tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251283722024-03-15T08:41:58.076+00:00GAMBLING AND OTHER WHOLESOME INTERESTSFREE SPORTS BETTING TIPS ..... SOCCER, TENNIS, GOLF, FOOTBALL, NBA, NFL, POKERThe Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.comBlogger4191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-30660803839502849702014-04-01T14:33:00.000+01:002014-04-01T14:33:19.873+01:00Onwards and upwards !This is the 4,191st and last post on Gambling and Other Wholesome Interests (GOWI), it started eight years ago on March 31st 2006 and has now evolved into the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/">clubgowi website</a> and <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/subscribe-to-clubgowi">newsletter service</a>. The blog has been largely redundant for some time, but I have posted a little more frequently this last month , which has reminded me how much I loved it and I am more than a little sad at it's passing. <br />
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Those 4,191 posts have covered thousands of betting previews, which have made readers and there have been a LOT of loyal followers (well over one million hits), a great deal of money, I will detail the free to view results shortly.<br />
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You can still see read free to view GOWI previews, but only on the<a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/"> clubgowi website</a>, they are definitely worth looking out for, but remember, they are only a sample of the full service, 8% of clubgowi output is FTV and with that sample size, will be subject to major variance. You will never get to see the other 92% or our strongest information. The FTV results below make incredible reading, but it is the<a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/subscribe-to-clubgowi"> newsletter</a> which makes the money and it has the volume to ensure those profits are BIG long term, <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/clubgowi-sports-betting-results">take a look.</a><br />
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Anyway, this is turning into more of a sales pitch than the goodbye it was meant to be, so farewell, thank you for the support and see you over at <a href="http://clubgowi.com/">clubgowi.com</a> !<br />
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<b>clubgowi free to view results 2006-2014</b><br />
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<b>2006</b> stakes 991.5 returns 1154.81 ROI <b> + 16.46%</b><br />
<b>2007</b> stakes 1,187.5 returns 1331.68 ROI <b>+ 12.14%</b><br />
<b>2008</b> stakes 482.5 returns 664.68 ROI <b> + 37.37 %</b><br />
<b>2009</b> stakes 548.5 returns 642.43 ROI <b>+ 17.12%</b><br />
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<b>2010</b> stakes 225.13 returns 259.59 ROI <b> + 15.30 %</b><br />
<b>2011 </b> stakes 162.25 returns 171.02 ROI <b> + 5.41%</b><br />
<b>2012</b> stakes 267.75 returns 304.88 ROI <b>+16.93%</b><br />
<b>2013</b> stakes 137.8 returns 169.16 ROI <b> +22.76%</b><br />
<b>2014</b> stakes 49.25 returns 65.38 ROI <b>+32.75%</b><br />
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Total : Stakes 4052.18 returns 4763.62 <b>ROI + 17.56% </b><br />
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They are amazing results, but I want to leave you with something special and it is the best single piece of betting advice I have ever given and I honestly believe that. You can read the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/i-have-some-huge-news">first part here</a> and the second <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/my-experience-sportmarket-pro">on this link.</a><br />
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Good Luck. <br />
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<br />The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-31691783215186667912014-03-31T17:19:00.002+01:002014-03-31T17:19:58.290+01:00Happy Birthday !The blog is eight years old today, which is positively ancient , as blog years are much longer than dog years ! <br />
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I posted some notes below from the clubgowi newsletter about one of tonight's matches . It was not quite the final day I had in mind for the blog, so I will put up a couple of posts tomorrow and we can say goodbye in proper fashion.<br />
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Please check back.<br />
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Good Luck !The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-81229591938368322832014-03-31T17:10:00.000+01:002014-03-31T17:21:51.197+01:00Monday March 31st .....<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396278183229_61503">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396278183229_61504">France: Ligue 2: Racing Club Lens- Clermont</b><br />
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Hosts
are looking very solid in the top three and could open up a whopping
nine point lead over the 4th placed team with a win tonight. They travel
to play Caen, one of the few teams who could still catch them on
Saturday and so we can expect them to be looking for a maximum return
against Clermont. However, there is no telling if the 6-0 spanking at
Monaco in the Coupe de France quarter finals on Thursday has left any
scars and RCL have only won one of their last four at home, whilst
meeting teams with an average league placing of 12th.<br />
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Clermont are on an
unbeaten run of three games and come into this having not played for ten
days, so should be refreshed and well prepared.<br />
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396278183229_61516">Lens
are 8-8 ( goals scored -conceded) at home before the break , 13-4 after
it, Clermont are 7-5 on the road in the opening 45 minutes, a dismal
2-11 through the second half.</b></div>
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Those stats clearly
indicate that we can expect RCL to be the stronger of the two in the
second period and they might be happy to keep things tight early after
the events of Thursday evening. <b>They are a very decent 5-2-1 when level at half time at home ( 9-6-2 including away starts), Clermont 0-2-4 on the road</b>.<br />
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Lens get Alaeddine
Yahia ( 21-1-1) back in central defence, incredibly, in all
competitions, they have conceded 21 goals in 25 starts when Yahia plays,
27 in 10 without him, an increase of 1.86 goals per game , welcome back
! However, they are without centre back Ahmed Kantari ( 21-1-0),
midfielder Pierrick Valdivia (21-2-2) and a handful of longer term
injuries.<br />
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Clermont arrive
without centre back Cédric Avinel ( 23-1-1... no wins in six without
him), right back Anthony Lippini (17-0-0), defensive midfielder and
captain Eugène Ekobo ( 29-0-1 ...ever present........Clermont lost the
last four matches he missed last season), plus striker Grégory Bettiol (
20-4-1).<br />
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396278183229_61521">Definitely
advantage to Lens in terms of team news and they should win this, but
quotes of -0.75 ball 1.98 seems about right to me. I might take a little
if and when they reach 2.0 for the straight win "in running" , <span style="color: red;">but I will be very happy to bet them at the break if we are all square and playing, as always 11 v 11.</span></b><br />
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<b>Lens</b>
: Areola, Riou - Baal, Gbamin, Landre, Tisserand, Touré, Yahia -
Bourigeaud, Cyprien, Le Moigne, Nomenjanahary, Salli - Chavarria,
Coulibaly, Ndiaye, Ljuboja, Touzghar.</div>
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<b>Clermont</b> : Farnolle, Scolan - Bockhorni,
Da Silva, Imorou, Salze - Betsch, Capelle, Diogo, Hamdi, Moulin,
Salibur, Vidémont - Dugimont, Nkololo, Saad.<br />
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Good Luck. The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-1440511221809850952014-03-30T13:41:00.003+01:002014-03-30T13:44:17.552+01:00Serie A betting preview :Torino - Cagliari<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2204">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2234"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2233">Serie A :Torino - Cagliari</b></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2234"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2233"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7hwmxZfaXW8/UzgQ9G8PhWI/AAAAAAAAIq8/ueLAjE0lRpg/s1600/immobile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7hwmxZfaXW8/UzgQ9G8PhWI/AAAAAAAAIq8/ueLAjE0lRpg/s1600/immobile.jpg" height="237" width="400" /></a></b></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2234"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2233">
</b><br />We sided with Cagliari in midweek, when they edged past Verona 1-0 ...</span>..<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2251"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2250" style="color: blue;">The Sardinians do have a five point buffer over the drop zone, but with
3 of their next 4 starts coming on the road and their home game in that
sequence against Roma, they will surely be eyeing up the win today, in
what clearly appears the "easiest" points on offer over the next month.
They will be without Daniele Dessena (26-0-0) and veteran captain
Daniele Conti (24-4-2) in midfield, which is not ideal, but they have
options and no real other issues, they look to be "going for this" with a
very offensive looking line up and I take them to get those desperately
needed three points.</span><br /><br />That win has given them an eight
point advantage over the bottom three and they will not need too much
more to secure safety for another year, but they will want to get that
done and dusted asap and their schedule is quite tough over the next
month. A trip to Torino, doesn't look the trial it was earlier in the
campaign, the hosts lost just one of their first eleven starts at the </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2282">Stadio
Olimpico, but have tasted defeat in 3 of their last 4. Today they also
have to do without suspended top scorer Ciro Immobile (27-17-2), they
are without a win in seven when he plays 45 minutes or less and they
have lost the last four matches in which he has not scored.</span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2283">Cagliari are also without a suspended striker in </span>Mauricio
Pinilla (23-5-3), but he is very much an impact player from the bench
and whilst a very useful one, we are not really talking like for like.
