+ UD Las Palmas are seventh in La Liga II points table.They have held the second spot for weeks. So not being inside the playoff bracket shows a fall in their performance level.

+ CD Leganes are playing well. They are fifteenth in the points table but the also have earned two wins and two draws in the last five games.

+ Road game against English Championship playoff contender Southampton FC resulted in a heavy loss [0-3] for Blackburn Rovers.

+ Rovers are going to face the top placeholder Blues [Coventry City] at Ewood Park today. Its a floodlit game and only one on the TV.

+ Coventry City have held their opponent to a draw in last two games.

+ FC Koln are doing better than FC Saint Pauli in Bundesliga salvation chase.

+ FC Saint Pauli hold the salvation playoff spot. They have to at least keep it under their possession.

+ Millerntor Stadium can create an atmosphere that should help the hosts.

+ Regal Barcelona Basketball are fighting for a play-in spot in the last game of Euroleague season.

+ It may appear that Bayern Munich are not fighting for anything but they were realistically out of the playoff race for more than a month and stll won games against the playoff contenders.

+ Nicolas Laprovittola will not play for Regal Barcelona. Tomas Satoransky is listed as game-time decision.

+ Kamar Baldwin, Elias Harris, and Rokas Jokubaitis will not play for Bayern Munich. The status of Stevan Jovic is uncertain and Leon Kratzer is going to play.

+ Elena Rybakina wn against hard hitting player and also German home court fan favourite, Diana Shnaider, in straight sets in the second round of Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

+ Rybakina had 67 percent first serve. She won 91 percent first serve and 79 percent second serve points.

+ Leylah Annie Fernandez has won against Alexandra Eala and Zenyep Sonmez in the first two rounds. She has fought hard as both matches went to the distance.

+ Sorana Cirstea has won both previous H2H matches against Anna Bondar. They played in Hungarian Tennis Open-19 and Open 6e sens Metropole-22.

+ Those matches were played on hard court. Open de Rouen is a clay court tournament.

+ Cirstea won against Fiona Ferro and got a walkover win against Xinyu Wang.

+ Anna Bindar won against Harmony Tan and Oleksandra and Oliynykova in three sets.

+ SV Elversberg are fourth in Bundesliga II points table. They are in contention of a playoff or promotion spot.

+ Karsruher SC are eighth in the points table.

+ Karsruher SC have won two of last three games.

+ This game should be intense and closely fought. Elversberg should get support of their fans.

+ Seventh place finish is waiting as the final position of Panathinaikos Athens if Zalgiris Kaunas wins against Paris Basketball and Pana itself wins against Anadolu Efes Istanbul.

+ Efes have won 5 of 13 road games.

+ Georgios Papagiannis and Isia Cordinier will be missing for Efes. Shane Larkin, Saban Lee, and Vicent Poirier will play.

+ Alexandros Samudurov will miss for Panathinaikos. The status of Konstintinos Mitroglou is uncertain. Kendrick Nunn is likely to play. Nikos Rogkapoulos and and Vassilis Toliopoulos will play.

+ AS Monaco have won 21 of 27 games. Dubai Basketball have won 19 games and they are the top team in the chasing pack for a play-in spot. AS Monaco are eighth in Euroleague standings. At this point, they are assured of a play-in spot.

+ If Zalgiris Kaunas wins against Paris Basketball in another game then they will keep the last playoff spot.

+ Hapoel Tel Aviv are fifth in Euroleague standings and may reach to a higher position if they win.

+ Tyler Ennis and Tomar Giant will not play for Hapoel Tel Aviv. Itay Segev and Yiftach Ziv may or may not play.

+ Nikola Mirotic, Terry Tarpey, and Nemanja Nedovic will be missing for AS Monaco.