The results of last week's match made Inter Milan feel at an advantage because their competitors experienced draws and losses so that Inter Milan became more comfortable at the top of the standings. AC Milan lost concentration on playing better when one player got a red card and they tried to play carefully so as not to concede more goals. But unfortunately Monza responded well and they tried to throw away attacks so they managed to take advantage of the opportunities to score goals which gave them the win.

What was even more disappointing was that Juventus drew with a bottom team that is in the relegation zone and I saw that Juventus' performance really did not show a game like a club capable of competing for the title this season. Two points behind Juventus and this will be quite fierce competition in the top two to three standings because Juventus and AC Milan's points are quite close.

Bayern Munich's three consecutive defeats in the last five matches were truly very disappointing and Tuchel must take full responsibility for the bad results obtained by his team. Bayern Munich surprisingly lost to a much more unstable team and person will be quite understanding when they have to lose to Leverkusen who are in a positive trend. But it was very disappointing to lose to a team that was not much better than them and that team was even in the middle of the standings.

Bayern Munich's next three matches will be against much more stable teams as they will face RB Leipzig, Freibrug and Lazio in the Champions League. Tuchel will definitely be busy in the next three matches because if they suffer another defeat it could make it even more difficult for them to catch Leverkusen and fail to qualify for the next round of the Champions League.

Roma has seen positive developments under the leadership of Daniele De Rossi, with the club showing improvement both on and off the field. While José Mourinho's contributions cannot be understated, De Rossi's deep connection to the club as a legendary figure brings a unique perspective and understanding of Roma's identity and values. The upcoming Europa League fixture against Feyenoord presents an opportunity for Roma to further demonstrate their progress and ambition under De Rossi's guidance.

Roma's home advantage in the second leg could prove pivotal in securing progression to the round of 16, while Feyenoord shouldn't be underestimated, especially given the unpredictability of European competitions. Indeed, victories against teams perceived as weaker can serve as valuable confidence boosters for Roma that helps to strengthen the players' mentality and motivation. Building positive momentum through such results will be crucial as they prepare to face tougher challenges, both domestically and in Europe. The combination of De Rossi's leadership, the team's improved performances, and the renewed sense of belief among the players bodes well for Roma's prospects in the Europa League.

Porto has a good reputation in the Champions League, Arsenal must not underestimate this match if they have the ambition to reach the quarter finals. In terms of squad depth, Arsenal really deserves to be at the top and they are in stable performance at the moment. Porto is lucky because they act as hosts, but their chances of beating Arsenal are very low, betting on Arsenal winning will be safer. I think Arteta will not waste this good opportunity, they have good capital after beating Burnley in the Premier League.

This season Arsenal appear more aggressive than last season, the depth of Arteta squad increases their bargaining value in every competition including the Champions League. The consistency shown by Arsenal in the last few matches shows that their chances of winning over Porto are quite big. On the other hand, it is possible that this match will end in a draw, or Arsenal could also experience defeat even though many people favorite them.

Monaco vs Toulouse

After Nice lost from Lyon i think it's good chance for Monaco to taking over 2nd place from Nice because mathematically if Monaco can gets the winning results from Toulouse then they will have 41 points which mean 2 points above to Nice and today it's clearly they are the favourite but Monaco has interesting records at home because unlike other big teams who very strong during playing at their home but Monaco is different because this season Monaco was gets 3 loses from home matches which mean although this is home match for Monaco but there is no guarantee they will being an the winner of this match

For Monaco opponent Toulouse this team was performing well at Europa league but in Ligue 1 Toulouse performing badly which make they have to hard struggling to avoiding relegation zone and Monaco has odds @1.58 but i am not sure this option could be safe bets or not because Monaco performance also still not stable especially Monaco will lost some players who got suspension including their top scorer in Ligue 1 Wissam Ben Yedder and indeed today they will playing Balogun as centre striker but i am not sure played him could be good option or not considering Balogun performance is not so impressive

Hojlund brace in the first 10 minutes of the match allowed Manchester United to secure another win and 3 point.
They are still comfortable in position 6 bcause with this victory in addition to maintaining the gap between Manchester United and Brighton, this also allows them to maintain hope while waiting for some of the clubs above them to make mistake.

