What ever dominance or not but Juventus have lock position to final Copa Italia against with Inter Milan and become the only one chance to get trophy in this season after several failure from Serie A until UEFA Champion League. I think Juventus have forget with last result on Serie A when defeating by Inter Milan last several weeks and wake up how to get top performance and chance with trophy in this season.
If Juventus can not end at the fouth position, it will be a failure for them. Coppa Italia is not a good replacement for a ticket in Champions League next season. Because the average income from Champions League is bigger than Coppa Italia and it is even more than that. Champions League is attractive cup for top players so it does affect decisions of players to accept or reject a transfer offer from a club. Juventus have 5 points more than the next club, AS Roma and they can beat Roma in this mini competition. Coppa Italia is not a must comleting task but they do want to win it obviously. |
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No one will mind if I say that Chelsea in recent games shows its not the best level of play. Arsenal, in turn, was also not so good and 3 lost games in a row will not let you lie about it. But still, Arsenal managed to show what they are capable of and 4 goals against Chelsea are a vivid example of this.
Chelsea likely lost their best concentration because of issues related to Abramovich and future of the club. What they have shown so far is good enough. With quality players they have, I agree that they can play better and get better results if they can focus better in important times. If this continues, that Arsenal and Tottenham (one of them) can move Chelsea from 3rd position in the Premier League. As far as it seems possible to me, Arsenal and Tottenham will definitely fight for the top positions in the league table.
It would be a big achievement for Arsenal because the third position will help them directly participate in group stage of Champoions League. But it is not a must achieving task for Arsenal. Third or foruth position, they still have a very successful season. |
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It is very appropriate if Barcelona crowned Xavi Hernandez as Barcelona's savior. Not as a player, but as a coach. The appointment of Xavi Hernandez was very appropriate at that time because until now Barcelona had returned to the level of a champion club even though the defeats to Cadiz and Frankfurt made people forget the extraordinary achievements of Barcelona since being handled by Xavi with less experience as a coach.
Xavi is a legendary player and is going to build up his coach career as a legendary one too. Xavi was a heart of golden Barcelona with tiki taka one decade ago. People more easily remembered Messi but they less remembered or under estimated contribution and importance of Xavi and Iniesta. The fact is Xavi and Iniesta, especially Xavi is the core of Tiki taka operations. Without Xavi, Barcelona got troubles to control match intensity and he made a lot of key passes for the club as well. |
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Just take it or leave it, Manchester United is never part of the champions league competitors again in premier league in my high opinion this season
I don't hate Manchester United but I wish that they will end this season without a ticket to either Champions League or Europa League. It will be a serious failure for them but look at it in another perspective, it is better for United to rebuild their strategy, squad and everything. If the current squad failed to win Premier League and now falling down beyind top 4, it should be better for United to rebuild their squad with many totally new players. If they buy new players for the next few seasons, they shiuld buy young ones, from 23 years old and below. the reason is because Tottenham is leading by 3 points and have one match it has not played, while having the same point above Arsenal, Arsenal has two matches to be played. Manchester United still have the same points as Arsenal but Arsenal leading with goals makes it to be on top of Manchester United on the league table and yet having two matches
Lots of disadvantage for Manchester United and you listed correct ones. If Man United can not win their matches, others are meaningless even if Arsenal or Tottenham won't have perfect performance from now till season ending. |
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Leo Messi is doing better in PSG. But the team needs to understand Messi and his own pattern of football. Mind you, when he came to PSG, he struggles really hard to score his first goal which was against Manchester city in the champions league. Perhaps, he score his first Ligue 1 goal against Nantes. Since then, his rate or probability of scoring a goal in their league games become low, rather he made massive assists that led to goals for the PSG Frontlines, Mbappe and Neymar. PSG needs to improve in the areas they are having difficulties.