He did not feature in Cagliari's 2-1 win in the reverse fixture, where
Immobile scored, the visitors did the double over Torino last season,
winning 1-0 here and I favour a repeat and another low scoring victory,
with the draw also on our side, I have to take <span style="color: red;"><b>1.5 units Cagliari +0.25 ball 2.38 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
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<b>Torino</b> : Tommaso Berni, Lys Gomis, Daniele
Padelli,Cesare Bovo, Matteo Darmian, Kamil Glik, Nikola Maksimovic,
Guillermo Rodriguez, Marko Vesovic,Migjen Basha, Omar El Kaddouri, Alexander Farnerud, Alessandro Gazzi, Jasmin Kurtic, Panagiotis Tachtsidis, Giuseppe Vives,<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396183006975_2286"> Mattia Aramu (maglia numero 49), Alessio Cerci, Emmanuel Gyasi (maglia numero 31), Riccardo Meggiorini.<br />
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<b>Cagliari</b>: Avramov ,
Silvestri,Astori, Avelar, Bastrini, Del Fabro, Murru, Oikonomou,
Perico, Pisano, Rossettini,Cabrera, Conti, Cossu, Dessena, Ekdal,
Eriksson, Tabanelli, Vecino,<b> </b>Ibarbo, Ibraimi, Nenè, Sau.<br />
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Good Luck. The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-8594230124939697742014-03-30T10:18:00.000+01:002014-03-30T10:18:01.216+01:00La Liga betting preview: Real Valladolid- Almeria<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396157478439_67873">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396157478439_67878">La Liga: Valladolid- Almeria</b><br />
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Big game for these two and on the back of a tough week for both. We previewed Almeria's midweek draw with Valencia.....<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1396157478439_67876" style="color: blue;">This
is a tough ask for Almeria, Real Sociedad on Monday and Valencia on
Thursday, the players have not trained much, it has mainly been about
recovery and tactics for today. However, they players have claimed not
to be tired at all and that are are buoyed by the fantastic win over
Real, a result which has given them a realistic chance of survival,
especially if they can follow up with a point or more this evening. They
also get right winger Jonathan Zongo ( 11-1-2) signed in the transfer
window, back from injury after missing out on Monday and likewise top
scorer Rodri (18-7-1) from suspension, so the option to freshen up a
winning team with two regular and key starters. </span></div>
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Almeria
fought back from 2-0 down at the break to earn a share of the spoils
and on the back of the match on Monday, we have to think there is not an
awful lot left in the tank, after giving everything and then a little
extra over the two games. This will be their third start inside five and
a half days and having to travel yesterday and the clocks changing and
losing another hour of sleep, is not in their favour. They have traveled
without suspended defensive midfielder Verza (28-7-3) and injured left
back Sebastián Dubarbier (24-1-0), they will miss the threat and cover
of Versa, who scored twice against Real and also both goals in the 2-0
defeat of Atletico, two of just three wins in 2014 and oh yes, he also
scored in the other ! They are without a cleansheet when Dubarbier
misses out , conceding 14 in six.</div>
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Hosts also played on
Thursday, but did have a little more recovery time leading up to that,
as they played their previous game on Saturday, so in terms of
freshness, they should have a huge edge. They are without suspended
centre back Stefan Mitrovic who has played every minute of the ten games
scheduled since his arrival on loan from Benfica in January, but
otherwise have no problems. A win would take them above three clubs,
including Almeria and out of the drop zone, at least for an hour or two
and that is a massive incentive. They have beaten both Villarreal and
Barcelona here since the turn of the year, so will fancy their chances
and with Valencia and Real Madrid their next two visitors, know that
things will only get harder after today. </div>
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I feel the
temptation for the visitors will be to play for what would be an all
important point, but they seem poorly set up to do so, especially given
their two missing players and they have conceded two or more in each of
their last five starts. I feel the early kick off on top of a gruelling
schedule puts them at a massive disadvantage today. <span style="color: red;"><b>1.5 units Valladolid -0.75 ball 2.25 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
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<b>Valladolid:</b> Jaime, Mariño, Rukavina, Marc Valiente, Rueda, Peña, Bergdich,
Álvaro Rubio, Baraja, Víctor Pérez, Rossi, Jeffren, Larsson, Óscar,
Omar, Guerra, Osorio, Manucho.</div>
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<b>Almeria:</b>
Esteban (1) , Julián Cuesta (25), Rafita (20), Nelson (22),
Torsiglieri (2), Marcelo Silva (3), Trujillo (5) , Mané (21),Aleix Vidal
(8), Marcos Tébar (6), Corona (15), Azeez (31), Soriano (23), Barbosa
(11) , Suso (17), Oscar Díaz (9), Rodri (10) , Jonathan (19).<br />
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Good Luck. The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-23099329058871839812014-03-27T18:49:00.002+00:002014-03-27T18:49:44.758+00:00Tough ask ...........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_37226">La Liga: Almeria-Valencia</b><br /><br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_25575">
This
is a tough ask for Almeria, Real Sociedad on Monday and Valencia on
Thursday, the players have not trained much, it has mainly been about
recovery and tactics for today. However, they players have claimed not
to be tired at all and that are are buoyed by the fantastic win over
Real, a result which has given them a realistic chance of survival,
especially if they can follow up with a point or more this evening. They
also get right winger Jonathan Zongo ( 11-1-2) signed in the transfer
window, back from injury after missing out on Monday and likewise top
scorer Rodri (18-7-1) from suspension, so the option to freshen up a
winning team with two regular and key starters. <br />
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_25577">
Valencia
have had an extra day's recovery time, but their match was not much
less intense, being a derby game with Villarreal , which they won 2-1,
there is not much for them to play for in the league now and the Europa
League will surely be their focus and the draw has been kind, with a
very win-able quarter final first leg with Basel next midweek. I doubt
if this comes down to a scrap and it surely will, that they can match
the battling qualities of the home side, for whom this means so much
more.<br /><br />For the visitors, centre back Víctor Ruiz who has only just
returned to the first team, left the weekend game at half time with a
knock and misses out tonight, along with goalkeeper Diego Alves ( in the
12 matches he has missed all competitions this season, Valencia have
conceded 18 goals.... just 27 in the 31 he has played, a difference of
0.63 per game), left wingers Pablo Piatti (19-5-3 all comps) and Fede
Cartabia (29-3-2) are both sidelined, one or other has started in every
game and severely weakens them on that flank.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_25580">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_25579">Before
anyone writes to tell me, odds have drifted from 2.20 to 2.33 in the
last hour, you can view that many ways, some people like to follow the
money, I prefer to stick with my own views and at the higher quote have
pushed up my stakes, which is a winning long term policy for me.</b></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_25586" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395915425478_25585">Almeria +0.25 ball 2.33 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br /></div>
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<b>Valencia</b> :Guaita, Antoni Sivera,Barragán, Joao, Vezo, Senderos, Mathieu, Bernat,<b> </b>Oriol, Javi Fuego, Dani Parejo, Keita, Feghouli, Míchel,<b> </b>Fede, Jonas, Vargas, Vinícius, Alcácer.<br />
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Good Luck. The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-57878658394680885182014-03-26T14:02:00.004+00:002014-03-26T14:02:57.612+00:00Wednesday March 26th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Elche bet below was a winner and there was a free to view content bonus, with another preview on the clubgowi website yesterday <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/premier-league-betting-preview-newcastle-united-everton">(LINK)</a> which was also a winner. Remember, after March 31st there will not be any more posts here on the blog, it will only be possible to read FTV content on the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/">clubgowi website</a>. To be honest , that has largely been the case for the last 15 months and the previews posted here this month, have just been a final swansong, as the blog with be eight years old on the 31st and it is time to wind things up. we are going out on a high if you like.<br />
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I have previewed SEVEN matches for subscribers today and am a little "pumped" about the football, I normally only get that when something good is about to happen, it might not be today, but soon ! So keep in touch.<br />
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I can give you a tip in the meantime and that is to check out Sportmarket Pro, which is an automated bet-broker service, which enables you to access six different betting companies through a single account, you can read all about it <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/i-have-some-huge-news">on this link </a> including screencasts of it in action and my personal experiences of using the product <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/my-experience-sportmarket-pro">here</a>. Those two posts made the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/top-ten-clubgowi-website-posts-2013">clubgowi top ten of 2013 and you can read the other eight on the website</a>.<br />
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Good Luck.The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-74578458165470086212014-03-25T17:27:00.001+00:002014-03-25T17:27:58.476+00:00The preview below .......The preview below and the notes underneath it highlight why the clubgowi newsletter is such an exceptional <br />
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I am biased of course, but I do believe it is the best value sports betting product on the market. You do not have to take my word about the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/">newsletter service</a>, although after eight years, most of you know how good I am ( there is no point being modest at this late stage !), you can also read a third party review of the newsletter <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/third-party-review-clubgowi-newsletter">on this link</a>.<br />
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<br />The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-28468413255206218872014-03-25T16:41:00.002+00:002014-03-25T16:41:44.817+00:00Tuesday March 25th ....<div>
<b>La Liga : Elche- Athletic Bilbao</b><br />
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Almeria
twice fought back from a goal down last night to earn a 4-3 victory
over highflying Real Sociedad . Three things about that, it took the
home side out of the drop zone and within a point of Elche , extended
Athletic's lead in the race for 4th to eight big looking points and
showed Elche what you can achieve with the right application and total
commitment.<br />
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Bilbao do not <i>need</i> to win this,
closest challengers Sevilla are hosting Real Madrid tomorrow and
Athletic will want to keep something back for the visit from Atletico
Madrid at the weekend. Elche simply have to get something out of the
game, with three of their next four starts being trips to Villarreal,
Valencia and Atletico Madrid ! They are in the heart of the relegation
scrap, have to battle for every blade of grass and however tough this
might appear on paper, it is at least easier than those three upcoming
fixtures.<br />
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You
know that I am a fan of Athletic and their purist football beliefs,
they have done us any number of favours over the last three seasons, not
least last midweek at Villarreal, with that late goal (notes reproduced
below), but you cannot win every game, or always play at the same
intensity, this is a philosophy that won us so much money in Brazil last
season ( and will do so again this summer), the need to "pick your
battles" and a rare full midweek round in Spain, when there are bigger
games ahead on home soil, is probably not one Bilbao should be opting
for, especially facing an opponent desperate to survive in the top
flight.<br />
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The home coach knows what is on the line
tonight and has asked the crowd for full support for 90 minutes + and
his players to leave the pitch with "no regrets", if they want to be
playing top tier football in 2014-15. Team news is not important for me
in these situations, heart , desire and motivation are all that matter,
game of the season for Elche. <span style="color: red;"><b>1.5 units Elche +0.5 ball 2.0 asian line /Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
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<b>Elche
have conceded just three home goals in the opening
hour , Athletic have conceded 11 of 18 road goals (61%) between the 21st
and 50th minute, so a good opportunity for the hosts to still be in
this (or even ahead) entering the final third , giving good trading
opportunities with this bet, if you want to go down that route. Getting
involved in the first half is also an option..............the rest is up
to you !</b></div>
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<b>Athletic</b>: Iraizoz, Toquero, Laporte, Erik Morán, San José, Beñat, Iturraspe, De
Marcos, Iago Herrerín, Susaeta, Iraola, Mikel Rico, Muniain, Aduriz,
Ander Herrera, Saborit, Ekiza , Balenziaga.
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Good Luck.<br />
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<b>La Liga: Villarreal-Athletic Bilbao</b> <span style="color: red;"><b>(written March 17th)</b></span><br />
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I
am pretty sure that Athletic would snatch your hand off for a point
tonight, it would give them a six point lead over Real Socieded in the
Champions League race and effectively end the top four hopes of
Villarreal.</div>
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Athletic are clubgowi favourites we won a
LOT of money on them in 2011-12 and some readers have only just stopped
counting the winnings from the win over Manchester United at Old
Trafford which was two years ago last week. They blew across Europe like
a breath of fresh air that season and we followed them almost all the
way, 7.50 to win at OT was CRAZY. They were totally fearless that year,
just like their coach the, in equal measures, brilliant and bonkers,
Marcelo Bielsa, with that defeat of United, everyone knew how good they
were, but I had written <b>six months</b> earlier ....<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">New
coach Marcelo Bielsa is a real one off and it has taken a little time
to get his ideas across, but the benefits are starting to show and</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">we can expect Bilbao to come on very strong in the next couple of months</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: blue;">
Bielsa is very meticulous, he personally checks pitch measurements
before every away game and has been known to give four hour press
conferences ! He favours a high pressing game, with the strikers
putting a lot of pressure on opposing defenders, whilst at times this
looks a fairly rigid formation, he makes a lot of subtle changes during
the course of the game, which sometimes give them five forward
players. 18 yo Iker Muniain has been outstanding in the last two
seasons and he has been very influential in the last two games, setting
up a lot of chances for the front three. Far more options for the
coach tonight with the return of big summer signing Ander Herrera from
injury and Ekiza to the centre of defence after suspension and</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this is a young, developing team of huge potential</span>.<br />
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This season I wrote within two weeks of the new season starting ... <span style="color: blue;">"Athletic Bilbao look destined for a solid season, they did not do much
business in the summer, but the signing of
Beñat Etxebarria from Betis looks top quality and Mikel Rico and Kike
Sola will improve squad options. It was felt they might take time to
adjust to Ernesto Valverde, who is a very different coach to Marcelo
Bielsa ( isn't everyone ?), but he had eight years here previously as
player and coach and understands how this club, which is very much a one
off, operates. Aside from the top 3, <span style="color: black;"><b>Athletic look as strong as anyone
and could compete for a top 4-6 finish</b></span> if they can build on a decent
start ( two wins and loss to Real Madrid) ,over the next month. The loss
in Madrid was a bit of a wake up call, as people were getting a little
carried away after winning their first two and they need to bounce back
today. </span>"</div>
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;">The
coach came in for criticism shortly after for too much rotation, but
has opted for a more settled line up since and they are in control of
4th spot at present and buoyed by a defeat of Barcelona last time out in
La Liga.</span></div>
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They
were huge odds to finish top 4, remember they finished 12th last season
and I also suggested newly promoted Villarreal would have abig season
on opening day....<span style="color: blue;">Of
the promoted clubs Villarreal look by far the strongest, they have
spent a little money to get competitive, are still a big name club
around Europe and the chances are, that we will come to view their one
year hiatus in the second tier as little more than a blip. Whether they
can quite return to former glory, they finished 8-3-7-5-2-5-7-4 in their
eight seasons before relegation, is open to debate, but I expect a mid
season finish this time round
at the very least. They finished last season strongly, 9th in late
January and seven points off an automatic promotion spot, they went
13-6-1 over their last 20 starts and pipped Almeria to second place.
