I find it strange that some teams would say they no longer have motivation for anything in the season. I mean look, it's definitely not realistic to hope teams above you drop points but for a team like Lyon, you can never give up until mathematics says you have to.
Look at Derby in English Championship who had -22 points from fines and slowly climb up until are no longer bottom of league. Look at Liverpool 12 points difference cut to 3. Everyone gave up in December.
9 points from 2nd spot with 12 games to go is nothing!
I feel like it is about not having the courage to give it a go. I mean they can try, they can actually try their hardest, give 100% each game and still fail, still end up losing. Liverpool did manage to win many games, derby did too, but at the end of the day those were the good teams that ended up in bad positions and found themselves doing better again. Lyon is not like that, they are a bad team that has been doing bad and now you are saying they should be good, if they could then they would have already. They already lost their motivation because at the end of the day even if they try their hardest, they won't be good enough to be around the top. But you missed the point I guess then. Look at the response I was commenting on, which was about Lyon giving up, so I actually kind of agree with you that Lyon shouldn't be giving up, and have everything left to fight for. But about them giving 100% I can't comment as I don't watch. It does happen to some teams. And you can see that actually not very many teams perform to their maximum capacity at full psychology. I don't watch much french football because it isn't available here but I've seen teams like PSG in Champions League or let's say even Manchester United at times. Great team, everything to play for (top 4) but still playing absolutely like they have given up. Very few teams actually give 100% |
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This is good habit to have but tbh I never used it. I don't have much money but I keep it on binance. I know isn't smartes way but I didn't have any problem.
It's still regardless. To be honest, it's not something that anyone could do but it's a great practice to do. Even if you don't have a lot of money invested in crypto, you wouldn't want it to go to waste, right? Like no matter what you could do it's still a good practice to have it stored in a safe location and you won't regret it either way. Yeah, and it's too late when it becomes a problem. It's like leaving your wallet out on the streets. As long as no one takes it, it's not a problem. By the time someone does, it's not possible to fix it. And I totally disagree about not anyone being able to keep coins in their own wallet. It's actually so much easier to keep crypto in your own wallet and have a watchlist to keep an eye on it. No need logging in, 2fa, etc on an exchange to see if it's still there (and worse, even if it's still there you can't take it unless you request a withdraw). |
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Or it could have the opposite effect. Remember last season when Atletico had that big, big cushion? Sometimes I feel like all those extra points can work to the detriment, maybe even like all the other teams who seem to have gathered a big lead and then let it slip over the last months of this new year. Even Manchester City comes to mind. In fact now it has happened in several leagues such as Serie A, Premier League and maybe Laliga will also experience it. Real Madrid are 6 points clear of Sevilla and as I said it won't be completely safe for them. The season is still quite long and some tough games are still waiting for Real Madrid so there is hope they will also drop some points from their lead. Tomorrow Barcelona will meet Bilbao and it will be a tough match for both of them. Bilbao are a team that Barcelona are always hard to beat, but there are good hopes at the moment to beat them given that Barcelona are in good form. So tomorrow Barcelona should be able to win the match and try to maximize the opportunity to seize the 3rd position from Real Betis. Yup! That's why I think the true professionals never let a lead put them into a psychological disadvantage. What is clear is that every team in every big league is getting tougher to beat. To sit on top with a big lead usually means 2 things in a long season, either you played more games, or your match fixtures were a bit kinder than others at the beginning. Nothing is certain until very near the end of season. Barca had a great easy victory. 4 more wins and we will look healthy. |
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Auba opens scoring, and then we get bonus 2 goals very late, Memphis long time no score important goal, so good to see him too get on the scoresheet and still be relaxed. One game at a time! Nobody I am sure except Levante fans would ever have put in such a prediction.
they're gaining momentum, maybe i'll start backing them in the pool I'm definitely tempted to agree with this based on performances of recent games, and if they pool is already starting to do that as we saw this week, maybe it's also time for me to switch over. When they're playing at home anyway should be great. |
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Marseille blew a lead with a last minute goal, they are still in second place with this one point but they should've won against weak opponent Troyes. They lost five points against weak opponents in last two weeks, otherwise they could've been in very good position. Now they have no excuse against Monaco game next week.
