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WATFORD

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Feels like the Watford manager has received this message more times this season than combined all the seasons he’s been in charge (Of Watford)! 4 away defeats for Watford out of 5 games, and another away game to go again this week Vs City. Hopefully the team can get some away support to the match. With the slightest glimmer that the side managed a win Vs City in the Champions Leagues earlier in the season. Albeit it was a home game… The side must start performing under the manager. Otherwise this could be the 2^nd side the manager has managed to get relegated from the Premier League. Not a title he wants to be associated with! Manager is hoping that he can take advantage of any complacency settling inside the City side having won all 8 of their games this season.
As for the CUP game, West Ham are the opponents. While the manager would love to keep rotating. He’s fully aware he needs to continue to build the cohesion up between the teammates. Are Watford at the level to Beat West ham? Time will tell.
 

AC MILAN

An huge audition this week for both sides as they would both love to claim 3 points and push closer to the summit of the table. Napoli have an array of talent on display within the squad. Scalvini, Ricci, Bertolacci and Paloschi. Can new boys Milan upset the apple cart and go for the win?
Last week Leao took a knock in the game and had to watch as he side threw everything, but only managed a 2-2 draw. This week Onana comes into the side to Debut and give a FIRED UP performance to try and push his side over the finish line this week.
Salertana are the CUP opponents and manager will be looking to improve relationships between Doku/Bakayoko and Abrahams.
  

LEVERKUSEN

Huge game this week Vs Wolfsburg, when these two sides meet Form goes out of the window. An while the two teams are having contrasting seasons the manager simply cannot afford to slip up here and must maintain the pressure on Schalke who just keep finding a way to win. Leverkusen must keep within touching distance and be ready to pounce!
Joao Felix has been somewhat of a revelation for Leverkusen this season having scored 13 goals, equal to Wirtz!

 
BOTAFOGO

It would appear, the side heard the managers words of praise for Neymar Jr and decided they wanted to show they can all contribute to the success of the team. Casemiro with a MOTM performance as Ramos, Grimaldo and Niguez all got themselves on the scoreboard.
This week's opponents are Corinthians who are an established club within Brazil and look to cause issues for any opponent.
As for the CUP Vitoria are the opponents and mainly boast 9797 players and manager is hoping a slightly rotated squad is still enough to cause issue.
 
Good luck to everyone!

Schalke
Tough lge game against Karlsruhe away, with Rodri at AM to counter the rampant TM Hudson. Wirtz is back and playing at TM to get his creative skills closer to the forwards. I'm expecting goals (at both ends). Kulusevski gets a runout to help balance the attack.
A home cup game v Hamburg also has Wirtz at TM, with Kimmich as BW to stifle the opposing PM.
More squad tidying occurring this week along with equipping of buildings.

Thanks guys.

The Friendly games have kicked off. I expect the league games to kickoff at 1000 hours Thursday morning...

Domestic Cup Round Two highlights

Boca 3 Argentinos 0
Independente 4 Quilmes 0

Fluminense 5 Cianorte 0
Santos 2 Brasilia 0
Vasco 1 Corinthians 2
Botafogo 4 Vitoria 0

Plymouth 14 ( fourteen ) Norwich 0 *** A new world record score ***
Watford 0 Westham 1
Palace 2 Banstead 3
Charlton 6 Leicester 1
Spurs 3 Arsenal 3 aet 7-6pens
Blackpool 1 ManUnited 0
Chelsea 2 Bournemouth 1
Villa 1 Soton 0
ManCity 1 BristolCity 0

Rennais 4 Reims 0
Nantes 2 Paris 1

Schalke 2 Hamburg 1
Wolfsburg 5 Zwatzen 0
Leverkusen 4 Darmstadt 0
Bayern 2 Dortmund 0

Juventus 7 Matelica 0
Milan 9 Salertana 0

RealMadrid 1 Huesca 0
Barcelona 7 Gijon 0
Atletico 4 Bilbao 0

League games will kickoff at 1000 hours Thursday morning...

Paul Hemmings wrote:

Domestic Cup Round Two highlights

Botafogo 4 Vitoria 0
Watford 0 Westham 1
Leverkusen 4 Darmstadt 0
Milan 9 Salertana 0

Some good wins for the side. Watford on the other hand.. sigh, So much for having a cup run to balance the shambolic league season 

Well didn’t expect that at Plymouth - players have been told in no uncertain terms though tonight that a performance in the league is a priority - they have been warned!

The ref blows his whistle and the games are underway, good luck to everybody this week...

Napoli 1 ACMilan 0 Ben Khalifa on 2 minutes.
Arsenal 0 AstonVilla 1 Tielemans.
Penarol 1 Danubio 0 Jose Da Fonseca.

InterMilan 1 Parma 0 Posch header on 3 minutes.
Molde 0 Rosenborg 1 Sigthorsson header.

Manager in and out of meetings but keeping a very close eye on proceedings - no let up was the message in the dressing rooms for all the teams!

Feyenoord 0 Twente 1 Kamada on 4 minutes. New manager at Twente this week.
Braga 1 Porto 0 Onuachu.

Soton 1 Palace 0 Smallbone on 6 minutes.
Feyenoord 1 Twente 1 Vlahovic.

ManUnited 1 Newcastle 0 Fernandes on 7 minutes.
Brighton 1 SheffUtd 0 Burger.
Braga 2 Porto 0 Alaba penalty.
Celtic 1 Aberdeen 0 Necid.

Arsenal 1 AstonVilla 1 Pereira on 9 minutes.
Fulham 1 Charlton 0 Rodrigo Muniz.

Raith 1 St Johnstone 0 Scarpa on 10 minutes.
Zaragoza 1 RealMadrid 0 Noa Lang.

Vasco 1 Fluminense 0 Freitas on 11 minutes.
Westham 0 Ipswich 1 Zeqiri.
Napoli 1 ACMilan 1 Abraham.

Wimbledon 1 WestBrom 0 Whyte on 12 minutes.
InterMilan 2 Parma 0 Pellegrini header.

ManUnited 2 Newcastle 0 Fernandes penalty on 13 minutes.

Cannes 0 Etienne 1 Abi on 14 minutes.

Penarol 1 Danubio 1 Aguero penalty on 15 minutes.

Corinthians 1 Botafogo 0 Meyer on 16 minutes.
Nantes 1 Toulouse 0 Gerson.
Karlsruhe 1 Schalke 0 Hudson.
Hannover 1 Bayern 0 Sucic.
Penarol 2 Danubio 1 Matos.
Colonia 0 Nacional 1 Valverde.

Cannes 0 Etienne 2 Ganso on 17 minutes.

Leeds 1 Wednesday 0 James on 18 minutes.
Burnley 1 Swansea 0 Dervisoglu.