The great and unexpected success of the Sheriff actually shows how bad and unfair the idea of an elite superleague was.
The same clubs would always play in the Super League, and small clubs like Sheriff would have no chance of entering such an elite league.
I believe for most fans it would be a boring and unattractive competition.
Luckily that competition failed and now we have a situation where Sheriff has a realistic chance to pass the group stage of the competition and continue competing in the Champions League in the spring.
For all true football fans, this is fantastic news, money is not always crucial in football.
Unexpected events like this actually arouse interest in this competition and no matter how much money PSG or Manchester City spend on new players they can't win this competition.
Before the introduction of the Bosman rules, many other small clubs even had a chance to win the Champions League, such as the Crvena Zvezda or Steaue, but unfortunately by the time it ended irrevocably.

This is going to be one of the most important matches of the day tomorrow. Turkey don't have any matches left against Norway and Netherlands besides this one. They must win this match to get ahead of Norway and capture the advantage. And if Turkey manage to win their remaining matches, they will be the one going to the World Cup instead of Norway. So, I think that Turkey will succeed in being the winner.

bayer leverkusen has always made a few young stars into national players, where some then became the world star status...
now there is another young player who could follow this development and become a great player - Florian Wirtz.
and there is now a nice cartoon that shows which players became top players at bayer leverkusen back then


https://twitter.com/11vs11art/status/1445629140238016512

yup the game is basically over, and maybe is not so bad.
Bonucci can rest for the Serie A-game.

If Insigne scored the 1-1 when he was alone in front of the Spain goalkeeper probably now we were talking about something else but who cares this cup is a little more than a friendly game.

That could be the case actually. Barty hasn't played recently and players like Raducanu popped off. We even heard the news that the 2nd ranked player Sabalenka won't be playing the next tournament. Don't know what the case is, because a few years back it was only Serena and Maria Sharapova everywhere. It's also a good sign that new players are stepping up, but also a matter of fact that some players (not many though) get lost over time.

There is only an hour left for the Italy - Spain semi-final game. I see Italy as the closer side to win here as I really like their game compared to Spain. Italy were playing the same exact boring game as Spain long time ago but they have completely changed their playing style now. We see that there are an Italy that are more eager to attack rather than defending and I really like this one. I don't want to see big teams playing a boring game but Spain are still insisting on the same game plan for a long time. Because of this, I think that Spain will lose this and this will be the end of the road for them.

The womens game is very open, with the decline in Serena Williams' dominance there hasnt
been any one player able to dominate the others to the same extent.

The closest anyone has come in the same era is Sharapova. Wozniacki, Halep,
Muguruza, Barty, Kerber, Svitolina and Pliskova have all had their moments.

There are constantly new comers, recently Naomi Osaka and this year Raducanu.

Although it is difficult, but at least the opportunity for barcelona is still open to qualify for the next round, I still remember that this season barcelona is almost the same as the condition of barcelona in 200/1 when barcelona also struggled in the phase group champions league, but in the second leg they were able to make a surprising comeback in the end qualify, I think barcelona this season can also comeback in the rest of the next match later, even though Barcelona condition is a little limp at the moment, but I believe they will go far in the champions league this season.

If it weren't for the red card, Chelsea would have got a draw. You should be knowing that if you watched the whole match. Because after Southampton equalized the score, Chelsea weren't very awesome and maybe they weren't even going to score one goal also. Southampton's red card changed many things. By the way, Chelsea were playing really good before conceding the goal too.

I just lost the first place to Sojourner for 0.5 points and I think I am going to lose points tomorrow as I have a lot of draws predicted,sure I can change them as I never lock my picks but I will go deep down and believe my gut although this can lead to losing several positions tomorrow.Now I am back on earth again after dreaming high for these past 6 weeks.

RB Leipzig today won a match vs one of the outsiders Bochum 3-0. but it wasn't an easy game because first goal was scored at 69th minute by Andre Silva and then Christopher Nkunku added two at 73rd and 78th minutes.

It is good for Juventus that they defeated Torino too and continued to win in the Serie A. This is their third back-to-back win in the league. It was not easy also in the absence of their important attacking players. But I really appreciate Chiesa's performance. He is a very talented winger and he did a great job in this game too by making an assist.

And when it comes to Sassuolo - Inter, it was not expected for me that I saw Sassuolo got ahead first. And it was the result of the first half. However, Inter started really liking this. Because the same thing happened in the Fiorentina game too and they won by making a great comeback. They did it again here and won by 2-1. Dzeko and Martinez scored the goals. Dzeko is really impressive now as he has scored 6 goals in 7 Serie A games so far.

15 minutes remaining, Barcelona still have a chance, but only to score 1 goal , It's an impossibility at the moment if Barcelona can score a draw, we all know how the characters play Atletico Madrid (bus parking) and they are playing at the Wanda Metropolitano. Griezmann has just entered to replace Luis Suarez, it looks like we will see Atletico Madrid third goal.

Hamburg is always up and down in regards to their number of goals. Sometimes they have two games where they score 3 - 4 goals, and then they are also good for a 0 - 0 the next two games. They are way too inconsistent if they seriously intend to make it back to the first Bundesliga.

I'm not underrating any team but Atletico surely has an edge over Barcelona in this one. Although Barca has not yet lost a match in the league but they are struggling very badly in the attacking third. Luke de Jung has been a mess, Aguero is injured. A lot depends on how Ansu Fati plays but just look at the ATL attack. Suarez, Griezmann is back with them and also have creative players like Koke and Felix. I'm hoping that ATL will win this matchup.

^^ Yeah, no one expected that Shapovalov will lost to Norrie in this tournament. Seems that Norrie is really on form this year as he recorded a lot of wins against top 20 opponents, really surprising how he outclassed Dennis in just 2 sets here.

He will be facing Rublev, not sure if he can continue to show his form against Rublev, maybe 3 sets again for Rublev? over 21.5?

Juventus got another win today this time against Torino by 1-0. I must admit that it was not an easy game for Juventus. In the first half, Torino were much better but there was no goal. Juventus started taking control of the game in the second half and they got the output of this effort also. But it was a really late goal that came from Locatelli. It is still a win in the end. But they should be able to score more than one goal in this kind of games to secure the win. Otherwise, it is very risky especially against tough opponents. Still congrats to them! I hope that they can maintain this win streak.

Manchester United got another disappointing result unfortunately. They had a big opportunity to win against Everton here as Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison were still injured. Martial scored a really nice goal. But the Manchester United defense was already very alarming that I was afraid of the probability that they can concede a goal too. They needed to find the second goal also to be relieved. But it didn't come and Townsend punished them with a decent goal. In the remaining minutes, there was no hope for Manchester United and they were nearly losing too if Everton's second goal wasn't cancelled. It ended 1-1. Manchester United are in a dire condition now and I hope that Ole can make the team better as soon as possible. Otherwise, he will most probably get sacked not after a very long time.