Things are not going well for Lyon as well. They are losing at home, I guess they have no motivation left for this season. They are far away from top five, that means no European competition for them next season.
I find it strange that some teams would say they no longer have motivation for anything in the season. I mean look, it's definitely not realistic to hope teams above you drop points but for a team like Lyon, you can never give up until mathematics says you have to. Look at Derby in English Championship who had -22 points from fines and slowly climb up until are no longer bottom of league. Look at Liverpool 12 points difference cut to 3. Everyone gave up in December. 9 points from 2nd spot with 12 games to go is nothing! |
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Victory is enough to keep them further away from Sevilla. The difference of 9 points makes Madrid will be a little calm. For sevilla, they will against Real Betis next match. Sevilla's last match was lost 2-1. I hope Sevilla will lose again. Sevilla have looked to be declining in recent matches. They lost 1-0 to Dynamo Zagreb in UEFA League. In the league they are not too good either. Real Betis might be a little good they lost once in five games. They are certainly competing to stay safe or can even carry the difference in points with the rank above it.
Or it could have the opposite effect. Remember last season when Atletico had that big, big cushion? Sometimes I feel like all those extra points can work to the detriment, maybe even like all the other teams who seem to have gathered a big lead and then let it slip over the last months of this new year. Even Manchester City comes to mind. It's a nice problem to have of course and Real have all the experience you could ever hope for to put this in the bag. Sevilla win again. 6 points. They meet Real Madrid but also Barca in April. Long way to go. |
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the market has started to stabilize hopefully this is followed by a bull market I really hope because the recent decline has made the value of my assets decrease quite a lot maybe up to 60%-65% and that's enough to make me sad.
Since we're all hoping for things why not also hope ETH goes to 10k and BTC goes to 1 million? Recovery this week is all thanks to stock markets (just as the crash was also due to stock markets). We can pretend it's not but that's the truth. And the other thing to accept? That all of crypto relies on Bitcoin. Still. You think you're sad now? Wait till the actual crypto crash happens. |
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Not just atletico Madrid, majority of the Spanish team has dropped form, although the two giant Spanish team in the capital Madrid won their matches I still think they should work even harder, and so far, I have been recently Happy with Barcelona they have heard good improvement and recover.
Try not to jinx us too much man. I'm also really happy with past performances, wins are always good, and even when we dropped points, it was nice to see us play and smile again so Xavi has to find a way to maintain that spirit and keep expectations realistic. One game at a time, try to string 4/5 wins together, and focus on getting one trophy, and I think we're okay. It's when there's talk about us somehow getting 2nd this season I think we'll lose our sight. |
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We're smiling again  it's possible for that, now Barcelona are back strong they scored a lot of goals in the last few games and I think their new coach xavi has managed to bring this club back to how it used to be, maybe for a lot of trophies we'll just have to wait. Winning the Europa League this season is of course Barcelona's only target when other competencies are already unlikely. I believe Barcelona will be able to do that. [/quote] Credit is for Xavi for sure but more the new blood injected in. I mean we had Traore in and he won us great points and goals, then Auba started properly and done the same for the last 2 games. We have goalscorers and goal creators now, and a big spirit, but we still need I would say 4 out of 5 wins in the next string of games to truly say we're building up properly. We are favorites now for Europa but let's not get carried away. |
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Valencia on their way with their win, and I was surprised to see less than half of us thought about this. I know we all said can't trust the team but Mallorca is clearly less capable on paper. Match shows one-sided match, of course, so I guess I got lucky here. Valencia defending the lucky goal like a team from Liga Segunder! 1 corner, all the cards and a sending off. Seriously, who can take them seriously even after this win? last week Levante beat Atletico Madrid and then a few days later they escaped with a 1-1 against Celta, both were away games, that's nothing to scoff at tbh... Levante are gonna play at home tonight and momentum is on their side. part of me thinks they're capable of beating Elche, but the other part says "you're delusional"  hmm So 3 brave guys went for Levante win, I guess they must be thinking some regret that all only got 1 point out of it because 3 goals and conceding nothing? Nobody I am sure except Levante fans would ever have put in such a prediction. |
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I have to admit I don't really get this aspect, but I sort of see where the points are coming from.
