I love this game! Another amazing day in Eurobasket, all 4 games were so good. Italy made biggest upset so far by eliminating one of main contenders Serbia. In the end of 3rd quarter Italy coach Pozzecco got ejected and it's amazing how Italy started to play after it. Maybe Serbia had much more talent, but Italy players played with heart and gave everything. Just watch Pozzecco emotions in the end, unbeleavable. I remember this guy as player, and now as coach he didn't changed at all, he is called La Mosca Atomica not without a reason:
https://twitter.com/BasketNews_com/status/1569027234286997505
Greece - Czech Republic, what a great game, Czech gave great fight. Giannis in the end closed the game, but opponents still didn't gave up. Giannis struggled in previous FIBA tournaments, but now he simply dominate like in NBA.
Finland won against Croatia, I'm not sure that I can call it as upset. I can complain about Lithuania performance, but what Croatia is doing for almost 30 years is simply shame. They always have good player, but they didn't achieved anything since 1995. Lauri Markkanen, what a performance, 43 points 19/29 FG, simply wow!
Ukraine lost against Poland. Poland were underdogs, but they played much more solid in the end.
Interesting coincidence that 3 of 4 today's games ended withsame score 86:94. Only Greece - Czech Republic ended 94:88, Czech scored 2 points too much
Now we have 1/4 finals Greece - Germany, Spain - Finland, Poland - Slovenia and France - Italy.

In Monza usually you expect much more interesting race... Now Verstappen probably can not arrive to half of remaining races and he still would become champion. But that safety car finish left bad taste in mouth. It didn't decided race winner probably, but it didn't looked good. Maybe it's worth to consider introducing overtime rule like in NASCAR when we have safety car/VSC on final laps.
Russel is called Mr. Consistency not without a reason, another podium for him. It's sad for Ricciardo, he had great chance to get good points after long break, but had to retire. And what a weekend for De Vries. On Friday he was driving Aston Martin, on Saturday morning he was called to Williams to replace Albon. He had not much time to prepare, but he had solid qualifying and now points on his debut race. It's only question now why he don't have regular seat in F1 and what Latifi is still doing there?

Thanks guys! Finally I was able to get up from the bottom, I didn't believed that I will be able to do that this season . I lost so many points because I haven't entered my predictions before qualifying in first part of season. I still sometimes forget to do it before qualifying, but this time I did it and I didn't even changed my picks, despite that I wasn't able to predict winner of qualifying.
SC probably wasn't factor which decided winner of race, but finish under SC is a bit ridiculous thing. Maybe it's time to introduce overtime rule like in NASCAR?

There is lot of penalties which mixed grid, but in such track like Monza, especially when it's just 5 position penalty for Verstappen. Well deserved pole for Leclerc, especially because he won it himself and not after penalty of Verstappen. Solid performance of De Vries, he outqualified GOATifi in his first ever qualification.

It's fun to watch how Russian propagandists are reacting to counteroffensive. Like Konashenkov today said that withdrawal of troops from Kharkiv oblast is made to boost efforts in Donetsk oblast and achieve main goals of ''special military operation:
https://t.me/uniannet/71600
How many times they already changed goals of this operation''?  How about ''denazification'' and demilitarization of Ukraine?
And I didn't expected such fast progress of this counteroffensive. Russia were fighting for these cities for so much time and they lost it all in few days. 2nd army in the world

Lithuania wins against Lithuania after overtime. Championship is over for us... Lithuania were leading bigger part of game, but we simply can't win close games. We don't have players who can't kill opponents like other elite teams have. Brazdeikis buzer which sent game to OT was miracle, but in OT we had no chance.
It's incredible how Turkey managed to lose game that they already almost won. And in OT when they had another chance to win, on last attack they simply lost ball without even making shot.
Final result of Slovenia - Belgium don't reflect game. Belgium gave good fight and even were leading in 4th quarter, but in the end Slovenia were better. But I don't like what threatment from referees Doncic is getting. He can talk with refs how much does he wants and he wont get technical foul. And offcourse, every touch against him is foul.
Germany had very powerful start and were leading by almost 30 points, but Montenegro made a comeback and managed to stay in fight until final minutes. But their efforts weren't enough and Germany won game.

