added to the mix in the form of spot ETFs, but I think the upcoming halving will also play a big role in shaping up the price. If we don't see any major correction soon, the effect of the halving (even if it's mostly psychological as some claim it to be) could magnify the effects of ETFs and elevate us to much higher levels. But it's inevitable that the 4-year cycles will go away eventually, that could mean that we won't see massive rallies again, but could also mean no 80% drops afterwards, and we could have a steadier but consistent growth. Yes, that's really difficult to say because the future is unpredictable. But I will no longer appreciate the halving because we have already mined more than 95% of the bitcoins and only a few percent of the bitcoins remain unmined, so I think the impact of halving is not as big as before. I feel people are relying too much on the past and it has become a habit that is difficult to change, and we always thought that the halving would help bitcoin prices increase because the supply is increasingly scarce. But we don't look back that out of 21 million bitcoins, we have mined 19 million bitcoins, leaving just over 3 million left, which is not a very large number. Everything has completely changed and we will soon have to accept and adapt to it. |
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In my opinion there is nothing to worry about because Ac Milan is already on the verge of safety in tomorrow's match because of their 4-2 win in the first leg, so in my opinion Stefano Pioli doesn't need to prepare an accurate strategy in the second leg match because the players know what What you have to do is defend is a good thing in this match because it has brought AC Milan out as the winner, at least saving strategy for future important matches and the stamina of the players because there are still many matches that AC Milan has to play this week to host Verona and Fiorentina, namely their main focus after this match is over.
AC Milan is indeed very favourite, Agg's 2 goal lead of course makes Milan play more confidently but I don't think that Milan should underestimate their opponent and consider this match not that important because Slavia Prague is a team worth considering at the moment with its impressive performance shown so far and also the match that will be played at Slavia Prague's home ground will certainly make them more confident with the support of their supporters. I think AC MIlan still has to look at this match carefully even though they are ahead in the first leg because anything is still possible. Yes, Slavia Prague should not be taken lightly as the key to AC Milan's victory in tonight's match. Even though they are leading 2-0 on aggregate, this could happen if AC Milan is careless and not focused, especially since Slavia Prague are playing at home, of course there is more motivation for them to be able to equalize or even turn things around. Milan is a very experienced team. They certainly won't take Slavia Prague lightly. Slavia Prague lost the first leg match but their performance was good enough. Slavia Prague players managed to score two goals at Milan's home. So it is only natural that Slavia Prague will be more confident of their home ground. The Milan team is ahead by 2 goals. However, if Milan's defense does not play well in today's match, it will not be easy for them to qualify for the next round. From the start of the match, Milan's players have to play carefully and keep the defense tight. Even though it's not easy, I'm sure AC Milan can overcome it. If AC Milan loses and fails to advance to the next round, this will be a big blow for the Italian team, because everyone knows that in the Champions League there are no longer representatives from Italy, so I as a Seria A fan hope that the Italian team will win. can advance further in European league competitions
Milan have no chance of winning the Serie A title. So this team will definitely want to win the Europa League title now. So Milan players will definitely try to win today's match. If Milan play attacking strategy in today's match then I think they can win the match. Because Slavia Prague's attack is somewhat strong, but the defense of this team is quite shaky. If Milan's attack plays well, they can easily break Slavia Prague's defense. |
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Bayern Munich punished Mainz badly in yesterday's game. I didn't expect that game to end like this honestly. I left Mainz scoring a goal after Bayern Munich 2 goals so maybe an additional a goal or two for a team or both but a festival of goals following these three goals was a surprise and for sure it will drive the moral of Bayern Munich players up!
