Al-Ittihad announced their new coach after Nuno Espirito Santo to be Marcelo Gallardo (El Muneco) who was engaged for a year and a half with the team. El Muneco was training River Plate before and hopefully he will be as successful with his new club. Nuno was sacked since Al-Ittihad results weren't good lately and because of disputes between him and his players namely Benzema. His first match with the team will be away vs Al-Ettifaq which is quite good team. A hard test to start with  I have just read this news too that Al Ittihad management was feel dissapoint to Nuno Espirito Santo because he was unable to bringing Al Ittihad to performing well and under Nuno Espirito Santo Al Ittihad at Saudi Pro League only able to occupy 5th place and gets 3 loses so they had decided to sacked him and hire Marcelo Gallardo as new manager and previously Marcelo Gallardo was train River Plate for 8 years and total under Gallardo River Plate can gets 14 trophies including 2 Copa Libertadores trophy so if we see from Gallardo achievement i think he is experience manager with plenty of trophies so probably his is the right manager to Al Ittihad however Gallardo will be at Al Ittihad until 2025 and he has 1 year contract extension option |
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It seems, although Liverpool have a chance to get the Europa League trophy this season, but somehow I feel Liverpool will still find it difficult to get it. Because as far as I remember, that Liverpool quite often slipped when playing in important matches or in decisive matches. Therefore, although I also believe at this moment Liverpool have a chance to be able to advance to the final match, but on the other hand I not entirely sure. Because yes, that performance instability can be a problem for Liverpool over time but yes, hopefully a bad case like that doesn't happen this time.
I actually still feel that there will always be surprises in the Europa League. Indeed for now Liverpool are the strongest candidates in getting champions in the Europa League but on the other hand we also know in the previous few seasons things like this have also always existed for other clubs such as in the last 2 seasons where Barcelona have always been the strongest candidates to get the trophy but in the end they must also be willing to hand over the trophy to Frankfurt and Sevilla who unexpectedly managed to win in every match conducted. The same goes for now. Currently, Liverpool are very comfortable to qualify for the next phase and just waiting for some other names to move to the Europa League from the Champions League but when that happens the probability that happens becomes the difference because there could be another superior club that will eventually drop to become the strongest challenger or even there is a club in the Europa League now that becomes a dark horse. Every season there always be surprising results in this competitions because you can see based on the champion lists in the last 10 years that some of teams just like Frankfurt, Villarreal or Sevilla is not the favourite to being an the champion of Europa League but in fact they can beat strong teams in the final matches and successfully to gets the trophies and this season too although currently Liverpool, Leverkusen or even Roma is the favourite and at group stages these teams had impressive performance and unstoppable but don't mean one of them can be easily to gets the trophy and their journey will be more hard after facing knockout stages especially after group stages ended 8 teams from champion league will joining through an play off matches |
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France won 14 goals without a single goal in return coming from Gibraltar. France recorded 7 wins from 7 matches. In the closing qualifying match in Group B, France will play against Greece, which has no chance of qualifying from Group B because the Netherlands after getting a narrow win over Ireland and the Netherlands will have an easy match against Gibraltar.
Mbappe hattrick, Coman and Giroud scores 2 goals this is indeed very fantastic result from France although they have already to qualified but France didn't holding back and if i am not mistaken this is the highest scores during qualification stages and with this result France have already scores 27 goals they are also the second team with the most goals during qualification and other match in the same group Netherlands have to hard struggle to collect 3 points from Ireland that playing without some of their key players Netherlands taking initiative to playing more attacking since early minutes and they can able to leading the game by Weghorst goal at 11 minutes and this is the only goal were happened today and next match will be so easy for Netherlands because they only fight against the weakest team in group B Gibraltar and certainly Netherlands will beat Gibraltar and qualified to Euro 2024 along with France |
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Injuries in several key players made AC Milan performance in Serie A in five matches worrying, not only that in the Champion League their performance is also not too impressive. Regarding Alessandro Florenzi, the news is not very clear but I heard from the local media abot Florenzi there is no strong evidence that man gambling on football, and it seems that his statement about didn't do any football gambling seems like honest as it is.
