Atlético-MG
Edson; Mariano, Marcos, Vinícius e Calisto; Serginho, Francis, Gedeon e Petkovic; Marques e Eduardo (Jael).
Técnico: Alexandre Gallo

Vitória
Viáfara; Marco Aurélio, Anderson Martins, Leonardo Silva e Marcelo Cordeiro; Vanderson, Renan, Ramon e Willans; Marquinhos e Rodrigão.
Técnico: Vagner Mancini

Atletico MG is in a big cricis after bad results..
Márcio Araújo and César Prates is suspended.Miranda and Elton is still injured.Petkovic back to the team.
Dinei is doubtful for Vitoria..He will be on bench.
Vitoria is 4th on the table now.They are showin good performance.Especially Renan and Marquinhos is in good form.Team is in good shape.
Vitoria wants to continue their winning streak..
Atletico MG board has big problems with eachothers and its effects the players negative.

IMO big value on Vitoria away win.

Grêmio
Victor; Thiego, Pereira e Rever; Felipe, Willian Magrão, Rafael Carioca, Tcheco e Anderson Pico; Perea e Marcel.
Técnico: Celso Roth

Palmeiras
Marcos; Maurício, Jéci e Gladstone; Fabinho Capixaba, Sandro Silva, Jumar, Diego Souza e Leandro; Kléber e Alex Mineiro.
Técnico: Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Leader Gremio is on fire.Last game they've played against Figueriense W/O three regular defenders and took an amazing results with 1-7 score.
Gremio one of the best home team of the league.5-2-0.Gremio is playin at Estádio Olímpico with huge fan support.
RB Paulo Sérgio is suspended,defender Leo is injured.Rever is back to the team.Important striker Marcel has muscular pain but hes gonna play today.Perea and Marcel showed good performance against Figueirense.Also Reinaldo made hat trick but he will be on bench.
After Santos derby Palmeiras gained some moral with 4-2 score.But Luxemburgo in trouble with injured/suspended players.
Pierre, Gustavo,Evandro is still out.
Leo Lima got injured and he won't play too.
Kleber, Denilson and Sandro Silva back from suspension..
''Star of the team'' Valvidia is suspended.
Martinez is back from injury but he has still have muscular pains.He won't start with first 11's too.
Looks like Palmeiras will play with three defenders and Sandro Silva will be on midfield near the Jumar..
Palmeiras had bad results on away games with 1-2-4.
Gremio is in form and Palmeiras will miss many regulars.

Straight home win for me with maximum stakes.

GOIÁS: Harlei; Henrique, Rafael Marques e Paulo Henrique; Vítor, Fernando, Ramalho, Paulo Baier e Romerito; Alex Terra e Iarley
Técnico: Hélio dos Anjos

FLUMINENSE: Fernando Henrique; Gabriel, Thiago Silva, Luiz Alberto e Júnior César; Ygor, Arouca, Darío Conca e Thiago Neves; Cícero e Dodô
Técnico: Renato Gaúcho

After Libertadores Final and huge disappointment Fluminense should return to league..They have long way forward to get something in League..They've played almost all league games with reserve team because of Libertadores..and now Libertadores story had finished.
Goias is a poor team..Showed good performance against Santos after that game they hammered by Vitoria. (3-0)
Washington won't start with first 11.. Dodo is a good striker..It won't be huge problem for Flu.
Two teams have big class difference between them..
Fluminense needs to win to raise on the table and gain some moral..I won't prefer DNB or Asian Hcp..

Straight AW for me.

don't believe miracles..It happened two times..It won't be again at least against Croatia..
Terim always doin huge mistakes..

Hamit - midfielder of Bayern...Bayern is a big name of the Europe..
and? RB in Turkey...is it a joke?

Guys did you realize when Plasil left the pitch and Hamit came to midfielder role?

Hamit gave four goal passes..and three goals.

Terim doesn't know anything about football.

Tuncay still in first 11.. WHY?!

Ibrahim Toraman and Mehmet Topuz ( not in Turkey squad!)

Toraman one of the best midfielder of Turkey.
And Topuz..For me best defender of the Turkey..He can play on defencive role and offancive..He has amazing physical condition..I can call him : A BULL READY TO FIGHT..

Now ? Aurelio is suspended..
GK Volkan is too..

