Lazio managed to defeat Genoa by 3-1 home today. But their game really didn't satisfy me. Things are going on really bad for Lazio this season. And Inter are going to be hosted by Salernitana tonight. I expect Inter to win by a big score difference.
The best thing that Lazio could do this season is to grab a conference league spot or luckily a EL one.. Nothing more. For Inter, I am pretty sure everyone excepted it to win and keep the first place this round but 5 goals was quite big score |
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If I have not misunderstood four games of the next day of the Premier League have been canceled and meetings are in progress to evaluate whether to postpone the round completely and not just this round.
Covid cases have increased a lot and we are around 80,000 cases per day.
There is a total of 9 games? and of course everything is possible... Nothing reassuring so far and the current situation isn't good at all with this new variant popping up  Meanwhile it could be an opportunity for few teams to take a breath and stop wasting points. Chelsea for example has dropped quite badly in the last rounds and a draw against Everton in Stamford Bridge might kill their dream. |
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Christian Eriksen is said to have agreed to break up with inter. Star football player, who had a heart rhythm disorder, had a heart attack at Euro 2020, as you remember. Although he has a 3.5-year contract with Inter, they will terminate his contract due to this health problem.
Netherlands or his country Denmark might be his destination if he is willing to continue playing football for a while. Those two countries allow players with a pacemaker to play in their leagues. It is an unfortunate ending of a good Inter player but there is no way for him to continue in Italy.
This weekend we might see some changes in the top ranking with Atalanta - Roma and Milan - Napoli  |
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PSG have been dominating the season so far and I'm very sure that they will continue to do so as for the whole season. Because there are no team to compete with them very seriously now. Monaco, Lille and Lyon are far away from their look in the previous season. Maybe Marseille can be the team to get close to them in the standings the most but still I expect PSG to reach the title by at least a ten-point difference.
PSG winning Ligue-1 is almost a sure thing when you see other teams wasting points easily. I believe PSG should focus on winning Champions League at any cost at this point since the games there are way harder and to prove that the team is a solid one. |
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After tearing Stuttgart apart in their away match by 5-0, Bayern Munich are gonna have a match home against Wolfsburg tomorrow. Wolfsburg are very bad recently and they are on a terrible streak. They didn't win a match for five weeks and lost the last four. And Bayern Munich have had a big dominance against Wolfsburg considering their head-to-head matches so far. Bayern Munich can win this again.
Wolfsburg has to pray that Bayern players will be asleep in this game or it will be a disastrous ending for them. The negative record and the bad results that Wolfsburg have lately are worrying. I expect Bayern to score 4 goals or more. Hoffenheim - M'Gladbach and Freiburg - Leverkusen are interesting and unpredictable games since the results might impact directly the top ranking! |
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I don't know if it was intentional or purely a technical error, but what is certain now is that many people think that there is a dishonesty in the draw for the Champions League round of 16 drawing.
Surely UEFA will say this is a technical error and it is impossible to speak of dishonesty, but of course there is a lot of speculation at the level of UEFA, only making a few mistakes but causing a lot of harm to other clubs, so I think this is certainly UEFA should not repeat it again. But I saw that there was indeed an injustice in the lottery and this is the first time I've seen this draw twice, I know. A lot of ink was sparked over this though but after all no one can judge UEFA about what happened. I believe that a team that wants to be a champion has to win vs whatever team it faces. Anyway, we have good fixtures over there in February |
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Leicester was supposed to play their home match today against Tottenham. But the game have been postponed. However, this will give Leicester enough time to prepare for their next match, which will be against Everton and will be played on the 19th.
While Chelsea will face Everton today, am expecting Chelsea to win this match with 2 to 3 goals. Chelsea have a strong squad compared to that of Everton, I don't think Everton can be able to withstand Chelsea.
