Competition: Euro 2016
Market: France to win against Portugal
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France welcome Portugal to the Stade de France in the final of the Euro 2016 tonight, and are favourites to come out on top in normal time.
Les Blues have been full of goals in the tournament this summer, coming off the back of an emphatic quarter-final victory and win over the World champions in the semis.
France made it this far after a straightforward group campaign that saw them finish top of Group A with seven points from a possible nine. Didier Deschamps’ men beat Romania and Albania before taking a draw to Switzerland, but their form spiked in the latter stages.
After beating Republic of Ireland in the last-16, a 5-2 thrashing of Iceland and a 2-0 win over Germany in…
Following the conclusion of the Euro 2024 group stages, Spain remain the only team to win all their games ahead of their last-16 tie against Georgia in Cologne.
La Roja ended their group campaign with a 1-0 victory over Albania that featured a much-changed side, with Ferran Torres early strike enough to secure the win.
However, they will face a Georgia side brimming with self-belief after their maiden triumph at a major international tournament over Portugal last time out.
Willy Sagnol s side have captured the hearts of football fans across the world, but know the enormity of the task ahead of them, with these teams having played against each other during qualifying.
Many expect Spain to maintain their winning start at Euro 2024, but as this tournament …
Ticket prices for the 2010 FIFA World Cup range from 80 dollars for group stages to 900 dollars for the final, the organising body said Wednesday.
We are anticipating an oversubscription of tickets. Our aim is to create a fair distribution system, David Will, chairman of the FIFA ticketing committee said ahead of the official opening of ticket applications on Friday.
The most expensive ticket for the opening match for category one stadium stands located alongside the pitch is 450 dollars.
Semi-final tickets go for 600 dollars while the final costs 900 dollars.
We are not sure how much impact the current global recession will have on the tournament, said Hirst Schmidt, a FIFA consultant for the World Cup.
What we know is that football fans are …
Marco Giampaolo is the latest in a string of hopeful appointments by AC Milan in their bid to bring the glory days back to the red side of San Siro, and his tenure begins away to Udinese.
The Rossoneri have not finished in the top four since 2012-13 and have gone through numerous coaches in recent years, with Clarence Seedorf, Filippo Inzaghi, Sinisa Mihajlovic, Cristian Brocchi, Vincenzo Montella and Gennaro Gattuso all failing.
Gattuso narrowly missed out on Champions League football last season and stepped down, with Giampaolo coming in as his replacement from Sampdoria.
Although Krzysztof Piatek and Lucas Paqueta showed promise after their January arrivals last term, Milan have only added Theo Hernandez and Rade Krunic to their squad this close season.
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As we reach the climax of the season, this will be one of the most pivotal games we will see. Manchester are absolutely desperate to claim three points to attempt to push Chelsea to the final day of the season, but they come up against an in form Tottenham, searching for their first top four finish in years and having notably scalped the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea in recent weeks.
Alex Ferguson will have been dancing a jig when Tottenham convincingly beat Chelsea but an hour or two after the game his thoughts will have switched to how to beat a team with pace, verve and a tidal wave of confidence. Fortunately for Man United fans, it looks as though their talismanic striker Wayne Rooney is again available for selection, and few would argue that they have looked a shadow of the…
Jurgen Klopp said the only word he could use to summarise Liverpool s memorable 2019 is wow .
The Reds were crowned champions of Europe for a sixth time with a 2-0 win over domestic rivals Tottenham in June s Champions League final.
An enthralling 2018-19 title race saw Liverpool miss out on Premier League glory by just a solitary point to Manchester City but Klopp s men are 10 clear with a game in hand as they aim to go one better this time around.
Liverpool also added Super Cup and Club World Cup glory trophies to their collection under Klopp, who – while saying he is not a man to look back – reflected on a proud 12 months and described his players as mentality monsters .
It is, naturally, a time to briefly reflect on an incredible year for these b…
For the first time since 2013, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will feature in the Champions League final.
Messi s Barcelona capitulated at the hands of Liverpool on Tuesday, losing the semi-final second leg 4-0 to go down 4-3 on aggregate.
That shock result ended an astonishing run of dominance for the star duo when it comes to Europe s top club competition. Since 2013, one of Messi or Ronaldo were involved in five successive finals – with the latter winning three straight titles and four in total.
But Ronaldo, who left holders Real Madrid at the start of the season, saw his Juventus team crash out at the quarter-final stage to Ajax in the 2018-19 tournament.
Final whistle at Anfield. Liverpool qualify for the final.
(4-0, agg 4-3)
Only one win separates these two teams, with the Seahawks and their two wins just ahead of the Jaguars’ one. That probably doesn’t give a fair indication of the differences between the two teams, given that the Seahawks are in the fiercely competitive NFC West.
Can Trevor Lawrence continue to showcase the skills that got him picked at first overall in this year’s NFL draft? Consult our NFL picks and predictions for the Jacksonville Jaguars vs. Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, October 31 to find out.
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An old rivalry will renew on Sunday but with a new twist.
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals have done battle in the AFC North for decades but traditionally, it has been Pittsburgh playing the role of the big brother to Cincinatti’s helpless little brother.
This season, however, will begin with the Bengals wearing the divisional crown while the Steelers look at a daunting trip around the quarterback carousel.
With two intriguing offenses clashing on the Ohio River, we take a look at the Steelers vs. Bengals with our best NFL player prop picks.
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The final week of the NFL preseason is upon us, and the Steelers and Falcons will kick off the action tonight.
Pittsburgh claimed victory in its first two preseason contests, scoring exactly 27 points in each outing. Head coach Mike Tomlin said his starters will play an undetermined amount of time against Atlanta, who have a win and a tie in its two preseason contests. The Falcons have not said who exactly will start, or how long the first unit will play.
Those decisions will directly impact the way this game shakes out, and we discuss how that affects your betting strategy in our Steelers vs. Falcons preseason NFL picks and predictions for Thursday, August 24.