In my opinion, Schalke did play well to win that match but they also missed a lot of chances in that match and made some big and fatal mistakes. Really big mistakes were made by the defense and the goalkeeper gave the opponent a good chance of scoring. Also, Schalke missed some really easy chances to score. otherwise, the score would have been much different.
You are talking about the last game against St. Pauli? There were almost a sensation and St. Pauli would have won. Schalke came back with the penalty goal. If St. Pauli had won, the last matchday would have been even more exciting. But St. Pauli played a great season. Unfortunately, the second half of the season was not good enough from them. Yes, I was talking about that match. And yes I agree that if st. Pauli did win that match it would have been a lot more exciting to see the next matches, But now I don't think they have any chance. It does feel a little sad to see st. Pauli losing their way like this in the later part of the season. But, I am actually really happy that I am going to see a promotion for Schalke. yes. this time, fc.st.pauli was hit by the evil april. otherwise, hsv always had to give up many points in april. but today the hsv has bad news for its fans again. Anssi Suhonen suffered a serious injury in training yesterday and will miss the last game and the possible relegation matches. This is of course a great pity, as Annsi has been in very good form lately. FYI > > Annsi's leg was successfully operated on today! https://www.hsv.de/news/anssi-suhonen-erleidet-wadenbeinbruch HSV will be facing Hansa. This is certainly not a hard opponent for them in my opinion but missing Anssi Suhonen is surely going to hurt them in this match. If not for the injury they could have gone with the full power in the last match but that is certainly not possible right now. Anyway, I am glad that this was not a very serious injury and I hope he will be able to give his 100% very soon. |
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Juventus really demonstrated well in the first half that made many people to concluded that the final will end up for their favour because of the way they started the match. They where leading the game in the first half before inter coach went to introduced more new strategies in the second half that made them to achieved victory at the end of the match. Juventus coach need to prepare the team how to remain stronger both first half and second half so that what happened in this season will not happen to them in next season.
The match is balance and two clubs created many opportunities. De Ligt after a few season in Serie A and learn from Bonucci and Chiellini still made naive mistake. He made it in the Euro 2020 and this final he caused another penatly. Juventus still show their quality in this final and it can be a foundation for them to come back to the top of Serie A next season. After a half of season to adapt to a new club, Dusan Vlahovic will be more ready to shine in the next season. Barella scored a magnificent goal and I wonder that if he could do this just one time in the World-Cup playoff, Italia should not be an outsider of World Cup 2022.  I have to say even though it might seem like Inter was the winner just because of the bad defending by Juventus I think the two goals that they scored except for the penalties are really great goals and Juventus was hanging back (defensively) and suffered for it. I have to say it was bad defending by Juventus because you just cannot concede two penalties in the finals like that. Otherwise, I think they might have had a really good chance of winning that match. There was also a mistake from the Inter goalkeeper otherwise he told have been a lot more one-sided. |
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New rumors are linking Frenkie De Jong with a move to United.
I have to say I really did not see this coming, he did not have a great time at Barcelona but is overall a fantastic player and should play at the highest level possible.
Accepting a transfer to United is a really bizarre move but I guess he wants to be reunited with Ten Hag who knows how to use him best.
Barcelona wants the deal because they need the money and the sources that are reporting it are generally speaking quite accurate.
Local media in Spanish confirmed this transfer almost be deal because Erick Ten Hag want him arrived this summer and i assuming this might be happend because Ten Hag used to has collaboration with Frenkie De Jong while still in Ajax so this can be a reunion for the two of them and the most important is Barcelona need fresh money and with selling this player they will have extra funds to buy another players and price tag for him also very tempting approximately 70-80 millions euro I think this will be actually good for Barcelona because he arrived in Barcelona with a lot of expectations but to be honest I don't think he ever reached his full potential with Barcelona. So, I think it is going to be better for the player to move and it will also be good for Barcelona because now they have some money to work with. They will surely try to bring in better players. I am expecting Barcelona to bring in some quality defenders right now. |
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@Sithara007 is it even possible to have test cricket in the Olympics in a hypothetical scenario, because won’t it increase the length of the Olympics too much?.
