Deserved or not, it came down to the single last game (2nd leg) of the relegation match vs Hertha and they lost. Hertha has played a bad season and they will play against relegation next year. Of course it is disappointing for Hamburg as well, but until now they always messed up their relegation into the Bundesliga just in the last few games of the season. Hamburg needs to me more consistent thoughout the whole season and then they won't have to rely on luck anymore.
However both deserve to be in the Bundesliga next season but unfortunately, one of them has to lose. If next season there are no big changes made by Hertha Berlin then they deserve to be relegated next season, with them still having this opportunity they have to make improvements which of course to make their performance even better. At least targeting to be able to compete in the middle table would be better, when compared to fighting to get out of the relegation zone next season then it is the same as repeating mistakes. They have been in the Bundesliga five times consecutively now it is time that they start playing better and they have to stop ending in the relegation zone. They have to try and end at least in the top 10. I think they will be able to finish in the mid-table position at least. I believe some changes are important to be made for this team to do better. I also agree that if they can't do any better they should not be in the Bundesliga next season. |
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If they actually care about cricket itself I think they would have increased the number of teams that are playing cricket regularly by now. At least there have been 20 teams playing in the world cup.
They already tried this once in past and burned their hands badly (Big teams got knocked out early). It was epic financial disaster for the ICC that they dropped this idea for good. I am in favour of 16-20 teams WC competition. It has many challenges as well which we already discussed many time in every cricketing thread. Well, then why just ICC don't take any steps about making cricket popular in smaller countries? If they are interested in cricket the revenue is not going to be a problem. I think if ICC thinks that playing a small number of teams in the world cup is going to be the solution to their """"revenue"""" problem I am going to say they are delusional and they are not thinking straight. If they think that the smaller teams are not going to be interested in cricket because the people of those countries watching cricket for a long time will hamper productivity in those countries? then why don't ICC just takes some states about making cricket popular to economically rich countries? They tried with a 16-team competition in 2007. In terms of competitiveness, that tournament was a grand success. There were a lot of upsets and the matches were very interesting. But the problem was that in financial terms the tournament was a failure. That was the main reason why they went back to the 10-team setup. Now it is a difficult choice. Sports bodies such as FIFA can afford teams such as Italy and Brazil not playing in their world cup, or getting kicked out in the group stage. But ICC can't afford to lose the Indian team in the group phase of the world cup. If that happens, the TV broadcasters will be up in arms and will refuse to bid for the next tournament.
Well, I guess then the teams have to just play better and prepare better, right? If they arranged the world cup as they did in 2007 a lot more teams would have been playing cricket regularly and competitively. Eventually, by now the revenue would have been better. |
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My expectation level for Barcelona in next season has increased quite highly. They have really improved their game very much and they seem to be promising for the La Liga championship next time. But first, they need to bring some new and right players to the team I think. I don't believe that this squad is qualified enough to reach bigger successes in the future. They are in the Champions League too next season and they can perform much better with a more solid lineup. I assume that they are looking for a top striker for now.