Ac milan is in a state of attacking crisis because they only rely on Giroud and Leao, which if these two players are absent, Ac milan will have difficulty finding the right replacement. Well, in the upcoming match, two of Ac milan mainstay players on the front line will be absent and we will see how Ac milan will perform without Giroud and Leao in next week match. If they lose again then there is no hope for them to be able to compete strongly with Inter milan in the race for the Scudetto. Pioli will probably rely on Pulisic in next week match against Fiorentina. Pulisic is expected to be able to perform well in next week match because he has just recovered from injury. Even though this match will be held at Ac milan headquarters, I am not sure that Ac milan can beat Fiorentina because Ac milan failed to win in the last 4 match, so there is a big possibility this match will end in a draw. Giroud will be absense in the next 2 matches because of suspension and Leao will be expected return to play when Milan fight against Frosinone later so Pioli doesn't have many option for forward lines and indeed Pulisic can be played with Chukwueze to replace Giroud and Leao position but Pulisic has just return from the injured so it's risky to playing him since the beginning of match and actually Milan has Luca Jovic but this player hasn't able to performing well and this season Jovic even didn't scored a single goal in Serie A and with the current conditions from Milan i think this match will be so difficult especially Fiorentina is a tough opponent for them and i have been noticed sometimes Fiorentina can able to performing well against big team and it proven from their recent matches results that Fiorentina can beat Napoli few weeks ago so Milan should be carefull to Fiorentina |
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Richarlison has started to be linked with Saudi Arabia as a possible January transfer according to news. However I wouldn't expect this to happen. I mean Tottenham wouldn't like to let him go in the middle of the season in the first place. Even next summer they would think twice before letting this transfer happen.
Because they would need to find another good striker to fill his place in the squad. He is also one of the important members of the attacking line now. They would need to find the best replacement for him to make it worth for letting him go. But I'm curious about whether they have had any such alternative in mind so far.
Richarlison currently is still got injured and he even didn't play when Tottenham lose from Wolves and Richarlison indeed can be played as a centre striker but during this season Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou hasn't trust him to playing regular for each matches because for that position Postecoglou is more likely to trust Son Heung-min rather than him even when Tottenham against Chelsea Richarlison was on the bench but Postecoglou didn't played him and in my opinion Richarlison is a failed transfer for Tottenham because since he moved from Everton Richarlison was never able to performing well with Tottenham and the records 2 goals from 37 matches during defend Tottenham has proven he is not a good player for Tottenham and if some of teams from Saudi Pro League want him i think Tottenham should be release him and they have to look for other players who much better than Richarlison |
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Netherlands will fight against Ireland today and Netherlands is really required to win because they have equal points to Greece now so if they want to finish at second place under France then they have to keep winning in the remaining matches of qualification stages and curently Netherlands having some issue especially injured players because at least 8 players from Netherlands who gets injured and will not be available for today match
Actually a bit worried to see Netherlands conditions today because mostly the players who not available for today match is defender players so hopefully Van Gaal will be able to solved this issue because for defensive lines he hasn't gets many options but indeed regardless all of it Netherlands is still the favourite especially their recent performance and head to head statstics was more better than Ireland and for betting options as the favourite Netherlands has low odds @1.23
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Real Madrid was unlucky on the FIFA day and in the game between Colombia and Brazil, they got another injured player, 27 minutes after the start of the game, Vinicius Junior, the Brazilian player of Real Madrid couldn't continue the game against Colombia and this is bad news for Real Madrid because Vinicius Junior was recently in the good form and he is definitely an effective player for his team.  Vinicius condition is still doubtful because Brazil national team hasn't published yet how bad the injured which Vinicius gets and indeed this is quite bad for Real Madrid because during this season this is the second time Vinicius has been injured and as important player Real Madrid is really needed Vinicius and if i am not mistaken so far at least 8 players Real Madrid currently who got injured including Bellingham and the latest is Vinicius so this situation is very unexpected because they required all of the players to pursuing Girona on standings league and apparently for upcoming match against Cadiz later Real Madrid will playing without some of their important players and this is not good because possibly Real Madrid had a potention to be slipped |
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The previous landslide victory against Celtic put Atletico in first place in Group E with 8 points. However, this will not guarantee that they can qualify easily because the competition is still open with two other teams, namely Lazio and Feyenoord, who have collected 7 and 6 points respectively. These three teams each have a difference of 1 to 2 points and the remaining two matches will determine the fate of these three teams to qualify for the round of 16.
In my opinion, Atletico is still the favorite to qualify considering they are in the top 16 of the Champions League and maybe in second place we will see an exciting competition between Lazio and Feyenoord. Actually I prefer Feyenoord to qualify with Atletico, but sometimes Lazio's mentality in this competition cannot be underestimated and they have a good defense. So, I hope there will be surprises in group E later which will be no less exciting than the other groups.
