 In less than 3 hours, the play off match between Japan and Croatia will begin. Japan was so stunning they looked so extraordinary in the world cup this time, especially the goals scored from quite difficult angles. On the other hand, Croatia is playing quite well even though Luka Modric is already 37 years old but he still has strong stamina in this very intensive match. I predict a draw in this match and hope there will be extra time to make the match more exciting. If there is a draw, then 0-0, I don't think that Croatia will give Japan many chances. Croatia did not even allow Belgium to score a very necessary goal, and Japan seems to be a weaker team than Belgium. I'm actually expecting Croatia to win in regular time, but to be sure, I bet that Croatia will qualify (whether on penalties or not). I know during group stage Croatia only conceded 1 goal in 3 matches but Croatia defensive lines isn't too special i think because Belgium can able to gets several chances to scoring goals but indeed Croatia was lucky at that time because Lukaku was playing poor and for today match Japan obviously underdogs but during this tournament Japan has several times being an underdogs but they can flliped people predictions and qualified to round of 16 but indeed for betting option i do not dare to pick Japan win because Croatia is more good from squad quality but not impossible for this match ended with draw at normal time |
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Villarreal's performance this season has drastically declined and the team is currently struggling at the moment. The international break should be an opportunity for every team to assess their performances so far this season and retrace their lapses and restrengthen before the league resumes so hopefully Villarreal will do same and get back to good form.
Since October Villarreal hasn't performing well and from their last 7 matches in La Liga they got 4 loses from it that this is not good for them and the situation are getting worse after Villarreal have to changed coach because Unay Emery has decide to left this team and joined to Aston Villa and this is quite risky for them because i was often to see there was a club who changed manager in the middle of competition but it cannot solved their problem and indeed Villarreal has got new manager Quique Setién and he might be can overcomes Villarreal performance later but i personally a bit doubt he can able to do that because his achievements doesn't so well even last time i heard he got sacked while train Barcelona |
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Speaking of which, it feels really interesting to see West Ham in this condition in only one season. I really can't figure out what has changed so quickly in this short time of period. They were a team that were fighting hard for top places in the standings. They were really a challenging opponent for the big teams of the league also. But right after that season we are witnessing an insane level of drop in their performance. They are nearly in the relegation area now. They resemble Sevilla in the La Liga about this topic as they are in a similar situation now.
Maybe there were some players leaving the team before the start of the season. But they have brought really good players after that also. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with the quality of their squad. David Moyes has had a quite good experience with the team so far therefore I hope to see them recovering soon. This squad doesn't deserve this poor form.
West Ham has spend a lot of money during this summer and you might to see the names such as Gianluca Scamacca or Nayef Aguerd should be perfect buy from West Ham especially they bought this players with expensive price but in fact these players still cannot performing well even Scamacca cannot able to find his shape such as playing in Sassuolo before so i think this is one of factor why West Ham currently still fight to avoid relegation zone because their new players still cannot adapt quickly and now their situation will not so different and possibly will lost some of key players again in January because Declan Rice is the player who targetting by big clubs such as Manchester City or Manchester United but on European Conference League West Ham has done well in this competition because they can able to gets 6 wins in a row and qualified to the next stage |
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Frankfurt are one of the impressive teams in this season. Because they are able to keep the Bundesliga and Champions League both in a balanced way. I wasn't waiting for them to be this much successful especially in the Champions League. Because they had really fierce opponents in the group. On paper they were all stronger teams than Frankfurt but they still managed to reach last 16 round. It was still not an easy task for them to perform good in the Bundesliga considering their performance in the previous season.
They won the Europa League title which was amazing success by them. However they couldn't show the same effort in the Bundesliga and finished the season at the 11th position. Maybe this time they will stay as one of the candidates for top 4 until the end of the season. They are very likely to be eliminated by Napoli in the Champions League so they would be able to concentrate on the Bundesliga more after that.
