For now, the bookie is giving odds @ 3.70 on Lens for the match against PSG at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens' home ground. while PSG with odds of 1.89. there is something a little strange for me referring to this bet, although the odds will change before the match is held.
Apart from that, I haven't received any information regarding this match. so, we can wait and research before this match is held. however, on paper PSG is far superior to Lens. even though this match will be held at home to Lens, it will not be easy for Haise's team to provide fierce resistance to PSG in the match. but at least, Lens was able to recover and is currently in 7th place in the standings. not that bad, considering this team doesn't have a squad that has the same depth as the French League giants. last season, Lens was able to compete closely, one of the reasons being that they didn't have a tight schedule. they only compete in Ligue 1 and the Copa de France. this season, Lens took part in the highest caste competition, namely the Champions League, although in the end they were eliminated in the group phase and dropped to the Europa League. even then, they have to go through the playoffs phase first. which means, this season Franck Haise's troops are really being tested. and yeah, as we know and have seen, Lens is unable to maintain its consistency and performance. for me it's normal, because this team doesn't have enough competitive depth.

On the PSG side, their progress in the Domestic League can be said to be on the right track. after several weeks of winning, PSG was finally stopped by Lille with their winning record because the match ended in a draw. however, PSG was still able to continue its winning streak in the following two matches. in the next 3 days, PSG will play an away match against Lens. for now, I won't speculate too far ahead of this match. moreover, Lens performance is currently starting to improve. of the last 5 matches they played, Lens lost the last match to Nice. and we'll see how these two teams meet. will Lens be able to hold a draw, it will be interesting for us to wait.

As far as I have observed and followed, Benzema was injured and missed several of his matches with Al Ittihad. in the 19 matches played by Al Ittihad, Benzema only played 15 matches with his team. plus, the system implemented by the previous coach did not suit Benzema's playing style. yeah, as some rumors have reported that Benzema doesn't get along with Nuno Santos. it seems that Benzema doesn't like the system implemented by the coach who previously managed Al Ittihad.
now, Marcelo Gallordo is in charge of Al Ittihad. at least Al Ittihad's new coach is bringing an offensive system, and Benzenma is returning to playing as a pure striker or center forward.

IMO, Benzema can actually still be relied on even though he is 36. the problem is, this team is not filled with potential supporting players. in the end, Benzema's performance has not really improved so far. I think it's not just Benzema's problem if Al Ittihad wants improvement. Ideally, club management must bring in several newcomers who can be relied on. good in terms of scoring goals, as well as contributing to helping Bemzema as a goal in his team's squad. which means, Al Ittihad must bring in several wingers who are quite competent and can be relied on. thus, Al Ittihad still has a chance of at least finishing in the top four of the Saudi Pro League. Well, let's see, this competition still has a break before it starts again.

Konyaspor may be the worst managed football team in the last two years. They fired a successful coach like İlhan Palut from the team, and the team has been playing very badly ever since. There was no football player left who could play well, and the coaches were not successful either. In fact, İlhan Palut was performing quite well and made even a weak team dream of Europe, but after losing a few unfortunate points, the president of Konyaspor sent İlhan Palut from the team. He left the presidency a year later.

Of course, during this period, Konyaspor, one of the best teams in the league, became one of the worst teams.

The result is clear in the last match. They embarrassed everyone by conceding 7 goals

I just added Benfica and Sporting to my multi bet, if I had only placed the 3 big Portuguese teams in a multi bet the odds would have been very low and with a great risk of me losing my bet, this is because Porto's game against braga will be a game with the risk of a draw and is very unpredictable, today's port is not that very reliable port of the past where if it were in the past they would win this game against braga and these two teams don't have much difference in confrontations between them, the Porto won 8 times and Braga won 5 times. If it were just this scenario I might not consider the possibility of a draw, but these two teams have already had 5 draws in direct confrontations and in their last games against other teams both teams had a draw

So in my opinion the chances of seeing a draw in this game are very high. It's funny that both teams in the last 5 games had 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat and only have a difference of 2 points, Braga and Porto also did badly when they played against Benfica and Sporting. These two teams are at the same level. but Porto is being seen as the favorite, in my opinion, given the value of the odds, it would be worth making a single bet, but placing a multi bet would be a risk for me. If I change my mind and want to bet on Porto, first I'll watch the game a little and then I'll decide what I'll do. But I've already made my bet for this weekend. Here is my bet:


I believe that Sporting and Benfica will win in their games, my concern in this bet is in the Leverkusen game, which despite being a team that is doing well may have some difficulties in their game, but as for other games in this bet I believe that They don't cause me much uncertainty. Also, at the odds of 5.00, the risk I'm taking is worth it, because if I win, it would give me a profit that would allow me to place 4 bets with higher odds without me incurring losses if I lost all 4 of my next bets. I would still have my capital to bet again if I lost all of the next 4 bets.

