Dejan Lovren believes Croatia showed the world – including former team-mate Mohamed Salah – they were not lucky at Russia 2018 by returning to the World Cup quarter-finals on Monday.
Croatia reached the final of the previous tournament, losing 4-2 to France, although they had to go through penalty shoot-outs against Denmark and Russia, then extra time against England.
Lovren and his team-mates advanced to the last eight at Qatar 2022 by defeating Japan, again relying on spot-kicks as Dominik Livakovic made three saves in a 3-1 shoot-out success.
Despite the nature of the victory, the centre-back felt his side had proven a point.
How? Why? Maybe it is written in the stars that Croatia need to go like this, Lovren said. We need to suffer. Without suffe…
The Carolina Panthers attempt to rid the nasty taste of their first loss of the NFL season in Week 5, taking on another NFC East opponent in the Philadelphia Eagles.
The NFL betting odds have Carolina as a 4-point home favorite but early play on Philadelphia is starting to slim that spread midway through the week. The Panthers defense had some holes poked in it by Dallas last weekend while the Eagles succumbed in a shootout with Kansas City.
Here are our NFL free picks and predictions for Eagles at Panthers on October 10.
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The New York Giants have not one, but two picks in the Top 10 of the 2022 NFL Draft and you can expect the new regime in New York to address their two biggest needs on this roster: offensive line and edge rusher.
Luckily, for the G-Men, if there was any year where having two Top picks would benefit building up the trenches, this would be it. But with so many unknowns heading into this draft, who exactly those players are can be difficult to figure out.
With the event in Las Vegas just days away, we try to make sense of the madness with our New York Giants mock draft — to go with our full NFL mock draft — and best bets based on 2022 NFL Draft odds.