The three quick goals pulled the plug pretty quickly though. There was no coming back for Dortmund and Mainz knew that if they concentrate on their defense, they got the 3 points they need. This game was worth a bet in my eyes, but I didn't place one.  Mainz were determined to win after realizing how lose Dortmund was in the game, they gave no room for exploit for Dortmund attackers and the got the result they wanted. I like how Mainz took advantage in the early minutes of the game that got them 3 goals and they stood their ground not to throw the lead away till the end of the match now they have moved passed the relegation zone. Mainz played a great game, had an unusual conversion rate of their chances and scored all those goals so early on that Dortmund gave it up. Everyone knows what it takes to come back into a game when a team is 3 goals down and I think that was the moment when the players decided that it is not the day to prove to the world how strong they mentally are. They would have had to give everything they had, but knowing that a Champions League final is waiting, I doubt that a player would be willing to go 110%. But that's what's needed to get back into the game. There was a lot of uproar after the game. Maybe it's the right thing to do by the commentators, but everyone who said they don't understand what's going on, is a blatant lier. |
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Seems like it is time for Reus to leave Dortmund and sign a last juicy contract in one of the leagues that are on the list for pro players who are about to just have a good time. There are rumors that Reus might join forces with Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia or he could go to the MLS. I don't know how reliable this website is, but I read it a couple of times and they say a few things about it here. My comment on that is that I never was of the impression that Reus is the kind of guy who'd go to Saudi Arabia, but money might make him do a 180. I remember him saying how important proximity to his family is and that is why he wants to remain a Dortmund player forever. Well, maybe he brings his entire family to Saudi Arabia and if they are still alive, grandparents included. Or maybe he was talking the same stuff like almost every other player out there until someone passes by with a big bag loaded with money. It feels gutted for Reus to end his career without winning a big trophy in his career while being a very impressive talented player. His love for Dortmund as his boyhood club has prevented him to move to a big club for his career achievements. His injuries record is also so bad that has hindered him to develop his peak potentials to be one of great players in football. I have doubt that he will move to Saudi remembering he is not a type of player that put money as consideration when he has to make a decision. in the past, many big club tried to sign him, but he remained loyal to Dortmund as a club where he started his football journey. Being a family man could also be a reason for him to not go to unfamiliar place like Saudi. He is very loved at Dortmund by the fans and young players, that's why I don't see any chance of him moving to Saudi. He won the DFB Pokal twice and he now has a chance to win the Champions League. It doesn't sound as if he had won nothing plus the huge chance to win the maximum a club player can win. So a little bit too early for your feelings I guess. But I doubt that Reus will play a big role in the final as he hasn't been delivering that much for a long time now. He still has ok stats, but others took over. He could indeed have more titles to his name if he played for another club. |
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I confess that I am very surprised by Mainz's victory, they managed to score 3 goals, it seemed like Dortmund because they know that Mainz is in a poor position in the table and as Dortmund no longer have a chance of winning the Bundesliga but they have already secured a place for European Champions League and are in the final of the European Champions League, so they preferred not to try too hard in this game and with that they allowed Mainz to win the game and with this victory Mainz has a chance of getting out of the relegation zone since who manage to win in the next game, which will be the last game of the Bundesliga  Mainz's next opponent will be Wolfsburg, who have won in the last 3 games and are in a position that guarantees them to be in the Bundesliga next season, which is why I don't see many reasons for Wolfsburg to make an effort in the game against Mainz. Will Mainz be lucky to win in the next game and not be relegated? But was it that much of a surprise when you give it a second thought? Terzic kept some of his best players on the bench and none of the other players would risk an injury, while Mainz played one of the most important games this season. That doesn't mean when a season is literally over that top teams should start losing or play subpar, but it is quite understandable when you look at the specific situations both teams are in. The three quick goals pulled the plug pretty quickly though. There was no coming back for Dortmund and Mainz knew that if they concentrate on their defense, they got the 3 points they need. This game was worth a bet in my eyes, but I didn't place one. |
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It's like practice but it seems that Madrid was too strong for Granada in this match.
