Well, is there a separate thread for Coupe De France? I enjoy Coupe De France matches but can't find any thread to discuss.
Yesterday I watched the match of PSG vs Vannes. PSG formed the squad without Messi, Neymar and Di Maria. However, they won 4-0. PSG was leading 1-0 in the first half. Mbappe's superb performance in the second half helped PSG win 4-0. Mbappe scored a hat trick.
PSG had an easy match against Vannes even they were able to control the ball almost 66% throughout the match, losing messi is not a big problem for PSG at this time in my opinion, moreover they have a layer of squad that can be said to be fairly even in all lines, but actually I expect if in that match there will be many goals scored considering their opponent is a 4th caste club in the French league. |
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Jake Paul created a very funny video saying that if he is being challenged to take a test for steroids then all UFC fighters must also take the tests for steriods hehe. However, does USADA not test the fighters in the UFC for steriods already?
He also was telling everyone that uncle Dana should increase the minimum salary in the UFC from $12,000 to $50,000. It appears that he is getting the attention to increase his popularity and the potential earnings from his fights in the future hehehe.
This guy just wanted to further expand his popularity by talking some rubbish to some known people where he can be the topic of the users in the social media. We all know this guy has nothing on his sleeves as a boxer, what more if he steps in the ring as a mixed martial artist? The test should come from a trustworthy company that will never accept any bribes from anyone because looks like this guy are hiding something. They should not worry about his opinion cause it's all rubbish anyway. I'm sick of all the mess jake paul keeps doing in fighting sports nowadays, every controversy that happens will surely continue to raise his popularity as a celebrity like his recent debate with Dana White, I think every win he's had so far is challenging Retired fighters are not clean fights and if there were fighters who really didn't want Jake Paul money, then Jake Paul would be in the hospital as a result of that fight. |
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I don't think that Barcelona only has 1 weakness at the moment, defense is indeed very important to be strengthened by Xavi this season, but Xavi also must not forget their front line which is quite blunt at the moment, only this season I see if Barcelona can only win in some matches only with a fairly small goal margin, and I think in the current transfer market Xavi should be able to bring in at least 1 experienced player for their front line.
They have multiple issues in past few seasons and all just become worse in this season after the drama and departure of Messi. Their defense are never good and now their defenders are getting older, lost their best performance and the whole system is weaker. Less powerful attacking system affects chance to score goals and get points. Anyway, their defense system is not good to protect goals from attacking players. Xavi is lack of experience because it is his very first match in La Liga in a coach position. Their finance is bad which is well known and it might take them a few years to fix it. In general, I don't see good future for Barcelona in terms of player quality, team performance, finance in coming years. What you said is true, because financial problems were the beginning of the fall of Barcelona dominance today, Xavi who is a legend of Barcelona certainly has experience in the Barcelona style of play, but to build a solid team it will certainly take a long time for Xavi to do it, now we can see that only a few old players are staying at barcelona and of course it will be very difficult for xavi to combine their style of play with new players, besides that financial difficulties are the reason why xavi can't build the team he wants right now. |
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Even though PSG and Real Madrid are top of the table in their respective leagues, I personally don't believe both are candidates for the UCL title this season. Because for me, the Candidates for the UCL title this season are Bayern Munich or Manchester City and I think it is quite clear about these two teams, because to win the title is not only about the star players they have but also their performance and consistency. Although PSG and Madrid have many star players, most of them are old players who will certainly find it difficult to compete with top players with a productive age in the Manchester City squad.
In Real Madrid, one old player is Modric. The rest are in their golden age or are young, and therefore I do not think that the age of the players will make any difference in this confrontation. I agree about Bayern and City, so it would be great if they could face each other in the next round  However, against City I will be rooting for almost any team, even for Bavaria, which every year claims to win the tournament. Experience from old players is certainly needed by a team in a match, I actually don't agree that the team will appear stronger just by relying on young players, besides Bayern Munich as one of the champion candidates, now PSG in my opinion is a more complex club than With Real Madrid being dominated by young players who have little experience in European competitions, mentality and experience are the most important things to win the Champions League not only energy. |
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Yes, the fact that Barcelona are now playing (and winning) against weak teams, but at the same time scoring a minimum number of goals should be alarming. Against Elche, from which they conceded 2 goals, they were able to score one more goal, but if you take a stronger team (for example, Rayo Vallecano, which they will face after next round) this may not happen.
