What we need to understand in football is that once the group stage is over and the knockout stage is over no team again is a small team. For anything to be able to succeed the group stage and not get eliminated and then proceed to the knockout stage down to the quarter finals and semi-finals, that the team is able to win anything that is in that tournament. South Africa is not a country to be underrated because they have the most active and the recognize league in Africa. The present of these good clubs in their country must have impacted their football playing style to a very high positive standard. So Nigeria need to be very careful and put more effort more than the have done in the previous matches.

Some people I did not understand most times are the bookmakers and I do not understand why they have to make the odds between Nigeria and South Africa obviously much difference. We should be careful and not fall for this trap

What about the other teams, just like last season, Inter is not at all a candidate to advance to the Champions League final. is it possible that this season there will be a surprise or the Underdog team could be a threat to Real Madrid, City, Bayern Munich. It is possible that Arsenal will be able to put up resistance and stop one of the three teams mentioned above. the reason is, Arsenal has a team that is quite competitive and has an energetic playing pattern, especially capable of overthrowing City. even though in reality the opportunities they have are not as big as the three teams who are always favorites. But Arsenal only lost in terms of experience. Arteta should not underestimate tactics and strategy.

In essence, I am not in the capacity to favor Arsenal, that is just one example. it could be that Inter will advance to the final round again. or Atletico Madrid for example.in fact, this competition relies more on luck, regardless of the teams included in the elite team squad in this competition. after all, each team only meets two matches. if they lose it means they are eliminated. unlike the Domestic League competition, there are many matches that will be played by a team. but yes, still if we talk theoretically, statistics and data. Manchester City, Real Madrid and even Bayern Munich are the most favorite teams and that is very natural. however, the competition has not yet started. so, let's just wait to speculate further.

I watched the match when Napoli had a hard time beating Salernitana, a team that was weaker than Verona, so it's possible that Napoli will get an unpleasant result this time, although I also think Mazzari will try to bring his squad to get three points because if they fail they will look even worse.
Weak teams will usually be very motivated when facing a team that is considered stronger, so Napoli has to be wary of Verona's counterattacks, and also try to break Verona's defense, even though they are in 17th position, Verona is one of the teams that concede less than several teams above them, moreover, Napoli have had quite a difficult time scoring in these few matches, which is why in the last five matches they have lost quite a lot of points because they only managed to draw or lose and only won once.
Mazzari will not be Napoli's coach in the new season, it is very possible because when they fired Rudi Garcia hoped there would be improvements but that was not yet visible, it's just that the owner of Napoli stated that he would not replace Mazzari immediately, meaning that when the season is running now, but at the start of the season, a change is very possible to happen.

It's great to see a very competitive league and the EPL never fails to provide that to its fans. The Newcastle vs Luton match was an example last night and even though we know Newcastle were favored to win, in fact they struggled so much that they were finally able to hold Luton to a draw. Having broken into Luton's goal first didn't make Newcastle safe even though they were playing in front of their fans and here Luton seemed to surprise all the spectators who watched the action. Luton successfully responded to the 2 goals scored by Newcastle in the first half and made the score end at 2-2 in the first half.

Imagine that in the first half alone the score ended with quite a few goals and anyone who bet on the result over 2.5 would certainly be very happy because they didn't have to wait until the match was over. On the other hand, in the second half, another unexpected thing happened when Luton pressed Newcastle again and scored two other goals which made Newcastle seem to have lost hope. However, fortunately, with a difference of two goals, Newcastle were still able to equalize the score at 4-4 and what would happen if they lost again. Of course it will be very detrimental for Newcastle and in this match we will be treated to a very exciting match between the two teams who are scoring goals. I really like the EPL and will never get bored with the competition between each team in each season.

I can't also believe it caused by totenham was almost winning the game but the club must let three points go away caused by everton was creating the good chance at the end of game. It can be said that if totenham was not lucky enough in this game. It makes the situation even moer difficult for totenham.
The chance to go to the UCL will be very small if totenham keeps suffer the bad result like this. Im seeing that how ange has been fully trusting his team to win against everton but it must be losing three points which are very disappointed to see that.
Totenham played so diffierently without son in the club and his contribution was a lot to help totenham to won every game in the past. Ange needs to put the main concern into the defensive line of totenham.

