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2701  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - 2nd Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 08, 2022, 05:01:18 PM
The last games are:
Schalke vs Nürnberg - now with no significance anymore (well, maybe just for the fame to be 1st for Schalke  Wink)
Regensburg vs Bremen - Bremen needs 1 more point to be safely on the 2nd rank. And they have to get this 1 point, otherwise they will sink to the 3rd or even 4th rank due to their worse goal difference. Regensburg is on rank 13, I think Bremen will win this.
Rostock vs Hamburg - Rostock is 12th and not the best team playing at home. Hamburg seems in a good shape after the last weeks, I think they can actually win this.
Darmstadt vs Paderborn - Darmstadt just lost and is now running behind Bremen and Hamburg. If Hamburg wins and Bremen gets 1 point, there is nothing Darmstadt can do anymore. They can hope for one of them to mess up, but then they still need to beat Paderborn, who is not an easy opponent.
Düsseldorf vs St.Pauli - another game which suddenly has no importance anymore. St.Pauli's goal difference is too low to overtake Hamburg or Darmstadt.

It is a pity for St.Pauli, I remember at the half time of the season when they were like 5 points ahead and everybody was so convinced they can make it. They put up a good fight, but they just didn't get enough points in the last months.

St Pauli casually lost their way at the ending part of the season and that has certainly cost them big time.

I also think that Bremen is surely going to look for a win in the next match because they will look for the security of being in second place. And their opponent is also not too strong so I believe they will be able to win. a

Hamburger should also win their next match.

Darmstadt versus Paderborn is going to be an interesting one because it is going to be e a fight for pride in my opinion for both teams. But Darmstadt steel should look to win this match and hope for the best.
2702  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 08, 2022, 04:45:05 PM
However, the Bundesliga champions have already become Bayern Munich. Still, fans expect good gameplay from them. In the previous match, Munich had lost 3-1 against Mainz. Even today, their performance against Stuttgart is not good. The match is now in a 2-2 draw. Stuttgart scored the first goal of the match. At the end of the first half, Munich was leading 2-1. Stuttgart equalized early in the second half.
2703  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: May 08, 2022, 04:37:43 PM
Chennai has given a target of 209 runs. The way they started the innings, they should have collected 15-20 more runs. They lost 2 wickets by collecting 9 runs in the last overs. 209 runs are enough to win if the bowlers perform well. Chennai will not win if the bowlers do not play well. Because Delhi batsmen are very experienced. If Delhi's opening pair can collect 50 runs, then I would say Delhi will win this match.

It's 4.2 overs, Delhi Capital is able to score 36/2.  Warner was just out for 19 runs. While Chennai set a huge target of 209 runs, Delhi needed a big collection from the top order players to win. But the opening two batsmen could not play well. If Mitchel Marsh and Rishab Pant will now play well, then there will be no chance for Delhi to win. I would say now Chennai has a 85% chance of winning.
2704  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Turkish Super League & 1. League 2021/22 Season on: May 07, 2022, 07:33:57 PM
There were only three champions in the past, now there are champions from Anatolia. It doesn't add quality to this league though. There has been only one champion in Germany for 10 years, in France the same team has dominated the league for years, in Spain only three teams are champions. As a result, the quality of the league doesn't change accordingly.
In the future, Konyaspor can be champions, as well as Antalyaspor. This doesn't improve the quality of the league. Increasing competition doesn't come back in terms of quality. There is a total decline in the teams. Failures in European cups are a very good example of this.
I agree with your all statement, even recently we have some good decline in quality of Turkish soccer but still they can achieve many good things which can help them for having some good increase in quality and competition in European Leagues. Foremost they need to bring some good fair transparency for all teams and strong environment which helps clubs for setting their youth academies and these can help them for having some good increase in quality.

Currently, they are not near in top 10 European Leagues because they have no enough quality which give them some good benefits, this all can happen with some strong Federation and clubs cooperation with good investments from both sides. Still, we can expect some good competition in Turkish league between top few teams because now they are looking for some good results for their clubs.

I don't think that different teams being the champions of a certain League is going to increase the quality of that League too much.

