New article coming tomorrow on group C of the Champions League
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Uefa Champions League Group by Group Breakdown Part 2
Hi everyone today we continue our breakdown of each group in the Uefa Champions League.
This is part where we'll discuss Group B.
If you missed part 1 about Group A you'll find the link down below.
This group has some exciting matchups we already had a peak of what's to come in that thrilling 2-1 victory for Internazionale over Tottenham and yet again the Spurs fail to capitalize on a game they should've won and end up with a loss to an italian team allowing back to back goals in a very short stretch as most of you will recall that''s how they were eliminated last season, flatong out dominating Juventus for about 170 minutes counting both matches but allowing in the rougly 10 minutes left 2 goals in each game, a terrible job but we'll get to that in further detail a little bit later on.
PSV is an interesting team but right now facing teams like Barcelona is just too much for them, don't get mr wrong it's possible for them to at least cause some trouble for Barcelona back in their home stadium but the logic indicates something more along the lines of what happened at Camp Nou last week.
Down below is how I predict this group will finish. I'll explain everything.
1, Barcelona
2, Spurs
3, Internazionale
4, PSV
Before I get to why I believe this is the way this group will turn out let me make this very clear:
No one and I mean no one can argue against the fact that the order in terms of talent level in each team's roster is this. You may like internazionale but they are not better than Tottenham the same goes for the Spurs with Barcelona mostly because of Messi in fact I believe the Spurs are closer to Barcelona than Inter is to the Spurs.
Wait a minute, didn't the Nerazzuri beat London's only representative in this year's Uefa Champions League edition?
Indeed they did, so am I nuts no let me explain why.
After years of struggling ib their national competitions enduring a long drougt of consecutive years without a Champions League appearance, Internazionale is back, and they came back only after a thrilling come from behind win in the last game of the season against Lazio, I believe qualifying for the UCL is an achievement to be recognized if not celebrated by the Spurs' fans but that's more about the quality of the Premier League than anything else, so what does all of this mean?
That these are two clubs in different stages, with different expectation levels and their squads show that.
Think about this, take away the centre-.back trio for each team (not regarfing starting 11, just these 3 being the 3 main options at that position)
Skriniar, Miranda, De Vrij.
Vertonghen, Sanchez and Alderweireld.
And also the main striker.
Icardi
Kane
Those postions you can debate which one is better and it's not absurd, in fact some of the answers depend on the team's strategy and form of play.
Everywhere else on the field especially in terms of depth, Tottenham holds a significant advantage, sure Perisic is a fine player and the same goes for Handanovic and Naingollan but each one of the four full-bscls in the Spurs' roster:
Rose, Davies, Trippier, Aurier
They'd all be starters for the Nerazzurri easily.
The midfield options that Pochetino has:
Alli, Eriksen, Dembele, Dier,
Would any see the bench if they were to play for Internazionale.
How about further ahead on the field:
Son, Lamela. Lucad Moura
Anyone that wants to see it will see that the Spurs are better now that doesn't mean they can't be beaten by Internazionale, Barcelona lost to Leganés today, crazy stuff happens.
I'd have trouble to visualize Inter taking points away from Barcelona under other circumstances but I don't see this Barcelona team right now coasting through them, they can it's possible, but Internazionale have a real shot, against Tottenham it's a more evenly matched duel and I do not expect either team coming out with more than a 3 point edge in between both fixtures.
What does all of this tell you, we are in for some great matchups in this group.
A team trying to rerurn to the top of Europe
Another one fighting to reach it
Third one trying to get back to competing amongst the best
And lastly a team with a great history, now working as a bridge, buying promising players, developing them and you know the rest. Achieving domestical glory along the way.
Anyway that's about it, I'l see you all tomorrow, share, comment, discuss, I want to engage with you guys and discuss these subjects knoe what you think of my opinion.
Note: Eden Hazard has arrived.
Once again doing this on my phone, no spelling correction, I apologize for the spelling errors but the important thing is that you understand what I mean and I believe that is pretty clear.
