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I feel the same way about you. Without Bruno, Manchester United will not be able to give full output, as Bruno has become a very important player. Manchester United play as a team. Each of their players is very important. Each player tries his best to win the team from his place.
Bruno Fernandes has done his thing, he is a world class player. Fernandes is obviously a good player yet soccer is a group game and if you can't raise your team mates, you won't win anything. Fernandes should get it. And Toward the end you can't depend on one player. Yes you are right one player is not enought to make the team good and win trophies but bruno this season is on fire and as we saw yesterday he only entered at the 73 minutes and man united had difficulties they couldnt score until the extra time he became their best player and his presence motivate the other players. yeah, that is the main thing. Having a skilled and experienced player like Bruno on the field inspires other players on the team. They can play stress-free. And it is very much needed for a good result in a match. |
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My guess is that only BCCI will consider releasing Kohli from the captaincy if India loses by a huge margin in this series. The BCCI has no intention of releasing Virat Kohli from the captaincy. BCCI will give some more time to Kohli. Kohli has captained in 57 Test matches. India has won 33 of these matches, lost 14, and drawn the remaining 10. On the other hand, Dhoni has captained in 60 matches, winning 27, losing 18 and drawing 15 (from Wikipedia). So I will still say that Kohli has enough time to prove his worth.
Quality matters more than quantity. In my opinion, Kohli is a better batsman when compared to MSD, but MSD is a better captain when compared to Kohli due to his ability to help the team win tight matches in all formats of the game. However, I do agree with your opinion regarding BCCI continuing to back Kohli which is the right move. He still has a long way to go as a captain, but he is improving with every match. There is no doubt that Dhoni is a better captain than Kohli. Even, there were very few captains like Dhoni in the cricket world. Undoubtedly he is one of the best captain. On the other hand, Kohli is now a world-class batsman. While he has done his job properly as a batsman, he has failed miserably in his role as captain. If he can't get back on the truck, he should resign voluntarily. But I hope he will be able to fulfill his responsibilities properly in the next series. |
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The reason for organizing such a big league in India is that by playing with foreign experienced players, Indian players can also become more skilled and experienced. But that is not the happen. Indian players are more dependent on foreign players. And at the end of the day, after organizing so many big leagues, and spending so much money, Indian football is not improving as expected. Indian players have to be influenced by foreign players. Only then will Indian football improve.
Don't expect any major improvement overnight. It may take a decade or more, for the results to be visible. Many of the younger Indian players are getting the opportunity to play alongside some of the legends. But the acquirement of skills take some time and the impact will be visible within the next few years. And it is wrong to say that ISL is being dominated by the foreigners. More and more Indian players are making their presence felt. In 2017, India was 105th in the FIFA rankings, in 2020, they are 104th in the FIFA rankings. In 4 years they have advanced only 1 step. In 2018 they were 97th and in 2019 they were 109th. I don't think India will be able to come in the top 100 in the next 2/1 years. I don't see any world-class skilled striker in the India team. They need to practice harder. FIFA Ranking : https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/associations/association/ind/men/ |
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Mumbai city at the top of the points table has scored 34 points in 16 matches. On the other hand, third, fourth, and fifth place teams, Goa, Hyderabad and Northeast have scored only 23 points in 16 matches. Sixth-placed Bengaluru has scored just 19 points in 17 matches. Teams need to be more stable. Then the matches will become more competitive. It is boring to see such a one-sided season.
Feels bad about Bengaluru FC and Sunil Chhetri. Never expected that they will fail to find a place in the top-5. Anyway, this may be the last season for Sunil Chhetri. He is already 36 years old and I think that his capability of single-handedly leading his team to victories has waned. This means bad news for the Indian national team as well. Right now there is no one to replace him. The reason for organizing such a big league in India is that by playing with foreign experienced players, Indian players can also become more skilled and experienced. But that is not the happen. Indian players are more dependent on foreign players. And at the end of the day, after organizing so many big leagues, and spending so much money, Indian football is not improving as expected. Indian players have to be influenced by foreign players. Only then will Indian football improve. |
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But West Ham were really lucky that they didn't concede a goal in 90 minutes.