Yeah indeed Jadon Sancho transfer to Borussia Dortmund is going to have a significant impact on his football career because Borussia Dortmund will give him the opportunity to initiate what he is capable of playing, although Jadon Sancho did not perform too well in Manchester United because of there ways of playing and coach pattern but I have a strong feeling that Jadon Sancho is going to be an assets for Borussia Dortmund, perhaps his performance will just look like Haaland performance, although he was playing very well on Borussia Dortmund when he was transferred to Manchester City he discovered his real potential so I believe that's what may likely happen to Jadon Sancho coming to Borussia Dortmund.

The match was actually quite cold and in fact both teams often failed in their attacks until the 40th minute, the number of attacks that failed proved that there were only a few opportunities that were able to be created by both teams in the first half of the match, Milan began to increase the intensity of attacks towards the end of the first half but unfortunately which goal was scored by Leao in the 45th minute, it didn't last long because it only lasted 2 minutes until Atlanta was able to equalize the score at 1-1 at the end of injury time, Milan controlled almost 62% of the ball but actually looked even more defeated in terms of creating opportunities from atlanta, so in the end the score 2-1 was the end of the match, Milan defeat today also made Milan fail to take revenge for the 3-2 defeat in the previous match in week 15 of Serie A this season, Atlanta victory of course made Atlanta steps towards the Italian Cup final even more open and I think the match between Atlanta vs Fiorentina will be very fierce because both of them have fairly balanced statistics every time they meet.

I read on some news said that if chelsea is considering sacking him too. Pochettino is still repeating the same mistakes again and again. How many times he has been targeting by the fans caused by his inconsistency in taking a good decision making for the club. People are also feeling tired of him. Chelsea needs someone who can properly analyze the condition of club anytime. Someone that can at least put the players into the right position and does less experiment to the club unlike pochettino.

I thought that pochettino was good, but it is a big no for chelsea after it have seen what he has done in the club. Chelsea is still stuck in the same place, and that is it. I see no point in defending him right now.
Pochettino has made too many mistakes and it can't be accepted. The bad decision making by pochettino has been trhowing away so many opportunities got by the club.
Do you think it's good to keep him much longer when chelsea has not made any progress since he was coming to the club? The match against middles told us how bad pochettino was in the decision making.

Well, let's look forward to what round AS Roma will qualify because yes, at least great expectations also occurred when Lukaku joined the AS Roma squad . Therefore, it does not seem wrong if there is still hope for AS Roma because basically AS Roma also has a great coach and also has a squad that is not bad at all. Although AS Roma still failed to compete in the top zone in the Serie A standings but ya, at least Mourinho still got the success of bringing AS Roma to get good results in European competition . Because indeed,anything can still happen because of course all the teams playing in this knockout phase will maximize the chance they have to qualify and advance further.

Chelsea needs a center forward who has more quality, is established and can be relied on. if Phoce only relies on Nicolas Jackson as their goal getter, they will find it difficult to achieve their targets this season. I'm not saying that Nicolas Jackson is a sticker who lacks potential, but it seems that Chelsea needs a truly established player in their attack line. Meanwhile for Nicolas Jackson, maybe he needs adaptation and more flying hours to reach his level of play. after all, Nicolas Jackson is a young player, so there is still plenty of time to develop his talent.

At the same time, Poche needs more than that so that his squad can be consistent and win lots of wins. plus, achieved something they targeted this season. at least, Chelsea is one of the elite teams in the Premier League and it seems like finishing in the top four is their target. To be honest, I don't watch Chelsea games that often. however, referring to the statistics for each match, their performance is really unstable. IMO, Chelsea actually has several players who have quality and can be relied on, but not all of them. moreover, Chelsea is currently dominated by young players, at least they need established players. plus, Poche must try and find ways for his team to improve its performance. if not, his position as Chelsea coach will be at stake.