Yes, it will certainly increase the amount of revenue and also a little number of viewers but ultimately it will only full the certain fans who are interested in certain teams and not fans who generally love football and not the fans worldwide. Unless the quality of the players increases the quality of the league is not going to increase in my opinion.
2705  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: May 07, 2022, 07:00:02 PM
Napoli are more comfortable against Juventus now as they have opened the gap with them by three more points. Juventus got a really disappointing result against Genoa yesterday. It was totally unexpected. That 2-1 loss cost them this. Now Napoli are four points ahead as they defeated Torino away by 1-0 today. It was a very challenging match for them actually but they still made it.
Today win from torino made napoli further away from juventus and in my opinion the 3 points that were obtained were enough to lock the top 3 position belong to napoli this season, indeed serie A still has 2 games left but it will be very difficult for juventus  to win a place third from napoli, because I see that juventus will face tough games against lazio and fiorentina, while napoli I think they just won 1 more game either against genoa or spezia to ensure their place in the champions league next season.

Juventus' goal was to qualify for the Champions League. They did it. They have no need to go to the third place on the table. However, if they could have scored 3 points against Geona, Juventus would have been able to move to third place in the table. Despite winning the next two matches, Juventus are unlikely to move up to third place in the table.
2706  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: May 07, 2022, 03:21:58 PM
Barcelona is close to agreeing a contract extension for Gavi as well. It was more complicated than they anticipated but wasn't in danger at any point during the negotiations.

Gavi is the last one remaining to sign and their future looks good once again. They have some really great young players which they tied to longterm contracts (Pedri, Araujo, Fati, Gavi).

They will now focus on extending with Dembele as well, but the chances there were always really slim.
Gavi is clearly important to Xavi and apparently, he seems to have caught eyes of some top European team, it is only wise they extend his contract and increase his buyout clause. I'm not sure Dembele will sign for Barcelona again after they clearly tried to force him out of the club earlier this season. Prior to this season, I think most fans would care less about him because he is injury prune and seems to dribble with no good end point, always miss his shots and misplace passes but after getting back to the team, he has been one of the best player in the team.

I think it might be a mistake if Barcelona decides to let Ousmane Dembele go from the team because he is quite a good player and can perform very well for the team and I like when he is playing on the right-wing for Barcelona and getting the crosses in for the central Strikers to make something out of it. I think his contract should be extended.

About Gavi, I think it was a great decision by Barcelona. I believe it was the right decision to be taken and he can be a great asset for Barcelona in the future.
2707  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Semifinals! on: May 07, 2022, 02:29:38 PM
Liverpool and Real Madrid have met 8 times so far. As a result, Liverpool won 4 wins. Madrid itself pocketed 3 wins, while the other 1 match ended in a draw. So, the 2021-2022 Champions League final will be the ninth meeting for the two teams. Of course this will be a very tight final match with a mission of revenge also for Liverpool itself, because previously, Liverpool and Real Madrid had also met in the 2017-2018 Champions League final, Liverpool failed to win and lost to Real Madrid with a score of 3-1. Moreover, after bringing Liverpool to the final, Mohamed Salah expressed his desire to face Real Madrid more than Manchester City in the Champions League final.
Yes, this season will be a repeat of the 2018 final when Liverpool couldn't beat Real... This year's final will be unpredictable because both clubs have done very well this season in both the domestic championships and the Champions League... It seems to me that in this final the chances of both teams are equal, but bookmakers prefer Liverpool with odds of 2.05 and 3.7 for Real ... But I don't rule out the Madrid side winning again this year... Hala Madrid! Grin

Real Madrid is not going to be easy to beat for Liverpool in this final in my opinion. Because Real Madrid have been underestimated a lot of times in this Champions League and they have proved everyone wrong and I think they are going to give Liverpool a good fight.

