Barcelona actually had many opportunities, but of the 31 total shots, they only converted 2 opportunities into goals. Finally, Barcelona suffered its second defeat in 16 matches this season. also, the only match that was outside my predictions from the 5 other matches that I predicted for matches in various leagues. Barcelona, as we know, is having difficulty scoring goals.
Well 31 total shots but only 11 were on target in which Barcelona scored 2 goals. At the opposite, the success rate was way better in Girona side with 4 goals scored in 7 shots on target among 15 total shots. It is true when you see the stats you have the impression that Barcelona players are dominating the game and attacking more but in reality Girona attacks were more consistent and fruitful. Girona are now alone in the first place with 2 goals advantage from Real Madrid. Barcelona are 7 points behind them and 5 from Real Madrid. The next matches for Barcelona are quite easier than this and they should win. |
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Roma Fiorentina dis evening.
Roma can overtake Napoli and take his spot in the leaderboard for the next CL.
What a fail if Napoli will end up not qualifying for the next cup...
Both Roma and Bologna overtook the previous scudetto holder Napoli. The difference is only one point so they might recover. Napoli just had hard games and they failed to win. Roma in the other hand started good the match with a nice goal scored by Lukaku in the beginning of the match then Fiorentina got the draw then with 2 red cards, it was impossible for Roma to get the lead again in that game. Lukaku red card could be justified but the referee could also gave him a yellow card. It is true what Lukaku did was risky, still a dangerous move that might broke the leg of Fiorentina player. The points difference aren't big by the end of this round between Roma and teams behind thel. |
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If they really want to win the league then the winning mentality is the basic they need and try to be consistent in order to capitalise on every mistake or drop of point by the mighty bayern munich, who was really disappointing yesterday and got trash by Frankfurt 5 goals to 1 but is usually like this for them every season when they get a shocking defeat but i hope Xabi and his men will not slack off because of this
Unfortunately Xabi Alonso team did not profit much from Bayern Munich humiliating defeat and got only one point from their game against Stuttgart. Bayer Leverkusen were playing away vs a team that is doing pretty good this season in Bundesliga. They were pushing and trying to score and Leverkusen tried too but their opponent were concentrated to not lose home. This round in Bundesliga is crazy with a lot of unexpected results. Even Dortmund lost home vs Leipzig which increased the gap to 4 points. |
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In a game which Mbappe were really ineffective PSG won against Nantes in Parc des Princes anyway. The first half was completely one-sided before anything else. Nantes did a good job in the second half by starting to have a balance in the game. That early equalizer was also enough to resurrect their hopes for getting a point as well.
But Kolo Muani had the last word in the last ten-minute period of the game by scoring the winning goal. He is performing impressively since he joined PSG. They spent a lot of money for his transfer fee and they must be really happy to do so now.
Even if Kylian Mbappe didn't score in this match that doesn't mean he was totally ineffective. He annoyed the defence line of Nantes, almost scored a goal in the beginning of the match, he was able to get a penalty disallowed by the VAR although there was a contact. The fact that he was playing in the match, makes the opponents stressed and focusing a little more on him. In the other hand, it is good to see other players in PSG scoring since Mbappe will not remain with them for a long time. |
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Chelsea is very unlucky today, just when I was thinking they are now getting better and will be able to perform well in their subsequent games but it turned out they are yet to be stable, they just keep drawing and loosing, watching today's game I could see that Chelsea isn't looking like they will be able to contend for the league title this season.
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Chelsea scored four goals each against Tottenham and Manchester City. After 4-1 draws against Tottenham and 4-4 draws against City, we thought Chelsea might be back on track. We will probably see a good performance from this team. But we were wrong. Chelsea's performances are still very erratic. Chelsea lost 2-0 against Everton today. The match was dominated by the Chelsea players but they could not score any goals. Chelsea players have 72% ball possession in this match. They managed to make 16 shots. Even then they were not able to score a single goal. We will not see Chelsea in the top 10 of the table this season. I cannot expect much from Chelsea these seasons until they get some solid staff and starting proving themselves and win. Whenever we think they returned to track, they surprise us with a bad result proving that they are a very fluctuating team. Everton are a very normal team that trying to escape from the relegation zone every season, a defeat with 2 goals against him is unacceptable.. Talking about bad results, I find it hilarious to see Fulham literally trashing West Ham United by 5 goals to 0! This round results are very weird. Luckily Manchester City didn't waste points here too. |
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I really do not know if Real Madrid is actually going to make Jude Bellingham the striker that they need. Because after all, he is a midfielder. But we have seen a lot of players change their playing positions throughout history. Hard to say if it is going to work for Jude Bellingham or not. I still think that it is going to be a safe option to bring in a striker instead of playing Jude Bellingham as the striker. Honestly, I don't know if Mbappe is still the priority for Real Madrid. But even then they should look for other strikers.
I think that Bellingham will remain in his position since he is doing fine there and Real Madrid will end up by recruiting a real striker, most likely Kylian Mbappe for free from PSG by the summer. I still think they will accept to get him this winter if PSG accept to let him go cheaply or if they agree on a swap deal.
