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[Harkorede]

2-2 between Bulgaria and hungary which is a little surprising. Hungary scored an early goal and it looked like this would be an easy game for them. But Bulgaria managed to equalize but then Bulgaria got a red card and then Hungary should have no problem and win this match, but then they also get a red card and Bulgaria manages to score 2-1 before Hungary manages 2-2 in overtime. weird match 😂 and of course no points for me or mv1986😂

Do we have anyone that actually went for Bulgaria not to lose ? after that early goal from Hungary I just left the livesores app and felt that was a wrap already, little did I know that they were still much drama to unfold down the line. That result still, is of no relevance to me as opponent and myself have an aligned opinion on that match too. However, I'm keen on the Jannik Sinner vs Rune tennis game, it's starting in a few minutes, I'd be needing Jannik Sinner to win this game to have Rune eliminated, that would give me my very first advantage of my fixture.

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[mv1986]

2-2 between Bulgaria and hungary which is a little surprising. Hungary scored an early goal and it looked like this would be an easy game for them. But Bulgaria managed to equalize but then Bulgaria got a red card and then Hungary should have no problem and win this match, but then they also get a red card and Bulgaria manages to score 2-1 before Hungary manages 2-2 in overtime. weird match 😂 and of course no points for me or mv1986😂

Do we have anyone that actually went for Bulgaria not to lose ? after that early goal from Hungary I just left the livesores app and felt that was a wrap already, little did I know that they were still much drama to unfold down the line. That result still, is of no relevance to me as opponent and myself have an aligned opinion on that match too. However, I'm keen on the Jannik Sinner vs Rune tennis game, it's starting in a few minutes, I'd be needing Jannik Sinner to win this game to have Rune eliminated, that would give me my very first advantage of my fixture.

There was one guy in division 1 who against made his pick against all odds! I know that jayce has taken riskier picks than this as it wasn't really impossible for Bulgaria to tie the game, but still he is the only one who got it right. It is a valuable point also in regards to potential free bets. Scoring when nobody else does is extra nice! I thought that Israel would really win with the -1.5 handicap. I am really curious about the upcoming tennis match for Alcaraz. That's not an easy one because he has shown a couple of times now that he is still prone games fraught with (unforced) errors.

[CLS63]

Despite being 1 question ahead of my opponent I'm not feeling myself safe for the remaining 2 questions at all. Especially about the Belgium question I think that I made a wrong decision. I hope that I can win 3 points after the Argentina-Uruguay match tonight. I was going to be much more comfortable in this round if I didn't lose to buwaytress.

[Harkorede]

Jannik Sinner with a blistering first set of tennis, He's got it by a 6-2 score, going by the first set, this should be an easy wrap for the second set as well, and that would see Rune eliminated from the tournament, I can only hope Sinner doesn't get complacent just yet, the job is never over until it is over!

[buwaytress]

Did not expect Bulgaria to comeback win draw this tie... not after playing most of the match a man down! I wasn't even surprised about Azerbaijan winning (incidentally making it 3-0 AFTER surviving red carded too) and Georgia almost beating Scotland -- I've been singing the praises of these Central Asia and Caucasus teams for a while, at the same time believing that Scandinavian football is regressing.

Meaningless to my round, though I'd have liked to build my goals scored count. You know what I learnt today? Dejan Kulusevski is... Swedish!

Oh, and India-Australia cricket final. Surprise...

I hope that I can win 3 points after the Argentina-Uruguay match tonight. I was going to be much more comfortable in this round if I didn't lose to buwaytress.

Shhh, we already got away with it, don't remind people.

[arallmuus]

Oh, and India-Australia cricket final. Surprise...

Geez, thats mean I lose a point on this

Jannik Sinner with a blistering first set of tennis, He's got it by a 6-2 score, going by the first set, this should be an easy wrap for the second set as well, and that would see Rune eliminated from the tournament, I can only hope Sinner doesn't get complacent just yet, the job is never over until it is over!

Rune managed to hold the 2nd set although that was actually pretty close. I really need Rune to win this round against Sinner otherwise Im going to lose another point because of this. 3rd set and Rune is catching up with Sinner. Anyway I just realized all games in Group A ended up with the 3rd set except for that one game from Sinner against Tsitsipas. I should have bet over 2.5 sets on all those games

[Igebotz]

Did not expect Bulgaria to comeback win draw this tie... not after playing most of the match a man down! I wasn't even surprised about Azerbaijan winning (incidentally making it 3-0 AFTER surviving red carded too) and Georgia almost beating Scotland -- I've been singing the praises of these Central Asia and Caucasus teams for a while, at the same time believing that Scandinavian football is regressing.