Frankfurt is indeed currently one of the best teams in Bundesliga even their start was not good, but they have done good recovery and now have good chance for staying into top four because things are looking good, and they are capable of having good performance in future now after this break we will have first math on 21st January when they will face Schalke which is currently at bottom of league table and Leipzig is going to face Bayern Munich if case of lost or draw Leipzig will lose points and these are going to be helpful for the Frankfurt which is currently just one point ahead of them, and they can overtake them for the third spot and another challenger for the Freiburg which is currently at the second spot. On the paper Frankfurt indeed should be able to beat Schalke but Frankfurt had a habit this season that they cannot managed their performance while against mediocre teams and it proven from their current losses that mostly they got from weak teams so the coach should be evaluated this weaknesses and difference points between the teams in the european zone is not too far so if there is a team who cannot playing consistent their position will be overtake by other teams even so with Frankfurt However because the league will starting again in January i saw some of Bundesliga teams has friendly matches against the teams from outside Germany including Frankfurt that several days ago Frankfurt had asian tours against Japan teams but unfortunately they had lost 2 times in a row from Gamba and Urawa Reds |
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England and France finally can beat their opponents today that both of teams can able to wins with decent scores especially France that actually Poland was playing well but France striker Mbappe has make some different with 2 high class of goals and during the match actually he hasn't gets many opportunities to scoring goals but when he gets the balls he hasn't wasted it and i think his impressive performance with continue for upcoming match and quarterfinal is the real tested for both of teams that this will be interesting match between France and England so who is the winner of this match but i feel France is slightly favourite than England
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It would have been better for Psg if they had tried to sign Haaland instead of Lewandowski. He is a promising young talent, and he is a player who can show his current City performance with his Psg forward line. If he's this good in the Premier League, I can't imagine the time he played in the French league. Lewandowski is a good player but it would be better for Psg to deal with younger players now.
Haaland is also still younger than Lewandowski and I think it is much better for PSG to set targets for him to sign. We admit that Lewandowski is a sharp sticker figure in front of the opponent's goal, but over time Lewandowski's sharpness will decrease as seen today in defense of the Polish national team. Statistically, Haaland, who is still 22 years old, has been able to score 18 goals for Manchester City in 14 matches. It would be perfect if PSG installed it with Mbappe up front. Some speculations make me laugh loud. Who is linking Haaland to PSG when he is roughly upto 3 months in English Premier League. Didn't Haaland sign contracts with Manchester City. Doesn't thr contract come with some clauses? I don't even think Haaland is ready to move out of City now, if he does so, he is risking his career. Haaland had already said that he is seeing that he will play his best in career at Manchester City. Haaland was happy in Manchester City now even Guardiola was confirmed it that Haaland wouldn't left Manchester City at least for next several seasons and he had ambition want to lifted champion league trophy with this team so i do not understand why he linked to PSG now and indeed few months ago there was a rumour Haaland has special clause into his contract that on 2024 he might be left Manchester City if there is a club who willing to release that clause and it says Madrid was attempts to get Haaland through it but the management has refuse this rumour even they said there is no such thing on Haaland contract |
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The fight for the top four position is still open for every other team in the premier league, Newcastle United already have taken a place in the top four and sitting in third position above Chelsea, Manchester united and Tottenham already. There are transfer rumors of Harry Kane moving to Bayern Munich? How true is it? Well seeing Harry Kane switching sides wouldn't be a bad move after all.
The Premier League is a long league. They still have a lot of games ahead of them. It's great that they are in the top four for now, but they have to work hard to maintain this position. They should play carefully and disciplined and earn maximum points from the matches. After all, we know how Newcastle United came out last year. I hope they manage to make their fans very happy this year. Talking about top 4 this quite interesting because in my opinion at least 6 teams have equal chances to finish on that position and indeed currently Newcastle and Tottenham had good position but don't mean their positions will be safe because it depend on how far they can able to managed their performance and after world cup some of teams such as Manchester United, Liverpool or maybe Chelsea probably will bounce back and not impossible to threaten Newcastle and Tottenham positions so lets see which teams who can playing consistent until at the end of season and i think the competition for the champion league zone is more interesting to watched than race title |
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Today we will be looking at France x Poland and England x Senegal matches.
Actually, looking at the current conditions it is quite clear that France and England are the favourites, but we know Senegal's condition now and of course this will be a little inconvenient for England, I think.