A few days ago Barcelona officially announced their recruitment, they signed 2 players (Andreas Christense and Franck Kessie) for free. Then it was also heard that they were eyeing Lewandowski to make their attacking layer even better. I personally don't think that Barcelona will play better next season, the dominance will still be held by Real Madrid, and only Atletico Madrid will be their competitors next season. I believe Barcelona is playing well and they will also continue that in the next season. But I am really worried about their defense because I don't think it is good enough to compete against the likes of Real Madrid. Barcelona seems to be worried about their attacking side a lot right now but I think the attacking of Barcelona is decent. And I think the main problem is going to be defending. We have seen Real Madrid do very well without having a solid defense this season but I think that same thing is not going to work for Barcelona. |
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The final match will be a difficult match for both teams and I hope we will see both teams will put all their abilities into making the match really fierce, I personally am not a Liverpool fan, but hope that Liverpool can end this season with a trophy champions league after their failure to win the English league, Salah who is the spearhead of Liverpool attack so far is still in doubt will appear after the injury he got in the last game, it will be a big loss if Salah misses the match, but I think if later Salah is absent, of course, Klopp still has the right solution in destroying the madrid defense. Without Salah I think Liverpool will be difficult to win a game against Real Madrid. Indeed, several other players can still be used to fill the void in Liverpool's attack, but it is completely different when compared to Salah. The situation may be difficult if Liverpool have to lose their two main pillars in the final match, but there is still a possibility they can be played. Mohammed Salah is going to play in the final against Real Madrid. I don't think there is any case for any team about injuries. If I have to make any predictions I am going to say that both teams are going to play really aggressively. I expect Real Madrid to play more aggressively compared to Liverpool because if they sit back and try to defend, they lose. This is going to be a great match from anyone's perspective. |
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The question is are they up for the challenge in the 1st Bundesliga, last season if I am not wrong Schalke and Bremen were in the 1st division and failed to keep up with the other teams, so they have fallen down to the 2nd Division this time but I think they would need to fill in the gap on some players or they will need players that even though not the level of Lewandowski of Haaland, can particularly keep up to the expectation to survive the 1st Division next season,
Exactly and yes you are right on that. We have seen that this season from Stuttgart also lucky they managed to stay in the first German League. Its always hard for Teams that coming from the second league into the first , even it was only a year. Schalke and Bremen will dont have it easy and they have to work hard on it to keep them into the first league next season. New players are mostly needed . It is obviously a lot harder in the Bundesliga compared to the second Bundesliga. There is obviously a lot of change in the competition. And it is hard for the teams that get promoted to the Bundesliga to cope up with the situation. On another note, we can understand how the competition is different from the top of the Bundesliga to the bottom. There are teams that find it hard to stay after getting promoted and meanwhile we have Bayern Munich which takes the trophies almost every year. |
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There is nothing wrong with Inzaghi, even I initially thought that Inter would find it difficult to compete after the board appointed Inzaghi as their coach at the start of the season was 100% wrong. Inzaghi has done his job very well this season, it's just there have been a few games where the results have been surprising. even Milan felt the same way, lucky for Milan, they was able to provide good performance when facing a strong team, including when they beat Inter in a Serie A derby. In the last few seasons, Milan presented a fierce competition for the Serie A title. They still failed last season, but they managed to do it this season. It was a perfect achievement for both the coach and his players, it was a pleasure to see Milan's players celebrate the title this season. Next season, Milan will definitely have a tougher task where they are expected to defend their title. Milan will be competing in the Champions League as well so I think some new players should be brought in during this transfer window. I think Milan will have a good chance of defending their title. They have been playing well in recent seasons but the problem was they were really inconsistent in the previous seasons. I can also not say that they are very consistent in this season but they have done the job. I think they will show a good performance in the next season also. But as I said that I will also admit that they will have tougher competition in the next season. I think they are going to make some important changes in the squad in this transfer window. |
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What is the need for the smaller boards to appease BCCI? As per the schedule, BCCI needs to reciprocate the tours. The case with Pakistan is understandable. But they can't refuse to tour other countries such as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, West Indies or South Africa. Now it may be true that if the boards are hostile then the BCCI may agree only to a bare minimum of matches. Then it is up to the opposite side to decide, whether they want to go for monetary gain or self respect. And once again, the real reason why revenues are so concentrated in India is due to the fact that ICC refused to popularize the game.
It's a give or take relationship instead of Appeasement. In my experience BCCI hardly play hardballs with smaller boards in context of bilateral series (unless their plans are clashing with IPL), mainly Ban + SL + WI + SA. One of the reason their relationship with the BCCI are very friendly in comparison to Aus and Eng ( Ex: Aus cancelling the SA's tour and ENG pulling out) As a sports body, I don't think ICC should have any favorites. But ICC is doing the absolute opposite. As a sports body ICC should have favored the countries that are really struggling and not those countries which have better money. To be honest I think India knows very well how to please the ICC. But it should not be anything like that. And we all know that ICC is also corrupted and they just want money. If they actually care about cricket itself I think they would have increased the number of teams that are playing cricket regularly by now. At least there have been 20 teams playing in the world cup. |
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I think Liverpool will have the opportunity to win the treble winner if they beat Madrid in the final, indeed Liverpool failed to get the English Premier League trophy, but you don't forget that Liverpool have collected two trophies this season that is Carabao Cup and the FA, so it's wrong if you say Liverpool couldn't win the treble winner, if yesterday Liverpool could get the English league of course maybe Klopp would give a quadruple to Liverpool fans, but unfortunately they have to admit the superiority of Manchester City in the league this season, while Madrid they only managed to win the La Liga trophy this season and the trophy champions league will be the second trophy they will get if they beat Liverpool later.
