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La Liga Preview: See the stars? Ignore them

Tobias Gourlay suspects that the stars are not a good form guide and looks beyond the Big Two to find the value in this weekend’s Spanish-football markets. Recommended Bets: Back Barcelona/Barcelona at 2.16 v Valencia; back Real Zaragoza +0&+0.5 at 2.0 v Racing Santander; back Sevilla at 1.72 to beat Deportivo La Coruna A 2-2 draw for Barcelona in Almeria and a 92nd-minute winner for Real Madrid allowed Los Blancos to finally close the gap to the reigning champions.

Mar 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Bundesliga Betting: Schalke can win this weekend but can they go all the way?

Wolfsburg won the Bundesliga last season when everyone wrote them off but can Schalke emulate them this year, asks Kevin Hatchard. Plus the best of this weekend’s betting. “If you are going to back Schalke to win the Bundesliga, back them now. If they come through the next few games unscathed, those odds could shorten considerably.

Mar 11, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Bundesliga Betting: Bayer to lose further ground

Bayer Leverkusen were held to a goalless draw last week and lost their spot at the top of the table. They may well struggle again this weekend, says Kevin Hatchett.

Mar 05, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Betting: First leg winners in “super” pole position

Number-cruncher supreme “Magic” Matthew Walton goes through the record books and the stats to tell us how to approach the Champions League second legs…

“As losers in the first leg of their ties the figures suggest, and do so quite strongly, that each of Real Madrid, Arsenal, Fiorentina and Chelsea (all group winners) are under a major threat of elimination.”

Let’s start with a look at the statistics. In the past five years there have been 40 ties played in the R16 of the Champions League.

Of those 40 ties, on 21 occasions the team who won the first leg has gone on to win the tie outright and progress through to the QF’s – which, by the same token, means that 21 times the team who lost the first leg has been eliminated from the competition.

What we also find is a mere four sides, that’s all, who in the past five seasons have lost the first leg but have come back to win the second leg and so win the tie outright.

Mar 03, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

La Liga Betting: Not all is rosy in the gardens of Barcelona and Real Madrid

Real Madrid and Barcelona may both have won this weekend but the cracks have started to appear within both squads as we reach the business end of proceedings. Ben Lyttleton tells us about the internal spats, injuries and newspaper campaigns threatening to derail their progress. “Despite the 12 home league wins out of 12, it feels like a fragile peace has broken out: harsh words were spoken between the players after the Lyon loss, and Cristiano Ronaldo’s spat with Xabi Alonso over who took the last-minute penalty against Villarreal last week (it was Xabi but Ronaldo was back on duty against Tenerife) suggested tensions are simmering under the surface.” It’s as you were at the top of La Liga as this time Real Madrid played first at the weekend and won, to take top spot for a while, before Barcelona went out and also won to regain their two-point advantage. But that goes no way to explaining just how tight it is in Spain, and how once again, Real Madrid are coasting to victories while Barcelona are stuttering.

Mar 01, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Bettorlogic’s Injuries And Suspensions Column: Inter to miss Muntari

Click Here to subscribe to Player PRO and have a free 14 day trial. Bettorlogic have compiled a report using our player analysis tool Player PRO highlighting the most important players that are likely to be missing across Europe’s major leagues this weekend. NB Player appearances are based on a player starting and completing at least an hour of the match unless otherwise stated. The sample is based on a team’s home and away league matches since the start of last season unless otherwise stated. Monaco v Boulogne Park Chu-Young Monaco have lost their last three games but will be expecting a comfortable win this weekend over a Boulogne side with just one win in their last 22. However, Monaco’s chances have been hit by the continued absence of Park Chu-Young who has become one of Monaco’s best performers since moving from South Korea near the start of last season. The Korean forward has been Monaco’s joint-highest scorer since 2008/09 with 13 goals from 49 games, and he’s missed only 10 matches for Les Monegasques since his arrival.

Feb 26, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Bundesliga Betting: Bayern to be stopped in their tracks again

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

Feb 25, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Europa League Betting: Unirea Urziceni v Liverpool

Liverpool go to the Romanian town that’s the smallest ever to have had a team in the Champions League. Viewers should expect to have the life sucked out of them, warns Tobias Gourlay.

Recommended Bet: Back Under 2.5 Goals at 1.74 in Unirea Urziceni v Liverpool

Liverpool visit Unirea Urziceni for Thursday evening’s Europa League last 32 second leg with a 1-0 lead, earned unimpressively (and not until the 81st minute) at Anfield last week. The party line was that the Reds would be more potent in attack this week because Unirea would be more ambitious in their own Tineretului Stadium. Really, should Liverpool even have been stifled in the first leg by a team they hadn’t heard of until this season?

That’s for their fans to decide. We’ve got to decide whether

Feb 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Results: Barca and Bordeaux get results they’d hoped for

Progress looks assured for favourites after opening legs of Olympiacos-Bordeaux and Suttgart and Barcelona ties It was a good night for the favourites in the Champions League as Bordeaux and Barcelona secured results that should take them through to the last eight. The French champions bagged a 1-0 win at Olympiacos thanks to a Michael Ciani strike late in the first half that rewarded backers of a French halftime lead at odds of 80.0 . Laurent Blanc’s men did not concede thereafter and are strong favourites to make the quarter-finals at around the 1.12 mark.

Feb 24, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

Champions League Betting: Stuttgart v Barcelona

Josep Guardiola’s holders are unbackably short to make it to the quarter-finals, but their first leg in Germany at the last-16 stage could be trickier than many people think, writes James Eastham.

Feb 22, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
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