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So I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves but the Scottish Premiership might have an interesting race that doesn't involve Rangers and Celtic. Now don't get me wrong, it involves Celtic but the other team is Aberdeen who have beaten Rangers at home, tied at Celtic park, and their only loss so far this season has come at St. Mirren (Currently 6th) so they are 3 points off Celtic in the first phase of the competition. (For those unaware, because why would you care to know, the first phase involves every team playing each other 3 times during the year before a top 6 and bottom 6 are selected. Then there would be 5 more games before a champion is decided). Unfortunately for Aberdeen, they do have to travel to Celtic park at least twice this season which could be disasterous but, if they manage to keep it really close in the second phase, that last game could be at their place and potentially have a third team win the championship. Now I may be jumping the gun here considering they have only played 12 games, the financial difference between Celtic and Rangers vs the rest of the league is equivalent to Real Madrid and Barca vs La Liga 2.



Meanwhile, in the EFL Championship, Leeds, Sunderland, and Sheffield United are all at the top of the table with 32 points and separated by GD (16, 14, and 12). Burnley in 4th is just 2 points behind which makes up the race for the instant promotion right now. The last playoff spot is currently Middlesbrough in 5th with 27 points, West Brom with 26, Watford with 26, Millwall with 24, Blackburn with 22 and a game in hand, and Bristol City in 10th with 22. Bottom of the table sits QPR with 11 points and Portsmouth with 12. The final relegation spot is currently occupied by Hull City but Cardiff and Preston have 16 points, Plymouth, Oxford, and Coventry have 17, Luton town with 18, and Sheffield Wednesday, Swansea, and Norwich have 19 points. So 4 points separates relegation and 13th place
 
Today's CL matches are:
Bratislava - Milan (win Milan)
Sparta Praha - Atletico Madrid (win Atletico)
Sporting - Arsenal (draw)
Young Boys - Atalanta (win Atalanta)
Man City - Feyernoord (win Feyernoord)
Barcelona - Brest (win Barcelona)
Inter - RaBa Leipzig (win Inter)
Leverkusen - RB Salzburg (win Leverkusen)
Bayern - P$G (win Bayern)

Tomorrow's matches are:
Red Star Belgrade - Stuttgart (draw)
Sturm Graz - Girona (draw)
Aston Villa - Juventus (draw)
Monaco - Benfica (win Monaco)
Eindhoven - Donezk (win Eindhoven)
Celtic - Brugge (draw)
Dinamo Zagreb - Dortmund (win Zagreb)
Bologna - Lille (win Lille)
Liverpool - Real Madrid (win Liverpool)
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Today's CL matches are:
Bratislava - Milan (win Milan)
Sparta Praha - Atletico Madrid (win Atletico)
Sporting - Arsenal (draw)
Young Boys - Atalanta (win Atalanta)
Man City - Feyernoord (win Feyernoord)
Barcelona - Brest (win Barcelona)
Inter - RaBa Leipzig (win Inter)
Leverkusen - RB Salzburg (win Leverkusen)
Bayern - P$G (win Bayern)

Tomorrow's matches are:
Red Star Belgrade - Stuttgart (draw)
Sturm Graz - Girona (draw)
Aston Villa - Juventus (draw)
Monaco - Benfica (win Monaco)
Eindhoven - Donezk (win Eindhoven)
Celtic - Brugge (draw)
Dinamo Zagreb - Dortmund (win Zagreb)
Bologna - Lille (win Lille)
Liverpool - Real Madrid (win Liverpool)
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Good predictions, can't really argue with them. Would be extraordinary if Man City were to lose 6 in a row, just have a feeling they will play like crap like all the other times but it won't matter because they have a far better attack than Feyenoord's defence meaning they score in the first 10 minutes and then the game's over already or at least a draw.

Real Madrid are going to frutstrate the shit out of Liverpool but be very wasteful, Aston Villa are going to be dominated but not lose by a lot or draw.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Today's CL matches are:
Bratislava - Milan (win Milan)
Sparta Praha - Atletico Madrid (win Atletico)
Sporting - Arsenal (draw) clear win Arsenal lol
Young Boys - Atalanta (win Atalanta)
Man City - Feyernoord (win Feyernoord) draw
Barcelona - Brest (win Barcelona)
Inter - RaBa Leipzig (win Inter)
Leverkusen - RB Salzburg (win Leverkusen)
Bayern - P$G (win Bayern)
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We got a 0:6 (Praha vs Atletico), a 1:6 (YB vs Atalanta), a 1:5 (Sporting vs Arsenal) and a 5:0 (Leverkusen vs Salzburg) that could have easily been a 20:0. Wtf.

Robert Lewandowski scored his 100th CL goal tonight. There are 3 players now who have 100+ goals in CL: Lewandowski, Messi and Ronaldo.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
We got a 0:6 (Praha vs Atletico), a 1:6 (YB vs Atalanta), a 1:5 (Sporting vs Arsenal) and a 5:0 (Leverkusen vs Salzburg) that could have easily been a 20:0. Wtf.

