Liverpool should still have enough depth and quality to be considered favorites to win tomorrow. Only Diaz is a first-11 player, so there are no excuses.
We need a win and we need to get our season back on track. I have missed club football and am looking forward to seeing my team play again. I just hope we start well enough.
We do need a win, brother. Villa’s goalkeeper Martinez is still in Argentina partying somewhere so that’s good for us. Their number 2 goalkeeper is nowhere near as good as Martinez. We’ve been average most of the season but I really hope the World Cup break has helped us & we can go up a couple of gears now. Lol. Martinez is still partying and maybe that's good luck on Liverpool's side, and I wish they exploit it. Lately, Liverpool has 3 wins from 8 matches and that isn't a good condition for them. I wish they could secure a winning against Aston villa to build their confidence in subsequent matches. My only worry is that a few important players like Trent Alexander-Arnold, Arthur Melo, Luis Diaz, and Roberto Firmino, are currently not in a good physical state, I pray Klopp has a better plan. |
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Mbappe's dream to play in the same team as Ronaldo is almost impossible at this time of his career because Mbappe is currently a PSG player and the probability of Ronaldo playing for PSG or Real Madrid before he retires is very low. I doubt it will even happen at this point. If Ronaldo completes a move to the Arab league it might be his last club to play for until he retires so I doubt it is going to happen. The era of Messi and Ronaldo is close to the end and the beginning of a new era for Haaland and Mbappe.
This era has already arrived. If Mbappe had been promoted as it was at the beginning of Messi's career, then he would already have a 3-4 balloon D'Ors. As for the results, they are also eloquent: in 2022, Mbappe scored 55 goals in 55 games, and Haaland 43 goals in 41 games. With Mbappe's phenomenal World Cup performance and Haaland's excellent goalscoring schedule for City, it's clear who will compete for the top 1 in the coming years. I think Kylian Mbappe will never match Messi. Messi's football career has such achievements. If any other player wants to achieve that, he has to become an incomparable player. And Kylian Mbappe plays well but I don't like his behavior at all, he is a selfish footballer. One thing is having the talent, another thing is modeling the talent. When one can model his or her talent, he or she becomes a successful example to be copied, with or without modification; that's the true nature of Lionel Messi, and this is the reason Mbappe will never match him. Messi has a total assist of 349 which is more than half of the goals he scores, showing that while he scores, he is happy to see others do the same, same applies to Christiano Ronaldo, but it's a different case for mbappe. Take for instance this season, Messi has provided 5 assists to Mbappé and 3 assists to Neymar, Neymar has provided 3 assists to Mbappé and 2 assists to Messi, but Mbappé has provided 0 assists to Neymar and 0 assists to Messi, telling you that he competes with this guys🤣 lol. Mbappe is a great talent, he only needs to model it. |
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Xavi no doubt, is obsessed of tiki taka so that he really wants to direct Barcelona to tiki taka as much as he can.
Its not going to be easy to achieve the beautiful football we once enjoyed in watching Barcelona play. Recently the club has been struggling and xavi is really trying all his best to revive the club to its glory days but Barcelona are just lacking mid-fielders who can be able to hold the ball and be relax in that midfield and structure out those killer passes that breaks down defences. Barcelona is no doubt known for their tiki taka style of play but if we compare the player who were present during the time of this wonderful football we can see the difference is very clear, players like andres iniesta , xavi, neymar and leo messi controlling the gameplay of Barcelona made it very easy for Barcelona to execute this beautiful football, so if Xavi wants to play this style he needs to get players who are capable of extraordinary brilliance in the field of play. Getting players of extraordinary brilliance at this present condition may be quite too much of an expectation from Barcelona seeing that they are currently fighting financial constraints. Xavi was part of the Barcelona beautiful football days, He knows the technology involved in the tiki-taka football strategy. Since there is no such players like in his days, he can only install this pattern in the team, amongst these upcoming stars and then allow it to grow to a mastery standard, and that's what he is currently on. It's a process, it only needs time. |
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one of Xavi's efforts to make his squad the best is to bring in several players and also release players who are not included in Xavi's plans.
maybe too hasty, but Barca will not be able to manage their finances properly if they only make purchases without reducing spending on players.
an extraordinary challenge for Xavi to make Barca a champion this season. with all the efforts and limitations, Barça's game developed very well. everyone could see Xavi's abilities.
