Spain: Real Sociedad - Barcelona (Sunday, 11:00 p.m.)
No less intriguing than the question of how Barcelona manages to bring in all the acquisition players it brought (and there are several more it plans to bring, according to reports), is the question of how it will look when all these players join them together ?
The Semitic list as well as the preparatory games created the feeling that a well-oiled football machine is being built here, but then the first official match against Rayo and Yacano at the Camp Nou arrived and the business was ruined.
It turns out that like any team that participates in its first league game with four new players, Xavi's Barca will also need time and real games to bond together.
Until recently, Real Sociedad away was the last opponent that Barcelona would want to meet in such a situation, but in recent years the Catalans have actually been living a crazy life in San Sebastian.
And that's exactly what Xavi and his players need now: a good game that will do good and prove that Barcelona is doing good, which brings them all this good despite being bad.
France: Lille - PSG (Sunday, 21:45)
PSG scored 14 goals in its three official games this season, and in this abundance it managed to squeeze a Parisian-Brazilian telenovela as well.
The title is "Pendalgate 2", and the people involved are Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
By the way, "Pendalgate 1" involved the Brazilian with Edinson Cavani, so at least you can't say that Neymar doesn't maintain stability.
Summary of the story: New coach Christophe Galtier established that Mbappe is the team's first penalty taker and Neymar the second, yet the Brazilian took advantage of the work the French star missed one in the win over Montpellier and kicked the second himself.
Mbappe didn't like it, and it showed.
The energy between the local star and Neymar and his best friend Messi was not good, and to that was added some likes on social networks that hinted at camping.
Sergio Ramos and the professional manager Luis Campos tried to bridge, and the two players were quick to say that it was all nonsense and the story behind them.
Maybe, but you have to wait for the next penalty.
Mbappe and Neymar.
Is everything okay?, Photo: AFP
Italy: Napoli - Monza (Sunday, 19:30)
For the first time in 50 years, the opening round of Serie A was evenly divided: 10 winners, 10 losers, not a single game that ended in a draw.
And of the 10 winners, the one that achieved the most impressive result and placed at the top of the table is Napoli, who defeated Verona 2:5.
And of the Napoli players, the vast majority of whom were very impressive, the acquisition Caviche Cavazdalia stood out in particular.
Kavazadalia
Will he continue to impress?, Photo: Reuters
The statistics will say that the 21-year-old Georgian scored a goal and cooked another, but the eyes will tell a different story.
Even though there were a few turnovers and even though he still lacks decision-making, the lean and tall Georgian is one of those who raise his pulse when the ball is at his feet.
He is cunning, unpredictable, exciting and full of confidence.
"I'm learning the language and I feel completely local here," he said this week, and that's even before he met the crowd at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.
England:
Manchester United - Liverpool (Monday, 22:00)
Crisis is a relative matter, and the battle of empires on Monday is a clear example of this.
Here is Liverpool, plagued by injuries, without their acquired striker Darwin Nunes, who was run away by Zinedine Zidane, still without a win this season, falling behind three times already, four points away from City, but it can be said that their situation is stable compared to that of United.
There, at Eric Ten Haah's, the crisis within the crisis.
The two losses to Brighton and Brentford and the last place in the table are the headlines, but inside the story there are chapters upon chapters.
The Cristiano Ronaldo thing, the brake crisis, the lack of strikers, the desperate pursuit of acquisitions, protests against the owners, and the unsuccessful trolling of Elon Musk about his desire to purchase the club.
Basically, a game of this type does not need to be promoted or publicized, it promotes itself by its very existence.
However, this time there is a possibility to see a rare case: two empires enter an intersection at a red light and try to avoid an accident.
Ronaldo in defeat to Bretford.
Will United recover against Liverpool?, Photo: AP
Germany
: Bayer Leverkusen - Hoffenheim (Saturday, 16:30)
Third place, a ticket to the group stage of the Champions League and an attack that scored 80 league goals convinced Bayer Leverkusen that there is no reason to touch what works so well.
The coach stayed, the staff was preserved, a young Czech talent named Adam Haluzak arrived and the expectation was that this would be the way the team would take the required step forward.
The season is still in its infancy, but Leverkusen has made needs in them.
She was eliminated from the cup with a loss to a team from the third division, lost in the opening round to Dortmund 0:1 and then recorded another loss 1:2 to Augsburg and thus suddenly found herself out of the cup and in last place.
Gerardo Savana's team gets into situations and has the ball, but Patrik Schick, Moussa Diaby and the others are unable to put the ball in the net.
The match against Hoffenheim will provide another opportunity to test the existing squad, and another failure may send Leverkusen into the transfer market against its early plans.
Bayer Leverkusen fans, photo: Getty
Bonus: Palmeiras - Flamengo, Brasilia (Sunday, 22:00)
These two teams have won the last three Copa Libertadores cups, they played against each other in the last final, both are in the semi-finals this season as well and there is a reasonable chance that they will meet again in the final, they spent the most money in the window The current transfers and in Brasilrao are ranked 1-2.
After 22 league rounds, Palmeiras leads with a difference of nine points, but that's only because Flamengo started the season with Paulo Sousa and paid a price for it.
Since the return of Duribal Jr. and the addition of the likes of Arturo Vidal and Everton Sabulina, the Mario team have looked excellent and have also reached the semi-finals of the cup.
While Flamengo is considered a local Galacticus group, Palmeiras is its own galaxy.
With the Portuguese coach Abel Pereira, she won the continental champion twice in a row, reached the semifinals tooth and nail and is very impressive in the league as well.
All the tickets for this game have been snapped up in advance, and Brazil is excited for a match that has two different endings: either Palmeiras escapes, or Flamengo completely opens the season.
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