The impact of coaches on players is very important in every team,taking a look at Liverpool for example,when Jorgen Klopp had not come to the team,Liverpool could not even finish in the top 6,but Jorgen Klopp came to change every thing,he changed their playing pattern,their formation,and their mentality,and ever since that year,Liverpool has been one of the best teams in Europe.So managers in a team has something to do about the team,but the first thing to always work on as a manager is their playing mentality.

If based on the paper lineups and condition of the team overall, Man City may have a higher chance than Atletico Madrid. I am sure that each coach has been preparing their best strategy, plans, and also lineups to be put into their big match to be qualified for the next round. However, how the tactics or strategy will work will also depend on the player's performance on the field.
This is a little bit hard to guess who will win, but in this case, in my opinion, Man City may be the one that has a higher chance to win, at least 1 score is different.
This also happens to Real Madrid and Chelsea, the result is actually still difficult to be predicted. But personally, I will bet for Real Madrid that wins the match if we are seeing the player lineups and also power so far. I never underestimate Chelsea because this is also a big club that also has a big chance to win. I am sure that both Real Madrid and Chelsea must work very hard to defeat each other. Not easy in this match.

Athletico Madrid will have to be on their very best for 90 minutes against Manchester City, of course they are expected to go all defensive and hope to get a chance to bury the game. This is trouble for City since they always find it difficult breaking down a well organized defensive team and obviously Guardiola is known to be unable to deal with team playing that brand of football. Regardless, I will still predict Manchester City to beat them because this Atletico side tend to make mistakes often this season unlike them and with the likes of De Bruyne and Mahrez, City will create chances and score.

Pakistan really trying hard to keep this test match interesting, some fine and very unexpected collapse i would say on batter friendly track. Aussie pacer are picking up some tricks about how to bowl on flat track - Reverse swing-. Unfortunately this was the Pakistan's main weapon in good ol' days when likes of Wasim Akram-Waqar Younis used to run riots in opposition batting line up.

We have 2 full days left, no major delay so 180 overs ( let's say 170-ish overs due to small break etc). Australia lead is 134 runs so they might want to bat at least 60 more overs and if by any chance they manage to add 180-200 runs, given they keep run rate of 3 rpo then we are looking at 314-334 range. If they are on offensive mode then we could also see 350ish range.

If this scenario pans out then final day is going to be very exciting  or what if Australia also face some sort of collapse tomorrow? After all Pakistan bowlers are not dummy.

Konyaspor have bad performance recently weeks. Konyaspor's footballers can not focus league ever since died Ahmet Çalık. This is so big tragedy whole team. You are totaly right. Fenerbahçe has got 16 points in the last 6 matches. They have amazing mood. İsmail Kartal made things better for Fenerbahçe. They will finish league at 2nd place this season and they will tourney Europe tournements next year.

I think every board is independent in deciding how many test matches will be played in there home tour. For instance, in NZ there are always 2 test matches in every series. They don't like playing much test. If board is getting benefit only then they are playing more test cricket. I do agree that there cricket fans like T20 format only.

This need to change, right? What is the point in having 3 test matches (15 days) in every series, when far fewer days are allotted to T20 and ODI cricket? I am OK with one test match per series. The remainder of the time should be given to limited overs cricket, as it is far more popular now when compared to the longer format. If the ICC want to keep test format alive, then the solution is not to have more matches. The real solution is to make test cricket more interesting, by reducing the number of lop-sided matches.

Surely reduction of overs have the biggest impact and toss was also big factor specially after rain it is every time going to hurt team which bat first and same happened with West Indies which done amazing job in first two matches as they beat England and New Zealand.

But, sadly lost now 2 out of 3 matches they merely win against high-flying Bangladesh in last match but today lost and now they hare on verge of elimination from this world cup because no they have last matches against South Africa which is very good right now and England having two easy matches against Pakistan and Bangladesh so with this now most chances Australia, South Africa, England and India can qualify for last four teams in this mega event. With host, New Zealand is already out of this event after losing four matches.

It's not that Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid are overly relaxed because of the comfortable situation in the table, but rather that they cannot always extract from themselves all the forces that their competitors can extract from themselves. I don't think Real Madrid and especially Paris Saint-Germain will miss out on their titles, which is exactly what would happen if these clubs really relaxed too much. By the way, such inability to pull super-strength at the right moment is one of the main reasons for failures in the Champions League, which are repeated with regular frequency.

This is totally right. Galatasaray was not only tired from the intense euro games against Barcelona, but also they have almost zero motivation after those games. As it was stated, 5th and 15th place is almost same. Their almost only motivation is the derby games from now on, we can say. I'm also sure almost all of them is in the vacation/laziness mode. I am expecting very few wins for Galatasaray from now on in my betting.
Other than Fenerbahce game, they only have Basaksehir game left for Istanbul teams. Others are relatively unimportant Anatolian club games.

