I'm not sure why Chelsea chose to sign Aubameyang from Barcelona; he has less of a chance of succeeding in Premier League football because he lacks the necessary strength to work hard and get the ball past the defense the way he did for Arsenal in the past. Without these attributes, players like Aubameyang are worthless on the field.
I do think that decision of signing Aubameyang was only made by Thomas Tuchel, and not Chelsea entirely. The managemet of Chelsea sealed that deal due Tuchel request to buy him as at that time. The Problem with Aubameyang is age and laziness to contend the ball with the defenders. Not only Aubameyang is on laxity at Chelsea and in the front line, what about Raheem sterling?, in fact all Thomas Tuchel signings during last widows transfer open , are yet to live up to expectation. Of course the decision to buy Aubameyang or Sterling comes from Tuchel because usually the clubs mostly will giving authority to the manager for chosing the players they want including Chelsea and usually on transfer window the management will give the funds to the managers to gets some players and managers will discuss along with sport director, or technical director so this is regular mechanism for almost european clubs For Aubameyang and Sterling both of thems still unable to play satisfactorily especially Aubameyang that 1 goal from 12 matches in premier league is not reflected he is good striker and i think Tuchel recruitment players for this season was totally failed even i have to says since he train Chelsea Tuchel have made several bad purchases and you might to see the players who comes from his era such as Werner or Lukaku has failed to adapt with Chelsea so i understand now why Chelsea sacked him because he too much spend a lot of money to gets unnecessary players |
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Xavi has personally asking to the management to give contract extension to Sergio Busquets this because he feel Busquets has important role for Barcelona to achieve impressive performance this season although his performance was decline compared to several seasons ago but he always be playing regularly in Laliga or champion league so i think he deserved to gets new contract but Barcelona probably only will giving short term duration contract and why Xavi asking for this because Barcelona still had financial problem so Xavi was fear he cannot buy any players in January and that's why he more prefer to asking contract extension for the current players instead of buy players
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Last match in group A and Ecuador in the comfortable position now and draw result is enough for them to qualified and the opposite from Senegal that they have to win from Ecuador today if want to qualified and Ecuador has strong defense even in this tournament Netherlands cannot able to wins from them so i think they can beat Senegal today or at least draw and regarding betting options i will used Ecuador habit that they were often to ended the matches will lack of goals and rare to see them won with big scores and today also not so different that's why i am thinking to bet under 2.5 goals for this match
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I was interesting to see Union Berlin achievement on europa league this season that they are not the favourite teams who possibly to qualified before this because on group stage they gets 2 consecutive lose but after that Union Berlin can improved their performance with gets 4 winning streak which makes them can able to qualified and this is their highest achievement so far for Europa league
Ajax will be their opponent for playoff match and on the paper Ajax will counted as the favourite because they have more experience to playing at this competition but Union Berlin might be will provide outstanding performance so i am curious to know who will be the winner of this match
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Very dissapointing to see Serbia performance today that after leading 3-1 i thought the match will be easy for them and i was very confident they will ended the match with the winning results but Cameroon has made epic comeback and equalized the scores and with this result it's difficult for them to qualified because Switzerland probably will aiming draw results today but Brazil probably will playing without Neymar because of injured and probably Rodrygo or Gabriel Jesus can be played to his position however the odds for Brazil today was @1.50 this quite tempting me but i fear the match will ended with unpredictable results again so i will looking for other options for this match
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I think Hakim Ziyech will still be considering a move away for better opportunities and playing time because it looks like he has fallen out of favour with the new manager talking about Erik Ten Hag. At this point I doubt if he will be granted an extension for further years. I still wonder why a player like Ziyech is not getting playing times at Chelsea. He needs a chance to show how much he can help the team.
If he show a good result during training or match, of course Graham Potter will let him to play. Ziyech has been played for 3 times when Tuchel still become Chelsea's manager, it's a match between Southampton, Leeds and Dinamo Zagreb, but as you can see Ziyech doesn't score any goal, moreover his shoots is really bad. I'd say Ziyech is only lucky during world cup match, we don't know how stable his performance. Since Ziyech was arrived in Chelsea this team has changed manager twice Tuchel and Potter but none of them can giving him trust to playing for regular and Ziyech was more likely to starting the match on the bench even Ziyech is not included for Potter long term plan that's why Ziyech only playing 9 times during this season and only once time as starting lineup so this is not good for his career and the option looking for new clubs has been appears since last season but i don't know why Chelsea hold him and this winter reported Chelsea has agree to release him and AC Milan will attempts to gets him however he was playing well at world cup with Marocco so this might be considering why AC Milan want him again |
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The job Newcastle have done so far is really extraordinary for the team. I bet that the board or even the players weren't expecting themselves to be this much successful this season. Because they are in a really tough competition with the teams that have much stronger squads than Newcastle. It is of course an advantage for Newcastle that many other big teams are having inconsistent days in the league. But we must definitely appreciate the work Newcastle are doing in the meantime.
