Benfica Vs Famalicao
Second-placed Benfica will face seventh-placed Famalicao in the Portuguese Primeira Liga. Benfica are just one point behind Sporting at the top of the table. Benfica are definitely a strong team at home and they are favorites in today's match. It looks like Benfica will beat Famalicao 2-0 to take the top spot.

Porto Vs Chaves
Porto have won three of their previous three, and today they may see them increase their winning stakes by beating Chaves. Chaves is on a losing streak and sits at the bottom of the points table. It looks like Porto will walk away with a high scoring win, my prediction is Porto to win 4-0.

I don't know if it's a matter of luck or not, but Barcelona has shown from the start that they have fought as hard as they could to get through the round of 16 and in the end this struggle results in Barcelona emerging as group winners even though they had the same points as Porto, Barcelona suffered 2 defeated in the phase, Porto also got the same thing in the Champions League group. This was not just a result of luck because in reality Barcelona fought hard in this group stage amidst the storm of injuries experienced by Barcelona.

Barcelona opponent is actually quite a tough opponent when compared to opponent Real Madrid, Manchester City and Bayer Munich. In my opinion, in the rounds of 16 it is very visible thats big team like Barcelona, PSG, Inter Milan and Atletico Madrid find quite difficults opponent. Even though I expect Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester City to get equal opponent so they felt the same pressure, but it turn out that opponent Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Manchester City actually had less formidable opponents. So the round of 16 is not too bigs of a challenge for these three tough clubs.

This summer people has starting to speculate Ancelotti future at Real Madrid this because he was rumoured will not to extended his contract and Brazil Football Federation was heard this news so that's why they personally contact Ancelotti and they looking for the possibility for him to handle Brazil National Team and he almost leave Real Madrid because this team hasn't give their respond to this rumour but after this news the speculation about Ancelotti future will be ended because he will be at Real Madrid until 2026

During train Real Madrid Ancelotti has good achievement because so far Real Madrid under him can achieve 10 trophies just like 2 champion league and 1 Laliga trophy so indeed Ancelotti is deserved to gets contract extension with Real Madrid and their chances to gets another trophies will be wide open this season because Real Madrid can able to occupy first place on Laliga and they also can advances to the round of 16 for champion league and Real Madrid also as one of strong candidate to being an the champion from that competition

Odds for today's Turkish Super Cup:
Galatasaray 2.19
X Draw 2.97
Fenerbahçe 2.44

Looks like betting companies favor Galatasaray a bit more than Fenerbahçe. I think a person who watched their last match will know both teams will look for other one to make a mistake. I think teams may be more relaxed as this is not league match but yet, draw seems lot more likely to me than one of them scoring 2 goals and winning match safely. Galatasaray is bit above Galatasaray in squad quality for sure tho. I don't think Icardi miss is big deal. Bakambu is definitely not below average player.

The Saudi Pro League are mainly not for some mediocre coaches, it's build for clubs that have stand their ground and will do anything to survived and stand firm on ground. The reason why these young coaches in the system are not doing well is basically clear and simple, they don't learn from the appropriate managers, we look at failing coaches like Wayne Rooney, Vincent Kompany despite bringing Burnley to EPL back but they're still going to be relegated because they couldn't meet up. Then for better mentorship, look at Mikel Arteta who learnt from Pep Guardiola how to manage a full elite team, although he's not succeeding but he's trying more than others. You're right about that, I would blame most of these players that are trying to further their career by aiming to becoming a potential coach, when we know fully well that they don't have what it takes to survive in the space.

Arsenal and aston villa got the bad results this week. It gives city a chance to be even closer to those two teams. Despite the relentless bombardment from Arsenal, Westham has managed to maintain a high level of consistency in their performances. However, they showed resilience and managed to bounce back after coming dangerously close to conceding goals against Arsenal. I was watching the match, and it was amazing westham with less than 30% ball possessions were able making three goals attempts and 2 goals to won aganist arsenal.
What's the problem here? It must be on arsenal caused by the club was missing many opportunties. It's started with saka's heading, which was very less powerful and his shoot was hitting the bar. Im feeling so bad for all of bettors who pick arsenal.