Mainz are not a strong team, so naturally they win big. Mainz is currently in the Relegation Zone. In addition, it seems that Mainz, along with Koln and Darmstadt will be relegated due to a considerable difference in points. In addition, their performance did not improve. Then for Bayern Munich, they must continue to win because 10 points is not small and Leverkusen continue to play consistently to this day. Maybe Leverkusen can set a new record, League Champions without ever losing. Koln is fighting really hard to at least play in the relegation playoffs. Because I thought they were playing the relegation playoffs or they are going to get relegated this season. Now the only target they have is not to get in the red zone of the table. If they can play in the relegation playoffs there is a chance that they will be playing in the Bundesliga again. Remember the point difference between the team that is ahead of them is seven and the difference between the team that is below them is only two. So they will probably not be able to get out of the yellow zone. But they will have to work really hard to make sure that they stay out of the red zone. |
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The ODI match between Afghanistan and Ireland team has already started. Today's match will be a highly contested game as the performances of the two teams are not much different. So even if Afghanistan team wins the first t20 match, they have to perform well in this match. Ireland team won the toss and decided to bowl and they basically prepared to play a full target. If the Afghanistan team can protect the wicket and perform for a long time, then there is a possibility of winning this match. You may have made a slight mistake Afghanistan did not win the first T20 match but it won the ODI match. In today's match Afghanistan team batted first and managed to score 236 runs for nine wickets in the allotted 50 overs.To say that Ireland bowlers bowled well today as a result of which they managed to restrict Afghanistan team to 236 runs. If Ireland batsmen play patiently and carefully today they might be able to win this match. Ireland were first under pressure in today's match as their opening batsman Andre Balbirnie was dismissed for four runs and returned to the dressing room. It was a small typing mistake. T20 series has not started yet. These two teams are going to face each other in the first T20 match on March 15. However, Afghanistan's batsmen did not bat well today. The team set a small target of 237 runs. A target of more than 260 would have given Afghanistan a better chance of winning this match. But now I think Ireland will win today. Batting for 237, the Ireland team stumbled at the beginning. The team lost the important wicket of Balbirne to collect only 4 runs. But captain Stirling and Campher are batting responsibly now. After 13 overs, Ireland managed to collect 52 runs. Stirling scored 31 runs off 35 balls and Campher scored 19 runs off 35 balls. |
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The ODI match between Afghanistan and Ireland team has already started. Today's match will be a highly contested game as the performances of the two teams are not much different. So even if Afghanistan team wins the first t20 match, they have to perform well in this match. Ireland team won the toss and decided to bowl and they basically prepared to play a full target. If the Afghanistan team can protect the wicket and perform for a long time, then there is a possibility of winning this match. Afghanistan batsmen are batting very carefully today. Afghanistan's top order batted brilliantly in the first match as well. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 121 runs and Ibrahim Zadran scored 60 runs. In today's match, the batting of the two openers of Afghanistan is very slow. Afghanistan collects only 18 runs after 5 overs. Afghanistan have not lost a wicket yet. Although Afghanistan's batting is very slow, if they do not lose wickets quickly, then the team has the ability to provide more than 300 targets in today's match. Afghanistan is capable of batting well in death overs. Several hard hitting batsmen are in the Afghanistan squad. If Ireland wants to win, the bowlers must bowl well. Although the pitch is batting friendly, it will be challenging for Ireland to win even if Afghanistan set a target of more than 300. But today's match looks to be very competitive. |
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 The last ODI match of the series is going to start shortly. They were very confident after their win against Afghanistan in the Ireland Test match. But Ireland failed to win the first ODI match. Basically, if the bowler could have done some controlled bowling, maybe the Ireland team would have been able to win the ODI match against Afghanistan. But Ireland's bowlers could not bowl under control, giving Afghanistan a target of more than 300. Ireland's captain Paul Stirling decided to field after winning the toss in today's match. And even today, if Ireland's bowlers don't bowl well, Ireland won't win. Ireland's bowlers will need to restrict Afghanistan to 280 if they want to win the match. |
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 Are you guys disappointed about the performance of Sassuolo and Salernitana? I am Because I thought they should have performed better. I thought they would be able to perform at least better than what they have done in the last season. You can ask me what special thing they did last season. Yes I know, even though they have not done anything very special in the last season, they were able to avoid relegation, right? But in this season what are they doing? it looks like both of them are going to get relegated, so sad. They need to work hard to avoid relegation, there is limited time for them to do so. But I don't think they will be able to do anything. Well, Salernitana is definitely going to get relegated. But you know, there is still some hope for Sassuolo. |
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... but based on history, Bitcoin's price will be going down after the halving event.