Spanish international defensive midfielder Bruno Soriano (36-4-4 last
season) has been at the club man and boy and through the Champions
League years and remained loyal, likewise offensive midfielder Cani
(37-3-5) amongst others. That loyalty ( on both sides) was repaid and
now Villa look well equipped for life back in the top flight. They have
added some real quality with the signings of another defensive
midfielder in Tomás Pina ( 36-0-1 Mallorca in La Liga), he and Soriano
will make a fairly formidible pairing, plus gifted Mexican international
strikers Giovani dos Santos (29-6-6 Mallorca)
and Javier Aquino (joined late in the last transfer window). They did
lose Javi Venta to Brentford ( !), but signed central defender Gabriel
Paulista from Vitoria of Brazil (14-1-0) this week and they have spent
some 17-20m euros on transfer fees alone, when others have kept very
tight hold of their purse strings. To put that into perspective, whilst
adding players, the other two promoted clubs only actually spent circa
50k on transfer fees between them !</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Ikechukwu
Uche (32-14-4) Jonathan Pereira (20-7-4) Jérémy Perbet (18-11-3) all
remain and with the Mexican duo, <span style="color: black;"><b>they look to have as much offensive
potential as any outside the really big players
in Primera, if they could hit the ground running, a really strong
season is in the offering and even a top six finish not impossible</b></span>.
Pereira , Perbet, Aquino only signed in January and made a huge and
instant impact . They are spending money on the team in other ways too,
chartering a plane to fly to Almeria at lunch time, so that they can
prepare in Valencia this morning and staying in the city overnigh</span>t.<br />
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Villarreal
could move into 5th with all three points tonight and that ends my
sales pitch for highlighting why you should read the content of the
previews and not just focus on the bottom line .<br />
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Briefly,
back to today, in stark contrast to the
Roma game, I am looking for late action here, the hosts have conceded 10
of 16 home goals in the final 30 minutes, 6 in the last ten, which is
the worst home defensive record in La Liga . Bilbao are 5-1 (goals
scored -conceded) in the last ten minutes on the road, only Real Madrid
have scored more
and only Real and Barcelona are stronger after the break than Athletic.
Good opportunity late again for the visitors, especially with Villa
having to gamble for maximum points. <span style="color: red;"><b>1 unit Bilbao at the best asian quote approaching the 60 minute mark if we are 11 v 11 and they are not already ahead.</b></span>The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-62410118181646609872014-03-22T13:33:00.000+00:002014-03-22T13:33:05.876+00:00France Ligue 1 betting preview : Valenciennes- Ajaccio<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2565">
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What
a game for Valenciennes, a win over Ajaccio who are all but booked for
Ligue 2 , combined with <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Evian not winning at Toulouse, will see the
hosts haul themselves out of the bottom three for the first time since
mid September. After losing 7 of their first 8 starts that says so much
about the club and their spirit.<br />
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We latched onto them early in the New Year and ahead of their home win over Bastia I wrote ...<br /><br /><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2567" style="color: blue;">Valenciennes
found some form just before the break, which to be honest they could
probably have done without, taking buoyant Bordeaux close and then
winning 2-1 at Monaco in their last start of 2013, a result which will
have given them hope of avoiding the drop, However, it is home form
which will likely determine if they are to remain in Ligue 1 for an
eighth straight season and four points from safety and with a trip to
Marseille, where they have not won in recent times (at least a decade),
up next, they need the win this evening. They have improved for their
new coach and funds have been released to back him, with the club adding
central defender Carl Medjani on loan from Monaco and speedy Majeed
Waris from Spartak Moscow. Still only 22 yo, Waris was top Allsvenskan
goalscorer in 2012 when with Hacken, 23 goals and 9 assists from 29
starts, in a league where three teams did not manage 32 goals as a club,
was a very good tally and he could be good business, both go straight
into the squad today. However, this is all about motivation for me and
with a little momentum behind them, I favour the home win.</span><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2592">They
have taken 13 points from their last five home games and most of those
will feel like nothing if they do not get another three this evening.
Last week they won a six pointer away to Evian 1-0 , ahead of which I
wrote ....</span><br />
<br /> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2569" style="color: blue;">Valenciennes are missing suspended defensive
midfielder David Ducourtioux (23-1-1), they are 1-2-5 when he plays 45
minutes or less and are without a cleansheet in those games, conceding
15 goals in total. This compounds the continued, and now long term
absence of Benjamin Angoua and Lindsay Rose in central defence and
missing those two and without the protection which Ducourtioux brings to
the backline, it is very difficult to see Valenciennnes keeping Evian
out for too long. The visitors do have a greatly increased threat now
and Waris was an exceptional bit of "window" business</span>.<br />
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Waris
scored and the clean sheet was fantastic under the circumstances. I do
not see team news as overly important , but the hosts do get Ducourtioux
back this evening.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2571" style="text-align: justify;">
Ajaccio are planning for Ligue 2, but have
found a few goals recently and scored in 7 of their last 8, including
at Lyon and twice at Nantes. Valenciennes do not often do things the
easy way and despite that solid run at home recently, have conceded in
each of those five games. I feel they might do so again, but cannot see
beyond the home win and every time I look at this fixture, the 3-1
scoreline is staring back at me.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2572" style="text-align: justify;">
That was the scoreline when the two met in
Corsica and Valenciennes also won this 3-0 last season, so have scored
six in the last two h2h meetings. I am backing the hosts and will
"cover" on the over 3.5 goal line which has obliged in 4 of Ajaccio's
last six starts and in 2 of 4 for the home team, a reasonable chance for
us to collect on both.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2575" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2574">1.75 units Valenciennes -1 ball 2.00 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2586" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2585"><br /></b></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2579" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2578">0.75
units "over" 3.5 goals 3.20-3.60 general quote, there is also 2.64
"over" 3 goals with Pinnacle Sports which is also an option.</b></span><br />
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2582">Valenciennes</b>
: Novaes, Penneteau - Ciss, Kagelmacher, Lala, Masuaku, Mater, Nery -
Da Silva, Dossevi, Doumbia, Ducourtioux, Enza-Yamissi, Houri, Melikson -
Le Tallec, Pujol, Waris.</div>
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<b>Ajaccio</b> : Ochoa, Sissoko - Nadeau, Perozo,
Ait-Yahia, Mostefa, Diarra, Faty, Lasne, André, Cavalli, Tallo,
Bonnart, Leca, Orengo, Mela, Baradji, Camara.</div>
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2597">Ajaccio have conceded 54% of road goals ( 43% of all goals) in the final 30 minutes.</b><br />
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Good Luck.<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395494873216_2597"> </b>The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-14032889371621175942014-03-18T09:09:00.001+00:002014-03-18T09:09:45.927+00:00Tuesday March 18thAs I told you yesterday, I sent subscribers two selections for Monday and they are reproduced below in full, <br />
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exactly as they were sent in the morning clubgowi newsletter .<br />
<br />
I suggesting betting Roma to win the first half after the 13th-14th minute as long as they were not leading, it was 0-0 at that stage and they were trading at odds of 2.36. They were 2-0 up inside 31 minutes and that was the score at the break.<br />
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In our second game, after a bit of self promotion, I got around to suggesting we take Athletic approaching the hour mark, again with the proviso that they were not ahead, they were trailing 1-0 and quoted at a terrific level ball 2.19 at that stage for the rest of the match, which they won 1-0 ( final score 1-1).<br />
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95% of our selections are pre match, but we also give a lot of "in play" stats and suggestions in the newsletter and if you do not think that information and previews like this are worth 19 euros per week ( this week there will be at least 12 newsletters btw), then you are a lost cause and should perhaps find another hobby !<br />
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Good Luck !<br />
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395131239301_5261">Serie A: Roma-Udinese</b><br /><br /></div>
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It
is only really about the race for second place for Roma now and they
might be extra motivated for this this after losing to Napoli last week,
especially if their direct rival for that position wins the earlier
kick off today. Udinese are probably 3-6 points away from safety and are
far more likely to claim three of those at home to Sassuolo this coming
Sunday, than they are tonight. The visitors are not the greatest of
travelers anyway, but are very vulnerable away from home early, being
2-3-9 in the first half, a significantly better 5-4-5 after the break,
interestingly, they have conceded 13 of 22 road goals (59%) between the
16th-45th minute, Roma are a very strong 10-1 (goals scored-conceded) at
home, through the same period and there is a good opportunity for them
to take command then. <br />
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Roma are asked to
give up a 1.25 goal handicap over 90 minutes, in the first half that is
circa 1.94 -0.5 ball, but if they are not leading approaching the 15
minute mark, we are likely to get far more generous quotes about them
going in ahead at the break and taking the lead through the period when
Udinese are most suspect defensively. Midfielder Bruno Fernandes
(15-3-3) is suspended for the visitors, he has missed five away games,
four of which they have lost, conceding the winner, between the 23rd and
45th minute in each .<br />
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Roma suffered a huge loss with the season ending injury to Kevin Strootman last week, but do get Francesco Totti back today. <span style="color: red;"><b>1
unit Roma best available asian quote at the 13-14 minute mark in first
half betting, as long as they are not already leading and we are 11 v
11.</b></span><br />
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<br /><b>Udinese</b>: Brkic, Kelava, Scuffet;Basta,
Bubnjic, Danilo, Domizzi, Heurtaux, Naldo, Neuton, Widmer;Allan, Badu,
Jadson, Yebda, Lazzari, Pereyra, Pinzi;Di Natale, Maicosuel, Muriel,
Nico Lopez,
Zielinski. <br />
<br /></div>
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<div>
<b>La Liga: Villarreal-Athletic Bilbao</b><br /><br /></div>
<div>
I
am pretty sure that Athletic would snatch your hand off for a point
tonight, it would give them a six point lead over Real Socieded in the
Champions League race and effectively end the top four hopes of
Villarreal.<br />
</div>
<div>
Athletic are clubgowi favourites we won a LOT of money on
them in 2011-12 and some readers have only just stopped counting the
winnings from the win over Manchester United at Old Trafford which was
two years ago last week. They blew across Europe like a breath of fresh
air that season and we followed them almost all the way, 7.50 to win at
OT was CRAZY. They were totally fearless that year, just like their
coach the, in equal measures, brilliant and bonkers, Marcelo Bielsa,
with that defeat of United, everyone knew how good they were, but I had
written <b>six months</b> earlier ....<br />
<br /><div>
<span style="color: blue;">New
coach Marcelo Bielsa is a real one off and it has taken a little time
to get his ideas across, but the benefits are starting to show and</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">we can expect Bilbao to come on very strong in the next couple of months</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="color: blue;">
Bielsa is very meticulous, he personally checks pitch measurements
before every away game and has been known to give four hour press
conferences ! He favours a high pressing game, with the strikers
putting a lot of pressure on opposing defenders, whilst at times this
looks a fairly rigid formation, he makes a lot of subtle changes during
the course of the game, which sometimes give them five forward
players. 18 yo Iker Muniain has been outstanding in the last two
seasons and he has been very influential in the last two games, setting
up a lot of chances for the front three. Far more options for the
coach tonight with the return of big summer signing Ander Herrera from
injury and Ekiza to the centre of defence after suspension and</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">this is a young, developing team of huge potential</span>.<br />
<br />This season I wrote within two weeks of the new season starting ... <span style="color: blue;"><span>"Athletic Bilbao look destined for a solid season, they did not do much
business in the summer, but the signing of
Beñat Etxebarria from Betis looks top quality and Mikel Rico and Kike
Sola will improve squad options. It was felt they might take time to
adjust to Ernesto Valverde, who is a very different coach to Marcelo
Bielsa ( isn't everyone ?), but he had eight years here previously as
player and coach and understands how this club, which is very much a one
off, operates. Aside from the top 3, <span style="color: black;"><b>Athletic look as strong as anyone
and could compete for a top 4-6 finish</b></span> if they can build on a decent
start ( two wins and loss to Real Madrid) ,over the next month. The loss
in Madrid was a bit of a wake up call, as people were getting a little
carried away after winning their first two and they need to bounce back
today. </span></span>"</div>
<span style="color: blue;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span><span>The
coach came in for criticism shortly after for too much rotation, but
has opted for a more settled line up since and they are in control of
4th spot at present and buoyed by a defeat of Barcelona last time out in
La Liga.</span></span></span></div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
They were huge
odds to finish top 4, remember they finished 12th last season and I also
suggested newly promoted Villarreal would have abig season on opening
day....<span style="color: blue;">Of
the promoted clubs Villarreal look by far the strongest, they have
spent a little money to get competitive, are still a big name club
around Europe and the chances are, that we will come to view their one
year hiatus in the second tier as little more than a blip. Whether they
can quite return to former glory, they finished 8-3-7-5-2-5-7-4 in their
eight seasons before relegation, is open to debate, but I expect a mid
season finish this time round
at the very least. They finished last season strongly, 9th in late
January and seven points off an automatic promotion spot, they went
13-6-1 over their last 20 starts and pipped Almeria to second place.
