Actually, there is little point for Bayern Munich to have to play football in this way in the competition, right? They're going to be champions again. They still have a nice challenge if they have to play against RB Leipzig soon after the World Cup. And in what form will the players return to the German league? That's just the question. That can also give a blow to self-confidence. Bayern Munich has a huge number of players participating in the World Cup. And hopefully Mane can also participate again in the 2nd half of the season.
I think this is still clearly useful, because if they don't play well, even though it's difficult to catch them, there will still be a lot of ridicule and that has been proven when they couldn't play well in the previous few matches and there was a lot of criticism for them due to games like that. So even though they are definitely champions, they still have to show a very good performance in addition to being free from the attacks of their critics, they also need to show that their domination is still unbeatable. |
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Even though Dortmund has some financial power, they aren't anywhere near the biggest clubs. It is only a question of money and also that the Premier League is the most attractive club. Additionally, we all know what these guys can do when their club doesn't let them go. Best example most recently is Lewandowski. Not even Bayern Munich was able to flex their muscles because Lewandowski caused them so much stress that in the end it just doesn't make sense to keep him as a player or even put him onto the bench. Talking about Dortmund I think it also is a psychological deadlock for the whole team. When you are Jude Bellingham and you see Haaland leaving for Manchester City, I think that might have influence on him as well. When you see great players leave the club you feel less confident about staying of course.
Talking about Lewandowski and Bayern, this has also happened for Haaland and Dortmund. Now Jude is one that is being contested and of course there are several big clubs who are ready to take him for big money and the lure of high wages. I think the chance is still big enough to leave even though Dortmund will still resist with all their might. On the other hand, there is news that currently Haaland is urging Manchester City to look at Jude so that there will be more and more interesting big club competition to watch. |
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Only 0-0 between England and the United States and with the victory of Iran over wales.
The United will now have to win against Iran or they will be eliminated from the finals of the World Cup.
So far several games have ended 0-0 but the result of this one was surprising as England was among my top 3 for the World Cup.
Wayne Hennessey's red card really made Wales have to be willing to lose points in this match because indeed with this red card it was clear that Iran was very favored and 2 goals in extra time were clearly the decider in this match. Wales' chance is getting more and more difficult and even classified as impossible. I think now with conditions like this because it's really very difficult for them to win in the last match, especially since their points are still quite difficult with the number of productivity goals now. |
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Juventus have returned to the top flight after their series of poor results. Slowly, their position in the Serie A standings is getting better. The match against Napoli in January is very important for the Old Lady to win to close the gap with them. But to target the Scudetto seems to be very difficult to realize. Napoli have put in some amazing performances, but we don't know how they will fare after the World Cup.
After the world cup, there may be differences in appearance for some of the top teams in Serie A, especially for teams whose players are used in world cup matches. Of course they will be very overwhelmed and tired, even potentially injured. But in general Napoli will still try to perform well after the world cup because not many of their players have been involved or called up by the national team in this world cup. Actually, for now, another pretty good thing for Napoli is that Kvaratskhelia and Osimhen, who are in good condition, are not there because obviously this can make at least the risk of fatigue and injury minimized for them and of course this is an advantage too, although there are indeed some opportunities for them leave but this is still just a rumour. But on the other hand, of course, there will be some additional flying hours if players take part in the world cup. |
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He certainly has to go home early now because his injury is expected to heal after the world cup is over.
At the moment it's obviously not very good but we also have to see if his condition is serious or not, hopefully this doesn't prevent him from playing for the club after the world cup is over and the league is back open. because indeed this can be another disadvantage as well, especially since he still plays a pretty good role in his position.
Sadio Mane is a player who has often been injured since at his old club he always got injured. At least in this World Cup Sadio Mane could get time to rest to recover physically from the injuries they got. The loss suffered by Bayern Munich has become a thing which is natural because when players are on the field, they have the potential to be injured. It looks like you are wrong in this regard because I am not discussing Mane but another Bayern player, namely Lucas Hernandez who had a problem in his leg and was forced to return home early just like Mane. There is a slight advantage but it's a shame some players who I think are pretty good can't compete in the world cup this time. |
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It's really sad to think that the World Cup host team Qatar has left the World Cup. In fact, they needed to go at least as far as the second round. But if there is no qualification, it will not be possible. In today's match, Qatar was eliminated from the World Cup after losing against Senegal.
