Dirk Nowitzki should be proud. Germany returns to elite after long absence. They scored 107 points against one of the best defense in tournament Greece and eliminated one of main contenders. 17/31 3-pointers, 54%, it's very impressive. Maybe Germany don't have big stars besides Schroder, but they are great as a team. Giannis was solid again, despite getting ejected in 4th quarter. But you simply can't expect to win when you let opponent to score 107.
As FIBA wrote on their page, there is some inevitable things - death, taxes and Spain in the semifinal. Finland looked very solid in first half, even had 15 points lead, but in 2nd half simply dominated. Before tournament not many saw Spain even as medal contenders, but now have not bad chances to win another gold.
Tomorrow Italy - France and Slovenia - Poland. With all respect to Poland, there is no questions about this game. France is favorite against Italy, but Italy already kicked out one favorite, why not to do it another time. It should be amazing game.

Can't wait to see Bayern - Barcelona game and Lewa playing against former team. Main question, will he score?  And considering recent form of Bayern, Barca have probably best chance to win in recent years.
I'm going with Porto and Inter ML parlay. I'm also thinking about backing Spurs and Marseille. In Bayer - Atletico game I'll risk with BTTS

So, today we have two 1/4 final games. Spain - Finland and Greece - Germany.
Spain is favorites against Finland. Maybe they are understimated in whole tournament in general, but they have pprobably best coach in tournament and they always look better in playoffs than in group. I expect good fight, but Spain should win by few points.
Greece - Germany. It should be interesting game. Germany looking very solid and they're playing at home, what is big factor. But Giannis is unstoppable. Greece is favoured a bit, but I'm not going to predict who will win.

Meanwhile Azerbaijan attacked Armenia after provocations from Armenian side. At least, this is what Azerbaijan side report. According CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) attack against Armenia means attack all alliance countries (Russia, Belarus, Kazkahstan, Kyrgyztan and Tajikistan) Does it means that Russia will get involved there too? After such successful ''special operation'' open another front? Interesting...
https://www.intellinews.com/major-clashes-break-out-on-azerbaijani-armenian-border-256282/?source=armenia
https://ru.euronews.com/2022/09/12/armenia-azerbaijan-artillery

Nope, it's desperate actions of Russia to hit critical infrastructure after they lost several important cities and thousands of km2 that they were fighting for for several months.
BTW, on Sunday it was planned to held concert of Oleg Gazmanov in Izum:
https://culturemeter.od.ua/gazmanov-peredumal-vystupat-v-izjume-s-koncertom-rossija-zdes-navsegda-172199/
Interesting, why it didn't happened...

OP, I have one suggestion for you. Please resize image. Now text in it is so small and very difficult to read it wthout zooming. Only part of it that is readable is payment method. Good luck with your service

I read that EPL also postponed 3 next round games due to lack of police officers - Brighton v Crystal Palace, Chelsea v Liverpool and Man Utd v Leeds. Though, all Championship and lower leagues games will go as planned. And as I understand, other sports like rugby didn't even stopped. Offcourse that we as football fans aren't happy about postponement, especially considering that there is not many alternative dates for it because of Wolrd Cup. But everything is understandable, Queen that ruled country for 70 years dies and national mourning is announced, it doesn't happen every day.

As much as I agree with goal of this petition, but there is no point to sign it. C'mon, online petitions is most pointless thing ever made. It has zero power to change something. And it's not even petition as you don't verify your identity while signing it. You have to enter your full name and email. If someone would want, he would be able to sign it thousands times from different emails

It already looked that PSV will drop points against Waalwijk, but very late penalty saved them and they won game. AZ - Twente game ended 1:1 and this result reflects game quite well. Feyenoord didn't had any problems in Roterdam derby and won against Sparta 3:0. Yesterday Ajax destroyed Heereneveen 5:0

Why so sceptical about Van Nistelrooy? I don't think that decision to appoint him as coach is wrong. And nothing terrible for them didn't happened yet. Yes, they lost to Twente, but it's decent opponent and it's not shame to lose against themAre they able to fight for title? Time will tell.

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.