After such a huge scare from Iga Swiatek, she's in the drivers seat of this match now, but I'll need to know the answers to the No. 10 question before having my hopes up, does anyone ?

Swiatek after going down a set and face 3 match points holds serves with a 4-2 lead, and this should it for her, but it's going a very huge come back for and also reiterate why she's the current world no. 1 in the WTA.

That's such a bad news for the fans especially due to irregularities and greed of a few board members, from having your hope of the CL and then it was about settling for Europa League, down to the Conference league which by their standard already is an insult to the club's heritage, just to discover that you'll not even be having any European appearance at all this season.

And according to the story on the link, they could still face further sanctions if they qualify for next season's Uefa Champions and Uefa have not deemed this punishment to satisfactory to its deciding team.

Onana situation will be completely different from that of Mendy at Chelsea, should his transfer to Man United be completed, because Mendy never flopped at Chelsea, it was due to a change in a coach and the coach preferred a goalkeeper that could play out from the back, and Mendy couldn't despite being the better goalkeeper in terms of saves, reflexes and goalkeeper awareness. Meanwhile Kepa could serve those coaches purpose, hence the reason for them keeping as the number 1 choice.
Onana on the other hand will be coming in as the number 1 choice for Ten Haag even if De Gea as stayed back, Onana will remain at the top of his form for years to come, and fits perfectly into Ten Haag's so I really don't foresee any potential problem here, except the Glazers decides to go astray again by sacking Ten Haag too soon, which seem quite unlikely as things currently stands.

I really need Swiatek to win this match and and I also need the question 10 to go my way in order settle for, that would be the second consecutive week from being in a quite advantageous position to either settling for a draw or hoping for it.

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All the ATP Wimbledon men singles fixtures for today have been very interesting so far, I hope Hurkacz and Djokovic will deliver the same kind of atmosphere and not just go one sided from the onset, like that of Dimitrov's upset versus Tiafoe that was brought over from yesterday over rain disturbance, and it was rather surprising for Tiafoe to not have had more than 3 games in 3-0 defeat, amassing just 7 games from all 3 sets against the 24th seeded player for tournament.

The hype before the draft and the expectation are the two things the could put him under a lot of pressure for the season, I however don't expect him to fold under the pressure, He only looks fragile because of his height but he's got some weight actually at 95kg, for his stature at age 19, he's still got a whole career of ahead him so, I'm sure he's going to be a good force for the Spurs roster, and once the regular season start, there will be a different approach to how the coach will adjust his duties so as to suit the team needs generally, Wembanyama just need to keep a cool head, not force plays and be a team player first.

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My dark horse for this season would be the Houston Rockets, I think they're looking like the real deal for a team filled with young stars, the addition of Dillion Brooks and Fred VanVleet will surely bring a new chemistry to the franchise, and the likes of Kevin Porter Jr, Jalen Green, Jabari Smith, Alperun and Eason had a good season despite Houston finishing as the 2nd worse team in the league.

You're the only person, or the at least first person that would think Tottenham should let Harry Kane and replace him with Lukaku, because I don't think there is any team right now in the world that would pick Lukaku over Harry Kane for any reason whatsoever, Harry Kane is a better striker than Lukaku and that's obvious for anyone to see, he has better finishing touches, more clinical and a better team player too.
Harry Kane for Lukaku would be an outright downgrade for Tottenham and I don't think that's even up for debate at all. Harry Kane is never the reason Tottenham have been trophy less, instead Tottenham is the reason why Harry Kane has been trophy less.

I occasionally bet on outright odds, but that would in case of not so long events like the NBA Playoffs Series, Finals, World Cup and Euro, Copa America or any other ~1 month competition, Not leagues winner which last 8 months or thereabout and I strongly agree with Igebotz here that "The Juice isn't worth the squeeze" except for those whale fanatics that are putting in hundred thousands or millions of dollars on such odds, but it's still not worth it imo opinion having to wait for as long as 8 months for a bet you could eventually lose.

75% - 100% profit on any investment in 8 months is a very profitable business, but gambling isn't a business so why wait 8 months for odds that goes by almost every hour in different sports on a daily basis.

That was some drama to end a 6 minutes added time, if you ask me two great saves from Trafford after the initial penalty being saved, but I'll rather blame the guy with the third attempt and roofed the wide over the net with no one putting any pressure on him. An equalizer would have meant extra time for sure and that could be a whole different game from there, given that Spain had as many attack and 9 corners to England's nil, The momentum could have shifted drastically in Spain's favour, had the game gone to extra time.



