Lady luck might already be on your side because Jannik Sinner had to get a walkover over Andy Murray, a fixture that I'm sure would have stressed Sinner even if he were to make it through to the QFs, but I don't think I can complain much.

I'll only need to rely solely on Gael Monfils, whom of course have been doing absolutely great in this tournament, but Jannik Sinner will be obviously well rested and should be in a better shape than Monfils who had Vukic to contend with yesterday, although Monfils won in straight sets, 6-4 6-4, but an extra day of rest would surely be of advantage, I guess.

Actually it's kind of making me think of staying clear of all Tottenham players for now, I don't know how this news would affect the teams spirit, so I'll just a wait for a couple of game weeks, Richarlison would be a very great addition, if he embraces the No. 9 position, and Maddison would have a bigger relevance in their games too, Veliz Alejo is just the only player I can't figure out yet, I really don't think Tottenham paid that much to have him has a back up plan, and I'm sure it was more about Harry Kane's potential departure that led to him being signed, but we'll see.


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I think I have finally set up my team, but despite several drafts in the last few days, it still pretty much took me about 6-8 hours to finalize and make my final decision, the only real giveaway is that I don't think I prioritize defense this time yet, but I made sure there is quite a bit of flexibility should I want to explore defense or better midfield alternatives.

Sigh! This was quite some headache to get through and over with!

Being a Chelsea and an high transfer fee, men! All that I can think of is Romelu Lukaku or is it another Wesley Fofana in the making ? high transfer fee and Chelsea are two that almost doesn't end well  

Go enjoy your new campaign man, best of luck, I'm sure you're not going to underperform!

I'm glad that Ruud had to be eliminated too, almost all the seeded players are gone in the blink of an eye, Davidovich Fokina literally deserved his victory against Ruud, he kept Casper Ruud on his toes for the entire 3 sets, and he also had the chances to have break a couple of Ruud's service in the first set, but having to do it in tie breaks in the 1st and 3rd sets showed how much effort was required of him to have won the match.

All I need now is for Jannik Sinner to also get eliminated before the semi final, so as to maintain the damage control for this round, because Sinner making the semi-final might be all that's needed for me to lose this round again 

Should be a tough game for France indeed, going against the cohost in a knockout out phase, however Australia I don't see to be much of a huge threat in my opinion, and France would win this game anyways, I reckon.

France seemed to have found their team chemistry at the best time just before the end of the group stage, and they tend to be scoring goals at will now, and the same thing can be said of the Australian team, a team you'd expect to be of a tougher opponent that the French team last two opponent being Panama and Morocco, while Australia have face tougher, but France surely would be their toughest yet.

The bookies still have it on quite a close odds for both sides, ~3.50 for Australian and ~2.20 for France to win the game in regular time, I'd likely have my money on France, as the odds seem rather of decent value imo.

Aren't you both actually talking about two completely different players ?

Brighton's Moises Caicedo, and Southampton's Romeo Lavia, or is there something I'm not getting right here?




I don't know about Gvardiol, he's surely meant to get regular minutes from Guardiola, but being a just concluded deal of few days ago he might not get his debut tomorrow.

Martinelli is definitely a starter for that left flank and he's locked in there for Arsenal IMHO, except he picked up knock from the shield or he's out injured, Trossard and Harvertz will be the ones sharing minutes more often for the center forward role in absence of Gabriel Jesus or whenever Arteta decide to play Declan Rice further up in Midfield and have Partey as CDM. If I'm tripling up on Arsenal, you best believe I'm going with Gabriel, Saka and Martinelli for sure.

I guess there is some information else that you must be seeing that we all aren't seeing  , you seem super confident on Chelsea doing well this season, I think finishing top four should be an easy reach for Chelsea, because they'll have more than enough time on their hands to worry about just the league rather than other any other significant competitions.

Stefanos Tstupidpass performed way better than Rublev  and who could have even saw that one coming too...

Now I have just 2/4 left, and the remaining ones are mutual answer with my opponent, I need Jannik Sinner to commit another sin as usual, and then Ruud also not making it to the semis, if not, I'm a toast already for this round  , Now with the number of top seeds that have been eliminated already, it sure thus increase their chances of going further doesn't it?

