Damn I forgot about the tennis promo and missed it but picked Djoko and Williams combined to win the multi @ 3x odds and was really good, both matches. I watched tennis after a long time especially Novak's game and lol I was surprised to see Novak acting strange tonight. Blew out all his frustration smashing his racket and shouting and all. That is quite a different side of Djokovic and I am seeing now. It was really very tough match against Zverev but in the end he came on top and qualified for Semi's.. Go Djoko!!

There are rumours about Marco Rose (Borussia Monchengladbach's coach) to replace the interim coach of Borussia Edin Terzić very soon. Gladbach are currently 7th and are in round of 16 in CL while Dortmund have lost quite some match under Terzic.

(https://www.goal.com/en/news/rose-borussia-dortmund-monchengladbach-summer-departure/bbkn48l8mvuv1ol0seehul84l)


Also David Alaba confirms his Bayern Munich departure. There would be quite some big teams interested in him once his contract ends in summer. (https://www.goal.com/en/news/premier-league-linked-alaba-confirms-he-will-leave-bayern/10f7dgmzzb3qy1296bidc30qfp)

It was actually a surprising round if you ask me since we had 5 draws in Day 1 and that is what took most of us out of the race . I had two draws so I did just one below my average but it was really difficult. We had couple of surprises in PL as well (Everton and Liverpool )

Off to next one..

Yeah that is true now that you have pointed out. I was surprised when they rested flamie in the Inferno map yesterday for B1T . NaVi have played the map only once and it was against FaZe yesterday.

Another Navi strategy I am noticing is flamie picking up AWP in CT side and holding B bomb site and he is doing great with AWP. Dust2 is becoming a good map for NaVi.

We have IEM Katowice up ahead and we would be able to see some more teams playing CSGO. Hopefully top rank teams won't fall for underdogs like they did in BLAST.

Great work from Faze in 2nd map Inferno to advance into Group C Finals and they are up against NaVi. Its their second meeting and will Faze be able to beat NaVi this time and get their revenge back for thrashing them in close match we had a day ago? Well I  would put my money on Faze to beat NaVi.

Well that's a good point but Leeds also doesn't have a good defense and with the likes of speedy wingers like Auba and Saka , I thought that they will get past the defense line easily and so it happened. Arsenal leads 3-0 and there is no point back for Leeds now.

Good game from Arsenal so far ...

I was too caught up with PL that almost forgot about it totally. Seems like Liquid are doing better than the couple of days ago when they lost going against Faze. Liquid looks a bit sharp  today but Faze are also doing good so will Liquid can get their revenge back. I will join in second map and will watch a bit of PL match for now.

To me it seems like it should go down to 3rd map but who knows. I am not going to put any money in eSports (not in this Blast tournament for now).

You failed to mention that Manchester United also dropped points which has added more points to gap between them and Manchester City of 7 points. Still pretty do-able but given the matches they have next they have to do some heavy work now to maintain the gap and not drop some more points.

We also have Arsenal vs Leeds fixture coming up in a bit and it would be a very interesting one. Arsenal have good defense and Leeds are good in attacking so it would be a good contest to watch. I think Arsenal would be the one getting full points out of this one.

Navi vs Faze coming up in few mins and I am really excited after watching how Faze kicked Liquid yesterday especially second map lol. BTW NAVI made a change in lineup resting flamie and bringing in B1T so another reason of me favouring Faze here and so I went on with a little on Faze.

There we go Hoffenheim scoring another one in just 7 minutes into second half and who knows maybe there is more to come or maybe Dortmund do get equaliser or perhaps win this but Dortmund aren't playing a good football and that is what getting them in Bundesliga. I think they need a proper manager to get out of this situation, Edin Terzic has been in the interim manager for quite some time now and it is not working.

One of it was I think offside (or could have been given offside) if it resulted in a goal. Overall I think Leicester did well in counters and hoped for the defensive mistakes and they really did well and got the 3 points. Liverpool also had chances but they need to start making calls and look for other players and their run and work it out accordingly. Its not like Liverpool didn't had some chances but they weren't able to get result out of it.



Usually he doesn't looks for someone to make a contact with him inside the box so guess he is kinda new in making something out of it.

Liverpool were actually not making the calls right. There was one moment when Leicester almost had the break through as Arnold didn't made the call. Also the second goal was horrible mistake and third one came out of the possession lost. Its mistake after mistake and it is surprising to see from a team which is being managed by Klopp.

Yeah the pitch is quite interesting in Chennai. We already saw how it was in the First test and England did well to think out their plan on the final day and it was all Anderson to pick those crucial wickets and break the bone of the Indian batting order. Great call from Kohli to chose batting after winning the toss and I am certain that this had put a pressure on England to how to work this through. Good call and good advantage.

