Bottas winning in Turkey came as a bit of surprise but it was not a long shot because he performed well in qualifying and Verstappen was not feeling that the car was well optimized for this GP and that's made him not making it to Bottas.
And this time there have been questions raised by RedBull over the speed that Mercedes have as they are saying they are not on DRS but fast enough to the speed reached with  DRS going on straights despite that Lewis Hamilton had a big wing at the back his speed in long runs have not been matched by RB cars recently.

Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman will have to deal with his team's next match against Valencia, in the absence of Arujo.
Barcelona will host Valencia at the Camp Nou next Sunday as part of the ninth round of La Liga.
The newspaper "Marca" reported that Barcelona defender Ronald Araujo will miss the Valencia match, after he suffered an injury during his country's match against Argentina in the World Cup qualifiers.
The Uruguayan Federation confirmed that Araujo had suffered a muscle injury in the right thigh, to confirm his absence from facing Valencia, in principle.
The newspaper pointed out that the period of absence of Arajo, or the period required to recover from the injury, was not specified, so that Koeman received a painful blow in light of the many injuries suffered by the Catalan team.
It will be difficult to see Barcelona winning this game but I belleive that we will atleast see goals from each side.

Manchester United announced today, Tuesday, that defender Raphael Varane will be out for a period after injuring his groin while playing for his country, France. He replaced the 28-year-old Varane in the first half of the Nations League final against Spain. France won the title after winning 2-1.
The club said Varane had a thigh muscle injury and had begun rehabilitation at the club. He revealed that the defender, who arrived from Real Madrid last summer, will be out of action for a few weeks.
Varane's partner, Harry Maguire, is recovering from a calf injury, which caused him to miss his team's last two games before the international period, as well as England's World Cup qualifiers this month.
So we are going to expect to see goals scored against Manchester United as it will be a difficult to keep cleans sheets with Bailey and Lindelov as pair in defense.

Pedri renewed his contract until 2026,
It was an expected renewal, and with the express desire of both parties, for the Barca jewel in the midfield, and the release clause have been boosted to the amount of one billion euros, illustrates its importance and weight. With health salaries and young ages.
Personally I think that he is a player who is considered one of the top 30 players in the world and a strong candidate for the award for the best young player in the world and some still describe him as a bubble.

The number one problem for Perez is that his usually underperformed in Q3 so he starts far behind the top and cannot offer the assistance to Verstappen also he was unlucky on some races as RedBull strategy most of the time is not helping him, as he dropped points one time so that Hamilton doesn't get extra points from fast lap so he pitted and took it from him but it costs him losing points from the race.
I think both Bottas and Perez are helping their own team but Bittas is also benefitting from qualifying high and getting more points for the Constructors championship.

For me Whether Germany get something or not
just watching kimmich in the World Cup is a benefit for the viewer who likes to watch tactical and technical matters, and not just see the goal scorers. this machine has a terrible integration in the way he plays, and he is one of the few in Currently the world who are good at filling more than one center.
Joshua .. his presence in the field means that your midfield is still fine and still has solutions, and there are few matches in which a formation that includes this machine is defeated.
So his role will be a big part of Germany achievement in the upcoming future.

In the past, the Germans were suffering a bit in their matches that preceded the World Cup, especially the friendly.
But this man Flick seems to want to drag everything out, friendly or officially and now he is the first to put his foot in Qatar to start another epic.
Are thry going to repeat the eights with the national teams as well..or will the competition be more intense in the World Cup, and the embarrassed Joachim Loew in the past and they almost kicked by Algerie.
The Germans have a long history in the World Cup, and mentioning their name may make bread dry in the stomachs of some. In fact, everything that is German has become an obsession for many, because the Germans do not have mercy on you when you are in full force, let alone you when you do not live up to their level.

More than a hat-trick in the history of football with national teams.
As Cristiano reached the 58th hat-trick in his history to become more than the hat-trick record in the 21st century, you Personally imagine this number? Ok, do you imagine that he scored 114 goals for his country, including 93 goals in official matches? Do you imagine that he contributed 61 goals as he scored 54 and made 7 other goals in 49 matches with Portugal?
as we know very well that these numbers will not be easily broken!
More than 115 international goals scored. He needs 6 goals to become the first player in history to have 800 goals between clubs and national teams. Manh records have been broken by him now and they need more then one goalkeepers to stop him from scoring.

Luca Modric situation now is similar to that of Sergio Busquets, some are confused between the difference between their levels with the club and the team, frankly this is not confusing and the reasons are very clear, with the national team you play two to three matches after every two or three months, it is normal that the preparation of individuals here especially Experience elements are better than preparing them for matches after every three days. With the national team, you will not notice the effect of the “age” factor as much as you notice it throughout the week with the club.
There is also another important factor, which is the difference in levels, players like Sergio and Luca in order to benefit from them more throughout the season. You have to rest them in a lot of games so that they don't look tired...

Hungary still have hopes for qualification by reaching the play-offs. They're down in 4th place on 10 points and they are 5 points off the pace of 2nd placed Albania.
As Albania host Poland at the same time as this game it means that anything but a win will leave Hungary with a miracle to pull off to snatch that second spot.
It's just 1 win from the last 8 matches However, it is just 1 loss from their last 8 away matches. That defeat did come in their most recent road trip though that was a 1-0 loss to Albania back in September.
Dor England it's an upgrade challenge from Andorra but this is still a game that England should be expecting to win. It's been 3 wins from 3 matches at home in this group for England and I can't see Hungary changing that.
It might be a close game but I've said that before with England only to see them dismantle an opponent. Maybe I'll play it safe and go for the clean sheet victory.

