Barcelona's team has performed brilliantly in La Liga for several seasons but have not been able to show their best in the Champions League. But with the kind of performance the team is doing at the beginning of this season, it can be expected that Barcelona will show something great to the fans in the Champions League this time.

Afghanistan's batsmen set a target of 301 runs to Pakistan in what should have been a win for Afghanistan. The bowling is quite strong compared to the batting of Afghanistan so if the batsmen can score 300 runs in a match then the bowlers must try their best to win the match. 227 of Afghanistan's 300 runs came from the opening partnership of the two batsmen. We clearly saw in the first match that if the opening two batsmen do not get good runs, the rest of the team's batsmen cannot get good runs. It can be said that the third match will go in Pakistan's favor if they could not score 300 runs against Pakistan. Afghanistan created a big chance in the second match, hopefully Pakistan will not give Afghanistan such a chance in the third match.

I agree that Leipzig got not the best start into the season and at there last first game against Leverkusen.
But for the todays evening game between Leipzig at home about Stuttgart we will see another Leipzig playing team ,
even the performance from Stuttgart last week was awesome , i think that Leipzig will win this match today with 2:1.
It will be not an easy match but a home game is normaly some advantage.

I got the impression that these rumors are being spread by representatives of PSG to put pressure on Mbappe (but it’s not clear due to what - the reaction of the fans maybe?). There is no confirmation of these negotiations, and judging by the fact that PSG once again announced the desired amount that they want to receive for Mbappe (250 million), this sounds like an invitation to all interested clubs (in fact, only to Real Madrid, but Real Madrid is not interested in such nonsense).

Barcelona don't seem to be included in this circle, I wonder why anyone still believes Barcelona will be a title candidate team in the Champions League this season. Because the fact is, that Barcelona in the last two seasons always failed in the Champions League. Also Barcelona not only failed in the Champions League, but Barcelona also failed in the Europa League and obviously, it was a bad achievement for Barcelona. Although yeah, Barcelona has a star player in the squad but still, Barcelona still does not have the quality or ability to be a candidate for the title in this Champion League this season. Lol!

In my opinion, I think the Saudi league is not just looking for names but they are also considering European players who have good capacity and also of course also have a good image. If we look at Lukaku, he is a controversial player at the moment and because the Saudi league doesn't want to be laughed at by many people just because it managed to bring in Lukaku. It's clear that even though the Saudi league is spending a lot of money, they are still considering the negative impact it has. So I think it's the right decision for the Saudi league not to bring in Lukaku, after what happened to him in the Inter and Juventus transfer conflicts so far.

I think that Chelsea in this game will "pay back" for previous failures, so I bet on them with a handicap of -1. Home game against a rookie, what else do they need to win confidently? If they fail this time, then I don't know what else they need to win. Luton conceded 4 goals from Brighton, so even the odds of 10 seem unjustified to me to bet on them.

Gabriel Jesus returns at a very important time for Arsenal when they are about to have a series of tough games against big premier league clubs like Manchester United after Fulham. Even if Jesus cannot play the full time, there is Nketiah that can of support and still score. Before the Manchester United game, he will be more fit to play full time. Arsenal will need to win the game before they play Manchester United so that they will be more in a comfortable position. Manchester United and Arsenal games are always tense, there is a huge rivalry between both teams, and the players always try to put up the best performance. That is a tough game to expect, of course after this weekend.

Its good news for Arsenal after Gabriel Jesus back from injury and he will play for upcoming match against Fulham in Premier League, got injured when pre season match and Gabriel Jesus absent two matches with Arsenal and he has chance to make debut in Premier League this season face Fulham. Mikel Arteta have many option with attacking line after Gabriel Jesus recovering from injury, current Arsenal attacking line right now have Eddie Nketiah, Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz.

However, Gabriel Jesus not automatically will fill regular position because he still needs time for adapting after recovering from injury, possibility upcoming match he will get about 20 until 30 minutes for playing and Arteta won't hurry up push him to play until 90  minutes.

As Afghanistan's opening pair have batted brilliantly, they should have at least given a target of more than 320/330. 300 runs is not enough to win yet. If the bowlers perform well, a win of 300 runs is possible. But the problem is that Pakistan's batsmen are very experienced. Pakistan's batsmen will take advantage of such a flat pitch very well. Afghanistan's bowlers are talented enough but they are unlikely to do well against Pakistan's batsmen.
Pakistan batsmen are batting very carefully. They collected only 23 runs in 5 overs. They know very well that they will have no problem winning this match if they don't lose quick wickets. This is why they are batting slowly even though the target is big.