I won't say that Xavi's presence as Barcelona's manager hasn't changed anything or done much for the team. He still needs to level up and raise the team's standard of play. One of Barcelona's current issues is the defense, which if not handled properly, will see the league title slip through his fingers. I believe Barcelona can do more; they have the funds to bring in new players or exchange them for current ones; I just hope the right decision is made before it's too late. Barcelona doesn't have much fun bringing in new players. I would buy the idea if you say to exchange them. But right now there aren't many players to exçhage because already the team is still competing in different leagues. Though there isn't much problem with any arm of the team than the defense. I think the team might move to another height if the management can bring in a vibrant central defender to cover up for Sergio Bosquet and a young defensive midfielder to cover up for Jordi Alba who is already 33 years old. Infact, the whole members of Barcelona's defense are 30 years and above which is quite unhealthy for the team. |
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Dortmund will be most likely to sell Bellingham next summer. They just don't want to sell him already now as they need him in the middle of the season. But in the summer they will have quite enough time to sell Bellingham and find another young and talented replacement for him. Dortmund bought Bellingham for 25 million euros but his selling price will be over 100 million euros. It is an enormous profit.  Dortmund and Ajax are like siblings in terms of the business model they adopt. Ajax is just Dortmund's champion version at the same time.  Borussia Dortmund is highly rich in business, I so much like them because they are good at discovering young stars at an early age. A lot of them like Ousmane Dembele, Mario Gotze, Christian pulisic Julian Weigi, Hummels, and a lot more were all stars discovered by BVB. But it only marvels to me that they sell out most of those players immediately after they start shooting their stars. Dortmund prefers buying more average players while they sell out the good ones which they trained. Don't be surprised that Dortmund will sell out Bellingham because currently, they haven't renewed his contract. |
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I think Tottenham will become more dreadful as they are currently linked up with Milan Skriniar, Randal Kolo Muani, Isco, Weston McKennie, and Sofyan Amrabat in the transfer market. with this, they will be able to face any challenge that comes from the premier league and champion league. Recently, son Heung min has been kicked off by injury, and with this things may be a bit difficult for the gunners. hurdles like this would be easy to handle if Tottenham can bring in Eintracht Frankfurt kolo Muani as stated by the transfer market news. Among the aforementioned targeted signings, I believe Tottenham will add at least one more attacker or defender to the squad if not more than one.
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As the host for Inter Milan, they should be able to beat Napoli because for me this is a perfectly balanced match, it's just that Napoli will definitely defend as a challenger for the Scudetto title, the dominance of the two will be quite strong if Napoli really lose this match, there is a possibility that other teams can beat it too and clearly with a point difference it will be closer to other teams, even now it is quite far from Inter Milan in points. Inter are the favorites against Napoli. I don't think Napoli will really be able to beat Inter and maintain that unbeaten record. Napoli will lose to Inter, but the Napoli odds are looking very tempting. Inter will be fighting for their place in the top 4 again, so I think this match is really very exciting to look forward to in early January. Salernitana vs Milan will be the opening match for week 16, we will see if Milan can get 3 points to get close to Napoli, or maybe Napoli is unstoppable. You are right. Inter Milan has lost just twice in their last 13 matches and will be fighting for their place in the top 4. they have more wins against Napoli In the last 6 h2h, Napoli has only managed to escape with a draw but the rest won by inter Milan. But currently, Napoli has become much more overly curious for the scudetto and they are rated above inter Milan at the league level, because of their winning consistency, and for that, I think the match may likely end in a draw. |
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Manchester United - Nottingham is an interesting game in terms of their head-to-head history. These two teams haven't faced each other since 1999. It is going to be a historical moment for these teams as a result. I don't think it's going to be a big historical moment unless Nottingham is one of the teams that can give competition to the other teams in the top four or they are still on course to be Champions. Nottingham is in the relegation zone, while Manchester United is struggling to get into the top four. This match will be won easily by Manchester United even though these two teams have not faced each other since 1999 because their quality is very much different. I think the opinion "will be won easily by Manchester United" is quite an overstatement. No doubt, Nottingham Forest is in the relegation zone, but that doesn't justify the game being as easy as you think on Manchester united side. Remember this same club has recorded a shocking winning against able opponents like Liverpool and Valencia while in the relegation zone of the EPL. The only thing that could give Manchester united the upper hand in winning this match is their game plan, order than a brilliant game plan, there is no assured winning. |
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Milan - Tottenham is an interesting draw to have in this round. I see it like both legs can be quite competitive. But I feel like it will depend on Milan's performance level especially. Because they haven't seemed very effective in big games in the Champions League so far. They were really inadequate in not only defense but also offense against Chelsea in the group stage. They lost both games as you know. But I still believe that Milan have a good potential in themselves to do better than this.