Maybe they don't have a very impressive squad at the moment due to not having much success in the Premier League for a long time. But even with the latest transfers they are able to win some big matches as well. If they keep up this performance until the end of the season their chance to bring top players will rise a lot. Joining the Champions League would play a key role in this of course.
It is still a surprise to me how well Newcastle have been performing this season and I believe even the players and staff will be surprised with the team's progress. The takeover definitely played a major role in the improvement of the team and with the signings from recent transfers the team is performing better and now able to compete with the league's top clubs. I also don't believe why they can play so impressive without a star player what is the main factor in your opinion? is it because of the coach's strategy? Newcastle did not put one of the players on the top score list but so far they have scored 29 goals also unbeaten in the last 10 matches Does Newcastle only rely on motivation and strategy as Leicester City did a few years ago? Newcastle teamworks showed they didn't rely on the particular players to playing well so that's why players statistics for Newcastle looks equal for each matches and i think Newcastle manager Eddie Howe had important role for the current performance of Newcastle that he can rebuild Newcastle rapidly especially from mentally sides that Newcastle has strong mentally under Howe that they didn't fear to faced big teams and it proven Manchester United, Tottenham and Chelsea cannot able to beat them and also he can turn this team became an strong contender for champion league zone and since he was arrived in 2021 Howe has successfully to saved Newcastle from Relegation zone and this year Newcastle performance is very impressive because can stand at 3rd on standings league although Newcastle can able to buy expensive players but Howe only buy the players for the teams needs only |
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I wonder if Milan are bringing back their old times in the Champions League. But I'm not very hopeful about that. It is still an achievement for them to make it to last 16 round. Because they couldn't do even that last season. They are just not very lucky to have a draw against Tottenham now.
Tottenham haven't been very different than Milan in the group stage in fact. But Tottenham still seem ahead of them when it comes to the game plans and lineups. There is a Conte effect for Tottenham as well. I think they will eliminate Milan.
Tottenham is undoubtedly a good team, we can call Tottenham a club full of merit. The club has the best players. Hopefully the team will be stronger after the World Cup, and then we will see a great fight with other clubs. Are you kidding by calling Tottenham a team full of achievements.? As long as Tottenham was founded in 1882, Tottenham have only won the Premier League title twice and have not even been able to win the Champions League title. Currently, Tottenham have started to improve with several star players in their squad, but Tottenham have not been able to compete with other elite clubs such as Manchester City, Real Madrid, PSG and Bayern Munich to win the Champions League. Tottenham biggest achievement on champion league was on 2019 at that time they can able reach to final match before lose from Liverpool with scores 2-0 and indeed in this competition Tottenham will recognized as mediocre team because they have no trophy for champion league but in the last 4 seasons Tottenham performance was quite impressive and always be qualified although for the trophy Tottenham was not counted as strong candidate but they have potention to makes big teams slipped and AC Milan too realized this that Tottenham is the team who cannot be easily to beat so this is interesting to see especially AC Milan that after 9 years absent from champion league i was wondering how far they can go in this competition |
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Cameroon vs Serbia that after lost in the first match both of teams will attempts to gets their first 3 points from this match and wins results is mandatory for them to keep their chances to qualified and this time Serbia is slightly the favourite than Cameroon and it proven from the odds for them
Serbia @1.77
Cameroon @5
The records from Cameroon while against european teams was quite bad maybe that's why the bookie placed them as the underdog and for Serbia so far they weren't fight against African teams so not much statistics as the reference but i still see Serbia quite better than Cameroon especially from squad quality so i hope this time Serbia can playing well and win the match and for betting option pick Serbia win seems good to be considered
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This January Liverpool has attempts to gets Barcelona player Frenkie de Jong and reported Liverpool have to spend at least 80 millions euro to gets him and Klopp admitted he really want De Jong in Liverpool because Klopp felt De Jong is complete midfielder and he can playing attacking and to defense equally better and in my opinion rather than spend plenty of money to gets Bellingham i think Liverpool should be gets him and i think De Jong can solved midfield sides from Liverpool which is one of their weaknesses this season besides that Liverpool will lost some players such as Chamberlain and Naby Keita this summer moreover he was playing well during world cup so i am confident if Liverpool can able to buy him their performance will quite better
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The first half of the Japan vs Costa Rica match has ended and the score is still a 0-0. It seems that the two teams still haven't found a gap from their respective opponents. seen throughout the match Japan and Costa rica took turns attacking and defending. a bit boring. I hope in the second half there will be more aggressive play.
