So, does anyone is going to watch Conference league today when there is some big games in Europa league. Braga - Fiorentina might be interesting, but La Viola is struggling a lot this season, while Braga is very solid. 2.50 for Braga ML is bargain IMO.
Also, I see value in betting on Partizan. Sheriff will play at empty stadium, they didn't had official games since November, had just 2 friendly games and haven't achieved win there.
Trabzonspor - Basel. It will be first game for Trabzonspor after terrible earthquake in Turkey, it might not easy for them emotionally to play.

Ajax - Union should be very interesting. Odds for Ajax looks attractive, they seem to improved after change of manager, but Union looks scary, they already forget when they lost or got draw last time.
Sporting and Juve is heavy favorites today, while remaining pairs looks very difficult to predict.

1.75 for Barca win is a bit too much understimating MU. Barca looking good, even if they score just 1-2 goals per game recently, but MU  is very solid too recently. Considering that we play at home, win is must to do thing, but I wish that we will win by more than 1 goal to get more confident lead before 2nd. Just too many sad flashbacks from 2nd leg games in previous seasons.

I think you confused Olympic games and IIHF World Championship. Olympic games is played in February when in NHL it's still regular season. So, if NHL don't make window for Olympic games, there won't be any NHL players there, as it was in 2018 and 2022. While IIHF World Campionship is played in May when it's already playoff time in NHL. So, if their team haven't qualified to playoffs or already dropped from it, they can join their national teams.

I also have predicted outcomes correctly, but didn't managed to get exact score. I expected that both games will have over 2.5 goals, but maybe my expectations were a bit too much optimistic for 1st leg games. I'm up by 4 places to 16th now, so, not bad round for me. Congratulations to @leea-1334 for winning yellow cap this round.

By 3 goals probably would be a bit too much, but they had more than enough chances to wing game. Their xG is a bit over 2. Before 2nd leg I wouldn't even call Borussia as favorite, despite their 1 goal advantage.
And a bit disappointed about Brugge. I predicted Benfica win, but expected something more from Brugge, now Benfica dominated completely and I don't see chances for Brugge to make comeback at Estadio da Luz.

That's very interesting thing. Maybe it's a bit strange that nobody haven't noticed this tiny detail in all these years. Now it's main question, did author of logo left that detail intentionally, or it was mistake. It would be interesting if @bitboy would come here and answer it. He haven't posted anything since 2014, but he did loged in to forum last September.
I wouldn't call it imperfection. I would say that Bitcoin logo is imperfectly perfect .

So, after all, Bayern was just better side today and they probably shouldn't be happy that they ended just with 1 goal. When Mbappe scored goal, offside was obvious from first replay.

Benfica looks like heavy favorites, but I wouldn't understimate Brugge, they made many upsets in group stage. I predict Benfica win, but it won't be easy. Considering how good Borussia is playing right now and how Chelsea looks, 2,45 odds for Dortmund is bargain.

Milan is trash in Serie A, but Spurs aren't doing much better in EPL and people don't have much confidence to back them. After all, IIRC it's just first Champions league playoff round game for Milan since 2014. I was thinking between draw and Milan win and decided to back Milan, just because of home factor. Spurs win wasn't an option for me.

Have you ever heard about thing called tectonic plates? Turkey and Syria is located in crossroads of 3 tectonic plates - Anatolian, Arabian, and African plates. They touch and interact with each other and it's tectonically active area. Unfortunately, this region always will be at risk of earthquake, and there is not much what human can do to. Here more detailed article explaining it:
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2023/two-earthquakes-turkey-syria-predicted/
Countries located in such dangerous regions should follow Japan example. They have very strict requirement for buildings and it can withstand earthquakes. Even skyscrapers!

Finally long wait is over! I already imagin getting goosebumps when I'll hear Champions league anthem . Even despite that my team is going to play Thursday Night Football.
So difficult to predict something. Not going to play ML, going to look other markets. I'm leaning to predicting draw in both games, though, I would prefer Bayern win. Milan - Spurs, both are playing shit recently, but probably Milan have a bit more chances in first leg.
But why they can't have both games on different times slots, c'mon?

From what I read, they were supposed to give compensations in BTC, instead of giving Bitcoin Cash. So, they didn't made it? It's not about just LocalBitcoins, but there is much more centralised platforms which followed their path and didn't gave BCH. It's another examplewhy keeping your coins there isn't best idea in cases like this. Not your keys - not your coins.

Well, I will refrain from predictions, but last season I didn't made predictions before qualifying many times and it cost me lot of Early Bru Points. This strategy didn't worked, so, this season I hope to do better.

Yeah, agree that having good time is important thing. But chance to get yellow cap motivates you to don't give up, even if you're at the bottom of table.

Bigger pot definitely would help to attract more players and it would be more fun to play with more participants. But I think that main factor why we got just 12 last season because pool was made just few days before the season.

