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541  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: January 26, 2024, 08:53:21 PM
Today I saw this sad news:


Jürgen Klopp has announced his decision to step down as #LFC manager at the end of the season, having informed the club’s ownership of his wish to leave his position in the summer.


source: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2j3-koNBj2/

 Sad Sad

It's a decision that will greatly affect Liverpool next season, that is if Liverpool doesn't hire another good coach, but I honestly think it will be very difficult for Liverpool next season. Even if Liverpool hired another good coach, the issue is that on the market it is difficult to find a good coach like Jürgen Klopp who could have a long-term contract, something like 5 years without being fired before 5 years. Many current coaches have done very badly with their teams and completely destroyed their teams, causing teams to start changing coaches constantly. I'm wondering which coach the Livepool management will hire, I see Mourinho as being a good coach who is free, he is a coach who knows the premier league very well

In my opinion, Mourinho would be ideal to become Liverpool's next coach. I heard some rumor (I don't know if it has already been confirmed or not) that in June this year Milan, Napoli, Inter will have other coaches. If this is true, I hope that no coach who leaves these 3 teams becomes Livepool's next coach, because even though I like Inter's coach, who in my opinion is better than the current coach of Napoli and Milan, I still don't see It is a good option for Liverpool to hire a coach from Inter, Milan or Napoli. It would be very difficult to find a good coach. I hope lliverpool can hire a good coach.

Liverpool's next games will be very difficult games:

31st of this month:

liverpool - chelsea

liverpool will play at home, chelsea is slowly improving and will make this game much more difficult for liverpool who cannot lose points if they want to become champions.

February 4th:

Arsenal - Liverpool

it will be another very difficult game for livepool, in my opinion liverpool in this game needs to come out with a draw at least, if liverpool in these next two games manages to win and draw then they will be well on their way to becoming champions. But if Liverpool lose in these 2 games, then I think they could say goodbye to the title. because the city goes to fight first, then you won't come out on top until you are champions

For the last 5 to 6 years Jürgen klopp has been one of the brilliant coaches we've had in the English premier League, his move from Borussia Dortmund to Liverpool, was a move a lot of people didn't know that it was a dawn of a New era for Liverpool, from winning the champions League to being top competitors in the premier League and other leagues, jurgen klopp has built a solid squad with Liverpool over the years, it will be very difficult to fill the vacuum that will be created when he finally lives at the end of the season, because I know before he came Liverpool had a difficult time in finding a suitable coach that could create legacy for them, however Rafael benitez was one man that gave Liverpool some memorable moments that i will not forget in a hurry.

 Though I understand that for the past 2 to 3 years Liverpool have been having some level of difficulty and struggles in some competitions, but I believe that is a normal thing for every club, because most times there are ups and downs sometimes, so I believe for the present condition Liverpool has been facing is one of the major reasons that have resulted to this situation that has warranted for Jürgen klopp exit at the end of the season.
542  Economy / Economics / Re: Save while young better than wait on: January 26, 2024, 04:24:32 PM
Look, you can be old and rich or young an poor, but being old and poor is bad shit.

A surefire way of doing the wrong kind of things is to spend your money early or try to live a good life quickly without thinking about the future. Or if you have an ok job or income to think that is enough, even if you cannot save.

All young people, understand that time an money are linked. It is not the same to invest early than late, it is not the same  to invest more early that try to invest more later. 100 is worth 100 today, but 800 in 20 years if you play it safe but well. Make no mistake, you will need to start creating your wealth.
Wealth creation is not an easy tax for most people at a young age, it is very rare for you to see young people that are extremely wealthy. wealth comes after so many years of impute and the resultant effect of that input is what we see as wealth on the outside either in your late 40s or in your early 50s, so saving at your young age too is a good way of creating wealth for the future but as a young person it is most appropriate you channel your energy to productive activities because at they young age, most people are always in spending and youthful exuberance.
But the best time to enjoy wealth is at a young age, when you are vibrant and full of enthusiasm, but the societal structure does not give more privilege to young people because of structural deficits that makes it hard to gather wealth at young age.
543  Economy / Economics / Re: The productive capacities of an individual to the society. on: January 26, 2024, 01:17:51 PM
Financial and economical capacity that is potentialed to enhance the society or regional welfares of the masses is primarily weighed by the individual capacities with the proportionalities dependencies of the individuals and the governments awareness, concerns and contributions to   possibly achieved a stable and reliable productive economy prides.