Furthermore does cricket really needs Olympics? because it’s already popular, and even if it never gets added to the Olympics then too it’ll do just fine in my personal opinion.
Lastly instead of getting cricket into Olympics ICC should focus primarily on making test cricket more interesting via night tests, and use of pink balls as I had suggested previously.
OK.. let me answer it point by point 1. We are talking about the inclusion of T20 cricket in Olympics (not test or ODI). Thanks to JSRAW, for already clarifying this. There are suggestions that T10 should be the format for Olympics, but I don't agree. T10 is more like baseball and hardly has anything to do with cricket. 2. Yes. Cricket needs Olympics. That would make sure that associate nations receive funds from their respective governments. If the ICC doesn't want this, then they should increase the associate funding by 50x or 100x. And a popular sport is not something that is restricted to 4-5 countries. 3. Test cricket is dead, whether you want to admit it or not. Soon ODI will be dead as well. Night test will give it a temporary boost, but in the end you can't beat a dead horse hoping that it will wake up. Yes, I agree with most of the points here. T10 really looks like something that should be done way into the future. Cricket is not in a good position right now even though a lot of people are going to say otherwise. I believe the addition of T20 cricket in the Olympics is surely going to be a great step taken for the best. The only thing that I don't agree entirely with is that ODI is going to be dead soon. I believe ODI still has a lot of time to its popularity but it is true that as T20 is becoming more popular the longer formats of cricket will surely become a lot less popular around the whole world. If ICC wants to actually improve the situation of cricket it needs to concentrate on gaining popularity with the T20 format. |
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Leeds do not have to worry too much, they have to just bring their best to the pitch because Chelsea are in the latter parts of the season. Chelsea has been inconsistent since the elimination from the champion's league, the uncertainty around the club is now affecting their performance. The players need to brace up, finish off the season very strongly because they might just slip to fourth place.
Actually, I think Leeds have a lot to worry about because they will be facing a lot harder opponent in the next three matches. So things really don't look good for them right now. If they actually want to get out of the relegation zone they have to hope that Burnley also has some harder opponents in the next few matches and they lose all of those matches and Leeds can somehow win 1. |
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not only the change of coach at schalke was the deciding factor for the club's direct promotion back to the 1. bundesliga. the change in bremen Anfang/Werner also brought about a different and positive attitude among the players and werder bremen was able to perform very well over a long period of time and are already almost certain to be the second promoted team.
That is right. How could I forget your Bremen team....   At the moment it looks like Werder Bremen will defend the second place and will also be promoted directly. Ole Werner have started at matchday 16 and from place 10. At matchday 20, Bremen was already at place 3 and have since fluctuated between place 1 and 3. It has to be said, however, that Markus Anfang was not sacked, but resigned. In my opinion, Schalke did play well to win that match but they also missed a lot of chances in that match and made some big and fatal mistakes. Really big mistakes were made by the defense and the goalkeeper gave the opponent a good chance of scoring. Also, Schalke missed some really easy chances to score. otherwise, the score would have been much different. I think Werder Bremen had a very easy match and everybody did expect them to win because they did play that match against a team at the bottom of the table and it would have been a surprise if they even drew that match. And yes Markus Anfang did resign, he was not fired. |
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Looking at the current barca squad I don't think they are ready for the title next season. But the arrival of Xavi in the middle of this season was able to bring a good atmosphere in the team. But I think Barcelona is in time to build or rebuild a squad that can bring back their glory like in previous years.