On the other hand, Poland is also very good until now, although they are still far behind when compared to France, but they could also be very troublesome.
The current odds of 1.36 for France and 1.54 for England are a stark contrast to their opponents as there are 9.40 for Poland and 7.20 for Senegal. i was hoping for a real miracle and wanted to put my bit out on senegal's 7.20 odds.
France will play with their key players today that Giroud as target man with Mbappe, Dembele and Griezmann in the forward lines and although Poland and France is the teams from Europa but this is their first meeting in the official tournament and besides that this also the fight between their striker Lewandowski and Mbappe so i am curious could they able to scoring goals and help their teams qualified to quarterfinal but indeed France is the favourite because this team is filled with plenty of famous players who playing at big clubs however odds @1.36 for France indeed quite low but it's safe bets so far because possibly France will going to win the match |
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I forget the last time Napoli won the title. To be honest, since I started watching football regularly, I have never seen Napoli become champions of Serie A. They desperately need a title. They are well ahead of Milan and Juventus this season. They are in a safe place. Now if they are able to maintain consistency in their performance then they can win the title.
At the moment, there are no weaknesses in the Napoli team. But if they change the squad in the winter transfer, their performance is likely to be unstable. The Napoli coach will have to handle things very carefully.
During the history Napoli was able to gets 2 Serie A title and the last time they won Serie A was back in 1990 and at that time Argentina legend Maradona was playing at this team and help Napoli to gets several trophies including Serie A title so if we see this records it's over than 22 years ago Napoli tasted the title and after that Napoli was never can able to gets it again even Napoli has several times to relegated on Serie B on 2000 early And now everything was different that Napoli before this season was never been so close with the title such as now and their opportunities to gets the trophy is wide open considering they are the most stable team in this competition even if they can resumes their impressive performance i think not impossible to them to lock the title early but indeed some players rumours are very disturbing because it could be destabilize this team |
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Choupo-Moting is currently performing well. And I don't know if Füllkrug will be able to replace his performance or do it more effectively.
I am aware that Füllkrug is performing well and making good promises.
It will be interesting to see whether he will be able to live up to the expectations when Bayern Munich brings him into the team. I highly doubt that.
I don't think Bayern Munich should spend money on him and I really think they should save some money and get a high-class striker that they really need at this particular moment.
Otherwise, they will not go far in the Champions League. Yes, they might win the Bundesliga title. But that is not the main concern right now, isn't it?
Indeed Choupo-Moting was performing well but his contract will be expired this summer and until now he hasn't respond the contract extension which is offered by Bayern and rumour is he want the contract with 2 years durations or more but Bayern have a policy that they wouldn't give the players who reach to 30 years old long duration contract so if the negotiation between Choupo-Moting and Bayern went to deadlock then possibly Choupo-Moting will left Bayern this summer so looking for new forward player could be alternative options for Bayern In my opinion Füllkrug is perfect player as Choupo-Moting replacement this because he was playing well with Bremen moreover on world cup although Germany was eleminated but Füllkrug can playing well with scoring 2 goals on that tournament besides that Füllkrug is Germany player so he know the atmosphere of Bundesliga and it makes he can adapt quickly with Bayern and the most important is Bayern aren't necessary to spend a lot of money to gets him because Füllkrug price tag is not too expensive |
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No shocked results for yesterday matches indeed that Netherlands and Argentina can able to beat their opponents this what according to people predictions before that they are too strong for their opponents especially for Netherlands vs United States and it's clearly Netherlands was more good from game sides and from individual too although their performance was not entertained me but they can showed their quality and beat United States and for Argentina regardless the performance of Messi i think this team has found their shape again and Argentina has proven they are deserved called as champion candidate but quarterfinal is more interesting because this time they will faced strong team from europe Netherlands
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Arsenal are in a really advantageous condition in the Europa League now because one of their biggest rivals for the title is going to be eliminated in this round. I mean Barcelona or Manchester United will say goodbye to the title chance. I strongly believe that Arsenal will continue to care about this title very much as well and they will qualify for the finale.
