I don't know what Harry Maguire has experienced this season until he finally won the EPL best player award for November. This was a turning point for Harry Maguire, who last season was ridiculed, criticized, and even had his career threatened at Manchester United because of a serious blunder he made.

However, he never gave up and was able to prove to his coach and colleagues that he still deserved to be in the Red Devils squad. He has also had competition to get starters and he has also managed to get rid of Raphael Varane in terms of defense. Well, great job Harry Maguire and I hope he can be more stable in helping Manchester United's defense this season.

It seems that Arsenal have found a strong candidate to replace Thomas Partey who will leave in January and he is Fulham's defensive midfielder, Joao Palhinha. Of course we are familiar with this player because last summer his transfer to Bayern Munich was almost completed if there were no problems with the transfer at that time. Bayern Munich is also still making Joao Palhinha their next target and this looks like there will be competition for top European clubs to secure his services.

I think this Portuguese player is indeed suitable as a replacement for Thomas Partey and Mikel Arteta will definitely convince Joao Palhinha to come to the Emirates stadium. His market value is also not that expensive at 55 million euros and perhaps Fulham will ask for more money from any team that wants to sign him later.

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Challenging for the scudetto, are only consistent clubs that stands to become very competitive, no strong hand can easily win other than from mere luck. Massimiliano Allegri is doing a great job for the club, atleast he has top-up his game and this time around, he's aiming to win the Scudetto from Inter Milan, it will be a long top-notch competition between these two clubs. Juventus appeared to be struggling but they're currently second position on the Seria A table this season, such good news for Bianconeri this season. Juventus next game is Napoli, you thinking what I'm expecting? Napoli will definitely lose to them because they're not in form.

This winter apparently Arsenal will focusing to gets new midfielder player this because Thomas Partey still got injured and Jorginho also most likely will leave Arsenal this January so Arteta want to make new midfielder as Arsenal priority and recently Arsenal was linked to Aston Villa player Douglas Luiz this because they were impress to Luiz performance this season especially after he can able to bringing Aston Villa to performing well in Premier league and actually Aston Villa was agree to release this player but Douglas Luiz price will be very expensive because if Arsenal buy him the price shouldn't be less than 80 millions but Douglas Luiz still hasn't give a statement regarding this rumour but i think if this really happend it could be a good transfer for Arsenal because i have been watching Douglas Luiz performance during this season and his performance was really impressive

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is said to be open for offers coming to Casemiro, Sancho and Varane.

I understand the Sancho situation because he can't find middle way with the manager so he is expected to leave as soon as possible. But I don't know whether they really need to part ways with the other two players I said. It is true that both of them don't play like in the past. But they are still qualified players who can improve their performances in time. If they send both of them they had better find really solid alternatives.

Well, so far in the Champions League, they have been performing well. You know that the performance in the Champions League is very different from the performance in English Premier League. But the thing is, so far in the Champions League, Manchester City was facing weaker opponents, to be honest. Even if we don't want to say weaker opponents, we have to say that the competition was relatively easier compared to what it is going to be in the next stages of the competition.

And the performance in the English Premier League has definitely been pretty bad for them. Only one win in the last five matches. I don't think Manchester City is going to lose both titles, to be honest. If they see that they are not being able to play consistently in the English Premier League, they are going to concentrate on the Champions League, which is going to give them more chance in the Champions League in my opinion.

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Tottenham also lost to West Ham home which wasn't expected for me at all. Their general performance was really not convincing at all. Son wasn't having a good day as well but I think he should have still stayed on the pitch until the end of the game. While you are 2-1 behind you need your best scorers on the pitch to have more chance.

Just as Manchester City Tottenham are also continuing on a horrible streak in the league now. I'm curious about where they will finally put an end to this. Especially Manchester City are trying their best to make things difficult to become the champions.

I think Real Madrid's job won't be easy at all this week. Because they are playing an away game against Betis. The games between these teams have nearly always ended up with close scores. Betis have mostly been a challenging opponent for Real Madrid. I think this can be seen again at least in this away game.

Betis are one of the least losing teams this season. Because of getting too many draws they are at the seventh position in the standings. However if they get even one point against Real Madrid that would be in favour of them. There is a possibility for this in my opinion and I don't want to risk my betslip by adding Real Madrid win to it.

I think Sancho and Erik Ten Hag's egos are the same size and even though in the end everyone has to submit to the coach's decision, it seems that in Sancho's case he has openly rejected Erik Ten Hag's presence as his coach at Manchester United. We don't know for sure the root of the problem, which is clearly about the discipline that Erik ten Hag wants for all his players and here Sancho seems to be so careless at Manchester United. If Sancho really doesn't want to play for Manchester United, he should be ready to be sold and the club must be firm in taking action.

The relationship between Sancho and Erik ten Hag will not improve even if he is only loaned to Juventus and I agree that Manchester United should sell him and be prepared to make a loss if Juventus' offer is low enough to get him.

I think City should have done more in order to try and keep Gundogan in their team, they miss his impact so much in their midfield, Mahrez is also an important player they let go, but i think Jeremy Doku has been a good replacement thus far. But City have failed to replace Gundogan, Kovacic and Nunes are not so good and there is no way they can be replacements for Gundogan.

