What a match!!! It was beyond my imagination that Namibia would provide such a big target. The collection of this team was only 66 runs in 11 overs. I thought the maximum Namibia team could muster was 140. But Namibia set a huge target of 207 runs. And after giving such a big target, there is no chance of defeat for Namibia today. Nepal will not be able to win by batting at such a big target.




Pic: Runs per over chart by Namibian players
Source: espncricinfo

Namibia collected 66 runs in the first 11 overs and the team collected 140 runs in the last 9 overs. And this was made possible by the brilliant batting of Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton. He got out after collecting 101 runs off just 36 balls. Also opener Malan Kruger batted very responsibly. Malan Kruger was unbeaten with 59 runs from 48 balls.

See more: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/nepal-tri-nation-t20i-series-feb-2024-2023-24-1422034/nepal-vs-namibia-1st-match-1422037/live-cricket-score


The first match of the tri-national series between Namibia, Nepal and Netherlands is taking place now. A few days ago we saw the ODI match of these three teams. Namibia team managed to perform well in the ODI match against Nepal. Namibia won both the ODI matches against Nepal. But it cannot be said for sure whether the team will be able to win the T20 match. It cannot be said that Nepal team is weaker than Namibia.

Namibia's captain won the toss and decided to bat. At the end of 6 overs, Namibia collected 36 runs, the team lost one wicket. If Namibia can deliver a target of around 140 today, Namibia will have a high chance of winning. But if Namibia set a target like 120 then Nepal will have more chances to win. But this match will be competitive.

Well, actually Brighton is not very consistent themselves. And That's why I doubt them. Personally, I do not believe this match is actually heavily favored for one team. I believe both of them have kind of the same chance to win this match. But we know that this is going to be played twice. I think in both legs the home team is going to have the advantage.

Not going to lie the miss from Lukaku was definitely hilarious . But I guess that could happen. The main thing is Roma is not looking confident at all. Well, at least they did not in that match. I believe Roma might be thinking about the domestic league a lot more instead of the Europa League and that is the only explanation for why they had that type of performance in the last Europa League match



I will say this, Brighton is in harder competition in the English Premier League compared to Roma in the Italian league. So I believe Brighton is going to be the one expected to win. But for me, this match could go either way. I do not trust Roma at the moment.

You are right. Atalanta do not expect to win this match. They played to draw the match. And so was their gameplay. After conceding a goal in just 3 minutes, Atalanta didn't play a full attacking strategy. They were very careful. They don't attack much. However, several strong counter-attacks were made by Atalanta's players. Atalanta scored from a penalty in the 42nd minute. And after the match was drawn, we didn't see any strong attacks from the Atalanta players. Their main task was to repel the attacks of Milan's players. And they succeeded. Atalanta managed to steal 1 point from the match.



Milan have no chance of winning the Serie A title. So this team will now try to qualify for the Champions League. To stay in the top four of the points table. And it's not too difficult a task for Milan. AC Milan team is 7 points ahead of Atalanta in the fifth place in the points table. Milan will probably now give a full effort to win the Europa League title.

Although Barcelona did not win the away match against Napoli, I would not say that their performance was poor. The match was Napoli's home match. Even then we saw the dominance of Barcelona players. Napoli have failed to dominate at home. However, if the performance of Barcelona's attacking players was a little better, they might have been able to win the match. However, Barcelona are still dependent on Lewandowski to score. This is why Barcelona's performance has become erratic.



Barcelona's performance is erratic. Barcelona has no chance of winning the La Liga title. Xavi has already announced that he will not be with Barcelona next season. This was his last season with Barcelona. So Xavi will do his best to do well in the Champions League. Xavi is a good enough coach. On the other hand, opponent Napoli is not in a good rhythm. If Xavi can develop a consistent match strategy, Barcelona will be able to beat Napoli.

AC Milan team could not win today's match despite good performance. The overall gameplay of the Milan players was good. But Milan's strikers cannot play well in this match. Milan could not score more than one goal despite having several chances. The match was drawn 1-1. Atalanta played a defensive strategy in this match. Atalanta's players aimed to draw the match. So in the second half we didn't see much attack from Atalanta players.





In the first half, the performance of the players of both the teams was good. However, in the second half we saw both teams change their match tactics. Milan played completely attacking in the second half. On the other hand, Atalanta did not try to attack in the second half. Milan players have 68% ball possession. They managed to make a total of 20 shots. Even then he could not score more than one goal. The performance of Milan's attacking players is still quite weak.

yes, sad to see Lebron James not being able to play in the match against the Warriors. I think it could have helped the Lakers a lot. In this match, the Warriors were able to win pretty easily in the end. but the game could have been a lot closer if LeBron James could play in this one.  Stephen Curry had a very good performance in this game.  He contributed a lot to the winning of his team.