I think if the current coach is not Xavi probably Barcelona position wouldn't be at 2nd so in my view Xavi is the right coach for Barcelona because as the former player he know the culture of Barcelona and it proven since he arrived on november last year he has successfully improved Barcelona performance and next season too Barcelona under him looks promising so with the current squad i think Barcelona ready to competed with Madrid or Atletico for race title for next season There is no way that Barcelona could have been in second place if the coach was not Xavi. he improve the situation in Barcelona right after he came into the club. it is also really good to see that he is very passionate about this club and he obviously had almost all of his career played in Barcelona. very passionate and determined to improve the situation. just imagine what he could have done actually had Messi in the Barcelona squad. It seems like we basically know what is going to happen in this Season. Barcelona should end in the second position. but they could have given Real Madrid a harder fight. which I obviously expect from them in the next season. |
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Dortmund is known for selling great players out,it is somehow seen as a business club.The produce world class players and sell them out.The likes of Lewandowski,Aubameyang and other great players are from Durtmund.Haaland is the latest and with the reports that he is sold for about 75 million pounds is very cheap for a player like Haaland,who has proven to be one of the best goal scorers in Europe.He has been the solo attacker for Dortmund scoring goals on regular basis.
His transfer will be the transfer of the summer and his addition to the Manchester team will make way for the likes of Gabriel Jesus to find their way out of the team.
He should also be aware that England is a tough place that deals with physicality,and the defenders there are not like that of spain where their defenders allow their attackers to score as many goals as they like.In England,the defenders are to tough,therefore scoring to many goals is not much.
I also think that 75 million was not enough for Erling Haaland. he should have been a lot more costly. he is a great player and is seen as a direct competitor with mbappe. we all know what mbappe is worth at this time. but it's just Dortmund really needed that money and to be honest, I really don't know what they are going to do with that money because all they do is build up great players and then sell them to their competitors or other clubs. it will be interesting to see how Erling Haaland plays in the English Premier League. because it is a totally different ball game compared to the Bundesliga. |
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I am also hearing about it for the first time. I have played different type/format of street cricket but I have never heard about it or played it. How many players are allowed in each team considering only two players are allowed to bat. I assume each team will have a minimum of two players and they can also bowl. Then how many fielders and does it have a wicket keeper?
As I already mention just two players involved in this game for having batting and bowling, so only these two can bat and bowl with mostly this is going to play from four to Eight overs game and for players on filed it's also depended on mostly have six to eleven with all is going from their own teams, but only two players are involved in batting and bowling others only can field and have no role in batting and bowling. Still we have many areas in our city where we have regular cups for these leagues because on week days we have too many players available for all things, but recently mostly peoples from rural areas are enjoying with them because in big cities we have now T10 and T20 formats are more involved. I really don't think something like this is going to be good for cricket in the long run because that is going to change a lot in cricket and I don't think that will be healthy for cricket in the long run. Even if it is I think it should be way into the future. Right now there is no reason why this should be implemented in any format of cricket. Right now I think the world really needs the T20 cricket to reach them and I think they will find it interesting because even in the current world it does not cost too much time. maybe in the future if something really needs to be done to get the time lessened I think it can be thought then. |
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The league has entered week 36, there are only 2 matches left, while AC Milan is 2 points ahead, meaning AC Milan is one step away from getting the La Liga cup this season, in week 37 AC Milan is waiting for a tough match, AC Milan will face Atlanta, In the previous match Atlanta just beat Spezia with a score of 1-3, if AC Milan manages to secure 3 points in Week 37, I am very sure AC Milan will win the La Liga title this season.