It is true that the regulatory and economy optimization is the responsibility of the government but a fascinating economic infrastructures is more sufficient if individuals is inspired with the credibilities of what to the for the masses (government) and not relentedly relying on what the masses (government) would do for them.
This is also a call security being responsibilities of everyone individuals and not giving it all up to the governments.

Personally, I am inspired with an utmost believe that the ability to accumulate the energy and knowledges to achieve a goal is aspired by when an individual is independently reliable to itself without the reliances of hoping on someone else even though there is a reputable. The essence is that you stays mindedly and focus with the agilities to reach out to your goals and targets.
I'm having difficulties in deciphering your post, but I think it has to do with individual economic sustainability and that of government.
However you must understand that there is some responsibility given to the individual and there are some responsibility also giving to government. government are the ones in charge of our revenue, they are the storekeepers of our wealth, so even if that we have some responsibility assigns to us as individuals, the much responsibility is on the side of the government to make life easy for everybody in a society.

The government is responsible to create an enabling environment for businesses to strive, for agriculture to strive and also build infrastructure for the well-being of the citizenry. So as an individual whatever business you want to go into, the government have already made it easy for you to grow and sustain your business and for you to support the economy by paying tax back to the government. so in all everybody has its own responsibility in a given society.
544  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season on: January 25, 2024, 09:47:37 PM
The champions league will be back by next month,and the different teams that qualified from the group stage will face each other again.It is a period when we get agitated about the clubs that will win,and the clubs that will lose,but there is one team i'm tipping to lift this tittle,either Manchester City,or Real Madrid.But if those two teams should go to the finals,then Mancity will win the league again making it two in a row.
They have their best players back from injury now,which are  Debruyne and Doku,these two players are really important to City at the moment,and their presence in a match final will give them an edge over their opponent.
Of course for those of us that are football lovers and football fans, we are glad that the champions League will be resuming by next month, but I will beg to disagree with you on the clubs you tipped to win the champions League this season which is Manchester city or Real Madrid, one thing you must understand the fact that, this is the champions League and it's s home to a lot of surprises. for every club that have qualified to this stage of the champions League is more or less a winner, at this point the champions League can be so unpredictable and anything can happen, the football chemistry for most club have changed between last year to this year, some club have improved drastically and their impact on the champions League might be different, so I feel an underdog club might win this season champions League.
545  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Government job or private job? on: January 25, 2024, 08:48:54 PM
As they said, government job is better compare to private job because it is permanent and pensionable and the job is more secured. Though private job too some are pensionable but not permanent and not that secured. And again in private job, you have the opportunity to let them know how much you want to be paid. You can either be paid higher or lower base on how you present yourself.

Which one do you prefer if you are given an offer?
1: Most people will want to go for the government job because it is pensionable and you can also get some gratuity after you serve for a good number of years, the job security for government job is another angle to it that a lot of people will grab if the opportunity comes.

 2: on a different angle, the private jobs can be very good if the take home pay is palatable, because there are good paying private jobs that are out there that you can make a living and also create a good future for yourself if you plan your finances very well, but the major problem with this private job is the security because you can be dropped at any given time and is not pensionable. Most people will argue that they will go for a private job because they would want them to be well paid as they are in active service so that they can use the money to create a good future for themselves while they ars still working.

on the government side. others will argue that they want a pensionable job so that when they are  retired they can fall back on their pension.
546  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: January 25, 2024, 06:55:12 PM

If you say the team with the best midfield will attain victory, then obviously Nigeria has a better midfield than Cameroon. Am not saying Nigeria has the best midfielders in the competition, i know they have poor midfielders especially the attacking midfielders, it is the defensive midfields that are performing better in all their matches i have watched. But compared to Cameroon, Nigerians can boast that they have a well performing midfielder. Moreover, we should not just conclude that any of the team the best midfielders will win, don't forget that Nigeria has been struggling to score goals in their last matches. While Cameroon makes use of their chances at the front to score goals. Which means Cameroon will win the game if they can persist to use their opportunities at the front to score goals.

To me, I'll say the game will be a game of luck and favor. Since the bother teams are not performing to their standard any of them might just get luck and win the match. However, I don't see them scoring a total of 3 goals and above. So, if am to place a bet ill just bet with 0ver 1.5 which means above 2 goals.
Yes I said this yesterday that the Cameroon vs Nigeria game will be a battle of the midfield. These 2 teams are lacking one in attack and one in the dense and that’s what resulting the match to be a battle of the midfield. However for both teams to qualify to this stage, it means they're strong anyways let's see who's strong among them.

