The Angers match is normally a comfortable one for Marseille. Because Angers have had a really bad start and Marseille are doing amazing recently. Rennes finished their winning streak maybe but they are still unbeaten in the league.

But interestingly bookmakers are giving an odd like 1.88 to Marseille win. I wonder if it's related to their recent head-to-heads. Because Marseille can't beat Angers in this stadium for two times in a row. To be honest, I don't think that this is the match Marseille are losing. Angers have a terrible defense now as they've conceded 18 goals. Marseille are very productive and they should be able to take advantage of their defensive weakness.

Game 1:  22'  2-1 Arsenal
Game 2:  22'  2-1 Southampton
Game 3:  22'  2-1 São Paulo FC

We Turks really love chaos. People were talking about sacking the coach even before the Luxembourg match. They didn't even concede any goal in the group then. After these results this kind of talks have increased in number. In my opinion, there will be a change of coach for Turkey national team in the near future. The biggest reason for it is that the media want to see a local and more prominent name to work with the team rather than a failure of the current coach.


Yesterday Trofo made a calculation here. If I make a similar calculation there are 13985 men who are aged between 15 and 54 living in Faroe Islands which Turkey lost to. The level of the shock has been big in the country as we lost to a country that is having a difficulty in even finding people for a match on astro pitch.

Anyway, I have positive news for me. I'm not at the last position in the pool anymore. 😂

England - Germany matches have always been highly watchable being independent from the points table in a tournament. Harry Maguire had the leading role in two of Germany's goals. While the supporters were silent and maybe even preparing to protest, things changed suddenly after Shaw's goal. And England managed to get 3-2 ahead in a short time. But this time Germans equalized the score because of the goalkeeper Pope's fault and teams left the field by a 3-3 draw. I think that England sent a message to their opponents before going to Qatar that they could also win the championship.


Sportsbet's special promotion with a 5 odd was nearly going to win. I hope that it happens next time. 

13. Mackenzie Dern
12. Randy Brown
11. John Castaneda
10. Trevin Jones
9. Sodiq Yusuff
8. Mike Davis
7. Randy Costa
6. Krzysztof Jotko
5. Julija Stoliarenko
4. Joaquim Silva
3. Maxim Grishin
2. Alexey Oleynik
1. Tabatha Ricci

Match 13 winner Total Strikes: 71

1) CIN
2) MIA
3) Yes
4) over
5) 2nd
6) Even
7) Even
CIN
9) CIN
10) MIA

Final Score prediction  28-24

Denmark - France is going on very surprisingly. Denmark are still in the lead by 2-0 thanks to the goals they scored in five minutes in the first half. I was expecting a clear France win in this one. Because technically there is still a possibility for Austria to leave them behind and get rid of relegating. It is still very difficult for Austria to win against Croatia though. France still have a big chance to stay in League A.

Netherlands - Belgium match still continues to be the most boring match of the night unlike the expectations.    It is still the only match there is no goal in. It doesn't seem like Belgium really want the lead. I must have thought very positive about them that I picked a 3-1 win for them in the pool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaoEqV2poo

I've found a video like this claiming that the length is 5.350km. But we would find out the details about the track for certain later on.

And yeah, I've seen that video also.    Maybe it's for fun but it can be used to make a draft of a new track.    Adding new tracks to the calendar is always good news for us indeed. But I assume that they would prepare the calendar according to that to prevent teams from having bigger difficulties in a season. Increasing the number of races would be negative news for them in the end.

Marseille have had a pretty impressive form since the beginning of the season. They have two more easy matches ahead of them before playing their most important and difficult match in the league against PSG.

These opponents are Angers and Ajaccio. Angers are their opponent up next. Maybe they won their last two league matches but they are way worse than the previous season now. Marseille shouldn't have a big struggle against them. It is the same for Ajaccio and they are in much worse condition now as well. They finally got a win on the 8th week but it was against Brest which are no different than them now. Marseille have started concentrating on the Ligue 1 more than the Champions League. So I expect them not to make any point loss before facing PSG.

Inter are right behind Barcelona in the group because of goal difference. They are very unlucky to play against Barcelona two times in a row now. Barcelona can get six points in total from these matches which would be the end for Inter in the Champions League. Inter are already too likely to continue on their way in the Europa League. They need to get one point from one of these matches at least to maintain their chance from logical and mathematical aspects at the same time.

But it is better to be realistic. Inter won't stand much chance against Barcelona especially in Camp Nou. They might try to defend them better in Italy but it can still end up with a sad result.

There is no reason for Conte to leave Tottenham in the near future. I mean that he would stay at least until the end of the season. Because he has no problem with Tottenham currently. They are having a much better season considering their recent performance. It is very difficult to win the Premier League title of course so I don't think that Conte has such target before leaving. Having a season that Tottenham have missed so far would still be enough for the team.

Conte would like to return to Italy someday for sure. He knows that league very well and managed many teams there. His career is all about Italy actually. This is his second Premier League experience after working with Chelsea. It looks like he will be more successful with Tottenham also. Seeing him return to Juventus wouldn't be bad but I believe Allegri shouldn't be given up on this easy.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised for seeing a surprising result last night also. Spain's losing home by 1-2 was very unexpected for me considering that my prediction was a 2-0 win for Spain.    Switzerland benefited from their struggles in the first half and got ahead already. Spain started to pull themselves together in the other half and found the equalizer. But Switzerland were able to answer in only 3 minutes. It was like Switzerland were the favourite and Spain were the underdog. 

