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It was such a shocker for me to see Bayern Munich losing to Leipzig in this way. After they finished the first half 1-0 ahead it was like that was it for me. I didn't doubt their win as of then. However the second half was completely different. Leipzig started to make a great comeback and Bayern Munich just made do with watching Leipzig win by 3-1 at the end of the game.

This is a big throw by Bayern Munich side and this is one last huge chance for Dortmund to become the champions. There isn't any luxury for Dortmund to lose points against Augsburg before anything else. If they win this comfortably they will take the lead and this must motivate them to finish the job against Mainz on the final week.

The closing part of the league hasn't been good for Arsenal at all maybe but indeed they still had a wonderful season in general. Finishing a Premier League season at the 2nd position is a big step forward for Arsenal because we haven't seen them in the Champions League for a while as well. Arteta will need to build a squad and prepare his players special to the Champions League as well from now on.

Manchester City have made their title official after this loss by Arsenal as well. Now they can only concentrate on their Champions League finale against Inter. There is a big opportunity to make double for them.

Real Madrid have decided to move on with Kroos and Modric for one more season you know. After this decision I wonder if they both will still be in the starting eleven in most of their games. Or maybe Real Madrid will decide to play with the youngsters they have brought here more often. Because in my opinion it would be the best for Real Madrid to give the most chances to the young ones.

There are really skilled midfielders like Tchouameni and Camavinga. They can both do a really great job together. Kroos and Modric can still be preferred depending on the performances of those youngsters of course.

If it is true Juventus will start getting some punishments again in the coming days. If they get similar ones to the one they got before then it is great news for the teams below for sure. This can even be a Champions League ticket for Milan or Roma considering which one of them will finish the season ahead of the other. Otherwise none of these teams looks likely to get that ticket for now.

This would hit Juventus hard of course after trying to secure their presence in top four at least. They have just been eliminated by Sevilla and this would make things even worse.

Today Bayern Munich have a serious opportunity in hand to make Dortmund become under a bigger pressure to win on the same week. If we don't see a dedicated performance by Leipzig side then there shouldn't be much problem for Bayern Munich to be victorious home. Before entering the final week it would be a very valuable victory for their side.

Dortmund's opponent up next is Augsburg and this away game is going to be played tomorrow. In the recent times the games between these teams have been a little tight you know. But here in this critical game hopefully Dortmund wouldn't make a simple mistake to make things easier for Bayern Munich to win the title.

Quote from: JeffBrad12 on May 20, 2023, 11:23:12 AM

The thing that makes me even more interesting to watch final of europa league if mourinho will become one of candidate to win europa league. Im feeling curious whether mou will able to win against sevilla or not. If mou will able to win against sevilla and i will be really giving very big appreciation for him. It's caused by he will able to make a club that gave him only small amounts of money in the winter transfer season to buy the players win another trophy again.
It will be very big achievement by mourinho. I do like how this guy is changing the roma to be even better even with minimum budget. Murinho is one of best coach that has ever exist in football.
He will always become the history of roma. To be honest if he will be a legend for roma once he will able to make roma win europa league.
It's caused by mourinho was doing it with so many limitations that owned by the club

Mourinho is normally a winner of finales in such tournaments. This is another opportunity for him to add another title among his achievements. However their job won't be easy at all on one hand. Because Sevilla have been like the best team in the Europa League for many years. They won quite many titles in the meantime and they seem very eager to win another one now.

Both of these teams are likely to finish the season out of the area to qualify for the Champions League in their domestic leagues. Therefore this finale means a lot to both of them. Honestly I will be favouring Sevilla anyway but I expect a very tight competition. We might even see penalty shoot-outs.

Kane continues to play like a goal machine. It is another goal by him against Brentford and they are in the lead by 1-0. So far Tottenham's performance has been really good. But they should never be complacent in any part of the game from now on. They really need this win while they are under the danger of losing a ticket to the Europa League as well.

Tottenham still haven't brought their new manager so every game remaining worries me even if they get ahead. I would like to see them going to the Europa League at least. It is still going to be an unsuccessful season for them though.

Monaco started to get complacent recently and we saw its reflection on their Lyon game today as well. The first half was nice for Monaco actually but their performance got much worse in the other half. This helped Lyon a lot to get ahead and have a decent goal gap with their opponent as well. This 3-1 victory is really important for Lyon because they are still in the fight for the fifth position to qualify for the ECL.

Lacazette was again one of the bests of the day as usual. Since the day he joined back Lyon it has been like he was born again. He is sharing the first position in top scorers with Mbappe - 26 goals. Despite his high effort they are still not fighting for the Champions League though. Therefore something needs to change for them.

Barcelona indeed achieved their main goal for this season. However the next target will surely be to have a decent success in the Champions League. One thing is certain that the fans and board both will expect their team to not have much problems on qualifying for the next round after the group stage. Because Barcelona have been quite inadequate in the group stage already for a while.

Xavi needs to prepare his players special to Champions League games this time. Because we have all witnessed their incapable look against big teams. Maybe they have many young players right now but their potential is still more than that.

Quote from: Joca97 on May 19, 2023, 08:47:49 PM

Man City might slip up here due to their game against Real Madrid but with how big the roster of Man City is i think they can overcome Chelsea easily due to how bad Chelsea is. Chelsea has one of the worst seasons in last couple of years so im not expecting anything from them in this duel.