80' match going on.Japan creating a lot of chance but don't score. Japan start to good playing in 2nd half.Japan Missing the little and good opportunity to score.I think, this match will be ended in draw like 0-0.But Costa Rica have some underdress in 2nd half but they have been playing well 1st half. I thought this match would end in a draw. but it turns out that Costa Rica can win this match with a 1 goal advantage. although Japan appeared more attacking in this second half. but it seems their attacks did not produce goals so the final score was 1-0 over Costa Rica's advantage. And now Japan, Spain and, Costa Rica both have 3 points. During the match Japan was controlling the game even they can gets several opportunities to scoring goals although Japan players cannot utilized it and Costa Rica has playing well to guarded their defense that their players looks focus this maybe because Costa Rica has conceded plenty of goals while against Spain so that's why they don't want to make the same mistakes and at 81 minutes Japan disaster has come that with the quick counter attack Keysher Fuller can scoring goal and bringing Costa Rica to gets 3 points and actually i expect Japan can win the match but unfortunately they cannot able to resumes their good performance and last match against Spain will be very difficult for Japan because as the strongest team in group E it's almost be impossible to Japan to beat Spain |
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This will be a good opportunity for Juventus to make sure they move on to the next phase because in the play-off round they will face Nantes, which incidentally this season Nantes is not playing well. Nantes could only finish in second place with 3 wins and 3 defeats by creating 6 goals and conceding 11 times. Even though Juventus are currently in a state that cannot be said to be good, if they are compared to Nantes, of course they are much better.
Nantes would become easy opponent for juventus. Nantest was a small team and juventus can wipe it easily from the europa league but juventus must play with its best performance to make sure if it can secure a position to go to the next round. Loosing against nantes will be hurting the name of juventus as a big team in the europa league. That will be a big shame for juventus if nantes will win against juventus. juventus will be gambling its big name in the match against a small team like nantes. If i am not mistaken Nantes was playing at europa league not because they finish at top 5 on France league and they can playing at this competition because Nantes is the champion of France cup last season so automatically they will playing at group stage and surprisingly Nantes can able to qualified to round of 16 after finish on runner up position under Freiburg but they weren't lucky because get strong opponent Juventus At France league Nantes is the team who still fight to avoid relegation zone and they had poor performance at their domestic league with only gets 2 wins from 15 matches and compared to Juventus i think obviously Juventus is far to better than them so Juventus will get easy opponent this time and if Juventus can playing well i think beat Nantes shouldn't be big problem for them and i would be shocked if Juventus failed to win from Nantes |
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Frankfurt is not a strong team. They are very lucky to have qualified for the round of 16 of the Champions League. I don't think Frankfurt has any chance of winning against Napoli.
Seems like you have watched champion's league for just a few seasons.You will be surprised when the tables turn  Eintracht Frankfurt is no team to underestimate and I think they can pull off a surprise on a good day. Haha, you might think that I watch the Champions League for a few seasons. But this is not true. I have been watching the Champions League for a long time. You don't lie that teams like Frankfurt can surprise you. Last season we saw the performance of Villarreal. Villarreal's performance surprised everyone last season. But with the form Napoli are in now, as well as the dominance they have shown in the Champions League, if they put in a similar performance against Frankfurt, do you think Napoli will lose against Frankfurt? If Napoli loses the truck then Frankfurt has a chance to qualify for the next round. But if Napoli is able to continue the performances like in the previous matches, I don't think Frankfurt will see any surprises. Eintracht Frankfurt is a club worth considering, Napoli can't just pass Frankfurt because maybe they will give something they wouldn't have expected. I understand why many people believe that Napoli will be able to beat Frankfurt easily, because their performances this season have been extraordinary, both in Serie A and in the Champions League. So it won't be surprising that many people flock to Napoli as the club they make a bet on. We'll see later in the game, will Napoli be able to repay the trust that many people have placed in him, or can Frankfurt prove themselves by being able to beat Napoli. This match will be played in February and March, it is still very long for us to be able to watch the match. Napoli manager Luciano Spalletti has feel Frankfurt is not the team who easily to beat and as Europa league champion status Frankfurt might be can makes Napoli slipped although Napoli has showed outstanding performance this season and most people will thought Napoli will able to beat Frankfurt and since last season Frankfurt has several times fliped people prediction that when round of 32 against Barcelona last season they can able to win from it although on the paper Barcelona obviously the favourite and this season Frankfurt certainly not considers as strong teams but they are capable as one of dark horses team who possibly can makes big teams to slipped so this team cannot be underestimate |
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It's still not very balanced because Barcelona again this season has failed in the Champions League even though it is currently at the top of the La Liga standings. And to win La Liga will also not be easy for Barcelona this season if in the second half of the season Barcelona can still lose to other teams, unless Barcelona is able to win all the matches in the second half of the season including when they meet Real Madrid.