I am excited about the match between the Phoenix Suns and the Lakers. The Lakers winning against the Spurs makes one thing more certain that they are always going to play a lot better if Lebron is playing. Lebron also did the heavy lifting in the match against the Spurs as well.

Edit: Btw sad news for lakers. Lebron is not playing in the next game as well. Some important players including Lebron are missing. 

https://www.si.com/nba/lakers/injuries/lakers-injury-report-5-la-players-out-vs-suns-as-lebron-james-anthony-davis-in-question-mb2002

What do you think about almost every Italian club owner having some problems legally?
I mean to talk about legal troubles that Italian club owners face a lot of times.
Don't you guys think that a lot of Italian club owners have legal issues?

Probably I am saying that because that has been the case recently. I did not follow Italiano club football for a long period of time, to be honest. But recently I have seen a lot of club owners being in legal problems and because of that the club eventually suffers. I mean recently we saw a very prestigious club, Juventus get into financial troubles and also some other troubles as well because of the legal issues of the owner.

What's your opinion about that?

This article from goal.com explains it very well

Do you guys think that the VAR system can be tempered with? Can the things that are shown be manipulated? This is a very modern era we live in so a lot of things are definitely possible. But I don't know. Even though we have seen a lot of people complain about this system.

I believe two things are possible in this case.
It is always rigged when your team is losing.
Anything can be manipulated if the proper people are paid enough money.

So I don't think we have to worry too much about the VAR right now. Even though we have a lot of AI systems to manipulate a lot of things, I don't think we are at that level yet where we will be able to fabricate a live video in moments.

I saw this video and I actually don't think he is entirely wrong, to be honest.

https://youtu.be/On1G5G_-0FM?si=MttlkccUaK2B81hw

Multan Sultan is now batting after losing the toss against Quetta Gladiators. Both these teams are very strong. Multas Sultan won 3 of their 4 matches. And Multas Sultan team won all three matches they played. The team that wins today's match will be able to occupy the top spot in the table.

In 6 overs, Multan players collected 53 runs for the loss of 1 wicket. Mohammad Rizwan and Reeza Hendricks are now batting. Multan's batting order is strong. On the other hand, the batsmen of the opposing team are in good form. Giving less than 200 targets will make it difficult to win against Gladiators.




Multan Sultan tops the table with 3 wins in 4 matches. On the other hand, Quetta Gladiators are second in the table with 3 wins from 3 matches. Today's match is very important for both the teams. Because it is very important for both of them to win this match to grab the top spot in the table.

In the previous match against Nepal, Marto managed to set a target of 138 runs for the Netherlands team. Victory on such a small target was impossible. Nepal reached the target by losing 1 wicket

But the scenario of today's match is different. Nepal team batsmen are not in good form. And they couldn't deliver big targets. If the target was more than 200, the match was likely to be competitive. But the Nepal team gave a target of 173 runs. Also we are not seeing good bowling from Nepal bowlers today.
At the end of 22 overs, the players of Netherlands have collected 101 runs. Netherlands managed to collect 101 runs by losing only 2 wickets. Netherlands need only 72 runs to win in 28 overs. If the Netherlands batsmen can stay at the crease they will be able to win easily.

Zak Crawley is batting responsibly. Although the top order batsmen Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope and Joe Root did not play well in the second innings, Crawley is batting very well. Zak Crawley is unbeaten with 57 runs from 81 balls.

I expected better batting from Pope and Root. But Pope failed to collect any runs and Root collected only 11 runs. Now at the crease are Crawley and Bairstwo. These two batsmen are very experienced. Bairstwo scored 23 runs. At the end of 26 overs, the England team managed to collect 107 runs. Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets today. Spinners are getting advantage on this pitch. It will not be easy for England to collect big.

Anything can happen in football. It is natural that Real Madrid will be considered hot favorites in their home match. Moreover, this team is much stronger than Sevilla. However, at the same time, the Sevilla team has gradually fixed the internal problems of their squad. This team is also trying to have a somewhat stable performance.

After a poor start to the season, we have seen Sevilla's players perform well in the last four matches. The team has drawn two matches and lost two. On the other hand, Real Madrid is under some pressure with two draws in the last 3 matches. Getting 3 points in this match is very important for Madrid. However, Madrid are at the top of the table. However, Madrid need to win today's match if they want to consolidate the top spot and increase their points gap over second-placed Girona.



The risk is too high for Sevilla to win. Sevilla are more likely to lose against a team like Madrid. But there is also a small chance of the match being a draw. Madrid are missing key players like Bellingham, Carvajala, Joselu, Camavinga, Rudiger and Alaba in today's match with the squad. This is Madrid's biggest weakness in today's match.