EuroBasket 1/8 finals begins on Saturday. It starts with Turkey - France game. After loss of Larkin, Turkey have don't much chances, but I still expect close game and France win in the end.
Then Slovenia - Belgium, least interesting pair. Zero chances for Belgium and probably we will see many nice moments from Doncic & co.
Germany - Montenegro. Hosts Germany is heavy favorites.
Spain - Lithuania. According to bookmakers, Lithuania is favorites, but despite that all Spain loses and change of generation, you simply can't understimate them too much. For me it's 50/50 game

You're absolutely correct.

Yeah, there is so many draws today... Probably most unexpected is Fiorentina draw with RFS. At least one draw bring me money, it's Slovan 0:0 Zalgiris. There was no goals scored, but it was good game to watch, especially last minutes where both teams played without midfield. It's not bad way to debut with away draw against probably main competitor for place in next round. Villarreal 4:3 Lech had to be amazing match to watch. I expected easier Villarreal win. And Vaduz 0:0 Apollon - first ever point for Liechtenstein club in UEFA tournaments.

Indeed, Lazio - Feyenoord game was amazing. But Lazio win isn't surprise, they were favorites before the game.  MU is MU, you simply can't trust them. But I can't say that I'm surprised about their loss. But there always should be teams which screw up things in betting - today it was Roma and Union.

End of era... It looked that Queen is eternal, but everything has to end one day. 96 years, 70 years in throne is something , I don't even know what to say. UK and Royal Family never wont be same with Queen Elizabeth.
May she rest in peace.

I just realised now that Fenerbahche and Dynamo Kyiv are in same group, they faced each other in Champions League qualifiers this season. Fenerbahche is clear favorite, but I think that Dynamo is understimated too much. Something similar like we saw in Leipzig - Shakhtar game in Champions league.
I go with single ML of Roma, Rennes, Union and Real Betis, odds isn't high, but it looks like more or less safe bets.
Lazio - Feyenoord is most interesting game for me, I go with over 2.5 @1.63 there.

There isn't many games must watch games in Conference League group stage. Maybe Nice - Koln is most interesting, after all, teams from Top 5 leagues face each other. I go there with BTTS @1.63. I'm going to watch Slovan - Zalgiris game, it will be debut in UEFA tournaments for my country club. I put small stake on Zalgiris not to lose @2.30. A bit bigger stake for over 2.5 goals @1.55 in Villarreal - Lech game, Yellow Submarines looking very solid so far. And I see good value for Basaksehir win against Hearts.

Croatia decided to pick an potential opponent in 1/4 final. If Croatia would have won by 8 or more points, they would potentially get Slovenia in 1/4 final. Now they will get winner of Spain - Lithuania. Also, it means that Italy will finnish 4th in this group and they will get Serbia in 1/8 final. Personally I don't like such opponents picking and usually such dirty games don't end well for that team.

I didn't watched Liverpool game, so it would be interesting to hear how they managed to lose so big. It could be even worse, but Napoli missed penalty. It seems that Liverpool will have hard time to reach next round.
Not much what to say about Barca game, simply Plzen isn't an opponent. It's fun to see Lewa keep scoring, hattrick tonight, but we will get real test next week against Bayern in Munich.
Atletico at it's finest. They played typical their ugly football and only when Porto got red card, they managed to score on 92th minute.
Very solid performance of Bayern. And Eintracht today didn't looked like team that won Europa league last season.

EDIT A bit too early about Atletico. After VAR review referee gave penalty, Porto scored it, made score 1:1 and it already looked that they burned my bet, but Griezmann managed to respond with a goal on 101th minute.