Real Mardrid's game against Atletico Madrid was a game that had many funny moments, with 8 goals scored in this game, and we could see some goals being scored in a very funny way. starting with antonio rudiger's own goal, that goal made me laugh a lot, and when I thought that there wouldn't be any more goals of that comical type, came joselu's goal which was also a goal that made me laugh a lot, I even thought that there wouldn't be any more goals like that until Brahim Diaz's goal came, which was another goal that made me laugh a lot, the departure of Atlético Madrid's goalkeeper made space open for that counter attack, but the funniest part is that the Atletico Madrid player atletico madrid and the atletico madrid goalkeeper were ahead of the real madrid player and even so the real madrid player was faster and reached the ball first and shot at the goal and scored the fifth goal

it was a game in which real madrid's defense made a lot of mistakes, normally real madrid has been a team with an excellent defense, but in that game they conceded 3 goals when they could have avoided them, but as real madrid's attack has been very effective they managed score a lot of goals to the point of winning the game, but looking at the opponent in that game, which was Atlético Madrid who are not doing well this season, I expected that Real Madrid would be able to win this game without having any major difficulties. but unfortunately they won with difficulty, they were close to losing the game

It is true that Henderson cannot score many goals because his dominant position is more defensive and in every match he plays he is always in the middle position, Henderson cannot find gaps to go forward and get assists to score goals.
It also shame for players like Henderson who were previously with Liverpool and if he hadn't moved, maybe now he would have had winning party and had chance of winning the title.
Al-Ettifaq is in 8th place and of course this is also the reason why Henderson cannot perform well enough.

It is difficult to maintain self-confidence if he himself is not happy or does not believe in the team he is playing for.
So that why Firmino is heavily linked with rumors of him returning to play with Liverpool because Salah himself is key player who might leave Liverpool, but it is not yet clear whether there will be an extension like in 2021.

And there is still quite lot of time left for each team to prepare for the match, it is clear that if they lose in two legs of the match they will be eliminated from the UCL competition.
In the Manchester City vs Copenhagen match, it is clear that Manchester City will be the favorite and in the first and second leg matches, Manchester City will definitely have the advantage.
Even though the first leg will be home match for Copenhagen, I sure that Manchester City can still win it and for the second leg of course Manchester City will have another big victory because they have home match.

With the return of the main players, Pep can use the perfect composition of players like he helped Manchester City win three competitions last season.
For the Premier League itself, Newcastle is still not great opponent for Manchester City and of course all conveniences can be obtained when very perfect squad is well structured.

If you don't look at the development of League 1 over several seasons, most people might think that Lyon is a weak club, but actually they are not a weak club, they are just unlucky this season and it could be said that this is Lyon's worst season because they have to fight to secure their position so as not to be relegated, and I think Lyon can still secure a position in the middle of the standings because this season is still long and Lyon still has the opportunity to recover from their current downturn.

I think it's too far if you say Lyon can secure 3rd place so they can advance to the Champions League, they can just get out of the relegation zone which is a lucky thing for Lyon because they are fighting for that and I think their focus is not on the Champions League or league competitions. Europe because their current focus is on improving their overall performance so as not to be relegated.
I hope that after good results in the last few matches, Lyon can continue their good performance so that they are not underestimated by other clubs.

You're right, this season does seem different, with Liverpool being one of the favorites. In the past, Sevilla has been a dominant force in the Europa League. The presence of top teams like Liverpool, Bayer Leverkusen, and AC Milan definitely adds to the excitement and competitiveness of the tournament. However, football can be unpredictable,so we can’t predict the winner, and there are several other talented teams that could pose significant challenges. It's difficult to predict the team that will win, but that's what makes the Europa League so captivating. As the tournament unfolds, we can look forward to thrilling matches and potential upsets.

Although Champions are always the champions, not always in football. If not, I will say Sevilla have already kept a great history in the UEFA League so far with seven trophies, which no one has ever kept. Although we can't predict, I have trust in Sevilla; they might be the winners of this season also because history always repeats itself.

