Bayern Münih'in Dortmund'a evinde yenilmesi büyük sürprizdi bence. Dortmund en son Bayern Münih'i 10 sene önce deplasmanda yenmeyi başarmıştı. Bu yüzden hem onlar için özel bir galibiyetti hem de ilk 4 mücadelesi verirken çok önemli bir 3 puan almış oldular. Bayern Münihli oyuncular ligi zaten salmışlar bile. Leverkusen sonunda Bayern Münih hegemonyasına 1 seneliğine de olsa son vermiş olacak.    Gelecek sezon Xabi Alonso yine bunu başarır mı orası muamma tabi.

We shouldn't forget about Wicadia's performance on Inferno as well. He is a really good fragger normally and showed it to us on Mirage too. However his performance on Inferno wasn't good enough. He is still a rookie though he would get more consistent in time. The most disappointing performance was XANTARES' surely... 

His extra work is really needed in this kind of situations. While the team were having a mental breakdown on Inferno XANTARES should have taken the helm. He wasn't on one of his best days I'm afraid.

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Natus Vincere have reached the grand final after eliminating G2 as well. They are really doing a great work with their new roster.

Now we have a FaZe v Natus Vincere finale. I agree with @boltz that Natus Vincere can really make use of this positive form to beat FaZe despite being the underdog here. 

It was really a shame Chelsea couldn't make use of even a red card advantage. The players have already finished the season in their minds obviously and this was why they couldn't even win this match. 

I don't know if it is really Pochettino's fault here. Chelsea have changed quite many coaches and there is still nothing changing. Maybe the source of this problem is not just Pochettino. Like many other people I also don't like Todd Boehly's chairmanship. He has spent his money carelessly for transfers so far and couldn't get any result. Maybe Pochettino might also get sacked soon but I wouldn't be very expectant from their next coach either. Chelsea deserves a better chairman first.

I was frequently watching football in the past but now I'm not watching matches often these days. However I still don't see it as an obstacle for me to bet on them.    I have won many times despite not watching the match I bet on. Because even if I don't watch it I still have a good level knowledge about the teams I bet on.

The reason is that I'm still keeping myself up-to-date about the last conditions of teams by reading recent data about them. If I don't have any knowledge about a sports branch then I would never bet on it.    Because it doesn't look fun to me to tell the truth. However I understand people who are doing it anyway just for some excitement of course.

200 TL eriye eriye doğru düzgün bir şey alamaz hale geldi. Bırakın 1 kilo kırmızı eti örneğin 750 g tabak hindi gibi ürünler bile 200 TL'yi aşıyor da anca kampanya ile falan aşağı iniyor. Özetle artık 200 TL'nin en büyük banknot olmasında bir anlam kalmadı. 500 TL'lik banknotlar çıkacak iddiaları vardı ve bence bir an önce çıkmalı da. Bu aralar seçim telaşından bu tarz konularda herhangi bir aksiyon alınmadı. Bence yakın zamanda hem yeni banknot hem de yeni madeni paralar çıkarıldığını görürüz.

I agree there is a really nice improvement in Bayern Munich's recent results. However this can still be misleading. Because Bayern Munich have had inconsistencies quite often. We don't know how determined team we will see against Arsenal for now. If we consider that the Bundesliga title has slipped through their fingers they had better fight with all they have in the Champions League.

Kane is recovering faster than the expectations which is good news for them.    Without Kane scoring issues might occur to tell the truth. He has been like a goal machine so far. As for Arsenal they actually beat even Manchester City at Emirates this season. Bayern Munich will need to be ready for fast and dangerous Arsenal attacks. 

Nikola Jokic gerçekten makine gibi oynuyor. Geçen sezon normal sezon ortalamalarına kıyasla bu sezon attığı ortalama sayı daha fazla (önceki sezon: 24.5 - şu an: 26.1). Denver'ın 3. sıraya yerleşmesindeki payı inanılmaz büyük ve playofflarda da harika işler çıkaracağına şüphem yok. Şu an bir sırt sakatlığı var gibi görünüyor bir sitede ama diğer NBA kaynaklarında da bir bilgi girilmemiş. Umarım bu kadar iyi oynarken şanssız bir sakatlık geçirmez.

