Don't worry, the seasonal fans will start their nagging again if Ronaldo stops scoring again This is human nature, and even more so if the team's results are also not so good, then be sure to expect this, also considering that Ronaldo is expected to have special results in any case. It's no secret that the absence of Ronaldo on the bench in a crucial match, bearing the status of a derby, with Manchester City and a flight in Portugal generated a great resonance, which, coupled with a major defeat, became a major cause of discontent for some of the club's fans. But as the match showed, this break for treatment turned out to be useful and contributed to the accomplishment of new feats on the part of Cristiano.

With PSG gone from UCL and the team is in disarray I believe that the league will be even more harsh for them. I mean every team will want to take a bite out of them meanwhile their own players would be unhappy with the current situation and Mbappe looking to get out. When you are in that much trouble and you are not really doing that well, it is not really that easy to have a great result even against easier opponents.
Yes, they have been great in the league so far and have a lot of point difference but I believe that they could be hopeless about rest of the season and there could be a lot more "given up" results coming very soon.

Fenarbahce played very well yesterday night and they won the match.
Arda was very good yesterday. I hope we see this kid in Europe.

Today is derby day. Galatasaray - Beşiktaş
I think If we play like we played against Barcelona last week, we will win the match. But it will be a tough match.
I hope it will be an enjoyable match.
Good luck to both teams.

Felix Magath is back in the bundesliga business and will succeed hertha bsc berlin coach Tayfun Korkut, who was sacked on sunday
his contract now runs until the end of the season and the goal is to save the club from relegation...

They are so close on the table so any lost points will give advantage to another team in this competition. Currently Inter Milan are under Napoli and one unplayed match does not mean 3 points for Inter Milan.
More dangerously for Inter Milan, Juventus are only 3 points less than Inter Milan and if Inter can not get 3 points in the unplayed match, they will put themselves in risk of losing not only Scudetto but also the third position to Juventus.

I think that few people except the most loyal Turkish fans of Galatasaray consider Galatasaray the favorite in the return match with Barcelona, but still it is worth admitting that thanks to the zero draw Galatasaray greatly increased their chances of reaching the next stage of the Europa League. Barcelona failed to provide the necessary advantage in the first match and now psychological problems may come to the fore, both due to the youth of the players and excessive responsibility for the result, since everyone is waiting only for victory. There are no such high expectations from Galatasaray, which in turn can liberate the club's players.

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You're this statement is shocking for me as after 23 years of test states and having very long experience of playing cricket they still have no idea how to handle things fairly in board

Osasuna is very ineffective in scoring goals.  I don't even expect them to score against Barcelona like this.  I think that Barcelona, ​​who lost morale with Galatasaray, will gain morale by winning this match.  It could be an easy match for Barcelona.  Maybe Galatasaray may want to rest their players before the return match.

he hasn't done anything like this in the premier league after the Ferguson era. Many fans are amazed he can still create a hat trick and make the decisive victory. we know it's hard for him because he's not young and has down a speed factor. I agree champions league is one of the factors, he gives a spirit to the team to win against Atletico in the next week.

Fenerbahçe took the lead with Diego Rossi's goal in the 26th minute. Assisted by goalkeeper Altay Bayındır. As you might expect, it was not an organized attack. Luck helped them. But Fenerbahce dominated the match during the first half. They played better than Alanyaspor. In the second half, they scored another goal with Mesut Özil from a penalty. Then, Alanyaspor immediately made the score 2-1. I don't think Fenerbahçe will lose points. We can say that Fenerbahçe closed the week with 3 points.

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I think the beef between Shakib Al Hasan and the Bangladesh cricket board is always going to be there. Or at least as long as Mr. Nazrml Hasan Papon is the president of BCB.

Tired of all this drama with Shakib and the BCB. Bangladesh do have some good players, such as Mustafizur Rahman and Liton Das. But without any argument, Shakib is a class apart. In many ways, he is similar to Virat Kohli of India. And in this case, I would say that BCB handled him unfairly, when compared to how the BCCI handled Kohli. The immediate priority for the BCB should be to improve their rankings in test an ODI formats, and for that purpose these sort of controversies are not helpful in anyway.

There is a deciding match on March 16.