I wouldn't have bet on Fulham to win the Championship this season, my thoughts would be on Bournemouth, but I suppose one has to take into account personnel changes once relegation happens, they were never and will never be the same without Eddie Howe. I wonder if some strange late twist will see Parker take his boys to leapfrog old club Fulham!

Re Derby, recent results definitely disappointing, but remember they had 21 points docked (and apparently, Rooney's got them to look at their own version of a league table with those points still in there) so the fight's not over.

I've said it elsewhere but this guy Rooney is one hell of an underrated manager, given the crap task he has now. Reading needs to lose 3 games, and Derby needs to win them all, so I agree, mission impossible. He used up all his luck on last season's final game, I'm not sure where else he can summon it from this one...

Last year, Messi was a highly sought after player. A lot has changed with the happenings of this season. It is seeming like Messi is actually not the god he was a while back. He seems so knackered and out of touch with scoring goals which one of his greatest attributes. Even with his high wages, how many top teams in the top 5 leagues in the world with consider getting Messi as a wise investment, I can't really picture any in my head.

End of the day Australia had a slow scoring and Pakistan is good at its bowling taking five wickets. By the second day of the match Australia will continue and it'll reach atleast 325 runs. As the first two matches got drawn, this match is expected much. For now this match is not into anyone, this also gonna get drawn. If there were early wickets on tomorrow's morning session the match could change.

Finally, finally, finally yes finally Pakistan women teams register their first win today against the west indies women team and we can call this a sort of an upset. The 50 overs match was reduced to 20 overs and Nida Dar took 4 wickets for 10 runs making it hard for the WI to score a big target.
Pakistan team is out of the race of the semi finals but I do hope they win one more match. They still have two more matches left.

Well done Women Team Pakistan 

Test cricket was exciting many decades ago, when we had players such as Brian Lara, Brett Lee, Glen McGrath, Shane Warne, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Wasim Akram, Muttiah Muralitharan, Alan Donald and Alistair Cook. But the current bunch of players don't have any test skills and they concentrate solely on limited overs cricket. Only a few fringe players such as Pujara and Rahane are considered as test specialists in India. The same is the case with other South Asian nations as well. Test cricket is in a better position in SENA nations though.

Real Madrid have no record of any players injury and if that becomes the final situation they will become a perfect opponent for Liverpool, and the 90 minutes of the play will be an exciting moment for both clubs fans and spectators, I may not be able to have a good prediction of what the outcome of the match will be but am sure either the winning goals will come within the full time of the game and there won't be a penalty shootout.

The match between Real Madrid vs Chelsea will be the most interesting match in this round. It is because both teams almost have the same strength or have almost the same players' quality in each line. That's why we will be difficult to predict the result of this match. I assume both teams have the same chances to win, Real Madrid 50% and Chelsea 50%.
Sure, if there are some key players of Real Madrid injured, it will be a big problem. Especially for Benzema, this man must play in this match because Real Madrid relies on him to score. If Benzema is injured, I bet Chelsea to win and qualify to the next round.

Australia are going unchanged squad for the third series decider match against Pakistan in Lahore at the Gaddafi Stadium. Pakistan happy after making flat dead pitches against Australia as they're only looking draw! It would be possible the third match also ends in draw. What is the point in playing the series as both team are losing WTC percentage. Have a feeling another test draw is loading. 3 test draw will be quite boring, isn't it? If the match would end to a draw then Pakistan will slip to number 4 in test championship points table.

Another match up and another surprise from Bangladesh but i would say the pitch was turning a lot and it was a difficult pitch to bat and Bangladesh was wrong in assessing the pitch as they won the toss and elected to bat. If they would have sent South Africa to bat after winning the toss, i think the situation would have been different. Toss was crucial in a pitch like this and Bangladesh ended up in the receiving end.

No one has enough time to go through an entire test match. It takes 40 hours of your time. Only if you are a student, or a retired person, you have this much time available with you. And look at the ongoing test matches, such as the one between England and West Indies, and the one between Pakistan and Australia. What you will gain from watching these useless matches. Both the teams make 500 plus scores and then the match ends in a draw. You want to waste 40 hours of your time to watch such matches?

Victor Osimhen was the hero in Napoli's match against Udinese, Although Napoli won this match, I'm not at all surprised by that, because they deserved the result, what surprised me was that they only won by a small score.

With this result, the Serie A standings are increasingly exciting to continue to monitor, especially AC Milan, Inter Milan and Napoli, which team will be the champion of Serie A this season? if you ask me, I will answer AC Milan who will win the Serie A title this season .