The 21 years old young French Midfielder have impressed with France National team that made his value goes up since Monaco spent only 18 million euros on him back in 2019.
Real Madrid want him to be a replacement for Casemiro.
So with many other teams are interested in hin that could drive his price up and Monaco is well known of getting the better part of a deal when it comes to transfer policy.
They say the other teams are looking for him are Juventus and Chelsea.
I'm surprised not to see Man United among them as tgey surely need someone better then Fred on their midfield.

consistency was one of the reasons why Man United fails to be a contender to win the EPL for the last couple seasons with OGS.
And with more likely that they have a partnership of Bailey and Lindelov fit thir next match or two means that it will be difficult for them to keep a clean sheet.
With the pair of Maguire and Varane they only managed to keep it once.
So for their first game against Leicester I expect to see BTTS.

When you have a chance against Argentina and you don't take advantage of it, you will be punished not insignificantly.
Suarez missed three goals achieved in the first half an hour, he could have killed the Argentina before their sweat ran, but Messi cut off the road and took his country to take precedence, and then it was not.
Argentina presented a great match in interdependence and how to make a difference in the front line, as if they wanted to say that how can you imagine a World Cup without Messi, at least the conclusion will be the catch of this man's career.
With his goal against Uruguay, Messi is the first South American player to reach eighty goals with the national team even when you are about to write history, Leo.

When you want to control France, you have to isolate Mbappe and Karim from the rest of the group.
The mission has been successfully completed in first half Spain was only missing a goal,  but France won the European Nations League Spain excelled and excelled until it scored the goal before the French team dud an uprising with a global goal from Karim.
A breath-taking game that made us live in the atmosphere of the World Cup final and the golden goal.
If Mbappe joins Real Madrid next season surely he will be a deadly duo with Benzema.

Belgium lost to Italy with two goals to finish fourth in the European Nations League.
This generation that owns De Bruyne, Lukaku, Courtois, Hazard and many other names in the best leagues in the world came out empty-handed from all his participation almost 10 years ago, the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup and then the quarter-finals of the Euro 2016 then third place in the 2018 World Cup and a new quarter-final in Euro 2020 The last chance is the Qatar World Cup 2022,
But with Roberto Martinez I doubt we will achieve something different from what has been achieved since 2014.

A breathtaking race in every sense of the word, everyone didn't know what to do!!
Bottas, congratulations, great race and Red Bull didn't dream of such a result, almost more than expected!!
Ferrari is fast, a mistake stopped with Sainz, and I think that the safe exit was the reason for the increase the of delay in pit, and he could have finished in front of Norris.
As for Leclerc and Hamilton, the two were trying to risk the end of the race with the same tires, but after we saw Ocon's times, he was 3 seconds slower than everyone else I think they were getting to the runners behind them. and I noticed the speed of Leclerc and Hamilton was very slow on the first exit from the podium, so they suffered greatly, the irony is that Perez was closer to Leclerc and they exceeded the time of his suffering, but Gasly was far from Hamilton until the tires entered the right temperature, everyone moved away.
Of course, I don't want to forget that Leclerc made a big mistake when he was in the lead and went off the track, which reduced the difference between Beno and Bottas to 6 seconds after he had an advantage of about 12 seconds after Bottas entered the pit stop.
McLaren was far away, and the war with Ferrari continues. Gasly is a great result ,Occon too.
Hamilton is the loser in this battle against Verstappen.

It's looking to be not a RedBull win here, Max seems to be struggling a bit on this track his car seems not balanced enough so I expect from Hamilton to catch up with Verstappen this time and the problem will be if they go wheel to wheel this time.
Verstappen wouldn't yield in this race because the gap will be higher for him an it could be finishing as a winner in the race after not enough for him to to get back as leader in Championship points.
Ferrari was good on this track also, leclerc was just 1tenth of a second behind Verstappen, also Sainz knocked Ricciardo of reaching Q2 and did an amazing job pulling his friend in Q2 to make it to Q3 so in this race I think they are going to get more points then Maclaren despite Sainz to be starting from the back of the grid.

One of the most beautiful positive news in Real Madrid this period is Ferland Mendy's return to the team's training on a regular basis.
His return to playing at left-back will be very useful for the fragile defensive situation that Ancelotti has not found a solution to since the beginning of the season.
Mendy may not be the best offensively, but Certainly his speed and understanding of his defensive duties, whether on the edge or in depth, will reduce the spaces that opponents find at every counterattack.
If he returns, I think that the quadruple Mendy Alaba Militao Lucas (until Carvajal's return) is the best to enter the next Clasico and before that, Shakhtar will face Shakhtar in the Champions League.

The Brazilian Football Confederation confirms that it will not allow players to return early to England until they have completed their full matches with the national team. Based on this decision,
So Fred will not be available for the team's matches against Leicester and Atalanta.
That's means it's a great news for all Manchester United fans out there. Fred always have been the weakest link for Manchester united in Midfield as the guy clearly doesn't know how to pass the ball.
It's possible we see Van de Beek playing instead or possible OGS keep shelving him and play Matic pared with McTominay instead.

Sainz will start back of the grid for this GP just like Leclerc did in Sochi.
He will get the upgraded version for the engine.
Let see how improved it was.
We didn't see a lot of it last race but Leclerc managed to stay behind Verstappen for a quite of a while and Verstappen had a smaller back Wing configuration which gave him less Downforce so he was faster in straight and slower in corners.
But for the rule of changing engines is harsh especially when we have 22 races this year and 3 engines is not enough.
Why can’t they change the penalty up a bit, I agree there needs to be something in place to stop wealthier teams just throwing engines at the job for increased performance but what about allowing a free engine change if the maximum mileage has been achieved.