Meaningless to my round, though I'd have liked to build my goals scored count. You know what I learnt today? Dejan Kulusevski is... Swedish!

Oh, and India-Australia cricket final. Surprise...

Surprisingly, I had Sweden to score over 0.5 since I didn't trust them enough to win, so I added the nasty 1.18 odd to my ticket and ruined the entire danm ticket. How the heck are Sweden two goals down at 60 minutes against Azerbaijan with a red card in the 50th minute and yet going on to score the third when I was expecting Sweden would at least get a consolation goal? At this rate, I can't put my trust in this squad. Never.

Got the cricket question right - I will put some mBTC on India to win Australia.

[Harkorede]

You know what I learnt today? Dejan Kulusevski is... Swedish!

I literally thought I was alone on this new knowledge, I had to doublecheck if it was the same Dejan Kulusevski, I don't know I didn't know for all this while, was this is first international cap ?

Rune managed to hold the 2nd set although that was actually pretty close. I really need Rune to win this round against Sinner otherwise Im going to lose another point because of this. 3rd set and Rune is catching up with Sinner. Anyway I just realized all games in Group A ended up with the 3rd set except for that one game from Sinner against Tsitsipas. I should have bet over 2.5 sets on all those games

It's 4 games apiece now in the 3rd set and pretty much anybody's game now more for Rune than it's for Sinner, because Sinner seem to be have some lower back issue during that second break and Holger Rune could take this advantage if he extends the rally much more to different part angle of the court with very low shots.

[slackovic]

So Sinner won against Rune and that should be enough for him to qualify for the seminar final. That's a point for me due to Buwaytress making a mistake while submitting his answers. But the problem is that Uruguay managed to win 2-0 against Argentina which us something I didn't expect. After all, Argentina is the world champion so I wonder what happened there...

[casperBGD]

So Sinner won against Rune and that should be enough for him to qualify for the seminar final. That's a point for me due to Buwaytress making a mistake while submitting his answers. But the problem is that Uruguay managed to win 2-0 against Argentina which us something I didn't expect. After all, Argentina is the world champion so I wonder what happened there...

Argentina losing against Uruguay, Brasil lost against Colombia, not an easy round to match
TBH, did thought a bit about Uruguay not to lose, but chosed other underdog (South Africa), and managed to lose both questions

still one point down, with Lukaku on the line against Azerbeijan, best I can hope now is to get a draw
let's see what will happen with Belgium

[slackovic]

Argentina losing against Uruguay, Brasil lost against Colombia, not an easy round to match
TBH, did thought a bit about Uruguay not to lose, but chosed other underdog (South Africa), and managed to lose both questions

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I also thought about going with Uruguay not to lose, but they were playing away against the team that is the champion od the world! Who would have thought that they will win 2-0? If Uruguay was gonna play at home, I would probably go with them. Oh well... One point down with only two more different answers so it will be tough right to the end.

[mv1986]

@slissy now it is official that there will be no draw for us. Two remaining different answers and I still have the 1-0 lead. This is again a round that pays off to those who have been a little bit more brave.

Not a single participant of any division went against the odds in both events Argentina - Uruguay and Colombia - Brazil. Who would have thought that despite Colombia turning around that game there will be no more than 4.5 cards? And Argentina losing is also a surprise.

2nd division Saint-loup and 3rd division goodpunt are teaching 1st division a lesson so far!

[Woodie]

Lost this round way too early, guess time to sack the manager to try to get better results before league concludes.

Congratulations @goodpunt, never thought Bulgaria and Uraguay would make this round an easy win for you..honestly feel scammed by that  Argentina performance

Not a single participant of any division went against the odds in both events Argentina - Uruguay and Colombia - Brazil. Who would have thought that despite Colombia turning around that game there will be no more than 4.5 cards? And Argentina losing is also a surprise.

Usually, south American ball games draw way too many fouls to make it easy for the card market to see a good number of them shown, and with Brazil not having any fight left in them, it was inevitable cards shown would be low.

[cryptofrka]

Damn, Argentina losing at home and only 1 card in the last 20 minutes of the Colombia - Brazil game.
Trailing again, and with a mistake in tennis answer (which I lost as well), I need a miracle to win this round.

Still, we've risen against the odds before. I desperately need a win for Poland tonight - I think the odds are in my favor for the remaining 2 different questions.

