A tip from the Joker to get your betting day under way… The Joker’s Bet of the Day: Back Over 2.5 Goals at 2.06 in Erzgebirge Aue v Unterhaching Piacenza 0 Reggina 0. Italian football – how predictable
Tobias Gourlay saw enough in Bavaria a fortnight ago to think there might be a Florentine renaissance on Tuesday evening.
Recommended Bets: Back Over 2.5 Goals at 1.95; back Fiorentina at 3.55 To Qualify
Ahead of the first leg of Fiorentina’s Last 16 tie with Bayern Munich, the Italians were in no sort of form. In the end they got no sort of result, but that’s not to tell the full story. With just over a quarter of an hour left, Massimo Gobbi was sent off, when he might easily not have been. It was 1-1 at that point, but if anyone deserved to be ahead it was the visitors. With a minute left, Bayern’s Miroslav Klose scored from an offside position. The goal was allowed to stand and the Germans had a 2-1 win to take to the Artemio Franchi this week.
Just a fortnight after he played ‘the biggest game for us in five years,’ La Viola’s captain, Riccardo Montolivo, is preparing for ‘truly the game of our lives.’
Every week Andrew Atherley will be selecting three odds-on shots worth laying. But there’s a catch: he only gets paid by betting.betfair.com if at least two prove to be winning bets. This week’s English-based bet comes from the depths of League Two…
“In fact, Morecambe have lost fewer games overall than Bournemouth, which is a sign of the visitors’ solidity and indicates that the gap between the two sides in the table might not be an accurate reflection of their respective class.”
Lay Bournemouth at 1.95 v Morecambe
Away from the glamour of the FA Cup, this battle of two seaside towns is a crunch game in the League Two promotion race. Bournemouth’s overall home record looks good on paper, ranking fifth in League Two, but it has been on a downward spiral since they opened the season with six wins out of seven.
Kevin Hatchard is back to talk us through the best betting opportunities in the Bundesliga this weekend, including why Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s Hamburg can deny league favourites Bayern Munich another three more points. “Van Nistelrooy may play some part in this match, and if he does Hamburg are capable of extending their five-match unbeaten run
A tip from the Joker to get your betting day under way… The Joker’s Bet of the Day: Back Braunschweig at 1.7 to beat Wacker Burghausen The first sign yesterday that the Joker’s new nose for a bet is not much of an upgrade on the last one: although Internacional came from behind to beat Emelec 2-1, they weren’t supposed to concede at all and were supposed to win by a couple of goals or more. Ho hum
Kevin Hatchard attempts to continue his good run of tipping form and kicks off this week’s column with his reasoning as to why Bayer Leverkusen’s trip to Werder Bremen is likely to finish with a share of the spoils. “Bayer aren’t winning enough games away from home, and they may well find life tough against a Bremen side who have found their feet after a rough patch
Every week Andrew Atherley will be selecting three odds-on shots worth laying.
Richard Aikman previews Ajax v Juventus, Panathinaikos v Roma and Villrreal v Wolfsburg from amongst tonight’s matches in the Europa league, predicting a high-scoring win for Villarreal and Roma to go and do the business in Athens.
