Secure one points its looks not enough for Atalanta although success qualify to next round but they have face with playoff round, I don't think Atalanta won't finish on 2nd placed behind with great opportunity for finishing 1st position automatically will be on 16th round. Atalanta have 3 points remaining from Sporting Lisbon, its looks excited upcoming match both teams will face each other and the winner has close potential with first position finish place.

I think chance for Sturm Graz team depend with the match result between Atalanta vs Udinese, could be little help for Sturm Graz if Atalanta defeated Sporting Lisbon and they win over Raków Częstochowa. If above result on next match happening will be excited on the last match between Sporting Lisbon vs Sturm Graz due the winner will qualify as playoff round, Sporting on crucial position right now and their upcoming match result will be important for their participants in next round of Europe League.

I also hope that everything will work out for him in Real Madrid. On the one hand, he is very young for such a high position, but on the other hand, if you look at his achievements (two Champions Leagues with different clubs + a World Cup and two European titles), you can see that dominance is something he has been familiar with for a long time. Plus, how steep a path he had as a player will make his authority as a coach undeniable.

Real Madrid is trying to find a replacement for Dani Carvajal.
Recently one important thing for Real Madrid has been to have a good right-back player for a long time and that's why they are trying to find a young player for it.
Trent Alexander-Arnold is the player they want to hire and Real Madrid is ready to pay 80 million euros for him.

Pep Guardiola had difficulty finding the right player to replace the injured De Bruyne, so he often rotated one player with another for the same purpose.

I would also add that gambling can be seen as hope.

Hope that at some point in the future things might be better if you are lucky.

That's what casinos provide, hope, for many people. It costs a lot of money in the end, but the effect on the brain is real.

I can't believe you are trying to use the H2H statistic under these circumstances. No matter what these statistics say, wouldn't you agree that the Chelsea club we are seeing these days has nothing to do with the Chelsea from two years ago? In the season before last season Chelsea finished third in the Premier League and had 6 losses for the whole season. They now stand at four losses and three draws after eleven games. It's really useless to go and look what happened in the last few games when they played against each other. It is useless up to the point that I wonder why some people think it makes sense to look at that. Everyone is talking about Chelsea because they are so bad that people are speechless.

You are probably right, but the tricky thing here is that retrospectively it is naturally easier to tell whether a player's transfer price was justified or not. But I think this could also be misleading because what would someone say when Mason Mount explodes and his performances develop into a never seen before level in three months from now? When a club signs a striker and that striker scored 30 goals and then scores 15 goals, it would be too easy to say that the transfer price should have been half of what has been paid.

But I think you are pointing towards a problem that more generally exists and not only the transfer price for Mason Mount was too high, but probably for 99% of the players the transfer prices were too high because the system has been flooded with tons of money recently. I thought about this too and whether these prices can ever be earned through success in football and merchandise sales and viewership in the stadiums etc., but my inner voice says that this system is consuming more than it generates. But my insight is too little to really have an educated opinion on that.

Don't forget that Girona had an amazing performance so far in this season and their performance was even better than Real Madrid's in the 12 games they had so far. However Girona doesn't have the potential to win the title of La Liga in this easo but they be definitely a good competitor for Real Madrid and Barcelona and I think even if they play against Real Madrid, this can't be easy to be precited.

quite a reasonable statement and in fact Girona does have the opportunity to win the title in La Liga to eliminate the boredom when every season you only see Barcelona or Real Madrid leading at the top of the standings and I cannot deny that Girona can reach the top of the standings with good performance. quite consistent because Girona does not have scheduled matches in other competitions unlike Real Madrid, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid who currently have to focus on several competitions and this opportunity is utilized very well by Girona and it is very surprising after the return of this team in the season 2017/2018 is only this season which is able to provide extraordinary achievements.

With the big margins win by Chelsea, I'm not yet saying Chelsea is evolving.

See you next week, Manchester City will beat you.

NIce continued their unbeaten run by winning this week's match at home to Rennes. The game was evenly matched, but Nice played more effectively and they were able to create goals from the chances they created. While Rennes several times they tried to create goals but could still be stopped by the defense built by Nice.
It's amazing what Nice have achieved so far, because they can consistently win points from every match they play. They are the only unbeaten club so far, they also have a solid defense, it's just that their shortcomings are on the front lines that still cannot be more productive in creating goals.

I think the so said decline of PSG is not set in stone yet. They are playing erratically so far, but I believe if they can stabilize their game over the coming weeks, we might be talking differently about them very soon. They do have potential and in my opinion that is out of of the question, but can they play their best game over several weeks and months? That great win against AC Milan, that win away which wasn't easy against Stade Brest and then the crystal clear performance against Montpellier, I think this is the PSG team that should be paid some respect to. I want to see how they can do in the next few games and maybe we should still not underestimate them in the Champions League either yet.

I only saw how much time they took when they made the decision about that goal and whether it was 1) a foul or 2) offside. The offside decision took too long in my opinion because it wasn't offside. But in general I think there is nothing to say against the VAR taking a lot of time to make the right decision, but it is confusing for sure. The commentator said they gave the goal because they have no conclusive evidence against it. That was word for word what he said.

Now when did this situation happen during the game in the above picture with the ball that was supposedly out? I missed that one but was it out 100%? I think it is a disgrace that there are still missing camera angles to make reliable decisions in the aftermaths. There is so much technology available and it could easily be upgraded where necessary that these things should not happen.

Manchester United currently lack of quality defenders, I don't think they will sell Varane to Al Nassr. It make sense when they want to sell Sancho and Mount because this both players are failed transfers. Even though Varane isn't a starter, he could be used as a substitute player since starting eleven players will not always healthy or never get any injured.

Ter Stegan made some quality saves for Barcelona to keep the game leveled until Barcelona found a way finally to put that goal at the back of the net.
Gundogans importance in the club can not be overlooked, he brings so much balance and quality in the game. Midfielder's who get that paranoid in games have standards, yes it's good to control your emotions but if you don't play to that high standard how do you win and maintain balance.

Long balls gave you the win last night, No? Lol.
I don't want to say too much, but I honestly hope Barcelona gets to the top. I'd love to see them successfully defending the La Liga Spanish League tittle.

The refereeing decision was the main talking point yesterday and it’s disingenuous to push it to the background. I have come to the realization that the Premier League officiating won’t change. It will get worse. It’s become a business now and the people that should call it out are all hiding behind microphones. Sometimes I don’t like talking about all these ref/VAR issue. What we are seeing now is Nothing. The shit show has been on for 10+ years at least and it won't stop.

There were so many error scenes from VAR during the game but they somehow managed to overlook them. I don’t know how the VAR officials missed Bruno elbow, how they did not review the foul on Gabriel Magalhaes, but went for an offside is absolute shock, it seems like it was a mission to make Arsenal lose.
Arsenal was really into the game. They were the better side if you ask me. Yes there are things they could have done better attacking wise. But defensively they were on point. I think Arsenal did not lose that game because they did not play well. They lost that game because they were robbed. Simple as ABC.

But this approach to judging how strong a team really is can also have its pitfalls. If two teams like Manchester City and Real Madrid dominate their domestic league games and they play against each other in the first round of the knockout round, one team will inevitably get knocked out from the competition. But I think it would be wrong to then say that one team is necessarily much weaker than the other team unless one of them got humiliated by the other team. It really depends on how the season is going and at what point in time the big teams face each other.

But I concur with you that dominating Ligue 1 tells nothing about the strength of PSG on the European stages when they face the top teams from other national leagues. The only competition to give answers to that question is the Champions League.