Defence ? Servet playin with his heart..RESPECT! But he won't play today!

Emre? injured..and how old is he? and playin for which team in Turkey?
other Emre? injured...
Gokhan Zan..?? He had a bad season and will replace for Servet..

Croatia playin different on big games..

Signor Terim : Where is Gokdeniz ?? Where is Umit Karan ? Ok I agree Yildiray had a bad season..Where is Halil Altintop? Man are you kiddin? Tuncay ? Blah!!! Glad you have Nihat..he is on fire!

I am an Italia fan..But Croatia my favourite on Euro 2008...

Turkey played good against Czecs? OH COME ON! 15 mins..Only 15 mins..

Petr Cech gave them a huge gift and Karel Brueckner with Plasil changes.

For me Croatia is a 10/10 bet..Pure gold,huge gift,how can you call..

Rustu...We all know what he did for Barça..Right? He is the ''past'' .


I am all in ! preflop and I have ''pocket aces'' = Croatia

*Czechs played really good against Portugal..They were unlucky..
*Czechs have better physical condition..
*Sionko showed great performance,he is in good form.
*Turkey have problems on defence line..If Baros - Koller starts together Turkey will have huge problems in their defence.
*And biggest factor : Coach..Karel Brückner is a old fox..I didn't expect a good football by Czechs but they made me suprised..
*Terim ? he is suprising me every game..Sometimes great choises,sometimes big mistakes..I cannot trust him.

Czechs clear favourite here IMO.

6/10 for straight win.

Czezch : Čech - Grygera, Rozehnal, Ujfaluši, Jankulovski - Sionko, Galásek, Polák, Plašil - Baroš, Koller

Turkey : Volkan - Hamit - Emre Gungor - Servet Cetin - Hakan Balta - Mehmet Topal - Aurelio - Arda - Tuncay - Nihat - Semih

Estudiantes

Andujar, M.Alayes, A.Desábato, L.Basanta, J.Galván, D.Moreno y Fabianesi, I.Verón, J.Pérez, E.Benítez, L.Lugüercio, P.Maggiolo, E.

DT: Sensini, Roberto Néstor


Independiente

Assmann, F.Moreira, R.Gioda, L.Rodríguez, G.Mareque, L.Machín, G.Pusineri, L.Ledesma, D.Fredes, H.Grisales, F.Denis, G.

DT: Borghi, Claudio Daniel

River has won yesterday...Then Estudiantes must win this one.Rodrigo Braña and Marcos Angeleri suspended for ''Students'' Enzo Pérez and José Basanta will replace for them..Also I like Pérez..

Independiente is a solid team.They've showed bad performances on away games..Daniel Montenegro is a huge missings..Grisales is back to the team..This 11 kinda defencive against Estudiantes..IMO wrong choise..Ismael Sosa could join the game on second half If Independiente conceedes goal/goals.

Estudiantes's home record :

11.05.2008 Estudiantes vs. Boca Juniors 1:0
26.04.2008 Estudiantes vs. Rosario Central 3:1
12.04.2008 Estudiantes vs. Atletico Lanus 1:0
29.03.2008 Estudiantes vs. Velez Sarsfield 1:0
15.03.2008 Estudiantes vs. San Martin San Juan 3:2
09.03.2008 Estudiantes vs. River Plate 0:0
22.02.2008 Estudiantes vs. Newell's Old Boys 5:2 Newell's has showed one of the best ''defencive team performance'' of the league.
09.02.2008 Estudiantes vs. Banfield 2:1


Independiente took 9 points their last three games..But against who?

12.05.2008 San Lorenzo vs. Independiente 0:1 (Reserves of San Lorenzo)
26.04.2008 Gimnasia Jujuy vs. Independiente 1:2 (Gimnasia trying to die and they are happy in play-out zone)
13.04.2008 Olimpo Bahia vs. Independiente 1:3 (Already relegated!)

And let me show you some serious games :

23.03.2008 San Martin San Juan vs. Independiente 2:0
09.03.2008 Boca Juniors vs. Independiente 1:1
24.02.2008 Rosario Central vs. Independiente 2:0
10.02.2008 Atletico Lanus vs. Independiente 1:0

its the difference..Independiente had easy fixture in last three weeks..thats why they've taken 9 poins.