I was watching the second half of this match and it was surprising me the pressure being made by everton at the late game has been successfully destroying totenham's dream to get three points. I need to put a lot of appreciation to the brantwhite caused by he was scoring the last goal for totenham.
The club has been performing perfectly even though everton missed so many chances. Totenham played differently without son. He has been very crucial for the club. This is also the main reason ange was not willing to sell him to other club.

Hmmm, this will definitely going to be a mouth watering encounter between this two teams,  even though when you look at the record between Nigeria and south Africa it has always been a one-sided affair, in the sense that, Nigeria always come out on top, but I still think that this one is different due to the stage of their meeting and what it as stake, so the south Africa side will give more fight than the previous encounter between them I believe so.

Secondly in as much as I am a Nigerian, and that sentiment of wanting Nigeria to win is high, but I still see Nigeria winning this one because when you look at both teams, you will observe that the Nigerian team have more balance, expecially in defense more than the south Africa side, and besides the Nigeria team are one of the bigger boys in African football, so I believe they can secure victory in this encounter between them.

How many years roma played various competitions but it was always ended without trophy? Jose mourinho was almost giving roma two european competitions trophy in a row if roma was not lost against sevilla. It's very disappointed caused by roma was reaching final last season. The club was able performing even better since mourinho was coming there.
This time is very different caused by roma has no the professor to help club win the game with his strategy. That was the most stupid decision ever made by roma. The club kick mourinho out from club and then get amateur coach to replace him in the roma. What a disappointment for all of fans.

In term of achievement and i must say that if rossi was nothing compared to the jose mourinho. How many UCLs everton by him. I never ever heard his name in the professional football. Calling him as a legend is quite strange caused by the only roma fans may be knowing him so well but this is not for all of fans.
Roma needs to change its gameplay and the coach has not yet brought significant impact to the club. Im only watching how far roma will able to compete in europa league this season. Im not underestimate rossi but the statistic told us about the fact if he was not that good as a coach.

Well, last season Inter Milan reached the final through luck, of course not. because if I'm not mistaken, the most difficult group in the Champions League last season was occupied by Bayern Munich, Inter Milan and Barcelona and Inter Milan was able to get through the group phase with their good performance. So in my opinion, Inter Milan in the Champions League last season performed quite well and they were able to reach the final. Even for the Champions League this season, Inter Milan is even stronger because their squad is very well organized and quite strong from what we have watched in the matches they have played.

Even though reaching the final this season will be quite difficult, with their mentality I predict Inter Milam will be able to achieve it. But for this reason, we hope that they will not experience a decline in their performance during the busy schedule they are undertaking because for the time being, Inter Milan is also very focused on Serie A and they will also focus on the Champions League.

However, this is quite a difficult match for Strasbourg because PSG is the strongest team in Ligue 1 so when a team wants to try to prevent PSG from winning they have to be better prepared from the first half.
So what we saw was that PSG was able to score 1 goal in the first half and this indicated that Strasbourg was really not ready to prevent PSG from achieving victory. Even though were able to increase the tempo of their game, they became a little more aggressive to equalize, but they couldn't finish it perfectly.

Well, the additional 3 points make PSG comfortable again to continue leading the standings. Mbappe and Asensio were able to bring PSG back to winning ways after being held to a draw by Brest in the previous match. So for Nice they are yet 9 points behind PSG who lead the standings and if they fail to win against Brest then it will be increasingly difficult for them to put up resistance in the race for the title.

yesterday I quoted a discussion regarding the Darmstadt vs Leverkusen and Bayern Munich vs Monchengladbach matches discussed @MAAManda and from several predictions I said they were all correct.
Leverkusen won with a score of 0-2 for Leverkusen and Bayern Munich got 3 scores in yesterday's match.

I said that Darmstadt would not be able to score while Leverkusen would score at least 2 scores and everything came true to bet on choosing -1 with odds that were quite big for me.
and for Bayern Munich, I also said that playing against Monchengladbach is not a difficult task, but in every meeting these two teams can always score, even though it is still Bayern Munich who will win the match, so I was not wrong in choosing to bet on btts because both teams managed to get a score.

from several matches from the top 4 teams in the standings, everything was very easy to predict, even Stuttgart managed to beat Freiburg with a score of 1-3 and the mistake was when Merlin Rohl, the young player, had to leave the match, so it was very easy for Stuttgart to beat him.
but unfortunately only Dortmund failed to win because they couldn't beat Heidenheim and couldn't even score a single score.