Even though everyone thinks Liverpool should be the winner has almost a lot of people thought in almost all the previous matches in the Champions League whenever Real Madrid was playing, I think this match is really going to be even and I am not going to be surprised if this match is decided by penalties.
2708  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 on: May 07, 2022, 01:44:03 PM

Burnley are in good form, they have continued to win in their last 3 matches. it's a revival for a team that wants to stay away from the relegation zone.
The match against Aston Villa may be a little tough for them but I also believe that Burnley can win this match. currently Aston Villa are not getting good results in their last 5 matches they only got 1 win. and this match will be played at the Turf Moor stadium sometime Burnley so it will be a bit profitable for Burnley.
Yes, Burnley are struggling from the relegation zone and in the last three matches that struggle brought good results by winning three wins.
including Burnley against Aston villa, a win is a must to move up the rankings to move away from the relegation zone, but considering their previous fixtures have mostly ended in a draw. And we'll see who will win in that game, and Burnley's lead against Aston Villa will be played at home, at Turf Moor.

Burnley are playing really well right now and they have been performing really well since the last 3 Matches. obviously, this performance alone help them get out of the relegation zone.
I believe this season they are not going to be troubled anymore by the relegation zone.
I know they are still not clear from the relegation zone but the performance that they are showing right now is really good and I think they will be able to continue.

The next match against Aston Villa is not going to be easy for Burnley and they will have to produce one of their best performance to win that match in my opinion.
2709  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: May 06, 2022, 04:36:53 PM
I think Salernitana will win their next match against Cagliari too. Salernitana has shown outstanding performance in the last few matches. Now it seems that they are capable of winning against any strong team. And so Cagliari is a weak opponent for Salernitana. Salernitana will try to move further away from the relegation zone by defeating the Cagliari team. However, Salernitana is only 1 point ahead of Cagliari. If Cagliari wins, Salernitana will return to the relegation zone.
Against Cagliari is not an easy thing for Salernitana, although now Salernitana is 1 point ahead of Cagliari but I think the performance of the two teams is not much different at this time, both teams got different results this week by having opponents who are also of different quality, Cagliari indeed lost to verona but as we know verona is a strong team, unlike the case with Salernitana's victory which was obtained from venezia which is the weakest team in Serie A at the moment, so I think it is Cagliari who will beat Salernitana easily later, especially now Cagliari are also very motivated to get out of the relegation zone.

Cagliari has also lost the last two matches. They lost to Geona and Verona. Geona was the weakest opponent. Since Cagliari's performance against Geona was also poor, I don't think Cagliari will win against Salernitana who is in full form now. Salernitana's players are still completely confident of consistently good performances. Salernitana's players can win against any team if they are confident.
2710  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 06, 2022, 08:45:13 AM
Freiburg, Leipzig and Leverkusen. All of these teams would compete well with each other to end the season for being the third and fourth. Leverkusen already seem like they are going to secure the third place in the league table. But the fourth place can change hands any time in the final two weeks. My favourite for the place is Leipzig to be honest. But I'm still not very confident about it as they are one point behind Freiburg.
Leipzig's motivation is low, their last weeks have not been good. We will see if they can finish the league with a good ranking with their last strength, but their chances may have decreased. Freiburg might be a better candidate to finish 4th in the league.
I think Leipzig has a little more chance of losing points Smiley

Leipzig is just 1 point behind Freiburg. The Leipzig team is not weak. Leipzig have dropped to fifth place in the table after losing the last two matches. If they can win the next match, they will fight again to qualify for the Champions League. Since the points gap is only 1, I would say both teams still have equal chances to move to fourth place in the table. However, it will depend on Leipzig's performance against Augsburg.
2711  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: May 06, 2022, 08:36:54 AM
Salernitana is now the 17th team in the points table and they are now out of the relegation zone. Salernitana's performance is remarkable now. I don't know how they suddenly improved themselves so much. They have won a total of 6 matches this season, of which they have won 4 of the last 5 matches. If we continue to perform like this, we will see Salernitana in Serie A next season as well.
has a long streak and is now 1 point off the brink
but she is not over yet, she has to continue like this to be sure of saving herself, otherwise if she starts to be too sure of salvation she can make some fatal mistakes
But Salernitana's next opponent is Cagliari, Cagliari itself is a team that is Salernitana's closest competitor and now Salernitana has succeeded in taking over the previous Cagliari position. The advantage for Salernitana is that if in the next match Salernitana can win the match, then basically it is the right way to make her position more secure above the relegation line. Meanwhile, after Cagliari against Salernitana and the next match for Cagliari will be against Inter, a schedule like this certainly makes Salernitana's chance to stay in Serie A next season very open.