That would have been a different story if only Bruno start playing from the first half but yeah its all good as long as Manchester United win the match. Im not going to deny this but Manchester United rely too much on Bruno , probably need to sign another player to fill that spot or else it could be bad if Bruno is injured somehow 62% ball possession, 16 goal attempts and only 4 on target  I agree that this season Manchester United have relied too much on Bruno Fernandes, without Fernandes in midfield Manchester United played without creativity. The match against West Ham in the FA Cup looked very good when Fernandes came on for Van de Beek. Finally, Manchester United managed to win the match in extra time, the possibility of Manchester United being able to score more than one goal if Fernandes is played as a starter. But Fernandes is only human, he also needs rest and cannot be played in all matches. So next season Manchester United should buy players of almost the same quality as Fernandes, to be a backup from Fernandes. Bruno Fernandes has become the most important player for the Manchester United squad this season because he is a liaison player between the front lines and the back line, if without Bruno it is very difficult for Manchester United to get an attractive pattern of play, last night it was proven that without Bruno Manchester United looked very difficult to score goals. against West Ham United. I feel the same way about you. Without Bruno, Manchester United will not be able to give full output, as Bruno has become a very important player. Manchester United play as a team. Each of their players is very important. Each player tries his best to win the team from his place. |
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The BCCI may think about changing the captain, only if India lose the test series and then fail to qualify for the WTC finals. Even then, it is not certain. Kohli has been captaining the side for so long and they don't want to disrupt the status quo.
My guess is that only BCCI will consider releasing Kohli from the captaincy if India loses by a huge margin in this series. The BCCI has no intention of releasing Virat Kohli from the captaincy. BCCI will give some more time to Kohli. Kohli has captained in 57 Test matches. India has won 33 of these matches, lost 14, and drawn the remaining 10. On the other hand, Dhoni has captained in 60 matches, winning 27, losing 18 and drawing 15 (from Wikipedia). So I will still say that Kohli has enough time to prove his worth. Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_India_national_cricket_captains#Test_match_captains |
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In today's match of ATK Mohun Bagan vs Bengaluru FC, I bet on the victory of Mohun Bagan. ATK Mohun Bagan has already taken a 1-0 lead. I hope I will win today's bet
Congratulations mate, you won today's bet. ATK won the match 2-0. The points table of the Indian Super League seems interesting to me at the moment. Even a few days ago, Mumbai was ahead by many points. At the moment they are just 1 point ahead of Mohun Bagan. But Goa, which is in the third place in the points table, is 10 points behind from Mohun Bagan. Mumbai city at the top of the points table has scored 34 points in 16 matches. On the other hand, third, fourth, and fifth place teams, Goa, Hyderabad and Northeast have scored only 23 points in 16 matches. Sixth-placed Bengaluru has scored just 19 points in 17 matches. Teams need to be more stable. Then the matches will become more competitive. It is boring to see such a one-sided season. |
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Furthermore if you ask me then I feel that Rahane is a much better captain than Rohit, because he has a relaxed approach about him and that’s what allowed him to excel in Australia, and if given the chance then I’m sure that he’ll help team India win again.
I agree with you. Rahane is more experienced than Rohit Sharma for the test format. But I think Rohit Sharma can be given a chance for T20 formats. Maybe he can do something better. Many countries have different captains for 3 different formats. I think India should do the same. |
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I think Manchester United vs West Ham is a really good game to watch and to bet on.Both teams come from bad results in their last game in the Premier League so both I think are looking to get a good result in this game.To me both teams to score seems like a wise idea to bet on.