I quite appreciate what Luton did in this match because they can successfully compensate for what Manchester United showed but on the other hand we also have to give 2 thumbs up to Hojlund bcause his performance in the last few matches has always been above average.
He scored again for Manchester United and that is a very good thing because slowly it seems like Hojlund is getting his form back and continue to be a good fulcrum for Manchester United i n every match that is done. 

I have said about Man United return to improvement since the first start, this team experienced a decline in performance and I continue to say that Ten Hag will ultimately repay the bad criticism with success in reaching the best place in the top 3 or 4 and nothing is impossible to get 4th place big because the difference in points is not that big except for 3rd place which is very difficult to achieve because it is a little further away and it won't be easy to pass some of the other strong teams but as I said nothing is impossible as long as Ten Hag is intelligently able to manage the players appropriately to can be consistent and on the one hand, Man United does not have a schedule in other competitions and has time to focus on getting the best position in the standings.

but it's a shame that Man United always manages to improve their performance when they approach the end of the season, whereas at the start of the season MU performance was a little bad and even failed in the preliminary round, giving negative confidence to this team, many even said that Man United would only be a mediocre team in the UCL but they always succeeded get tickets every season to be able to compete in the UCL.
Spurs and Aston Villa will not cause problems as long as Ten Hag is able to maintain consistent players, it will certainly be easy to get 4th position.

De Rossi is also trying his possible best for AS Roma, and from all indications, I can say that he is continuing from where Mourinho stopped. Because so far the performance of AS Roma has been on the increase, although there are currently some trait issues because Florentina are at the same point with them, so definitely they can fall back, but seeing their game that is still ongoing today, I can say that definitely AS Roma have hope. Since there are performances, it is good. Because if they win today’s game, they will definitely get some points, but I know that they can’t achieve that 7 points in this game to even think that they will be able to drop Bologna from the 5th in the table. Already, AS Roma has their first goal, but anything can happen, so we will anticipate and see how the game will end. 

But I have that belief in De Rossi that he will definitely do more than what Mourinho did to AS Roma, but I think he needs more time to see what he will achieve so far, but I am quite sure he will achieve more soon.

It seems like Napoli and Juventus are starting to lose their enthusiasm this season. In fact, they have to be willing to accept the draw results they get, even when competing against small clubs in Serie A. Napoli's 1 - 1 draw and Juventus' 2 - 2 draw also add to the series of disappointing results in recent weeks. Moreover, Juventus, they were very enthusiastic and enthusiastic from the start to the middle of the season. However, their performance has really declined very drastically recently. In fact, his position is increasingly threatened by Milan, who are struggling and only have a difference of 2 points. Meanwhile, if Milan wins against Monza, then Juventus will immediately be taken over by Milan. This is not the end for Juventus, but it is quite unfortunate that they lost so many opportunities to carry out competitive races against Inter for first place, this time they failed again.

Oh yes, currently, Atalanta vs Sasuolo is taking place.
The temporary score up to the 63rd minute is 2 - 0.
Atalanta is superior and dominant in all areas, so it looks like Atalanta will still be ahead and win until the end of the match.

What I think is that if l Madrid and then went to Barcelona, so something like that happened to a player, I don't know if you remember Figo, but he played for Barcelona and from there he went to Madrid, that was something uncomfortable, and it looked ugly, but I think That is something that should not happen with a coach like Xabi, in fact I think that Xab will do much better there in Leverkusen than in Bayern, things at Bayern can be managed by a coach like Mou. For me he is a very good coach with great experience and I think he could do things much better than the current one.

Taking this to a certain point, I would evaluate things and for now with the coach that Bayern has right now because they usually have these types of sudden changes, this is how I removed the coach previous to the one they have, then these types of changes like that, Well they don't work much.

