Special honors for Gerrard and Lampard

The Asociation of professional footballers in England awarded with special prizes for overall contribution legend Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard.
One of the reasons that the legends of Liverpool and Chelsea respectively received awards is their impending departure from the Premier League. The No.1 scorer of Londoners of all time has a contract with New York City while Gerrard will follow in major League Soccer, where he will defend the team Los Angeles Galaxy.
Both received awards at the ceremony, which later will broadcast both the most anticipated award - for best young player and player of the year in the Premier League.

Petra Kvitova with early loss in Stuttgart

Madison Brengle qualified for the quarterfinals of the tournament in Stuttgart with a prize of 731,000 dollars. The 25 years old American eliminated the placed under number 3 Petra Kvitova with 6:3, 7:6 (2) for 95 minutes and achieved the first win of her career over a competitor of the top 10 world rankings.

Brengle served for the match at 5:4 in the second set and led with 40:0, but allowed a breakthrough. In the ensuing tiebreak she dominated and still has been greeted with the success.

Kvitova, the champion of "Wimbledon" last season, is back on the court this weekend for the meetings of the Czech Republic by "Fed Cup" after 2-month absence due to fatigue and health problems.

The lack of match practice of Czech woman said his word in the game; she conceded 39 unforced errors against only 13 of Brengle. So the American reached for the first time the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament of that rank, and her next opponent will be Caroline Garcia from France.

Soccer Picks

You do not need to read a lot and research anymore because we have done that for you! When it comes to the today`s matches, we have prepared some soccer picks, which may be very useful to you.

Nantes vs. Marseille
Marseille got two losses in the last two rounds (one of them was against Paris Saint-Germain), but still has a good chance to qualify for the Champions League next season, which would be a great financial incentive for the team. Today, they are a team that also lost their last two matches. Nantes are on the 11th place in the standings and the motivation would be far smaller, as it may neither fall nor to qualify for Europe. Actually not so far away from the relegation zone as points, but there are too many teams between them and the fatal zone so that at this stage the danger of relegation is not real. Our soccer forecast for that event is 2.

Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Borussia Monchengladbach
Borussia has made a great season, these players are in a great shape, and we don`t see what would stop them to win against a team that for the last three games won a total of 1 point. Borussia Monchengladbach at the same time has won their its four matches, in which they beat the strongest German teams - Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. Its mighty games deserved it to occupy the third place in the standings. If they want to keep it, they have to win today. Our soccer prediction is undoubtedly 2.

Levante vs. Espanyol
In that match our bet is going to be solely on the basis of statistics and probability theory. The hosts are in a series of 14 consecutive matches without even a single draw. It`s too long series and statistics show that after so many duels without any draws, the chance for it to happen is huge. And a match against a tough opponent is even better opportunity for a tie. Our football forecast is X.

Norwich vs. Middlesbrough
That is a derby between the second and the third in the standings of the English Second Division. The second place gives the right to direct promotion into the top flight, so the stakes are enormous. The perfect shape of the hosts in the last month makes us think that they will pick via free football predictions up the three points. The guests also maintain relatively good form, but it is mostly because of their good games as hosts. As a guest, things are not so easy. Middlesbrough has lost 4 of its last 5 visits. Anyway, our football prediction is 1.

Liverpool sells Balotelli

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has no need of the services of striker Mario Balotelli, according to "Daily Mail". The specialist hopes to be able to sell the Italian international after the season. Balotelli arrived with high hopes at "Anfield" last summer, but for 25 games he scored only 4 goals in all competitions. After the returning of Daniel Sturridge, Balotelli finally lost his place in the composition and the club will try to part with him in the summer.

Real Madrid has already invoked the next transfer

Real Madrid is into motion negotiations for the transfer of the new star of Spanish football Jose Gaya says "AS". The talent of Valencia, which is under 20 years, has so far refused to sign a new contract with the "bats". In this regard, the "white ballet" is working to attract him. Left defender is seen as a first choice for the summer addition, since there is a big possibility for Fabio Coentrao to leave the club.

Jose Gaya and management company Toldra Consulting representing him rejected the offer of Valencia for a contract to 2021 and rise the clause to 40 million euros. Currently the agreement between both sides is to 2018 and a clause of 18 million.

From "Mestalla" offered a salary increase of EUR 250,000 per year to 1.5 million. The player doesn`t want the surrender clause to exceed 30 million.

According to the "AS" there is an interest in the player by Manchester City and Chelsea, as the "citizens" are more assertive.

Jose Gaya is an adolescent of Valencia and from the beginning of this season he has missed only one match in La League.

Otherwise two days ago Real Madrid has finished another deal for a final defender - Danilo coming from Porto.