Westham is truly showing its level in this match. It was using the big wall to protect the goal keeper but it must be noted that if the goal keeper of westham has blocked so many chances by arsenal as well.
Why didn't arsenal targeting him instead of raya? In order to improve their team, Arsenal can initiate the process of kicking Ramsdale and swiftly commence efforts to recruit Westham's goal keeper. It's amazing to see how westham goal keeprs made so many brilliant save.

Guirassy's transfer is just another disaster for stuttgart. How can stuttgart win the game without him. Based on my observation, if stuttgart is really depending on him. No doubt that if stuttgart was not performing so well when the club must be forcing to play without him.
People who were always watching bundesliga knew that how stuttgart got two lost in a row when guirassy absence from played due to the injury. Selling guirassy to the other club meant if stuttgart is ready to lose someone who was always carrying the club.
This is not a good decision from stuttgart but the club could not force him to stay much longer when guirassy has demanded to leave from there.

Best of luck for guirassy. Acmilan is ready buying his release clause but guirassy has not yet confirmed it. We may be seeing some surprising news in upcoming days as there are many clubs are working on their own transfers.
Pioli has seen guirassy as the most suitable replacement for giroud but let's see what drama that may come from guirassy's transfer saga. Guirassy has been targeting by a lot of clubs.
This is going to be another interesting story.

Vlahovic this season is not in his best form, but the current situation seems like his decline in performance is covered by the final results achieved by Juventus where Juventus is on a winning trend line. Indeed, when the striker who is relied on has difficulty scoring goals, there is no other way for the team other than looking for a replacement for him in the transfer market. Juventus needs to find an attacker who is more productive in scoring goals because sharpness on the front lines will have quite an impact on their performance this season to be able to compete with Inter Milan in winning the Scudetto.

There are even rumors circulating that Vlahovic is among the players who will be sold in this winter transfer window. This is bad news for Juventus fans because since the start of this season, Vlahovic, who was predicted to be able to make many major contributions to the team, has actually failed to do so. so fans have to give up their idols for sale in this winter transfer window. Apart from that, Juventus will face Roma in the upcoming match and we will see Vlahovic performance in this match, can he be the difference in this match, meaning he must be able to score a goal to bring Juventus to victory.

So, that what I mean by saying that Xabi Alonso and Xavi are very different because just looking at the respective teams they train, the differences are clear.
From the start, Barcelona has been big team with many great players and of course this makes it easier for Xavi to build more perfect squad that can have strong playing quality.
Meanwhile, Xabi himself has to work hard to carry out various strategies in arranging the best possible composition of players and can apply his playing style with the strategies he has so that Leverkusen can compete and beat big team.
Everything has been clearly proven and Leverkusen achievements are not only in the Bundesliga but also in the European League, Leverkusen is truly team that cannot be underestimated by all the teams that are their opponents this season in the Bundesliga and European League.

Well, so far Xabi has been very good coach and if this season he succeeds in bringing Leverkusen to win one or two of the important competitions he is taking part in then he will truly have history.
Xabi will be the best coach in the history of the Leverkusen football team because the achievements and changes that Xabi brought to Leverkusen were very short.

Leverkusen will face Augsburg in mid-January and this is their first match of the new year.
I'm sure they can win easily.
After that, Leverkusen will also face Stuttgart in the DFB Cup for the quarter-finals, if Leverkusen manages to win the DFB Cup then this will also be one of the big achievements for this season and will be their first title.

After the break in 17th round we are going to have few interesting matches now, with Twente is going to host AZ Alkmaar and G A Eagles are going to host Ajax which are surely important matches for the staying at the top spots as well because third and fourth spots teams surely going to lose points and in case of win Ajax is going to have some cut in deficit which will keep their hopes alive for jumping, and we also know history of these medicor teams mostly they lost points near the end of the season which give good benefit to the top ranks teams.

AZ Alkmaar is having good time, but their squad is not strong enough like Ajax which keep them at this level, and they will be gone down and have to stay at fifth spot with things can take change in coming weeks.

I'm confident that Juventus can defeat Roma, and if Roma defeat juventus, I believe it will be a fortunate game. Juventus is a formidable opponent in the serie A league; we don't need to ask; we can tell by their performance, which is strong this season. If we look at it, we can see that Roma is not very capable of defeating Juventus. Roma's most recent match against Napoli was particularly difficult for them because they struggled to score early in the game and score later score until the end game.