Right now City do not look themselves and if they continue to play like this, they will find it almost impossibe to retain their title. But it is too early to write off the treble winners, we have seen it happen too many times, were City are behind for a long time and then they start winning games consecutively and end up winning the title, it could happen again.

There has already been some improvement in Aubameyang's performance recently. That hat-trick against Ajax must have improved his morale a lot before anything else. By this great performance in the Lyon game as well he has increased his streak of scoring at least one goal to three games. 1 goal and 2 assists were enough to make him the man of the match.

PSG's next game is against Nantes home. I see another comfortable win for them already. Nice have a home game against Reims on the other hand. I think Nice's job is quite difficult and they might lose two points. Their streak of not losing a game in the league lasted 13 games by the way. 

Will Leverkusen next week remain strong in the match against VfB Stuttgart later, because Stuttgart was in their best performance in the previous week, this will be a fierce battle in the next match, of course both teams don't want to lose points in the next match, Of course, if Leverkusen loses, of course Bayern Munich will be in first place, if they win against Eintracht Frankfurt then their points will remain the same, namely 35 points. Leverkusen only lost on goal difference, if Stuttgart wins the next match of course the points will be narrower (smaller) with a difference of 2 points. Of course, if the difference in points between teams gets smaller, the opportunity is wide open for anyone to win the league this year.

Liverpool is of a better choice of wining the EUFA Europa cup this season, their performance has been stable in their recent games both in the premier league and the Europa cup competition, and I don't see any team capable of stopping their title race in Europe this season. Arsenal too is also doing well and terms of performance currently they are a bit ahead of Liverpool, but I kind of think that as the league progresses Liverpool will be ahead of the Arsenal team in the league.

I really don't see Girona lifting the laliga title, in as much as I wouldn't want to talk down on any team owing to the fact that sometimes wonders do happen in football just like in case of Leicester city in the premier league some years ago, but I still do not envisage Girona winning it, perhaps it's still too early to decide because there are many game to go and many more big teams to play against and I doubt if they are going to beat any one of these big teams like Barca, Real Madrid, Athletico Madrid, real Sociedad, or Sevilla even if they are in a poor form at the moment.

Although Kvaratskhelia might be considering Real Madrid or giving them the go-ahead, I don't think they'll want him because they already have plenty of players, like three or four wing players, and are planning to add mbappe for the upcoming campaign. Real Madrid has the ideal players to play the position he is playing. Real Madrid is looking for a striker, and Kvaratshelia is a good player that any team would want. If a team in the Premier League shows interest in him, I think he will go because he deserves more. Even at Real Madrid, he won't be able to bench any players; instead, he will always be a reserve, and his career won't be as successful as it was at Napoli.

My recommendation to him is to stay with Napoli; he will undoubtedly become the team's best player as there isn't a better wing player there. If Kvaratshelia and Victor depart Napoli, Napoli will face many difficulties. I think Osimhen will leave Napoli, possibly in January, as I've been getting the impression that the other Napoli players don't want to play well with him anymore because they know he's going to leave the team.

After seeing Manchester City's performance recently I started to doubt their future performances in the Champions League also. Because there is a huge decline in their performance. After getting 3 draws in a row in the Premier League they played a horrible game against Aston Villa. They were not much different than a ghost on the pitch. 

If Guardiola can't make this team recover as soon as possible I'm really worried about their future in the season. They might finish it without a big title.

I wonder what the reason behind has been so far. Because everything started all of a sudden and still goes on badly for many weeks.

Back in the old days, there were a lot talents which can solo carrying their teams, but it's not gonna possible again in modern football where there's a lot strategy to overcome that. I think it's only Mbappe that can do one man show, both Osimhen and Haaland still need a support from their teammates.

I expect to see a very interesting but tight match between Newcastle and Everton tonight though Newcastle have enjoyed some good spell recently by getting a draw from Paris and also beating Manchester united in the EPL, so I expect them to win this one tonight but I don't think it's gonna be a walk in the park for them due to the fact that Everton would have the home advantage and would seek to stop Newcastle from taking home all 3 points at the goodison park  tonight.

Even though the match ended in 3:0 in favour of the home team Marseille, I think it would be a big risk if you gambled on Lyob to beat Marseille considering their poor form and their performance since the start of the season. Lyon is at the bottom of the table yet they don't show any sign of getting out of the bottom place because they keep losing points and they get worse in every match that they play even when they don't play with big teams. From the performance of Lyon I think they are not escaping the relegation zone by the end of the season so for now they should continue to see how they can get the team back to winning ways.

What happen to Manchester City, Aston Villa successfully pressuring Manchester City and that make Manchester City can only give 3 shots. The absence of Rodri really make Manchester City looks like a mediocre club. Alvarez can still able to replace De Bruyne, but there's no one can replace Rodri even they have 3-4 defensive midfielders.

Again and again McTominay give a big contribution for Manchester United, I think he deserve to play in left wing or center forward position.

Still, the result from united will be totally determined by the match between galatasaray vs copenhagen. It doesn't even matter how many scores being made by united against bayern and it will still useless. I meant if galatasaray vs copenhagen is the key.
Without seeing it gets draw and it's impossible for manchester united to go to the next stage. It's caused by it's quite impossible for united to pass the group stage without winning against bayern + draw faced by galatasaray and copenhagen.

Im doubting MU can make it. It's quite impossible to happen.