2 matches and 2 defeats is clear this is the end and indeed this was guessed from the start because in any case they are the weakest team in group A at the moment. On the other hand the possibility of the third game is decisive for Ecuador and Senegal because I think for the Netherlands it is certain they qualify now with the current conditions and play Qatar in the last game. |
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I would guess that it wouldn't make sense to fire Allegri because there were no coaches that they could afford. Even if we stopped looking at the ones that are free agent (the other ones would have to be bought out basically) would mean maybe Tuchel was free to be hired, and I am sure between paying Allegri to leave and hiring Tuchel to come, that would have been easily 10 million gone very quickly, and they couldn't afford that.
So, it wasn't really a voluntary decision but more about the financial situation they are in. If they didn't have to fire Allegri and he freely left, they would be gladly getting someone better but that wasn't an option.
For now it may be true, but when you see the reaction of most of the fans a few weeks ago when they saw Juventus' slump, it is clear that this has become a hot topic and is always in the media discussion. At the moment Juventus are in much better condition and indeed with several players returning from injury makes Allegri breathe a sigh of relief especially since I was one of those who doubted he would stay before. |
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Lucas Hernández got an injury during the World Cup match against Australia. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. This means that his participation in the World Cup is over. But that are bad news for Bayern Munich either. It is not known when Hernández will be able to play again. But Bayern Munich has already said they will not buy any replacement for him.
This injury is a bad one for Bayern Munich, it looks like an injury that will take time for one to recover, it is not a minor injury. Already Sadio Mane has an injury before this time, no one knows if he can recover after the world cup game to join Bayern Munich to participate in Bundesliga league. Sadio Mane and lucas Hernandez's are important players in Bayern Munich, am beginning to see why many clubs might drop in their performance after the World cup game . He certainly has to go home early now because his injury is expected to heal after the world cup is over. At the moment it's obviously not very good but we also have to see if his condition is serious or not, hopefully this doesn't prevent him from playing for the club after the world cup is over and the league is back open. because indeed this can be another disadvantage as well, especially since he still plays a pretty good role in his position. |
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Expect the unexpected is a thumb rule in sports, it maybe fixing or just happened as coincidence which is the reason why we should not be relied too much into the favorites in sport betting.
I don't think this was match fixing because Argentina didn't play like a team that wanted to lose that game. They played very well and if it was any other day they would had won that game but it wasn't just their day as all their open play goals got cancelled for offside. There was even a goal that was meant to stand as the player been used to determine the offside wasn't meant to be used since there was another playing keeping the Argentina player on side. The Saudi Arabia team also tried their best as their defense was quality keeping Messi out of possession and not allowing him time on the ball to carryout match winning passes as he usually does. They lost it means they are still not good enough in this match. Talking about Offside is clearly something that deserves to be discussed, especially when their 3 goals were annulled in this case. but indeed what i see is the opposite they know the saudi arabia players apply this scheme but they never even see anything else even they are always hit by this trap again and again even 10 times they are hit by the same trap. On the other hand, I am quite aware that there will still be some surprises, and one of them is this match, which made most people who bet have to lose their bets. |
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Well in this case sometimes things like this happen and it's hard to believe that it will end for Argentina to lose.
Actually, it's not only you who feel defeat but me and even many more who lose in this match, but maybe the difference is that you are all in this match.
I don't want to blame this, but it's true that all in gambling because being overconfident is also not true, especially since things like this can happen sometimes and hopefully this will be a good lesson for you.
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At the time when Ronaldo had this hairstyle it was/became popular and there was not a single reason to suffer from the backlash of people because there was none. I even have friends with a passport photo with this hairstyle  If you look at even earlier times like the 70s, 80s, then there you will see even more ridiculous hairstyles (about which the question arises - how did they not interfere with the players to play), but for those times it was normal. Well in this case it is true because in the 2002 world cup apart from Brazil playing very well this has also become iconic in itself and in my country it is not a passport but there is a film in which the main character's hair uses the same characteristics as Ronaldo even his name is almost the same because to honor this player. And now the 2022 world cup, it is possible that Gnarby will also be inspired by this and of course he hopes that his hairstyle can bring good luck to the German national team, which is still a champion candidate too  |
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Roma are the same team as the one in the previous season. Mourinho's arrival still hasn't changed too much in the Serie A especially. They were really successful in the Conference League but they just can't make a big improvement in the Serie A. They actually had a good start but they started a bad form not much time later.
Roma should play more ambitiously especially in big games. They haven't been much successful in such games so far. For example they were really weak against Napoli despite playing a home game. Mourinho made the team play too cautiously and this brought their end. I hope we can see some changes when the league games are back.