Manchester City's performance against Real Madrid was really something else and they reached the finale after that. They have improved their morale now so this should be enough to beat Chelsea without big difficulties. In this condition I don't think Chelsea can put up any good fight against Manchester City. Because they don't even have their permanent manager yet.

Chelsea have given up this season already and Manchester City can even destroy them by a big score in Etihad. This would be an important victory for them as well as they will be one step closer to declaring their league title.

Milan are going to play their most comfortable fixture of the season tomorrow. It is a home match against Sampdoria which have already relegated from the Serie A. It would be a huge surprise if Milan somehow manage to lose points here as a result. Milan are out of the Champions League as well so they have only one goal left which is to finish the season in top four here at least.

They will hope for at least one of Lazio - Inter duo to lose points on the same week of course. We are three weeks away from the end of the season so this is one of the critical weeks for Milan side to make it there. But their job is still pretty difficult.

After two consecutive losses Freiburg really need to collect themselves. Otherwise the gap is likely to get bigger with Union Berlin and they would lose their Champions League ticket chance before the final week. I know that it will be nearly guaranteed for Union Berlin to keep their presence in top four in case of beating Hoffenheim. But as for Leipzig we never know yet actually.

If Freiburg win and Leipzig lose to Bayern Munich then the point gap will be only one between. The final week would be quite intriguing to watch. But first Freiburg don't have a very easy game against Wolfsburg and they had better prepare well to beat them.

Quote from: cygan on May 19, 2023, 11:19:05 AM

as the english 'daily mail' reports, manchester united and newcastle united are said to be interested in a return of senegalese striker Sadio Mané (bayern) to the premier league...

He has mostly played as a centre-forward so far and he was expected to fill Lewandowski's place well too. But I wasn't having such expectations from him as he isn't a complete striker like Lewandowski. Besides Mane's main position is winger so it is the most ideal thing for him. People started to criticize his performance and Mane also made some statement that gave green light to a possible departure.

Coming back to the Premier League would be really nice actually. He was doing a great job with Liverpool and I believe he still can with these rumoured teams too.

Liverpool are going to play their game after Manchester United as well. Newcastle won by a really huge score like 4-1 indeed. I was doubtful a little after Brighton dropped the goal gap to one but Newcastle still got a solid win after. I will be expecting a decent win by Manchester United too. In that case Liverpool will have really no choice left other than beating Aston Villa home.

Liverpool have been trying to hunt one of Newcastle and Manchester United for top four but it doesn't look like this week is the one they will get ahead of one of them. They just have to keep winning for now to hope for those two teams to make a mistake.

Cadiz and Valladolid are going to face each other tonight. And this is a quite important game considering relegation as well. They are sharing the points now and right above the relegation zone by only one point too. Cadiz beat their opponent away before and their recent form is a little better than them as well. Maybe this can be some help for Cadiz to capture the psychological advantage.

Bookmakers are also favouring Cadiz to win here. Maybe it is still a risky bet but I'm going for Cadiz win in this game.

Roma just let Leverkusen come all the way against themselves last night. Because they had only 1 goal attempt in the whole game while Leverkusen had so many. Still it is Leverkusen's fault that they can't even score one goal despite that many opportunities. Mourinho just told his players to play his classical defensive game and that was really enough to make it to the finale.

I don't know why Leverkusen were this much incapable of scoring a single goal in both legs of this matchup. They haven't been this bad so far actually but they couldn't do what they targeted here.

Chelsea still haven't made their decision about their next manager officially as it seems. Pochettino is still the most rumoured name with them but let's see what the future will bring us. Nagelsmann has been another strong candidate for the job as well you know. Even Mourinho's name is around here despite his managing Roma already and the season's not being finished yet.

But in my opinion the last decision will be Pochettino as he is one step closer to the job according to the news. I understand that they don't want to do this in a hurry as the season hasn't even officially ended. But they had better act fast until the transfer window.

Butler is really unstoppable recently. He had another marvelous game against Boston Celtics in the first leg of the semi finals with 35 points. Tatum had a really decent game with 30 points maybe but it wasn't enough to prevent Miami Heat from winning the game. Even the odds were highly favouring Celtics for this one so congratulations to the people who still bet on Heat.

I was expecting many people to bet on Heat anyway because they have been one of the surprising teams of the playoffs considering their regular season performance. I'm not sure if they can win this series as well but even if they don't this effort deserves appreciation.

Lazio had better be a little more careful than Inter about keeping their presence in top four from now on. Because they are even closer to Milan in the standings - four points. Their next fixture isn't an easy one honestly as it is an away one against Udinese. Lazio couldn't beat them even in a home game before. However the look of their head-to-head games in Udinese's home has been much better.

I think that Lazio will find a way to beat Udinese which are an aimless team in the league right now. Making it to the Champions League must be the board's main expectation from them now.

Real Sociedad are getting closer to having the last ticket for the Champions League group stage every week. While there are only four weeks left they are already five points ahead of Villarreal right now. However the remaining games don't seem comfortable at all for Real Sociedad side. Because three of them are big games against Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Sevilla. The ones against the first two teams are even away games.

However there are a couple of tough games left for Villarreal side as well. Maybe they can have big difficulties in those games and this would help Real Sociedad to keep the distance at a safe level. Besides Barcelona and Atletico Madrid are already in a comfortable position now so Real Sociedad can still get decent results in those games if they fight hard.