Sevilla seems to be slowly improving and getting further away from the relegation zone. Actually, after they showed incredible performance in the Europa League, I think we all expected better from them. But they have not been able to repeat the performance in the La Liga competition that they did in the Europa League. They got a very good win against Atletico Madrid. And that was pretty unexpected for me.

But whatever I don't think there is any doubt what will happen in the next match. They are playing Real Madrid in the next one. And I genuinely do not think that they are going to win that match. If they can avoid the loss it is still going to be great for them. But I think it will be a 3 point for Real Madrid.

Who dares to put a bet on Sevilla with 9.20 odds??

Is Aston Villa finally dropping off in terms of performance? I think so.
Will they be able to finish in the top four positions?

Well, currently they are in the top four positions. But I highly doubt that they will actually be able to finish in the top four at the end of the season. They are not performing very well. And the point difference between them and the team below them is only two.

So I do not think it is going to be a good idea to trust them to finish in the top four. Maybe if they are able to regain the form that they had previously in this season, they will be able to. But at this moment it really feels like Tottenham and Manchester United might overtake them.

Actually I am not so sure about Manchester United but there is a very good chance for Tottenham.

Alex de Minaur lost against Michelsen and that happened in only two sets. I thought Alex should have done better in this match.
Maybe he is a little tired after playing the final against Sinner on the 18th of February. But still, I believe he should have done much better.

By the way, I do not know if he has picked up any injury or not. Did he? I have not heard anything about an injury.
I am just a little concerned watching his performance because it is pretty unlike him. I worry that he might have some problems.

If I recall correctly odds for Michelsen were 3.65, people who put their faith in Michelsen grabbed a huge winning...

We did not expect such a result in this match. We thought Real Sociedad would be able to win. Real Sociedad is strong in home matches. Real Sociedad won 2-1 against Mallorca in the last match as well.
Real Sociedad were favorites in this match. And Sociedad's players also performed well. They made a lot of attempts to score. But they missed several opportunities. Real Sociedad's attacking players did not perform well. Although they could create chances, they could not finish well.
I would say Real Sociedad lost this match against Villarreal's match strategy. Villarreal were tactical in this match. The players of Villarreal did not try to attack too much. But Villarreal's every attack was strong.



Villarreal's chances of winning this match were slim. So many gamblers like me bet on Real Sociedad to win or draw. I thought the match would be a draw. But they lost because of Sociedad's bad defense. Villarreal only had 30% ball possession. And the team was able to make only 6 shots. Real Sociedad played attacking strategy. But they failed to keep their defense strong.

Today's Bayern Munich team is going to face Leipzig. This match is very important for Munich. Because the team has fallen behind in the title race with defeats against Leverkusen and Bochum in the last two matches. Also Bayern Munich failed to perform well in Champions League matches. Munich cannot win against a team like Lazio. If they fail to win today's match against Leipzig, the Bundesliga championship will probably not be possible for Bayern Munich. Either way, Munich needs to collect 3 points in today's match.

The match between Leipzig and Munich is always very competitive. I have checked the statistics of the matches between these two teams. In the last 5 head-to-head matches, Munich have won just one match, two matches have been drawn and Leipzig have won two matches. So it would be foolish to think that Bayern Munich will win easily today. There is also a high probability that they will be defeated. Munich will not be able to beat Leipzig if they do not play well.

With Joe Root's responsible batting, England managed to muster a big enough despite the pitch not being batting friendly. Collected 353 runs in the first innings. It can be called a big collection considering the pitch. Joe Root was unbeaten with 122 runs. Also 42 runs, FOakes 47 runs and Ollie Robinson managed to collect 58 runs. We have seen a good performance from the England batsmen in the first innings. Indian bowlers Jadeja and Akash Deep bowled well. Jadeja took 4 wickets and Akash 3 wickets. Ekahar Mohammad Siraj managed to take 2 wickets.



We have never seen a bigger innings from Indian batsmen. The team lost their seventh batsman for 177 runs. Although opener Jaiswal managed to score 73 runs, no other batsman could play a big innings. India will lose all the wickets to collect 220-240 runs. England team will be able to take a lead of 100-120.

Yesterday we saw Joe Root and Ben Foakes' 113-run partnership leading England to a big collection. These two batsmen have performed very well. Even though Ben Foakes is dismissed for 47 runs, Root is still at the crease. He is batting responsibly.

The England team has already collected 75 runs from the Root-Robinson duo. England are batting very well at the start of the second day. The team scored 320 runs and lost 7 wickets. This is a good enough collection on this pitch. Indian batsmen will be under pressure if they can collect more than 400 in the first innings. Root and Robinson will need to play well if England want to collect big. If this pair breaks I think England's innings will come to a quick end.