Forgive me if this is not even related but specifically about altruism, I personally witnessed generosity with Bitcoin people in the early days of my entrance. A forum member even today still active, GAVE me Bitcoin to use (as long as I learned how to use a wallet was his only condition) and then kept tipping me more of it later to encourage me, then taught me to improve my work and writing, to get into a signature campaign.
He wasn't the only one, but he was the first. And all over the forum you see people like him in Speculation and Gambling especially. Creating interest in Bitcoin and the BTC economy. And still giving away free Bitcoin.
And all these guys weren't gold hoarders or even rich or even early adopters. And I always remember that and try to do the same today in my small ways.
Maybe I am going not in the same direction or meaning of altruism. But this was my perspective and it reminds me of it when I read your post.
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I guess you are trying to hunt a coin called shitcoins if that is so you can use the token sniper to find out pre-sale coins can be bought at the lowest price and sold once it's released to the public sale or exchange. This is a risky thing so one of the best and ideal things to do is find into the coinmarketcap it's easy to put a BSC coin but if that coin becomes in the top 100+ of the coin market cap you can trust this coin to pump and gives you a good profit and not makes you trap in a rug pull or honeypot.
That tactic hasn't worked in a long long time. Now, people get in even earlier, at so called private round, even before the presale. Projects trick you like this: They make public the pre-sale, the sale (or IDO as they call it now), but they quietly give out loads of tokens to influencers and other "investors" to shill about it. So money changes hands ok, they just give tokens everywhere and these shillers pump it up a lot, then suddenly they announce "Private round" closed to give people a fake impression. They you buy presale, but you pay infinity times more than those early holders who got it for zero. |
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Ever since the EU government raised a red flag on Binance exchange for offering Margin trading for EU citizens have presumed a day like this will come but they ought to have placed a ban on Bitcoin this year instead not 2025.
This is reminded of the thread where the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ask the wallet creator/provider to freeze a self-custodian wallet of a user.
Having said that, if the EU government ban Bitcoin I am sure their citizen will always find a way round just like we see in China.
China, America, sometimes Russia sometimes India, everyone has tried to ban Bitcoin and everyone keeps getting taught that they're wasting their resources. Some of the enemies have now become friends. You ban the intent, you can't ban the method. EU citizens are even more equipped to avoid detection as GDPR protects their privacy more than anywhere else in the world. |
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Sevilla - Betis
1. Match line - Home
2. Both to score - No
3. Number of yellow cards in the game - 3 and under
Lazio - Napoli
1. Match line - Draw
2. Both to score - Yes
3. Number of yellow cards in the game - 4-5
Tie breaker: 20' minute
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Reading.
Avalance taking over Binance in TLV, boring, more money thrown in to make more money = inflation, everybody knows that but pretends it's not a thing.
Burning to reduce supply and make fake scarcity = useless mechanism and doesn't at all do anything to price.
CMC in 2025 should portray additional info behind the mechanisms used by coins: for example TLV, how many people hold those volumes and how much is actually for utility. And for burning, how much was total supply, total burned, and net effect on market cap.
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I guess not many people are going to be excited about the first game of the new round, but Levante are the home favorites and but it is strange as this is bottom team versus 13th place team, so Elche should be expected to win again right?
Anyway, not that it can make a big difference but I want to see if I can be like Bitcoin Girl in EPL pool and get yellow cap to climb out of my huge hole lol
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You know, I was saying back when UCL was still at group stage that it would actually not be a bad thing for Barca to drop into Europa and then challenge there, and from the results and reports so far, I think that's been a brilliant turnaround so far. We're not good enough to win La Liga let alone Champions League but Europa would be a great boost, plus it's a strange but valuable ticket to enter into the top tier club competition as Villareal has shown. We're smiling again |
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Thank you for the suggestion! Added to task list.
Sportsbook
Ok! Added to tasklist.
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1. Blackburn - 2-1
2. Middlesbrough - 2-3
3. Huddersfield - 0-1
4. Blackpool - 2-1
5. Bournemouth - 2-1
6. Fulham - 2-3
7. Coventry - 2-1
8. Derby - 1-2
9. Sheffield Utd - 1-3
10. Nottingham - 1-0
11. Hull - 0-1
12. West Brom - 1-0
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