Currently, Both teams doing some good in Premier League form is also on same level, but Manchester United is playing at home this is good advantage for them, but they have a good match after very few days, so my feeling is they will not do some hard for avoiding any injury this match can go in draw also for 90 minutes results but for me going with +1 West Ham is also not bad at all because odds are also very good for this market. I don't think West Ham is going to win this match. I have watched West Ham's matches. They did not perform as well as expected against any big team. Manchester United will play on their home ground. So they will have some advantage. I think United will get 3 points from the match. And if West Ham plays too much defensively then the match will be a draw. |
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The Goa team will face Mumbai city in the only match of the day. In the previous match, the Mumbai City team defeated the Goa team by 1-0. The match was very competitive. Goa tried a lot to score but they were not able to score. Even today I am expecting a competitive match. Goa will want to draw today's match. They have drawn in the last 4 matches.
What a prediction? Did you made a bet on this match? It actually ended up in draw, despite a total of 6 goals being scored. I would have never thought Mumbai City not winning the match, with them being in such terrific form. And at one point, they were leading by 2-0. When the injury time started, Mumbai City was leading 3-2, and the goal from Ishan Pandita levelled the score for FC Goa in the last minute of injury time. I did not bet on that match. Although I thought the match would be a draw, I still had doubts. Because Mumbai City is in great form. In today's match of ATK Mohun Bagan vs Bengaluru FC, I bet on the victory of Mohun Bagan. ATK Mohun Bagan has already taken a 1-0 lead. I hope I will win today's bet |
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Dortmund VS Hoffenheim
As we know, Dortmund have been really bad for some time. If we look at their last 5 Bundesliga games, we can see that they won just one match which was against Augsburg 3-1. They are 16 points away from the leader Bayern. A team like Dortmund shouldn't be in a position like this. I still want to believe they will gather strength in the remaining matches. Here in this match, Dortmund should manage to beat Hoffenheim. Because Hoffenheim are too bad this season and I don't give them a chance in this match. Hoffenheim has not been able to play well this season though. But Hoffenheim is ahead in the last 5 match statistics against Dortmund. Dortmund has won just one of their last five matches against Hoffenheim. Hoffenheim have won two and drawn the other two. So Dortmund has to play this match very carefully if they want to win. If they make any mistake, they will lose 3 points in this match. |
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As expected ENG won the match by 226 runs and Joe Root the player of the match and he deserves it. Lot of criticism going on about Indian captain for sure and he lost 4 consecutive tests in a row. There is a 4 day break before they play second 2nd test match, can they make it in the same ground?
If there is criticism against Kohli, then it is perfectly justified. First of all, he should stop his bias and nepotism and leave team selection to those who are assigned the job. And secondly, it may be better for him to concentrate on ODI/T20I captaincy. Captaining test matches requires a cool head, which he clearly lacks. Kohli is good only for dramatics, while his tactics doesn't work most of the time. Ajinkya Rahane did a wonderful job as captain in Australia and I don't know why he was replaced for the series against England. In my opinion I think it is better for Kohli to leave the captaincy for all the format not just Test cricket. He has hard won any international series in all the format as a captain. I think thisnis just the beginning of his downfall. You are right. He should give up his captaincy now. India may not have a skilled and experienced player like him. But India has a better captain than him. Rohit Sharma and Rahane are skilled enough to be captains. And Rahane proved it by winning the series against Australia . |
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Those who have minimal knowledge, They bought Bitcoin a long time ago and kept it in their noncustodial wallet. If there is still a person who knows about Bitcoin well and does not have any Bitcoin in his holding, then either that person is a fool or an alien. I have accumulated enough Bitcoin in my holding and decided to buy more at each dumping moment.
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It is truly remarkable that TESLA has announced that they are going to use Bitcoin as their payment method. If such an adoption is made at the corporation level, we will soon see that the price of Bitcoin has exceeded 100k.
That's why I applaud Elon Musk and his organization, Although late but they realized that Bitcoin is the real future.