Athletic Bilbao are leading with 1 goal to 0 vs Granada before the gap was suspended early to a medical emergency apparently in the stadium.. |
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So far Roma are in the Champions League zone and this is probably the best result they can achieve this season. By the way, they have a game against Fiorentina today and if Roma lose, Fiorentina will take their place.
The gap is very tight between Roma, Napoli (same number of points as Roma), Fiorentina and Atalanta (-1 point), Bologna (-2 points), Lazio and Monza (-3 points taking in consideration the result of the actual game where they are leading). This means that if Roma will not win in this match, it will not only lose its place for Fiorentina but could also move to the 10th place easily if they drop additional points next time and the other teams win If they win against Fiorentina, then they will have at least 3 points gap from all of them and they will be just 2 points behind of Milan. |
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As the defending champion, Manchester City will continue to try to get out of the bad results achieved in the last few matches in order to maintain the opportunity to regain first place. The match has entered the last 10 minutes, the score is still 1-2 in favor of Manchester City, it looks like the three points will belong to Manchester City in this match, this result is very good for them.
Manchester City needs these three points badly from Luton Town to get closer from Liverpool which is topping the list with 37 points. Manchester City, assuming they will win today's match, will be 4 points away from them which is still far from receiving in a single round. The bad results made Manchester City in a bad position, just like gunners which lost the first position. In this match, Luton Town scored first then Manchester City was able to score two goals in three minutes. Extra time has started and hopefully they will not take a surprising goal. |
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Atletico Madrid spent more than 126 million euro for signing Joao Felix from Benfica on 2019 and extend contract until 2026, left two years later and I doubt Barcelona easily make permanent transfer regarding Atletico Madrid won't let Joao Felix under 100 million euro. Have quit well performance with Barcelona will make Joao Felix market values up again and not easy for signing him since Barcelona still have financial problem. Need much money for Barcelona if want make both players who have good performance between Joao Felix and Joao Cancelo to be permanently at least 150 million euro needed for both players.
There are not any valuable for Barcelona player for selling and can raise above 150 million euro, rumored with lewandowski sell to Saudi clubs seems not enough and I think his values right now under 30 million euro.
Joao Felix will return to Atletico Madrid unless broken Barcelona bought him or found a way to swap a player or two to Atletico Madrid side. For the moment, Barcelona squad size isn't that big with only 21 players available. I don't know if they have qualified players to join the main team from the junior but the situation of this club is just limit. They cannot simply force Atletico Madrid to let the player which contract will expire in like 5 years to join them for cheap price! Atletico Madrid could find more money for him in Saudi Pro League. |
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AI Nassr seems to be topping the league this season and any club coming against already should be aware of the chances to record multiple goals in possible losing out of the games, with the likes of Christian Rinaldo in the club there will be a lot of advantage with that.
Al-Nassr are doing pretty well after the defeat against Al-Hilal. They are considered as the last hope for the title other than Al-Hilal. Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad are fluctuating and the latter are losing points easily making for real the fight for the title limited between Al-Hilal with 7 points in advance than Al-Nassr arręt . |
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Today is an amazing day, it started with Brighton 1 goal draw vs Burnley which doesn't make sense since Brighton suffered to get that one point.
Brentford later was defeated by Sheffield United which lose most of the time. Next Manchester United made the day with an epic defeat by three goals against Bournemouth. That team was like 15th beating a team fighting for an European competitions spot and not only beating it but doing it badly! That was a humiliating result. And to make the day even better, Arsenal lost against Aston Villa which are now third and are 5 points difference from Manchester City
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Actually this will make the match between girona and barca to be more fierce because barca will be hoping to reduce the gap between them and Real madrid while girona hoping to top the league again.
Plan A was Real Madrid win vs Real Betis and Girona win or get a draw against Barcelona and the gap gets bigger for Real Madrid. Apparently we can throw this plan to the trash after Real Madrid got 1 - 1 draw against Betis and best thing to hope is a draw between their two rivals. A victory of Girona will make them first and the victory of Barcelona will be a threat in long term for Real Madrid.. halftime Sevilla 0 and Mallorca 1
Mallorca 1 - 1 Sevilla |
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3-0 for Inter after the 1st half.
They are the favorite for the final win.
The main opponent right now is Juventus but they are weaker and they will have a harder calendar in the second half of the season.
Juventus are winning but they score few goals per game making them indeed weak since once their opponent score a goal or two against them, the game is kinda over for Juventus. Poor Napoli, taking successive defeats.. Indeed Inter are very strong but they cannot create a larger gap against vs Juventus. The gap is clearer vs Milan after their unfortunate defeat vs Atalanta. |
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I dont know what exactly happend in Frankfurt but i was positive shocked when i have seen the result against Bayern Munich.
Even when my placed bet for a win for Munich was wrong i just love it that Munich got beaten in Frankfurt.
There was some surprising result for now today , Union Berlin also got a win what i cant believe.