Regarding the Roma vs. Napoli match, we'll also see that the reason Roma won was because two of Napoli's players received red cards. This means that Roma is playing 11 against 9, so even Roma's victory over Napoli is fortunate. While Juventus is holding a strong position in the league table, making it difficult for anyone to predict whether they will win the league, Roma's performance was extremely confusing because it's unclear if they will even be able to qualify for the champion league the following season.

In the era where money is now priorities, I'm not sure if players still look at the love of club over money. Sometimes I look back at the prime of Ronaldinho, Drogba, Zidane and Kaka, if they are now the type of players we have now, only God knows the kind of money and offers that will be coming to their table. No wonder we don't see this type of wonderful players again, transfers and agents is now more of political and lobbying and that's why we have a player like Maguire still rated on Manchester United.

Osimhen favorite club is Chelsea, if he wanted to live Napoli before this January, we would have seen the signs because last the beginning of this season was a bit shaky and racism was high but I think even despite that the president wasn't showing interest in the public on how they want him, under the ground they want to see Napoli stay else when they had the opportunity from Saudi Arabian teams, it would be a perfect time for him to leave but they want him and that is among the reason he still stays in the club.

Even though Manchester City really dominated this match but ya, at least Everton still managed to win at half time with a score of 1-0. At least Everton results in half time were not bad at all but unfortunately, Everton was unable to maintain the victory they had because ya, in the end Everton still lost . But ya,even though Everton lost, of course this result is still a normal result because after all, it is clear that Manchester City is still projected to win even though they are playing away in this match

But at least, a hope Manchester City victory is not as big as this because ya, at least Everton at this moment experienced a slight improvement in performance . Therefore, I think Everton can hold Manchester City even if Everton lose, but maybe Manchester City only wins with a difference of one goal but what happens is Manchester City still wins with a big score.

Fenerbahce and Galatasaray are level on points  in the Super Lig. So when  these two teams met, neither  team wanted to drop points. So both  teams performed very cautiously. They kept  their defense strong. And the match ended i n a goalless draw. But we probably won't see such a result  in today's match. Because both teams will  want to win the Super Cup final. And these two teams know very well that playing defensive tactics, this match is not possible to win. Because the defense of both teams is strong enough. And so in today's match both teams will attack a lot and try to score goals. I guess we will see more than 3 results in today's match.

We agree with what you say, so there's no point in comparing each coach, in fact I prefer to just speak according to their portion. just like Xabi Alonso, who is currently managing Bayer Leverkusen. the team which was originally in the red zone, was able to advance with a very good trend and finished in 6th place in the previous season. now, Xabi has brought his squad to the top of the Bundesliga standings. of course, what we see at Leverkusen now cannot be separated from his touch in handling the squad under his care. we can give high appreciation, even though at the same time several top team competitors are not at their best. likewise with what you said, it doesn't mean that Xabi can handle Real Madrid successfully even though it is filled with very competitive players. in fact, the challenge will become increasingly difficult. especially, if a club is filled with many established stars. what is certain is that the atmosphere in the dressing room will be very influential.

Well, I'm reminded of Nagelsmann, who found it difficult to handle his team in Bayern Munich's own dressing room. that's why disharmony does not occur. and, this does not apply to Xabi Alonso with Leverkusen. but it seems that because Leverkusen doesn't have many big-name players, this seems to give Xabi Alonso more freedom. and uniquely, when Xabi was linked with a giant Spanish League club, he even said he was not worthy enough to handle a team as big as Real Madrid. for me, the right answer was given by Xabi Alonso, he was measuring his abilities with Leverkusen. that's why, if I'm not mistaken, Alonso prefers to stay at Leverkusen. well, let's just see how the Leverkusen squad and Xabi Alonso play out match after match in various competitions. especially maintaining their ranking at the top of the Bundesliga standings, until this season ends. and that is quite a challenge to make happen.