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The Goa team will face Mumbai city in the only match of the day. In the previous match, the Mumbai City team defeated the Goa team by 1-0. The match was very competitive. Goa tried a lot to score but they were not able to score. Even today I am expecting a competitive match. Goa will want to draw today's match. They have drawn in the last 4 matches.
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South Africa needs 243 runs to win. They still have 9 wickets. If they can start tomorrow well, they will win the match. I think the team that plays well in the first session will win the match. But I am optimistic about South Africa's victory.
South Africa is in a really great position to win the match, they still have Faf du Plessis, Temba Bavuma, Quinton de Kock and if they can come together and play a good innings then South Africa can win the match. Glad that i did not place a bet in the match. South Africa lost two important wickets at the start of the day. Dussen and du Plessis are out. du Plessis has scored only 5 runs. South Africa need just 211 runs to win. Mark ran is playing great. If he stays at the crease I think South Africa will be able to win the match. |
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You are right. Liverpool's defense is very weak now. Their game strategy should change. They will not be able to draw the match against Manchester unless they change their strategy.
it would be nice if Klopp brings another goalkeeper to Anfield the next session, Alisson did blunder when the city creates goals on 2nd and 3rd. as my reason post above, the defender is weak and all players are very unconfident. all team need a psychiatrist  Isn't adrian good enough as a backup keeper? i don't think they need another goalkeeper, it's just one match and allison having a bad game but he can bounce back to the usual performance next game. If the bad form continue and he has kepa like performance for the rest of the season then i agree they will need to buy another goalkeeper. Their problem is the defense, there's nobody there as everyone is injured. Alishan is an experienced and skilled goalkeeper. Maybe he did badly in a match. But it would be foolish to decide his replacement considering this is a match. We have seen his great performance before. I also hope he will return to his previous form in the next match. |
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I have no doubt Beşiktaş will win this game today. They are the favorite and they will do anything to get 3 points at home.
Besiktas won the match 1-0. And they are now in second place in the points table. The points of the first three teams in the table are now equal. Each team will play 17 more matches. They have to play carefully enough in every match. If they lose a match, they will fall behind in the title fight. Fenerbahce is now third in the table but I think they will be at the top of the points table again soon. |
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I was completely disappointed and angry to see Barcelona's play-style in the first half. They played defensively, but there was no coordination between the players. But in the second half, they went back to their old form. And won the match with 3 goals. I think it's a new match strategy of Koeman's.
Although Barcelona won the match, I would say their defense is very poor. It is difficult to accept such a bad defense of a world class team like Barcelona. I doubt if this defense will be able to put up any resistance against a strong team.
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The Pakistan vs South Africa match is turning out to be a very interesting one. The advantage is still with Pakistan, as their opponents need another 245 runs with 9 wickets in hand. But the partnership between Aiden Markram and Rassie van der Dussen has made 92 runs, and has given hope to South Africa. And they have Faf du Plessis and Quiton de Kock to follow.. IMO, right now it is like 50/50. The match can swing either way.
South Africa needs 243 runs to win. They still have 9 wickets. If they can start tomorrow well, they will win the match. I think the team that plays well in the first session will win the match. But I am optimistic about South Africa's victory. Scoring close to 400 runs in the last innings is an uphill task, especially for a team that has a fragile middle/lower order such as South Africa. Pakistani bowlers are in fine form and all it takes is just one good spell from either Hasan Ali or Shaheen Shah Afridi. I still believe that at this point Pakistan has a 90% chance of winning the match. The first session tomorrow morning is going to be very crucial. If the Pakistani bowlers can get one or two quick wickets, then South Africa is done and dusted for good. I think the outcome of the whole match depends on the first 15 overs of tomorrow morning. If South Africa does not lose a wicket in the first 15 overs, they will win the match. Because now both the batsmen at the crease are playing great. On the other hand, if Pakistan can break Dussen and Markram's partnership quickly in the morning, I think South Africa will lose the remaining wickets very quickly. |
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