 When comparing these teams, Nigeria has a better midfield than Cameroon because you can see how the midfield of Nigeria helps to defend the ball and also help to progress the ball but the attacking midfield aren’t creative to help the forwards get the goals. Cameroon have scored more which is one thing the Super Eagles should be wary of, as they are able to take their chances. Well the bottom line is that this match will be decided majorly on luck and any opponent who takes his chance pretty well and fast to get the goal.
The Nigerian team are very good in defense and their wings are very effective, but they attacking midfielders and the strikers are not living up to expectations, for the cameroonians they have a very good central defense and good midfielders, but their finishers as well are not too impressive, however this can take a very different twist because the Nigerian attackers are very smart people that can cause havoc in the goal mouth for Cameroon, the likes of Victor osimhen and Moses Simon can put defenders on pressure to a point that they might either cause an own goal or cause a penalty.
Given the fact that Cameroon have fought to this point because it is the knockout stage, I believe they will pull up a good fight against Nigeria, over the years the game between Cameroon and Nigeria has always been a tough one, so this one wouldn't be an exception.
547  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: January 25, 2024, 06:27:58 PM
I'm not saying Liverpool can't play well without Salah, but with Salah, Liverpool will certainly be better able to maximize their attack patterns. Salah is an icon for Liverpool so far, so when the team plays without his presence there is something different.

The strength of Liverpool's attack line will not be completely good without Salah, especially in tough matches Salah is really needed. I know Nunez, Diaz and Gakpo can play well, but Salah is a player who can bring a lot of change to Liverpool's attacking game.  
With Salah's absence, Liverpool has still not lost a game. There is a hot player and finisher for the club that is filling well into the shoes of Salah, Diogo Jota who has scored goals for Liverpool. He is fast and very good on the ball, his goal scoring ability may be the advantage for Liverpool because even when he does not play a full game, he can come in, play a few minutes and still deliver the results expected from him. On the other side, Chelsea are also now scoring with the chances they create, so there is much chance that Liverpool goalkeeper will also be tested a lot.
Salah's absence has affected the teams performance no doubt but I feel his gap has been filled up given to the fact the frontliners currently in Liverpool are converting chances, Diaz, Gakpo and Diogo jota are doing excellent job, if that there where more loses and draws ever since salah went to the AFCON, we would have concluded to say he's absence has created a lot of gap, but so far liverpool are doing perfectly fine.
Liverpool Chelsea is a big game, so the both clubs will definitely bring out their best, so we might be seeing a lot of good football from the Chelsea side because they are more less the under dogs in at encounter, and they would want to prove themselves that they are the pride of LONDON even though they will be visitors at anfield.
548  Economy / Speculation / Re: Buy the DIP, and HODL! on: January 24, 2024, 07:39:03 PM
We have an exception to if we are interested in going all in at once with our investment, this could be only possible when we make the necessary research on the previous performances of the market and the coin we are having in mind, then compare the past to the present and if you could speculate something out of it, whereby it's profitable to buy the dip and invest when the market is extremely bearish, in this situation, you can go all in at once and invest, but never make a mistake of investing on anything else aside bitcoin.

It is therefore mostly advised that when choosing a particular pattern of accumulating our bitcoin asset to hold, we should make use of a pattern that best serves our interest, using DCA or going in at once with the market when it is dip, buying and holding at the bear season is profitable enough provided that we can hold.
No amount of research you make on any coin should make you go all in because to hold you must follow the steps outlined in this thread we are following. Besides, our focus is on Bitcoin on not other coins. Even though we are discussing how to buy and hold Bitcoin, it is not wise to invest your entire money on Bitcoin. Here we encourage people to invest only amounts they can afford to hold for long and still have their peace, live their normal lives and even have some reserved funds.

Furthermore, the term "go all in" is popular among those inundated by hypes of shitcoin. They usually throw caution to the wind because they want to become rich overnight. After reading the beautifully exaggerated whitepapers and studying the seemingly roadmaps and price projections, they are usually convinced they are in for quick wealth. Most of them only find out that they have been fooled when it is already late.
This is what I've been advocating for, going all in ordinary is not a bad concept but it is most appropriate if you invest an amount you can patiently hold on to because is a long time investment, moreover even when you do your research on most of this other coins, how reliable and sustainable can most of them be, so Bitcoin for me remains the undisputable coin.
 