This is part where we'll discuss Group B.
If you missed part 1 about Group A you'll find the link down below.
This group has some exciting matchups we already had a peak of what's to come in that thrilling 2-1 victory for Internazionale over Tottenham and yet again the Spurs fail to capitalize on a game they should've won and end up with a loss to an italian team allowing back to back goals in a very short stretch as most of you will recall that''s how they were eliminated last season, flatong out dominating Juventus for about 170 minutes counting both matches but allowing in the rougly 10 minutes left 2 goals in each game, a terrible job but we'll get to that in further detail a little bit later on.
PSV is an interesting team but right now facing teams like Barcelona is just too much for them, don't get mr wrong it's possible for them to at least cause some trouble for Barcelona back in their home stadium but the logic indicates something more along the lines of what happened at Camp Nou last week.
Down below is how I predict this group will finish. I'll explain everything.
1, Barcelona
2, Spurs
3, Internazionale
4, PSV
Before I get to why I believe this is the way this group will turn out let me make this very clear:
No one and I mean no one can argue against the fact that the order in terms of talent level in each team's roster is this. You may like internazionale but they are not better than Tottenham the same goes for the Spurs with Barcelona mostly because of Messi in fact I believe the Spurs are closer to Barcelona than Inter is to the Spurs.
Wait a minute, didn't the Nerazzuri beat London's only representative in this year's Uefa Champions League edition?
Indeed they did, so am I nuts no let me explain why.
After years of struggling ib their national competitions enduring a long drougt of consecutive years without a Champions League appearance, Internazionale is back, and they came back only after a thrilling come from behind win in the last game of the season against Lazio, I believe qualifying for the UCL is an achievement to be recognized if not celebrated by the Spurs' fans but that's more about the quality of the Premier League than anything else, so what does all of this mean?
That these are two clubs in different stages, with different expectation levels and their squads show that.
Think about this, take away the centre-.back trio for each team (not regarfing starting 11, just these 3 being the 3 main options at that position)
Skriniar, Miranda, De Vrij.
Vertonghen, Sanchez and Alderweireld.
And also the main striker.
Icardi
Kane
Those postions you can debate which one is better and it's not absurd, in fact some of the answers depend on the team's strategy and form of play.
Everywhere else on the field especially in terms of depth, Tottenham holds a significant advantage, sure Perisic is a fine player and the same goes for Handanovic and Naingollan but each one of the four full-bscls in the Spurs' roster:
Rose, Davies, Trippier, Aurier
They'd all be starters for the Nerazzurri easily.
The midfield options that Pochetino has:
Alli, Eriksen, Dembele, Dier,
Would any see the bench if they were to play for Internazionale.
How about further ahead on the field:
Son, Lamela. Lucad Moura
Anyone that wants to see it will see that the Spurs are better now that doesn't mean they can't be beaten by Internazionale, Barcelona lost to Leganés today, crazy stuff happens.
I'd have trouble to visualize Inter taking points away from Barcelona under other circumstances but I don't see this Barcelona team right now coasting through them, they can it's possible, but Internazionale have a real shot, against Tottenham it's a more evenly matched duel and I do not expect either team coming out with more than a 3 point edge in between both fixtures.
What does all of this tell you, we are in for some great matchups in this group.
A team trying to rerurn to the top of Europe
Another one fighting to reach it
Third one trying to get back to competing amongst the best
And lastly a team with a great history, now working as a bridge, buying promising players, developing them and you know the rest. Achieving domestical glory along the way.
Anyway that's about it, I'l see you all tomorrow, share, comment, discuss, I want to engage with you guys and discuss these subjects knoe what you think of my opinion.
Note: Eden Hazard has arrived.
Once again doing this on my phone, no spelling correction, I apologize for the spelling errors but the important thing is that you understand what I mean and I believe that is pretty clear.