Robert Lewandowski scored his 100th CL goal tonight. There are 3 players now who have 100+ goals in CL: Lewandowski, Messi and Ronaldo.
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Good fucking prediction, you could call Feyenoord win by the way they drew it :)

After bottling a 3-0 lead in 14 minutes, Pep came to the press conference with serious scratches on his face. Most will laugh it off but it's concerning, it's the sort of thing very mentally unwell people do. He's taking the recent losses very hard.


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DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Man City have some serious problems of switching off at the worst times. They essentially gifted all 3 goals to Feyenoord this game. No idea how they fix this either
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Go back to basics, throw the champions league and only play strong in the Premier League with a 4-4-2 formation playing Haaland alongside Foden. Even then it's a slow midfield but at least everyone has cover.
 
Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Red Star Belgrade - Stuttgart (draw) win Belgrade
Sturm Graz - Girona (draw) win Graz
Aston Villa - Juventus (draw)
Monaco - Benfica (win Monaco) win Benfica
Eindhoven - Donezk (win Eindhoven)
Celtic - Brugge (draw)
Dinamo Zagreb - Dortmund (win Zagreb) win Dortmund
Bologna - Lille (win Lille)
Liverpool - Real Madrid (win Liverpool)
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Stuttgart going down 1:5 in Belgrade was not on my card. Stuttgart is dealing with a lot of injured key players at the moment while Belgrade had 4 losses out of 4 matches so I expected it to be some shitty ass boring draw.

Graz winning came as a little surprise too. For those not following the Austrian league; Sturm won the double last season and ended Red Bull Salzburg's reign of dominance but last week they lost their coach and sports director to Hoffenheim, after already losing a forward to them during the summer. So basically Sturm's whole backbone got ripped out.

And Dortmund finally got an away-win. Who would have thought that.

So after 5 of 8 matchdays we have:
- Liverpool with 5 wins at the top
- Inter as 2nd with not having caught a single goal against them so far
- neither FC Bayern, Real Madrid, Man City or P$G among the first 8 teams
- City only being ranked 17th
- Real Madrid being ranked 24th which is the last place to move on to the next round
- while P$G being ranked 25th and thus being kicked out of competition

Not bad I'd say, not bad.
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
PSG play RB Salzburg, Man City, and Stuttgart to finish it out. Seems like they should finish in the top 24 with that schedule to finish out
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I rate your post optimistic bc I predict they will win against Salzburg, draw against Man City and lose against Stuttgart so these 3 points won't safe them.
 
Fucking hate this new format, far too many games before the knockouts. Go back to the old system, make european football great again. Liverpool just beat Real Madrid and it's so inconsequential. Greedy EUFA made the Champions League into the Super League.
 
What an awful time for the Farms to go offline.

Yesterday's Libertadores final was one for the ages. Botafogo put on one of the most clutch performances I have ever seen from a sports club and deservedly won the match and the trophy.
 
Shining Wit said:
Arsenal waste so much time, id be amazed if there was even 45 minutes of ball in play on saturday
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Their waste of space manager moans and cries when everything doesn't go his way, he is inept and a serial loser. Never once does he own up and say his team played badly, there is always some excuse. The one time there was no injuries, no red card and no referee decisions he pretended they deserved to win with 1 shot all game. That's called no accountability, just a gimmick manager trying all the tricks because he's an overpromoted schister with not much good experience.
 
Manchester City are completely fucked this season. They don't have a solid back up plan and Pep can't figure out how to put out a good line up. A few things I picked up on from their game today.

-Haaland can't play in this system. He dominates when his team has 60% possession+ or if they play a counter attacking style.
-Foden appears to be going through a slump.
-Doku might be hurt? No idea why you decided to play Nunes on the wing when TAA is the right back. You give TAA the ability to attack and not need to defend 1v1 (his biggest weakness) by putting a central midfielder who can't attack on the wing against him.
-They don't have a back up plan for Rodri. Bernardo Silva and Rico Lewis are not adequate options for defensive midfielder and they need someone to help protect the backline with how attack minded some of City's defenders are.
-KDB needs to come back from his injury before he should be allowed to play. Giving him 12 minutes and stoppage time is way too little time for him to be effecting. For a player like him to not start a game or a half, you need like 10 minutes to get use to the pace and style of the game.


If City want to compete, they need to be active in the January transfer window
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
Doku might be hurt? No idea why you decided to play Nunes on the wing when TAA is the right back. You give TAA the ability to attack and not need to defend 1v1 (his biggest weakness) by putting a central midfielder who can't attack on the wing against him.
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Doku simply cant play against a FB who is under 30, its almost a regular occurance
 
Nice shit show going on in the Austrian Women´s League (I know, I know). An official of an so far unnamed club (its FC Lustenau / Dornbirn Ladies) threatened several players with a firearm and demanded 500 Euros from each player if they lose.

Apparently it happened before their last game, 24.11., which was cancelled for so far unknown reasons.

Five foreign players literally fled to their respective home countries and terminated their contracts with immediate effect. Players informed their home football associations which they in turn reported to the Austrian federation.

Police has an ongoing investigation open.
 
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