Thats true, Bayern Munich doesn't have any thing to play for and the lost that inquired in their weekend clash would be an advantage for Manchester united to exploit as they are one's that need the victory more but the issue is if Manchester united can play like they need the win because this team has a way of conceding and letting go of their goal lead as they have shown in all their games in the champions league.
Bayern Munich still have their reputation, pride to protect and they also don't want to get another shame loss because having loss by loss will easily put them into a crisis. Bayern Munich does not want any kind of domino effects from a lost streak and their coach Tuchel with his experience does know that he will be sacked if the club gets a series of bad results. Manchester United themselves are not strong enough to easily exploit this chaotic period of Bayern Munich and get an easy win. I consider two clubs have similar bad forms recent weeks but in quality, Bayern Munich are better and it can be shown in this coming match between two teams. Bayern Munich only need a draw to prevent a trigger of their crisis but Manchester United need a win from this match. I will be optimistic and say that Manchester United will lose by two goals difference and I said this is my best feelings. The pessimistic one was a chaotic defeat by like four goals or more. I remain optimistic since Bayern Munich already qualified but as I mentioned previously that these Bavarian team doesn't care about any situation and will play their best in whatever game they have. I am also optimistic since Bayern Munich aren't in their best period so they might make some serious mistakes. I don't know if Ten Hag could motivate his players to play better than what they used to do to avoid being disqualified from everything and to avoid seeing himself out of Manchester United in case of catastrophic result. The situation is critical for both coaches in fact due to the bad results that they had in the previous games. |
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Saudi King's Cup
Al shabab 1 - 1 Al Nassr
I'm following this game, Al Nassr is playing with all its best players, so far they have more possession of the ball, Talisca is not playing and is not on the list of players who were called up, but although he is a very important player for the team, I think that even without him Al Nassr would be able to come out of this game with victory, they are playing against a team that in the last 4 games they have not been able to beat in any game, while Al Nassr has done very well in the last games, After the defeat they had in the game against the league leader, they didn't let themselves get depressed, they continued to be in good emotional health and are playing well.
Al-Shabab 2 - 5 Al-Nassr with every player scoring a goal including Cristiano Ronaldo, Sadio Mane and Talisca. Al-Nassr were more efficient in that game, dominating the ball and creating more serious attacks and obviously scoring more goals. Al-Shabab tried their best but their opponent was strong and more dangerous. Until three teams qualified in this round of Saudi King Cup of Champions with Al-Hilal, the best one and most favourite, followed by Al-Nassr then Al-Ittihad which has to qualify in their match next week and the least favourite is Al-Khaleej. |
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On this list there is no African player who plays for a team here in Africa, they could have at least 1, but the café didn't do that. How do you hope to motivate players who play for local teams? When they do this, it is unlikely that the players from local teams will be well known, the only way for them to be known will only be thanks to Europeans and not thanks to Africans who are people from their own continent.
Because playing in African teams is a step for every player to get some skills and move outside of the continent to Europe mainly or Gulf region in the second place. There isn't a real motivation to stay when contracts couldn't be compared to those offered by Europeans so the best players move out of Africa and even the younger and best ones are recruited in national teams, just like France, when they win it is France that did and when they lose they post typically a picture of the African players failing to grab the Cup or title or whatever award they are playing for. If AFC want to improve football in the continent then let's start with fighting corruption, upgrade stadiums, give the players a minimum respect with good salaries and motivating competitions reward that benefits them and the club, not to be spent on side stuff.. Like that local competitors will be more interesting and good players will increase in number and will stay. |
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It is not that Ten Hag isn’t making mistakes tactically but asking for his sack just during his second season is considered not the right to do to me because after his first good season he deserves a chance and the board should be trusting him with good Signings.
Even if a Pep or Mouh is signed today Manchester United will still remain like this because of the players nonchalant behavior
At the same time I think charging coach might bring a fresh air and discipline to the team, as much I feel this will not work out as planned for a team like Manchester United. Chelsea for example, are living hard seasons and their results were catastrophic for a team like them, yet large investments and a turn over of top coaches didn't work as it was expected to be. I doubt it will work for Manchester United too. Pep Guardiola in the other hand might fix that team but he will not move there since he will be considered as traitor at least for Manchester City fans. |
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The game between Athletic Bilbao and Granada was paused previously due to a medical emergency which turned out to be a sudden death of one of the spectator. The initial result was in favour of Athletic Bilbao and they were already leading by 1 goal since the first minutes of the game.
The match was resumed today and Granada were able to collect a point from Athletic Bilbao. I think if the game wasn't paused then Bilbao might won it but Granada profited from that pause and got the draw. Granada was able to keep the same distance between them and Celta Vigo which played a match today against Rayo Vallecano 0 - 0 Celta Vigo. Meanwhile, Athletic Bilbao gap between them and Barcelona increased to 5 points and between them and Sociedad was nullified..
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Finally last round!!!!
The most exciting round of alls, at least for me, more than 16 round or even quarterfinals, i love the quantity of games in the last round and all the teams played for any, it can be a place in the next round or a place in the third position to go into conference.
Group C and H might have the most challenging games since in Group C, it isn't clear which teams will get the first two spots and in Group H, the second position will goes for Qarabag most likely since Molde will have to face Bayer Leverkusen to qualify. In Group C, the winners will qualify between Real Betis and Rangers, Real Betis are favourite of course. Sparta Praha should also qualify since they will play vs Aris Limassol. In the other groups, it is less interesting since whether both first teams will qualify or it is games to precise which teams will lead the group. |
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Dybala was injured again.