Lol, don't you know the next two opponents Inter will face? Inter have an easier opponent than Milan, as Inter will only play against Cagliari and Sampdoria in the two remaining matches. Although previously Inter would play in the Coppa Italia Final against Juventus, but basically it will not be a problem, because a team as big as Inter certainly has a good treatment to restore player fitness. This means that Milan's position will not be safe until the end, especially Milan, which will play against Atalanta, is not an easy thing to get full points. We saw AC Milan's performance against Hellas Verona. Milan played very well. Before them in two matches against Atalanta and Sassuolo. Of course there are two tough opponents. But Milan is in very good form now. My guess is that they will win the next two matches as usual. Inter Milan is still 2 points behind. So if they lose points in the next two matches, they will not be able to win the title. Inter Milan must win the next two matches and AC Milan must lose one match. Only then can Inter win the title. Milan surely has harder opponents than Inter in the upcoming two matches that are left in the season but I still don't think that Milan is going to lose any of those matches. I also don't expect Inter to lose either of the matches that are left because they will be facing a team that is midway in the table and another team that is in the relegation zone. So the main point is Milan cannot lose any matches otherwise they will be losing the title. |
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two teams are already in the final of the Europa league final between Rangers vs Frankfurt where both of them looked stunning in the semifinals and both were very worthy of qualifying for the final, these two teams did perform very poorly in their respective domestic leagues but both will try to play well in the final in order to become champions and qualify automatically for the Champions League next season without having to go through the qualifying round.of course this will be an ideal final where both teams still have the same chance to win the Europa league title this season because both are not the favorite team to win the title but they proved that anything can happen in the world of football
It seems you don't know about Rangers who have always been Celtic's tightest competitors in the local league, it can be said that Rangers are the second best team in Scotland after Celtic. In contrast to Frankfurt which is not very good in the local league, but both have different rivalries in the domestic league so I can't say like you about them being bad in the domestic league. That's an incorrect statement I think, but apart from that their rivalry in the Europa League final is unpredictable because neither of them are seeded teams in the Europa League but who would have thought they would be the team that would compete in the final. I don't think we should compare the League results of Frankfurt and Rangers because both of them have different types of opponents in their own respective leagues. For now, I am just going to focus on the performance in the Europa league for both these teams and I certainly think that Frankfurt has shown really good performance in the Europa League and in my opinion better performance than the Rangers. I believe we are going to see a really good final but I am going to say Frankfurt has a better chance of winning. |
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After City 0-1, they were far from serious in my opinion and paid the price. What did they miss, far from being serious, in the minutes 80s and later. They missed the positions where they could easily scored if they were smarter. But they could not take into account that the opposite team was Real Madrid. No team in history has ever shown its "winner" spirit to its rivals as much as Real did this season. This spirit that permeates all the players, the technical team and the fans is truly incredible. It was an incredibly enjoyable game to watch. Real Madrid showed us once again that it is a Champions League team.
Manchester City thought that the job is over and they did not realize Real Madrid has been doing this for or last few games in a row and even though they are a better team than the opponents that Real Madrid have faced previously they can also be caught out by surprise. and that has certainly cost them the match and a chance of being in the finals of the Champions League. But to be honest it will be really hard to plan then because even I also thought that Real Madrid did not have any chance in that match but probably an argument can be made that they are professionals and they should have played a lot more professionally instead of just trying to waste time. |
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Nothing interesting in ODI cricket these days - what is coming up next? I am missing ODIs . Seems like Long since we discussed something interesting.
Which teams would you like to see playing? Mine is Pakistan and India and Australia and NZ.
I don't even know when I watched an ODI match for the last time. Nowadays IPL is going on, and before that it was the T20 World Cup in 2021. Fans are rapidly losing their interest in bilateral series. In most cases, the matches are one-sided and in case of test matches the host nations are preparing horrible tracks in order to get the advantage (examples are Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan in the last few months). Now we are so used to T20 format, that a match that takes 7 hours to complete sounds too long for us. Yes exactly and no one in his right mind is going to sit in front of the television for 7 hours when he has a lot of things to do, especially those people who provide for their families. Even if someone decides to watch a one day international match for all the hundred overs, there is a very big chance that he might not enjoy it because often it can be one-sided. I think ICC will also start giving T20 more importance since the format is doing so well. |
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Torino 2 - 1 Spezia this game was kind of weird, there were 2 penalties, but I'm glad torino won the game, I bet on them and when they were winning the game 2 - 0 I was calm, but the penalty at the end of the game left me a little afraid they would draw, that's because the last games in torino ended in a draw, so it caused me fear that in this game they would also end in a draw Venezia 1 - 3 Atalanta Atalanta finally got back to winning ways, they won and managed to score 3 goals, something incredible because in the last games they have lost and haven't managed to score many goals, with this victory I hope they can have the willpower to win the next games and end up in a best position in the table Inter 3 - 0 Roma 60 minutes played and the game is already decided  In the end, the Torino versus Spezia match became quite close because of those penalties. But I was really glad that the match had a winner. Atalanta versus Venezia was one of the easier matches because Atalanta was facing the team which is absolutely at the bottom of the day and nothing much was expected from him in that match. Inter versus Roma has ended just now and the final score is 3-1 in favor of Inter and I think now Inter is going to end up being the winners of this League. Really don't see how Milan is going to stop them. |
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Next seasons transfer market is really going to be a hot one,because every team is looking forward to adding to the present club.A team like Arsenal and Manchester United is in need of players at different positions in the team,and will dig deep into the transfer market to get those players.
