At least Declan Rice is the best most expensive midfielder so far that Arsenal has managed to bring in and if we compare his quality with Moise Caicedo who came to Chelsea, the difference is very big. It is not surprising that Declan Rice won this award because after all, his quality has been tested since he was at West Ham. I think Arsenal was very lucky to get him, especially as the important figure of Mikel Arteta was the one who made Declan Rice want to join Arsenal. As a defensive midfielder, what is needed is to continue to maintain consistency in the defensive line so that it is more optimal and Declan Rice must prove his quality further until the end of the season.

I don't think it would be possible for Erik Ten Hag to use these two defenders in such an important match against Bayern Munich. Manchester United must continue to use its two main pillars for defense, namely Varane and Martinez. We know that the best options currently are only these two defenders and if there are other options, maybe Lindelof can replace one of them.

But I hope that not only the Red Devils defenders will perform well, but Onana will have to give a good performance and make lots of saves in the match. What's more, we can only hope that Manchester United will not lose badly in this match because after all, Bayern Munich is still one of the strong candidates to win the Champions League title every season.

Indeed, Bayern Munich has Harry Kane who is the goal machine for this season but Leverkusen cannot be underestimated either because they have Victor Boniface. It might be quite strange to hear about Leverskusen's new striker because he was just brought in this summer and after that at the start of the season he was able to adapt quickly with the other players to become the top scorer so far for Leverkusen. Moreover, when discussing other matches such as Leipzig vs Augsburg or Hoffenheim vs Koln, what you have predicted or bet on is good enough. At least there is no need to make bets that are too risky if you don't want to lose money.

I still remember in the middle of last season Liverpool had to suffer defeat in the away match against Wolves and this week these two teams will compete again. If I remember, I was quite annoyed because at that time I bet on Liverpool winning and because of that it was very difficult for me to forget. However, this time it was clear that Liverpool came with much higher confidence to steal 3 points at home to Wolves. Moreover, the performance of Jurgen Kloop's troops so far has been one of the best in the EPL. Liverpool will have to win this game if they want to return to the top flight and it could certainly be good competition for the title if Liverpool continue to be consistent throughout the season.

In fact, there is nothing wrong for the club to immediately take the important decision to fire the coach because after all, this is an anticipatory step so that he does not achieve bad results again in the near future. We know that it must be very difficult for Lyon in the current conditions to start collecting lots of points in several matches so that they can return to a higher position in the standings. Even though we know Lacazette is still absent due to his previous red card, still at times like that Laurent Blanc doesn't have a good strategy so his team can win.

Regarding Gattuso who is a candidate as Lyon's new coach, I think he is quite good but it is not often that he fails as a coach. I think even though this seems rushed in determining the fate of the next coach, I hope Lyon can choose the coach they really need to improve the morality of their players.

Arsenal are preparing steps to extend the contract of their captain, Martin Ødegaard, in the near future. If we look at his contract ends in 2025 and that only leaves 2 seasons from now for him to stay at Arsenal. Of course, Arsenal does not want to lose the services of this player from Norway and wants to immediately extend his contract so that no other top European team dares to touch him. As a creative midfielder, we know that there will definitely be a lot of interest and also abundant offers from top European teams to sign Martin Ødegaard. That is why Arsenal must immediately discuss a new contract extension so that the player is more comfortable staying at the Emirates Stadium.

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Even though Real Madrid has been brilliant so far with their winning streak, it will still leave doubts at the end of the season. We know that Real Madrid often lose points in the middle of the season and this has been proven since last season which they failed to maintain. I think that even though Real Madrid are better than Barcelona this season, they must not lose their performance at important times, so that their chances of winning the La Liga title will be even more secure. On the other hand, Barcelona often recovers at the end of the season and that is why sometimes the results we predict for these two teams will be slightly less than expected. For now, the competition will still belong to Real Madrid and Barcelona, but if there is another team that will disturb both of them, it is Altetico.

Today Spain will play another qualifying match for Group A against Cyprus. As we know, Cyprus is currently the only team that is bottom of group A and they have not got a single point from the last 4 matches. Will this time Spain go back to feasting on goals like they did before when they beat Georgia to the ground? We should look forward to it. On the other hand, Lamine Yamal will definitely be a starter again and he will fill his usual place as the right winger.

Manchester City's defensive midfielder, Rodri, is now also commenting on transfers taking place in the Saudi League. He said this talent drain must be controlled in a certain way and what Rodri said was true. However, I don't think there is anything that can prevent it as long as both parties agree to agree on the transfer. He also added that it was a shame that so many young players were leaving for the Saudi league and he hoped for any party to quickly control this situation. In my opinion, if veterans join a Saudi league team, that's not a problem, but sometimes it's quite a shame if young talents leave just to make money rather than with the mentality of winning titles in Europe. Could there be a solution to limit young players going to the Saudi league? If so from you, what is the right solution for this?

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These two teams are both unbeaten so far and even though Manchester City are favored to win, I think this time West Ham will still provide strong resistance. David Moyes has to come up with a good strategy against the reigning EPL champions and it's likely that this will be a match that drains a lot of energy because both teams certainly don't want to give up on each other.

I think West Ham doesn't need to insist on beating Manchester City and just being able to hold Pep Guardiola's squad to a draw is already a pretty good result compared to losing at home. Apart from that, I'm still quite curious about how James Bowen and James Ward-Prowse will perform, who so far are two quite dangerous players from West Ham.