Just compare two teams.....I can see big difference between them..Copa Sudamericana will be fair enough for Independiente.

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PORTUGUESA: André Luís; Dias, Bruno Rodrigo, Marco Aurélio e Wilton Goiano; Erick, Carlos Alberto, Preto e Edno; Diogo e Christian
Técnico: Vágner Benazzi

PALMEIRAS: Marcos; Élder Granja, David, Henrique e Leandro; Pierre, Martinez, Léo Lima e Valdívia; Denílson (Kléber) e Alex Mineiro
Técnico: Wanderley Luxemburgo

Firstly its a derby game.
Portuguesa new team of Brasil A..They haven't so much fans..Today probably they will have maximum 2.500 fans in the stadium and Palmeiras 27.000..Its not an away game for Palmeiras.

Portuguesa has a terrible defence and poor squad.
Palmeiras champion of Paulista..They've made a strong squad and they will be in championship race this year..
Also Luxemburgo is so experienced and great coach..

Palmeiras clear favourite here.

Banfield has many offancive players in their squad and goal is not a problem for them.They have Cvitanich (whos gonna play for Ajax next year n scored 7 goals this season)..
San Martin have to fight for relegation battle..Racing will play with Boca reserves..Also Rosario has some advantage..Their and league top goal scorer Bravo will start with first 11..San Martin will play in 4-3-3 formation.They have nothing to lose,then no doubt they will play offancive to get some points or at least a point..
Banfield will find many empty spaces and two top-goal scorers of the league will have a chance to finish top #1 .. I expect an open game and high scoring game here.

You can see my reasons on my previous post.
Estudiantes will miss some important regulars and Quito is a home monster with high altitude advantage.

For me Estudiantes is best team of Argentina with their great football.

LDUQ: José Francisco Cevallos; Jairo Campos, Norberto Araujo, Diego Armando Calderón; Joffre Guerrón, Enrique Vera, Patricio Urrutia, Paul Ambrossi, Luis Bolaños; Damián Manso y Claudio Bieler. Entrenador: Edgardo Bauza.

Estudiantes: Mariano Andújar; Leandro Desábato, Cristian Angeleri, José María Basanta; Iván Moreno, Juan Sebastián Verón, Edgar González, Leandro Benítez; Juan Salgueiro, Leandro Lazzaro y Pablo Piatti. Entrenador: Roberto Sensini.

La Plata team have important missings..Defender Agustín Alayes is suspended and Rodrigo Braña will miss this game.Also Ezequiel Maggiolo and Diego Galvan too.

Quito will try to use 2850 M high altitude advantage again..We all saw what they did to Arsenal Sarandi. (6-1)

Ecudorian team one of the most dangerous home team of the Libertadores..Have a good and quality squad.
Estudiantes will start with 3-4-3 formation again..La Plata team wants to score for some advantage for second leg. Estudiantes capable to score every team in this tournament with their quality and fast forward players.

I expect a high scoring game here..
Called score : 2-1 (HW)

Lanús: Carlos Bossio, Rodolfo Graieb, Carlos Quintana, Emir Faccioli, Maxi Velázquez, Sebastián Blanco, Agustín Pelletieri, Matías Fritzler, Diego Valeri, José Sand y Nicolás Ramírez. Entrenador: Ramón Cabrero.

Atlas: Jorge Bava, Jorge Torres, Néstor Vidrio, Diego Colotto, Omar Flores, Eduardo Rergis, Luis Robles, Jorge Hernández, Juan Carlos Medina, Bruno Marioni y Ulises Mendivil. Entrenador: Miguel Brindisi.

Lanus is unbeaten team of Libertadores after 6 games..
They've only focused on Libertadores and played almost all league games with reserve team..Last Champion of Argentina takes so much serious this tournament.
Acosta is doubtful for this game Ramirez could replace for him.

Mexicans got lucky against Colo Colo and qualified with Boca from the group..Atlas one of the worst away team of the Libertadores and Mexican local league.Eduardo García de León, Danilo Vergne and Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez didn't travel to Buenos Aires.

Of course Lanus much better team than Atlas and they wants to get an advantage score for second leg..They must win this one,second game won't be easy at Estadio Jalisco hell..
Maximum stakes for Argentinians.