It is not surprising that in the end Cristiano Ronaldo will also own shares in the club. Because he definitely sees good growth potential in the world of Arab football such as in the SPL. And we also definitely think that Cristiano Ronaldo will play for Al-Nassr until he retires. But I wonder what he will do after retirement, whether to become a coach? well we don't know what will happen in the future. But I'm also curious about Cristiano Ronaldo's coaching style.

Now SPL clubs will no longer be underestimated after Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr both beat Inter Miami. And I think next season there will be even more good news. Whether it's more European players joining or even the opposite, namely there will be Arab players starting to attract the attention of European clubs.

In today's game I think that Ajax even looked better than PSV, but it wasn't enough to win. And I expected a bit different kind of game from these teams.
If Feyenoord will win tomorrow, reaching 2nd place for Ajax would be like a miracle. Even to reach Twente you hvae to be almost perfect in remaining part of season and expect some poor results from Twente.
AZ - Feyenoord tomorrow, recently AZ perfroming very poorly, Feyenoord is big favorite there.

this Porto game against Rio Ave, it seemed like it was a game in which players from both teams were on the field to fight rather than play football, there were a lot of fouls, there were a lot of offsides, there were a lot of good opportunities in which Porto could have scored a goal, but the lack of creativity on the part of Porto's attackers was very great, with more than 70% possession of the ball, Porto could have scored at least one goal in that game, but they couldn't and with this draw I'm starting to think that Porto won't To be able to reach the top teams, Porto's solution is probably to fire the coach, but it will be very complicated for another coach to be able to get Porto back to the Portuguese league's achievements without signing many players.

I saw on TV about the postponement of the Sporting game, this does not harm Sporting, but I think that measures need to be taken so that cases like these do not happen again in the future, I have seen in the news that they are asking for more investigation into this and for punishment the culprits, the league pays for protection, so there is no justification for these types of situations to occur, in any case I see that they will place all the blame on low-ranking police officers. today benfica will have a complicated game, gil vicente had only 1 defeat in the last 5 games and comes from a sequence of 3 games without losing and in the last games gil vicente has been a team with good defense, and they hardly suffer more than 1 goal while Benfica has been a team that has shown to have a good attack, and in most games they have managed to score at least 2 goals. I hope Benfica wins this game

The derby between Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid is really interesting to watched because during this season both teams has been met several times at different competitions and from the recent meeting Atletico Madrid can able to eleminate Real Madrid at Copa Del Rey and now in Laliga both teams have to fight again with Real Madrid as a host and after Girona get draw result from Sociedad i think Real Madrid had good opportunity to wided their gap points in standings league but it won't be easy because Atletico Madrid also in the good condition

Last week Real Madrid gets the winning result from Getafe and Joselu can made Brace on that match so this result can make Joselu is more confident to facing this match and about the outcomes of this derby i can see Real Madrid is the favourite but i didn't surprised about that because Atletico Madrid has poor records and always be failed to win at Santiago Bernabéu since 2019 and Atletico Madrid probably will still used the same formation just like last week when they can beat Rayo and Real Madrid has odds @1.72 this is actually good odds to bet and my prediction this match will be so tight but as a host Real Madrid has good chance to win this match

There was a very stiff fenerbahce. It was a very high tension match. The match really could have ended in a draw. Fenerbahce has played the last 3 matches very stiff. There is a lack of form in 3 important players up front. Tadic's performance has dropped. No matter how hard szmanski fights, there is a problem in his offence. He makes very wrong choices in attack. Antalyaspor played very well. both tactically and at times physically. Fenerbahce is different this year. Finally can be their lucky year.