Things in football have to be taken with great caution and everything cannot be dealt with quickly or at all, because there is a group already adapted to your game system, we cannot change it from one day to the next and this could undoubtedly mean the way of looking at things, a coach is one of the most significant people on the team, for now they have to get out of where they are, in that space because if they continue losing they can lose the Bundesliga, what I can say about this is that Xabi If he leaves for Bayern it would look very bad, in fact a Leverkusen fan would jump on him and it's something ugly, even though it's just a professional plan because I wouldn't recommend him doing that, not for now, maybe if it happens to another league and from that league back to the Bundesliga because that would seem very good to me, otherwise I don't see it well.

In this match, of course Beşiktaş wants to get full points so that there is still hope of reaching 3rd place, especially now that Beşiktaş and Trabzonspor both have 40 points, of course this victory is very important for Beşiktaş.

On the other hand, as you said. Currently Konyaspor is in a slump, even in 19th place. of course they played with great pressure because they wanted to get out of the relegation zone. So it is very likely that they will make mistakes in this match, and Beşiktaş will take advantage of Konyaspor's slump to get three points even though they are playing behind their opponent. Beşiktaş is very lucky to have a player like Semih because he is the only player who shines in every match. Without Semih, Beşiktaş would not be able to do anything, in fact many other teams were looking for his services. So I am also sure that Semih in this match will score a goal and give Besiktas victory.

Good debut for Ivan Rakitic with Al Shabab when he scored one goal and give his team three points against Damac, seems Ivan Rakitic can adapt well with Saudi Pro League competition and first appearance give contribution with one goals. Currently, Damac has better higher standings position on 6th placed than Al Shabab on 10th position standing but its not problem with Al Shabat secured three points.
Actually Ivan Rakitic have much experienced by playing with many top European team, he had higher level performed and not difficult for adapting well with his new club, I don't think he get problem with weather, culture and atmosphere games play with Al Shabab by giving good contribution on his first match.

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Other Saudi Pro League matches result, Al Nassr success got three points and Cristiano Ronaldo scored one goal, its good started after breaking out almost one month and Al Nassr opening their first match with three points keep make close with Al Hilal on the top standings behind 4 points left. Next match, Al Hilal vs Al Raed and its their opportunity to make seven points left from Al Nassr and keep close their position become the SPL winner for this season.

This is one of the reasons I am now convinced that Ligue 1 is not competitive like other leagues in the Europe. With current PSG form, they are not suppose to be in top five teams on the table but here they are comfortably topping the table with huge gap between them and Nice. Without Mbappe, PSG seems to be like a second division team. I don't know how they'll survive after his departure next season.

Dominating a game with lots of possessions and not securing a goal doesn't freak me at all. I wasn't impressed with their first half performance despite their dominance because there was no positive result. The attackers were not threatening at all until Mbappe came in as a substitute. Enrique was just trying to be stubborn and decides to bench him. He later regain his senses and brought him up. I think they should just accept that he's leaving and stop pushing agenda.

About Porto and Arsenal performance at group stages their opponents is relatively easy especially Arsenal that they can qualified to round of 16 as champion of group B and at that time without any problem Arsenal can finish at first place because Arsenal didn't fight against strong opponents because on that group their serious contender is only PSV which is Arsenal can able to overcomes this team easily and for Porto their strong opponents at group stages is Barcelona because at that time Porto have to lost twice from Barcelona although at the end of group stages Porto and Barcelona has same points but Barcelona is more good from head to head statistics so that's why Porto have to satisfied to finish at runner up place

Recently i have checked the odds for both teams and although for first leg Porto playing at home but their status as underdog team but no wonder because Arsenal recent performance were quite impressive in Premier league because in the last 2 matches Arsenal can win with big scores and scores 11 goals and this is home match for Porto so they have to utilized this match to gets the winning results because if Porto unable to win then their chances to qualified will be very slim but for Arsenal they are in the good shape and Arteta was targetting win result from this match and if the result of this match is according to his target then Arsenal journey will be more easy to facing second leg

Someone better, who will that person be, if I may ask? Do you think, letting go of Santos Peseiro as Super Eagles coach will do Nigerians a favor by performing better than they have? In case you don't know, the Algeria football body is interested in signing  Santos Peseiro as their country's head coach. However, if the NFF decides to let him go today, by tomorrow we will find him in Algeria as Algeria's team coach. The best thing for NFF would do now, is to renew his contract, if not, we lose him to a country that knows his worth and value.

