четвъртък, 26 февруари 2015 г.

Borussia Moenchengladbach - Sevilla (Europa League)

The German Borussia M`gladbach welcomes the Spanish Sevilla in a meeting rematch of 1/16 finals of Europa League. Guests took minimal advance a week ago after the victory in Spain with 1:0. This success came after a hit by Vicente Iborra. This result by 11livematches makes the rematch very interesting, as both teams had their chances to qualify. At bet365.com we can choose to bet for ranking of one of the two teams - the hosts` coefficient is 3.50 and for the guests to move in the race is 1.28. Victory of Borussia M`gladbach is accepted at 2.20, with a draw at 3.40 and the success of Sevilla is estimated at 3.60.

The boys of Lucien Favre never stop to surprise with their performance this season. The team is in third place in the German Bundesliga with a total of 37 points. In the last round of the championship came to the draw of 1:1 against Hamburger SV after a goal in the last minute of Branimir Hrgota. Borussia M`gladbach is one of the most stable hosts in German and this season in Europe is unbeaten in front of his fans. In the previous 17 home games, the team scored at least one goal and even against the champions Bayern Munich. Borussia needs goals to move forward in the tournament and we can expect offensive play from the team.

Spaniards are not in the best form. The team is in fifth place in La Liga with 45 points collected, struggling with Valencia for a place in the Top 4. Over the weekend, lost to Real Sociedad with 4:3 in a very interesting game full of many twists. The concern of the coach Unai Emery is the weak performance of the team in their visits. Sevilla lost their last five matches in all competitions as guest. Unfortunately, on Thursday night against them stands a very strong host.

We are about to watch a great match with many unknowns. The current winner of the trophy Sevilla is undoubtedly the favorite in this match, but we must not forget the strong form of Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Prediction Borussia Moenchengladbach - Sevilla: 1
Security: 6/10
Odds: 2.20 at bet365

вторник, 24 февруари 2015 г.

Gilles Simon with a second success in Marseille

The fifth placed in the main draw of the tennis tournament in Marseille ("ATP 250") Gilles Simon has won the title. Entirely in a French finale he beat Gael Monfils No7 with 6: 4, 1: 6, 7: 6 (4) after 2 and half hours game.

The success is the 12-th in the career of the 30 years old Simon and second in the southern port city after he has become a champion in 2007.

After an exchange of breaks, the tennis player from Nice achieved a second break at the end to win the first set. In the second Monfils picked the percent of scored first serve to 70. This helped to prevent the Parisian a break point and then he made three for the convincing 6: 1.
In the final part led to a tiebreak, which had to determine the winner. The exchange of the sections came at 4: 2 points for Simon. At 6: 4 he came to two match-points and realized the first of his first serve.

So Gilles has record a fifth victory against Monfils in their sixth meeting. The title brought for Simon 250 points for the world rankings, which would allow him to climb one place and from tomorrow to be No16, as well a check for EUR 102,900.

събота, 21 февруари 2015 г.

Espanyol - Sevilla (Copa del Rey)

In the last meeting of this week, Espanyol takes Sevilla for the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. The odds for the game offered by the leading bookmaker bet365 are as follows: 2.88 for a home win, with a draw at 3.30 and 2.50 for the victory of the guests. The hosts won two consecutive games before this round, as in the last round of the tournament were able to remove the team of Valencia. Guests of Sevilla are in excellent shape and in several months in a row are unbeaten.

Espanyol are located in the middle of the table in Primera Division. The team is far from the places entitling participation in tournaments, but also far from the danger zone. The team`s ambitions are associated with staying in the elite, but for the King`s Cup hardly hope for something, because there are quite serious teams in the race. Anyway the victory over Valencia should not be overlooked, especially in this first game with Sevilla, the coach Gonzalez will try to take advantage. We were impressed by the choice of Gonzales for the starting team over the weekend, when the attacker Caicedo was on the bench, even after he managed to bring his team to victory over Valencia with two hits. This time, Gonzales will rely on his skill for this important meeting and generally there are no serious problems with the other players.

Guests are in very good shape and recorded victory after victory in all competitions. The team fights for the third place with Atletico Madrid in Primera Division and remains two points behind them. From the beginning of 2015, Sevilla played five matches, as they conceded only one goal. Their last rival in the Copa del Rey - Granada, was removed very easy with a total score 6-1. Sevilla continue with some difficulties connected with several problematic players, but their reserves are not so weak.