Some more negative news is that Real Madrid wants to make a final offer shortly before the transfer market closes because that doesn't give PSG a lot of room for negotiation. If this is true, there is still a chance that PSG will not nominate Mbappe for the game against Lens and if they do, Mbappe wouldn't dare to play his best and perhaps risk an injury. I think we won't have a final answer until the very last minute of this transfer period has passed. For PSG Mbappe is a critical player as they won't get any better obviously without him. But maybe it's better for them to finally have an answer to all of this then to be in the headlines every single day. But the tactical considerations by Real Madrid make sense. PSG would have to make a decision whether they take a big loss next year or go for the money this year and put a full stop to this story.

300 used to be a daunting target in the last decade but not in recent times, especially on the flat decks.

This scoreline might look good, considering the Afghans were up against a quality bowling lineup but IMO they wasted a good start and they had a chance to touch a 320-ish target.

So, not sure if it's a winning score and it shouldn't be too tough for Pakistan. Unless the spin trio comes to the rescue again.

Things have really changed in football and the female side particularly. Like in the past Nigeria didn't have astonishing performance in the world stage beating Australia while england had a narrow win over them. I think what has contributed this positive change that have given fans something to relish on is the soccer tourism if I may call it that because we have some players who are club mate in Europe and America just like it is in the male side unlike when it was dominated by one club side.

according to the predictions that I have analyzed even though the Bayern Munich and Augsburg matches will be competitive matches because Augsburg have beaten Munich but that was in the past and now we see the perfect line up and also there are quality players in the line up on the one hand the match will take place on The Allianz Arena, which gives Munich a bigger chance to win even while playing at home to Munich, has never been beaten but always beat Augsburg.
it is very certain and easy to see if this match Bayern Munich will win and taking advantage of this match to my advantage I bet all in on this match there is no doubt.

I don't simply know what you are talking about, Bayern Munich is different from the feat you describe here, they started well, I see nothing against their last match, it went well. Maybe you don't know what you are talking about, Bayern had 4 goals against Werder that had nothing and they played remarkably well as well. Still, I saw a tough game ahead for them when they met Augsburg. If the club could be serious is playing Bayern, it would not be an easy win for them despite the high odds for them.
Augsburg had a good play with Monchengladbach, though it ended in an equalizer but it was a very good one. All they need is to work well on their defence, it seems too porous as they might have won the match if not for that.

That's showing if galatasaray has even more solid defensive line compared with molde. I saw that from the stats if molde had been made 6 goal attempts, but only two were successfully converted into the goal. I believe galatasaray had more than 90% chance to win the second match. Molde needs a miracle to make it happen. The club had no choice other than to use the offensive strategy since the game was starting. Im feeling so confident to pick galatasaray instead of molde for the second leg.
The chance to get ez money is very big right now. We can see that as an opportunity. Just hope that molde will not be lucky enough during the second leg.

Arsenal is going good, 2 wins in first 2 games. They didn't concede a goal even though they completed the match without Tomiyasu. They are looking definitely as good as last year. However, they need to increase the variety in the attack. They should shoot more accurately. Names other than Nketiah and Saka should also score, especially midfielders should contribute to the score.
Manchester City looks very good this season as well. Arsenal need to do something to make a difference. They couldn't handle the pressure last season and made a lot of mistakes in the last weeks. I hope they have learned from those mistakes and won't repeat them this season.

Lol it's amazing that fans have started commenting about Kane beating Lewandowski  record, I mean it's not impossible but come one Kane just got into the squad and needs to adapt very well into they system and maybe score a hat-trick in like 3-4 matches and several braces to meet up Lewandowski's record of 46goals in a season, well he's proven himself in Premier league when he almost broke the Alan Shearer all time goal scoring record in England and he's a player that could get up to 30 or more goals in a season and doing same in Bayern Munich might not be a difficult task for him that's if he remains in good form.
 Musiala has been a very good player a  prospect even while in the academy and has performed well for both Club and Country so I won't be surprised if he has a very good performance this season because that's what's expected of young prospects, to get better as they grow older, Bayern Munich would be more interested in the Champions league this season and I believe that's why they've bought some champions league experienced players like Kim for example to help challenge better this season.

Pochetino should be able to do that. He was given very abundant funds, he was given freedom of transfer. He should have many chances to make the player of his dreams. With Tottenham he was always in the top 7 so there is great hope he can do better with Chelsea. But indeed, as long as he has been a coach, no major championship title can be obtained.

Afghan batting has been in very poor shape for quite some time. Their bowlers are very popular across the various franchise T20 leagues. But for some unknown reason, they don't even have a single quality batsman. Hashmatullah Shahidi and Rahmanullah Gurbaz have featured in a few franchise leagues, but these players are inconsistent. Ideally, given that Afghanistan is being gifted with such talented bowlers (Rashid, Noor, Mujib.etc), they should be able to perform well in ODI cricket. But everytime, their poor batting is costing them matches.