Players who use doping have clearly damaged the image of football in the eyes of the world and this will be an important lesson for Pogba so that he does not do the same thing again. However, the impact of the punishment is also very serious and as you said, being banned from playing for up to 4 years feels like ending his career immediately right now. Moreover, with frequent injuries, I think Pogba is finished and it is unlikely he will play football again. Juventus will certainly immediately decide regarding Pogba's future after the results of the second sample come out. I didn't expect the end of Pogba's career to be like this and if he hadn't had so many injuries, perhaps he would still be in top condition with Juventus.

Lyon has officially parted ways with Laurent Blanc. It seems that the rumors a few days ago have finally been answered and with this Lyon will immediately look for a new coach to fill the vacant coaching chair. Laurent Blanc was fired by Lyon after a poor start to the season, suffering many defeats and eventually placing them at the bottom of the standings. At this time it has not been confirmed that an interim coach will be appointed in the near future and considering that this week Ligue 1 has started again, Lyon must move quickly before they suffer another bad result.

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Talking about Sevilla, this week they will face Las Palmas and if you look at the H2H Sevilla is very superior by always winning. I think this time Sevilla can win and end the series of bad results obtained in the previous match. The arrival of Sergio Ramos, who will have a lot of experience, will certainly help Sevilla's defense become better.

However, not only Sergio Ramos joined at the end of last summer but former Real Madrid player Mariano Diaz also joined Sevilla. Now Sevilla has a new striker to meet the club's needs for scoring goals. However, it has been a long time since Mariano Diaz didn't get playing minutes at Real Madrid and now he has to prove with his performance at Sevilla that he is still worthy enough.

It makes sense that Luka Vusković would want to get more regular playing minutes by choosing Spurs. Of course he doesn't want to fail if he chooses another big team and only becomes a bench warmer. This was the right decision at a very young age and will further develop his self-confidence by going through various important matches later. Maybe the downside is that if he joins Spurs, his chances of winning the title will be quite impossible. We know that Spurs have not been able to win a major trophy for a long time until now and that is a weakness of the North London city team.

I already suspected that something like this would definitely happen and the big win with 9 goals made Portugal unbeaten in group H so far. The previous meeting last March, Luxembourg also lost badly to Portugal with 6 goals without reply and even though this happened again, I did not expect that there would be 9 goals scored. Luxembourg is very far from the level compared to Portugal and it's no wonder they couldn't score just 1 goal during the group phase against Portugal.

Without Ronaldo, it seems that Portugal will still be fine and Goncalo Ramos, as Ronaldo's replacement in this match, scored a brace. Other players such as Goncalo Inacio and Diogo Jota did not want to be outdone by also scoring 2 goals. Well, this is a very good result for Portugal and the next match will take place again later in October.

Draws and losses may be what weak teams eat throughout the season and it's no surprise that Werder Bremen also experience this, but I have little hope of them being able to win more matches in the future. Indeed, Werder Bremen almost couldn't win at Heidenheim's home ground and most of Werder Bremen had to suffer defeats, but the opposite also applies to Heidenheim when they play away matches at Werder Bremen's ground. What is clear is that at least this will be a challenge for Werder Bremen to at least squeeze the first 3 points at home to Heidenheim.

The only victory achieved by Werder Bremen so far was by beating Mainz with a landslide score of 4-0 without reply. However, when facing strong teams like Freiburg and Bayern Munich, it was clear they couldn't do anything other than suffer defeat. I think if you look at the track record so far for Werder Bremen it is not too bad or vice versa because basically this team is only at the bottom of the table every season.

In the past few seasons, the 18/19 season was one of their best achievements in 5 years by finishing in 8th position. After that Werder Bremen were still unable to compete in the top flight and only experienced the relegation process repeatedly before finally last season they return to the bundesliga. I think Werder Bremen must try harder so as not to experience a similar incident this season. Next, Werder Bremen will face Heidenheim and this should be a fairly easy match for them and even though it is an away game, Werder Bremen must take advantage of this situation very well so as not to lose points in the match against a strong team later.

He is indeed a wonderkid who has great potential and I think that Barcelona has made the right investment step for Alejandro Balde. For example, in a season or two, if there is a team interested in bringing him in, this could be a source of profit for Barcelona by selling him at a very high price considering that his contract is still very long. At that age, it is not surprising that he was also nominated for golden boy and that is enough to prove his capacity as one of Barcelona's important players. In fact, Barcelona this season is not spending a lot of money and they are relying more on players who are free agents or on loan. The only Barcelona purchase that cost a lot of money was Victor Roque, who will still join next season.

Actually Genoa are not very productive and compared to Napoli they are too far away. The result of over 2.5 goals is still quite reasonable because Napoli cannot be happy just by scoring one or two goals. On the other hand, it is possible that Genoa will not just give up and this could be an opportunity for them to get at least one additional point from Napoli if they cannot win. However, overall it is clear that Napoli are in control to win and no doubt it looks like there will be a landslide victory from Napoli later. Talking about Napoli's mainstay striker, Victor Osimhen, yesterday he just recorded a hat trick for his country during an AFCON qualifying match and of course this could be a higher level of confidence for Osimhen to continue scoring goals with Napoli.

In fact, in the absence of Ronaldo, who is serving his second yellow card, we will be able to see the potential that exists in the Portugal squad. Moreover, I am curious about the performance of Goncalo Ramos, who in the match will definitely fill the position left by Ronaldo. It is very reasonable if you think that there will be a minimum of 3 goals because of the problems that Portugal has faced since the previous match due to the lack of results from their players' finishing and that is partly caused by Ronaldo who failed to do the job. I don't mean to underestimate Ronaldo, but for a competition like Euro 2024 he is almost finished and I think Portugal will face a deadlock. So coach Roberto Martinez must be braver in replacing Ronaldo in the second half by bringing in players who have the capacity to do the job.