Leicester was literally destroyed by City 2 days ago and getting more time to swallow that defeat and standing up again is a good thing imo, especially that they will have difficult games before the end of the year vs Arsenal, Liverpool and Villa. For today's matches, Chelsea and Liverpool should get the 3 points without hassle. |
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With a winning streak in the last 10 matches, there is no reason for Madrid to lose against Cadiz.  However, the problem is, Madrid reportedly have players are positive COVID-19, they are Modric and Marcelo. Both players will be out for quarantine. This incident also keep them out of from squad until at least after/beginning of 2022. Luckily Madrid only met a team that was struggling to out from relegation zone, maybe the absence of Modric and Marcelo would not be a serious problem for Madrid Well that's a worrying news but I think Real Madrid has lot of players. Fede Valverde is the one who is usually substituted in for Modric so I think he should be the one starting and honestly I think he is a great player so not that bad kind of a situation. With COVID protocols, let's say they would be out for 2 weeks but Real Madrid don't have any tough fixtures like they have to face Cadiz and Bilbao so shouldn't be much of a problem unless they are hit with more players with COVID. Covid is hitting again in EPL with postponed games and now 2 of Real Madrid are infected in addition to other staff/players of basketball... Hopefully there will not be postponed games here too... This weekend there is Sociedad vs Villarreal which is a tough match. Sevilla vs ATM is the best. Bilbao vs Betis is the third interesting game imo. |
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With the postponement of the Manchester United match, we have started feeling the affect of covid-19 over football slowly too. I hope that we don't watch matches with no spectators at stadiums again. The other Manchester club, Manchester City are going to host Leeds today. I expect many goals in this match.
Spurs game was postponed and now it is ManU turn. I hope there will not be similar cases in the future... Clubs like Villa and Norwich has positive cases also... City is favourite and its odds is ridiculously high @1.16 vs @17 for Leeds. I think also that there will be many goals in this match and BTTS tho. |
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Barcelona - Napoli this is a pair worthy of the Champions League! Here's what I will definitely watch.
The big question is how much Barcelona will try to win this tournament, but I don't think they will give up without a fight.
Both teams are fluctuating badly and they don't worth to be in CL this season imo but I understand your point and this match looks better than casual EL ones indeed Depending from Napoli performance in the 2 matchday, Barcelona might say an early goodbye for EL too. Leipzig - Sociedad, Porto - Lazio are good matches with unpredictable results tho |
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The 'play off' draw for the round of 16 of the Europa Conference League has already taken place. These are the results:
Marselha- Qarabag
PSV Eindhoven- Maccabi Telavive
Fenerbahçe- Slavia Praga
Midtjylland- PAOK
Leicester City- Randers
Celtic- Bodo/Glimt
Sparta Praga- Partizan
Who will go ahead?
Marseille PSV Slavia maybe? Pass Leicester Glimt Pass Some of these games requires to see the performance of each team in the field during the match to have a clear idea about which team to support imo. |
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PSG was strong on paper in the beginning of the season especially after signing Messi and Ramos but honestly right now, I doubt they could make it to the finals. Maybe in the upcoming weeks their gameplay might improve and prove me wrong but until then I think two teams between Bayern, City, Liverpool and Chelsea will play finals.
Although I don't really like your way of paraphrasing clippings from articles ... nevertheless, I probably disagree with you or with si.com. It's all about priorities, and the Champions League is not among Messi's priorities, but perhaps the club's management and such young players as Mbappe want this, but definitely not the one who wants to take the first line in the history of world football. Who is Messi's closest competitor for this title? Ronaldo? Now compare his trophies with the trophies of everyone's favorite Portuguese and you will understand what I mean. If I knew where I can now bet on the fact that Messi will play in the Premier League in two years, I would have done it without hesitation, since having won the Premier League championship, Messi would have been able to catch up with Ronaldo in terms of the number of cups he owns. The French outfit have one of the best teams in the world. On paper. Unfortunately for them 'on paper' doesn't win you the major honours. With Lionel Messi finally in the scoring books [...] You are wrong. The site you came up with might have the same way of writing? but I am not used to do this and won't. I read many articles in different languages during the day so I might be influenced with some.
Nice draw for real, it is quite embarrassing but we ended up having PSG playing vs Real Madrid, Liverpool and Inter, ManU and Villarreal. I believe those 3 games are the hardest and the most unpredictable since the others are quite easier with a clear favourite in each. I expect ManU, Liverpool and Real Madrid to pass to the next stage but I couldn't endorse them in any bet. Better to wait for the result of the first leg to have an idea. |
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There is a very hot race between the top 3 teams of the Premier League. Manchester City is the leader with 38 points; Liverpool are in third place with 37 points and Chelsea with 36 points. In a week, this order of points can also be completely reversed. We are entering a period of increasing excitement.