IMO it seems that the first concern of Xavi is to create and maintain a solid defense in all the lines. They score a goal and then they are focused not to concede one. The attacking but naive style that Barça had, seems to be now in second priority. Besides, scoring has never been a big problem. Having though a solid defensive line has been a problem since the "Messi era" and Xavi knows that. I don't think that Barcelona only has 1 weakness at the moment, defense is indeed very important to be strengthened by Xavi this season, but Xavi also must not forget their front line which is quite blunt at the moment, only this season I see if Barcelona can only win in some matches only with a fairly small goal margin, and I think in the current transfer market Xavi should be able to bring in at least 1 experienced player for their front line. |
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Thiago Silva is here to stay. A one-year contract extension has been signed at Chelsea. I'm pleased for him, he's done well for Chelsea. I'm glad he signed the contract. Every time he participates in a game, he displays a fighting spirit, and he has put in the effort to prove that he deserves the contract. He will be hired again after this. Having seen Thiago's greatness, I look forward to his becoming a Chelsea legend.
Previously silva had a contract duration with chelsea until June 2022 and now automatically silva will stay at chelsea until the summer of 2023, the extension of silva contract will certainly make chelsea not need to look for another defender at this time, other than that with still silva in skuad, it will certainly make defense chelsea is still very strong as before and now chelsea only needs to think about rudiger who until now has not wanted to extend his contract with chelsea, I think with silva still available of course chelsea will not be too weak if rudiger really leaves chelsea. |
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The match really went quite attractively and showed an impressive game from both teams, even though Liverpool played without Klopp, they looked quite organized in attack and defense, as well as Chelsea, strengthened not by Lukaku, still who were able to show that they were still dangerous, with the draw that chelsea and liverpool got yesterday will certainly make Manchester city fans quite happy right now, because apart from manchester city being able to get full points against arsenal, with a draw that got by chelsea and liverpool automatically the position of manchester city is quite safe right now because have a point difference that is quite far from the second position.
The match was exciting and went very fair in my opinion. Because, in the big match, there are only 3 yellow cards. But, Liverpool still have a chance to shift Chelsea's position, although in this match they were held to a draw. Because, Liverpool has 20 games, but Chelsea has played 21 games, if in this 1 match Liverpool managed to get 3 points, Liverpool will be on #2nd position, in terms if the match is done in the near future, before the difference between Liverpool and Chelsea is not more than 3 points. Although liverpool still has 1 game postponed, but the next few weeks will make liverpool quite difficult in their match, this can not be separated from the loss of 2 of their main players, namely Sadio Mane and Muhammad Salah, as we know so far, Sadio Mane and Muhammad Salah are the two players who became the life and motor of Liverpool attack, but it seems Liverpool must be ready to play without them both because of the players obligation to help the national team to play in the African Championship this year, I think by losing Salah and Mane it will make Liverpool difficult in matches and of course it makes their chances of competing with chelsea very small. |
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Ferran torres actually finished his medical test a few days ago in barcelona, indirectly he has become one of the current barcelona players, but there are a few obstacles that prevent him from being introduced to the public, currently Barcelona have not been able to register ferran torres to la the league because it is still constrained by salary caps or the player's salary threshold, so Ferran Torres automatically has to wait for Barcelona to sell Dembele and other players or some high-paid Barcelona players want to lower their salaries this season.
The classic problem that always haunts Barcelona. Even after selling Lionel Messi and even Antoine Griezmann but the salary limit in Barcelona seems to never decrease. If Barcelona wants to register Ferran Torres then a change is needed, whether it's selling some unnecessary players or just loaning them to other clubs. Barcelona signing Ferran Torres is something that is quite surprising because we all know that Barcelona's financial condition is not in good health. True, barcelona which this season has had financial problems of course surprised many people by successfully buying torres from manchester city, this may not like be what they did when they signed aguero for free last summer, it's not a half-hearted barcelona to buy ferran torres at a price which is quite expensive even though they have to make a purchase scheme with 4 payments, the arrival of Torres does not immediately solve Barcelona problems, because now they are actually getting a new problem, namely the threat of not being able to play Torres due to being constrained by the large salary burden of their squad. |
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The competition kick starts in few days, six day if I'm correct.
Hope y'all had your bets down for Egypt ?
They have got Salah, with his pace and goal scoring abilities, they can win this.
I just can't stop anticipating for the African Cup of Nations.
The African Cup of Nations will start on January 9 to February 6, 2022, it seems that there will be many teams in the European leagues who will experience a cripple in their squad because they have to release players to participate in the african cup, so far I think if the English league clubs will definitely get more impact big because many African players are currently playing in the English league, I think Cameroon seems to be a strong candidate to win the Africa Cup of Nations, because apart from being the host, their players this year are also very good and evenly distributed in every line and Cameroon join in Group A of course it will make it easier for them due to getting a relatively weaker opponent. |
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Hopefully the Manchester United v Wolves match won't be cancelled today... Wolves have a lot of losses in the main squad, so I think Man U won't find it hard to beat them! They need this win to catch up with West Ham and Arsenal!