Alperen Şengün'ün takımı Houston Rockets da hala playoff sınırının dibinde şansını sürdürüyor. Alperen'i playofflarda görmeyi çok isterim umarım başarırlar.    Alperen şanssız bir ayak bileği sakatlığı geçiriyor ama nisan ortası gibi dönme ihtimali varmış.

On Mirage we started a really amazing comeback from a 9-2 disadvantage. Despite bringing it to our advantage by 12-10 we just couldn't do the finishing touch and it cost us too much.    Our performance during OT was just very bad and missed a huge opportunity.



However this dedication on Mirage made me hopeful about Inferno. We had really good statistics on this map before and NaVi were like the opposite of us. But this wasn't enough. Because we just handed over the win to them by ourselves here. I can't understand how we can still make unbelievable mistakes at this level.    For example wtf was that rotate call from banana to A site while there wasn't much time left??

We still can't leave some mistakes behind we are used to see and this is hindering us from being more successful. I hope one day we get over those problems too.  

I believe that De Rossi's Roma would stand more chance against Milan. They failed with Mourinho against them. They lost twice in their domestic league. However while there is good progress in Roma football I'm more expectant from them. Because above all else they have started to play an effective attacking-oriented game. 

This was what Roma needed. Mourinho was just placing obstacles ahead of Roma because of his boring defensive strategies. Roma aren't a good defense team. We must have all understood it so far. They need to play more attacking to balance themselves.

Milan are still a tough opponent but Roma have more chance to advance after some important changes made by De Rossi.

PFDK has announced penalties for some teams but there is still no announcement about the most important topic. I think penalties shouldn't have been left to a time after elections. Because the incidents happened after the Trabzonspor - Fenerbahçe match were really sensitive. You shouldn't be so slow to take action on these disgraceful incidents. 

As for the title rivalry in the league it is going to continue from where it left. I expect both teams to return with wins. It really feels like the champion will be decided by the Galatasaray v Fenerbahçe derby in the last moments of the season.

By the way in a week there is a Super Cup match in Şanlıurfa. I hope we wouldn't see embarrassing things during or after this match also. What do you think on it? 

Thanks for the detailed explanation about it. It is clearer now.    As long as he is good at doing his job it is a nice deal for Brazil then.

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Will we even see Messi and Ronaldo in World Cup 2026 for certain?    I have seen Messi playing in the qualifiers though. Maybe we would see him in the main tournament as well. However I can't be so sure about Ronaldo. He is going to be 41 or maybe even 42 years old then. I doubt that he wouldn't retire until then.

Even Zlatan retired at the age of 41 if I'm not wrong about the age. Maybe Ronaldo wouldn't find the energy in himself to play one last World Cup before retirement but let's see.

Ülkemizdeki en büyük problemlerden birisi bakanların bile işini yapmak yerine belediye seçimlerinde bir şehrin adayı için oy toplama amaçlı sahaya inmesi. İstanbul'u kazanmak için her şeyi seferber etmek yerine herkes kendi işini yapsa ülkeye daha çok faydası olacak. Parti ile ülke yönetiminin ayrılması gerekiyor yoksa bu kafayla hiçbir yere varamayız. Koskoca Dışişleri Bakanı'nın belediye başkan adayıymış gibi halkın arasında ne işi var mesela?

It must be one of the most interesting examples really. Poland had 0 shot on target in regular time and extra time both. But they still managed to qualify for the main tournament by penalties.    If they had a much stronger opponent instead of Wales then I wouldn't give them much chance to move on with this poor effort.



Portugal really have one of the most acceptable groups for themselves. Georgia aren't much of a threat. Czechia aren't also playing like in the old times. The only big threat could be Türkiye in this group. There are really talented players in this generation of Türkiye. If they show a strong team performance they can fight back against Portugal. 

It is probably due to reaching thousands of pages on the old Premier League thread. It is a mega thread now and spam is much more common there. Maybe you will question why it isn't locked, I don't know.  

