UEFA will decide about Ibrahimovic tomorrow

PSG's appeal about Ibrahimovic's punishment will be considered by UEFA tomorrow. The Swedish striker was punished not to play for two games after his direct red card after he fauled Valencia's defender from Mexican origin Andres Guardado during the first game of the 8th finals of Champions League. Now he has to miss the tough game against Barcelona during the qarter finals. UEFA may approve of PSG's demands tomorrow, but could as well decide to prolong Ibrahimovic's punishment. PSG's fans will have a very tense day, as UEFA's decision may put their team in a very bad situation.

NHL Classic- Detroit-Chicago

                          

 

NHL season is going towards the mid-season. The entire league is impressd by one phenomenal streak. The 22 consecutive point games of the Chicago Blackhawks. Starting from the opening day with the La Kings and ending to the great rivalry game yesterday against the  Detroit Red Wings. Yesterday the game fo the week match on NHL on NBC was a thriller. Detroit and Jimmy Howard was saving absolutely everything. Chicago had complete domination over the first two periods. However, in the third Detroit came back and a great goal by Tatar seemed to be enough to end the extraordinary sterak of the Hawks. However in the last two minutes due to some awful delay of game penalties Chicago and Patrick Kane equalized. This turned the game. There were no golas in OT. And then in the shootout a great performance by Corey Crawford and again a brilliant Patrick Kane's style goal ended the game and continued the streak. This made Chicago Blakhawks the second best team in the entire NHL history. Now the quest for the playoffs continues, but there is one certain thing. Chicago are the main favorites to win Lord Stanley once again.

 

Nadal wins his second tournament in a row after his return to the courts

Rafael Nadal won his second tournament after he returned to professional tennis. Former world number 1 triumphed in the ATP tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, with a prize of 1,21 million dollars.

In the final, the second seed Spaniard outplayed his countryman David Ferrer with a score of 6:0, 6:2.

This match serves as further evidence that Nadal has begun his return to his prevois form. About a week before the final, the Spaniard triumphed in Brasil, where he defeated David Nalbandian in the final.

At the start of February, Nadal returned to playin professional tennis after his injury and took part in official matches after a 7 month gap from the last time he played in a tournament.

The international Italian tennis player Sara Erani won the women's tournament in Acapulco, after she managed to defear Carla Suarez-Navaro with a score of 6:0, 6:4.
 

Champions League Preview

In this short preview I would want to make some predictions about the upcoming round of 16 in the most prestigious league in the world. Celtic-Juventus is the first game. I believe in this game we have to not very equal teams. Juventus as an Italian champion and the leader in Italy right now seems to be the favorite and I believe they will win with at least 2 goals. PSG is the favorite against Valencia as they have now better players, but still it would be difficult for the French team if Valencia plays at the top of their game. In one of the most interesting battles Shakhtar takes on the German champions Borussia Dortmund. Here Borussia is the favorite as they are one of the favorites for the title in the league. Real Madrid takes on United in the last game on Wednesday and we eagerly await this clash of european champions that will focus mainly on the the return. I will predict that Real will take this battle, but it will be a close game that will probably be decied by one goal or penalties.So let's what happens. Good luck to everybody.

Nadals defeat in VTR

Nadal's matches in the VTR Open tournament definately ended amazingly. Horacio Zeballos won against Rafael Nadal in a  really close game where they finished 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-4 for Zeballos. Their prowess was almost ideally matched and they were neck and neck for the entire time. Eventually however, Zeballos finaly won and just dropped on the red clay from exhaustion and stood there. In an after-match inteview, Zeballos commentated on the match and how it was practicallty the one of his best games and he stated that he will never forget the match in which he managed to fight against one of the best players in the world. Nadal did not express any negative emotions toward the conclusion of the match and even said that he was both gratefull for being able to experience the feeling of challange in the face of his opponents and the fans themselves managed to move him emotinally due to their huge support from the sidelines. In the end Nadal left in preparation for his doubles match with Juan Monaco and Zeballos continued experiencing the trill of the game long after it finished.

The Bundesliga is almost decided

This weekend there were some pretty interesting games in the Bundesliga, which, in a way, secured Bayern Munich's first place. Hamburger crushed the 2nd team in the German league with 1-4 in Dortmund, thus increasing the difference between them and Bayern to 15 points. Even though Robert Lewandowski gave Dortmund the lead, the team was unable to preserve their lead and this was the cause for one of their worst defeats this season. Bayern Leverkusen also had an intense game and its result was unknown until the very end. Full of comebacks, the game ended 3-3, which, however was bad for both teams. Martin Stranzl scored for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 44th minute. Leverkusen then got to a draw in the 52nd minute. Mönchengladbach scored just 6 minutes later, returning their lead. Leverkusen them amazingly scored 2 goals in just 4 minutes. After this goal fiesta Leverkusen appeared to be the winners, but their opponents scored through Herrmann in the 86th minute and formed the end result. In the third German game this weekend Bayern Munchen crushed Shalke on the Bavarian stadium. The final score was 4-0. Interesting fact is that in the Bundesliga so far the 15th team is much closer to the European competitions than to falling to 2. League. Thus, even though the first place is pretty much decided, the passion for the other 17 places remains.

LeBron James and the Heat vs Lakers game

On February 10 2013 the basketball team  Miami Heat won over the Los Angeles Lakers with 107-97. This is their fifth win in a roll. James made the most points in the game with the amazing 32 points (almost a third of his whole team points).  Dwyane Wade follows him with 30, but the more interesting fact is that this is also James fifth game in a roll in which he scores 30 points or above. He is actually only one of the three official NBA players to score 30 points or above and have at least 60% accuracy in five games in a roll. The only two players are Adrian Dantley who played back in 1979 and Moses Malone in 1982. His coach, however, Erik Spoelstra doesn't celebrate about that too much. Maybe he doesn't want is player to end the streak from over excitement and overconfidence.
The two teams were fairly equal throughout most of the game untill Wade gave the Heat a lead of seven points making the score 89 to 82. After several minutes with cooperation between Wade and James the Heat got another lead of seven points making the game almost certainly a win. All that was caught by the audience. The spectacular plays made the whole crowd stand on their feet cheering for the Heat. James made the final 4 points for his team in the last 6 seconds. The Heat won in the end with which they can progress in the competition with confidence. The Lakers, however, lost the game which put them in 4-3 situation. This means that they dropped out of the competition. The coach, Nash, isn't happy from the results as his team could have done much much better. They had opportunities to win the game and to even get a significant lead, but overall Heat turned out to be better. Maybe next year the Lakers will have more luck and less mistakes.