As far as I know there will be a fresh draw for the quarter finals round. It isn't already set about the winners of which matchups will get a draw against each other. Otherwise a matchup between Real Madrid and Manchester City would be seen in the quarter finals which would be really interesting. It would be like an early finale in the Champions League. 

I hope to see a finale between these 2 teams honestly rather than seeing Bayern Munich there. Because I don't think that Bayern Munich's current game in the Champions League is good enough to reach the finale.

If we see more improvement from Bayern Munich then I wouldn't say no to seeing one of the finalists as them of course.

I wonder if Arsenal regret their decision to replace Unai Emery with Mikel Arteta as the manager of Arsenal. Unai Emery has somehow transformed Villa Park into a solid fortress for Aston Villa this season, and even both Manchester City and Arsenal could not avoid a defeat against Aston Villa at Villa Park stadium. I think Aston Villa will beat Sheffield United relatively easily today in front of their home fans.

I don't see that as an addiction but rather fun based in my perspective and I see it more as a sarcasm. Though if he sends it not for fun but a serious one, there's definitely a problem with that guy, it's either he wanted other to be addictive to gambling or he is addicted himself, but if it's a group chat with you all having fun of it and he shared it there, that's definitely just a humor and you shouldn't concern about it.

Real Betis is exceptional this season because usually a team will win or lose in a row but Betis in five matches managed to get four draws in a row  and 1 win against Las Palmas, and in those five matches the score was 1-1 0-0, and 1-0, and made Betis the team with the most draws.
Girona failed to break Betis' consecutive draws result and most of these draws were obtained by Betis when playing at home.
This draw took Real Madrid to the top of the standings because they were superior in the number of goals and they secured victory against Alaves in injury time, so they almost got the same result as rivals Girona but a goal from Lucas Vazquez ensured the three points.
And the last Laliga match this year is Atletico Madrid vs Sevilla, the home team will have the opportunity to win this match.

I remember how it took Manchester City 88 minutes until they were able to win the game against Sheffield United and nobody thought that it would be that hard for Manchester City to win the game. That is why I would be more cautious with absolute statements like "Sheffield are no match for them". The match must be played first and then we can see what's possible. I agree that if the game goes as the table standings suggest, this should not be one of the harder games for Aston Villa. But this is something to keep in mind, the closer Aston Villa gets to the top, the more might kick in the mental burden as well as expectations start growing.

It's pure gambling. I would not even try to agree if arsenal will try to get toney. I think that being a good striker was not also the main consideration. We shall also try to take a look at how good his history. Anything about him shall be considered as important factor too.
Remember he has bad habit and he may be affecting his friend in arsenal too. There are so many considerations to be taken before try to determine which striker that is worthy to be bought by arsenal.
Arteta is not a type that is rushing to get it once he liked it. I don't think picking toney as a new striker for arsenal is a good choice. Toney is also getting banned from playing football too.

With the analysis you have done, it can be seen that Barcelona tried hard against Almeria even though this enemy should be very easy to beat, and Almeria still got two goals and made a one-goal difference with Barcelona. Luckily, in the last minute, Sergi Roberto managed to score another goal, and if there was still extra time, it would be possible for Almeria to score goals again and catch up with Barcelona. For this season, Xavi must get back up and look for a new strategy to bring Barcelona to victory again.

The match between these two teams is between first and second place. I am sure Liverpool will give a very high performance to win the upcoming match. Arsenal has a tough task to defend against the attack that will be carried out by Liverpool. West Ham has already felt the strength of Liverpool and the possibility of Arsenal being next, because when that happens, the match will be even more exciting, and of course it will make the two supporting teams very excited.

I do agree that Roma will have a bigger chance to beat Feyenoord, but that's football and we do not really know what will happen. Plus there are a lot of time left, which means that we may end up seeing them play, and maybe have some important players injured. Like look at Lukaku, he has been great, if he gets seriously hurt and ends the season, can we say Roma is still the favourites?

I am pretty sure that it may not be the case and we could end up seeing them change it all together. That's just how it is, it's football and injuries matter. I believe that we need to see the situation before we could decide who will win, and not really end up with anything else, bet very closely if you can. That would mean that if you bet just one day before the game, then it would be a lot more healthy for you.

With the current situation, it is very difficult for Napoli to maintain their situation as the current defending champions.
Napoli is currently still very difficult to maintain its current consistency and performance even though there have been several improvements including the change of coach that has occurred but indeed this is still a fairness when talking about the Scudetto in Serie A.
Until now since the last few seasons the club that won Serie A has never been able to go back to back to get the Scudetto after prime Juventus until the 2020 season until now no one has been able to last for several seasons for the Scudetto including Inter, Milan and Napoli who took turns every season in the last 3 seasons.

Napoli chances are now only possible to be in the top 4 and must try to appear there because it would be very bad if they failed to qualify for the Champions League next season after previously winning very convincingly. 

