Monthly Archives: February 2020

Champions League round of 16 preview

The knockout phase of the Champions League is always an exciting time to tune in to the best football teams in Europe as they battle to win what is a fabled competition. Since the UEFA Champions League came into being from the old European Cup, only Real Madrid have retained the trophy after winning it, so the battle facing Liverpool this season is huge.

Could Liverpool or the team they beat in the final last season, Tottenham Hotspur win the Champions League this year? We might be about to find out a lot about their chances in the Round of 16, with both teams taking on quality opposition.

Atletico Madrid vs. Liverpool (Tuesday 18th February, 8pm GMT kick-off)

A big match at the scene of Liverpool’s Champions League triumph in 2019 sees Diego Simeone’s side welcome the rampant Reds to the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid. While Jurgen Klopp’s men have undoubtedly been focused on the English Premier League this season, they will have their eyes on a Premier League and Champions League double which has only been achieved by Manchester United in the modern era.

WGC-Mexico Championship betting preview

Back in the early 1990s, Greg Norman – then the biggest star in the sport – tried to create a professional golf tour where only 48 of the top players in the world would be allowed to compete with a limited number of tournaments (as opposed to the too-long PGA Tour season) and huge purses. That failed, but out of that venture came the World Golf Championships.

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Those events debuted in 1999 and there are now four of them annually, two in the United States, one in China and this week’s WGC-Mexico Championship in Mexico City. WGC tournaments have limited fields via qualification standards, which means no cut, and much bigger purses than regular Tour events. They were created to get top players from around the world together in events other than the four major championships. Like the majors, these tournaments are part of both the PGA Tour and European Tour.

The WGC-Mexico Championship debuted as the WGC-American Express Championship in Spain in 1999 and was won by Tiger Woods. It moved around a bit over the years with different sponsorship names and landed in Mexico City starting in 2017. It is played at altitude at the par-71, 7,345-yard Club de Golf Chapultepec.