The next season will probabky be the last season of Messi in Ligue 1 and it is good to see his improving performance last few months. I expect to see a better Messi next season as well as I wish more luck for him. In this season, Messi has many rejreted goals because of offside and many of his shots hit goal pillar or goal bar. It is easy to judge his performance by looking at his total goals but it is not accurate assessment if we take into consideration all mentioned missed or rejected goals. |
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5 goals at Old Trafford and 4 goals at Anfield this season and this will always be remembered by the loyal Manchester United fans. Every goal that happened in last night's game was like a show of art mentored by Thiago so that David de Gea as the best goalkeeper was helpless to see how bad Manchester United's defense was. Diaz, Mane and Mo Salah took turns dancing in front of the Manchester United goal.
Manchester United need such completely failed season to change their strategily and players. Serious failure will trigger real big changes. Else they will hesitate to do it and self-illused about their strength and what they can achieve with what they actually have. The solution, Manchester United must completely change their players next season.
I can not disagree with you because I find no reason for disagreement. Manchester United players are not too bad but they don't have confidence, strong mentality and motivation to fight seriously. What Ragnick said in press conference after the match is true. Man United are like Liverpool six seasons ago in the first one of Klopp in Anfield. What Klopp has built up in Anfield in six years are amazing. |
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Manchester United are not dependent on Ronaldo.
However if Ronaldo can not score, they hardly to score goals and harder to win matches. I am not sure it is called as dependence or what else. The main problem for Manchester United is that they do not have a specific match strategy. As a result of the coach's inexperience, they are consistently performing poorly. Moreover, Ronaldo is their main striker, but the players do not cooperate properly with Ronaldo. Bonding between players is weak. Basically these are the reasons why their overall performance is weak.
It is kind of true. Manchester United have connection problems from defense, midfield to attacking systems but they have more issues with midfield and defense systems. If they can improve those ones first, they might have better results. It is certainly that they have to improve how their attacking system works as well. It is impossible to win against Liverpool with such a poor performance. So in this match I am expecting Liverpool to win.
Almost impossible but if Liverpool have a very bad match, Manchester United can beat them because Manchester United have enough star players to take advantage of opponent's mistakes. |
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Atalanta lost and Napoli draw their game.
It is even more clear now, Inter will win the Serie A.
Prediction:
1 Inter
2 Milan
3 Napoli
4 Juve
It is not clear like that. Napoli is out of the competition but Inter Milan only have minor advantage than AC Milan. They will only turn it to real point if they win it. Next match, their opponent will be AS Roma. I know Inter Milan is considered as a stronger team here but it does not automatically bring three points to Inter Milan. AS Roma still need points to keep up their fighting with Juventus for the fourth position and they can make surprise. |
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Bayern Munich are the big favorites even though it's a big match that usually the gap in odds isn't that big, but this really shows where Bayern Munich is sure to win. But indeed, if Bayern Munich can win this match then they will soon celebrate winning the title this season, and even though the draw I think Bayern Munich will still celebrate it. Because then after they play they only have 3 matches left and with those matches remaining and the current 9 point gap, Bayern Munich's position is still irreplaceable.
It seems that Bayern is back and time of the season is going to its ending. Hence, chance for Bayern fo win Bundesliga is considerably bigger than chance of Dortmund. Both of them have good performance last few matches but it means time and current forms of two teams are not a support factor for Dortmund. Together with current gap between two clubs, title is almost reserved for Bayern.
In another news, Kahn revealed that Bayern will not buy Haaland because of consequent financial issues by the pandemic. www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/bayern-munich-erling-haaland-transfer-kahn-b1846770.html |
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If comparing the strength of both teams of course Liverpool is better and stronger it's just that the situation isn't the same Liverpool has another more important match
Liverpool have more titles to win, 4 at least now. It includes Premier League FA Cup, Champions League and they have yet sacrified any title. Challenge for them is to manage their resources approproately for last 12 matches in this season. If they do it badly, they will have risk of comoeting the season without a single title. Manchester City at least sacrificed FA Cup but it also reflects a bad management of Pep for substitutions for a long season. It is acceptable for other clubs but with a club that spent lots of miney for transfers, it is somewhat unacceptable. If Liverpool with 2nd player vs Manchester United, will you still choose Liverpool as a winner? Well we can see in the upcoming match how the coach uses strategic.