Spanish international defensive midfielder Bruno Soriano (36-4-4 last
season) has been at the club man and boy and through the Champions
League years and remained loyal, likewise offensive midfielder Cani
(37-3-5) amongst others. That loyalty ( on both sides) was repaid and
now Villa look well equipped for life back in the top flight. They have
added some real quality with the signings of another defensive
midfielder in Tomás Pina ( 36-0-1 Mallorca in La Liga), he and Soriano
will make a fairly formidible pairing, plus gifted Mexican international
strikers Giovani dos Santos (29-6-6 Mallorca)
and Javier Aquino (joined late in the last transfer window). They did
lose Javi Venta to Brentford ( !), but signed central defender Gabriel
Paulista from Vitoria of Brazil (14-1-0) this week and they have spent
some 17-20m euros on transfer fees alone, when others have kept very
tight hold of their purse strings. To put that into perspective, whilst
adding players, the other two promoted clubs only actually spent circa
50k on transfer fees between them !</span><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
<span style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div>
<span style="color: blue;">Ikechukwu
Uche (32-14-4) Jonathan Pereira (20-7-4) Jérémy Perbet (18-11-3) all
remain and with the Mexican duo, <span style="color: black;"><b>they look to have as much offensive
potential as any outside the really big players
in Primera, if they could hit the ground running, a really strong
season is in the offering and even a top six finish not impossible</b></span>.
Pereira , Perbet, Aquino only signed in January and made a huge and
instant impact . They are spending money on the team in other ways too,
chartering a plane to fly to Almeria at lunch time, so that they can
prepare in Valencia this morning and staying in the city overnigh</span>t.<br /></div>
<div>
Villarreal
could move into 5th with all three points tonight and that ends my
sales pitch for highlighting why you should read the content of the
previews and not just focus on the bottom line .<br />
</div>
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Briefly, back to
today, in stark contrast to the Roma game, I am looking for late action
here, the hosts have conceded 10 of 16 home goals in the final 30
minutes, 6 in the last ten, which is the worst home defensive record in
La Liga . Bilbao are 5-1 (goals scored -conceded) in the last ten
minutes on the road, only Real Madrid have scored more and only Real and
Barcelona are stronger after the break than Athletic. Good opportunity
late again for the visitors, especially with Villa having to gamble for
maximum points. <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395131239301_5377" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1395131239301_5376">1 unit Bilbao at the best asian quote approaching the 60 minute mark if we are 11 v 11 and they are not already ahead.<br />
</b></span></div>
The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-15879072654867680752014-03-17T12:10:00.000+00:002014-03-17T12:10:56.848+00:00Monday 17th March ....Laval were easy winners on Friday (see two posts down), stakes returned on Betis yesterday (see below) <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/bundesliga-betting-previeweintracht-frankfurt-freiburg"> </a>, <br />
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<br />
I have looked at three of today's matches for subscribers, putting up selections in two and there is a hugely busy week ahead with two newsletters scheduled for tomorrow alone.<br />
<br />
The website has been the GOWI home for well over 14 months now and if you have not been following us there over that period, a good place to start is <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/top-ten-clubgowi-website-posts-2013">our top ten posts of 2013 article</a>.<br />
<br />
Elsewhere, without counting any chickens, my beloved Brenford have , if not one foot, at least a big toe in the Championship after Saturday's massive win at Leyton Orient and I am hoping that someone is super gluing and putting a nail through that toe just for good measure this week. Too many near misses in the past, it just feels so different this season and I have everything crossed that we can get the job done as soon as possible and maybe even enjoy the last couple of games in League 1.<br />
<br />
BTW, George (The Enforcer) Saville and Marcello Trotta are "useless" and Chelsea and Fulham should definitely sell both cheaply in the summer.<br />
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Good Luck.The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-70705924483201526902014-03-16T10:29:00.004+00:002014-03-16T23:32:42.844+00:00La Liga ....<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394951166929_56488">La Liga: Elche- Real Betis</b> (written Saturday 18.00)<br />
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<div>
Betis have at long last awoken from their slumber !<br />
</div>
<div>
A
win at Rubin in the Europa League set up a double header with
neighbours and deadly rivals Sevilla in the european competition and
that seemed to inspire them. A point at highflying Villarreal in the
league followed, by all three at home to Getafe last week and then, most
eyecatching of all, a 2-0 win over Sevilla in the first leg on
Thursday. More than a little momentum and that eight point gap to
survival and the promised land of 17th spot, no longer looks quite so
far from their grasp.<br />
<br />
Three points here would also close the gap on
Elche to eight points and have the additional bonus of bringing one more
team into the mix. </div>
<div>
Real have yet to win on the road
this season, but that tends to matter less once we are into must win
territory and if they can win in Russia and at Sevilla ,a trip to Elche
who have won only 5 of 14 at home and who were playing second tier
football last season, whilst Betis were challenging for a european
place, should hold few fears.<br />
</div>
<div>
It is a very quick
turnaround, especially given that it is an early kick off, but I suspect
Real WANT to be playing right now and if they win, would probably like
another game tomorrow.<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394951166929_56491">
In the last three seasons,
teams have needed between 37 and 44 points to survive in La Liga, in the
two years that 37 were enough, after 27 rounds the team in 17th had 26
points, exactly the same as Valladoilid have now. That would mean that
19 points is probably the minimum that Real need to survive, that is six
wins and a draw from 11 starts, a tall order given that they have only
won four all season. But easier to manage once you are playing well and
if Real knew for certain that would be enough, I think it would be cause
for celebration. However, they are probably going to have to win at
least twice on the road and looking at the remaining matches, I would
argue that this was one they would surely target, not least because it
would keep the momentum up.<br />
<br />
Elche are without left Edu Albacar (17-3-1...........just two wins in 10 starts without him).<br />
<br /></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394951166929_56493" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394951166929_56492">1.5 units Real Betis level ball 2.31 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394951166929_56493" style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Good Luck.</span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394951166929_56492"> </b></span><br />
The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-6391136178162814282014-03-14T16:08:00.001+00:002014-03-14T16:08:24.154+00:00France: Ligue 2 ....<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5945">
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5991">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6015">Laval-Auxerre</b><br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5918">
Laval
seem to have joined Istres as the team we discuss every week, so lots
of recent notes on them, ahead of their recent 2-1 defeat at Brest I
wrote ...<br />
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5923">
<br /><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5922">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5921" style="color: blue;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5920"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5919">Laval's
last four starts have only produced a total of two goals, but they know
they have to gamble today and that their next three starts ( they also
play the other two in the drop zone) are going to be season defining
matches. Also, the five previous home matches they have played this
season against bottom eight teams have all gone "over" at an average of
4.2 goals per game, they are without central defender </span></span>Miodrag
Stosic (12-0-0) and left sided midfielder Amara Baby (17-4-0) this
evening, but nothing too bad and I expect them to play their part in an
exciting contest.</span></div>
<span style="color: blue;">
</span><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6014">
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6013" style="color: blue;">Laval
arrive beat up and without centre backs Malik Couturier (23-0-1) and
Miodrag Stosic, defensive midfielder Hassane Alla (23-2-3), left winger
Amara Baby (17-4-0) and right winger Sébastien Renouard (15-2-1). It is
defensively they worry me and whilst I think they have a chance of
winning today at decent odds (3.60+) , it is almost impossible to see
them keeping a clean sheet given that they will leave gaps and look
vulnerable at the back. We spoke about the increase in goals in Ligue 2
recently and they are still averaging 2.45 per game and I think we will
see both teams score tonight</span>.<br /></div>
Last week they got a vital 2-0 win over CA Bastia when I wrote .... <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5924" style="color: blue;">tonight they will still be without Couturier and Stosic in the
middle of the backline and Baby and Renouard out wide, they will get a
little protection for that weakened defence with the return from
suspension of Hassane Alla (see stats for all five players above), but
that is more than offset by the loss of left back Guillaume Rippert
(22-0-1) to suspension</span><b>.</b><span style="color: #9900ff;"><b><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></span><br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5925">
The three points earned there did not improve their league
placing, but did take them a little closer to safety, they are four
points from both survival and five adrift of tonight's oponent and
looking at the bigger picture, "just" nine adrift of Arles who are in a
lofty tenth place, so still an awful lot to play for. Having said that,
not a lot of margin for error for Laval, who have to keep picking up
points, especially on home soil.<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5934">
Couturier and Renouard are still sidelined with injury (
see both above) and defensive midfielder Anthony Gonçalves (25-0-3) is
suspended and looks a big loss, with Laval having won just 2 from 11
without him and conceded two or more goals in seven of those. They look
short in central defence, but have apparently left Miodrag Stosic out by
choice, so must be happy with the situation, but without the protection
of Gonçalves, they look vunerable.<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5935">
On the plus side, the return to action of left winger
Amara Baby gives them far more options on that flank, Laval have
collected ten points from 15 games (0.67 pts average) in which he has
played 30 minutes or less, 16 from the other 12 (1.33 per game).<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6016">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5936">
Auxerre have not won in four and starting
today, have three of their next four start on the road, where they have
not won in over ten months and scored just five times in 13 away days
this season. They did win here last season, incredibly winning a real
thriller by the odd goal in nine (!), scoring the same in 90 minutes as
they have managed away from home all season. Maybe a trip here will
awaken them from their slumber, that or the prospect of heading for
National just three seasons after playing Champions League football !<br />
<br />They lost their offensive focus with the transfer of Paul-Georges
Ntep and arrive today without suspended right back Eric Marester
(21-0-0) and goalkeeper Donovan Léon who started in the last 12 games.