Man United vs Atletico Madrid
Ajax vs Benfica
Juventus vs Villareal
LOSC vs Chelsea

Only Chelsea create two goals in the first leg. The others matched the final draw. Maybe interestingly they still have the same chance of qualifying. But I think the hosts in this 2nd leg have a greater chance of qualifying except LOSC.

Preparation of Pakistan team against this historic series was not good enough so just because of this they have done this all shameful act and now after reading statement from Ramiz Raja feeling they need to be more professional and have to accept few things if they want to be big and have some good value for future games here in Pakistan because first test was really bore and now after watching first day of this second test I have feeling it's also going into this same way because pitch is not supportive for bowlers and batsmen can stay as long as they can Khawaja was really in good touch throughout day, and he plays best of his cricket at his home country for first time.
Right now situation is West Indies is also no good as now this first test match is also heading for draw Bonner and Holder at crease with just 15 to 20 overs remaining in day and target is not achievable for them with England is also not good enough to take all ten wickets.

They probably went on the defensive. And as far as the points table in World Test Championship is concerned, a draw is more beneficial when compared to a loss. But it is sad to see that they don't have any faith in their own pace bowlers. They do have some very good pacers, such as Shaheen Shah Afridi. They could have prepared a neutral pitch and tried to get a result out of this series. If the matches are so boring, then it will negatively impact their future revenue potential, as the TV viewership will go down.

For me, it's all useless debate but still we can talk this into test related thread because here we can talk only about t20. Test cricket is without any doubt very big game and need some good skills practice, and sadly it's not available in good way for Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, so it's difficult case for them to develop in this format.

Even currently cricket is spreading and having some good popularity, but this format is not going to have some good share from this all because now it's having good base in only very few countries, so ICC need to do some good change in policies and try to give more chance for other countries to play more T20 and ODI instead of test cricket which give them some good chance for gaining profit and new skill players for these formats instead of this test which is now surely not going to help them in any case.

It's surely shameful act from PCB that for this historic test series they are bringing pitches like this because surely these are not going to help in any case just dead matches with some good batting practices.
After end of first day Australia in good position with 251/3 and Usman Khawaja is still on crease with his second hundred of this series now most chances we can watch huge target by Australia for Pakistani batsmen because they also understand this all and try to give some good rest to their bowlers on this dead pitch as they already have new spinner for good assistant of Lyon with few part-timers are also available in this team.
After news about Faheem Ashraf and Hassan Ali's entry I was expecting some good supportive pitch and interesting match, but it's another dead rubber with now most chances all matches going to be drawn.

Benzema is an old player that is match for Messi during real Madrid and PSG match but it was as if Messi presence wasn't notice during the match and that worry me about his career. Despite been the same age, Messi remain the goat when compared to Benzema in history performance but I think Messi may exit playing after PSG contract. Mbabe is still the hot cake that even managed to help them conceide 1 goal but it all went south at the end.

Teams like Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe are capable of playing T20 and upto some extent ODIs. Test is different thing and you need to have top players in order to win that. Not only basis of population we can add nations to test format. As per my understanding no developed country consider cricket as a valid game, this is inevitable from absence of big powers like China,  Russia and USA from cricket.

Its true that cricket is batters game but only in limited overs game and its kinda mixed bag in the test formats IMO. In my reading i would say bowlers are in fairly good position in the test (not similar to old era), that's why we see so many results in test format nowadays so clearly ball is dominating the bat or at least competing.

Banning Saliva does look like its against the bowler but last 2-3 years data suggest that banning saliva in covid times didn't effect the bowlers as far as swing-seam etc are concerns. They also clarified on "White ball rule", earlier it used to based on off-leg lines (specially leg sides) but now it will be based on batter's movement across the crease area.

Looks like there will be some problems with the next fight in London. Dana White wants to have the Russian fighters there but he smells the troubles coming.
In this interview he talks more about the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJkZPNfKJBY
And Dana even Jokes saying he has Trump's number, but he doesn't have Biden's phone to talk with him to let the fighters do their job.

Rudiger won't want to stoop so low to joining Manchester United. It is almost impossible no matter how attractive the offer looks, leaving Chelsea who are European and world club champions to a United team struggling to make the cut in the Top 4 is big downgrade for Rudiger if he actually join them. Real Madrid are in better position, they are apparently a bigger club in Europe. Every big player dream is to play for Madrid one day. So, I think Rudiger will head to spain.