srijeda, veljaèa 22, 2012
Man City - Porto
Manchester City has the first chance tonight, they won 2:1 on Dragao and certainly will not let dominated at home tonight. Porto needs at least two goals to hope for qualification, but will be hard because the only teams that were left here undefeated was Liverpool and United in the FA Cup and League Cup.
Hosts or rested for the weekend because in England played games in the FA Cup, I think it is an advantage for Mancini's team tonight. No injury to the host and certainly will form the best possible 11. In this season at home they scores 37 goals and just 6 against, have 12 wins in 12 games played in PremierLeague at Etihad Stadium.
Porto is the owner of the trophy and will certainly come to think of victory tonight. They went to Setubal in championship and managed to establish itself with 3:1, Janko played, player came from Twente but has no right to play in Europe, he opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Only absence for tonight will be Danilo, clashed with Yaya Toure in the first leg.
Probable teams :
Man. City 4-4-2 : Hart - Richards, Kompany, Savic, Kolarov - Milner, Toure, Barry, Johnson - Aguero, Dzeko
Porto 4-3-3 : Helton - Mangala, Maicon, Rolando, Pereira - Gonzalez, Moutinho, Fernando - J. Rodriguez, Hulk, Varela
Pick : Over 2.5
Odds : 1.80
Stake : 10 / 10
Match Result : 4:0
utorak, veljaèa 21, 2012
Napoli - Chelsea
Napoli made 2 straight wins to warm up for this clush. This is the most important game for them in the last years for sure and having amazing support behind them from the crowd, I expect Napoli perofrming more than great tonight. They already proved that are solid home side , beating Man City here in the group stages with 2:1.
Napoli got 7-4-1 in their last 12 official matches at home. Cavani is showing great form and I expect him to rail the troops tonight.
Chelsea is having bad times but AVB said that he is not concerning about his job. Chelsea won only once in their last 6 matches, making 4 draws! After Man City and Man United were eliminated and Arsenal lost with 4:0 in Milano, I expect Chelsea strong motivated at least to take positive result from Italy, cause would be quite strange all english sides to left the competition at this stage ...
Chelsea will be careful and wont take any risks for sure. I expect the pressure to be on home side and the draw would be the fairest result here IMO
Pick : X
Odds : 3.30
Stake : 8 / 10
Match Result : 3:1
Lose
ponedjeljak, veljaèa 20, 2012
Brentford - Carlise
Brentford is on tenth place and Carlisle is on seventh place.
Brentford have played 29 games (10-10-9). They have scored 39 and conceded 37 goals. At home, they have 5-5-5. In that 15 home games they scored 22 and conceded 20 goals. In the last home match they won against Wycombe with 5:2 (Alexander het trick, who is in great shape). Also Brentford is having 5 over in last 7 games.
Carlisle have played 29 games (12-10-7). They have scored 43 and conceded 44 goals. On the road, they have 5-5-4. In that 14 away games, they scored 17 and conceded 21 goals.
Also Carlisle is having 7 over in last 10 games.
In this season this two teams have played one time each other:
Carlisle vs Brentford 2:2
The last two games which were played in Brentford:
Brentford vs Carlisle 2:1
Brentford vs Carlisle 3:1
Well, I expect both teams to score and to see 3 or more goals here on this match. I think that Brentford is near to win this game but I will go with over2,5 goals. GL !
Pick : Over 2.5
Odds : 1.90
Stake : 10 / 10
Match Result : 4:0
nedjelja, veljaèa 19, 2012
Orion - Punatrenas
This game is Orion - Puntarenas, but I couldnt find Orion in the list with the clubs. please fix it
Both sides are very poor and this bet is based mainly on home advantage and guests poor form and defense on the road.
Puntarenas got 1-2-5 in their last 8 official games. They got quite shaky defense conceding 14 goals. In their last game they made 2:2 at home, but against 9 men from the guests squad and they were the team who was leading in the match. They also got red card so Rodriguez should be out due to suspession. They got 4 straight loses away from home and 3 of them with 2 or more goals difference.
Before the season both teams played firendly game and Orion won with 1:2.
Orion is on really bad run but before the start of the season the expectations were much higher and quite ambitious. They need to bounce back as fast as possible and tonight they got the perfect opponent to do the job
the odds are more than juicy.
Pick : HT/FT 1/1
Odds : 5.20
Stake : 8 / 10
Match Result : 1:0 / 2:1
subota, veljaèa 18, 2012
Barnsley - Portsmouth
Barnsley will be strong motivated to bounce back and to avoid 3rd straight loss today, and they got perfect opponent to do it. Barnsley are strong home side with 7-0-4 in their last 11 home games in the championship, as in these matches managed to beat one of the strongest travelers in the league, so I expect them to have much easier task today against Pompey.
Latest results
31.12.2011 LCh Barnsley FC 4-1 Leeds United ( 5th best away side)
01.11.2011 LCh Barnsley FC 2-1 Hull City ( 6th best away side)
18.10.2011 LCh Barnsley FC 2-0 Burnley FC (3rd best away side)
Hosts will miss only defender Bobby Hassell due to knee injury, while will welcome back 3 players on the bench, as their last signing - midfielder David Cotterill from Swansea, but also Stephen Dawson and John O"Brien who are recovered after injuries.
Portsmouth are the 21th placed, if we look only their away stats, recording 2-5-9 on the road so far. They are having really poor tun with 1-1-5 in their last 7 matches. They got shaky defense with only 2 clean sheets in last 9 games. Their manager will have huge problems with the squad today, as he got only 14 players available for this game. First of all midfielder David Norris, strikers Kanu and Varney,defender Ricardo Rocha (calf), Greg Halford (knee) and Joel Ward (hip) are also doubts. Appleton had spoken of his desire to rest Marko Futacs. Last week Kevin Etuhu and Liam Lawrence picked up injuries and will be out too, which made 5 youths to train with the first team
Barnsley is playing comfortable against Pompey last years, recording 4 wins in their last 5 meetings at home
Head-to-head: Barnsley - Portsmouth
Barnsley Portsmouth 1:0 20.11.2010
Barnsley Portsmouth 1:4 28.09.2001
Barnsley Portsmouth 1:0 25.11.2000
Barnsley Portsmouth 6:0 28.08.1999
Barnsley Portsmouth 2:1 24.10.1998
Everything but a home win would be surprise IMO
Pick : Barnsley
Odds : 2.30
Stake : 9 / 10
Match Result : 2:0