Cool. We have one common favorite team.
You're from Lithuania? Wow! One of the countries that scared the living shit out of top countries back at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. I can't forget that time because of the sharpshooters that emerged and performed way past the expectations of the viewers.
I was looking for the kid in the Serbia basketball roster that was drafted into NBA 2022 Draft pick number 27 Nikola Jović but I don't see him. Maybe they won't let him play yet.
Yeah, I'm from Lithuania. We always been underdogs in international competition and despite it we kicked out many strong teams. Though, recent years isn't good for us, we haven't won any medal since 2015 - it's way too long break for us. Jovic won't play because Miami Heat didn't let him join national team, it often happens young NBA players. But I doubt that this year he would have big role in Serbia team. |
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Russia is a huge propaganda machine. It’s scary to imagine how much resources are spent on propaganda, injections of fakes and disinformation in all countries of the world, I think if this money were spent on improving the lives of Russian citizens, as in Dubai, for example, then Russia would live no worse than Dubai, or even better.
So much effort and time of hundreds of thousands of people is spent every day on whitewashing a large and black spot on the map, an absolutely meaningless occupation that does not bring any benefit. For what budgets does the government allocate))
Good point about propaganda. Russian propaganda machine is huge and it costs crazy money. And at the same time 30 million Russians don't have sewage systems in their homes. But no, better spend billions of dollars for occupation whic don't have any benefits for Russia other than satisfying Putin's imperialistic ego This meme describe Russia very well:  be.open is not KP.RU
johhnyUA VKcams.com writes fakes
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This will be fun. I may not be European but the names here are mostly the known players in the basketball industry. I will definitely watch their games and probably put some bets too if available.
My personal favorites will be Serbia and Slovenia. Luckily they are not in the same group but Slovenia is in a tough bracket with France being there and they are one of the competitive teams even in the Olympics.
So the last games that I saw were just qualifying matches. This will be the real game from now on.
My main favorites is Serbia and France. They have good squad depth and lot of players in their prime. Slovenia is hyped a bit too much IMO. Greece - in previous tournaments Giannis weren't feeling that good in European basketball like in NBA, bt now it's already time for him to shine. My country Lithuania isn't one favorites for gold, but I think we have very good chance to win medal. B is definitely group of death with Slovenia France and Lithuania. While Serbia got such easy group. |
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 EuroBasket 2022 in 4 countries will begin on September 1st. Here is the groups:  We will see almost all biggest European stars here like Doncic, Giannis, Jokic and others. It's probably strongest Eurobasket in in many years and it's a bit strange, considering that after change of format, Eurobasket lost importance and spots to Olympics/World Cup aren't given there anymore. Main favorites according to bookmakers is Serbia, France, Greece and Slovenia. Lithuania and Spain also can be considered as contenders. More details about tournament can be found on official website: https://www.fiba.basketball/eurobasket/2022 |
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5 exact scores is a monster man, this LTU guy is tearing up every league so far.
Best I ever did was 6 exact scores, and if you can believe it, that was the very first Superbru week I ever played, 5 seasons ago in EPL when hilarious first opened Superbru.
Who else got ruined by Napoli?
From what I remember, I never had 5 exact scores in Serie A. In other leagues probably not too. Yeah, I'm doing way much better than I expected in all leagues, except La Liga. But probably I'm going to jinx my luck with this post  . From pool results seems that everyone got ruined by Napoli . Don't forget to make your picks for midweek round. |
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Congrats to LTU_btc for being the round 4 yellow cap holder, missed it by 0.5 points thanks to kane getting his second goal which I did not want to see  looking forward to more of such game weeks  First time I've seen anything like this with 10 people missing the Yellow Cap by 0.5 points Damn, that was close, I also can't remember anything similar. Now after I already won yellow cap, I already can say that season is good for me .