Winning this against Wolverhampton tonight Will be the best to push them a bit higher. They having two games at hand, achieving six points won't be bad one. I do think they have a chance of going into the top four teams. victory against wolves is very important for manchester united to be able to continue to maintain their consistency this season, in the previous match manchester managed to beat wolves with a score of 0-1 at wolves home, of course now, the situation in manchester has been different since there was a change of manager in manchester from Solskjaer to Ralf Rangnick, of course there will be a change in the scheme and way of playing at this time, so I don't think Wolves will be an obstacle for manchester to get 3 points at old trafford and I bet on the match today if manchester wins by a goal margin of more than 2. |
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Rayo Vallecano loss yesterday to the Host Athletico Madrid...but then they can still fight hard and maintain Europa league position.
They can be very good at times, but yesterday wasn't for them, Athletico Madrid seems to have lost a slot.
Glad to see them back in good shape and performance.
Atletico madrid who suffered 4 consecutive defeats in the league finally got back to winning ways by beating rayo, athletico success in defeating rayo also made their current position rise and managed to occupy the top 4 position with 32 points, I think athletico madrid must no longer lose points if they want to stay in the champions league zone, because barcelona which is also slowly starting to rise is only one strip below Atletico current position. |
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Lionel Messi has also joined the players who have tested positive for covid-19. And this is really bad for the PSG side of course. Neymar and Messi both are absent now. But thankfully, they are in a very safe condition in the Ligue 1. Mbappe would still be able to carry the team in the next games. However, I hope to see none of their biggest players absent for their CL matchup. Otherwise, this would be a huge opportunity for Real Madrid to eliminate them.
The champions league game is still very long, about 1 month away, and I think for players who are affected by covid now maybe they will only miss 2 or 3 matches because of the current quarantine, and of course they have enough time to recover before facing real madrid later, apart from that With the current PSG squad, it will certainly not be difficult for PSG to play a league match even without Messi, especially in the next few matches PSG will not face a team that is too strong in the league. |
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I had a wonderful time while watching the Chelsea v Liverpool match today. I was hoping for a very competitive match even though Liverpool seemed as the favourite team. Chelsea still succeeded in staying in the match despite being left 2-0 behind by Liverpool first. This is not an easy achievement against teams like Liverpool, Manchester City etc.. Because they have a really strong system and it isn't easy to break it. As Chelsea were successful to do it, we watched an unforgettable match and an unforgettable goal by Kovacic too. And Manchester City must be celebrating this result also. The match really went quite attractively and showed an impressive game from both teams, even though Liverpool played without Klopp, they looked quite organized in attack and defense, as well as Chelsea, strengthened not by Lukaku, still who were able to show that they were still dangerous, with the draw that chelsea and liverpool got yesterday will certainly make Manchester city fans quite happy right now, because apart from manchester city being able to get full points against arsenal, with a draw that got by chelsea and liverpool automatically the position of manchester city is quite safe right now because have a point difference that is quite far from the second position. |
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Juventus - Napoli game is on the way now. This is another superb game of the new week. I don't see any team being the clear favourite side. Neither Juventus nor Napoli are much stronger than the other. If we were able to see the Napoli at the beginning of the season, then they would be definitely the favourite here by far. But their recent performance is really poor. And Juventus are on the rise these days. But they are also having some problems on scoring goals from time to time. A draw seems to be fair for a game like this I think.
That game is probably among the most important games Juventus has to play this season. Losing it would be a really huge setback in regards to the champions league qualification while winning it would put them into a decent position for the rest of the season. As Napoli was a good bit weaker recently, I think that Juventus is a favorite in this one. Juventus have a chance to cut the current point gap from napoli if they manage to win the match later, juventus who have performed quite well in the last few matches will surely be eyeing the winning record in that match, especially if see napoli has been unstable in their last few matches, but I don't think Napoli will let Juventus beat them that easily, especially since all the teams are currently in the Christmas break and of course have enough time to recover the players condition and I think the match against Juventus later could be the start of Napoli's revival. |
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In the last match against Monchengladbach, Bayern lost as hell, so this is also a big problem. It's hard to say whether the last loss was caused only by the weak day of Bayern or Monchengladbach found a way to destroy great game of the Bundesliga leader. We'll find out soon.  but it's not on Bundesliga, They played on DFB Pokal which I think Bayern is not seriously for that title which makes them doesn't continue to the next 16 rounds. 7 wins in the row, I believe they won't ruin this record with the team which never won in 5 games, furthermore, they play at home, of course, they will reply the lost with a victory that possible with 5 different goals also. When I saw the results of the Bayern Munich match which was defeated by Monchengladbach with a fairly large score at that time in the DFB Cup, I also thought that Bayern Munich was starting to be inconsistent at that time, but it's true as @blue Snow say if maybe Bayern Munich did not focus on the DFB Cup this season , but what amazes me is that with the main squad that was playing at the time, they could concede quite a lot of goals, isn't that a strange thing? It seems that this season Bayern Munich will only focus on the champions league and bundesliga, so let's just say if they deliberately lose in the DFB cup to anticipate a tight match schedule . |
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Xavi speaks out. The FC Barcelona coach has conceded the club can't enlist new signing Ferran Torres. Because of their monetary condition they need to sell players in January before they can handle him. Financial crisis makes them trouble to sign any further arrangement, they should have serious to solve this out. The downfall of Barcelona still continues, yet there is no sign to overcome from the situation.