With Olivier Sorin already injured, that means Lembet or Baltus in goal,
neither of whom have started this season. Key defensive midfielder
Jamel Aït Ben Idir (25-1-0) is injured and this looks a very big ask for
the visitors, given their lack of firepower up front and defensive
issues. Laval tend to start matches quickly ( see stats below) and
Auxerre poorly, so a real opportunity for the hosts to get a foothold in
what they will surely see as a must win fixture.<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6018"> <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6017" style="color: red;">1.5 units Laval -0.5 ball 2.16 asian line/Ibramarket.</span></b><br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6019">
<b>Laval have collected 41 points in the first half, just 21 after the break.<br /></b></div>
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5971">Auxerre have scored a league low two road goals before the break.</b><br /><br /><br /><b>Laval</b>:Maxime Hautbois, Lionel Cappone,
Guillaume Rippert, Kévin Perrot, Gaëtan Belaud, Selim Ben Djemia,
Antony Robic, Martin Mimoun, Jordan Adéoti, Hassane Alla, César
Lolohéa, Amara Baby, Gary Coulibaly,Mamadou Diallo, Christian Bekamenga,
Julien Toudic.<br /><br /><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5938" style="border: medium none; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">
</div>
<b>Auxerre</b>
: Lembet, Baltus - Castelletto, Ndong, Coulibaly, Boly, Ramos -
Boé-Kane, Segbefia, Monconduit, Ngando - Sammaritano, Sawadogo, Haller,
Kitambala, Pléa<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6026"> </b></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5945">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6026"> </b></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5945">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6026"> </b><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6026"> </b></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5945">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6026">Caen- Nimes</b><br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5969">
Nimes
top scorer Samir Benmeziane (23-9-0) is sidelined and that is a big
loss, having said that, they are fairly prolific on the road, especially
after the break and only three of his goals have come away from home.
Caen are Ligue 2's second top goalscorer's and will be looking for
maximum points here, with a win likely to take them into the top 3, at
least for 24 hours. They have been very strong here late (see below) and
I feel that we might see some late drama here.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6027">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5946">
<b>Caen are 8-1 (goals scored -condeded) in the final 15 minutes.<br /></b></div>
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_5995">Nimes
have scored a Ligue 2 high 11 road second half goals. They are strong
after the break with 19 points (4-7-2) only Lens have a better road
second half record.</b><br /><br /><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6028" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Caen</b>
: Perquis, Bosmel - Calvé, Wague, Pierre, Appiah, Raineau - Seube,
Kante, Montaroup, Fajr, Lemar - Nangis, Kodjia, Koita, Duhamel.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6029" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6012" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Nîmes</b> : Merville, Michel - Boche,
Hsissane, Bouby, Cissokho, Cordoval, Fanchone, Gragnic, Koura,
Kovacevic, Ogounbiyi, Omrani, Poulain, Robail, Sartre.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6012" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6012" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394810808721_6012" style="text-align: justify;">
Good Luck. </div>
The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-58394905233399675792014-03-09T16:32:00.002+00:002014-03-09T16:32:44.482+00:00Serie A betting preview : Napoli- Roma<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5523">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5535"></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5533">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5532">The
Roma chase of Juventus appears over and with Napoli ten points clear of
Fiorentina in 4th, this is the <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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race within a race and battle for second
place. The hosts trail the visitors by three points and have played a
game more, so only really a win will help their cause, they will go all
out for it, because they cannot really play any other way. These are
arguable the two most attack minded teams in Serie A and this is a
fixture that traditionally provides entertainment and plenty of it, with
the last 20 h2h meetings averaging 3.35 goals .<br />
</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5538">The
two met here last month in the Coppa Italia with Napoli recording a
resounding 3-0 win and overcoming a 3-2 defeat in the first leg. They
won last year's league meeting also by three goals (4-1) and feel they
now have the upper hand, certainly here at the Stadio </span>
San Paolo. Ahead of the last meeting I wrote ....</div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5540" style="color: blue;">This should be
entertaining. Roma won the first leg 3-2 and one earlyish goal either
way should see this follow a similar pattern. Both teams are treating
the competition with respect and the game seriously. Roma failed to beat
Lazio in the derby game at the weekend, but were unlucky IMO, the
Gervinho "goal" would have been given by most match officials and the
referee missed two clear yellow card fouls, which would have seen red's
awarded for later infringements....but I am not bitter !</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5542" style="color: blue;">Roma are looking to make the final for the eighth time in a dozen
seasons and are always especially motivated with the decider now played
in their home stadium. You can read a lot of background notes on them in
the Sunday newsletter. Team news is unchanged and they have travelled
with the strongest squad available.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5544" style="color: blue;">Coach Rudi Garcia made some telling comments saying...."We’ll play to win the game, at least initially. The game we play is
made for attacking, and then we'll see how the match goes. Tomorrow
could be the game of the season; in games this close we know we need
everyone. Tomorrow we’ll go to Naples with the strength we have in this
moment. We have enough of it."</span></div>
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<span>I did not fully pick up on this </span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5546">"we’ll
play to win the game, at least initially", which implied a negative
approach alien to both club and players and handed the initiative to the
hosts, who never need a second invitation to ride roughshod over any
opponent. This is a new game, but Garcia made similar comments this
week, speaking about the race for second and commenting something along
the lines of "we just need a point, Napoli have to play for the win" and
this could open the game up for a repeat.<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5548">The
visitors arrive without favourite son, the talismanic Francesco Totti
(15-5-7) he gives so much to the team just by being on the bench and
even at 37 years of age, is hugely influential.Roma have a 44.5 win rate
without him in the squad, that rises to 76.5% when he is available.
Also missing today is </span><span>suspended defensive midfielder Daniele De Rossi (23-1-0) and Roma always looks far more vulnerable without him in their ranks.<br />
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<br />Hosts get Gonzalo <span>Higuain</span> and Raul <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5551">Albiol</span> back from suspension and look in great shape for this.<br /></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5553" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5552">1.5 units Napoli -0.25 ball 2.12 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5557"><br /><br /><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5556">Napoli
have scored a high 57% of home goals before the break , Roma have
scored just 15% of road goals in the opening 30 minutes so a good chance
for the hosts to get ahead, especially if the visitors arrive with even
a slightly negative mind set.</b></span><br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5557">Good Luck. <b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_5556"><br /></b></span>The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-80807626284869589142014-03-09T16:27:00.002+00:002014-03-09T16:27:59.715+00:00Sunday March 9th .....taken from today's clubgowi subscriber newsletter ....<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4949">
Firstly, a heads up that there might be an early send out on both <b>Tuesday</b> and <b>Wednesday t</b>o cover the <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>AFC Champions League</b> games, but I will try and confirm that 100% on Monday.<br />
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I often say that
confidence can come and go quickly with young sportsmen and after
carrying all before them for the best part of four months, you could
tell that a little of the self belief had deserted <b>Brentford</b> yesterday, after the heavy defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers and failure to beat <b>Carlisle United</b>.
They passed the ball well enough, but created nothing in a poor first
half and were not playing at their usual tempo. However, they looked
much better after the break, especially when switching to 4-3-3 ( they
played two up front in the opening 45 ) and with the goal after an hour,
the confidence came flooding back and for the final 30 minutes they
were a joy to watch and could easily have scored four. The drying
pitches definitely suit Brentford better and head coach Mark Warburton
and his team learned a LOT from the loss to the leaders and he/they were
far more pro active tactically and in terms of using the bench
yesterday. It is OK to make mistakes in sport/betting and life, as long
as we learn something from them.<br />
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Massive week for the Bees, <b>Tranmere Rovers</b> at home on Tuesday and away to <b>Leyton Orient</b>
on Saturday lunchtime in a televised top of the table clash. If some
newer subscribers are wondering what the heck we are doing starting
today by discussing a match we were not involved in yesterday in depth,
my pre-season notes on Brentford are reproduced at the foot of the
page. By the way <b>Bradford City</b> left me a little cold and in stark contrast to how I left <b>Adams Park</b>
"pumped" by their perfomance a year ago, they came looking for a point
yesterday and showed little real game plan. The Bantams were
unexpectedly missing a couple of very key players (<b>Andrew Davies </b>and<b> James Hanson )</b>,
but have lost their way, amazing support though from almost 1,000
travelling away fans. Big club at this level and they will be stronger
next season if they can find some investment, but I understand funds are
tight. We can save that for late July/early August !</div>
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Good Luck.<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4971" style="font-weight: bold;">Football League 1 <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4974" style="color: red;">(written pre season)</span><br />
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<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Brentford
have been well tipped up, pretty much across the board, we were on them
last season at much bigger prices and I do feel that they were probably
better value then, they came up just short, but most
of us earned money out of them, so they do not owe us anything.</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the Bees were one of the two best
teams in League 1 last year, they are <span style="font-weight: bold;">definitely</span>
stronger this season (I will talk about the new signings later), the
division is weaker this time round IMO and the the squad which was one
of the youngest , is a year older and a lot wiser. We have spoken often
about how they tend to improve as a club in second/ third meetings
against teams and that attention to detail and investment in backroom
staff , will be even more valuable this season. We talked last season
about any number of things that the Bees do ,which other teams at their
level either do not have the resources for, or if they do, choose to
spend their money elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For
example, Brentford have a Performance Analysis team which extends to
3-4 people, as opposed to one ,if they are lucky, at most third tier
teams. They go through every players performance after games and
sometimes even at the half time break if they have spotted something and
this is done not just with the first team, but at development level.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4976"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4975" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The
club have put huge investment into the training pitch and Academy,
which is run along the same lines as big european teams, Brentford were
two weeks ago upgraded to Category Two Football Academy status, the only
club outside the top two divisions to ever make
this step up.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4979"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4978" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They
have purchased land for a new stadium at Lionel Road and owner Matthew
Benham, who is a lifetime supporter, has taken steps to secure the long
term financing of the club and all these projects, should something
happen to him and this is clearly the strongest Brentford have been on
and off the pitch in 60 years.</span></span></div>
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<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They
are not "throwing" money at the team, most
of the big investment is in long term projects, but these facilities
and approach do encourage players to want to come and in terms of loan
deals, bigger clubs to be willing to let youngsters with potential come
to Griffin Park, knowing they will be well looked after and they have an
especially close relationship with Everton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I also feel they were the best conditioned
team in League 1 and this was highlighted by two sets of stats, firstly, when they scored
their goals, with 50% coming in either the last 15 minutes of the first
half (23% ... this is a big number) or the last 15 of the match (27%)
and also the huge number of points they gained from losing
positions (23).</span></div>
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<div style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I
also explained about the set up of the backroom beyond manager Uwe
Rosler and especially Director of Football Mark Warburton who was
approached by a Premier League club last season .......<span style="color: #0000bf;">. Premier League WBA have
been courting Bees Director of Football Mark Warburton, I explained his
role at the club last season to long term readers, he has put in place
Medical and Performance Analysis teams that are the envied by many
bigger clubs and it is this kind of development I speak when I say the
club are run along lines of a Championship + club, they have been for
12-18 months and the trees they have planted and beginning to bear
fruit. Warburton was flattered, but has chosen to stay at Brentford and I
never doubted he would as he is a key part in the club, in what is a
long term project, he said “It was very flattering to be even linked to
such a senior role at a club of the stature of West Bromwich Albion.