That's an impressive record by Emery's Aston Villa. I can't remember the last time Emery guided a team for a such impressive continous performance, because I only remember that he got sacked at almost every club he managed. LoL. Their consistency, home win records, and ability to cause trouble for other teams have indeed been noteworthy. The unexpected nature of their success adds an exciting element to the competitive landscape of the league.

But I'm still doubting that they are able to compete for the title considering the competition at the to five is so tight, only six points gap between first and fifth position while Aston Villa currently is second. The Competition in the second half of the season will surely increase, especially with teams like Manchester City with their key players coming back from injuries likely to intensify their efforts to reclaim the top spot. The battle for top positions will undoubtedly be intense, and it will be fascinating to see how Aston Villa maintains their momentum and navigates the challenges ahead.

Before start of this season expectations were too high about him but sadly now after end of the first half things are not looking as they needed, but now it's time to give him good support because he can bring positive results and consistency even this is not easy but still possible with players need to be more flexible and motivated if they want to do something good after frustrating lost in 1st leg of semi-final now things going more down for them but still time is into their side for having fight back.

They have the good number of quality players, but their body chemistry is not working, and their depth is also not as they need which is surely coach duty to bring better strategy and give better results now we have to wait for the remaining half of the season about them can they bring positive or again having another poor end.

The super eagles happens to be in a team of their equals so it's more likely a qualification for the best teams, in recent times the super eagles have not failed to get lass the group stage in most of their AFCON encounters and I doubt if this may be different because they have got a good and formidable team this time around, but the absence of Boniface almost sounded like a setback and For me it's really sad he had to exit the AFCON even before the main competition started but then I wish him quick recovery.

Seeing victor osimhen , Ahmed Musa , and the other international Stars in the super eagles team gives me a lot of confidence as to how week they will be able to perform in this AFCON this year, I just feel if they are able to get to the quarter finals, it's very possible they can come home with the trophy but until then let's wait for their first AFCON game for this year.

So that why I said that there is great hope for Joselu to have contract extension and of course this is done so that Ancelotti can more easily handle the team when there is a player crisis due to injuries.
Joselu can play well of course and it can be seen that in La Liga and UCL competitions he can always be included in the main squad or you could say he always plays in every Real Madrid match.
This is clear proof that Joselu can still rely on Ancelotti.
And for Mbappe, if he can be brought in then Real Madrid will of course give him what he asks for, such as the number 9 jersey.
It just that clearer certainty hasn't been found yet and we just need to wait for next season when his contract with PSG is finalized really ended.
It is true that Ancelotti was disappointed because he had previously failed to buy Mbappe, but now at the next opportunity, Ancelotti will definitely be able to convince Mbappe that he will indeed be worthy of being with Real Madrid.

The winner of this match will fight against Lazio at the semifinal and Juventus won't be missed their opportunity to gets the trophy this season so Allegri was targetting the winning result from this match however we all know Juventus in the positive trend because recently they got 4 winning streak in all competitions even at round of 16 Coppa Italy Juventus can able to eliminate Salernitana with big scores so Juventus in the high of motivation to ended this match with win result

During this season Juventus only lose once in all competitions these records also makes them can able to joining the race with Inter Milan for the Scudetto and for their opponent Frosinone was not in the good shape because after beat Napoli with big scores 4-0 Frosinone was suffering 3 losing streak in Serie A besides that few weeks ago both teams has been met at Serie A and at that time Juventus can able to beat Frosinone and today too i think big possibility for Juventus to repeat that result again and advances to the semifinal however i haven't checked the odds for Juventus but i assuming the bookmakers will provide low odds for Juventus

In this weekend Bundesliga match will begin after break out of new year almost three weeks, have good news with Dortmund success get back their best player Jadon Sancho from Manchester United with loan until June without have buy permanent when loan period expiry. Has chance with Jadon Sancho will make his debut again in Bundesliga on this weekend when Dortmund have away match against Darmstadt.

Since absent last five months with manchester united after internal conflict with Erik ten Hag, I think Jadon Sancho need time adapt well with Dortmund and return back his top level performance, its not easy for Jadon Sancho have absent for long term and he need few days left before first Dortmund match after break out. But Dortmund manager's Edin Terzic not confirmed yet he will give debut for Jadon Sancho upcoming match or Sancho need time waiting for his first match.