After all, it was a good decision for Juvenut to lose him for free.
Already skipped 40 days since the start of the season.
AGAIN? How does this player keep getting injured? In my opinion, a player like this is not useful at all, in fact he is a real burden for a team that has ambitions to play at high levels, I think his value will drop a lot It wasn't an injury otherwise he wouldn't left walking the field. Dybala is suffering a muscular pain and should return in 10 days according to media. He made a decisive assist to Lukaku otherwise Roma wouldn't get even a draw. Dybala will miss Sheriff's Champions League match and most likely Bologna's one in Serie A. He could return in Napoli's game if everything went as planned. |
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Al tawwoun making a come back, seems like they have a good run right now, i dont think this can last so much, but good for them.
I was seeing the Al Hilal stats and man, what a numbers they have, asides of the 0 defeats, they only allowed 3 goals in eight home games, truly amazing defensive performance.
By the way, Al-Taawoun faced Al-Hilal today in the Quarter-final of King Cup of Champions and they lost badly by three goals to 0. Al-Hilal are just unstoppable whether in Saudi Pro League, AFC Champions League or King Cup of Champions. There is Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad that will have matches later. Al-Nassr will face Al-Shabab today and are expected to win since their opponents aren't doing well with successive negative results in Saudi Pro League. Al-Ittihad will have a match in the upcoming week vs Al-Faisaly in Division 1 and should win too. They haven't a match today since they will play tomorrow vs Auckland City in Club World Cup. |
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This team still have a very difficult job to do this season. Because even Manchester City are having difficult days and Arsenal - Liverpool - Aston Villa trio are benefiting from the situation great. Yeah even Aston Villa are in the title competition now thanks to Emery.  I don't know what Aston Villa is doing in top 4 positions but the teams above them are doing good right now and teams under them are fluctuating badly including Manchester City! Tottenham Hotspur followed Manchester City to break the bad records, otherwise in terms of goals, then Manchester United have the worst goals scored to goals received ratio with minus three goals and only 18 goals scored in 16 rounds! Comparing to the other teams, only 5 clubs have a worse scoring than them, from 15th position and so on. |
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Yes, Lyon won big in the match against Touluse and this was Lyon's second win but Lyon still had to fight hard to get out of the Relegation Zone.
Lyon won by three goals against Toulouse which is also a weak team and while Toulouse are hovering around the relegation zone, Lyon are still deep in it, sitting in the last place as it used to be during this season. When you see the next matches of Lyon from Monaco in the middle of December up to February, you have the feeling that they might win only one time. It is a very hard season for them honestly.
Marseille advanced good lately and they are now in the sixth place along with Lens and Reims. Seeing their upcoming games, I think they will remain in top positions while advancing slowly. |
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No I dont feel we are within the same kind of motion as 2017 despite the positive end to this year. I think we have further to go but also it will not result in a peaked price during this month, if BTC is left to run freely we should find the best price gains occur after the halvening which is next spring. So its about 6 months from now before we should speculate on the best gains, the sharpest gradient on the graph and so on. If its my estimate I will say 12 months from now maybe, a full year off and I'll say that for the same reasons I said before 2023 this year will be revision or consolidation more then grand gains or an immediate bounce back. The bigger the price objective, the more preparation is to occur beforehand imo (or else we risk very unstable prices gains then losses).
I have the same feeling as you. I expect one year from now to see another all time high. For the moment, the volatility is at its best with Bitcoin with the price moving from $41k to $44k and bounce back with a lot of buying and cashing out activity. People were waiting to see the price increase so they can make some movements, I don't blame them but we should keep holding for the next peak. The instability in the price will continue for a month from now in my opinion, I just hope to not see less than $40k price again.. |
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Hopefully, this forth coming halving would trigger a new all time high as the case maybe and as such the market is still early to enter. While doing this, use funds you can afford to lose as no one can predict the direction of the market.
The idea behind the halving is to have a valuable coin that's price will increase over time since for Bitcoin for example, the mining process requires a lot of sophisticated and expensive machines making the investment bigger over the time to mine Bitcoin, then the reward will be 50% less every couple of years which will make it obligatory expensive so the miners could cover the cost. This remains a little bit theoretical since there is an offer and demand, there is also big whales and companies that have an impact with the price. Even governments can manipulate it a little bit when they seize a large amount or shut down a known service. I expect to see an all time high again in 2024, maybe next November - December. |
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I think Manchester United should learn more from their failures and make sure to recover quickly so they can catch up in the domestic league, because even qualifying for the next round in the UCL won't have a good impact if in the end they fail and don't reach the final. , Manchester United is still not quite ready for this season.
Manchester United will leave the competition tomorrow in my opinion unless Bayern Munich didn't take that match seriously and played with substitutes which they wasn't used to do. Bayern Munich always play seriously even when the game won't add anything to them. Both Manchester United and Bayern Munich suffered bad results lately and at the opposite of Manchester United, Bayern Munich will try to punish the first team they will meet after the humiliating defeat they got in Bundesliga. Galatasaray and Copenhagen match will be played in Netherlands but odds seem to be in favour of Galatasaray, slightly at least. |
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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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