Portugal at least didn't surprise anyone by winning. The only surprise might be their getting a too comfortable win by 4-0. Because the previous h2h finished by a 2-0 win for them in a home match. I waited for some resistance from Czech Republic but they were really terrible at making use of the goal chances they found. Their shots on goal rate was like only 20%.

In case of a tie in points, total round differences are going to be taken into account to determine what team are going to be ahead. This happened in Group A for example. Natus Vincere, Spirit and NIP all won 2 times in the group and were fighting for the 3rd spot. However thanks to having a bigger total round difference, Natus Vincere captured the spot to move on in the tournament.

It will be the same for Eternal Fire also but they aren't in a good condition in terms of total round difference. It is very difficult for them to get ahead of Liquid or EG in this. Who knows maybe both of them will have terrible results which will pave the way for Eternal Fire all of a sudden. Eternal Fire should only focus on destroying Movistar Riders 2-0 with big map scores.

Inter - Barcelona will be eyed very closely indeed. Inter aren't having good days recently. They have defensive and offensive issues both now. They have another difficult match against Roma before facing Barcelona in the Champions League. If they don't have a good result against Roma too it would demoralize them even more. In any case it isn't easy for them to recover magically in a short time though.

Barcelona have had a very impressive run so far. Maybe they lost to Bayern Munich here but their performance was still decent. Their performance in the La Liga has already been very satisfying. I expect them to show the same performance against Inter too and have the control of the match. They can win this to make up for the Bayern Munich loss.

According to the source below, F1 management might be thinking of adding a new racetrack which is in Colombia and named as "the Caribbean GP". I've added the drawing of the track on paper right below:



The start straight seems quite long and we can see a great rivalry between the drivers there by taking advantage of DRS. It would be the easiest section of the track to overtake a car. Apart from that, it might be difficult for the drivers to overtake themselves in the other parts of the track. But I'm making assumptions only considering this drawing of course. After they show the track in a more detailed way IRL we can be sure of something easier. It'd be lovely to see a new track in a different country. If the track passes all the tests then we might see it in calendar sooner than we expect.

The source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/caribbean-grand-prix-colombia-future-28068449

I feel confident about Spain and Portugal both to win. I even expect comfortable wins for them. I know that the results of yesterday's matches were quite unexpected for nearly all of us. But I assume that this wouldn't go on today also.

In the worst case, maybe one of these matches would end up with a draw by goals from both sides. And that match would be Czech Republic - Portugal. Because Czech Republic are an a little unpredictable team. I also watched their Spain match a little. They didn't have so many goal opportunities maybe but they took advantage of the chances they found incredibly well. They were even defeating Spain if it weren't for the goal came in the 90th minute.

I was too positive about Germany tonight.    My expectation was a huge win by them but Hungary did another great work in this match as well. Normally it is really difficult for them to resist a team like Germany. Maybe Hungary are using the environment in the Nations League in a great way but it is still a wonderful work of course. Croatia, Spain and Netherlands are the biggest candidates to be opponents for Hungary in playoff round. Whatever the opponent is Hungary can do even better than this as long as they continue to make this system work like a clockwork.

England were a big disappointment. They lost in a very crucial match and said farewell to the league. Southgate wouldn't prefer the biggest players in the starting eleven in their final group match. This would be nice to prevent probable injuries for them of course. I bet there are many people who bet on both teams to score for this match and lost. To be honest it was a nice choice but England couldn't score while the other scenario was more likely in fact. I thought Italy would have a bigger difficulty in scoring I mean.

This is no more than rumours.

Because Bayern Munich president already made a statement that they didn't have any problem with Nagelsmann and he would stay for a long time. Bayern Munich management are already aware of the source of their problem in the end. They still haven't signed a strong centre-forward and this situation is really killing all their goal productivity. They have no choice other than hoping for the other players to make a big score contribution. Mane has been one of the biggest contributors so far but this isn't enough for the team.

Lewandowski was taking a huge responsibility by making a huge score contribution to the team. His absence is felt deeply as a result unless they bring a similar centre-forward at the earliest opportunity. Once they do this they wouldn't have serious issues anymore.

Indeed Latifi has done Verstappen a really great favour for Verstappen before leaving Williams.  

I don't have too much to talk about him to be honest because he isn't one of the impressive drivers in F1. I don't expect him to find a new team for himself in 2023 season also. By the way, I don't think that Ricciardo would join Williams. The biggest alternatives for him are Alpine and Haas for now. I would rather seeing him at Alpine as he can be more competitive for upper places. But it isn't all about the car of course. He needs to improve his performance and make up for this poor season. Tsunoda's extending his contract has made one thing clear that the rumours about Gasly can be true. He might really leave the team and join Alpine. But there are some other drivers also being linked with the same team so let's see.

It is too difficult to talk about Chelsea's title chance in the Champions League in the near future now. Because they have bigger concerns to deal with first. It is very hard to predict what will happen after Tuchel's departure and Potter's arrival. They will need a lot of time to see the results of new changes in the team. People have many question marks in their minds because of Potter's being very inexperienced about big teams and big tournaments like this one. I won't be surprised if they even continue in the Europa League this season. It won't be easy for them to collect enough points against Milan to increase their chance for next round.

Maybe we are still at the beginning of the season now and I'm prejudiced about their future. But as long as they don't solve their scoring issues this season won't be bright for them neither in the Champions League nor in the English Premier League.