Guys, don't forget to make predictions, we have midweek round starting on Tuesday. |
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And someone said that Sporting is already out of race for title. Yesterday's Porto loss shows that's way too early to make such conclusions. Incredible stats - Rio Ave won against Porto after 36 unsuccessful attempts in a row. They were leading 3:0 after 1st until almost end of the game what is even more incredible. Porto scored when it was already too late to make comeback. They also missed penalty.
Can Braga get involved in title race? It would be interesting, but not likely IMO. They probably will stay close until middle of season, like Sevilla does in La Liga usually.
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I'd rather see her die of old age, abandoned by supporters and forgotten. Maybe die knowing that there was a revolution and there's no Putin's Russia anymore and the newly formed country is helping to rebuild Ukraine. Being proven wrong and ridiculed for hate speech would be a great outcome for Putin's trolls. I'm sure that if Dugin gets killed he'll be treated like a martyr and a national hero by the regime.
IMO, if (when) Putin's regime will fall, most of propagandists simply will change their skin and start supporting new Russia. Actually, some of them already done it once. Like Vladimir Solovyov, one of the most aggresive propagandists, over 20 years ago worked in oppositional TV channel, was against Putin and just 9 years ago said that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. Or Dmitry Kiselyov, in 2004 he was news editor of Ukrainian (!!!) TV channel ICTV and in this photo there is his phrase that Ukraine is European country:  Such things shows that propagandists don't believe in Putin's ideology, they're only loyal to money. |
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That message does not make any sense when you are talking about the living legend in stats in F1 history,I know Alonso is an ex World Champion but that statement was way really offending for Hamilton,nevertheless Hamilton was humble enough to apologize and acknowledge his error (something I doubt Alonso would have done) but that was just in the first lap.
It's true that Hamilton have proven many times that he can't start not just from front of grid. But Alonso phrase is emotions of angry racer what gives some spice for race. I prefer such emotions, rather than boring politcirrect stuff. Alsonso acknowledge his own error - never heard of it . |
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After previous season ,ow it's such relief to watch Barca. Confident win against Valladolid without any questions. Lewa indeed was close from hat-trick, but actually ended with just one goal that he actually scored. Second - last touch was by defender and on third moment he hit crossbar and then Roberto scored. Barca made most of attacks through Dembele's wing and Valladolid weren't able to do anything against it. LOL Sevilla!
If you guys ever need proof this club is cursed in the way they don't want themselves to ever win La Liga in the next 10 years, last night is proof of it.
At least this time they didn't try to fool us all with an early season performance like last time hehe
Goot point about Sevilla, this season they won't give us false expectations that they can get involved in title race. So far they're not just bad, they're terrible and Lopetegui is likely to be first manager to get sacked. |
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Championship was already over before summer break. Max started from P14 today, but winning today was so easy for him that's not even interesting. With Red Bull pace, P3 for Sainz is best what he was able to achieve. Ferrari didn't failed in strategy today, but things can't go well for them - Leclerc got penalty for speeding in pit lane on last pit stop and lost P5 that he got in last lap after overtaking Alonso. Poor Bottas, his race ended after accident with GOATifi and he had no chance to avoid it. And Alonso radio message about Hamilton was epic - ''This guy only knows to drive starting first'' . |
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I watched Sporting game against Chaves. They controlled game, but didn't managed to score. Like that wouldn't be enough, they conceded 2 goals in 3 minutes and then winning game become almost impossible for them.
But saying that they're out of title race just after 4 rounds is a bit ridiculous. Yeah, they lost to Porto already, but there is so many games between Big 3 teams remaining. Also, things may change when calendar will become more intensive with UEFA and domestic cups.
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Red Bull have much better pace than Ferrari and it means a lot in such track like Spa. It's good news for Max who will start race from back of grid, overtaking won't be a problem. I only don't understand why Max on Q3 didn't went to help Perez and give him slipstream. The summer break changed NOTHING for Ferrari, I mean they put on wrong tires on either Charles or Sainz I forgot which one but that is basically the same old idiotic pit team from Ferrari, that is just not acceptable at all.