They are heading toward the trio but it is not easy because the opponent in Paris is Real Madrid. Real does not only have best record and history in Champions League but they also have a very impressive season so far. They are strong no matter they scored leading goals or had big disadvantage against opponents. 2 or 3 goals as disadvantage is not impossible for them break through. Liverpool will have to play so carefully even they can score goals and have advantage. Real Madrid know how to beat opponents within short period. If opponents are carelessly within 10 to 15 minutes, Real Madrid will beat them. Additionally, in football, nobody care that whether you have 70 or 80 very good minutes. The final result is important. I actually think that Liverpool is going to concentrate in the last 10- 15 minutes because they have seen what happened to the previous opponents of Real Madrid. all of them thought that they had the match in their grasp and but they failed to eventually win the match. Liverpool just needs to be a lot more professional compared to the previous opponents of Real Madrid and really concentrate till the last whistle of the referee. and if Liverpool actually wants to relax in the last 10 minutes I suggest they should at least have an advantage of three or four goals. |
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nico kovac is now the new coach in wolfsburg as user cygan has written here. what surprises me personally now is that the contract runs for 3 years. that is a bit daring in this bundesliga. i don't think nico kovac will stay there for three years. that would really be a miracle in this time and the coach really has to show successes to justify this great trust. but if nico doesn't succeed he still gets good money.or top severance pay from VW  Well, that's the power of being a coach I guess. If you do a good job you get paid and bigger teams start to notice you and even if you don't do a good job or rather I should say if you do a shitty job you get released and also you get to keep the money off your whole contract. I actually agree with you and I really don't think he will stay for 3 years as well. |
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Honestly, it was half Barcelona not playing great, half the league not being that important anymore. They finished second, and Barcelona-Madrid combo finished 1-2 plenty of times before, even though Barcelona had some problems at the start of the season, the end result is something expected from any year and wasn't a shock, they need to thank Xavi for this.
The only downside could be that just because he had a good comeback and got them finish second, they could wait a lot from him next year, and may even spend some money. In that situation they shouldn't really lose hope if they do badly for a while, it will get better in the long run.
This is necessary even I feel if Xavi is not there then maybe we will not see Barcelona in the Europa League or Champions League next season, considering that for the beginning of the season until the middle of the season they really are not like Barcelona and fortunately Xavi is here and made a breakthrough that resulted in quite rapid progress here. But towards the end I don't know why Xavi wasn't as intense as usual because if we look at the last few games before the end of the season their form wasn't very good. The way Barcelona started the season I don't think there was any way that they could have done well and at least I don't believe they could have done anything that they have in this season. Certainly, we have to give credit to the manager and coach of Barcelona. The new management certainly did wonders for this team. The sad thing is that Messi had to leave Barcelona and that cannot be undone right now or maybe not ever. |
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for sure he's in a bad shape right now considering it's not just Zlatan but so many fans and even meme creators who made this even bigger and a joke at the end of this season.
he went to a rival because he wanted to win the Scudetto but after a season he left instead the Scudetto came to Milan, it's like a reversal which is quite unbelievable lol.