The opponents of the top 3 teams aren't that top performing to make a threat for them imo so the order will stay like that most likely in the next round and maybe in December too. Players have time to train and rest so less fatigue and injuries. |
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Barcelona is now 15 points away from Real Madrid with equal number of match played and they have 5 points difference from ATM in the 4th place. Assuming they will improve after the next transfer window, if they could sign anyone BTW, I doubt they will be able to get the first two spots. Finishing the race even 4th will be an achievement, otherwise welcome EL or worst? Betis 2 - 0 Sociedad and 1 hour left from Real Madrid & ATM game To date, Barcelona has scored exactly 50% of the possible points (16 games and 24 points scored out of 48). Considering that almost half of the championship is behind, the degree of improvement in the game needed to compete for the first two places should be gigantic. No matter what transfers Barcelona will carry out, this is already unrealistic. Keeping in mind the dire financial situation that Barcelona is in, I am starting to fear that next season they will not play in the Champions League even in the group stage. I started thinking that they should win EL to be able to play in CL next season.. Still not desperate situation there but you fail to find an imaginable way to rebuild the team. Even Xavi mentioned once that Barca needs to recruit few players to be able to compete. What I am afraid for is to see them getting kicked from CL and playing in Conference League. I don't think it will happen but couldn't say it isn't possible |
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Inter can only lose this title.
I think you mean Napoli? Since they are fluctuating as usual and dropping in the first occasion. But if you mean Inter, I believe this team could take again the scudetto. The other top teams aren't that stable although they should still be considered as a threat. Close gap between those teams made Serie A more interesting to follow |
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The first match of the day is Lille - Lyon that seems to be a really nice one. Considering the recent forms, Lille should be favoured here. But there is not a wide gap between them in terms of points and strength now. However, Lyon couldn't have beaten Lille here for five years which is really huge. This is an important psychological predominance for Lille and they could benefit from this and win this match by a one-goal gap I assume.
Lille 0-0 Lyon. I find the actual result fair but the actual position of Lyon is weird regardless of the lacking game.. PSG - Monaco game started, PSG is favourite in paper especially after getting 2 consecutive draws. Meanwhile Monaco didn't lost in their five last games. Fingers crossed! |
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There are at least 3 surprise results for this week in Serie A. Starting from Juventus Draw, Milan Draw, and few moments ago Napoli Lost. I cant imagine how much money were burned from these 3 result, those who bet on the favorite to win?
Inter is going to play within half an hour, will we see another surprise? In a paper, it should be an easy win for Inter but soccer is still soccer where unexpected result may come anytime anywhere for any team.
The other surprise is to see Inter taking back the lead after a long long time with a slow decrease in the other teams performance... Juve dropping points is something we get used to unfortunately. Milan drops also points from time to time but it is bad when it happens vs Udinese. Napoli is really weird, sometimes you have the feeling that they will get the scudetto when you see them winning vs top teams but they never keep the smile in the face of their supporters when they troll against weak teams... The top position is kinda crowded so far  |
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There is an interesting game today between leverkusen and eintracht frankfurt leverkusen team need the win to get closer to the second position if they manage they will be only one point away from dortmund they are currently on a three game winning streak but they are up against a tough opponent i think this game could end in a draw.
Frankfurt were doing horribly, trolling near the relegation zone and now they are literally trashing Leverkusen with 5 goals to 2! Frankfurt is back? with 4 games won in 5 rounds, I think they will be a real threat for the others There is another disappointment in top teams in addition to Dortmund, Freiburg and Leverkusen this round.. Union lost to Fürth! Those guys didn't win a single game in 14 rounds and now they made their first 3 points against Union Berlin  |
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I really hoped to see Barcelona winning against Osasuna today. After a very fierce competition, Barcelona couldn't prevent a 2-2 draw. I really appreciate Osasuna's high effort here. Barcelona got ahead twice but Osasuna were still there to score the equalizer in both cases. I can't say that Barcelona deserved a win here. Because the statistics of these teams were similar to each other. The best result would be a draw with goals and that was what happened.
Barcelona is now 15 points away from Real Madrid with equal number of match played and they have 5 points difference from ATM in the 4th place. Assuming they will improve after the next transfer window, if they could sign anyone BTW, I doubt they will be able to get the first two spots. Finishing the race even 4th will be an achievement, otherwise welcome EL or worst? Betis 2 - 0 Sociedad and 1 hour left from Real Madrid & ATM game |
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Westham is supposed to get all three points
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but finishing top four seems highly unlikely
Well, there wasn't one bad results after all for today.. West Ham dropped 2 points easily letting ManU, Arsenal and Spurs almost catching it. Spurs still lacks 2 games BTW so they can take WHU place in theory. Everton too is dropping but like a rock in this case! |
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