Espanyol traditionally played hard against Sevilla and it is likely that visitors will take the lead in this first game.

Prediction Espanyol - Sevilla: 2
Security: 7/10
Odds: 2.50 at bet365

сряда, 18 февруари 2015 г.

Roma - Empoli (Coppa Italia)

This Tuesday at the "Stadio Olimpico", Roma takes Empoli in a match of the 1/8 finals of the Cup of Italy. The ranking will be decided only in one game and this makes the hosts absolute favorites. At bet365.com we can find odds of 1.40 for the victory of the home side, with a draw at 4.33 and options for the guests is 8.50. "Roman wolves` already defeated Empoli in September 2014 with 1:0 as a guest in a meeting of the Italian Calcio.

At the press conference before this match, Roma coach Rudi Garcia said that his team would not allow underestimation of his rival and announced that the objective for them is to win their 10th Cup of Italy. Roma definitely disappointed with his performance over the weekend in the round of Serie A. The team made only a draw of 1:1 in his visit to Palermo. "Wolves" are unbeaten in the last five meetings, but only one of them ended with score over 2.5 goals. Factor over 2.5 goals in the site bet365.com doesn`t look bad - 1.80.

Empoli is presented very strong in the recent meetings. The team has lost once in the last ten games in all competitions and surprised many rivals. This happened in the last round of the Serie A against Inter at home (0:0). In the camp of Empoli did not think about the ranking in the next phase, but will not fail to punish every mistake of his opponent.

Last six direct meetings:
Empoli - Roma 0:1
Roma - Empoli 2:1
Empoli - Roma 2:2
Empoli - Roma 1:0
Roma - Empoli 1:0
Roma - Empoli 1:0

Prediction Empoli - Roma: over 2.5 goals
Security: 7/10
Odds: 1.80 at bet365

Liverpool - Chelsea (Capital One Cup)

In the first semi-final of the Cup of the League in England, Liverpool takes Chelsea at the "Anfield Road". The odds for the game offered by the leading bookmaker Bet365 are as follows: 3.60 for a home win, 3.50 for a draw and 2.15 for the victory of the guests. Judge of the meeting will be Martin Atkinson. Both teams reached this round of the tournament after winning in their visits to the quarterfinals. Liverpool defeated Bournemouth with 3:1, while Chelsea take care of Derby County with the same result.

Liverpool won his visit to Aston Villa at the weekend with goals of Fabio Borini and Rickie Lambert. The team of Brendan Rodgers continues the good run and now is unbeaten in eight consecutive games in all competitions. Liverpool is close to the Top 4 and the good form of the team will inspire confidence before the upcoming match against Chelsea. Duels with Londoners for the Cup League are very important and successful here can make a big step towards the dream of Steven Gerrard for trophy in his last season at "Anfield". Brendan Rodgers will bet in system of 3-4-3, which recently brought him success. Rahiym Stirling will be used as a central striker and on the bench will sit Fabio Borini. Steven Gerrard will replace Italian in Liverpool`s starting line-up. The "Red" captain missed the visit to Aston Villa due to injury, but now will be with his team at "Anfield" for this big clash. With various health problems are Daniel Sturridge, Joe Allen, John Flanagan and Brad Jones. Toure is with the national team of Cote d`Ivoire and will participate in the African Cup of Nations.

Chelsea recorded an impressive victory over the weekend in the visit to Swansea. On "Liberty Stadium" in Wales, Blues were ruthless and scored 5 goals for the final 5:0. After the offshoot of Manchester City, Jose Mourinho`s team is already with an advance of 5 points in the standings of the Premier League. Now Chelsea has an exciting first clash in the Cup League against Liverpool. In the composition of Chelsea there will be not so much changes and is likely to be same as the visit at "Liberty". Only Gary Cahill will take a break and on his place will be Kurt Zouma. Didier Drogba is sick and Cesar Azpilicueta is with trauma. They are likely to be in the group for the match, but will remain on the bench at "Anfield". At the door of Chelsea will be Petr Cech after his good performances.

The game is crucial for the hosts and they will throw all the forces to take good tournament result according live soccer before the second leg. Their opponents from London want to take as much trophies as they can this season and hardly will allow something different from draw.