At this point I am expecting Ferrari to one day have wet tires on left rear, hard on right rear, medium on left front and softs on right front, does it sound like a joke? It does, but would anyone be really shocked that Ferrari ever did something like that? I wouldn't be really. This is why I guess that Red Bull would have a very easy chance for championship this year, Max and RB will be the winners until some serious competition comes along.
That moment with Leclerc tyres pretty much summarizes Ferrari season. Maybe it's not worst mistake that they had, with correct set of tyres there is no guarantee that his result would be much better, but it shows that they haven't learnt anything and such things is going to continue |
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Poor Bournemouth... Liverpool scored 9 goals and strangely Salah didn't got involved in any of it - no goals or assists from him. I'm wondering who will be first team to score 10 goals in EPL game...
When City where down 0:2, I still had much confidence that they are going to make comeback. After all, they have experience in such things. And C. Palace just parked a bus, what doesn't always help against City. Foxes looks so poor this season, loss against Chelsea which played with 1 men down most part of game. And Arsenal, like I already said - just stop the count.
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After all, Koln took things seriously and did what they were supposed to be against Fehervar. Nice won against Maccabi after extra time, despite getting red card onnearly minutes of extra time. West Ham won against Viborg big again. Fiorentina eliminated Twente. Villarreal didn't letvHajduk to make comeback and won again. So, after all, teams from big leagues reached groups.
Anderlecht after penalties kicked out Young Boys.
And most ridiculous result Rapid Vienna loss against Vaduz at home 0:1. They got eliminated by team from Liechtenstein which play in 2nd division of Switzerland.
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Zalgiris - Ludogorets, what a game, unfortunately without happy end for me. Zalgiris scored very early goal on 20th second, were leading 3 times. But on 120th minute of extra time referee gave very cheap and questionable penalty which let Ludogorets to win on aggregate.
Complete collapse of Gent, they lost against Omonia 0:2 again. Fenerbahche had easy life against Austria Vienna. Sheriff won against Pyunik just after penalties. Olympiacos after all won against Apollon and reached group stage. Early goal on 2nd minute was enough for them.
EDIT Olympiacos conceded on 90th minute and game went to extra time. And Oly won after penalties.
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Group B is most interesting, especially because Lewa will have to play against Bayern. Poor Plzen, if they somehow will collect 1 point, it will be huge achievement. While group D is more like Europa league. Liverpool like usual got in difficult group. After all, most groups have 2 favorites, one team which have potential to fight and one clear team which is out of context. I think some kind of thing needs to change in the drawn for the group stage for UCL, because as you can see, a lot of group are already defined, only and maybe can change the first and second place, and we can hope for one cinderella, but not so much.
Tournament format will be changed from 2024/25 season to so callled Swiss model. |
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Personally I don't see serious arguments of Austria Wien that they can offer against Fenerbahche. I'm going with combo of Fener and Olympiacos wins. Oly is struggling this season so far, but I think that simply must beat Apollon at home. I think that Gent will win against Omonia, but I'm not really sure that it will be enough after loss in 1st leg 2:0.
I'm backing Zalgiris against Ludogorets. Yeah, Im biased here, bbut I don't see why not. They lost 1st leg just 1:0 and Zalgiris is playing much better at home.
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PSV failed to reach Champions League again.They played a bit better, had more chances, but it wasn't enough. After long break there will be 2 Scottish teams in Champions League group stage. Dinamo Zagreb - Bodo/Glimt was fun game. When it looked that everything is going well for Dinamo, Bodo managed to make score 2:2 on aggregate when one their player managed to go through 3 passive defenders. But in late minutes of extra time Bodo defense made big mistake, goalkeeper tried to save situation, but completely lost his position. Dinamo scored 4 goal then after perfect transition. It was epic moment when Dinamo players from bench runned alongside pitch like offside referee . Trabzonspor - Copenhagen game ended 0:0 what means that Danish club qualified for the group stage and now we know all teams that will play Champions league this season. Draw of group stage wll be held this Thursday. |
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