This round are hurting the eyes of the Bundesliga followers and the hearts of bettors. I wonder know how many people placed a bet against Frankfurt to discover they made a wonderful game and ended up by punishing badly Bundesliga historical leader Bayern Munich which is running into troubles now since a gap is starting to be created between them and Bayer Leverkusen. It is true 3 points aren't that much but it might have an impact since Leverkusen hardly drop points. Union Berlin 3 - 1 M'Gladbach and Union out of the relegation zone for the moment, waw that's weird! |
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Montpellier vs Lens in today's match between two teams, neither team could score. Since the start of the game, both teams could not score even after trying hard. For which neither team could win in this match, the match was drawn. Lens team performed very well in this match. Couldn't. I thought Lens might win this match but Lens couldn't score any goal because Montpellier team performed well. Lens is far ahead of Montpellier team in points table.
Montpellier results weren't good lately, they either get a draw or lose. In this match they played and made some attempts, they annoyed Lens in Montpellier. Lens successive victories was stopped yesterday and Brest could take their place in the scoreboard and since Reims will face Nice then I assume they will not advance in the ranking until both Reims and Lens face each others in the next round. |
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It's a bit strange, but this is truly an unreasonable reality. This is the best joke from Manchester United.
Yeah Manchester United are 3 goals down vs Bournemouth. Honestly I had to double check the price to be sure I read correctly that Bournemouth indeed scored these goals. Only few minutes left and Manchester United seems to be hopeless to recover. Manchester United received an early goal but failed so far to get the draw or flip the score like Liverpool did vs Crystal Palace. That's the difference between a good team and a failure. Otherwise Sheffield United are leading with 1 goal vs Brentford, that's good if they can make the second victory and try to save themselves. |
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Valencia lost its yesterday match vs Getafe by one goal at the end of the legal time.. They were able to get at least a point from that match but they failed. This is the fourth game in a row where they fail to collect three points. Valencia were ineffective in attacking, barely no serious attempt was made to score. At the opposite, Getafe was controlling the game made some attempts to score. Valencia were playing with 10 players in the second half before losing another player after they received the goal before one of Getafe player gets a red card too. Nice game  Real Madrid vs Real Betis game today look like what will hard Real Madrid to win in their home today because, Real Betis always come in a surprising way to fight strong teams to reduce their points which they will like to do the same way to Real Madrid to secure victory from them.
Real Madrid will have hard moments away vs Real Betis for sure. I think Real Betis main objective in this game is to get the draw and pick a point from Real Madrid as usual. |
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I think the difference is that if Felix wants to stay, and do not want to go back, then he could just force the team to sell him for whatever Barcelona could afford, and that's the way many players has switched teams as well. I am not saying that he will be able to, but he can try to do that.
So, if Barcelona can afford let's say 55 million, then Felix could say "either get the 55m from Barcelona and sell me, or I will say I am injured and not play with you and wait out until my contract ends and you get nothing from me" type of deal. Some teams see the bluff and just do not sell, and it may even work out for the team, and some teams end up just giving up and letting the player go in that situation and get whatever they can.
Let's assume Joan Felix wants to leave Atletico Madrid and move to Barcelona at any cost and Atletico refused to sell him or give it in loan again then what he could do to force them? Simeone could end up letting him on benches and destroying his career until 2029. This long term contract type made the position of the player to negotiate with his team very weak. I doubt Atletico Madrid will do that obviously but if they need him they will try to convince him to play with them with a promesse to be sold later easier. |
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Lyon's bad run in the league continues and they can't seem to put an end to it.The constant change of coaches and the only thing that hasn't changed is the defeats.Yesterday, Lyon suffered another defeat, losing 3-0 away to Marseille and it's time to start calculating how to get out of the relegation zone. If they don't try to put an end to this, it will be very difficult for them.Although they had almost equal possession against Marseille, they struggled to create positions, which made it difficult for them to find goals, and when they couldn't score, they had to concede goals.
Lyon tend to relegate this season. Historically in Ligue 1, all teams under seven points by the fourteenth round relegated and I don't feel Lyon will make the exception this season. Such a bad performance of the attack and defence line doesn't help the team progress at all in Ligue 1. Possessing the ball most of the time will not help, they have to finish attack attempts with goals. One serious attempt in the match is useless when your rival is scoring goals over and over. Toulouse, Monaco then Nantes next rounds. They have to get 3 points vs Toulouse and at least a point from Nantes in order to advance a little, otherwise they will align with the historical fact. |
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This Villa team won Tottenham at home a few weeks ago.
Although Spurs aren't a reference since they are very instable and fluctuating a lot but I agree that Aston Villa are doing good this season overall. Today's game against Manchester City was another story, it was a very good result for them and shocking one for Manchester City fans and management. Guardiola is witnessing the 4th bad result in a row and the decrease in the ranking for his team.
Gunners won with difficulty their game vs Luton Town and Manchester United made an important victory against Chelsea. They are 3 points far from Manchester City!! |
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