For Zlatan maybe this will be the end for him as previously promised because regardless of his current age it is enough to retire there even he can retire with pride because he can win the title in his last season
Yes it would have been better for Zlatan, ending his career by giving the team a title. After all, there is still Giroud in Milan who is also not young so Milan must indeed prepare his squad with players who are fitter and more prime, considering the competition for next season will certainly be tougher because defending the title is more difficult. Speaking of Calhanoglu, I think it's a big risk he has to take when he is willing to move to a rival team because if it happened like this it might make him ashamed and regretful and of course it would be very painful. There are a lot of important decisions that need to be made and a lot of things are not going to be the same in the next season I believe. Zlatan Ibrahimovic might not retire because I believe he can still perform well even though he is a lot older for this generation of fast-paced football. There are certain changes going to be happening in the Milan squad and they will have to do some thinking about it. I say that Zlatan Ibrahimovich is not going to retire because if I know him correctly I don't think he will retire. But, if he does think with a straight head I think he will also admit that it's better for him to retire when he is on the top. |
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Inter Milan reported linked to Liverpool player Takumi Minamino and they said Minamino could be the best option and will be able to improve the quality of their attack line for next season and Inter are willing to pay 17 millions pounds for this transfer and some people believe Minamino could be considering this offer because since arrived to Liverpool he can only be a reserve player for other players such as Mane or Salah and move to other teams could be good option because he can get more opportunities to play regularly
Takumi Minamino is still unable to compete with other Liverpool strikers so he is not a regular player and only played in the Carabao Cup so his position will be very difficult to redeem to become a quality at Liverpool and Klopp only relies on the domestic league for Takumi Minamino. If Inter are interested of course there can be a good offer for Takumi Minamino he can play as a main starter but will it affect the quality there if this happens then Takumi Minamino will be better there than at Anfield. I think he is not at the level to perform for Liverpool regularly and so I think it might be in the best interest of the player to make a move. I think in Inter he will have a decent amount of playtime but I also think that if he have patience and eventually performs well for Liverpool he will become a better player than he will ever be able to become with Inter. But right now this certainly looks better for the player to move. |
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The final game in Serie A of the season is just a day away now but the issue of being champions this season remains unclear as rivals Inter and Milan are still fighting over this. Technically this is something that is quite exciting to see but on the other hand it will be a disappointment for one of the competing teams because it is certain that in this case only one team will win.
I can't wait for something like this
Many forum members here say Sassuolo is an easy opponent for Milan, they believe that Milan will win easily. Same as what you think, I'm also not sure who will win this time. Both teams have the same potential. Milan benefited from playing after Inter Milan. At least, Milan can postpone Inter's party if they win. Of course, Pioli and Milan will understand what they have to do if the neighbors win. If Inter draw or lose, the result of Milan vs. Sassuolo match will not change the standings, mean Milan get the title. I don't think that Inter is going to lose this match. but I also don't think Milan is going to lose either. both of the teams know very well what is at stake here and I believe both teams are going to try their level best to win this matches. Inter is going to try to win this match and hope for the best. Both teams have been playing well, Milan has certainly improved their gameplay in recent times and now it seems like they can be dependable. |
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We don't know any longer what the truth is because of very misleading stories. According to recent reports, Kylian Mbappe and PSG are nearing an agreement on a new contract. I think his signing with PSG again will be due to his enjoyment of Messi. He enjoys collaborating with him. Meanwhile, it's only a matter of time before Laporta pulls off the greatest football hijack in history. With Mbappe and Haaland, Real Madrid wants to build a super team!
I really don't want to get into any discussion about this because this discussion has been going on for too long for my liking and if I don't hear any official statement, I am not going to say anything. at this moment everything seems to be very misleading which I don't like at all. I don't think mbappe Is going to stay at PSG if he actually cares about his career and his legacy. the rest is obviously depending on what he wants to do. I am going to wait for the official statement. |
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Home ground is an advantage but it doesn't mean that Bangladesh can beat every team playing in their home ground. The last test match that they played in Bangladesh was with Pakistan and Bangladesh was whitewashed before that it was with west indies the result was same. On papers Bangladesh is a weak test playing team if you compare them to Srilanka but the situation in Srilanka is ver different now. Players have other things in their mind rather concentrating on cricket. I am not sure how much help can this provide to the failed economy of their country.