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Romeo Lavia's last condition has been announced and it looks like he won't be able to play in the remaining part of the season either. Chelsea are really unlucky with their transfers. They have been struggling with many injuries for a long time. If the injury problem wasn't this serious would they be better? I can't be confident about it as well.  


_{Lavia injury source: Transfermarkt}

It is like all that money spent is for nothing. They are still in the middle of the league standings. Zero difference between last 2 seasons...

Çeyrek finalde Milan v Roma gibi bir eşleşme daha var. Serie A'da çokça karşı karşıya gelen 2 takım bu sefer de Avrupa Ligi'nde kozlarını paylaşıyor. Milan şu an şampiyonluk adayları arasında Roma'nın ilerisinde gösteriliyor. Roma Mourinho'yu gönderip De Rossi'yi getirdiğinden beri formda ve çıkışta. Bence burada da onlardan sağlam performanslar izleriz. Milan yine de Avrupa arenasında onlara kıyasla daha tecrübeli. Ben her ne kadar Roma'ya bir şans vermek istesem de Milan'ın turu geçmesi beni şaşırtmaz.

I don't think Red Bull will have a big difficulty in solving this issue. I assume they have the best engineers now to figure out a solution. This didn't happen in the first 2 races so it was a bit surpising to see this kind of a brake issue. Ferrari really had a good opportunity after this incident and they took it very nicely.

But if Red Bull have a run without much problem in the rest of the season I don't feel like Ferrari will be able to keep up with them.    Verstappen is already unstoppable under normal conditions and Perez has also made a really good start to the season. Even Verstappen was able to collect enough amount of points for Red Bull's championship last season you know.

İnternet kullanan yaşlı oranında gerçekten ciddi bir artış söz konusu. Özellikle Facebook'un sosyal medya kitlesi ciddi sayıda yaşlı insandan oluşuyor mesela. Bunun da bu istatistik değişiminde önemli rolü vardır.    Ayrıca şu an için gerçekten ciddi bir genç nüfusa sahibiz ama bundan ne yazık ki yeterince iyi faydalanamıyoruz. Gençlerimiz ülkeyi terkediyorlar. Yıllar içerisinde bu gidişle bizde de yaşlı nüfus oranı ciddi bir artış göstermeye başlayabilir. Bu da bizim açımızdan pek iyi bir gelişme olmaz.

If the board decide to sack him I think they should think about bringing Conte. He already has a lovely history with Juventus and he would be one of the best choices.

Apart from that I really like Juventus as for defending. They are currently the second least conceding team in the Serie A. However their being really poor at scoring pushes them out of a title rivalry.    New transfers are a must for Juventus from now on. They need more productive players. They can't get enough goal contribution from their midfielders especially. After increasing their revenues by the end of the season they should immediately focus on this.

To tell the truth it really didn't matter to me which side to qualify in the Georgia v Greece match. Because it was like the most boring match of the night you know. At least the penalties were exciting to watch.  

Wales v Poland was also like a copy of that match but Poland made it just as I expected. I expected Lewandowski to make difference. He couldn't score in regular time maybe but he still scored the penalty and did his job. We don't watch the same Wales since Gareth Bale retired but they still did their best here.

I wonder how many more times Ukraine will win like this.    They once again won by a comeback. These 2 comebacks carried them to Euro 2024. Let's see if they can promote from a group with Romania, Belgium and Slovakia.

Bu ülkede futbolun düzelmesi için en başta 2 şey şart gibi gözüküyor artık.

1. Yabancı hakemler ile anlaşmayı ciddi bir şekilde gündeme getirmek ve bu konuda aksiyon almak
2. Federasyonun başına ne yaptığının farkında olan, Türk futboluna fayda sağlayacak düzgün insanlar getirmek

Bunların biri bile gerçekleşmezse benim düzeleceğimize dair umudum yok. Kaç sene geçmiş hala aynı konuları konuşuyoruz maalesef. Ayrıca sadece bu değişiklikler de değil, stadların maç sırasındaki güvenliğini de ciddi şekilde artırmak lazım. İşler iyice çığrından çıkmaya başladı yani bundan sonra umarım bu olaylar çok daha ciddi sonuçlar doğurmaz.