Barcelona's strength in defense is still not strong and easily penetrated by opposing forces, therefore the task of Barcelona at this time must be to find defenders who can withstand various kinds of attacks from opponents, while to balance the strengths of Barcelona still requires a process because it is not easy to looking for players that match what is expected. Barcelona performance on champion league obviously compeletely mess and i admit that but if we talking about Barcelona statistics on Laliga during this season they only conceded 5 goals and they also can able to clean sheet 10 times so this proven they are the team with the strongest defense in Laliga and i will disagree with you if Barcelona defense is not strong and compared to last season Xavi has done a lot of improvement to makes Barcelona performance quite better even finally they can overtake Real Madrid position on standings league so in Laliga Barcelona has return as strong contender for Madrid One thing for sure indeed in the defensive lines they lost Gerard Pique who decide to retired but this aren't big problem for Barcelona because this season some of players can be able to played at his position but it is confirmed Xavi will looking for at least one defenders players this January and several names has appears lately such as Milan Skriniar or Juan Foyth |
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Many people are focus on Argentina winning, but I think Denmark need more discussion here. They're currently not in a good position since they're on third position with one point while Australia has 3 points, the next match Denmark must win against Australia if they want to qualify for the next round since it's their last match. Based on the bookies, Denmark is very favorited with @1.50 odds while Australia is underdog with @7.00 odds and draw is @4.00. I would throw few dollars to bet draw in this match.
Denmark has failed to utilized first match against Tunisia while on the paper they can able to win from this team unfortunately Denmark only can playing draw especially after lose from France yesterday their position is under pressure and to qualified or not Denmark position will be determined on the last match against Australia and indeed on the previous world cup both of teams has been meet and they were playing draw at that time and if this happend then Australia will qualified along with France and regarding betting options for this match indeed not impossible to ended with draw result again considering Australia probably will playing more defensive and attempts not to conceded |
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Joao Felix has decided to left Atletico Madrid this winter so he asking to his agent looking for new clubs in January this because he hasn't feel to comfortable anymore in Atletico especially during this season he cannot earn trust from Simeone and always be starting the match in the bench and some rumours mentioned Joao Felix want to play outside Spanish league and probably will joined England clubs and his agent offering him to Manchester United because this team was required new forward player but Manchester United hasn't respond this news yet however Joao Felix has contract clause 150 million euro so i was wondering which clubs are willing to buy him and release this clause
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I think right now Union Berlin is going to be more interested in staying at the top four. There is no way they will be able to catch up to Bayern Munich again. At least not with the current form that they are in. They have only won one match out of their last five matches. That is just not good enough for them. I am also not going to be surprised if they drop further down the table very soon.
Obviously, it is going to be another title for Bayern Munich. They do not have any competition at this moment in the Bundesliga. Bayern Munich are unlikely to perform poorly this season, at least not in the league, unless they suffer a lot of injuries. I know that potentially a lot more teams have the chance of winning the Bundesliga title but realistically only Bayern Munich can be the winner.