Bitcoin broke history by creating an ATH before the halving so I think it is no longer correct for us to continue to rely on history to predict what will happen next. But I also think bitcoin has a sharp correction ahead, it won't happen this month or next. But after the halving ends, when people start to believe in the story that bitcoin will continue to grow stronger, that is also when the entire market will have a correction. But we should not rule out the possibility that bitcoin will continue to increase in price without any major correction occurring. |
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Is Bitcoin Still Dead? Honestly, until now if someone still thinks bitcoin will die, bitcoin will go to zero then I think they deserve the poverty they are suffering. If this question were asked 10 years ago, we would have reason to doubt it. But now everything about bitcoin is clear as day and there are still people who are skeptical about bitcoin, I really don't want to explain it to them anymore. Recently a guy said similar things, he said that bitcoin is worthless and not worth even 1 cent. I didn't want to explain and told him directly, give me the 1BTC you said was useless, I will give you back 1k$. In the end, he quietly left and I didn't receive any BTC from him . |
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Taking profits is never wrong and people who are satisfied with what they have will often feel happy. What if bitcoin doesn't rise to $120k and falls to $30k, have you thought about that situation? In addition, selling 1000BTC for 60 thousand dollars also brought him millions of percent profit, do you want more? Everyone has their own goals and plans, I won't be too skeptical about their decisions just because they don't think like us. 1000BTC is huge for every investor, but compared to the market it is nothing so don't be too skeptical about everything, this is just a normal profit taking action. Of course, that's not a bad thing to do even though it could actually get higher returns if it held longer. Selling all the bitcoins in your wallet right now may be very tempting especially since the price is already at a new ATH, but however the price may be more expensive in the future as the halving could trigger a lot of fomo among investors and traders. Taking profits now with some of your bitcoin is a wise choice, but one may want to sell them now and enjoy them rather than waiting a long time. 1000 bitcoin = $69 million, that's a lot of money to reinvest and diversify into some real assets and also crypto at lower prices. That guy bought bitcoin for $1 while we bought bitcoin for $10k, $20k, someone even bought it for $40k. That means his profits and ours are very different, even a huge gap. Let's stop imposing our thoughts on others and don't think they are wrong for not waiting a little longer to sell bitcoin at a higher price. If we only spent $1k and made a profit of $60 million, would we want to be more greedy? Those of us who are buying bitcoin for $20k will sell bitcoin when the price reaches $100k and it only increases 5 times, while his profit is several million times. I don't see any reason to hesitate and not sell them. |
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For now, Arsenal are back on top of the table with 64 points but are able to beat Liverpool who have the same points with goals difference and this is giving Gunners fans the world over the hope that they might be eligible to win the title this season. While there are those who are happy for this progress, there are some who feel this is just another happenstance as this was the same feat they achieved last season; scoring many goals, conceding less and passing their competition with a huge point difference yet they managed to bottle it when it mattered the most.
Kyle Walker of Man City is also strongly in support of Liverpool winning the title than Arsenal and I think Arteta and his men have got their work cut out for them. Can the Gunners be able to silence critics and carry this cup?
Many of us considered Liverpool and Manchester City to be the favorites for this season's title. And I thought the title fight would basically be between City and Liverpool. Many of us didn't think that Arsenal were favorites to win the championship. But Arsenal are in great form anyway. The team is consistently performing well. And right now the top spot in the table is occupied by Arsenal. A few days ago Arsenal team won against Liverpool. And I would say that one of the obstacles to Arsenal's title is Manchester City. If Arsenal can win the match against Manchester City in the last week of March, I don't think anyone can stop Arsenal from being champions this season. Arsenal players are performing well in every match. I am looking forward to the Manchester City vs Arsenal match on March 31. If this match is also a draw then Liverpool will probably be champions. |
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