I just hope to see the same effort they make in the Serie A from them by this round of the Champions League. Because they have seemed like they care about the Serie A games more until now. They shouldn't waste their potential in the Champions League like this. If they make some improvements then I would give them a chance for advancing to the next round.
Unlike Milan, Tottenham is not perfect in their lower leagues. they have lost a good number of matches that were supposed to be bonus wins for them. The only additional advantage Tottenham has over Milan is the manager __Antonio Conte __ who doesn't joke with UEFA competitions. With much experience in Tactics and other things Conte is known for, I think the clash with AC Milan is not going to see Tottenham off the UEFA competition. |
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Manchester United vs Fc Barcelona match has been discussed much more than every other Europa league match. Maybe that is because the two clubs are anticipated by many, to be the champions of the Europa league title. But let me put it to u that neither Manchester United nor FC Barcelona may end up pushing through the final stage of this competition. Let us not forget that the likes of Juventus, Arsenal, Ajax, union Berlin and PSV are salso hunting vigorously for this same title. Most of these clubs with little or no up of being champions in their lower league.The table is not revolving around Man united and Barcelona only.
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One of the clubs that need a total overhaul is Barcelona because the club have under performed in most recent time and since their last match which was a bit favorable to the club and meeting with another bigger club in the La Liga this season and being able to win the match will help Barcelona to recover and move up on the league table.
I don't think FC Barcelona is deficient to the extent that requires a complete overhaul... The club still has good midfielders, good defenders, and attackers which is the best arm of the team. What Barcelona needs now are more players that could make a good second 11, but currently, the club is struggling with financial constraints and this has become their major hindrance in adding more players to the team. The team doesn't need an overhaul because the players available are doing well, they only need good substitutes. |
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I think Mbappe will stay with PSG to win UCL and then he will move to Real Madrid but if he somehow achieves winning UCL this season with PSG, he will more likely move to Real Madrid. At the same time, imagine if Messi wins UCL with PSG after winning WC with Argentina as that would be a season that won't be replicated for many years to come If mbappe wins UCL with PSG, there is a very tendency that he will extend his contract may be till another two years whenever his present one expires. Come to think of it, when Mbappe began his senior career, he wasn't known and Real Madrid never saw Him. Mbappe went to PSG on loan and became the top talker in French 🇫🇷 football before He was recognized and called by France for His first international debut. Now he is given a contract and beginning to make a wave in the club that discovered him, Real Madrid feels that isn't the best place for Him. Mbappe will join Madrid in the future, But for now, I think he is happily spending his football moment at PSG I don't think Mbappe will renew with PSG again. He can go to some other team where he will be highly respected. That is, everyone there will only focus on him. However, I see very little chance of PSG winning the Champions League title this year. If "respect" would decide where mbappe should stay, I don't think there is any place, order than Paris saint German.. Apart from the exorbitant salary he's been offered by PSG management, he also has a say in how the club is being run, and I think such respect is enough to keep him. speaking of PSG's chance of winning the champion league, currently, the club is in round 16, and everyone in that round has an equal chance for now, PSG's hope for the UCL can only be deadened if they lose against Bayern Munich, else their chance is still very high. |
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Actually, when talking about the right to get a trophy this season in the Bundesliga, all teams have the same rights as long as they are still within the scope of the Bundesliga. But because all the teams in the Bundesliga do not have the same level of strength as Bayern Munich, it is clear that this season it is still very possible for Bayern Munich to win another trophy. This is due to the level of consistency and the best players are not in all teams so Bayern Munich is still the favorite in getting the trophy this season.