As it stands, it would be wrong if the NFF thought of sacking Santos Peseiro because he didn't get us the AFCON trophy. At least let's appreciate the fact that he made us reach the AFCON finals, qualify for the World Cup tournament, and also made us move from the 42nd position to the 28th position in the current FIFA ranking.

I am not surprised by Tottenham's defeat at home because their performance is no longer consistent and overall they are not as strong as they started this season.
The competition for the top 4 positions is quite fierce, now there are several teams that are on fire like Manchester United and that is quite dangerous for Tottenham, personally I doubt Tottenham can finish in the top 4 positions.

In fact, the big surprise that occurred this week was Manchester City's failure to win at home against Chelsea even though Chelsea were in a very bad state this season, but Manchester City was unable to take advantage of this. This was quite detrimental because Man City had the opportunity to displace Liverpool from the top of the standings.

Guys, the match brighton vs sheffield has already started.

Brighton shows usual performance and it puts ball possession as the main target to be achieved. De zerbi seems never try to change his strategy to be on point strategy. The ball possession strategy seems an old strategy. Sheffield may able to win against brighton as long as it will always implement defensive strategy.
Playing low block becomes the key point to get three points from brighton. Brighton is always owning the ball but it never makes proper attack. Sheffield can always wait for the golden moment to happen.

Brighton's strategy is very monoton. This club keeps to use the same strategy since last season. Im only wondering whether zerbi never feels bored to keep use same strategy anytime. The situation is always the same. More than 10 minutes wasted to see brighton did backpass.
This club played shitty ball. No doubt that it can be beaten by the big club easily. Brighton's strategy can be predicted easily. This is the main problem that must be solved by zerbi. Things are different after its players were scoring two goals.

Sheffield can't keep up against brighton with its low quality defenders. Brighton will get three points in this game. it's hard for sheffield to equalize the score since brighton is always owning the ball.

Robert Lawandoski is so good with his goal scoring ability, and he has done his job brilliantly, but the thing is that Barcelona has no problem in their attacking sense. They have big issues in their defense. Tell me, mate, that if a club has a strong attack but their defense is quite poor, how will they perform better, like score a goal, despite the fact that they can't maintain their goal net. 
 
So it's meant to say that no matter how strong the attack of a club is and the defense is weak, the more difficult the match becomes for this team, despite whether the attack scores a goal or two more, but if the defense cannot stop the opponent, it is difficult to win the match. becomes Thus, in a similar scenario with Barcelona, Lawandoski is a better striker but if Barcelona can't stop their opponent then how will they provide chances for the attack. So problems, I think Barcelona's lack of attack in defense means 70% fault of defense and 30% attack.

Wolfsburg really kept their defense tight because they didn't want Dortmund to embarrass them at home if they lost because Dortmund took 12 shots and 5 were on target but only 1 could be converted into a goal in the early minutes of the match. Until the second half Dortmund was no longer able to create opportunities became 2 goals to seal the win. Wolfsburg was able to score a goal in the second half until the match ended with a 1:1 draw. Dortmund was only able to take home 1 point in this match.

Dortmund is getting further away in the hunt for the Bundesliga title with Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, apart from that they are also behind 3rd place with a difference of 5 points if their performance is less impressive then it is possible that the Champions League spot will be taken over by Leipzig because they are only 1 point different from Dortmund so Dortmund have to fight a little hard and continue to win so that this spot is not taken over by another club.

The playing styles of coaches Daniele de Rossi and Jose Mourinho are different and I admit I was one of the many people who doubted Daniele de Rossi's abilities and yes this was due to the new coach's lack of experience, but it turns out he was able to dispel everyone's doubts with his performance. The club is getting better and I didn't expect that the adaptation between players and coaches could be so fast in establishing chemistry. I hope De Rossi can continue to provide good strategies for Roma so they can compete with top clubs in European league competition in the title race.

In the second leg Roma will play at home and this is a big advantage for Roma to get rid of Feyenoord in the European league competition, but the odds that Roma have are quite big and tempting and I'm sure many people are favorites for Roma in this match. I don't hesitate to bet on Roma in this matches.