"However, I am part of an exciting project that is well underway at
Griffin Park and it is only right that my focus should be to help take
the club forward and achieve its aims and ambitions.</span><span style="color: #0000bf;">"I
enjoy an excellent relationship with Uwe Rösler, Ose Aibangee and all
of the football staff and we are very fortunate to similarly enjoy the
support of a club Board which is totally committed to taking the club to
the next level."</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000bf;">He added “Brentford Football Club has made tremendous strides in the past 18 months. “It
is a Club set up to make progress up the football pyramid and we have
sought to put into place a backroom and management team that are more
than capable of working at a significantly higher level." “There is
a young, talented First Team squad that we hope will continue to
develop and this will be bolstered by players coming through at younger
levels of an excellently-run Academy.</span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394374525796_4981" style="color: #0000bf;">“There is a new ground on the horizon too, which will only help the Club to grow."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0000bf;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #0000bf;">Warburton
is close to the owner and whilst Rosler may go at some stage, that is
kind of the nature of things in football, I think he and Matthew Benham
have long term plans. This is now an exceedingly well run club and they
will be playing Championship football, if not next season, then the one
after and they have ambition beyond that. This was the first big
approach for a member of the backroom staff and the fact that it was
unsuccessful, was a massive statement of intent from the whole club. It
was also probably made easier as Warburton is already said to be
wealthy/secure from non football related business dealings.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: black;">Now
the team, they lost Harry Forrester to Doncaster Rovers and on Monday,
keeper Simon Moore to Cardiff City. They were both "expected", Moore is a
good young keeper with huge potential, but not the finished article, he
should develop into a quality top flight keeper, but for now, he is
probably not better than Bees other senior keeper Richard Lee, however
Lee is still recovering from injury , but the club had already signed 19
yo Watford keeper Jack Bonham and yesterday added David Button from
Charlton as replacement for Moore.<br /></span></span>Uwe Rösler : “We always felt we had to have a Plan
B in place in case we had offers for Simon Moore. Over the summer we
had goalkeepers in on trial and we made lists and enquiries in case
Simon left. That happened this week and with Simon going out the door,
there is an opportunity for someone to come in. We decided David was the
perfect choice for us. He is at the right age and he is very hungry to
make the number one spot his own. As soon as Simon left, David was our
first choice. He is the only player we enquired about and the only
player we made a bid for. We did not at any stage make any enquiries or
bids for any other goalkeepers. David will face strong competition for
the goalkeeper spot from Jack Bonham and Richard Lee, when Richard is
fit again. We are very strong in the goalkeeper department. We have been
strong there over the past two seasons and are even stronger this year.
I look forward to working with David and our other goalkeepers. I
believe it is very important to have match winners in both penalty
areas. You need strikers to win matches and goalkeepers to win matches.
Richard Lee and Simon Moore have won matches for us; goalkeeper is a
crucial position and David is a very good player. I am very happy with
the signing.”<br />
<br />
Mark Warburton said: "We had to move very quickly to find a more
than suitable replacement. David has an excellent pedigree from his time
at the Tottenham Academy and in the Charlton First Team. He is a
goalkeeper who still has outstanding potential and we are very excited
to secure his services at Brentford FC. David is very keen to prove he
is a number one goalkeeper and this is an opportunity for him to do
that. We hope this is a great move for both parties.”<br /><br />I wanted to
explain their thinking, as this is typical of how the club is run now,
there is always a Plan B and they are proactive rather than reactive in
everything.<br /><br />The surplus money received for Moore and Button was
not cheap anyway (neither figure was disclosed), is available if
required for further strengthening. It might not be needed just yet.<br /><br />They
also signed...Conor McAleny (Everton), Martin Fillo (Viktoria Plzen),
Javi Venta ( Villarreal), George Saville (Chelsea), Alan McCormack (
Swindon) and Will Grigg (Walsall). McAleny <br />is a 20 yo striker and
alreay has the club buzzing, he scored twice against PL Cardiff City
last night. Fillo is a Czech international, Venta is a veteran defender
who has played a dozen Champions League matches and he has brought into
the project to help with the youngsters. Saville is a combative
midfielder who, according to Warburton, trained
every day last season with the Chelsea first team. McCormack is a team
leader and was hugely influential in a strong Swindon team over the last
two seasons playing 94 matches, I am hugely pleased with this addition
and also Grigg, who is just 22yo and scored 19 goals last season in what
I felt was an average Walsall team.<br /><br />I am equally delighted that
the loan deal for 20 yo left back Jake Bidwell (Everton) was made
permanent and Harlee Dean a hugely promising 22 yo centre back and 21 yo
midfielder Adam Forshaw ( another former Evertonian) have both signed
three year contract extensions. These are the future of the club and all
will be playing at a much higher level soon, hopefully with Brentford. <br /><br />Bees
also have Stuart Dallas, who is still only 22 yo and has been brought
along very slowly by the Bees, Rosler when asked, always says "we know
what we have with Stuart" with the implication that he is a future star,
albeit a raw one, when we
have seen him, he looks good and this should be his breakthrough year.<br /><br />Squad
wise this is incredibly strong and they have, with no exaggeration,
22-23 players who would start each week at probably 18-20 of the other
League 1 clubs, Wolves are the unknown factor, they still have £19m
worth of EPL parachute money, but like Portsmouth in League 2, every
team will be extra motivated playing them and after two terrible
campaigns, they have to start well.<br /><br />Brentford were third last
year, hard, almost impossible, to see them finishing any lower this
season. I debated long and hard about how or if to bet them and am happy
with my decision.<br /><br /><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I
will take 1.75 units Brentford to be promoted 4.0-4.33</span></span>The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-20436525175845681032014-03-08T07:11:00.002+00:002014-03-08T07:11:15.284+00:00Saturday March 8th ...Brest (see below) drew 0-0 and were a half stake winner and I hope that you also got to see the free <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/j-league-betting-preview-tokushima-vortis-cerezo-osaka">J-League preview on the main clubgowi website</a>, which I posted last night, as Cerezo Osaka have just won 2-0.<br />
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clubgowi subscribers get around 28-30 previews per week, 52 weeks of the year, just like those two, we have losing runs along the way, but long term, progress tends to usually look like this <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/clubgowi-sports-betting-results">LINK</a>.<br />
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I am still finishing off today's newsletter(s), but subscribers are likely to get 6-7 new previews and a similar number tomorrow, to join the full service, <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/subscribe-to-clubgowi">click here</a>.<br />
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Good Luck.The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-78397280216478702212014-03-07T12:31:00.000+00:002014-03-07T12:31:04.734+00:00France: Ligue 2 ..............<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12550" style="color: #9900ff;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12549"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12548" style="color: black;">Creteil-Brest</span></b></span><br />
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We previewed Brest on Tuesday , ahead of their postponed home game with Angers...<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12540" style="color: blue;">Big
game for both, a single point would take the hosts out of the bottom
three, all three would, amazingly for this stage of the campaign, take
them above five clubs (maybe six) and as high as 12th.<br />
<br />Brest have won three in a row and have served us well in the
last two, however, if you sat down and planned your ideal sequence of
games in Ligue 2, Auxerre and Laval at home and CA Bastia on the road,
would come very close to the dream scenario and tonight will be far
tougher. Also, the fact that they will have played Monday-Friday-Tuesday
in a very competitive league and short of options in key areas, has to
be factored in. <br />
<br />My notes from Friday are reproduced below and were
pretty good even if I do say so myself ! Laval did indeed score early
(19th minute) with Brest finding two hugely valuable second half goals.
Tonight they will again be without top scorer Nicolas Verdier
(23-8-0), but midfielder Bruno Grougi has found some form to coincide
with Brest's return to winning ways.After almost two seasons in which he
had contributed just three goals and one assist in 46 starts, he has
had two and two in his last three outings. It is hard to over estimate
how influential he had been earlier , he was 36-10-10 in their promotion
season of 09/10 and 33-9-6 and 34-9-6 in their two years in Ligue 1
where they eased to lower mid table safety at the higher level. He
stopped scoring and assisting, Brest were relegated and looked bound for
third tier football before he re-finds his touch, pretty amazing and if
ever a Ligue 2 team had a talismanic player, it is he. I saw that Paddy
Power who I know several of you can bet with, had 3.75 for him in the
anytime goalscorer market, which seems reasonable, certainly better than
2.60 for Verdier who might be out for a month !<br /><br />Defensively
they are weaker today, with the loss of Malian right back Ousmane
Coulibaly (22-0-0), he has missed three games this season through which
Brest have collected just one point and conceded six goals, actually in
the last 11 he has sat out, they are 0-1-10 and have conceded two or
more goals in ten of those matches ! It has to be said that eight of
those fixtures were in their relegation campaign, but it still makes
very dismal reading, especially with Brest's other right sided defender
Bernard Mendy, out with long term injury</span>. </div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12554">
Obviously,
they are still without Verdier and Coulibaly again misses out and it is
as you were for midweek, but they will have benefited from the extra
three days rest.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12555">
Creteil are getting sucked into the
heart of the relegation battle and would be overtaken by Brest, were the
visitors to win this evening. The hosts are prolific and have actually
scored the same number of goals as top 3 team Lens and leaders Metz, but
are equally free and easy at the other end of the pitch and no team has
conceded more . Tonight they are without suspended left back Augusto
(21-0-2....they are 0-2-5 without him and conceded at least twice in the
three home games he has missed), fringe striker Nicolas Belvito and
defensive midfielder Danilson da Cruz again miss out. This is a home
backline that is not up to Ligue 2 standard and which is further
weakened today and meeting a newly confident and better quality visitor,
but one also missing a very key defensive player. I am torn between
the "over" and the visitors with the handicap start, my head is saying
the latter, so I better go with that....<span style="color: red;"><b>1.5 units Brest +0.25 ball 2.17 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12560" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Créteil</b>
: Kerboriou, N’Doye I. - Da Cruz, Di Bartolomeo, Diarrassouba, Diedhiou
C., Ikoko, Mahon de Monaghan - Djellilahine, Genest, Lafon, Lesage,
Ndoye C., Sangaré, Seck - Andriatsima, Belvito, Essombé.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12562" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12563" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Brest</b> : Thébaux - Moimbé, Falette,
Traoré, Makonda, Chardonnet - Lejeune, Perez, Grougi, Ramaré, Dernis,
Guidileye, Lesoimier - Alphonse, Sea, Ayité.</div>
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</div>
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_12565">In
play: Creteil have been far and away the most prolific Ligue 2 team
early, with 6-1 (goals scored-conceded ) at home in the first ten
minutes and scoring ten, inside the first 20 minutes. </b><br />
<br />
Good Luck.<br />
<br />
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13525" style="text-align: justify;">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13527">Brest-Laval<span style="color: red;"> (written 28/02)</span></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13520" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13522" style="text-align: justify;">
We
have discussed both teams over the last seven days, Brest have been one
of the few teams to do us a favour this week, when they won at CA
Bastia on Monday, ahead of which I wrote ...<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13521" style="color: blue;">Brest are just one place above the home
side, but have an extra ten points in the bag, plus a game in hand and
arrive here on the back of a win over Auxerre last week, their first in
almost four months, which has give them a major confidence boost. On
Friday, they meet the other bottom three team , when they host Laval and
three points today would not only give them further momentum, but lift
the pressure on them to win that fixture. They were a Ligue 1 side last
season and have a lot more quality in their ranks than the hosts,
although neither side has made the transition to Ligue 2, CAB have been
unable to strengthen and make the step up, Brest came into the campaign
having lost their last 11 starts in the top flight and despite a decent
enough start to this season, have been unable to address the overall
slide. But sometimes you have to hit the bottom ( or second bottom !)