I think, Roma coach is seriously working to ensure his team start improving in the big matches, so that people will believe that Roma coach is doing a great job in this season. Despite the poor performance Roma experienced in this season, I think there is hope for them to get it right soon like the way Napoli got it right that is making them to demonstrate well in this season, that is making people to predict for their favour because their performance is wonderful in this tournament. I believe, Roma coach has something good to offer to the team before he leave, because there are some sign of improvement in him. Because Mou is aware that when he is not too serious, the same impression on him last season will definitely be repeated, especially seeing that there are still some Roma fans who are not too happy with Mou so he minimizes mistakes so that they don't happen like last season. Their performance is still very stagnant for now in my opinion but this is likely to change over time and of course today's holiday can also be put to good use. |
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Things are not going on very well for Inter in general this season. I mean the Serie A not the Champions League. Because they are still pretty good in the Champions League as they have managed to reach next round. But in the Serie A, they are struggling to stay in the title race. In fact, Napoli are far away from all of the teams in the league. But the gap between Inter and Napoli is really big like 11 points. If Inter didn't start to get better results on last a few weeks then I can't even imagine the look of their condition.
Inter are doing great in offense but not the same in defense. If they make some improvement in their defensive strategies they actually have a big potential to finish at the second place in the league table at worst. Because they are more productive than Milan, Juventus and Lazio all despite being behind these teams.
With Lazio still on equal footing with Inter and Atalanta and Roma not that far away, there is a chance that Inter might not make it into the top 4. It looks impossible but it has to be taken into account as Inter will be focused on the Champions League and possibly lose some unexpected points in Serie A. In general, Serie A continues to surprise more than other leagues, so you should not fixate on the "loud" name and think that Inter is guaranteed to fight for at least second place. I agree with what you said, but for now it seems there are other reasons for Inzaghi to prioritize Serie A. The Champions League is quite good but indeed I personally feel that just qualifying for the knockout phase is good enough for them and I am personally quite skeptical of them in the next phase therefore I personally feel Inzaghi will try to focus more on Serie A now and at least even if it's difficult catch up but they have to keep the top 4 positions. |
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Actually I'm pretty sure everyone wants to be a champion if you say about it but sometimes this desire is difficult to carry out when their resources are inadequate.
For Dortmund they don't want to gamble in the season because they will definitely need a lot of money if they want to win the Bundesliga because they have to change the players they currently have so I think Dortmund have to gamble with those who are not sure whether they will win or not, they choose are doing something else by printing their young players to advantage of course and have been comfortably in 2nd place for the last couple of seasons.
I know all teams definitely want to be champions because the money they get will definitely be huge, but we also have to look at the fact that Dortmund always makes a profit for the club through sales their player. Over the past few years, we have been able to see which great players Dortmund have sold, what was really horrendous was when they sold Haaland. dortmund have a chance to unseat bayern but they will never do that if they keep on selling their great players. As I said, they didn't want to gamble on an uncertain title race so they looked for other alternatives to make this profitable for the club and the path they chose was to sign good young players and sell them at a high price. As for the sale of Haaland, we know that they have held back as hard as they can but his contract is almost up, rather he is allowed to go on a free transfer, so it is indeed the right decision to sell for profit, in my opinion, because even being maintained does not guarantee that he will still want to be at signal iduna park . |
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Bayern Munich is more financially stable than every other club in the Bundesliga. In the past year, in so many years they have been the people winning the Bundesliga title and getting the large amount of money, they also sign players make money from sales of jessey and they have numerous ways to make money including viewing rites.
When they continue to dominate the Bundesliga we will understand why, Dortmund in the other hand is a club that is supposed to compete with Bayern Munich but it is quite unfortunate that they sell all their star players every year and they don't replace them with other quality ones.
from here we can see which teams really want to be champions and which don't, Bayern uses the money they get from wins and sponsors to strengthen the squad and also the team's finances while Dortmund does not do that, Dortmund sells their good players to strengthen the team's finances but not strengthen their squad. in the bundesliga no team will be able to match bayern, they are the real champions. Actually I'm pretty sure everyone wants to be a champion if you say about it but sometimes this desire is difficult to carry out when their resources are inadequate. For Dortmund they don't want to gamble in the season because they will definitely need a lot of money if they want to win the Bundesliga because they have to change the players they currently have so I think Dortmund have to gamble with those who are not sure whether they will win or not, they choose are doing something else by printing their young players to advantage of course and have been comfortably in 2nd place for the last couple of seasons. |
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Where would AC Milan have set the bar this season? You would say that as a title holder you want to defend your title, but how serious would that be with this team? Last year you couldn't really expect them to become champions. Fortunately, Inter and Juventus have had a mediocre first half of the season, but on the other hand, Napoli is inimitable and the candidate is number 1. AC Milan may have to play the rest of the season without expectations, after all, they are also still active in the CL. Staying ahead of fellow townsman Inter is also a good starting point. The bookmakers are still confident that AC Milan is the 2nd title contender after Napoli.