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Quick update
Hi everyone it has been a frustating day to say the least, I los5 out on a chance to work for Fansides apparenrly they do not have the appropiate license ro pay a writer in Brazil they are quite simply not allowed to do that without the proper licensing and who knows how long that will take thaf's if they ever actually do it considering that the demand just isn't there. I was planning on posting part 2 of pur UCL breakdown but I just don't feel like writing now, it's about halfway done but there's a lot I want to discuss so i just feel like it's better for me to finish it up tomorrow. Also expect a little review of the Chelsea Liverpool match tomorrow. What a game Derby County against Man United was. Congrats to Frank Lampard, terrific job.
See you guys later
See you guys later
Monday, September 24, 2018
Uefa Champions League, Breaking down every group
Hi everyone I am here today to do a complete preview of the world's most important soccer tournament at least in a club level the Uefa Champions League, don't get me wrong I like the World Cup but at the very least they carry the same or close to the same importance.
We'll break it down into 8 parts each one discussing an individual group. I'll do the first one today and the second one tomorrow, and so on so forth, to create an article relatively simple to understand I'll first list the teams in each group in the order I believe the group will finish, give a small breakdown of the group as a whole and then asess each individual team and why I believe they'll end up in that place. So let's begin.
Group A:
1st: Atletico Madrid.
2nd: Borussia Dortmund.
3rd: AS Monaco.
4th: Club Brugge.
This is a pretty interesting group although most of them are for a guy that enjoys soccer as much as me, in it we find three teams that don't come to mind when we think about the top tier (Barcelona, Juventus, Man United, Real Madrid...) maybe Atletico to a lesser degree than Dortmund and Monaco but as after a brief look back at the recent past will tell you, not only they have been almost a lock to be present in the tournament on a yearly basis they all enjoyed unprecedented success amongst Europe's best.
Simeone's squad has made it to two finals which is remarkable for a side with his investment, they were minutes away from the title the first time around and lost the second one in a penalty shootout, against Real Madrid well that's pretty good, it's heartbresking but nevertheless pretty good.
Borussia Dortmund had it's glory days eith Jurgen Klopp and that phenomenal squad that took the league title from the hands of the mighty Bayern Munchen but falled to the same in the UCL final, since the german coach had left the building the team hasn't been the same, losing key players and with that failing to produce the same results although their group last year was brutal, Tottenham and Real Madrid were and are ahead of Dortmund and it'd be quite a upset, to me at least if the german side were to eliminate them.
Remember when AS Monaco went after James Rodriguez and Falcao Garcia and it looked like just the beggining well that was about the whole it and they kind of slipped under the radar for a while and in that time they did a tremendlus job developing players until a couple of years ago they broke out and with the likes of Mbappe, Mendy, Silva, Bakayoko, Fabinho, Sidibe and others winning the Ligue 1 a shocker 8 points ahead of PSG and also making it to the UCL semifinal, unfortunately ot didn't last as the team saw most of it's key players leave in the following summer window.
Today we can easily put Atletico Madrid significantly ahead of everyone else in the group in terms of investment, expectation and all that comes with it, now that doesn't mean you'll ser them putting up 18 points but nonetheless it is what is, they are quite simply a level above, while Dortmund and Monaco have seen pretty much all of their star players leave once they reached a certain level, and Brugge is clearly the favorite to finiah the last.
Based on the previous paragraph you can see in my view the first and last place are pretty set. Now the reason I have Dortmund qualifying for the round of 16 is this.
1, Putting Brugge aside for a second. Monaco already lost at home to Simeone's side, it's quite improbable that they'll beat them at Madrid. You can say that this only matters if Dortmund somehow takes points away from Atletico, which is not a easy task. But consider this, the rojiblancos already won one of the four matchups against these two, they can very well win all four but that's not the likeliest of all scenarios and it is far more likely that they drop points in one of the two matches against Dortmund than in the one remaining.
2, Better Home Field advantage, if the scenario plays out as I talked about on the paragraph above, Dortmunf can decide at home against AS Monaco even if they oose the away game, a couple of draws will do the job also.
3, Third and most important, Dortmund to me is a better team than Monaco, they also have better options, just tell mr how many players from Monaco would start in the side from Germany.