Talking about Arsenal next rivals this is interesting besides Manchester United and Barcelona this season Europa league still have Ajax, Roma or Juventus so these teams also can be categorized as strong teams in this competition and they also can be considers as strong opponents to gets the trophy and i will assuming if some of these teams can able to beat their opponents and qualified to round of 16 which mean the possibilities to Arsenal will meet strong teams is quite high so this cannot be called good advantageous for them and i have to says Arsenal journey in this competition will be very difficult even more difficult than season 2020 because they could have met with a strong teams early |
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Tottenham currently is a top class club. They have the needed quality in terms of players and coach to win trophies, why would Harry Kane be considering leaving? I am predicting that he would remain with the club throughout this season and help the teem to win trophies. He might consider leaving the club if they fail to win either the Premiership or the UEFA Champions league. I feel winning of any of the listed trophies might motivate him to remain in the club.
Tottenham will only recognized as strong contender for top 4 and it's hard to called them as big team who can compete with other teams such as Manchester City so Tottenham chances to gets premier league trophy is very slim for each seasons and if the offers from Bayern Munich was true i think it's time to him to make decision because this offers will not came twice and currently Kane was 29 years old so it's not much big clubs who interested to the players who almost reach to 30 years old and if he refuse this offers and stayed in Tottenham i think possibilities to him ended the career without the trophies will be very high and if he want the trophie Kane should be dare to make the most important decisions of his career |
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However, when we see the odds of the match between the Netherlands and the USA, the Netherlands is the favorite team however you are getting a very good odds in case the united states of America wins.  Netherlands obviously the favourite this because they were ended group stage with unbeatable status moreover Netherlands previously had good records from United States that from 5 latest meetings Netherlands can able to wins 4 times but United States also cannot be underestimated that under Gregg Berhalter United States can playing well although their position were determined in the third match but overall United States has done well in this tournament United States had typical of game with high of press and it proven from their recent match that England also cannot beat them so i assume they will do same strategy such as against England which mean United States will playing slightly difensively and i think who ever the winner of this match probably will ended with slim score for betting options probably Netherlands win is still best choice |
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Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham are joined the race to gets Atalanta wonderkid Giorgio Scalvini reported Scalvini has into their radar for this winter and i have no wonder if big clubs want him because at his current age he made his debut with Atalanta last year and since that Scalvini was playing regularly for this team moreover he has debut match too with Italy national team on June against Germany on Nation League and Giorgio Scalvini still 18 years old so he is potential player and can be upgraded his skill if he joined big clubs so it's only a matter of time for him to left Atalanta
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Napoli is performing very well this season. They have been able to continue their good performances in both Serie A and the Champions League. And if you look at their performance, you will see that Napoli is not dependent on the performance of any particular player. Victor Osimhen is undoubtedly an important player in Napoli's squad. He scored 9 goals in 11 matches. He has performed quite well this season. But if Victor Osimhen is not with the squad, there is no reason to think that Napoli's performance will collapse completely. Without Victor Osimhen, I think Napoli will be quite stable. I also don't think Napoli will completely collapse if Osimhen isn't there, there are still Kvaratskhelia and a series of other quality players at Napoli, it's just that Osimhen role has been in good performance so far. Hopefully you're right, without Osimhen then Napoli will be quite stable, no doubt so far Napoli are unbeaten in Serie A, it's just me always worried because after this break anything can happen. Kvaratskhelia real position is midfielder and this season he played as a winger so he cannot be replace as Osimhen position moreover he still got injured and don't know when he will return to playing again and indeed previously Napoli can win the match without Osimhen and the players such as Giacomo Raspadori or Giovanni Simeone can be played as centre striker but their performance is far from coach expectation and it proven both of players still lack of goals Admitted or not Napoli really needed Osimhen that this player had important role for each matches with Napoli and so far Osimhen is top scorer from Napoli so losing him will have bad impact for Napoli performance moreover Napoli had tight schedules in champion league and Serie A |
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South Korea vs Portugal The game between these two teams was very good but Portugal did not play well in the match. I thought Portugal would win this match but it didn't happen. Portugal scored a goal in the 5 minute of the game. After that Portugal could not score any more goals. But the game ended. South Korea scored a goal in the 27th minute of the stoppage time. After that, South Korea scored another goal before the end of the game to win the match. In this match, South Korea won by 2 goals.