There were only Modric, Rudiger and Camavinga who sometimes started in today's match while the rest were the substitutes and young players like Fran Garcia and Arda Guller who were given more matches to make them mentally trained but the results were really very good in this match.
The 4 goals without reply gave them more confidence in the game and that's because Madrid are very comfortable and Ancelotti is a genius in that he knows what to do and what formation to adopt when the players on the pitch are not in their core line-up.
I'd also like to commend Fran Garcia and Arda on today's game where they didn't waste the opportunities Ancelotti gave them.
TBH i didn't expect such a big result in this match because I still believe Madrid will win but I don't think they will win by this much in a match where their players are playing. However, Madrid's performance was really good and I'm very happy to see their performance like today because I think this is something worthy of a big club like Madrid. They're still serious even though they've already secured the trophy. In addition i agree with what you said where in today match Ancelotti knows what he has to do and giving opportunities to some young players is a worthy thing.Now with the 3 points they managed to get Madrid does not seem to want to be close to the runner-up in terms of points and it is certain for now Granada and Almeria can not get out of the relegation zone. It's just a matter of waiting for Cadiz now because even though the difference with Rayo is already visible, Cadiz still can't be confirmed as a relegated club this season. But they did play much better than Granada and it was a duel between two teams that have achieved their goals or couldn't achieve anything anymore. I don't think you can still play your best when you know that you are going down a league. And when you see the line-up of Real Madrid, of course there are players who don't play that often, but it is still a team full of great names. Granada had a single shot target and if a team understands to play some nice football against inferior teams, then it is Real Madrid. If anything was still at stake, then Granada would have been more passionate about their last encounter with Real Madrid until they may get promoted again in the future. |
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Seems like it is time for Reus to leave Dortmund and sign a last juicy contract in one of the leagues that are on the list for pro players who are about to just have a good time. There are rumors that Reus might join forces with Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia or he could go to the MLS. I don't know how reliable this website is, but I read it a couple of times and they say a few things about it here. My comment on that is that I never was of the impression that Reus is the kind of guy who'd go to Saudi Arabia, but money might make him do a 180. I remember him saying how important proximity to his family is and that is why he wants to remain a Dortmund player forever. Well, maybe he brings his entire family to Saudi Arabia and if they are still alive, grandparents included. Or maybe he was talking the same stuff like almost every other player out there until someone passes by with a big bag loaded with money. |
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Bye bye Dominic Thiem: he announced that this ATP tour 2024 will be the last of his career. He is 30 years old now and well, he earned around $30 million in prize money and he feels it is the right decision. He has played some amazing games I think, but his trend was pretty much only negative in the last few years. Unbelievable that his last win on the ATP tour was this amazing match against Zverev in the US Open final. Best ranking ever was 3rd and he can say he won a Grand Slam. Sounds like a successful career to me. Can't compare everyone to Djokovic, Nadal and Federer. I think its the right decision for Dominic. The game has moved on, the younger players sre hard to beat and older players find it difficult to get far in tournaments after coming back from injuries. Its best I think to retire on a positive vibe i.e whole still playing, similar to what Rafa is doing, last week he bade the Madrid tournament farewell as it was his last. I fully agree and he was talking about a wrist injury as far as I remember and that he has plans already for the future. There is no point in wrecking your body and then throw the towel when it is too late. I wanted to say that I didn't understand Murray but I do understand him, because if you are a professional sports man and dedicated your whole life to it because you loved it, it's to stay "I am going to stop here". But Murray, a successful player and multimillionaire who has many years to go in life, gets all these surgeries and still wants to go. He has a hip implant and I think no matter how hard you try, but tennis such a taxing sport. How in the world would he compete with the Sinner and Alcaraz guys? That's why I think Thiem got the timing right. Still fresh, rich and has plans. Murray is an anomaly, he like Thiem is rich, has his own clothing business, he doesnt need to be playing and wont be beating any top 10 players. Gasquet is another player in the same scenario, he should also retire after this season and Fils also is approaching that time although his performances are still decent. Yes but this is purely talking about age. If we talk about age, Federer should have stopped earlier, Nadal should have stopped earlier. I think there are special circumstances that require individual approaches. Federer was competing for more GS titles and won titles at the age of 37 and 38. He also had a certain responsibility towards the sport as a whole and he understood that. Nadal is the same. Murray has a different story. He has done a lot for the sport and he is a GS winner, there are no unfulfilled dreams. And he is rich of course. Running around with a hip implant, I am not sure that is the right decision when in fact he reached his last semifinal in a GS in 2017. Look at Wikipedia what this guy is doing. He keeps going and could not get past the 3rd round in a GS for 7 years now. I find that weird. I can't imagine he is playing without pain.