Well for me Benzema will always be a star player wherever he goes, or I know what three factors are affecting him in the Saudi League, many go to Saudi thinking that the League is a piece of cake, and it is not like that, the Things can be very different when you try to do things differently, personally I have always seen that things for this type of player are very strong, in Madrid he shone, he was Ancelotti's favorite, for me he is a player Very valuable, worthy of many Ballon d'Ors, he surpassed anyone and anyone who still has that ability. Personally, I have always said that things with this player are very different. For me, if he wants to leave the Saudi League I don't blame him, sometimes the Nio level is what we expect, this is not like the MLS where anyone can shine, these leagues now have a higher level of demand, I don't know what problems Gatico may have, but I think he should overcome it quickly .

For me, age has nothing to do with it, 35 years old is still very young, if we follow the example of Bufon who, even at 43 years old, was still playing, well, if he did it, anyone can do it, that's something we should be calm about. So in this order of ideas things can be very different, I could think that now the kitten because if he wants to go to one of the most demanding leagues in the world, which for me is the MLS because it is something that is hard, I would I would think, but well, BNenzema has everything to make it a reality, he has the capacity and can do whatever it will be, +he is a player who has many capacities to do the best, that's why I do believe in what he can do, also if Going to the PL would be great and even more so if he performs like he did in Madrid, what happened is that the PL teams are at another level, just like the Sadi League teams, at this point I wouldn't leave the Saudi League not for anything.

Milan didn't play well in the first half and there were many mistakes made by the lower players, so Frosinone managed to equalize through Soule's penalty kick. Frosinone didn't get many chances in the match, but they managed to play a little more pressing, making it difficult for Milan to play in the first half. Luckily in the second half Milan played much better and the introduction of Florenzi, Musah and Jovic made Milan's attack even better and they were able to control the midfield much more lively.

Facing Napoli will be much more difficult even though Napoli's performance has not been good in the previous few matches. Milan must be careful because Napoli are also struggling to return to the top five in the standings and of course they will put pressure on Milan in playing and will not let Milan get full points easily.

The red card drama occurred in the Koln vs Frankfurt match and this match ended with a score of 2-0 in favor of the hosts. Initially the match was quite fierce between the two teams and they both kept their goals in check so they didn't concede. However, the first red card received by Nkounkou in the 66th minute immediately changed the flow of the match and two minutes after the red card Koln immediately scored their first goal in the 68th minute through Alidou.

It didn't just stop there, with Koln's superior number of players, they scored the second goal through Thielmann in the 80th minute and at the same time buried Frankfurt's hopes of equalizing. Ljubicic was the most instrumental player in this match because with his two assists he was able to bring Koln to their first win in the last 6 matches. However, it seemed that the Frankfurt players were very annoyed with this result and in the 83rd minute one of the players, namely Tuta, received a red card which meant that Frankfurt only played with 9 players. It was too late for Frankfurt and they had to accept this defeat and at the same time failed to shift Leipzig in the standings.

The next sanction has not yet been announced by EPL. The chance for everton to be relegated is really big right now caused by the club keep get more and more losses. Everton needs to collect as many points as possible caused by the club needs to survive in EPL. I can imagine that if everton gets another 10 points deduction from EPL.
It will make the way for everton to leave from the relegation zone become even harder than before. Im not saying it's impossible but seeing the fact that we are moving forward to the end of season is making the situation even worst than before.

I hope that everton will be coming back again soon with a better performance. It is caused by this club must have gotten as numerous points as possible to prevent the club to be relegated. If i were everton's coach and i have been announcing to surrender from my job.
It is quite overwhelming as we are currently dealing with numerous pressures that have all surfaced at once, and it seems that another one is quickly approaching.

Pochentino apart from forcing himself to manage his own club, is also actually under pressure because the Premier League is a much more difficult competition and will always be a challenge for him to develop. However, with Chelsea condition, which can be said to be building from scratch, don't expect too much for the first season with a transition and composition of players like this. The point is for Blues fans they have to be patient because the club in Boehly hands will find it difficult to develop, after all he doesn't understand football. It would be a different story if it were still held by Abramovich, under whose control Chelsea is very structured and can manage the club well, especially regarding player selection. Currently in 10th place, Chelsea can only finish at least 6th or 8th at the end of the season even if in the future they can show changes for the better but if on the contrary it continues to decline then it does not rule out the possibility of Chelsea finishing 13th or 15th in the standings.