Well, as I have said on a couple of occasions, for me the player does not sound good for Madrid and I would really feel a little disappointed if they brought him in, because as I said before it would break a tradition that shows that Madrid does not give second chances. To other players, there are players who I think have been much more relevant than him in the past who did not have such luck, as is the case of a legendary player called Totti, who at the time due to a misunderstanding did not go to a Madrid and that is something that the Italian remains repentant, maybe he doesn't say it like that with that pain, but it is a golden opportunity that he threw away, and Madrid did not give him the opportunity once again, in fact there are many stories that have been told by other players where they express such a thing, that it is something expectant and that leaves one even as a fan of Madrid cold.

That's why I insist that if they say yes to this player, it wouldn't be bad, but it would be opening a bias of things that break, and although now Florentino seems to be more interested in a Super League, it is likely that things will change. go in another direction that doesn't give much importance to the players, however I still have some regrets. Madrid likes to hire young, famous players who are promising, that is Madrid's style, so I have seen a good team for Mbappé It could be Liverpool where in fact he can have a great career and it is a very good team, this can lead him to bigger and new projects where the challenge is to win, of course, there is something that I have noticed in the French player, and that is that he has had a little He is more mature now, I see him playing better at PSG, he has taken his team on his shoulders, he is a player who commands respect on the field, his attacks with the ball can trigger a good goal without a doubt, with the characteristics of a player of this caliber, who will undoubtedly give a lot to talk about on whatever team he is in.

This is the main problem faced by french league. Psg was leading the competition without even a single team that was able competing against it. No doubt that this league is just another farmer league. Psg will be dominating this league may be more than 1 decade like bundesliga which had been dominating by bayern.
There shall be billionaire who can join in the french league then try to acquire the club in league 1.
Having saudi billionaire to acquire a club in french league will be very interesting. i hope that there will be a new investor to join in the league 1. Psg is obviously needs a new competitor. it was only against the weak club. nothing surpirse to see psg was always winning the league.


the different story if psg was getting a new competitor that can play as good as psg. it will make the competition become even more competitive. i would like to see that league one to become even more competitive like serie a or epl. league 1 really needs to have as many strong club as possible to stop the domination of psg like bayern in bundesliga.

This is a different competition and I see that PSG is not too favored even though PSG is much stronger, Real Sociedad has gone through a difficult phase in the group so they can qualify for the next round as group winners. If Luis Enrique doesn't feel worried when facing Real Sociedad then I'm not too optimistic they can advance to the next round. The Champions League is very different from Ligue 1 because even though the quality of the players is below standard, any club must have quite big ambitions.

If they are not careful, PSG and Real Sociedad could slip up due to their unpreparedness. Have you ever seen how PSG lost to AC Milan and were humiliated by Newcastle with a fairly crushing defeat. Although in the end PSG managed to qualify as group runners-up. This should be taken into consideration by Luis Enrique and they must not let Real Sociedad get a single point when playing at PSG's home ground.

Yes, in the end Besiktas was able to win this match with a narrow scored of 2:1 and currently Besiktas has moved closer to being in the top 3 and if Besiktas is able to win the next match then Besiktas can returned to being in the top 3 and continue to maintain its position so that next season it will have the opportunity to compete competition in the Europa League because Besiktas' only hope is to compete there because to place themselves in second place and compete in the Champions League will be very difficult to achieve because the points difference with Fenerbahce and Galatasaray is quite large.

Besiktas is indeed a top club in the Turkish Super League, just like Fenerbahce and Galatasaray, but unfortunately this season Besiktas is not very consistent and even seems to be having difficulty winning, in fact other clubs such as Trabzonspor and Kayserispor can beat Besiktas in terms of points and Besiktas must improve their performance to get back in the rankings 3rd place as usual is side by side with the top clubs.

Manchester City managed to win here with a score of 3:1. This match was quite impressive because Everton was able to take the lead first, which made Manchester City fans annoyed because they could easily score a goal against Manchester City. In fact, at first we had doubts about Manchester City's less consistent performance because several times they got unsatisfactory results and now Manchester City was able to ward off the fans' concerns by gaining full points when visiting Everton headquarters.

Finally Manchester City can break the series of bad results. I hope that with this victory, Manchester City has returned to winning ways and at the weekend of 2023, Manchester City will face Sheff Utd. I think this will be a fairly easy match. I want to see Manchester City score lots of goals against the club. weak like Sheff Utd but you still have to be careful, sometimes Sheff Utd's defense can make it difficult for opponents like Aston Villa who couldn't win when facing Sheff Utd.