However the idea of "going all in" can best suit people that have understood the market navigation and have the good financial muscle to invest and hold, at this stage they've taken all precautionary measures to reduce their losses and increase their gain.
549  Economy / Economics / Re: Demand and supply directly and indirectly related. on: January 24, 2024, 06:56:56 PM
Demand and supply can have a direct or indirect relationship, affecting market behaviour and performance. Understanding this is crucial for organizations seeking to optimize operations and competitiveness. Thorough research and analysis are necessary to gain the insights needed.
This is one of the basic theories of economics, you are postulations doesn't connote that you are asking a question or you are explaining the theory of demand and supply. However the theory of demand and supply has a lot of explanations about prices and the overview of commodity and Market capitalization.
It explains that demand and supply is controlled by market forces, this forces are either responsible for scarcity of goods and sometimes high level of production and supply of goods depending on which side the market forces wanted it to go. It also explains that sometimes artificial scarcity can be created by marketers in a bit to hike the prices of goods because hence there is shortage of supply of a particular goods or product, that product becomes a scarce commodity and the demand becomes high.
550  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: January 24, 2024, 03:52:16 PM
Nigeria's Super Eagles will face Cameroon in round 16, which will be a challenging encounter, although I doubt that Cameroon will find the match difficult. Given Nigeria's current performance, I don't think Cameroon can defeat Nigeria at this point in their performance. In my opinion, Nigeria will emerge victorious from the knockout phase.
Your statements are quite conflicting, You first doubt that Cameroon will find the game difficult, then you also do not think Cameroon will be able to defeat Nigeria?

The good thing about the Nigerian team is that our defense is strong, and can withstand attacks from Cameroon, but we need to score goals. The one goal we have been getting in each game in the group stages may not be enough to help us win this game. Cameroon are a strong opponent, our neighbors, we cannot take them as a joke. Osimhen needs to be on target, and out coach has to get our tactics spot on.


If it's already been confirmed that Cameroon is our next opponent then it will definitely be an interesting encounter between them, this year the Cameroonian national team have not been that good but the Nigerian team have not been spectacular either, the only difference among them which makes the Nigerian team better is their defense.

The Cameroonian team need to sort out their defense if they will have to go past the Nigerian team into the quarter finals of this year African cup of nations, while the major issue of the Nigerian team have been their attack, they are not banging in the goals, they need to be clinical in front of goal against this Cameroonian team if they must progress to the next round of the competition, but it's really a mouth watering clash no doubt.
Definitely the Nigerian defence has been solid like the Rock of Gibraltar, however their frontliners hasn't proven to be super excellent given their inability to convert chances and their last winnings didn't come the way most people expected. the cameroonian team too haven't been too impressive with their pattern of play, their last game against Gambia showed that they are not a team to be scared of. So for me I feel the Nigeria Vs Cameroon game is a game between countries that are of the same quality, and the both teams of are the same substance, so visualizing who will be the winner of the game has been something I've not been able to think out.
551  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: January 24, 2024, 02:45:21 PM
~Snip

Manchester City and Liverpool now have almost comparable strength so these two teams have the potential to compete for the Premier League title until the end of the season.

~Snip
This season the battle for first place in the Premier League is very tight. Especially for teams ranked 1-5, all teams have almost the same points (except Liverpool). So it's natural that currently many people are speculating on these 5 teams. This is because the performance of the five teams is equally strong and has its own advantages. Apart from that, the race for first place in the Premier League this season is still very open to any team, especially the top 5 teams.

  • Liverpool
  • Manchester City
  • Arsenal
  • Aston Villa
  • Tottenham Hotspur

However, for this season, I personally think the strongest candidate who has the chance to win the Premier League is Liverpool. The reason is, so far M, Salah and friends have consistently wiped out almost all the matches they have played in the Premier League with wins. So it is clear that Liverpool's chances of winning this season are very big. However, for now Liverpool is not yet in a safe zone, because MAN City will always try to shift Liverpool from the top of the standings. Even though MAN City's mainstay striker, Halland, is currently injured, this will not make MAN City weak. So it is true that the tightest competition that will occur in the race for the Premier League title this season is between Liverpool and MAN City. The reason is that both teams (Liverpool and MAN City) have very good players in every line. So it is not surprising that these two teams are rivals this season.

