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PolishPower
11-03-2000, 07:25:AM
Here are my picks:

Chelsea-Everton, I think Everton will win, Chelsea will still be tired off their CL game.

Liverpool-Sunderland, Sunderland is playing terrible, Liverpool should kill them. This probably means it will be a nail-biter, but Liverpool will pull it out.

Lazio-Inter, the game of the week, Inter will win, Lazio will be tired and if Inter wins they go into second place. Recoba must play though...

La Coruna-Valencia, Coruna is terrible lately, on definite down-swing its amazing they still have 4 point lead in the league. Valencia is riding high, plus they played tuesday, while Coruna played thurs, so Valencia will win by a few.

Bayern M- Schalke 04: Bayern will be tired emotionally from their big win, so look for an upset, Schalke get a draw out of this one.

B.Leverkusen-Wolfsburg: this looks like it could be a really good game, Leverkusen killed Kaiselatern 3-1 last week, while Wolfburg came back from 4-1 down to draw with HSV. If Leverkusen win and Bayern draws, they will be all tied up at the top of the Bundesliga. Leverkusen to win in a high-scoring 3-2 type of game.

PolishPower
13-03-2000, 05:56:AM
My picks stunk once again this weekend. The Lazio-Inter game, that was like someone hitting you in the groin area with a sledge-hammer, the way that game ended. It does look like Juventus is on it's merry way to the scudetto.

Biggest winner of the weekend: Leeds 2-1 over Bradford, they keep their hopes alive, for a while there they were on the ropes. By the way this game had two higlights: Southall the 41 year old keeper for Bradford must have been the fattest player ever in the Premier League, no joke. And two, this game must have had more boots to the face, to the groin, elbows in the ribs than any game in memory, the guy on the replays did a great job showing how nasty this game was.

Biggest loser: Inter, so close and yet so far, take a look at this report to see what I mean:
Lazio fight back to draw 2-2 with Inter
ROME, March 11 (Reuters) - Lazio scored twice in the final 10 minutes to earn a 2-2 draw at home to 10-man Inter Milan on Saturday, keeping their second place in the Italian first division.
Substitute Simone Inzaghi stabbed a shot past Angelo Peruzzi in the 81st minute of an intense tie at the Olympic Stadium before right back Giuseppe Pancaro fired home his side's equaliser from outside the box in the 87th minute.
The draw put Lazio on 50 points, three behind Juventus who were due to travel to bottom club Piacenza on Sunday.
Inter, who played the entire second half in 10 men after Colombian Ivan Cordoba was sent off for a challenge on fellow South American Marcelo Salas in the 41st minute, remain third on 47 points.
The visitors took the lead entirely against the run of play, Recoba scampering on to a Luigi Di Biagio through ball and firing a left foot shot high into the Lazio net.
Cordoba's dismissal, for what appeared to be a 50-50 challenge with Salas on the edge of the area, seemed destined to swing the tie Lazio's way.
But although the Romans continued to dominate, they were thwarted by woeful finishing and an inspired performance from Angelo Peruzzi in the Inter goal.
Salas missed two clear chances, Fabrizio Ravanelli's glancing header drifted harmlessly across goal early in the second half, Sinisa Mihajlovic's free kicks were unusually harmless and Lazio's midfield motor Juan Veron was reduced to several hopeful long range efforts.
After 79 minutes Di Biagio connected with a pin point cross from Dutchman Clarence Seedorf to give Inter their second goal and seemingly kill off the match.
But first Inzaghi and then Pancaro clawed the home side back into the match to give them a vital and deserved point.
This was the second time this season that Pancaro had earned Lazio a reprieve against Inter in the dying minutes.
In their first meeting at the San Siro in October he scored in injury time to give Lazio a 1-1 draw.
Lazio (4-5-1): Marchegiani 5,5, Negro 6 (29' St Inzaghi 6,5), Nesta 6,5, Mihajlovic 6, Pancaro 7, Stankovic 7, Simeone 6 (1' St Ravanelli 6), Sensini 6 (20'st Conceicao 6), Veron 6,5, Nedved 6,5, Salas 5,5. (22 Ballotta, 24 Fernando Couto, 17 Gottardi, 10 Mancini). Allenatore: Eriksson 6.
Inter (3-4-1-2): Peruzzi 7,5, Simic 6, Blanc 6, Cordoba 5, Panucci 6, Cauet 6 (29' St Colonnese Sv), Di Biagio 8, Zanetti 6, Seedorf 6,5, Recoba 6,5 (1' St Serena 6), Zamorano 5 (40 St Mutu Sv). (22 Ferron, 31 Georgatos, 7 Moriero, 10 Baggio. Allenatore: Lippi 6,5

Greekfanatic
13-03-2000, 07:59:PM
There is a big game comeing up in the Greek League: Olympiakos vs PAOK, it should be a great game. Olympiakos is comeing off a great win over AEK, but has some injuries like Giovanni. PAOK has been on fire lately, thrashing there opponents 8-0 in the last 2 games!

I can't wait!

OLYMPIAKOS FOREVER!!!