Anwyay that's a wrap. More and more content coming. See you guys later and let me know what you think.
Anyone that knows a place hiring writers or if you are looking for one let me know. I'm always available 24/7.
My email is: estevaomaximo_23@hotmail.com
It's 1:41 AM my time right now and I'm using my cellphone so ignore the spelling horror that is this article
We'll break it down into 8 parts each one discussing an individual group. I'll do the first one today and the second one tomorrow, and so on so forth, to create an article relatively simple to understand I'll first list the teams in each group in the order I believe the group will finish, give a small breakdown of the group as a whole and then asess each individual team and why I believe they'll end up in that place. So let's begin.
Group A:
1st: Atletico Madrid.
2nd: Borussia Dortmund.
3rd: AS Monaco.
4th: Club Brugge.
This is a pretty interesting group although most of them are for a guy that enjoys soccer as much as me, in it we find three teams that don't come to mind when we think about the top tier (Barcelona, Juventus, Man United, Real Madrid...) maybe Atletico to a lesser degree than Dortmund and Monaco but as after a brief look back at the recent past will tell you, not only they have been almost a lock to be present in the tournament on a yearly basis they all enjoyed unprecedented success amongst Europe's best.
Simeone's squad has made it to two finals which is remarkable for a side with his investment, they were minutes away from the title the first time around and lost the second one in a penalty shootout, against Real Madrid well that's pretty good, it's heartbresking but nevertheless pretty good.
Borussia Dortmund had it's glory days eith Jurgen Klopp and that phenomenal squad that took the league title from the hands of the mighty Bayern Munchen but falled to the same in the UCL final, since the german coach had left the building the team hasn't been the same, losing key players and with that failing to produce the same results although their group last year was brutal, Tottenham and Real Madrid were and are ahead of Dortmund and it'd be quite a upset, to me at least if the german side were to eliminate them.
Remember when AS Monaco went after James Rodriguez and Falcao Garcia and it looked like just the beggining well that was about the whole it and they kind of slipped under the radar for a while and in that time they did a tremendlus job developing players until a couple of years ago they broke out and with the likes of Mbappe, Mendy, Silva, Bakayoko, Fabinho, Sidibe and others winning the Ligue 1 a shocker 8 points ahead of PSG and also making it to the UCL semifinal, unfortunately ot didn't last as the team saw most of it's key players leave in the following summer window.
Today we can easily put Atletico Madrid significantly ahead of everyone else in the group in terms of investment, expectation and all that comes with it, now that doesn't mean you'll ser them putting up 18 points but nonetheless it is what is, they are quite simply a level above, while Dortmund and Monaco have seen pretty much all of their star players leave once they reached a certain level, and Brugge is clearly the favorite to finiah the last.
Based on the previous paragraph you can see in my view the first and last place are pretty set. Now the reason I have Dortmund qualifying for the round of 16 is this.
1, Putting Brugge aside for a second. Monaco already lost at home to Simeone's side, it's quite improbable that they'll beat them at Madrid. You can say that this only matters if Dortmund somehow takes points away from Atletico, which is not a easy task. But consider this, the rojiblancos already won one of the four matchups against these two, they can very well win all four but that's not the likeliest of all scenarios and it is far more likely that they drop points in one of the two matches against Dortmund than in the one remaining.
2, Better Home Field advantage, if the scenario plays out as I talked about on the paragraph above, Dortmunf can decide at home against AS Monaco even if they oose the away game, a couple of draws will do the job also.
3, Third and most important, Dortmund to me is a better team than Monaco, they also have better options, just tell mr how many players from Monaco would start in the side from Germany.
Anwyay that's a wrap. More and more content coming. See you guys later and let me know what you think.
Anyone that knows a place hiring writers or if you are looking for one let me know. I'm always available 24/7.
My email is: estevaomaximo_23@hotmail.com
It's 1:41 AM my time right now and I'm using my cellphone so ignore the spelling horror that is this article
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