The league is still very much open for the top five teams, despite the little points Liverpool are currently using to top the table. Because the likes of Manchester city and arsenal are a hard nut for Liverpool to just crack without a good level of resistance.
Liverpool cannot be the strongest candidate who has the chance to win the premier league because of the fact they are at the top of table at the moment, don't forget that arsenal where once the League leaders before they dropped points, so Liverpool chances to win the league at This point is not big but slim,  because the point difference which they are using to top the league is not much.




552  Local / Nigeria (Naija) / Re: Are online banks slowly replacing commercial banks on: January 23, 2024, 09:15:19 PM
First of all, we can all agree that using online banks is more convenient because they allow customers to access their accounts
And perform daily transactions from the comfort of their homes or anywhere they are.
Online Banks now provide a lot of services such as personal loans, investment accounts, mortgages, and many more. Getting a loan from
An online bank  is easier than getting it from a commercial bank cause all you need is a smart phone
You won't have to worry about going through too many processes or standing on a long queue
Online banks have lower transaction fees compared to commercial banks compared to commercial banks, customers can save money
In their account for a long time without worry about any deduction
Yes online banks are slowly replacing commercial banks in terms of customers usability, yes if you talk about collecting loans from a commercial bank, there is high level of bureaucracy and bottlenecks that you will have to go through to get a loan, unlike the online banks that with just a request, you will get your loan almost immediately.

There are other setbacks experience by commercial banks users like delay in receiving money that has been transferred, I have a commercial bank right now, if I make a transfer, it will take the receiver at least 20-30 minutes before the Person will receive credit alert, unlike the online banks that will deliver any amount of money you transfer and less than a second. For me the online banking has really made the banking system in Nigeria to be very fast and easy.
553  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: January 23, 2024, 03:22:45 PM
Quote from: nimethasa
iam not believe ivory coast with good player good team with much play in europe.
lost from Equatorial Guinea 4-0.
and should be eliminated from the african afcon cup.
It was a big disgrace to the government of Ivory coast yesterday for allowed such coach to coach their players in this season because, there is no single good performance from their first game that made them to lose against super eagles 0:1 and they still lose against Equatorial Guinea 4:0 without allowed them to score a goal.

 No doubt that ivory coast will not make this coach to continue coaching their team again than to start looking for potential coach that will take over from him.
The government of ivory coast shouldn't be embarrassed because this is the game of football and in the game of football anything can happen, it doesn't matter if you are the host nation or not,  I can imagine how you already hipping the blames already on the coach of the national team when the players are the ones that haven't proven to be better players.

If you say you want to sack the coach for non-performance, would you also say that you will sack the entire players of ivory coast too for non-performance?, because no matter how technical or tactical plan a coach will bring up, if the players don't execute as he has planned everything will always turn out to be bad result, so my point is that, the players too have a lot of blame to share as well as the coach.
554  Economy / Economics / Re: Reasons for personal financial accountability? on: January 23, 2024, 02:45:58 PM
As day and night keep occuring, hustling to meet our needs is not negotiable as long as we still have an interest in living. Whether working hard or working smart, the primary and secondary goal is to have something that can aid our survival at the end of the day. No one is interested in how you made your money, just get your basic needs and live your life.

Accountability happens to be an important figure that indicates how well everyone makes use of the resources they have in their possession. Don't be surprised that some people who earn very decent amount still struggle to survive due to the inability to give proper account of how they've spent their money.

Below are the few reasons why personal accountability is important
1. It fosters self discipline in the areas of spending. Accountability sometimes teaches us how to restrain ourselves from our wants.

2. It creates room for investment through wise decision making. In this scenerio, we often consider investment rather than squandering funds.

3. It encourages the regular checking of financial growth, which help us to monitor our earnings and expenses.

4. It builds financial confidence in hustling continuously.

How to practice financial accountability
1. Be truthful to yourself. Certainly, no one knows you better than you know yourself. Your decision to spend right is for your own benefit and not for others.

2. Have an innovative or conservative mindset. By having an innovative mindset, we tend to invest on our own ideas, while by having a conversative mindset, we tend to save our money like some Bitcoin hodlers do.

