Xabi Alonso hopes to mark his 100th game in charge of Bayer Leverkusen with a victory, but the Spaniard is not underestimating bottom club Holstein Kiel.
Alonso led his side to a win over Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday, with the Bundesliga champions one of only seven teams with a perfect record in the competition so far.
But their fortunes in the league have been much different, taking 10 points from their opening five games, the latest of which ended in a 1-1 draw with Bayern Munich.
Leverkusen s start to the campaign is the worst by a reigning champion in 12 years since Borussia Dortmund managed eight points after the first five games in 2012-13.
But Alonso, who has won 67 of 99 games in charge of Die Werkself, is wary of the threat this w…
Manchester City have announced losses of £126million in their 2019-20 financial results as the Premier League leaders count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
Overall, City s revenues were down 11 per cent to £478.4million from the previous 12 months.
The year in question runs up until June 30, 2020, taking in the period when the Premier League was suspended due to the COVID-19 crisis and meaning deferred revenues for the 2019-20 campaign have impacted the figures.
Nevertheless, City s matchday revenue was down by £13.5million, UEFA broadcast revenue fell by £18.5m and all other television money dropped by £44.5m, although money raised from commercial streams was up by £19.5m.
Leroy Sane s move to Bayern Munich for an initial £44.7m is not incl…
Things haven’t gone quite as we expected for the Washington Football Team after a promising end to last season as they exited the playoffs to the eventual Super Bowl champions, the Buccaneers.
Both WFT and the Atlanta Falcons both come into this game 1-2, with Matt Ryan’s team breaking their winless start with victory over the Giants last week.
If you’re betting this game on Sunday, October 3rd, then make sure you read our NFL picks and predictions for the Washington Football Team vs. Atlanta Falcons first.
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And then there was one. The NFL season is down to the Grand Finale: Super Bowl LVI.
The Cincinnati Bengals have shocked their way through the AFC side of the bracket, and now catch four points from the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Sunday, with the Rams playing in their own stadium none the less.
Given that we have a two-week buffer between Super Bowl odds opening and kickoff on February 13, planning your wagering war against the books on the biggest gambling game of the year is vital. You will never find a tighter spread and total.
We help you get the best of the Big Game numbers with our final NFL “Bet Now, Bet Later” of the season.
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Discovering how to watch San Francisco 49ers vs. Philadelphia Eagles has never been easier! Bettors on both sides of the border can watch or stream this intriguing NFL Conference Championship showdown on a variety of traditional and digital platforms.
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Monday Night Football offers a non-conference clash between two teams with Super Bowl aspirations — the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Chargers.
Unfortunately, both teams have not lived up to their preseason hype with 3-2 and 2-2 records, respectively. Tonight’s game presents an opportunity for both teams to jump-start their season, and there is little to choose between them on the NFL odds.
While there are a number of different subscription-based TV channels and streaming services available to watch this game… did you know that you can also live stream Cowboys/Chargers directly from legal sports betting sites?
In Canada, bet365 is one of our most trusted NFL betting sites — and the premier platform that offers NFL live streami…
The Detroit Lions host the Minnesota Vikings in the final week of the regular season on Sunday. The Vikes still have a 3% chance of making the playoffs but will need to win and get a lot of help in the NFL odds.
While the Lions have already locked up the No. 3 seed, they could still snag the No. 2 spot with a victory and losses from both the Eagles and Cowboys.
Week 18 odds opened with the Lions as 5.5-point home favorites but money has poured in on the visitors driving the spread down to -3.5. Here are my best free NFL picks and predictions for Vikings vs. Lions on Sunday, January 7.
Vikings vs Lions odds
Vikings vs Lions predictions
The Minnesota Vikings’ quarterback carousel continues as th…
A short week is about as welcome as conventional medicine for Aaron Rodgers.
His aging bones (and tender Achilles) will be put to the test when his New York Jets host the New England Patriots on Thursday Night Football in Week 3.
New England has shown some fight in its first two outings, and my early Patriots vs. Jets predictions expect that fight to continue. Find out why in the NFL picks ahead.
Patriots vs Jets predictions
Early spread leanPatriots +6.5 (-115 at FanDuel)
My analysisThe look-ahead line for this Thursday nighter was Jets -7.5 in the summer. After two weeks of results, the New England Patriots have looked better than expected… and the New York Jets are still very much a work in progress.
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Lockdown has offered plenty of food for thought and for most people stuck indoors all day it’s not long before thoughts turn to food. But while many of us have spent the past weeks fine-tuning banana-bread recipes and pondering the earliest acceptable time to raid the alcohol cupboard – with waistlines widening across the country as a result – Premier League players have been entitled to no such indulgences.
Instead they have had to maintain strictly regimented intake which, until a couple of months ago, was pretty much put on a plate for them. When lockdown came into effect, the remit of a Premier League nutritionist suddenly became a lot harder. To keep a squad of two dozen elite sportsmen on a fine-tuned high-performance d…
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It has been a busy couple of days in Doha, where Fifa president Gianni Infantino has had to field no end of awkward questions about the upcoming Human Rights World Cup in Qatar. However, one particularly tricky question The Fiver can’t help but feel has gone unasked regards the timing of Friday’s draw. Scheduled for 5pm BST, it hasn’t gone unnoticed here in Fiver Towers that world football’s governing body has pointedly timed it to coincide with the arrival of the world’s most daily email in the spam folders of our subscribers, meaning we’re unable to provide any pithy commentary here. What’s more, this deliberate act of spiteful, bureaucratic sabotage means that, in terms of piping-hot t…