Oh, yes, with all due respect to Salernitana and Cremonese, they are still not the opponents by which one can judge the true strength of Roma, especially since the victories were won with a minimum score of 1-0. On the other hand, Roma, along with Napoli and Inter, are among the coveted three Serie A teams that have not yet lost points over the past two rounds and have won both matches. Now let's see how Jose Mourinho's wards will prove themselves with such a status rival as Juventus in the next round, especially since the game will be held in Turin. In any case, it seems that Mourinho is building a team with at least ambitions to participate in the Champions League for next season and this is really another level.

That's what it means when the season starts, when everything can still be fixed. The most important thing in this situation is that with one win in this match, Manchester United immediately left last place and at the same time beat Liverpool in the standings. Another question is that only the next rounds will show whether it was just a separate surge on the part of Manchester United or the club really embarked on the path of recovery and ten Hag really found the strings that will allow United to be among the leaders. At least Ten Hag put it that way after the match that this is just the beginning and they can play with much more danger and much more composure.

If Milan had won this match, it would have been unfair to Atalanta, who clearly played no worse than the reigning champions and at least the club was worthy of a draw. It is difficult to draw far-reaching conclusions yet, but so far Milan does not look like an absolute favorite and the club still needs to add to the game. Other favorites, for example, in the face of Inter and Napoli, still look brighter.

It's just not necessary to hand out titles in advance, otherwise I see that many have already, out of old habit, already announced that in the championship, as always in recent years, there will only be competition between Manchester City and Liverpool. However, it's still not worth making far-reaching conclusions after just a few rounds. Many experts and experts say for good reason that this season is special because of the unusual time of the World Cup and this tournament will divide the club seasons into different not necessarily equivalent parts.

In any case, Roma not only did not lose the leading players, but also strengthened this season with such players as Paolo Dybala and at least the club should claim at least a place in the Champions League. Work in this direction continues and information that the club's head coach Jose Mourinho personally communicated with Andrea Belotti about signing a contract after the player left Torino as a free agent. Of course, it is still quite risky and presumptuous to claim that Roma is an unconditional contender for the Scudetto, but the club, with a favorable combination of circumstances, may well repeat the example of last season's Napoli, which claimed the Scudetto almost until the very end of the previous season. Moreover, Mourinho has a wealth of experience in how to lead his clubs to the title of champion.

In any case, given the situation and the place in the championship standings that Manchester United occupies at this point in time, then with the acquisition of Casemiro, the situation will definitely not get worse. I would even say on the contrary that the situation should start to improve. The arrival of a player of such a level as Casemiro should be good news for the fans of MU, given how he showed himself in defensive actions at Real Madrid. And if Cristiano Ronaldo also gives up his attempts to leave the club and throws all his irrepressible energy into correcting the situation, then there is hope that the situation will begin to improve. In any case, with such a composition, Manchester United should not occupy the shameful last 20th place in the standings and there is still a lot of time to get out of the basement and the leaders have not yet had time to go far.

To be honest, a certain degree of childishness can be argued about Neymar, so I would still not be in a hurry to label Mbappe alone and declare him the only culprit in the conflict that has developed between the players. The most important thing is that the misunderstandings that arise between the players do not turn into an abyss, because no matter what anyone says, football is a collective game and mutual understanding between such team leaders as Mbappe and Neymar is the key to success. Competition is useful to a certain extent, but there is nothing good when a player intentionally turns off from the game because, in his opinion, he was specifically deprived of a pass. On the other hand, it may be good that it has spilled out right now at the beginning of the season and there is time to rectify the situation and build bridges between members of the same team.

In principle, please share then in another way, and in what other way can you rebuild the team? In any case, the head coach spent the pre-season part with the team, and a really real game can only be played in real conditions in the form of official matches. The most important thing is for Ten Hag to be an authoritative person for his players so that players take him seriously and implement his ideas, and such things are formed only over time and it is not at all a fact that this will necessarily happen. In any case, the team needs successful games with strong opponents and the match with Liverpool may well be the beginning of a new successful series.

If you look at how Elon Musk is trying to buy Twitter, then I wouldn't be too happy about it if I were Manchester United fans, especially since he then announced that it was a joke and he wasn't going to buy sports clubs On the other hand, MU fans should be pleased to hear that United has been his favorite team since childhood. I think it's not worth making hasty conclusions based on two rounds and letting the new coach calmly build the team according to his understanding, especially since Cristiano Ronaldo's future at the club is not entirely clear and Manchester United is still feverishly trying to find options for strengthening in the transfer market. I understand perfectly well that many people thought that once Rangnick left his post and Ten Hag took his place, Manchester United should destroy their rivals from the very start, but this does not happen. A new person has arrived with different requirements and with a different philosophy of the game and the process of building a new team is underway, which can be unpleasant and very painful.

Oh yes, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid lost too much in the first part of the championship last season to then compete seriously with Real Madrid at the finish. Let's hope that this season both clubs will not make this mistake and will fight for the title of champion until the very end. It is difficult to draw conclusions only from the first round and therefore you should not take the loss of points by Barcelona too seriously. Everything will more or less begin to appear after at least 10 rounds. Moreover, transfers are still possible, take the situation with de Jong, whose prospects in Barcelona are still vague given the plans of the club's management.

Everyone plays as his opponent allows him to do. The fact that Tottenham looked like that may well be a credit to Chelsea and their performance in this match. Still, in my opinion, Chelsea looked more complete in this match and deserved to win more, and I quite understand the annoyance on their part when Harry Kane pulled out a draw for Tottenham with his precise strike in the last seconds of this match. All the same, Chelsea can bring this match to their asset and still silence those critics who claimed that the club would not be so competitive this season because of the well-known events with the change of ownership and the slightly crumpled start of the transfer campaign. However, now it is only the very beginning of the championship and everything can change a lot ahead and some conclusions should still be started only from about the 10th round.