Thanks for reading through, and what are your opinions regarding personal financial accountability?.
In the field of economics and financial projections, budgeting is an integral part of financial accountability.
For whatever you want to spend as an individual be it on monthly basis or on a weekly basis, it important that everything should be budgeted for, having a breakdown of the things you need will properly guide your spending limits.

The ability to stay through and stick to the rules of not going beyond your budget is one principal that shouldn't be taken for granted in personal financial accountability, because situations will always come where you will feel the pressure to spend beyond your budget and you will see yourself losing out on your solid financial decision you've taken earlier, however keeping to some of these rules too can be very strenuous in a situation whereby your expenses is higher than your income, so if you earn good wage you can balance your
Financial accountability properly too.
555  Economy / Gambling discussion / The need to control your emotions as a football fan. on: January 23, 2024, 12:07:41 PM
The Ghanaian national team drew against mozambique, and the entire Ghanaian fans and press team where outraged by the performance of their black star's. in their minds eye they feel the Mozambique team where a weaker side for them to win and qualify for the next round, but rather they drew 2-2 and crashed out of the AFCON competition.
One press man was vigorously abusing the Ghanaian coach as he was walking pass them, calling him unprintable names.
As gambler and a football fan, it most appropriate for you to always show a good level of emotional intelligence whenever results doesn't go your way, because that's the spirit of sportsmanship,
The results must not always go your way as a gambler, you will lose some and you will win some.
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556  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: January 22, 2024, 07:18:45 PM
Quote from: Barikui1
This super eagles game have really been fascinating but it's a game I really do expect them to win considering the fact that Equatoria guinea is winning the host nations ivory coast, and news reaching me now is that Equatoria guinea is now leading ivory coast by 3-0 which makes them the winners of the group if it ends like this.

Even though Equatoria guinea is a very strong team, I never expected them to brush off a mighty team like ivory coast like this. It's now obvious that this is the end of the road from the ivorian national team, because I didn't see them coming back as a best loser.
If super eagles can maintain the 1 goal they secured in the first half to lead their opponent by making their defense and midfield more stronger than it was before, I think they will end the game with 0:1 to take the victory.

As it stand now in the second half, it will be very hard for ivory coast to equalized all those goals because there is no improvement from the side of their strikers for people to know that they will not give up easily to their opponent to disgrace them at this point to frustrate their efforts for the tournament.
The super Eagles where not converting a lot the chances they had on the goal mouth, there where a lot of one on one Simon Moses and Victor osimhen both had and they couldn't score,  the Eagles need to work on their finishing level, the defence and midfield are a bit solid but they should also improved on it.
The Equatoria guinea side where strong in there defence and where also impressive in their composure, they had a lot of ball control and had one or two chances, at a point they even scored to make the game 1-1 but it was disallowed by The referee as off side. The Eagles have enjoyed one goal victory for two occasions now, and they have come second on the group table, qualifying for the next round.
557  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: AFCON 2023 on: January 22, 2024, 06:00:38 PM
Apparently, all the Arabic National teams failed to win their second round games, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, there’s also some talks about the arbitration and VAR against these teams which are unfair against them. Let’s take for example the game of Algeria against Burkina Faso where the referee refused to go back to VAR for nearly three obvious penalties through out the match. While in the match of Morocco today against D.R. Congo when the referee decided to offer a very unclear and doubtful penalty against Morocco and we obviously didn’t see any hand touch on that action.
However, I expect and predict  an easy access for Algeria to the Round of 16 because of their last match against Mauritania will be easy for them especially that this last ones are officially out of competition so they going to play with their second team without any hopes of qualifying.
On the other hand, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt should win their last matches to guarantee a safe pass to the round of 16 without any doubts or calculations.
I disagree with your assertion in it's entirety, of course in the game of football, there are decisions a referee will try take that will not be favourable with the team your supporting, but coming out to say is an onslaught against the Arabic nation, then that's a fallacy that shouldn't be be associated in the AFCON competition currently on going, because if you continue with this narrative, you will be causing a bad blood amongst African nations. I remember some years back, when Egypt where winning the AFCON regularly, no African nation mentioned that Egyptians where encapsulating the entire African glory to themselves. The arbitration and VAR are not against anybody, just play your fair play and win your game simply.
558  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: January 22, 2024, 02:48:54 PM
Liverpool's big win over Bournemouth was very natural because the performance or quality of the Liverpool team was much better than Bournemouth's, so it was not surprising when Liverpool won easily.