The problem is even if they want to do this it will still be difficult. Milan's problem after their Scudetto was losses, not profits, so they were very passive in spending on players, so no matter how much they wanted to defend the title, it was definitely very difficult for them. At best they finish in the top 4 positions, which is good enough in my opinion with their current condition. |
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Any qualified coach, now there are such on the market (they always are). But it's more important to change the strategy (although it's too late to do it) - if Barcelona hadn't gone all-in, but suffered a couple of years with a less stellar squad, nothing terrible would have happened. Most likely they would have finished second in La Liga in the same way and from time to time reached the playoffs of the Champions League. In doing so, they could sort out their debts and start a "normal" life.
The qualified coach is not the most important topic. When you want to change Atletico Madrid, you need to change a whole era. It was defensive soccer. We all saw these games when Atletico was working at taking down the clock. Yet they were an amazing team, there is no doubt. Even tough it wasn't fun at times to watch them, they still were a huge hurdle to any big club to actually beat them. Times have changed and this strategy has ceased to bear fruit. Or did Atlético just become bad at it? They have conceded a lot of goals in the last two seasons and their defense is far from perfect. Either way, they need to change. Almost any modern team knows how to play the bus when necessary, but being like Atlético the bus all the time and hoping that someday it will bring results again is irrelevant. Agree with what you say because indeed the defensive strategy for Atletico sometimes always backfires for them. It is clear that in this case there must be a change and now there are only two choices. Does Simeone really want to see from the current conditions and change the scheme that he always excels at or does he change coaches because indeed the current conditions for them are clearly not very good even though they are now in the top 4 but this doesn't make them strong enough with their current strategy. |
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There are less than 3 hours left before the opening match of WC 2022, the four-year event will begin soon, I also bet on the victory of the hosts of the Qatar national team, I hope the native walls will contribute to them.  ⚽⚽⚽ I would not be surprised if there has been a couple of bribes in this event. They have proven before that they are willing to corrupt. There has been allegations of fake fans being employed by the state to do not know if that is true as Qatar have denied the allegations but the videos do looks weird. Qatar do have a ok team though so just because they win does not mean they have bribed anyone. In this case, maybe it could be true and could have lost because we still don't know the truth of this matter, even Fifa still hasn't commented much because of the lack of evidence that makes this float. Of course there are always pros and cons to something like this, but on the other hand, we also cannot conclude that this is true because we still don't know exactly what the truth is. |
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Liverpool does not need any improvement in the front line. The front line is good, what they need is for Diaz to return from injury by January and the squad is fine.
If they need adjustments they need a midfielder to help Alcantra in the middle. I have heard that Liverpool is going for Jude Billingham, that will be a great move that will further strengthen the club.
In terms of strength and individual skills, they are still good enough for their front line, it's just that at the moment Salah and Nunez are still not showing good performance and only Firmino is the backbone now that Diaz and Jota are gone. But indeed when they recover later this will actually be fine with the hope that Salah will return to his previous form and Nunez will be able to adapt and contribute more to the club. |
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I think Arsenal and Manchester City both have a great chance to win the EPL title. But in my opinion, Arsenal still have to go through tough obstacles, at least they have to be able to overcome their tough competitor Manchester City, because the five-point distance is still very vulnerable for the Gunners. It's different with other teams who are also improving to improve their position in the standings. So for that, Arsenal must be able to maintain consistency until the end of the season if they want to realize their dreams this season.
Inconsistency is an old arsenal disease that keeps recurring every previous season, as an arsenal fan, I see that the chances of Arsenal championship are still very small even though we are currently ahead by 5 points from Manchester City, so far we have been able to overcome every pressure when the squad is played by arteta is really complete but if one core player like Odegaard, Saka or Saliba gets injured then Arsenal foundations of course start to shake because we really don't have replacement players on par with the core players, that's why I hope that in the transfer market later Arteta can bring in more players to strengthen the arsenal so that the main and reserve squad both have toughness in playing. Even this season there is a little worry about this but I still feel that they will still try their best to maintain consistency. At the moment they are in a good trend so it would be a shame if they experience something like that again because last season they also experienced something similar which ultimately had to make them willing to finish in the Europa League zone, even though previously they were quite comfortable in the top 4. |
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