Djokovic might be getting back in shape. Nadal got destroyed, but he is going there and at least doing it for the fans. He wants to win, but I think he is realizing that it is ok his time has come, but he didn't want to say goodbye in an Instagram post. Good decision. |
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Oh shit! Mainz really ruined me in this round. I never thought that they can win against Dortmund, but mitchr4 did and now he equalized our score. I hope that Oklahoma and Boston can win 4 games because currently I have worse score in the ice hockey question. Maybe I should have listen to Trofo and not check the score until the end. But I can't... It's too exciting for me to just let it go  Yes and in the German Bundesliga pool I was the only one who went with Mainz and in the English version it was a hand full of guys who went with Mainz. But guess what I was a coward in BSFL and picked Dortmund and in retrospect that decision does at least surprise me because it was so obvious that there was tons on the line for Mainz and nothing at all for Dortmund. No Dortmund fan cares now that they lost this game. There is nothing to play as everyone is looking forward to the CL final anyway. What a stupid choice I made... @Strongkored, you are very close to giving me the second loss of the season. Only the hockey question can help me to tie it, but you have to be very unlucky now in order for that to happen. |
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Username: pishro
Prediction: $62,300,40
LOL! Respect! You better go a bit higher with your price (little hint). |
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Bye bye Dominic Thiem: he announced that this ATP tour 2024 will be the last of his career. He is 30 years old now and well, he earned around $30 million in prize money and he feels it is the right decision. He has played some amazing games I think, but his trend was pretty much only negative in the last few years. Unbelievable that his last win on the ATP tour was this amazing match against Zverev in the US Open final. Best ranking ever was 3rd and he can say he won a Grand Slam. Sounds like a successful career to me. Can't compare everyone to Djokovic, Nadal and Federer. I think its the right decision for Dominic. The game has moved on, the younger players sre hard to beat and older players find it difficult to get far in tournaments after coming back from injuries. Its best I think to retire on a positive vibe i.e whole still playing, similar to what Rafa is doing, last week he bade the Madrid tournament farewell as it was his last. I fully agree and he was talking about a wrist injury as far as I remember and that he has plans already for the future. There is no point in wrecking your body and then throw the towel when it is too late. I wanted to say that I didn't understand Murray but I do understand him, because if you are a professional sports man and dedicated your whole life to it because you loved it, it's to stay "I am going to stop here". But Murray, a successful player and multimillionaire who has many years to go in life, gets all these surgeries and still wants to go. He has a hip implant and I think no matter how hard you try, but tennis such a taxing sport. How in the world would he compete with the Sinner and Alcaraz guys? That's why I think Thiem got the timing right. Still fresh, rich and has plans. |
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So. Dann schauen wir mal wieder an 3 Tagen den 33 Spieltag der Fussball Bundesliga. Ich wäre dafür wie früher den letzten und vorletzen Spieltag wieder am Samstag um 15:30 Uhr anzupfeiffen . Und ! Wer schafft es noch ? Union,Mainz oder kacken Gladbach und Bochum etwa noch ab ? Und Bayern München !! Pech gehabt: Der Lieblingsgegener der Münchener kommt auch nächste Saison nicht in der Allianz Arena und holt sich ne 7:0 oder 8:0 Klatsche ab. Der HSV hat heute auch die letzte Chance kläglich vergeigt und in Paderborn mit 0:1 verloren. Äh ja, Du hast Recht! Das war ja immer so. Grad zum Saisonfinale ist es für die letzten zwei Spieltage die bessere Lösung, war immer ordentlich Spannung. Am letzten Tag ist ja dann häufig doch schon vieles gelaufen. Die Konferenz war dann immer schon sehr lustig.