[slaman29]

For the first time this new season I am ahead of my opponent and I see the tennis question, his answer Rune is out, so I am 3-0 with 2 different answers left. Good game vd309, I didn't expect it but I think this round was equally split between favorites (tennis and cricket) and upsets (football Euro and WC qualifier).

For football, I found it very difficult to betray Messi but I knew the true Argentina would not show in the team but through Bielsa, and it proved correct.

South Africa played miserable in their round against Australia, and is close to lose semi-final
Australia needs to go over 212, which should not be a problem for them, as live odds suggest, with @1.16 on Australia to win

It ended as expected but it was way way closer than the odds suggested to be honest, Aussie won this with only 16 balls left, in general you get 215 runs at this stage, it's a really bad score. Then again they were chasing such an easy target they probably played it safe.

[mv1986]

The setup for the last two questions that will decide the match between me and Slissy is actually quite awesome for a hedge, as I just noticed.

There are four games, which is the two qualifiers for Wales and Croatia and I picked "no" for both winning their matches, and I said Alcaraz over Zverev. Since the latter only works out for Slissy when both Medvedev and Zverev win their games, I am in a comfortable position to hedge at very high odds:



I am not really going big here, but turning 12 bucks into 100 bucks is still cool. Total odds are around 8.5. @Slissy, you can only win if my bet slip hits 4/4. Otherwise I am taking home the 3 points. It's interesting how valuable it can be to take the lead after the first three or four questions by just 1 point as it opens up these hedging opportunities at pretty low cost.

[slackovic]

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Still, we've risen against the odds before. I desperately need a win for Poland tonight - I think the odds are in my favor for the remaining 2 different questions.

Bunch of us went with a draw tonight for the Poland - Czech game, myself included. And since buwaytress went with Czech, I hope we see a draw. I really need this point because if Czech wins, I can hope for a draw at best.

[Igebotz]

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Still, we've risen against the odds before. I desperately need a win for Poland tonight - I think the odds are in my favor for the remaining 2 different questions.

Bunch of us went with a draw tonight for the Poland - Czech game, myself included. And since buwaytress went with Czech, I hope we see a draw. I really need this point because if Czech wins, I can hope for a draw at best.

There hasn't been a draw between these two in 9 H2H since 1997, therefore I doubt there will be one tonight. Czech has won four of their previous five games and is in terrific form, so I expect them to win tonight and will bet some mBTC on them as well. This game determines my chances of winning this round. I know Wales and Croatia would win their games respectively

[slackovic]

There hasn't been a draw between these two in 9 H2H since 1997, therefore I doubt there will be one tonight. Czech has won four of their previous five games and is in terrific form, so I expect them to win tonight and will bet some mBTC on them as well. This game determines my chances of winning this round. I know Wales and Croatia would win their games respectively

That doesn't mean anything. I know that statistically it's not probable but neither was for Argentina to lose 2-0 at home against Uruguay. Now that I checked the group table, I think that Poland has more chance to win than Czech. They are playing at home and it's their last ticket to secure the 2nd place since they played one game more than Czech. I guess we will se how it goes but I hope Czech won't win so that I can keep dreaming about a victory in this round

[buwaytress]

You know what I learnt today? Dejan Kulusevski is... Swedish!

I literally thought I was alone on this new knowledge, I had to doublecheck if it was the same Dejan Kulusevski, I don't know I didn't know for all this while, was this is first international cap ?

Just checked and it's 18 caps... stretching back to last EURO..! So I'm really surprised I didn't know it too, I really rate him as a Spurs player, just always assumed he was Balkan from his name, and also I do follow results, just never really paid attention to player names until his popped out last night.

So Sinner won against Rune and that should be enough for him to qualify for the seminar final. That's a point for me due to Buwaytress making a mistake while submitting his answers. But the problem is that Uruguay managed to win 2-0 against Argentina which us something I didn't expect. After all, Argentina is the world champion so I wonder what happened there...

Yeah, but to be fair, even if I entered correctly, you'd still win (my Rune vs your Sinner), so deserved point for you =) Now please Lewandowski, take it easy tonight and let me win =D

To answer your question, what happened to Argentina was Darwin Nunez. It's not just the goals he's getting in internationals but the way he plays there. Imagine Klopp pressing + Bielsa aggression (Slaman you were right about him, say what you like that he runs teams in league but he is perfect for international). Nunez literally terrorises defenders, and while Argentina are no strangers to that, this is a new level of Uruguay offence that is a huge departure from Suarez+Cavani style streetsmart football. It's the most direct lineup I've seen in recent times from S America.