I think Salernitana will win their next match against Cagliari too. Salernitana has shown outstanding performance in the last few matches. Now it seems that they are capable of winning against any strong team. And so Cagliari is a weak opponent for Salernitana. Salernitana will try to move further away from the relegation zone by defeating the Cagliari team. However, Salernitana is only 1 point ahead of Cagliari. If Cagliari wins, Salernitana will return to the relegation zone.
2712  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Turkish Super League & 1. League 2021/22 Season on: May 06, 2022, 08:28:49 AM
Trabzonspor became the champion in the super league. But the battle for second place is not over yet. The games that will be played this weekend are very important. Fenerbahce must win in order to go to the champions league. A nice weekend awaits us.
I think it is now determined which team will finish second in the league and Fenerbahçe will finish second. There is a difference of 4 points between them and Konyaspor and I think it is almost impossible for Fenerbahçe to lose all their matches and for Konyaspor to win all their matches so I am certain that Fenerbahçe will finish second Smiley

I also think Fenerbahce will be second on the table. They are consistently able to play well. On the other hand, in the last match, the Konyaspor team lost to Karagumruk and lost 3 points. Now their points difference with Fenerbahce is 4. Fenerbahce is in awesome form now, maybe they will be able to win the next 4 matches.
2713  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - 2nd Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 05, 2022, 06:02:07 PM
There is still an incredible competition for the league title between many teams now. Even the team at the fifth position seem to have a chance for this title. It is going to be lovely to follow this competition on the coming two weeks. Schalke are two points ahead of Darmstadt and Bremen and keeping their lead. I think they will finish the season as the champion team. But it is too hard to make a prediction for the second and third positions.

We may not know until last week which two teams will qualify for the Bundesliga. Because the top 5 teams in the points table still have a chance to be in the top 2 of the table. No team's performance is consistent here. But I want to keep Schalke and Werder Bremen ahead. I think they will win the next two matches and qualify for the Bundesliga.
2714  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Europa League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Semifinals! on: May 05, 2022, 05:53:43 PM
Frankfurt and West Ham were one of the interesting matches today but I feel confident to say that Frankfurt will not qualify for the final despite already pocketing a 2-1 lead in the first leg. So far they have been lucky but I hope they fail at home today.

Frankfurt have performed better than West Ham in all of their past Europa League matches. At least I think so. And Frankfurt won in the first leg, and certainly performed well. Also don't forget that today's match is Frankfurt's home match. As a home team today I think the Frankfurt team is the favorite. And most likely the match will be a draw.
2715  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: May 05, 2022, 04:07:40 PM
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Marcelo's decision to stay at Real Madrid will probably be an extraordinary speculation, because he is a very talented player, even though he is not young anymore but he is a very extraordinary player, I think he will stay most likely because he has good memories at Real Madrid. Real Madrid, because he joined Real Madrid in 2007, he has strengthened Real Madrid for 15 years, and he has presented many trophies for Real Madrid, there are also rumors that he still has debts with Real Madrid, but who knows more about everything. it was definitely himself.

I know he took the decision because of being really emotional toward Real Madrid and I really respect that. I think any other player would have chosen to move to another club and take a bigger paycheck but not him. he showed his loyalty towards Real Madrid and decided to stay in the club even though he will receive a smaller paycheck. In the modern world this looks really stupid but to be honest I respect this type of mentality.
2716  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽UEFA Champions League Discussion Thread -- 2021/22 Semifinals! on: May 05, 2022, 02:34:40 PM
I think this results not because mentality, but experience of Ancelotti have in the UCL. We all know, he is a great coach with several UCL trophy since he coached AC Milan. Of course, Guardiola also have experience UCL trophy, but strategy and coaching experience if compared with Ancelotti is far away.