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Very happy to be in 1st division, considering that there were just 12 spots. And it's good that you Cro2 guys also will paly there. Liked first round question, just one thing not very clear about Borussia. There is answer option with 2+ goals, but what if they will score exactly 2 goals? There is no ption for it, so, no points awarded?

Damn, I got very difficult opponent for 1st round, but you can't get easy one in 1st division. I also haven't made big reasearch, just checked draw of tennis tournament to try predict potential final.

In this round status quo remains, as all teams from leading group won their games. Feyenoord had most diffiuclt win 1:2 against Heerenveen. While PSV had one of the most dominating performances this season, destroying Groningen 6:0. Their stats looks amazing, 34 shots, 13 on target.

Win 3:1 against Waalwijk wasn't that easy as it looks in final score. They let opponents to score first and only took a lead in final 15 minutes game. I still wouldn't make conclusions about Heitinga, as they haven't faced strong opponents yet. Yeah, they won against Twente in cup, but cup games isn't best indicator. Let's see how they will look in Europa league playoffs against Union.

Great game between Sporting and Porto which ended with Porto win 1:2. First goal of Uribe, it's impressive how he managed to go through 3 defenders. In 2nd half it already looked that Sporting managed to make score 1:1, but goal was cancelled after VAR review. And after few minutes Porto closed the game by scoring 2nd goal. After all, Sporting scored their goal, but it was too late already. In general, they didn't played bad, but you have no right to make such big mistake in defence against team like Porto. Here is highlights of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo2Xz1ryFB0
Maritimo had solid game against Braga, they scored first goal, but their joy didn't lasted for long, as Braga responded with a goal just after minute and they closed first half by scoring penalty. In 2nd half result didn't changed and this important win let Braga to increase their lead from Sporting by 8 points, just 2 points behind Porto and Benfica is still possible to reach.

Barcelona defence is simply the wall this season. Another minimal 1:0 win without conceded goal. Just 7 goals in 21 games conceded, or 0.33 goal per game. In the end Villarreal dominated, but there was lot of confidence that Barca will not concede. While in previous seasons, most likely that they would conceded in such game. +11 already with Real yet to play this round game.
Atletico win against Celta goes against logic because Celta played much better, especially after Savic got red card. It's unbeleavable how they didn't managed to score with all moments that they had.
Valencia suffered already 4th loss in a row and now they're in relegation zone. In the beginning of game Mestalla stadium was half empty, fans went to their seats only after 20 minutes as they made protest against club owner Lim.

I will join without any doubts. Last season was fun, even despite that there wasn't many of us playing. Maybe F1 can't compete with EPL, but I think that we can get at least 20 players this season. Previous season I didn't paid enough attention to F1 pool and my results weren't great, but in last rounds I managed to get few yellow caps. I hope to do better this year, but it will be more difficult with more participants.

It's shocking to see what happened in Turkey and Syria. Watching videos of huge buildings full of people falling down in few seconds is one of the scariest things that you can see. It's already confirmed that over 23 000 people lost their lifes and sadly, this number is still increasing. It's miracle that some people are still getting taken alive from rubble after few days, considering that had to spend it in cold, without water and food, seriously injured.
It's bad that Bitcoin isn't accepted for donations, but I'm going to exchange money to help as much as I can. My thoughts with people of Turkey and Syria.

Damn, that's really sad news. I don't use their platform, but I remember them from my early days in crypto and how big they were back then. Basically, everyone who was in crypto, knew their platform. What I can say, end of another era.
Probably crypto winter is main reason behind closure, their volumems went down significantly. But regulations didn't helped them either. Introducing KYC had direct impact why their trading volums went down and platform stopped giving profit.

As I already won Ledger Nano X from Betnomi, I will skip this giveaway. Good luck for everyone who will play here and thanks again to Betnomi.

Yeah, in 2022 it was new generation cars, so changes were huge. This season we can only expect to see some minor changes, like sidepods. But I think that none of teams haven't showed yet same design of cars how it will look on the track.

That's nice. Steiner looks like one of the most charismatic persononalities in F1, it would be very interestingto chat with him. I didn't had chance to meet F1 stars face to face, in past I saw David Coulthard in Red Bull Showrun event in Vilnius.

Previous season was terrible for crypto business and F1 partnership. I also remember that Mlcaren terminated their contract with Bitci.com exchange before start of 2022 season. So, yeah, crypto now is sensitive word there.
Now trying to imagine Sportsbet logo on orange Mlcaren car. I think it wouldn't look bad. But judging from post above, now we can expect to see their logo on Haas car .

It was really great game to watch yesterday. In general, Braga looking very solid now and that huge loss against Sporting few weeks ago now looks like excpetion from the rule. Now they will face Nacional in semifinal - club from 2nd division. In other semifinal Porto will play against Famalicao. Semifinal will consist from 2 legs.
In upcoming round main game will be Sporting - Porto. Attractive odds for Porto. Watched recent Sporting game against Rio Ave, they won, but game was such awful and boring. While Benfica already played round 20 game few weeks ago, as I understand, it was rescheduled because of Champions league.