Just like i said before the competition for the team who will be qualified in group E is belongs to 3 teams Atletico Madrid, Feyenoord and Lazio so these teams had equal chances to qualified but indeed if we see from the schedules Atletico Madrid is more hard compared to Lazio this because Atletico Madrid upcoming match is against Feyenoord although in the first meeting Feyenoord was lose but this team cannot easily to beated and at home Feyenoord records was very fantastic that from 8 latest home matches Feyenoord can able to gets 7 wins so these records is proven Feyenoord was very strong during playing at their home ground and even i was thinking probably Feyenoord can able to overcomes Atletico Madrid and if this really happend then Atletico Madrid will be in a difficult situation especially for 6th match they have to fight against Lazio |
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Italy has no other way, they have to win to avoid Ukraine because they both have 13 points while England has secured first place, even though Italy won today they have to go through one more important match somehow they have to beat Ukraine while Ukraine can sometimes surprise anyone like when they draw against England, basically, this match will be very interesting and decisive.
Italy were able to score many goals in their game against North Macedonia. No surprises if Italy are able to win Ukraine and Join England to qualify from their group. I will prefer Italy to qualify because they have been in the Euro before and won the competition, they will bring more Entertainment and uncertainty to the competition when they play because Italy as a team can cause problems to other big National teams in Europe. With this result Italy has just open their opportunities to qualified and because they good from head to head statistics from Ukraine then Italy can able to occupy second place under England and if i am not mistaken Italy also more comfortable for the match against Ukraine later because draw result is enough for them to finish at second place under England and qualified to Euro 2024 On the other hand at group E Albania only able to playing draw against Moldova and this is dissapoint result because in the first half Albania can leading the game but because Moldova player Baboglo can equalized the score then both teams have to satisfied to get 1 point each but Albania chances to qualified is still wide open especially after Poland only can able to gets draw result Czech and for Poland finally their journey have to ended that they were through an 8 matches with only collect 11 points which make they were unable to qualified |
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Bayern Leverkusen is currently a formidable and very promising team to win either trophies and I think that's their target this season, they play like they really want to end the season with a trophy because when we compare their performance in both leagues, they are doing really good topping at not leagues.
Imagine if Leverkusen can become a trilogy (win Bundesliga, Europa and DFB Pokal) this really a huge achievement for them since they haven't get any trophy since 1992. Do you think which is the easiest league from the three league I mentioned before? I choose Europa league because seeing Bayern Munich to lose looks impossible lol. Leverkusen fans were enjoyed this because they have seen Leverkusen can able to occupy first place for weeks in Bundesliga and for the trophies indeed some people doubt Leverkusen will be able to maintain their performance until end of season because it's hard to broke the domination of Bayern Munich but for Europa league Leverkusen is one of the strong candidate to win the trophy moreover Leverkusen performance was very impressive during group stages and everything still possible to do so but if Xabi Alonso really gets the trophy with this team then he will made new history Leverkusen have already to qualified to the next round so they will be more comfortable to facing 5th matches against FC Hacken later because Leverkusen have to target anymore however FC Hacken is not strong opponent for Leverkusen especially for first met Leverkusen can able to win with big scores and i think the result of this match will not so different because most likely Leverkusen will going to win this match |
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Dortmund upcoming opponent is Mönchengladbach but this match will not be easy for Dortmund because if we see from head to head statistics Mönchengladbach can able to beat Dortmund several times besides that Mönchengladbach also has showing impressive performance recently because from 4 recent matches Mönchengladbach still unbeatable and for Dortmund conceded 6 goals and scored 1 goal in the last 2 marches is not impressive records for them and if Dortmund want to joining with Bayern and Leverkusen for race title i think they should be immediatelly to bounce back and as a host Dortmund is the favourited to win the match but i don't think Mönchengladbach will be easily to beated and since losing Bellingham Dortmund performance was decline and unstable so this is big challenge for Dortmund later whether they can able to overcomes Mönchengladbach or Dortmund will be failed to win
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Nico Williams, who plays for Athletic Bilbao, has been on the radar of big teams for a long time. Real Madrid and Barcelona will enter the transfer race for Nico Williams, who is one of my favorite players. Big teams from other countries are also watching for Williams, whose contract will expire at the end of the season. Athletic Bilbao could send him off at Winter transfer season to make money on him. It would be a shame if they can't earn a transfer fee from such a star player. I think Nico Williams should go to a team where he can play in the first 11 all the time. It would be bad for his career if he goes to Real Madrid and gets lost in the rotation. He shouldn't be transferred to teams with many similar players in the same position. I dream of him in Arsenal or Barcelona, it would be very positive for both him and these teams.