France - Slovenia, what a game. 47 points of Doncis is something incredible, 2nd best result in Eurobasket history. But he got posterized by Gobert . But in last minutes brother Dragic were key players. Though, Fournier and coach Collet was furious at referees for not given foul on final seconds when he steal the ball. So, Slovenia won group of death.
Lithuania saved me some nerves by winning confident against B&H and somehow reaching next round. We get Spain in 1/8 final, what should be great game.
Fiasco for Georgia - last place in group while being hosts. It only shows how important for them is Shengelia.
So, we already know 4 1/8 final pairs - Germany - Montenegro, Lithuania - Spain,  Slovenia - Belgium and Turkey - France.
Good point about B&H. In all other groups they probably wouldn't have problems to reach next round.

And offcourse Chelsea head to screw up my parlay . Strange feeling about PSG - Juventus game. PSG were much better but at the same time Juve were close to reach draw.
Leipzig, wtf? Season start isn't good for them, but it was difficult to expect that they will lose against Shakhtar who lost almost all key players and now have Ukrainians mainly. Especially to lose 4:1 at home.
As I predicted, betting on over in City game is easy money. Same can be said about Real win. Even Hazard scored, when did it happened last time? Salzburg draw is surprise, but not that big.

Thanks to France who beat Bosnia and let Lithuania to stay alive. We finally achieved first win and it was easy against Hungary. Tomorrow we will face Bosnia in direct fight for 4th place in group. Playoffs begins for us now.
Germany Slovenia was great game. Germany gave good fight. I only don't understand why they fouled against Slovenia so late in last posession and barely left time for themselves.
Beast performance of Giannis - 41 point against Ukraine. It was close game until 3rd quarter, where Greece won 32:11.
Georgia unexpected lost against Bulgaria and now group hosts risking to be eliminated.
Finland in high scoring game won against hosts Czech Republic. Now Czech will face Israel in decisive game for place in playoffs.
Italy - Croatia haven't ended yet and it's very close game as expected.

It's cool to have proper Champions league pool finally. And finally, Champions league begins. Haven't decided which game I'm going to watch today, probably PSG - Juve or maybe Sevilla - City. IMHO, Juventus today is criminally underrated without a reason. While picking over 2.5 goals in City game is easy money, considering how good City is and how terrible Sevilla perform. Attractive odds for Milan and Real wins. And I go with combo of Chelsea, Benfica and Dortmund wins @2.64

WTF, Ukraine? If their first 2 wins were expected, now they won against Italy without even having lasts seconds drama. Now they have good chance not only to get out from group, but also finnish 2nd or 3rd in group.
Tomorrow we have many good games like Germany - Slovenia, Italy - Croatia, Czech Republic - Finland. Belgium - Turkey should be interesting too. And decisive day for Lithuania. We must win against underdogs Hungary and wait that France will beat Bosnia. Otherwise we are eliminated.

Mate, as Lithuanian, I know what you feel. Such things shouldn't happen in such high level competition. If everything really happened as Turkey describes, it's unbeleavable. And also, referees have stolen over 20 seconds of this game and didn't even noticed it.

It's difficult to compare it with NBA defense. Here we don't have defensive 3 seconds rule, what is killer for defense in the paint. But without few exceptions, nobody can't stop Doncic.

So, Ukraine deoccupied Vysokopillya and 3 other villages and look how reaction on one pro-Z telegram channel changed in few days.

Though, there is interesting version that Russians with Ukrainian uniforms raised the flag totease Ukrainians
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And oops, fake referendum in Kherson got postponed for ''security reasons''. What happened? Or like always, ничeгo нe cлyчилocь?
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kherson-referendum-plans-paused-due-security-situation-tass-cites-russian-2022-09-05/

So, what you're trying to show with this one? It's war and loses is inevitable. But these thousands of Ukrainians killed in few days of counteroffensive reminds other fairytales from Russian Defense ministry like destroyed all Ukrainian aviation in first days of war, destroyed (I lost count already) HIMARS and it's loading vehicles, which doesn't even exist.