I think there's no need to discuss about Barcelona vs Napoli and Arsenal vs FC Porto, it's a sure win for both Barcelona and Arsenal, Napoli and FC Porto aren't that good compared to last season.

What I think we need to pay attention is PSG vs Real Sociedad and Inter vs Atletico Madrid, I believe most people will think PSG and Inter will win since both of them were strong in the last season, but I believe this time Real Sociedad and Atletico Madrid able to prove themselves even though they're underdog.

Barcelona have problems with both attacking and defense systems. Their attacking power looks to be weaker than the last season but it is less severe than problems in their defense system. This weak defense costs them 21 conceded goals after 18 matches. These conceded goals are even one goal more than total conceded goals they got in the last season. This season has one more match to complete its first half and this stats is a strong evidence of their problems in defense.

Napoli are very energetic and they are getting problems with attacking because Osimhen and Kravatskhelia are playing worse than last season. However, with weak defense system of Barcelona, those players can exploit it and bring troubles to Barcelona.

Teams that took the last campaign too serious are eventually getting their ass beaten by smaller and bigger clubs they gave a lot of headache last season. Newcastle United are lacking form and even West Ham who played Liverpool yesterday wasn't that strong to withstand the pressure that the home side gave them in the Carabao Cup last night.
I wasn't sure if Liverpool would pump in more than 3 goals in that game knowing that they have a stronger game against the league leaders (Arsenal).
They should be mindful of the Gunners, I don't know if we should be expecting a very boring game like what we witness them (Liverpool) play against Manchester United. I just believe that these 5-1 thriller we saw them play against West Ham would be a motivation to them in making their weekend game more interesting.

Liverpool getting all the goals against WestHam which they couldn't score against Manchester United is really amazing but I hope they don't score all them goals here and end up getting a reverse score of the number of goals they scored tonight when they Arsenal this weekend? It's going to be an interesting game but in the end I will pick Arsenal to win because they stand as the team with bigger opportunities, advantages to win because they are a better team and their form can't be compared to that of Liverpool.

It happens because our focus is already on gambling and if the situation continues, it totally ruin our lives --finances, relationships, jobs.
That is why we should control ourselves when gambling because spending more time gambling could lead to addiction and this really happens to most beginners especially when their first bet/play they have won already because the next thing happens is that you will bet and spend more money thinking that you can earn more. The sudden change of our mindset comes after winning some as we thought that if we gamble more, we can win more unfortunately, that doesn't work like that that is why there is so-called moderation.

Barcelona and Napoli are two teams who are experiencing a lackluster turnaround in form this season after winning titles in their respective domestic leagues last season. These two meet in the round of 16 of the Champions League and I expect both of them to have a tense game. Barcelona has a good experience in the Champions League compared to Napoli, but it is never true to say that Barcelona is completely superior to Napoli. Barcelona played their home game in the second leg, it was a good deciding match for Xavi and his team.

As group winners, I think Barcelona has a chance to qualify for the quarter-finals this season against Napoli. I'm not underestimating Napoli even though they were never as strong as last season, that because some of their players are still very dangerous.

Todd Boehly prolly doesn't understand these things, he basically thinks all he has to do is spend money and then Chelsea become automatically successful, the investments that the club has made in the last three transfer windows have been massive, but despite that Chelsea are still struggling so much and they are 10th position in the EPL table.

I don't know if Pochettino can take Chelsea out of this situation, but the club can at least let him try. Pochettino needs to have a stronger influence in the dressing room, he also has to identify the players he needs if they are going to spend in January, when a manager selects a player he wants, it is because they see that the player can help his team play in the way he wants. Poch needs more freedom and Todd should give him space.

The UCL round of 16 fixtures have been scheduled and this is more say the beginning of the tournament as it's got the best 16 teams all round of the European leagues. Definitely the battle will be fierce. There'd be no chance for errors and all 16 teams are victory focused. None would want to be disqualified. Although the draw produced some less stressful fixtures and an easy to predict winner whilst some produced a fixture that has both teams at a point to fight hard for an advancement ticket.

 Real Madrid, Bayern, Man City and Dortmund are the teams with higher odds of advancing, whilst the remaining fixtures, it's difficult to predict. All teams are good in their domestic league and not judging based on their domestic league performances, but they actually are liable to doing more better in the UCL than their domestic league.

This is very sadden to know that Chelsea are willing to sell out one of the best player this season in person of Gallagher seeing how they have been struggling with inconsistency in their performance this season we expect they retain their better players like Gallagher who have been of a positive influence to the team's few wins this season's in all games he had fixtures.  while they use the January transfer window to bring in new players that can fill in the loopholes and lapse the team is experiencing. Why sell out your best player instead of those not really doing fine in the team?

I think Chelsea would be making a great mistake should they let Gallagher leave cause as it stands many EPL clubs have shown interest in him come January as Chelsea chose to send him off.