Nico Williams was targetting by Real Madrid but he was playing at Bilbao currently and when playing at Bilbao Nico Williams mostly played as a winger and actually Real Madrid has Vinicius as a winger so this transfer probably is not too necessary because Real Madrid has several players in the winger position but if i am not mistaken next summer Nico Williams contract will be expired with Bilbao so his status as free transfer later and because Real Madrid will gets him from free so Williams can be used as substitutions players for Vinicius or other players and to maintain Real Madrid's squad depth i think Real Madrid should be buy him |
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After international break Milan as a host will play against Fiorentina and recently Milan has 3 consecutive without the winning results in Serie A and the latest is they were unable to win from Lecce and actually Milan want to bounce back through an this match but Fiorentina also in the good shape especially Fiorentina has just beat dark horses team Bologna so my prediction this match will be so tight
Milan conditions isn't quite good because some of their players were defend their national team so i am sure some them will be fatigue when return to Milan and not impossible Pioli will do some rotation to faced this match so it's clearly if we see from fitness conditions Fiorentina is more good compared to Milan and actually as a host Milan is the favourite because from 2 recent meeting at Milan home ground they always be wins from Fiorentina so let see whether Milan will be able return to winning ways or they will be return to slipped again
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Italy will fight against North Macedonia today and win result is mandatory for Italy if they want to qualified but North Macedonia apparently is not weak opponent for them because in the last 3 matches Italy was unable to beat North Macedonia so this is hard match for Italy and if they draw or even lose then Italy will not be qualified so they have to collect 3 points from this match
About team condition Italy was a bit unlucky because some of their players were got injured even Spaletti has been confirmed that Manuel Locatelli and Alessandro Bastoni certainly will not be available but today Juventus player Federico Gatti will replace Bastoni position on the team and Moise Kean also in the good fitness and probably will be played since the beginning of match and i was a bit surprised to see the odds for Italy because the bookmakers provided low odds for them @1.15
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Lewandowski is now very old and his quality has really declined, especially this season, plus there is no strong support from his team, so it is very difficult for Lewandowski to be able to lift the team's performance, especially the front line, alone.
I don't believe Robert Lewandowski drop in performance at FC Barcelona is due to old age, I just feel like he has been finding it difficult to get acquainted with Barcelona's play pattern like when he was in Bayern Munich, all their pattern of play was mainly on counter attack and it works very well for him over there and that's why he had a good goal scoring record in Bayern Munich. Now coming to Barcelona and seeing that Barcelona doesn't play same pattern of football with Bayern Munich killed his spirit because Barcelona play pattern is always playing an entertaining football before hitting the net. So considering the energy he played with while in Bayern Munich and the energy he's playing with in Barcelona they ain't the same at all. In Barcelona only Lewandowski who consistent to scores goals but recently his performance was decline and i think admittedly or not Lewandowski is past his prime because he is not young anymore so people don't too expect more if he can always be performing well for each season just like when he was playing at Bayern Munich besides that Xavi tactical was different compared to when he was playing at Bayern Munich and this season Lewandowski has been got injured several times so it makes he still unable to find his shape again and i think it's time to Barcelona to look for new striker this winter because it's not good too rely on Lewandowski only for each matches |
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Albania journey during qualification stages was very impressive that at group E actually Albania is not the favourite because most people were thought Czech or Poland will be qualified to Euro 2024 but surprisingly Albania can able to taking over first position and from 6 matches Albania has successfully to collect 13 points even they can able to beat Czech and Poland so this is impressive achievement from Albania and if Albania qualify then they will equal to their 2016 achievement because at that time Albania finish at 2nd place on group standings for qualification stages and go to Euro 2016
Abania upcoming opponent is Moldova and this should be a easy match for Albania because since 2019 both teams has been meet 3 times and Albania can able to win all of those matches and the bookmakers provide good odds for Albania @1.76 i think this good odds to bet
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Tottenham as a host will play against Aston Villa later and i think this is interesting match because surprisingly Tottenham cannot last long to occupy first place even last week they have to lose against Wolves and Tottenham opponent Aston Villa has just gets different result because Aston Villa last week can able to beat Fulham at their home ground
One of the causes why Tottenham performance was decline because they losing some players especially James Maddison that this player has important role why Tottenham performance was so fantastic even without Kane but when Maddison got injured seems it greatly affects to the performance of Tottenham because they were suffering 2 losing streak without this player but Aston Villa away matches records also not quite good because they have been experienced 2 loses from away matches and probably Tottenham will realized these records and they can beat Aston Villa and return to winning ways
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2023/24 La Liga season has been quite an entertainment so far. Girona is leading the league race for this season up until now. but, will Girona end the year on top? After 13 matches, Girona is 2 points ahead at the top, with Real Madrid and Barcelona close behind. Barcelona, aiming to defend their title, unfortunately hasn't had the best performances this season. while, Atletico and Real Madrid, their closest challengers, have been pretty convincing so far. Girona is having their best season yet, but some tough games are coming up for this season dark horse. Can they go all the way against the big boys? Exciting times ahead in La Liga!