Liverpool can win it as well because Manchester United is like a tier-2 team now. So Manchester United squad with a second team of Liverpool is at same level and quality. |
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Despite losing to Cadiz at Camp Nou, the Camp Nou public must appreciate their legendary figure, namely Xavi Hernandez in rebuilding Barcelona that fell from various aspects.
Xavi has brought confidence, team working and strong desire back to Barcelona. They will havr another season without title but did Xavi return to Barcelona in order to help them win any titlr in his first season there. It is clearly that the answer is no. 15 games that went without defeat is an achievement that deserves to be given credit to a coach who has not had high flying hours in coaching a team with an extraordinary history. Losing to Cadiz with a goal scored by L. Perez will be a motivation for Barcelona players for the next game and this defeat benefits Real Madrid who need only a few points to establish themselves as La Liga champions.
Losing to Cadiz is bad but the advantage is it helps Bercelona to be more realistic on what they have, who they are and what they should improve as well as what they can achieve in this season and next one. No title in this season is not too bad and from what they have shown in latter part of the season, they might have due diligent chance to win titles in next season. |
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Agree with you, Cadiz who are in the relegation zone will have difficulty getting points from Barcelona. After losing in the Europa League, Barcelona was only able to target finishing in second place at the end of the season. I think Barcelona will easily get the three points, The mentality of Barcelona players will not be broken as a result of being eliminated from the Europa League, Cadiz will fall prey to Barcelona after they lost to Frankfurt at Camp Nou.
A long win streak of Barcelona was broken and now they have to complete this season in top 4. They have good position temporarily now but they must complete the season at as highest position as possible. It makes sense to build up their confidence and attraction to star players in the next transfer season. Xavi and Barcelona have achieved great improvement so far but to get better results, they will have to prepare for the transfer season. Begin with their ending position in this season that is important. Cadiz is a weak team and I believe in Barcelona for their win. What happened with Barcelona in Europa League is weird because Frankfurt suddenly had a great match and Barcelona made lots of mistake as well as missed some opportunities to score more goals. |
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Football is a team game, not an individual game. Ronaldo hat-trick against Norwich gave an important victory for Manchester United as well as the 60th hat-trick in Ronaldo career as a professional footballer. Of 60 hat-tricks Ronaldo has made, 50 he has created at a club level.
This hatrick helps Ronaldo to earn more money according to bonus term in his contract with Manchester United. This hattrick also helps to maintain the hope of Manchester United for the fourth position. However, it does not change two facts. Fact one, Ronaldo is older and he has more normal matches than excellent matches. Fact two, Manchester United can not achieve great things by depending on Ronaldo. They need to build up a better system especially a stronger defense. In that match, again we see how slow Maguire is. Victory over Norwich will be a good capital to face Liverpool. Manchester United got up at the right time, because in the previous match Manchester United drew 1-1 with Leicester City and lost to Everton 0-1. The victory over Norwich is a not entirely something to be proud of, because Norwich has the status as a team that occupies the bottom of the standings. However, this will be a precious memory for Ronaldo and his friends, because Manchester United is very difficult to win in the last few match.
Honestly, I don't think Manchester United will have big chance when they face Liverpool. Especially after we see how strong Liverpool are in the semi final match against Manchester City. They destroyed Manchester City and please don't underestimate Liverpool because Manchester City did not use their best squad in FA Cup. |
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In any case, Roma is a very serious opponent who is on the move now and who would also like to reduce the gap to three points from Juventus and fourth place, which entitles to the Champions League.