Bayern is a rich team that remains consistent with the good performances they display, besides that they are not afraid to buy the expensive players they want because their goal is victory, different from other Bundesliga teams who are hesitant to buy players and only focus on their old squad. Bayern will always be the Bundesliga champions and other teams will only enliven the Bundesliga competition. Sometimes it doesn't only depend on being a favorite, it also depends on the ability to adapt to new changes. A team may grow because all the arms that make up the team are productive, but in a long run, when any arm falls short of what it is expected of, the whole team falls. Like in the case of Bayern, until I see their performance without Neuer, I wouldn't say that they are already the favorite team for the Bundesliga title, especially now that Freiburg is still bent on doing. Moreover, Bayern is 4 points only ahead of Freiburg. |
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In theory, surely Napoli will put out all their best to win this match. It really doesn't make sense if they don't do their best in the real competition, especially when they are at the top of the standings now. But for the final result, it will still be a question mark because they might slip and lose their meeting with these two teams. It would be to their advantage for their rivals to drop points in such a crucial match as this would reduce the gap in points between them.
This is a big opportunity for Inter Milan to disrupt Napoli's dominance, so that the fight for the Scudetto is even more interesting and wide open for their challengers, even though Inter Milan's dominance lost to Napoli, but when they can take advantage of the match to win, then Napoli's dominance will slowly decrease and the points with the challenger will be closer. Week 18 Napoli will visit Juventus headquarters, so the opportunity to beat Napoli is quite open, Napoli is also busy with Champions League matches, so the concentration in the second half of the season will be even busier The fight awaiting Napoli is so corrosive, and I don't think they will be able to triumph over it. They have inter Milan, Sampdoria, and then comes Juventus which is the most fretful rival in the Italian league. Napoli had fought so well in the first half of this season but I don't think the remaining half will favor them in the Italy series A, seeing that they also have challenging matches to face in the champions league. But be that as it may, we can't underestimate them. |
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I see Kevin De Bruyne as the most important player in Manchester City, even more important than their highest goal scorer of this season who just joined them. In games where Kevin does not play for them, his absence in the team is usually largely felt. He is Pep Guardiola's greatest assets in the team amidst the many talented players the teams has in all positions. When I hear of teams that need players, I do not count Manchester City because I see them as a very balanced team that is not lacking even in their substitute list. It is a great team that Pep has assembled. Their first game is against Leeds United and based on their team form, that game should not be a difficult game for them to win.
Kevin De Bruyne is an excellent player no doubt. His class made Pep to say that he is the most talented to him after Lionel Messi. He is a very key player to Manchester City but do you know that city won most of the Premier league trophies under Pep with De Bruyne mostly injured. The easiest one I could remember is the 2018/2019 season when they ranked up 100 points. If you check some important matches when Pep is losing, he introduces Gundogan in place of De Bruyne. So saying City doesn't need new players is something i don't agree to. The most important player City needs to sign next summer is Jude Bellingham because Gundogan is getting old and De Bruyne can't play all matches. you have a point there. Ever since the arrival of pep Guardiola, Kevin De Bruyn is most time kicked off the tournament with an injury, and his cover-up Gundogan has been so helpful to the team in times like that. But currently, De Bruyn's position is not a problem as you think, because gundogan at age 32 still have extra more years of play, and De Bruyn is still young.I think the most important thing man city has to do is bringing in a natural heir to Joao cancelo and Kyle walker, because currently, the team lacks a natural substitute for that wing. |
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It is the culture of Barcelona to always build their team on one player,and this is very bad.If you look back at those days when Messi was in Barcelona,you saw how it was,that Barca a finds it difficult to win games without Lionel Messi in the team,and he was everything to them.If they will win that match,it solely depended on him,and when a coach builds his team around one particular person, then you are exposing the weakness of that team to other teams because they will try as much as they could to mark only that player out, and the moment they succeed in that, there is every tendency that they will win you.
This is what is happening again, and if Xavi does not sign a young and vibrant attacker to help cover for Lewa's absence, it will be very disastrous to the team.
Real Madrid couldn't do without Ronaldo, Bayern Munich without Thomas Muller is questionable (let me not mention Lewandowsky), Manchester United couldn't do without Rooney, and Liverpool's match without Steven Gerald seems vulnerable. but it doesn't mean that these aforementioned clubs build their team on those players only. Even in the education sector, a particular student's absence may discourage a teacher. If a team can hardly exempt a particular player in nearly all their matches, it doesn't mean they are building the team on him, it means that in every match, such a player possesses something special needed by the team, and so was messi's case in Barcelona. |
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If Kylian Mbappe somehow joins Real Madrid, their team will become very strong. Kylian Mbappe is one of the best players in the world right now and the rest of the France team are also great young players who have performed well this World Cup. So I hope that if Kylian Mbappe joins Real Madrid unfortunately then Real Madrid will become a super strong team.
