Nov 14

West Brom v Chelsea-After the midweek upset in the Carling Cup, Chelsea will be hoping to get back to winning ways in the Premiership.  Chelsea have never lost to West Brom in the Premiership, winning all six games they have played and in my opinion I don’t thing they will lose this game….but of course football is never easy!!

Betting tip:  Betfair have Chelsea priced at 1.33 to win this match, the odds are a little skinny for me.  So I’ll be backing John Terry to score at anytime, at odds of 9.4 on Betfair.

Arsenal v Aston Villa
Blackburn v Sunderland
Bolton v Liverpool
Fulham v Tottenham
Man Utd v Stoke
Newcastle v Wigan
West Brom v Chelsea
West Ham v Portsmouth
Everton v Middlesbrough
Hull v Man City

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Oct 24

West Brom v Hull-Hull will be looking to win four games on the bounce after beating three London teams in a row.  West Brom will be looking to bounce back after the thrashing handed out by Manchester United. Both of these teams have conceded 11 goals so far in the Premiership, but it’s Hull who are in the higher position in the league. 

Betting tip (losing)- Hull have shocked alot of people with their form, only losing 5-0 to Wigan this season.  But this has also overshadowed West Brom’s good start, their best in the Premiership.  I’m going to bet against Hull in this game, there’s no doubt they deserve to be where they are in the league, but they’ve had that bit of luck on their side to get those good results.  Back West Brom to win at odds of 2.34.

Wigan v Aston Villa-This will be Martin O’Neill’s 100th game as manager of Aston Villa.  Villa may find this fixture difficult, only winning 1 out of the 6 games they have played against Wigan.  Steve Bruce’s men played well against Liverpool last week and were unlucky not to to come away from Anfield with at least one point.  Last season Aston Villa took the three points in this fixture, winning 2-1.

Betting Tip (winner)- If I was to bet on who was going to win this match then I would be leaning towards Wigan.  But I’m more interested in the the ‘Over 2.5′goals market for this fixture.  With Villa only keeping 1 clean sheet in 16 away matches and with both teams capable of scoring goals, I’ll be going for over 2.5 goals, priced at 2.04 on Betfair.

Chelsea v Liverpool-  Liverpool have shown the character that’s needed to win the Premiership in the last two games, they’ve managed to win both matches despite trailing.  Chelsea on the other hand have been in great form despite missing key players, the game last week against Boro showed exactly why they are favourites for the Championship crown.  Liverpool will be missing Torres again due to injury and Robbie Keane may also miss the match. 

Betting tip (losing)- Liverpool have dropped the most league points to Chelsea compared to any other team they have played.  Both of these teams have been in great form, with 20 points each.  The blues are a force when playing at home with 86 games without defeat, although Liverpool were the last team before Arsenal to beat Chelsea at home.  This is a difficult one to call, but I find it hard to think that Chelsea will lose this game.  I’m predicting a draw, maybe 1-1, back the draw at odds of 3.3.

UPDATE- Last weekend produced a few shocks in my eyes and that’s not including Tottenham winning a game!!  I was wrong to think Hull would be able to keep up their good form of late and even more wrong to think Chelsea would not be beaten at home!  Liverpool have again shown that they are challengers to the title, but can they keep this good run going?  In the end it was only one correct tip out of three, Wigan v Villa produced over 2.5 goals as predicted.

Blackburn v Middlesbrough
Everton v Man Utd
Sunderland v Newcastle
West Brom v Hull
Chelsea v Liverpool
Man City v Stoke
Portsmouth v Fulham
Tottenham v Bolton
West Ham v Arsenal
Wigan v Aston Villa

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Sep 29

The second round of Champions League games begin with Arsenal and Manchester United looking to get three points to kick off their European campaign after they both drew in their respective groups.

Arsenal v FC Porto- Port haven’t had much luck when playing in England, 9 out of 10 visits have resulted in losses.  Although they should go into this game with confidence having beaten Fenerbahce 3-1 at home.  The last time Arsenal played Porto at home was in September 2006 and they won the game 2-0. 

Betting tip-  Porto will try to keep it tight and try to frustrate Arsenal as much as they can. The betting odds for the over and under 2.5 goals reflect this, with over 2.5 goals priced at 2.1 and unders at 1.89 on Betfair.  Usually when Arsenal play there are goals, if they can get an early one then a few more will hopefully follow.  Back over 2.5 goals in this game.

UPDATE (wiiner)- A good night for Arsenal, back on form, scoring goals for fun and a good night for us, backing odds of 2.1 for over 2.5 goals was a great way to double our money in a mere 48 minutes, if only Wall Street could do the same!!  I was also interested in overs in the Man Utd match and doing a double with the two games, but never mind, no need to get too greedy!!

AaB Aalborg 0-3 Man Utd
Arsenal 4-0 FC Porto
BATE Borisov 2-2 Juventus
Bayern Munich 1-1 Lyon
Fenerbahce 0-0 Dynamo Kiev
Fiorentina 0-0 Steaua Bucharest
Villarreal 1-0 Celtic
Zenit St Petersburg 1-2 Real Madrid
Anorthosis Famagusta v Panathinaikos
Atletico Madrid v Marseille
Bordeaux v Roma
CFR Cluj-Napoca v Chelsea
Inter Milan v Werder Bremen
Liverpool v PSV Eindhoven
Shakhtar Donetsk v Barcelona
Sporting Lisbon v Basle

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Sep 17

There were some great Champions League games last night, including the Liverpool match, Marseilles could of nearly of got a winner at the end, but Gerrard’s goal was a deserved winner. 

Betting tips

We’ll try and ease ourselves in the Champions League betting this season, so bet on over 1.5 goals in the Juventus v Zenit St Petersburg match at odds of 1.34, hopefully it will be an open match like I’ve seen in the past Zenit games. 

Fun bet-  With all the England players Cole, Lampard and Gerrard scoring yesterday, lets got for a small fun, bet on Wayne Rooney to score at anytime against Villarreal at odds of 2.8.  Let’s pray Rooney follows the good example set by his England teammates!!

UPDATE- In the end it was a tight match and the two teams could only muster one goal between them and there wasn’t quite the amount of goals as I expected.  A better value would of been to lay Lyon at odds of 1.75 against Fiorentina, that’s the benefit of hindsight!!! 

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