Arsenal are in need of at least two attackers,and central midfielder that will pair with Partey and Xhaka,and also a very strong left back that will cover for Tierney.They will be letting Nketiah and Lacazette go and a replacements will be signed.
I absolutely agree the transfer market is going to be crazy next season because this season the football has already been crazy. a lot of unexpected results have been seen in this season. I am sure that teams are going to change their squad to avoid those unnecessary defeats. a lot of talks are going on about teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Dortmund, Manchester City, and obviously, how can we forget about Manchester United! |
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Liverpool still has to face Everton tomorrow in the EPL match. Everton is a team that almost slipped into the relegation zone. Liverpool has the opportunity to rest their players in this match to be better prepared for the first leg against Villarreal.
although the Everton game is also important, I think they can handle it by playing it safe enough. Liverpool has the motivation to get 2 trophies this season. and it is very possible to achieve at this time. Hopefully, Liverpool can perform optimally.
Do you really think Klopp will let his players rest and lose the slim chance for the title? I think they will go out with the A team and play brilliantly, Villareal fought strong, their opponents underestimated them and lost but Liverpool will certainly kick them out with no problem. I really don't think that Liverpool is going to take things easy in the English Premier League because if they win there will be just 1 point behind Manchester City just like before and they will still have a really good chance of winning the English Premier League. I really think that the Liverpool squad is fit enough to play both the matches in English Premier League and Champions League. so if not any special events occur I think Liverpool is going to play a consistent game in both matches. |
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That's right, Liverpool have been very consistent this season. especially after Villarreal made a surprise by making it into the semifinals of course Liverpool will be wary of them and with the quality that Liverpool have it will be very easy I think to be able to win against Villarreal.
No one expected to see Villarreal reach the semi-finals. They have been very tactful in the past matches and have performed well enough in the matches. And so if Liverpool wants to qualify for the final, they must be very careful. Winning against Villarreal will not be easy. But I am hopeful that I will see Liverpool in my final. I miss it, I expect it, but if it succeeded I would be very happy i like to see new and beautiful faces in soccer favor .. sometimes they happen and i have a lot of fun the important thing is that they are able to offer a great show to us fans, Chelsea did it and although eliminated I give them a round of applause I was actually thinking what if Bayern Munich was able to win against Villareal and they are the ones to face Liverpool in the next match. But unfortunately, that is not going to happen and I think it is obvious to predict that Liverpool is going to win this match. There have been some surprises in the Champions League this season and I am not going to be surprised if the surprises are still not over. |
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Many people haven't really been paying attention to Villarreal, they are actually thinking Liverpool will have it easy. Villarreal are very stubborn and not so easy to predict their style of play. Their defense block is mostly intact throughout their game and they are compact when they lose the ball.
Maybe some people only see Villarreal in their domestic league so they forget that Villarreal has struggled so far in the Champions League so they can meet a big and strong club this season like Liverpool and have also beaten Bayern Munich in the Champions League So Liverpool must be wary of Villarreal in the Champions League this season. Actually, Villarreal did surprise a lot of people in this Champions League and I don't know if we have seen the end of it. Because I have said that Manchester City is worried about the English Premier League and that might cause some problems in their performance in the Champions League. But the same thing can be said for Liverpool in my opinion, because actually, Liverpool is the one chasing Manchester City. But still, I think this should be a win for Liverpool. |
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