As I have read at a sports news site today Barcelona closed a deal with Ferran Torres for initial costs of 46$ million euros, so he is already part of the club, despite the financial crises Barcelona is facing. On the other hand he isn't going to play yet as he is recovering from a lesion. Xavi is hopeful Torres can make the difference for Barcelona in versatile attack positions and said a lot of positive things about his personality, will and skills. Ferran torres actually finished his medical test a few days ago in barcelona, indirectly he has become one of the current barcelona players, but there are a few obstacles that prevent him from being introduced to the public, currently Barcelona have not been able to register ferran torres to la the league because it is still constrained by salary caps or the player's salary threshold, so Ferran Torres automatically has to wait for Barcelona to sell Dembele and other players or some high-paid Barcelona players want to lower their salaries this season. |
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We are going to be back with a really competitive game I would have liked to say. But Lyon are really far from their old times now. In this season, their performance is so inadequate that they are having big problems. They are at the 13th place now. Actually they lost only 5 times in 18 league matches which is a good thing. But they got so many draws like 7 times. They need to do something to fix this. This time, they are even facing PSG. Maybe they will lose or draw with them in this one too but I hope to see them starting to recover later.
The teams we wanted to see at the top of the points table have very poor performance. The performance of Lille, Lens, and Lyon is very poor. Their standings are not so good and, they are ranked 8, 9 and 13 in the points table respectively. Marseille and Nice, on the other hand, are playing very well. I think, they can't compete for the title though, yet they failed to improve themselves a lot. The only competition they have is to penetrate and defend to get a position into the champions league zone, actually I also hope this season lille can again break the dominance or at least give a fierce resistance to PSG like they did last season, but in reality they are again having a bad season by dropping to 8th place and even it seems to be in the champions league zone will be a difficult thing for them to get in end season. |
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Manchester City performance this season is indeed quite impressive and even they have only experienced 2 defeats and got 2 draws from the 20 matches they have played, with a difference of 8 points of course it is not an easy thing to catch up now for chelsea and liverpool if they can't played consistently in the rest of the games, although there is still a chance to stop the dominance of manchester city but I think it will be very small to happen.
at the moment they are so superior and are racing themselves in the title race this season. their wistreak still continues today. Arsenal are now doing quite well and it's very different to see them at the start of the league starting now. I hope the massacre of 5 goals without reply in the first game of the league doesn't happen again now. although indeed the arsenal is quite good at the moment but man.city is something very big and they might not even be able to beat. they should at least take 1 point when this match Manchester city managed to leave their rivals quite far in the league at the moment, although their current position is not safe enough to lock the title, but being 8 points behind is not an easy thing to being chased by another team in the English league, especially considering the performance of manchester city what's amazing right now, tomorrow match will be a duel between 2 big teams in England and I think Manchester City might not have trouble getting points when playing at the Emirates Stadium later, yes indeed Arsenal have started to improve in their last few games, but if you look at the performance when Arsenal faced the big teams, so far they are really really bad...! |
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Almost time the start again, 1 week. Thursday 6th JanuaryBologna 11:30 Inter Milan Sampdoria 11:30 Cagliari Lazio 13:30 Empoli Spezia 13:30 Verona Atalanta 15:30 Torino Sassuolo 15:30 Genoa AC Milan 17:30 Roma Salernitana 17:30 Venezia Fiorentina 19:45 Udinese Juventus 19:45 Napoli Source: https://www.skysports.com/serie-a-fixturesAlready 2 big games at the restart, the last call for Juventus with Napoli, and no more possible fails for Milan with Roma. Against Bologna, Inter Milan have a chance to widen their distance from Napoli and AC Milan, I think the match against Bologna will be an easy match for Inter Milan, while the match between Napoli and Juventus will be very difficult to predict but I will try to bet on the result draw in the match, as well as the match between milan and roma, it looks like both teams will also not score many goals in that match. |
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Right now Lukaku is in an uncomfortable position with chelsea and even during an interview with sky sport he candidly said that if tuchel current coaching system at chelsea makes him unhappy, and he said he really misses inter milan right now, Looks like Lukaku really want to go back to Inter Milan, but it seems like the Inter Milan fans are rejecting Lukaku to return to the Giuseppe Meazza at this time and I think the words that the Inter Milan fans have said are really quite hurtful: "Don't care about those who run away in the rain, What matters is who survives the storm, Bye Romelu." |
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