England already have more than enough qualities in their existing senior team squad, and these young stars could be of some huge importance just like the likes of Kolo Muani, Tchouameni and Marcus Thuram became for France, but then it's all about the biggest question does England have the right national team coach that would trust them enough ? and not stick with the likes of Henderson and co?

I totally agree with you that Team Liquid can defeat the Tundra Esports, but we shouldn't forget that it was Tundra that sent them down to lower bracket in the first place without losing a map.

I'm also hoping Team Liquid would that perfect my decision then and I dreamer bigger for who wins in the final.

Too bad for you, especially with Jarry winning that 2nd set, there was no feasible way for the Under 14.5 too play out, and Jarry is currently on the his way to probably draw the game at 2 set apiece, your rune bet is the only one left that could playout.


Quite identical to the Djokovic game, Alcaraz is also being kept on his toes, and it's not getting any easier for Alcaraz as the game progresses. Alcaraz would imo just end still being too much to handle for Jarry and would win the game eventually.

I really don't know man, but the odd isn't worth it in my candid opinion, because Leeds, Leicester, and Southampton are not in the league, and these are the teams you can expect to fight for a spot in the top 10 positions and without them, I believe increases their chances of finishing top 10, I might understand that they've made some sales that could affect their performance, but average point to finish top 10 in the EPL over these years is what you need to consider, how many wins would be needed of Brighton to reach that threshold.


I can still say Boehly is likely laying the wrong foundation for Poch to fail, Kante, Kovacic and Jorginho are players that should be very valuable to the I understand the need to cut their salary budget, a situation Boehly himself put them in by purchase almost every available in the market. Look at Real Madrid purchasing very expensive midfielders but still kept Modric and Kroos for a years more, so that the new young prospect also learn a lot from them, I still think Poch can make his own decision and not just have a replica tenure with that he had with PSG.

I'm not putting the Chelsea's failure during Lampard's tenure on the management, but the board needs to take some responsibility for hiring him the first place too, he was never qualified enough to coach Chelsea, at least not yet, what happened to David Moyes after his brilliant tenure at Everton he became an awful coach at Man Utd, and then his spell at was it Real Sociedad ? wasn't any different, but he's been not so terrible being back at West Ham, and you can say that the expectation are incomparable to what was expected of him at Real Sociedad or Man United.

Even with Guardiola dominance at the premier league after 7 seasons in the league, he struggled in the first season too, finishing at the 3rd position and he's never finished out 2nd position since then, and no one pictured such a dominance from him, but here we are, it was easier for Guardiola to stand such pressure because of his experience as manager at all level of the sport as a manager haven managed two of the best teams in Europe.


I guess we can both agree he doesn't have a title winning mentality, and I don't that's what Chelsea is looking but we'll see, I guess. There is not going to be too much pressure on him, but if he's playing for the just the league and just the league cups, it'll will an utter failure to not make the top 4, wouldn't you think ? and that might be the every pressure he's going to face would stem from.


Bring it on! I can't wait...

Where is the lie ?!

I've not been following the spreadsheet because I think I know the questions differences between me and my opponent, Cameron Norrie have been eliminated after just one round, so it's one leg in, one leg out for me on that question, however I have Hamilton to not finish on the podium as well, but the fact that the question isn't a H2H question is the reason why I'm not at a disadvantage.

Spain U19 also settled question number 1 to my advantage just after 16 minutes, just a few more edges left for to secure this round, and Swiatek and Rybakina would influence have the most about it, I just noticed that the question of female tennis has quite a trick which I didn't notice until now, I have been rooting for Sabalenka being the world no. 2 thinking she's the one paired with Swiatek in the question, I didn't even notice Rybakina is world no 3 which technically means she is suppose to face tougher opponent before the second week, I might have had a different answer If had noticed she was not the second seeded player WTA, I think I still fancy my chances with my decision, there should be just a game left for Swiatek after today's right ?

Resurrection of Hazard's career ? at what age ?, in what league ?, MLS that's composed of other players trying to get the best deal out their old age as their retirement with a minimal level of competition.

There is nothing left to be savaged off Hazard's career, to be honest he's way passed his prime and age caught up with him pretty fast, the Real Madrid transfer isn't what I would consider a mistake, but just a very unfortunate circumstance that made it seem like he didn't get to live up to the fullest of his potential, but the spell he had at Chelsea is still what some players would give very everything to have. So I wouldn't say Hazard's career was failure by any means, although at international level the infamous "Golden Era" performed very awfully and despite the stacked talents, there was nothing to show for it. Hazard is also just accepting the reality and knowing, it's time to make the most of the final few years that is left of career, bar the wages conditions, I'll say is decent enough a talent to thrive a mid-class European clubs, just like Angel Di Maria recently moving to Benfica, in the Portuguese league, Hazard would still be an great addition to such caliber of teams with some sort of presence at Uefa competitions, but his wages range isn't something I believe these clubs can afford.