Currently, the quality of Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal are not much different so it is difficult for us to predict what will happen at the end of the season, but what is certain is that these three teams have the potential to compete fiercely in the race for the Premier League title this season.
I will not underestimate any of these three teams.

It was a really convincing win indeed. In Salah's absence people were wondering what Liverpool were going to do in the games without him. The Bournemouth game was an easy one on paper and Liverpool showed it to us by a solid gameplay. Nunez and Jota scored two goals each to destroy their opponent by 4-0.  Smiley

I'm quite happy for Nunez to score here. Because he really needed some push to improve his performance. This must have made a good impact on his self-confidence. While Salah is away Nunez has more responsibility to keep the scoring productivity at a good level.
Honestly I was a bit worry about how Liverpool would cope in the league in the absence of their playmaker Salah who was on AFCON duty in Ivory coast even without.  Trent Alexander-Arnold, however I was amazed with Liverpool convincing win against Bournemouth in his absence the likes of Nunez, Diogo Jota, Gakpo all performanced brilliantly well without those key players with the win I strongly believe Liverpool would give Man City a run for their money as far the title contenders is concerned, though Arsenal had been very inconsistent so far in the league, however I believe the team would make things difficult for both Liverpool and Man City title bids.
I was thinking the same thing as well, concerning how Liverpool will be able to cope without their hit player, I later realized that one thing with nature is that, nature will always fills every gap, might not be exactly the way you want it, but trust me it will be filled up. You can see that the other players have come to the realization that their hit player is not around, so they need to play to leave up to the expectation of the club and so far they've been doing very well. The players you mentioned in their last match, where very brilliant in their pattern of play especially Diogo Jota and Gakpo.
559  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: January 22, 2024, 01:14:28 PM
Girona once again rose to the lead with more than a game to spare. Real Madrid was about to experience a big shock in the last match because they fell behind 2-0 against Almeria. Despite this, they managed to win 3-2 with the goal scored in extra time. These 3 points were vital for them. They are currently still continuing their race with Girona.
It was a deserving win for girona , their performance all through the game was brilliant although at some point Sevilla tried to get some balance but then Girona was still the better side, they had a better possession of the ball and even made more attempts than Sevilla did.

Girona was able to convert their attempts to several goals which personally I didn't expect that the victory will come with such goal margin. It's very obvious if given a chance Girona may end up with the la Liga title this season, they are now one points ahead of their very immediately counterpart Real Madrid and in the past week this has been the trend whereby they both alternate position in-between the top and second on the table, if Real Madrid continues like this and not able to give Girona a good distance away they can be sure to lose the la Liga title to Girona by the end of the season.
Dovbyk was really a beast in his performance in the Sevilla encounter after scoring a hat-trick, he literally uses every opportunity whenever the opportunity shows itself, Girona have so much defensive and attacking mindset of players that understands themselves. From the first goal Sevilla scored, I was actually thinking the game was going to be a tough one against Girona, not knowing that Sevilla went and touched the lions tail.
I would really love to see Girona ending up as the title winners, Real Madrid are literally following them edge to edge, not letting them have too much of that gap in the league table.  Real Madrid on the other side I've been having some level of inconsistency too, so the uncertainty between the two teams is so high that you cannot at this point just pinpoint that this person will be the League winner, however for me, Girona should continue to maintain their winning prowess at least to be on the safe side.
560  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: While placing bet what comes your mind on: January 22, 2024, 12:45:49 PM
Yesterday was trying to place bet and during the process something in me keeps telling me to increase your wager do you know if you would hit something you never won before.. I was like is this how other people are being controlled by gambling or is it how it works? I said, no wonder some people gamble and finishes their allocation for the week or month. This can even lead someone to also go borrow if this feeling is not killed and stop, you can also see that this attributes in gambling addiction.

However, have you had this feeling while gambling before be it offline casino and online casinos?
I have had almost similar kind of feeling before, where I was tempted to increase my stake in a bet i wanted to place, sometimes too i also fall for it, i will just double my stake. But nowadays, I only stick to the amount I want to use, no matter how the urge comes for me to make increase, I will just stand my ground. I feel as a gambler you can have multiple feelings at the same time, the ability to control and resist the urge to go beyond your limit is what makes you a professional. Gambling totally gives you a different kind of mindset and I believe if you have good losses as a gambler it shapes your gambling strategy and style of play.
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