They are seriously to participate in Champions League after a few seasons lost it to Atalanta. Now they see better hope after the draw of Juventus. Will they be able to beat Napoli and create more pressure on Juventus? This will be a very interesting match, it's tight at the top, both teams need those 3 points, and the question is who needs them more?! Napoli lost against Fiorentina last game, they are still in the race for that first place, but the chances have definitely dropped with that defeat! If nothing else they are at the top of the table and have a safe place for the CL!
Napoli will have to say goodbye to the Scudetto if they fail in this match and Inter Milan win their unplayed match. Napoli have to complete this match with 3 points to maintain their hope to catch AC Milan and Inter Milan. If they fail, no much hope left for them. Roma is in 5th place, Lazio and Fiorentina are right behind them, they need every point they can get until the end of the championship, they have to give their best tonight!
The draw with a very equalizer from Vlahovic of Juventus gives another chance for Roma. Of course it is better for Roma if Juventus fail in that match. Anyway, it's good enough for Roma because if they win against Napoli, they will reduce difference against Juventus to 3 points only. It seems they are coming closer to Juventus and Mourinho will not want to finish this season in the fifth place. I have played both teams to score & over 3 goals! I'm not sure who will win today, I expect an open game and I think there will be goals on both sides! In the past games, both teams are scoring in every game, so I think my bet for this game is pretty nice! Good luck to everyone!
Probably because both teams have attacking tactics. You read it right, Napoli is very attacking in history so does Roma. This season, even Mourinho joined and managed Roma, we have been witnessing a very goal productive season from Roma. So I expect to have an exciting and goal-productive match |
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Both teams played completely defensively here. The Marseille players did not attack much. Perhaps the goal of both teams was to draw the match. But after leading 2-1 in the first half, PSG played more defensively in the second half. Marseille, on the other hand, possessed the ball but was reluctant to attack. In the 90th minute, they were able to make only one on-target shot. PSG ensured their title win in this match.
It's a minimum win for PSG but it is enough for them to move more closely to the title. Neymar again scored and he is the best scorer among foreigner players in Ligue 1. Mbappe scored 1 goal and prolonged his happy period in the end of this season. When Mbappe joined PSG, he was not a biggest star in Paris but now he is. PSG lives with his goals and assists and I can not imagine how they will play without Mbappe. Messi again has a very unlucky match with 2 rejected goals. Next week, if PSG win and Marseille won't win, the title will belong to PSG. |
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Usually free kicks from the right of the penalty box are more often executed by Bruno Fernandez, but Cristiano Ronaldo's decision to take free kicks was quite right with amazing goal scored and he managed to keep Manchester United's chances of finishing in 4th position. Manchester United defender Harry Maguire without missing joke on every games, I don't expected why head coach keep trust with him as captain team and become starting eleven on every match although with several blunder. Most funny when his leg catch Paul Pogba faced and looks serious happening to Pogba although hope he can back for next week match.
That free kick is good for Ronaldo than Bruno because the distance is far so Ronaldo with his more powerful shot is better. In addition, the open space in front of free kick spot is good for Ronaldo because he does not have to create amazing curve to score. Ronaldo is not too good with this type of free kick. Eventually he scored with a rocket shot and good support from three teammates to create a fake fence and then turn it into a great open hole for his shot. Tim Krul touched the ball but it is not enough because Ronaldo shot is too strong. This win helps Manchester United keeps up their hope for the fourth position because Arsenal and Tottehnham failed. 3 points difference than Spurs is not too big difference. |
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I was really shocked to see that Bayern Munich actually did not win in the Champions League. Everyone thought the match is going to be easy for Bayern Munich but it was proved to be otherwise. but I think that is not going to affect them too much when they are playing in Bundesliga and they will eventually end up winning the league title. They have a really good lead and they are not going to just throw that away.