Yes, football is the becoming the most worthless sport to bet on due the low odds that doesn't get justified by the chances of occurrence, even the over and under are becoming the same thing, you can't comfortably have Barcelona, Bayern, Man City, Liverpool, Real Madrid and PSG on Over 2.5 as a parlay for each of the 38 game weeks and expect to win between 30-50% of the time, while they are the team that are expected to be score a lot weekly and the chances that you'll get up to 10 Odds for this selection is also going to be quite low.

Yes, it was Cornet that suffered the injury not Rybakina and her round 3 would be against Boulter, so she should be able continue with her streak and get a win again, and that could also be her last game for the week which would mean just Iga Swiatek left to look out for.

Swiatek plays her 3 round tomorrow, although against a tough opponent Martic Petra world No. 30, Swiatek should get her own job done first then I can fully root for Rybakina to do hers too.

I hope it won't even be needed at all for this season, so there is no complicated issue needing you guys to make an uneasy decision.

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Is anyone else watching the World no 4 getting RUUD out of Wimbledon by the No. 143 ranked Broady ? 6-0 in the 5th set, there goes the biggest upset so far in this tournament, and for everyone who went for No in the 4th question have their answers already  



I know good you are with risk analysis and your stuffs too, but NBA should considered as the 2nd devils sport right after Tennis (as regarded by Nigeria Gambling Twitter), I'm sure your perspective will change in the regular season, because the summer league is a completely different ball game my bro! It's a completely different ball game entirely.

That's just as I expected, that is for England to be the favorites even if slightly, but with the odds for a potential draw being involved, this is more like 50/50 odd for the bookies, upon checking on the Flashscore average bookies odds, Spain is the slight favorite now @ 2.75, while England to win is valued at @ 2.77, with a 3.46 Odds for stalemate.

I might end up chasing the Odds for the draw, that seem like the most valuable of all 3 options so far imo, except I get extra insight or let's call gutsy inspiration to go with just either of them to win.



I think this have been discussed at some point on this thread before, but what I might not really like is it just been a 3-0, and 3 points too, I proposed 3 points, but just 1+ goal difference for the user getting the 3 points, because the points difference might end up being a very significant factor here by the end of the season, because the score line difference are often very marginal, for example there is just 3 goal difference between myself at 5th position and CLS63 at the top of the table, while he has 5 points advantage over me, so the 3+ SF might be quite a stretch in the threshold of having an unfair advantage, after getting 3 points which already isn't fair to other participants, while I understand that if the user that submitted their pick score is counted against a user that all their answers are void, it could be a lot more than the proposed +3 SF, I just think we should also be conscious about finding an even ground for other participants too, if such a change is to be implemented.

It could be that Premier league is a very tough environment to start your coaching career from, but I really don't rate him as bad as almost all Chelsea fans hate Lampard as a coach, and in my strongest opinion, I think Lampard is actually a good manager if you ask me, but the relationship between the Chelsea board and these managers is often toxic and affects the players mentality at large too, still, that's the status quo at Chelsea, getting new players for a coach that hasn't taken over yet, and the coach comes want's them out which often leads to several media rumour.

It's better much better now that Chelsea are on a selling spree mode, because the squad was just too large for no apparent relevance than just some white guy thinks that football is NBA or American Football that he can use money to get just every trending Tom, Dick and Harry to the club.

Pochettino too might obviously be an upgraded tf Lampard, I won't disgree with that, but Pochettino doesn't sit with me like a coach that will always have that hunger for excellence or create identity for his team, he did a fantastic job with Tottenham to be honest, but Tottenham goal for every new season won't not be same thing that will be required off Pochettinno by Chelsea, I'll be surprised if he remain has Chelsea's manager until the end of season, but let's us see how it will go!

Maybe England might really pull this off and lift the trophy, but It's not just as going to be an easy strectch and I don't know who even the bookies would have as favorite here, it's just that Spanish side does have really good individual talents that are a bell-ringing name in Europe as well, I understand why and how much we know about the English players because of the clubs they are playing for and the porpulaty that sorrounds them, but writing them off could be a very huge mistake, I'll surely have something on the line for the game, because it is indeed going to be an interesting game, clash of the young titans.