Portugal's performance is much different from the previous 2 matches and I think this has something to do with their position, which has already been confirmed for qualifying for the round of 16. Meanwhile, South Korea seemed to be playing with all their might because the only option for them was to win. It's a tough task, but South Korea can make it happen. This match is not so important for Portugal so it's normal if Portugal playing with reserved teams and it effect too for Portugal performance that they cannot playing well such as they beat Uruguay but besides that Ronaldo was not playing well that he was gets at least one or two opportunities to scoring goals but he has failed to utilized and i assume if Ronaldo didn't played and his position replaced to other players might be Portugal can win the match or at least draw At the current world cup South Korea has displayed good performance that they can able to unbeatable against strong teams such as Portugal and Uruguay so this proven South Korea can compete with other teams which is more experience to playing at world cup than them and yesterday South Korea has made epic comeback that after conceded goal they can reversed the situations and won the match but unfortunately Brazil will be their opponent |
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Anyone have any idea why Ghana has such a high odds?
I think more than 4 odds on Ghana is a lot, considering the fact that Uruguay has not scored in this championship, but Ghana looked very good. Even with the Portuguese, they fought to the end and were not afraid to play open and attacking soccer.
Here is the current odds Ghana @4.50 Uruguay @1.80 I am not sure why the bookie provide high odds for Ghana and considering Uruguay as the favourite because if we compared to their recent performance Ghana has slightly better than them but maybe because they are big teams in world cup so Uruguay has high odds for this match and honestly i highly doubt Uruguay can beat Ghana because in my opinion in the current world cup Uruguay has displayed poor performance but today winning result is mandatory for them if want to qualified but Ghana won't let this happend because they have good opportunities to qualified than Uruguay and i wish the players such as Mohammed Kudus will playing well again and bringing Ghana to gets good result however for betting options i will more prefer to pick both teams to scores instead of choosing who is the winner of this match |
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You cannot be counting Barcelona as favourites to win the Europa League when they have not overcome Manchester United that is a big challenge for them. If you want to count favourites, it will.be fine you mention both of them because anyone that won between Manchester United and Barcelona may likely get to the finals of the Europa League for this season. It is unfortunate that the two big teams met early
I have the same thought. Barcelona is indeed a big team that they are currently in first place in La Liga, but their performance in the European arena was not that great. We all know that they were knocked out of the Champions League, and it is not certain that they will also be able to qualify for the round of 16 in the European league. I think Man United also has the same big chance to qualify for the next round because they have the capability to beat Barcelona. So far this is first meet from both of teams after changed coaches so there is no recent statistics as reference to predict who is the winner of this match but Manchester United in the last two season had good records while against Spanish teams that they only lose once from 4 matches so maybe this indicated Manchester United know how to beat Spanish teams including Barcelona but these records is not guaranteed will makes Manchester United will overcomes Barcelona because it depend on their situations when they playing and because playoff matches hasn't begin yet so i will assume Barcelona and Manchester United had equal chances to qualified to the next round |
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There are new speculations such as Real Madrid are interested in signing Bruno Fernandes. After his great performance in the World Cup also they must be impressed. There was actually a time he was much better than this in the past but he didn't get the same attention to himself. Anyway if they are really interested in him Manchester United might have a big problem on keeping him at the team. Because I assume Fernandes would like to play for a better playing and more successful team like Real Madrid.
My main question is related to if he will get enough playing time there in that case. If Real Madrid don't plan to put him in the starting eleven in most of the matches then Manchester United's hand might still be strong about this deal. He is one of the most crucial players for the team so they should do their best to convince him to stay.
Apparently this is not only just speculations because there was an attempts to Real Madrid to gets him because Madrid feel Bruno Fernandes has suitable as the replacement of Luca Modric so he is into Madrid watchlist but Fernandes has respond this speculation and refuse the offers from Madrid because he still comfortable to playing at Manchester United and in the future Fernandes had ambition want lifted up the trophies with this team besides that Manchester United confirmed will not sell him although Real Madrid will offering huge money to them because they feel Fernandes is important player for this club |
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