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And Zverev was latest seeded player victim in the Canada ATP1000 Masters, losing 6-1, 6-2 and the match barely lasted for just an hour, I think this is probably  the most awkward and unpredictable ATP tournament I've seen in a while, more than 3/4 of the 16 seeded players have been eliminated already, I just don't know what else to make of this continuous dramas.

Yeah, you get to feel like Johan Cruyff for the few first game through to third one, but then after, the free transfers limitation and trying to change from a type of formation have you feeling like Frank Lampard coaching Chelsea or David Moyes at Manchester United.


I'm still quite far from reaching a conclusive idea about how I want to set up my team, just a question for everyone am I the only one who feels like my team almost extremely perfect as I would have wanted but there always this either 0.5m or 1m budget restriction that gets me to almost overhaul a whole of lot things from my draft, or make an extra sacrifice to get a low budget and literally unneeded player even for the bench, so I can fit in just an alternative player in the end?

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I don't think I'll be seeing the match anyways, I'm locked in on Tennis for the whole tonight, there are some pretty great fixtures, that I wouldn't want to miss for anything tonight, more so, me and my opponent have the same answers, so there is no extra incentive to watch it for me, do you mind streaming the game ? I could help you with a couple of streaming links that's should surely have the game on coverage.

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I'm currently tunned in on Medvedev vs Arnaldi live, after finishing with the rollercoaster entertaining match between Fritz and Humbert.

To make things even get uglier for me, Andrey Rublev ousted by McDonalds in straight sets, we are even barely midway into the tournament, ffs. Smh, I didn't want to so cliché going for the top 4 seeds, at least I know two of the top seeds are very inconsistent imo and I decided to take matters into my own by looking for good players with easy route to the 3rd round at the very least, and that has decided not to pan out well for me either 

It is going to be a case by case scenario, and they wouldn't be punish just for every fan that decides to constitute a nuisance because there is obviously no way each and every fan can be kept in check, but there are certain fans who have exhibited such a violent history previously and are often being sanctioned by the clubs, but the club should be held responsible too, if such fans are allowed to go see matches that are often bound to result into hostile situations over extreme fanatism in some sensitive locations or countries.



Thanks for shedding more light into this, because I'm sure when club started getting extreme consequences from these acts, they'll pay more attention into the type of fans they allow into certain locations and environments, it's pretty sad when these unwarranted antics end up costing damage of infrastructures and unfortunately loss of lives.

I'm yet to get the link as well.

I'm sure it's being sent out already, but hilariousandco takes a while before he get to send the link to users who pays a bit further after he's sent it out, I guess he just wait to send them out just at once.

It was @jeremypwr who helped with the link to get in last season, I'm sure users that are already in can help us with the via pm, and that shouldn't be problem, If not we just unfortunately might have to wait, anyways just input your predictions, they'll get carried over once you join the pool.

I might have fumbled the bag for this round yet again, after a low scoring game from PSV against Feyenoord, I expected some 2 Nil-ish win from them today, and some 1-2 goals score line from Braga, hence my reason choosing the 3-4 goals, and also I submitted my picks already before I learnt of the Nkunku long term injury, I had Chelsea to win against Liverpool too, and he sure was one of my reasons for backing the blues on this one, I might just opted for a draw, but meh... It is what it is!



I think clubs should start getting sanctioned too for their fans behaviour, I mean as huge supporter travelling overseas to watch team play such an important game, but in the chose violence, once Uefa can verify that these are indeed registered club fans, their clubs really should get sanctioned, perhaps by an instant disqualification from the tournament, along side legal punishment for such individual, I know it might seem quite too much a consequence for clubs that obviously aren't in support of these antics but it will serve as wake up clubs too to perform extra due diligence on their supporters.

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Yes, crazy final minutes damn for real, I didn't feel much undone though, because I didn't watch the game, that might have me livid asf!

As for Trofo, I presume he's just gotten used to having me as a winner 

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The Gabriel Jesus and Nkunku enthusiast that such a bummer right, especially given their very fair price for what they'd have had to offer... Damn, I guess it's back to Watson O' clock because Nicholas Jackson would really need some on the same rhythm with him like Nkunku in order to be fully explosive, I don't think I was going to buy into all the pre-season hype by the way.