No strong contender for Bayern so far even Union Berlin cannot managed their consistency and their position gradually downed to 5th and indeed they should be forget to chased Bayern Munich because it's almost impossible for them to fight for race title considering Bayern has very consistent to managed their performance and indeed for Union Berlin top 4 is the most reasonable position for them But it won't be easy to competed for top 4 because the teams such as Leipzig and Freiburg has showed their consistency so if Union Berlin want to finish at that position first of all they should be return to winning track and Union Berlin should be upgraded their defensive lines because seems this became an their weaknesses lately and conceded 11 goals from 3 matches showed there is something wrong with this sides |
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Poland @1.77
Saudi Arabia @5.20
These are the current odds for both of teams and indeed Saudi has surprising us with won from Argentina in the first match and obviously it will boosted up their mentally and in this match Poland is under pressure because they have to win to keep their chance to qualified but first match doesn't run well for them especially after Lewandowski failed to score goal from penalty kick and in this match Poland have to playing more attacking to get early goals but it wouldn't be easy because Saudi Arabia has displayed disciplined game but i wouldn't dare to pick who is the winner of this match because in the current world cup there are some of unpredictable results but for this match seems both teams to scores probably good pick
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Depay contract with Barcelona has entered its final year, Barcelona tried to release Depay in last summer's transfer but ended up staying because there was no agreement with another club. Barcelona have put Depay on the Sell list in the January transfer window to avoid Depay leaving on a free transfer.
It is better for Depay to leave than to stay at Barcelona, it is very difficult for him to get minutes to play at Barcelona because Xavi believes more in other players such as Lewandowski, Dembele, Raphinha, Ansu Fati and Ferran Torres. Galatasaray really want to bring Depay from Camp Nou, Depay must make the best decision for his future.
I don't think Depay is priority by Xavi Hernandez keep extended his contract after arriving Xavi as Barcelona manager, Depay found difficulty to be main squad. I think with Depay contract in Barcelona until in the summer of 2023 he has chance early leaving on January window transfer. Depending with Barcelona want to make Depay become free agent and keep extended him until contract over or take opportunity for selling Depay on next window transfer. Loss compete with Ansu Fati, Dembele, Raphinha and Ferran Torres I don't think good ideas for Depay keep extended his contract with Barcelona, maybe if manager change have other opportunity for him get back in main squad for Barcelona. This season Xavi only playing him twice on Laliga so i think this indicated Depay isn't main priority for Barcelona so it's certain Barcelona will not giving him contract extention especially there are surplus on forward lines in Barcelona so they had a plan to sell Depay this winter even Barcelona provide cheap price for him 5 million euro and they hopes after Depay price tag published some of clubs will interested to him and it doesn't take long that after this news reported he is into Manchester United and Chelsea watchlist and this January these team probably will attempt to bids to get him and for Depay it's time to him to choose new clubs especially if he want to get minutes to play I still cannot figure out what plans Xavi had for Memphis when he signed him because obviously he has no plan stated for Memphis judging from the number of games he has played for Barcelona this season under Xavi. Obviously with the current situation with Memphis I don't see any reason Barcelona will want to offer him a contract extension meaning he might be put up for sale at any moment. Memphis Depay has arrived to Barcelona when Koeman era at that time Koeman has impress to his performance and decide to get him with free transfer status so basically Depay isn't the player who buyed by Xavi and when first time Xavi train Barcelona on 2021 indeed Depay is Xavi main player for forward option this because Barcelona had lack of forward players who can scoring goals but this season everything was changed especially after the arrival of Lewandowski that Xavi has decide to trust Lewandowski than Depay so basically Memphis Depay is the victim of changed manager and obviously he will be for sale this winter |
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What matters if all of Arsenal players that left for the FIFA World Cup comes back correct and sharp without injuries then what matters most is consistency till the end of the season.
Initially, even if Arsenal was performing poorly this season, I'd still bank on Manchester City not to win the league because for personal reasons,I don't want the media saying Pep Guardiola has turned the Premier League to farmers league winning three times straight up.
If Gunner's can continue to win every little team and some of the big boys like they did, then, it'll be a short story to be told in a few months ahead.
Don't be too optimistic, Premier League still have next 19 match and the point difference between top 4 clubs are really close, with just 3-4 match Arsenal can fall into 4th position if they're keep losing. I'm not a Manchester City fan, but if you look on their players and Pep Guardiola that has various strategy, it's high likely Manchester City will win this season. The most important about Arsenal is they haven't fought a good team until now, when Arsenal vs Manchester City happen, we will know which club will win in this season. Indeed it's too early talking about the title because Premier League still not entered half of the season and before faced Manchester City i think Arsenal will fight against several strong teams and their schedules after world cup will be very busy and in January Newcastle, Tottenham and Manchester United will being an their opponents so i predict these teams who possibly can makes Arsenal slipped especially Manchester United that so far this season only this team who able to beat Arsenal and previously Arsenal had a habit cannot managed their consistency and if they can maintain their performance at least until March i think they deserved for the title |
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