I am quite skeptical about Girona’s results, so far they have managed to stay in the lead well, but they had a good game schedule before, among the top teams they only played against Sociedad and Real Madrid and lost points in both matches. Soon they will have to play with Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, I think that these matches can become decisive, because if they also lose points in these matches, they will most likely lose the lead to Real Madrid, but they will be able to remain in the top 4. And if they can win these matches, then I admit that this could be a serious bid for the title, although there is still a lot of time until the end of the championship and everything can change. I am curious want to see how far Girona can able to managed their performance and for next weekend Girona will fight against Bilbao and this match also will be tested their consistency because Bilbao also recently has been showing impressive performance with gets 3 winning streak in all competitions and during this season i was amazed to see Girona players mentally because they had made epic comeback several times and won the match And for December i can see Girona has tight schedule because on that month Girona will fight against Barcelona and Betis which is categorized as strong team so i am looking forward to see their performance later but my prediction Girona possibly will lose from Barcelona and indeed Girona most likely will not take a part for championship race with Barcelona or Real Madrid because it's only a matter of time to see they slipped but in my opinion at least at the end of this season Girona will finish at european zone |
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Arsenal was surprisingly lose from Lens few weeks ago and after international break they will try to get revenge from Lens in the 5th match and if Arsenal win from Lens they will be automatically qualified and most likely finish at first position but Lens also had same ambition because if they can able to beat Arsenal then Lens has just open their opportunity to qualified and after beated PSV last week Lens can able to bounce back and won from Marseille with narrow scores at Ligue 1 even so with Arsenal that recently they got 2 consecutive wins in all competitions so this is interesting who will be the winner of this match and i assume as a host Arsenal will being an the favourite
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Napoli's decision to appoint Rudi Garcia as coach was very hasty. They shouldn't have signed Garcia to manage the team if he didn't end up having half a season of experience under his belt, so I think that was a really bad decision. Garcia's reputation as a coach is not very reliable, he only won 2 titles in the 2010/2011 season with Lille.
Napoli must be able to bring in a great coach to replace Rudi Garcia. They are a strong team with good quality players, so it would be a shame if they were not handled by a great coach then it would only damage their performance and success from season to season. Antonio Conte looks like he could be the most suitable, but I don't know if Napoli can convince him considering he is a former coach of Juventus, Inter and Atalanta.
I am expected with Antonio Conte will be new Napoli manager after sacking Rudi Garcia, but former of Inter Milan and Watford Walter Mazzarri become Napoli manager left of this season. Actually he was experienced manager but not really special achievement during few moment become Inter Milan manager but lets waiting his contribution will success make Napoli in tittle race or not. I think difficult with financial its problem why Napoli can't sign Antonio Conte as manager, actually he will ask higher payment salary due his reputation won many tittles since become Juventus, Chelsea and Inter Milan manager. Walter Mazzarri need waiting two week later to make his debut as Napoli manager, international break out make him need few days later to show his capacity as Napoli management give him coach position is right or not. Walter Mazzarri has signs short term contract with Napoli until end of this season and Napoli more likely won't give him contract extension because they want to look for new manager after Serie A ended but Napoli until now still attempts trying to convince Conte that they really want him as new manager of Napoli however just like i said before Napoli under Mazzari was not quite bad because he has been bringing this team reach to runner up position at that time and Napoli also knowed as big team in Europe because him and i think Napoli has good decision when they choose Mazzari as the replacement of Rudi Garcia |
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