Great batting from Rohit Sharma and Rahane to put some good amount of runs. I hope they at least play till 340-350 atleast.

Edit: Damn, I jinxed it I guess 

You can't undermine Hoffenheim as well. Normally Dortmund should win this match but given the situations they are in i.e without proper coach situation is already affecting them a lot. I still don't like the way their management sacked Favre and its costing the whole team now. They are now stand 6th and have dropped points heavily ever since Favre left. Hoffenheim on other hand are performing decent but it should be noted that they have surprised Bayern with 4-1 win in the past and had quite a good start in the starting all thanks to Karmaric. It would be a good match between both the teams but Dortmund desperately need the points and Hoffenheim won't give in that easily- so yeah its going to be quite an exciting match.

Well in previous round Leicester were defeated by Leeds by 3-1   and Leeds really attacked well even though they don't have a good defense. I think Liverpool would be able to beat Leicester if their attacking 3 work well and link up with each other like Leeds did with midfielders and attacker.

Diogo Jota and Keita were back into training grounds but I don't think Klopp would place them yet.

(^^) I actually was a bit impressed how they were able to gain momentum with pistol rounds in the first map but eventually Navi won that but they did very good in second map and they swiped the secon half in map 2 giving no rounds at all to Navi. Pretty impressive to push down to third map against a team like Navi.

That rumour is going on pretty strong plus coldzera on his interview said that olofmeister would also be leaving in March- April and that's the same time when karrigan is also expected to leave or his contract runs out. So yeah timing fits as the rumours say..


Feels like O2.5 to me as well. Bookies are favouring Liquid quite heavily. I think Faze have a good equal chance to win the match as like Liquid does. I might got for Faze after the map choices are made.

Here goes my this rounds MM entry:

Bologna - Benevento - 1
Celta de Vigo - Elche - 1
Leicester City - Liverpool - 2
Stuttgart - Hertha - 1
Bremen - Freiburg - X
Napoli - Juventus - 2
Eibar - Valladolid - X
Brighton - Aston Villa - 2
Roma - Udinese - 1
Southampton - Wolverhampton - 1
Sampdoria - Fiorentina - 1
Real Madrid - Valencia - 1
Everton - Fulham - X
Inter - Lazio - X
Villareal - Betis - 1

@355341.73x - bet slip: https://sportsbet.io/sharebetslip/03b5fe99-5034-4c48-9ff6-d62133b3822b

Best of luck @everyone.

Still don't think one week would be enough. Its gonna be a lot on the coach to train him as an IGL. I do hope it doesn't takes time for them as they are currently no. 2 and we have already seen teams dropping heavily in ranks when someone in their teams takes break or leaves.

IGL breaks are getting often now. Still its quite understandable since they are the brains and they stress a lot. Its actually good to take a break to refresh your mental health but also I think the player should be more open about to team and inform them beforehand so that can be ready for the break and find for temporary player in place of that player. There is also another thing which is ideal timing to take a break. <- I think these are some things where you should be more open so that team doesn't struggles after your decision to take a break.



NAVI - MIBR feels like its gonna go Navi way. Lot of underdogs are defeating some big teams but I don't think Mibr are the ones that could be surprise a side like NAVI at this point. About other match, I am actually looking forward to it as now Faze member Twistzz is about to face his own former Team Liquid plus there is coldzera and Fallen who once played in Luminosity and MIBR .It will be also interesting to watch Fallen working out with his new team. (Haven't seen any Liquid matches after Fallen joined). Liquid vs Faze is a really good match and I think this could go eitherway.


(^^^)That's really smart. Guess I should start doing this as well... maybe that is what I am missing and me help me out of killing all my balance going on for sometime now.  

I was about to say the same thing but I think they could be looking out to sell one of them and not all if all those financial situation of Dortmund is true. Out of these selling Haaland and Jadon Sancho should be enough to get out of their financial crisis. We already saw that quite some teams were interested in Jadon Sancho but Dortmund were asking for a higher bid and Man U were only looking for negotiations if could be made and met. Still I think selling any of these players will dent their squad a lot.

But before that I am wondering if this financial situation as they say is all true (?)

Can't be so sure. Its sure that with the form like this Liverpool's hope to be at top again is diminishing slowly. There are still chances if they get on track again and Manchester City drop points. Given the performance of City, yes it is difficult to happen but it can happen say if one or two or kore key players in defense or midfield gets injured and City struggle. We already saw how City were struggling in the start of he season when their some of their key players were injured or were unavailable due to COVID.