@cygan jetzt hast Du aber einen ausgepackt. Du weißt wie oft Stuttgart 0-1 spielt!  Das war ein guter Zug. Mit nem 0-1 hätte ich überhaupt nicht gerechnet. Hatten sie zuvor einmal diese Saison, weil eigentlich auch ganz gern mal Schützenfest ist. In der BSFL Liga von Sportsbet hat mein Gegner getippt, dass Stuttgart gewinn und Guirassy ein Tor machen muss. Tja, hat wohl geklappt. |
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@Strongkored you got your goal scored by Guirassy! Still hoping for Augsburg to come back, but it's looking well for you in this one. We also have the hockey games running as Slissy said and in question number 10 you and I have four different answers. You went for USA and Czech Republic, let's see. Seems that the Czech Republic game becomes a nail biter. |
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The top of the table now looks dangerously close again.
Sure Kiel and Pauli seem to still have a good position having some more points than 3rd place, but still, it looked much better 2-3 weeks back.
If Kiel wins in Wiesbaden today though they can pretty much cool the champagne with a 5 point advantage. They haven't won yet though, as last week has shown (losing against Kaiserslautern), any small mistake can be punished fast.
At the bottom of the table I am glad to see that Kaiserlautern now had back to back impressive wins. If Wiesbaden loses against Kiel they are in a great position to stay in the 2nd Bundesliga and enjoy the cup final.
And isn't it amusing to see how Hamburg is close to ruining their last chance once again? This is this one game that they need to win to at least preserve a theoretic chance for promotion. But they are of course behind, but then again they wouldn't have lost it today. I checked the table and they win less than 50% of the games. They have often reached something around 60 points or more. That's the least for a club with so much potential, but they have instead developed meme potential. |
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The fact is that we need to see the game through to the end, and the final result says it all, although I was also quite annoyed at being almost beaten by Roma and some of the refereeing decisions made it unpleasant for me to watch. Yesterday's draw was the answer to Leverkusen moving on to the final against Atalanta. Although in the second leg match did not get the victory at least Leverkusen could compensate for the Roma match in the second half, I am currently waiting for Leverkusen to lift the Europa League trophy, but what do you think the comparison between Atalanta and Leverkusen in the final will be, seeing the match against Marseille Atalanta dominated quite well. Yes but I am more and more convinced that this talk about who is the favorite doesn't make much sense at a certain stage of these tournaments. Look at just how weird some of these goals were and if Leverkusen gets unlucky, they are out after that game. But does it mean they were the weaker team? Of course not. Real Madrid and Bayern was the same. It can be referee decisions. It can be deflected balls or crazy stupid hand ball penalties. It can be an own goal like that by Roma yesterday. There is always a luck factor involved and that is why in my opinion both finals, the Europa League and the Champions League, need to be played first. Sometimes it is reversed psychology and being the underdog can actually be an advantage. |
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Bye bye Dominic Thiem: he announced that this ATP tour 2024 will be the last of his career. He is 30 years old now and well, he earned around $30 million in prize money and he feels it is the right decision. He has played some amazing games I think, but his trend was pretty much only negative in the last few years. Unbelievable that his last win on the ATP tour was this amazing match against Zverev in the US Open final. Best ranking ever was 3rd and he can say he won a Grand Slam. Sounds like a successful career to me. Can't compare everyone to Djokovic, Nadal and Federer.
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And good you chose "4" for the NBA question as those are really the ones I am struggling with, but at least we are equal on that one.
Good luck!