before climbing and on paper they remain a class above CAB. Coach Alex
Dupont has been "able" to omit by choice, six players who played Ligue 1
football last season, including two with 53 starts appearances between
them ( Mendy and Ayite), two others left behind are on loan from Monaco
and Villarreal and these are just options that the hosts could only
dream of.<br /><br />Bastia have come from nowhere with three
straight promotions, last season's third place finish surprised even
them, they were ill prepared for second tier football and it was clearly
a step too far and has caught up with them. Today they are without
suspended centre back Mamadou Camara (22-1-1) , he is a regular starter
of course, but it is hard to call anyone in this squad key. However, he
also missed the game last week and all three goals came from players
either able to run at the centre of the defence unchallenged or scored
from headers (two) by players unmarked in the box and Brest will surely
have taken note.To be honest, offensively CAB did not look too bad there
and had a lot of attempts on goal, albeit mostly from distance, so this
could easily develop into a shootout if the first goal come early
enough, but anything less than a win, will be points lost for Brest. Away win</span>.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13523" style="text-align: justify;">
They
won that 1-0 and a follow up win this evening might take them out of
the drop zone. However, they do have that quick turnaround referred to
above to contend with and also the loss of top scorer Nicolas Verdier
(23-8-0), he has been replaced by Jonathan Ayité who is experienced at a
higher level (see above) and who is second top scorer, albeit only with
three goals. Apart from that, no changes to the squad and I suspect
rotation will be absolutely minimal.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13524" style="text-align: justify;">
Laval are coming from losing a shootout with Istres by the odd goal in seven, a match which we previewed ....</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13539">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13538" style="color: blue;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13537"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13536">Istres
gave themselves a little breathing space last week with those three
points against Tours, but are still in the heart of the relegation
battle and with Laval in the bottom three, today falls firmly into the
clubgowi mantra of two struggling teams equaling goals camp.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: blue;">
</span><br />
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13540">
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13544">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13543" style="color: blue;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13542"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13541">Laval's
last four starts have only produced a total of two goals, but they know
they have to gamble today and that their next three starts ( they also
play the other two in the drop zone) are going to be season defining
matches. Also, the five previous home matches they have played this
season against bottom eight teams have all gone "over" at an average of
4.2 goals per game, they are without central defender </span></span>Miodrag
Stosic (12-0-0) and left sided midfielder Amara Baby (17-4-0) this
evening, but nothing too bad and I expect them to play their part in an
exciting contest.</span></div>
<span style="color: blue;">
</span><br />
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13545">
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13547">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13546" style="color: blue;">Istres
looked lively offensively last week, but in truth had little to beat,
with Tours offering minimal resistance until late in the game, but we
know the visitors are suspect defensively and they have not kept a clean
sheet in 19 away starts, one is unlikely today, both to score and this
to go "over"</span>.<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13548" style="text-align: justify;">
This kind of
falls into the two struggling teams camp, but Brest have only gone
"over" in 32% of starts this season and in only two of their last 13 and
are missing their top scorer, but it would not take much for this to
open up and one of those "overs" was the reverse fixture.<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13549" style="text-align: justify;">
Laval
arrive beat up and without centre backs Malik Couturier (23-0-1) and
Miodrag Stosic, defensive midfielder Hassane Alla (23-2-3), left winger
Amara Baby (17-4-0) and right winger Sébastien Renouard (15-2-1). It is
defensively they worry me and whilst I think they have a chance of
winning today at decent odds (3.60+) , it is almost impossible to see
them keeping a clean sheet given that they will leave gaps and look
vulnerable at the back. We spoke about the increase in goals in Ligue 2
recently and they are still averaging 2.45 per game and I think we will
see both teams score tonight and I think the best value is<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13551" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13550"> 1.25 units "over" 2.25 goals 2.17 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13552" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: red;"><b><br />
</b></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13553" style="text-align: justify;">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13558">Only seven road goals for Laval this season, but six came before the break and another would nicely open this match up.</b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13555" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Brest</b> : Thébaux - Moimbé, Falette,
Traoré, Makonda, Chardonnet, Coulibaly - Perez, Grougi, Ramaré, Dernis,
Guidileye, Lesoimier - Alphonse, Sea, Ayité.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13556" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394179392538_13557" style="text-align: justify;">
<b>Laval</b> : Vanhamel, Hautbois - Rippert,
Perrot, Belaud, Ben Djemia - Robic, Mimoun, Adéoti, Gonçalves, Lolohéa,
Tibéri, G. Coulibaly - Ma. Diallo, Bekamenga, Toudic.</div>
The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-34421200751941218172014-03-06T18:23:00.001+00:002014-03-06T18:23:39.595+00:00Thursday March 6th ....I felt that we were very unlucky with the Chile bet yesterday and that the better team lost, no damage done <br />
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with the handicap start, but frustrating nonetheless.<br />
<br />
Several of you sent me emails yesterday with questions about both the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/subscribe-to-clubgowi">clubgowi newsletter service </a>and <a href="https://www.sportmarket.com/?affiliateid=2">Sportmarket Pro</a> (see post below) and I am always happy to try and answer any enquiries and you can reach me at <b>gowi8@btinternet.com</b><br />
<br />
Quiet betting day today, but I did send subscribers a selection at odds of circa 8.5 and we have a massive weekend ahead. J-League started last week ( one bet, one winner @ odds of 2.36) and MLS football <a href="http://ubet2win.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/im-yankee-doodle-dandy.html">LINK</a> begins on Saturday, they are two of our three main Summer leagues and we will have six of our leagues all in action at the same time. Once Brazilian football gets underway next month, the full "Magnificent Seven", we were on absolute fire right through September-October-November last year when they were last all in play together and fingers crossed for a repeat.<br />
<br />
Subscribers are getting six newsletters, as usual for a weekend, over the next three days and can expect to receive around 20 previews, that is going to give me quite a bit of content to play around with, so please keep checking back to the blog and website over the coming days, as I am certain that there will be a couple of previews to share.<br />
<br />
Good Luck.<br />
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<br />
If you bet regularly on football, you should already be aware of the value in playing on asian handicap markets. If you bet regularly and are a long term winner, then you HAVE to already be placing these with one or more of the big asian companies, as the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/europe-vs-asia-battle-football-turnover-asian-handicaps-win-landslide">European style bookmakers will not entertain your business</a>.<br />
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At <a href="https://www.sportmarket.com/?affiliateid=2">Sportmarket Pro</a> you can bet at all the big asian bookmakers through one account and avoid the need to tie up funds with 5-6 separate companies and do so with a long established EU based business.<br />
<br />
You can read more details about this product on the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/i-have-some-huge-news">clubgowi website, including a couple of screencasts</a> and also <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/my-experience-sportmarket-pro">my personal experiences</a> of using it.<br />
<br />
Actually both of those articles made the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/top-ten-clubgowi-website-posts-2013">clubgowi website top ten posts of 2013 list</a>, which is a very good introduction if you are new to any of our products.<br />
<br />
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Good Luck.The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-17316032385918623792014-03-05T16:49:00.004+00:002014-03-05T16:53:40.837+00:00Wednesday March 5th .....<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5003">
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<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5004">Germany-Chile</b><br />
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5011">
Hosts
have not exactly thrived in recent friendlies winning just four of
their last ten and conceding freely, an average of 1.9 per game and at
least twice in five of those, including all three against South American
opposition in Argentina, Ecuador and Paraguay. Home boss <br />
Joachim
Lowe knows his squad is not at it's best right now and said this
week...."On paper we have a top team with top quality and top
individuals,
but the reality looks a little different. "The
truth is not so nice because many of our players have been injured for a
long time and don't have much rhythm, be it due to a dip in form or
niggling injuries, which is why we need to use these next two and a half
months to improve and do everything to reach top form."The clock is
ticking and I'm making an appeal to everybody to
prepare as best as they can and to invest all they can, not only to be
physically but also psychologically ready for this. We need a very good
core and some of my players are still showing deficiencies."<br />
<br />
Low
has given his younger players a chance, calling up four uncapped
players in Shkodran Mustafi, Andre
Hahn, Matthias Ginter and Pierre-Michel Lasogga, the latter has
subsequently withdrawn, but it gives you some idea of the way the coach
is approaching this.
<br />
<br />
He is clearly looking at the bigger picture and knows that today
is not overly important and he has promised the top Bundesliga clubs,
with Bayern and Dortmund in Champions League contention, Schalke and
Leverkusen too, but that pair are on their way out of the competition,
that he will go easy on their players. They are already without Thomas
Muller, Lars Bender, Sami Khedira Julian Draxler and Marco<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/541815/20140305/germany-vs-chile-live-streaming-international-friendly.htm#" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: inherit!important; font-size: inherit!important; font-weight: inherit!important; text-decoration: underline!important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit!important; font-size: inherit!important; font-weight: inherit!important;"><span style="color: blue!important; font-family: inherit!important; font-size: inherit!important; font-weight: inherit!important;"></span></span></a>
Reus and will rest or give limited game time to several others, Mesut
Ozil is in a bit of a slump with Arsenal and we might see a similar line
to the one which lost 4-3 to the US in Washington, or who drew 3-3 on
home soil with Paraguay. Germany started slowly in both of those ,
conceding five goals in total before the break, they also allowed a
Zlatan less Sweden to score two first half goals in Stockholm back in
October .Chile are better than all of those IMO and have impressed in
recent friendlies, drawing 2-2 with Spain, beating England at Wembley
2-0 , losing out narrowly to Brazil (they had drawn with them six months
earlier) and then putting four unanswered goals past Costa Rica.