It looks like an unlucky draw and final defeat of Bayern in Champions League but think wider, it is systematic fall of Bayern. Let's see how many key players left the club latest years? Thiago Alcantara, David Alaba, Mat Hummels and Bayern failed to replace those players. Now, they are facing with failure of Lewandowski contract renew. Ageing is another big issue in Bayern because Mueller is getting older and some other players too. They must sign contracts with some new and younger players like Haaland. Will they successfully make it with Dortmund and Haaland? With an acquisition like this, I personally really believe that Dortmund will remain in that place, because currently in the Bundesliga there is no team that is so stable. In fact, Bayern Munich this season got a surprise with a draw and loss to a mediocre team and also, rumors of a move for Haaland which I thought would come true. So, I'm sure next season the Bundesliga will have a tougher competition, because the big teams "maybe" will lose key players.
Bayern have problems but Dortmund at least are not stronger than Bayern. Consequently Dortmund still have less points than Bayern and I believe they will have another season behind Bayern. 9 points in the temporary difference and 6 matches left, chance for Dortmund to flip the standing is too small. |
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To bad for pep Guadiola to loss two important players at this important stage of the season, Kyle walker and Kevin Debruyne will surely be missed, Jürgen Klopp rest places in there game against Benefica because they have an advantage in the first leg with a good scoreline,so we don't expect Pep Guadiola to do the same because he has a strong team to play and you can go to Spain to play Atletico Madrid without your star players,I believe Manchester City will cope without them.
It is a big match in FA Cup but if Pep feels unwell about Manchester City player resource for Premier League and Champions League, especially Champions League, he will sacrifice FA Cup. Ironically, with huge transfer budget spent for the club so far, they already have a very deep and high quality substitution players on bench. Therefore, even if they don't play that match with some key players, they should win it. Pep will be ready to leave De Bruyne on bench and protect him for Champions League semi final with a very strong opponent, Real Madrid. |
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At first I also thought Barcelona would get away easily. But frankfrut performed beyond my expectations. They effectively rely on quick counterattacks. Barcelona were made difficult by the scheme. Moreover, barca is actually the host today. They lost the same to Madrid at UCL but madrid qualified while Barca did not. Perhaps this is karma for Xavi for insulting Madrid's losing game at the Santiago Bernabeu.
It's a strange defeat from Barcelona but we can not deny some magnificent shots and goals from Frankfut. I believe those scorers will hardly to score again in similar situation with their shots. So Frankfut did it well but Barcelona was too unlucky to be conceded 3 goals like that. In Barcelona side, they would have scored more than 2 goals if they have had more lucky. Anyway, generally Barcelona can not blame on Frankfut or their unluckiness, they are responsible for this lose. It reveals the truth that despite of some good improvements from Xavi management and winter transfer, Barcelona still need to improve more in order to get their strength back to top level in Europe and La Liga. |
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Monday 18th AprilNapoli 18:00 Roma Atalanta 20:00 Verona Source: https://www.skysports.com/serie-a-fixturesThe biggest game of the day it will Napoli Roma, for the rest it should be easy wins and because of it someone will lose points for sure  Roma has a successful quarter final in Conference Cup. I am surprised to know (after their win in this Cup) that Roma has 3 semi finals in the Europe Cups in last 5 seasons: 1 in Champions League, 1 in Europa League and 1 in Conference cup. The match with Napoli will be important for Roma to hold their hope for the fourth position. They have yet given their hope up and 5 points are not too far from Juventus. If they can do their job well, they can hope with some mistakes from Juventus. Milan has two draws against the teams who are really not that strong in my opinion. So, I really don't know if they are going to be able to win the next one.
But if you look at the positives I think Milan does not have any losses in the last five and they are also going to face a team that is in the relegation zone so it should be easy for them to win this match but it then again we all said that for the last two matches of Milan.
AC Milan actually have issues with their attacking system and ability to score goals. They controlled matches, shot a lot but failed to score winning goal. It's bad because now they are 1 point more than Napoli and Inter Milan but Inter Milan have one more match to play. If Inter Milan win it, AC Milan will fall under Inter Milan that is a very bad situation. |
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