OKC and Boston lost the second game, not sure that they will win the third game for my answer to be correct, so I need the remaining three different answers to be in my favor. good luck Yes I actually got that wrong as I thought we would have the same answers for the basketball question, but ok I can still tie on that one. Boston Celtics are big favorites while Mavericks are slightly favored against Oklahoma. I had no idea what to answer for the IIHF World Championship question by the way, but since the answers given by everyone vary a lot, I guess there wasn't that much advantage anyone could have who knows a lot about hockey? Anyway, we will have a first decider when Augsburg plays against Stuttgart. Guirassy was suspended for the game because he had an argument during training with his coach. --> Just joking! |
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The penalty goal for AS Roma is a very good chance for people waiting for a betting opportunity. A double chance for Leverkusen or with a litte risk betting on Leverkusens win is very attractive. Although the Roma players also played well in the last minutes of the first half. Nevertheless, I don't think Leverkusen will lose this match.
The match has only finished one half and indeed As Roma got the opportunity to get points in the first half in the penalty box so they got a goal for the first time in this match, the second half is just running, it is quite interesting if you want to take a bet on Bayern Leverkusen when losing because the odds are quite large too, but who dares. I think the same, Leverkusen will not lose this match but if you think about it, the most logical can be 1-1 until the end of the match, that is the most likely number in the second match. It seems that As Roma are really playing very seriously and tightening their defense. It was stupid goals against them. The first was a dumb move by Tah, he should never attack like that. And the second penalty against them was one of these lovely penalties that no football fan wants to see... They need rules in place and the referee barely has a choice to not grant the penalty, but it's a stupid goal in the end. Now Roma can play their game because Roma takes a penalty shootout while Leverkusen wants to finish the game early. |
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Die Sache ist halt, dass das im Großen und Ganzen ja sowieso weitgehend entschieden ist durch diese neue CL-Regelung mit 5 Startern. Von daher kann man schwer sagen, ob die top 5 da jetzt noch ihre besten Spiele zeigen werden.
Für die Mannschaften die in keinem weiteren Turnier mehr vertreten sind wird es eine Rolle spielen auf welchem Platz sie die Saison beenden. Ich bin mir sicher, dass die Bayern nicht den 3. Platz belegen wollen und umgekehrt wird Stuttgart noch alles geben um den 2. Platz zu holen. Bei Dortmund kann ich es mir noch vorstellen, dass sie durch das Finalspiel in der CL nun in der Liga nur mehr schonend unterwegs sein könnten, da niemand einen CL Sieg riskieren wollen würde, um in der Liga einen Platz besser zu sein ohne daraus einen richtigen Vorteil zu haben. Also die Sache ist halt, dass das ein bisschen ein Widerspruch ist von der mentalen Einstellung bei Spielern. Wenn die Bayern es schon nicht hingekriegt haben, als es noch um die Wurst ging, wieso sollten sie dann jetzt plötzlich über sich hinauswachsen? Geht nicht darum, dass denen völlig egal ist wie sie die Saison beenden. Aber man konnte ja nun sehen wie die Dortmunder und die Bayern in der Champions League gerannt sind. Stell Dir mal vor, die hätten jedes Bundesligaspiel mit dem Einsatz absolviert. Ich gehe schon davon aus, dass die Bayern die Wolfsburger schlagen, weil es auch ein Heimspiel ist und Wolfsburg zwar nen Aufwärtstrend hat, aber gewinnen können die ja auch nix mehr. Oder werden da noch irgendwelche Plätze weitergereicht? Ich glaube wenn Dortmund gewinnt, aber ich hab das mit dem ganzen Rest nicht komplett auf dem Schirm, ob dann Europa League und Conference auch alles einen nach unten geht? Dann könnte ja sogar Wolfsburg noch was erreichen. |
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@Strongkored I am actually a Leverkusen fan and clearly hope that they do not concede a goal just to safely advance to the final, but the problem is that it is the one answer in our H2H. Too bad I now have to hope that Roma scores a goal. I see a very late penalty coming for Roma in minute 96! Good to see we have a few different answers to look forward to. We both went with Dortmund winning against Mainz though and since they don't need any points anymore, I wonder whether Dortmund will be able to show their A-game against a team that desperately needs the points. Mainz hasn't lost in quite a while. And good you chose "4" for the NBA question as those are really the ones I am struggling with, but at least we are equal on that one. Good luck! |
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