We all know that Bangladesh is very weak in Test format. But at home, Bangladesh often has a devastating performance, and to everyone's surprise, they win against the renowned teams. We have seen such records in the past. However, these records are for the ODI format. In the Test format, Bangladesh has rarely won against any big team. However, the Bangladesh team was able to defeat the Sri Lankan team. The current Sri Lankan team is not experienced enough. And if Bangladesh makes a bowling-friendly pitch, Sri Lankan batsmen will not be able to play well. I am going to disagree because Bangladesh does have some wins against big teams in the test format but unfortunately, some of them are not series twins. those are single-match wins here and there and that's why I think people don't remember those. Bangladesh is a very good team in home condition. I think the type of performance that Bangladesh have shown in the first test and also considering the situation that Sri Lanka is in right now, I believe Bangladesh has a good chance of winning in the second test. |
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The qualification mode asks for a winner in the match, so if it's a tie after 90min we will see extra time and maybe penalties.
Then the winner will play Wales a couple of days after (in Wales) for one of the last remaining spots in the World Cup.
I think all 3 teams (Scotland, Ukraine, Wales) are almost on the same level, so we will see two very interesting games.
Whichever teams qualifies, they will be in a group with England, USA and Iran and will have a good chance for qualifying to the final round there as USA and Iran are definitely beatable for any of those candidates.
I personally think that Ukraine will win, because they’ll be keen to make a statement for all the people back at home who’re in the middle of the war and what better way to do that then by winning this match, and further I believe that they’ll be able to beat Wales and qualify for the World Cup too. However it’s quiet possible that they maybe emotionally distracted and may not perform to their usual standards, but I’ll yet put my faith in them and I hope that they beat Scotland and Wales. I don't think Ukraine is going to win. it is one thing to have emotional support for a team and absolutely another thing to look at it practically. the country is going through a war right now and it is obviously not their first priority to win in the FIFA World Cup. I always think that they will surely try to make a statement for the whole world to see but that is going to be really hard to do. |
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Whatever the result of the match that gets by sevilla in the match against bilbao later, I think it will no longer affect their position in the La Liga standings, so far sevilla have accumulated 67 points and are only 3 points distance Betis who are below them, even though sevilla later losing against bilbao and Betis can win big against Madrid later, so that it makes both points equal to 67 but still sevilla will still qualify for the champions league next season because this season sevilla won head to head from Betis.
Sevilla need not worry they might still have a chance to keep pushing Atletico Madrid by taking 2 goals. Although it won't last long. The opportunity to go to the Champions League next season is also not very profitable for Sevilla. The remaining matches that are only able to survive in the top 5 are already much better for Sevilla. Well, I actually think that Sevilla is still not clear about the danger. they can still fall down in the fifth position in the leg because Real Betis is right behind them with only three points difference. and we have to remember that there is absolutely no goal difference between them and Sevilla. so if Sevilla loses in the last match and Real Betis ends up winning, Real Betis will be the team that plays in the Champions League. |
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Di Maria is very close to joining Juventus, it can be a deal next week.
For Pogba a new meeting will be probably next week, Allegri already called him and Pogba is tempted to come back since they promised him to be the new start of the team.
The easiest transfer to guess , pogba comeback to juventus. I would just surprised if he move to another club like psg or manchester city , pretty obvious he want to be recognized as huge as when he play at juventus , the treatment there make him feel comfortable and easily unlock his full potential to its limit! I would like Di Maria to step out of psg and Juventus will be a good option for him to continue his career. He is a good player and he has been a big player but almost all his career he has played under the influence of bigger players. I learnt that Dybala wants to quit Juventus, I think it will give Maria much playing time. There is no how Maria will be above average or be exceptional in a match when Neymar, Mbappe and Messi are still in the same club. I think if pogba Is going to his former club Juventus, Di María should also look to go to Juventus because with pogba Juventus is going to be a better team already. And Di María is not getting the expected playtime that he wants in PSG. so it makes more sense for him to move out from PSG and play for a team where he is going to be an important player in the squad and also a team that has the potential to perform well. |
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