It is not necessary to draw far-reaching conclusions just on the basis of two rounds of the championship. The most important feature of Bayern Munich is stability, and if in recent years something like this has happened to the club, then it happens much less often than with competitors and is not of a long-term nature. That is, when Bayern Munich has a recession, then usually by that time the club already has a certain point margin of safety, which allows it to survive this recession painlessly. Bayern Munich also has a high-class backbone of the team, which, with rare exceptions, is only being strengthened point-by-point, unlike Borussia Dortmund, which arranges a sale of its leaders before each season on its own or forced.

Everything will be clarified only at the end of the season, but it is obvious that Barcelona does not want to lose several seasons and become an average team with average opportunities from the middle of the table just in order to improve their financial situation. A lot is at stake and I think that even titles in the domestic championship and the Champions League will not allow for financial recovery and the team will have to achieve this for several seasons in a row. But if there is a failure, then I'm afraid that a repeat of the fate of Glasgow Rangers or Bordeaux with a demotion to the division by levels below is not excluded. Still, let's hope that such a worst-case scenario will not happen, because La Liga and the whole of European football are unlikely to benefit from the forced absence of such an ambitious club, even for a relatively short period of time. With all due respect to the other clubs in La Liga, I don't see the same significant rival clubs for Real Madrid, even considering the presence of Atletico.

Yes, Erik ten Hag became the first head coach in almost 101 years, since 1921, who lost his first two matches at the head of the team. The team is experiencing obvious problems and must urgently rehabilitate itself, but the next opponent is clearly not the best option for this in the face of Liverpool, who also did not count points at the start, but unlike MU at least has not lost yet. I wonder what Ten Hag's credibility will be if Manchester United loses its third match in a row. I don't think the coach will be fired after that, but the chair will obviously be badly shaken and each next match may be the last in the coaching position. Or maybe on the contrary, on the edge of the abyss, the team will finally wake up and remember under what a glorious name it plays.

Most of all Dortmund should be praised (sarcasm) Mark Flekken, who in a harmless situation threw the ball into his own goal and only then the coaching talents of Terzic, who released the aforementioned three players. After the match, it was scary to look at Flekken, because the goalkeeper of Freiburg himself was well aware that all the troubles of the team began with his ridiculous missed ball and his team perfectly destroyed Dortmund's attempts to equalize the score and themselves acted quite dangerously in the counterattack. There is a great deal of injustice that Freiburg could not even secure at least a draw, but this is football and it is often unfair.

Well, if you want to win, then you need to treat any opponent with complete seriousness, especially in such a competitive league as the English Premier League, otherwise the opponent will certainly punish for it With all due respect to Southampton and Everton, but still these are not the rivals for which you can draw far-reaching conclusions about the true strength of the teams can only be done at a face-to-face meeting of the rivals. Moreover, Tottenham played their first match in comfortable conditions in the home stands, and Chelsea still played Everton away. There is still a long and long way ahead of the championship and Chelsea will be quite enough at least not to lose at home, so as not to spoil their mood and their own fans and calmly continue their journey

The situation with Dybala and Morata are similar to the point of outrage. The management seemed to want to continue cooperation with one or another football player, but in the other case, the cooperation did not extend in the end. I think the same Morata looked pretty good last season with Juventus and it's not his fault that the club couldn't win titles. By the way, this current situation and the return of Morata may well encourage Atletico Madrid head coach Diego Simeone to a more attacking model of the game, although the defensive model has always brought Simeone much more benefit in tournament results. To be honest, for me personally, nothing indicates that Juventus' results will be better this season, although Massimiliano Allegri recently stated that these results should be better.

Well, actually, if we are talking in this way, then to be honest Barcelona still had problems Another question is that I also think that Barcelona will be able to successfully solve all the problems that have arisen. Although this situation reminds me of the situation when Barcelona tried to extend the contract with Lionel Messi and eventually the player with tears in his eyes still had to leave for Paris Saint-Germain. By the way, another sign that the Barcelona leadership is trying to solve its financial problems in a new very peculiar way is that Barcelona now seems to want to solve the problem with de Jong's departure by canceling the current contract in court, that allegedly the previous management of the club violated the law and return the terms of the old contract.

According to the game, Borussia Dortmund, after scoring the goal, completely gave up the initiative and only the total bad luck of the Leverkusen players, especially Patrick Schick, did not allow at least a draw result. However, Dortmund started up again at the end of the match and could even have scored after a fatal mistake by the Leverkusen goalkeeper, which cost him a red card, but there was very little time left. However, Borussia Dortmund already proves from season to season that it is able to make up for its annual personnel losses and even be a competitor to Bayern Munich up to a certain point, but only up to a certain point. However, even with Haaland in the squad, I would not say that Dortmund was absolutely a candidate for the championship title until the end.

Well, it's not for nothing that there is information that Barcelona asked Chelsea to repeat financially the offer that Manchester United made. Barcelona still needs money anyway and therefore the club believes that de Jong will agree to Chelsea's offer with much more enthusiasm. By the way, the famous English coach Harry Redknapp also thinks so and recently said that he knows exactly where de Jong will go, that he knows that de Jong himself wants to move to Chelsea. I am not sure that de Jong himself wants a two-fold cut in his salary in order to stay in Barcelona, but Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets are rumored to have agreed to another salary reduction in order for Barcelona to register the club's newcomers.