Real Madrid are already strong, if there have a talented young striker like Mbappe then it is true that Real Madrid will be very strong, like Manchester City with Haaland. UCL is not easy at all, for any big club a small mistake can be very big. By the way, I can't wait to see Bayern Munich, which has consistently won with perfect points so far, against PSG in February. Which team do you think will win? Seeing Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe together on a pitch gives great confidence. If Mbappe continues playing with Messi I think is a close thing to him playing with Ronaldo who was his football role model. I've heard rumors that Mbappe and Lionel Messi are not on good terms, but I know it's just a rumor because Mbappe's speech after the world cup shows he is really happy to play with Messi in the same team. An attacking line that involves Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar will be too dangerous to stand against, with this I think PSG has the upper hand in winning the match against Bayern Munich |
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I think Mbappe will stay with PSG to win UCL and then he will move to Real Madrid but if he somehow achieves winning UCL this season with PSG, he will more likely move to Real Madrid. At the same time, imagine if Messi wins UCL with PSG after winning WC with Argentina as that would be a season that won't be replicated for many years to come If mbappe wins UCL with PSG, there is a very tendency that he will extend his contract may be till another two years whenever his present one expires. Come to think of it, when Mbappe began his senior career, he wasn't known and Real Madrid never saw Him. Mbappe went to PSG on loan and became the top talker in French 🇫🇷 football before He was recognized and called by France for His first international debut. Now he is given a contract and beginning to make a wave in the club that discovered him, Real Madrid feels that isn't the best place for Him. Mbappe will join Madrid in the future, But for now, I think he is happily spending his football moment in PSG |
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After what happened in Real Madrid's first bid for Mbappe, I doubt they'll consider making him another offer. Even Modric was displeased with his abrupt change of mind. Some speculated that he stayed because of the attractive offer they made him. However, fulfilling your football dreams is sometimes more important than riches. PSG is not looking to sell him right now, and he is not willing to leave the club either, so a transfer for Mbappe is practically impossible right now.
Real Madrid is a club every footballer would love to play for. But even with that, I don't think it's a must that every upcoming star should play at Real Madrid before they could achieve big dreams in their football career. Or does it mean Mbappe's Ambition will be deadened if He doesn't play for real Madrid? Or does it mean that PSG is not capable of pushing mbappe to his dream height? I think it's high time we see equality in every club when it comes to signing a good player. when the time comes, mbappe will play for Real Madrid as he wishes, let us not make it look as if it's a must for Real Madrid to have Him. |
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It's quite interesting that although Mbappe is in first place in the goalscoring race in all three competitions - World Cup, Champions League, and Ligue 1, his performance in the World Cup and Champions League is better than in League 1. This once again makes me think about the importance of motivation and that Mbappe needs to move up to a more serious league to improve his already phenomenal performance and make history. I don't know how you can say Mbappe isn't very motivated in Ligue 1, I think he's done his best, but maybe he doesn't want to be overshadowed by another star player like Messi. All along I think Mbappe thinks Messi is his rival in every way, and if this assumption is correct then Mbappe is immature. I don't know, but he is a selfish player. I agree to say Mbappe is a selfish player, but he is lucky enough because his selfishness goes hand in hand with his very good performances in the team as well as in the national team. If not then there will be a lot of negative narratives about him now. But there was still time for him to suppress his selfish attitude going forward because it would be detrimental to himself if he didn't get rid of the selfish attitude he had displayed so far. I'm sure if he is more mature then he will be more able to bring out all the abilities he has. I don't think u should call mbappe a selfish player in a match He repentantly delivered his country. France's hope was deadened when Messi and Di Maria registered two goals in the first half of the match. I could even recall the difficulty in the match that led to seven substitutions, which has never happened in Football history. In case you forget, Marcus Thuram and Randal Kolo Muani for Olivier Giroud and Ousmane Dembele took place in the 41st minute; Kingsley Coman and Eduardo Camavinga for Antoine Griezmann and Theo Hernández in the 71st; Youssouf Fofana came on for Adrien Rabiot in the 96th; Ibrahima Konate for Raphael Varane in the 113th and finally, as the seventh substitution, Axel Disasi for Jules Kounde Kunde 121st minute, but young mbappe was there from the onset. If I were you, I'll call Him a hero. |
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