Well, Final will be good, Liverpool vs Madrid, is Ancelottu experience will help another UCL trophy for Madrid, or Klopp bring the title for The Reds, interesting.

Manchester City just started wasting time a lot and in the end that came back to haunt them. because at almost 80 minutes Manchester City had control of the match and they thought the job was done but Real Madrid made a comeback that is really good, and that's how they did win almost all the previous matches in Champions League. At the end of the match, the body language of Real Madrid was really great and it was really the opposite for the players of Manchester City.
2717  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: May 05, 2022, 06:22:58 AM
It makes me feel good to see Wolfsburg and Gladbach climbing the positions in the Bundesliga. They really haven't had a solid season that's for certain. They both were even under the danger of relegating some time ago. But now, there is no threat for them thankfully. The reason why I'm contented with this is that these are both good teams normally. We shouldn't be seeing them in the second league I think. They don't deserve that much low level. I hope they come back stronger next season.

These teams are normally better than this but this season they have not played like a better team and it is quite worse by their league standings that they are not in the best of form right now. They are obviously going to end this season being in the middle of the table because with the points that they have they can certainly do nothing to get back up to the top. That they will come back stronger next season.
2718  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A) on: May 05, 2022, 06:20:24 AM
Inter and Milan are going to have quite comfortable games this week. In fact, Milan are going to play a more difficult game against Verona away. Verona are still a team that have a chance for qualifying for a tournament next season. They would play focusedly against Milan surely. But I still believe that Milan would be the winner of this game. And I don't expect Inter to have any problem against Empoli in their home game.
Two Scudetto competitor teams will play 36 matches this week, with a few more matches left of course both teams must be able to take advantage of all matches to get a win, two points more than Intermilan do not make AC Milan guaranteed to win the Scudetto with easily, I also think that Verona, who has played quite well in their last 2 matches, could be very difficult for AC Milan this week, being in the middle of the table certainly proves that Verona is not a team that AC Milan should underestimate.

I really don't expect any of these teams to lose this week and to be honest they cannot lose. Otherwise which are per team loses the other team is going to go ahead of them and potentially be the league title winners. Don't expect any of them to lose. Inter obviously cannot a photo lose because then they might have to face competition from below teams.
2719  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ⚽ Football Transfers Speculation, Odds and Predictions on: May 05, 2022, 06:17:08 AM
Real Madrid C.F. could extend Marcelo's contract next season. He wants to stay at Madrid even if he has to take a huge pay cut that would make him Madrid's lowest paid player. I would not like the idea of him staying if he takes a huge pay cut and playing as a backup. However, giving too much can be dangerous. He should go to a team that will appreciate his talent. The best thing for him would be to live on high so that his legacy will live on.

I don't think he is going anywhere because his love for Real Madrid is just too much for him to leave the club. I expect this player to stay at Real Madrid but it's true it can decrement for his career and his earnings. In other clubs, I think he will be able to get a lot more than he can get from Real Madrid now. But it's really great to see that money is not the biggest issue for a player like him.
2720  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod] on: May 04, 2022, 04:34:08 AM
Just like you can't compare apple with orange's, likewise we can't compare icc with fifa. Though cricket is old game but it failed to get global popularity and remain confined to South Asia mostly or we can say countries where UK ruled once. Even associate level teams are capable of beating top teams in fifa while that's not the case in icc tournaments.
I disagree with the last part of your argument. The chance of an associate side defeating a full member is much more in cricket, when compared to football (there is no associate/full divide in football, and FIFA treats all of them equally). Netherlands have defeated England not once but twice in T20 World Cup. Then we have dozens of upsets occurring in various ICC tournaments. The associate nations hardly ever get a chance to compete against the test nations outside the ICC tournaments, and that is why we almost never hear about such outcomes outside the ICC tournaments.

Yes, I agree because if you don't give a team enough chances of competing with the best, how will they be able to beat the best? And we hardly see associate teams play with regular cricket playing teams. These associate teams are needed to be brought forward by the ICC and need to arrange a lot more tournaments for these teams where they can play against better teams and that's how they will get better. Otherwise, these teams are not going to be interested in cricket as the top 10 regular cricket-playing nations are.
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