Prediction Liverpool - Chelsea: -0.5 AH Chelsea
Security: 6/10
Odds: 1.85 at bet365

вторник, 17 февруари 2015 г.

NBA Latest Results

Results of the matches played on 14th January 2015 in the National Basketball Association in the USA and Canada:

Indiana - Minnesota - 101:110
Philadelphia - Atlanta - 87:105
Washington - San Antonio - 101:93
Phoenix - Cleveland - 107:100
Utah - Golden State - 105:116
Sacramento - Dallas - 104:108
Lakers - Miami -75:78

Leaders in divisions:
Eastern Conference
Atlantic: Toronto - 25 wins and 12 losses
Central: Chicago - 26/13
Southeast: Atlanta - 30/8

Western Conference
Northwest: Portland - 30/8
Southwest: Houston - 27/11
Pacific: Golden State - 30/5

Mo Williams made history in Minnesota

Mo Williams wrote the history of the Minnesota Timberwolves, realizing 52 points in the victory over Indiana, which improved current personal best of 51 points, belonged to Corey Brewer. Brewer scored 51 points in the victory over Houston 112:110 in April 2014. Kevin Love also scored 51 points for "wolves" - against Oklahoma City Thunder in March 2012. In the top 5 are also Kevin Garnett (47 points against Phoenix in 2005) and Wally Szczerbiak (44 points against Chicago in 2003).

Mo Williams scored 13/22 experiences for 2 points, 6/11 experiences for 3 points 8/9 experiences of the free-throw line and made 7. This is a record achievement of Williams in his previous career in the pros.

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Washington ended the 10 years drought against San Antonio

Washington broke nearly 10 years of negative series against San Antonio in the National Basketball Association after managing to beat the champions with 101:93 as host. The last won of the local residents against this opponent was on November 13, 2005. Most useful for success was John Wall. Guard made 25 points and added 8 assists. Frenchman Kevin Seraphin finished with 17 for the winners, while Paul Pierce and Bradley Beal added 13 more.

President Barack Obama accepted San Antonio in the White House a day ago for winning the title last summer. Their top scorer in the game with Washington was Tony Parker with 14 points marked. Patty Mills added 12 and the winner of five championship rings, Tim Duncan recorded "double-double" of 11 points and 12 rebounds. The victory allowed Washington to climb to the second place in the Eastern Conference, while the champions of San Antonio are in the seventh place in the West.

In Salt Lake City, the hosts of the Utah Jazz conceded expected loss of the team with the best performance in the League - Golden State. Guests from California won with 116:105, as the victory was forged in the third quarter, which they won with a convincing 44:27. By "double-double" for the winners finished Stephen Curry, who scored 27 points and added 11 assists.

With 15 points stayed Draymond Green and the entire team of Golden State scored 13 threes from 25 shots. For Utah, Derrick Favors had 22 points and 11 rebounds, Gordon Hayward added 17 points, while the French center Rudy Gobert added 16. Success is seventh for Golden State, which remains the strongest performance of all teams in the NBA - 30 wins and 5 losses. Utah is in 13th place in the Western Conference with 13 successes and 26 defeats.

Koln - Freiburg

Koln welcomes Freiburg at their "Rhein Energie Stadium" in a match of the 10th round of the German Bundesliga. Koln occupies the 10th place in the table and Freiburg are in the last position.

The hosts will try to inflict his third consecutive victory in the Bundesliga, after their success with Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen in the last two rounds. Freiburg is suitable rival for the boys of Peter Stoger and after such a victory they would jump at least two places in the ranking.

"Goats" are in good shape and this is demonstrated by their victory over Borussia Dortmund. Their ambitions are not much higher than the achievements to this point. Against Freiburg, Peter Stoger can`t rely on the injured Thomas Kallas and Patrick Helmes. However, in good shape is the team striker Zoller. For Freiburg, Paul Kramas, Philip and Stanko are injured, but in game will be back the young hope of the team - striker Admir Mehmedi.

Freiburg are very weak this season and still do not have a single win. They need to win at least something from this match, because the situation will get worse. The ratio for the visiting team of Freiburg reaches 4.00 in bet365 and on the other side, for Koln is 2.00. This will be very tough game for both teams, where they will fight for every point.

Soccer prediction according football live matches Koln - Freiburg: X (Draw)
Security: 7/10
Odds: 3.60 at bet365