Interestingly they have scored 10 first half goals in their last seven
friendlies and there must be a good chance they can get an early goal
tonight, maybe two, if Germany are again so lacklustre early.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5021">
Chile are a talented bunch and impressed greatly at Wembley, players like Alexis Sánchez, Eduardo Vargas and<b> </b>Arturo
Vidal need little introduction to European football fans and the
midfield especially is well established and experienced, with five
having 50+ appearances to their name and all,in footballing terms at
their peak aged in their late 20's.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5023">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5022">I
will take my main bet on the South Americans with the handicap start,
but for the reasons outlined, early goals could certainly be on the
cards again and I am hugely attracted to the 3.50+ for Chile to score
twice if you can find that.<br />
</b>
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1394028964631_5024">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: red;"><b>1.5 units Chile +1 ball 2.33 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Back shortly. </span><b><br /></b></span>The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-43292807975974627572014-03-03T10:30:00.000+00:002014-03-03T10:30:30.073+00:00France Ligue 2 betting preview: Racing Club Lens- Tours<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2530">
<b>Preview of tonight's Ligue 2 game is below, I have removed the final analysis and selection, but <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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you would not need to be Sherlock Holmes to work it out and regardless of that, I feel the preview has interest and serves as a sample of what the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/subscribe-to-clubgowi">clubgowi newsletter</a> provides on a daily basis.</b></div>
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Lens
are currently third in Ligue 2, they could move into second with a win
and more importantly, open up a six point cushion over Caen, who are in
possession of fourth place, that would have extra value as RCL travel to
meet leaders Metz at the weekend. However a point would ensure they
stayed in the top 3 regardless of what happens over the next round of
games and given the team news for this evening (see below), I think it
will be a case of look for the win, but ensure that they take a point
as a minimum.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2528">
Tours would move to within three points
of the promotion places with a win and three of their next four starts
are against the bottom three, so they will fancy their chances of making
further inroads over the next month, if they can get a positive result
this evening. They host second place Angers next Monday before their
schedule eases and would, I suspect snatch your hand off if you offered
them a draw in tonight's fixture, but being offered and playing for one
are two very different things.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2527">
The home side are
without right back Loïck Landre (15-0-0), goalkeeper Alphonse Areola (23
goals conceded in 24 starts),top scorer and right winger Pablo
Chavarría (24-9-1) and central defender Ahmed Kantari (21-1-0.....1-2-1
in the four games he has missed), they are four important players</div>
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The
match that Areola sat out this season was the 6-2 defeat at Le Havre,
the only other Ligue 2 playing time he missed was the last 20 minutes of
the visit from Istres, in which the struggling away side scored a late
winner. Replacement Rudy Riou was a little more solid in cup games
overall, but did also concede four at home to Creteil in the Coupe de la
Ligue. With Areola between the sticks, RCL have conceded a Ligue 2 goal
every 93 minutes, without him, one every 16 minutes. Missing two other
starting defenders and their top scorer it will be tough for Lens this
evening.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div>
Tours arrive in very good shape squad wise,
we discussed and opposed them in their last away game, a 1-0 defeat at
Istres and those notes are reproduced below in full. They had the
Monday-Friday turnaround to deal with there and were short of defensive
options, but Diawara and Schweclen (see both below) are back now and
they are pretty much close to full strength, missing only left back
Samuel Bouhours (22-0-1........won 2/3 without him).</div>
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This
is where it gets complicated, this all looks pretty good for Tours and
if they were ready to play ball, this is easily a match where both teams
could take a useful point and move on, but the visitors seem unable to
play that way, they have drawn just once on the road and have scored
more goals than any other team in Ligue 2 and conceded more than any
team apart from Istres and Creteil (heading into this round of games).
They are fun to watch, but a little too gung-ho at times and senior
offensive player Bryan Bergougnoux made it clear his team were not
coming for a point in interview over the weekend, saying their only
objective was all three and the win.</div>
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Hosts have more
experience of these Monday night games, as the biggest club in the
division they are often selected and this will be their 10th big
televised league game of the season, they have won four of the previous
nine and posted only one defeat, but it did come in the reverse fixture,
which Tours won 3-1 (having led 2-0 at the break), their only other
Monday fixture was the 3-1 home defeat to Nancy which we have discussed
much in the last 2-3 weeks.</div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2445">
There is a reasonable
chance that Tours can get an early toehold in this game, in general they
are a far stronger team than Lens over the opening 45 minutes ( Tours
47 pts, RCL 27) and the visitors have collected more points on the road
in the first half, than Lens have at home.That changes in the second
period of course, otherwise the league table would make no sense and RCL
have won 8 of their 12 second halves on home soil, but those wins were
not earned missing four key players. Also, all four of Tours road wins
have come when they were leading at the break, <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2525" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2524">The final analysis, round up and selection is saved for <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/subscribe-to-clubgowi">clubgowi subscribers</a>.</b></span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2523">
This is quite an interesting match and should be entertaining, but it is not one I want to get overly involved in
from a betting point of view, the selection is both cheap and
potentially rewarding, which is how I am happy to approach such games.</div>
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<span style="color: #9900ff;"><b><span style="color: black;"></span></b></span></div>
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<b>Good Luck.</b><br /><br />
<br /><span style="color: #9900ff;"><b><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></b></span><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2419">
<span style="color: #9900ff;"><b><span style="color: black;">Istres-Tours <span style="color: red;">(written 14/02)</span><br />
</span></b></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2420">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2442" style="color: #9900ff;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2441" style="color: black;">Those
comments regarding the quick turnaround go at least equally for Tours and maybe
doubly so, as they will be on the road, facing a limited, but hugely
motivated opponent, fighting for survival and better rested.<br />
</span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2423">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2422" style="color: #9900ff;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2421" style="color: black;">On Monday I wrote this about Tours ....</span></span><br />
<br /><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2424" style="color: blue;">Serbian
central defender (yes, another one) Bogdan Milosevic is set to make his
debut for Tours after his transfer window signing from Napredak. That
is timely, as starting centre back Thomas Fontaine (20-0-0) is
suspended, they have looked vunerable and conceded four goals ( should
have been more) in the two games he has missed this season. Veteran
defensive midfielder Pascal Berenguer (16-0-0) misses his 4th start in a
row, Nancy conceded eight in the previous three and secondary striker
Bryan Bergougnoux (19-1-5) also sits this one out. They are three big
losses. A change in the middle at the back, without the experienced
protection of Berenguer and Bergougnoux has been influential in games
against the stronger Ligue 2 teams, that looks a lot to overcome</span>.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2425">
Istres
have a tremendous recored in this series, boasting a 5-1-0 record in
the last six h2h meetings on home soil. Tours have now conceded 11 goals
in four starts, three in each of three and two at home to woeful
travelers Chateauroux.<br />
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2426">
We discussed Istres ahead of their last home game a 3-2 defeat of Creteil.....<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2427" style="color: blue;">We
have a mountain of notes about Istres in our database, we have done
really well on their games this season and I find it impossible to leave
them out this evening. Notes from last week's trip to CA Bastia give all the background
information regarding their lack of funding, defensive woes, but newly
found goal threat. We can update those, the offensive threat is lessened
with <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the loss of <span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2429"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2428">Geoffrey
Malfleury (see below), but they scored twice last week in his absence and veteran midfielder </span></span><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2440"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2439">Jérôme
Leroy is in his best goalscoring form for years ( and he has been
around for many !) and has three in his last two starts and they added a
new striker this week with the signing of </span></span>Seydou Koné who
scored six for Nimes at this level last season. </span></span></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2427" style="color: blue;"></span><br />
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2427" style="color: blue;"><br />The very tightly tied
purse strings have been opened this week and whilst any signings will
always be of the bargain basement variety (rejects, if you prefer), this
is a club where you can ressurrect a career and age is never a barrier.
The traditional saying is that "if you are good enough you are old
enough", the mantra at Istres is more of the "if you can bring something
to the party, you are never too old" variety ! Anyway, they have tried
to give themselves a chance to survive and to continue to collect points
whilst Malfleury is sidelined</span>.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2430">
Tours get
Fontaine and Berenguer back tonight, but Bergougnoux is still sidelined
(see all three above), along with right back Fousseni Diawara (21-2-1)
and central defender Léo Schwechlen (19-1-0), who are both suspended.
The protection Berenguer brings is important, but the backline looks
really weak this evening and will need it !<br />
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2431">
Istres are without suspended centre back Mamadou Doumbia
who was sent off at Auxerre last week, just before half time, two things
about that, he is not a regular starter anyway (just 5 times this
season), but his dismissal offers an excuse for that first loss in four
starts.
</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2432">
Hugely experienced central defender Damien Perrinelle, who
signed on loan from Clermont during the transfer window, replaced him
off the bench last week and seems certain to start in his place.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2435">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2434" style="color: red;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2433">1.5 units Istres -0.25 ball 2.08 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br /><br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2436">
<b>Tours</b>: <b>:</b> Leroy, Maubleu,Bouhours, Cetout, Fontaine, Gradit, Guihoata, Milosevic,
Berenguer, Chavalerin, Khaoui, Ketkeophomphone, Santamaria,
Adnane, Delort, Kouakou.<br /><br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2438">
<b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393841095330_2437">In play: We preview a
lot of Istres games and if we are not taking the "overs", or opposing
them, there is always the option to sit out the early stages, as they
are incredibly slow starters.... 0-9 (goals scored/conceded) in the
opening ten minutes in all games, 0-3 at home.</b></div>
The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-43294957544333396402014-03-01T18:17:00.000+00:002014-03-01T18:17:25.353+00:00Saturday update ....Newcastle United ( see below) won 4-1 and started the final month of the blog as we mean to go on. Should you require a little more reading material, there is part of a third party preview of the clubgowi newsletter service published <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/third-party-review-clubgowi-newsletter">on the website site and that is worth a look</a>, if you want an unbiased opinion of what subscribers see on a daily basis.<br />
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Good Luck.The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-31475091956650302562014-03-01T13:40:00.002+00:002014-03-01T13:40:50.911+00:00Premier League betting preview : Hull City- Newcastle United<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3564">
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We have done very well opposing United recently, last time was at home to Tottenham when I wrote ....<br /><br /><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3563" style="color: blue;">We discussed the problems that United have without Loic Remy and Yohan
Cabaye ahead of their 3-0 home loss to North East rivals Sunderland at
the start of the month ....<br />
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3539" style="color: blue;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3538">We
opposed United in midweek at Norwich City , main reason focused around
the huge loss of their star midfielder in the transfer window, ahead of
the game I wrote .....<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3542">"United have sold Yohan Cabaye (19-7-3) to PSG they are 0-2-1 without him
this season, two home draws and a heavy road defeat and were an
eyepopping 2-1-9 without the Frenchman last season, the two wins came
against relegated teams (QPR and Wigan) and on the road, they are 0-1-7
over the two campaigns when he has been missing, conceding at least two
in each, at an average of over 3 per game ! I think we can say he will
be missed ! </span>To be fair to the Magpies, they started really well
and should have had the game sewn up by the break, but City ended the
stronger and were close to snatching all three points at the death, it
remained honours even and that run is now up to just two wins in 16
starts without Cabaye."<br /></span></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3562" style="color: blue;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3561">Today
they have to play the North East derby against an inform rival, also
missing the suspended Loic Remy ( 21-11-2), they have failed to score in
the two EPL starts he has missed and lost 2-1 to Cardiff City here in
the FA Cup, when he was rested and only came on for the final six
minutes. </span></span><div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3560">
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3543">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3559" style="color: blue;">They
have since lost 3-0 at Stamford Bridge to Chelsea and have failed to
score in 4 of their last 5 starts and not once in the four matches Remy,
who is still suspended this evening, has missed.</span>
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3566" style="color: blue;">They have beaten a
couple of the top teams here in recent campaigns, but they tend to under
perform in general to the stronger sides and have just a 31% win record
at home to top 10 teams over the last two seasons.</span>
<span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></div>
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3544" style="color: blue;">The Magpies are
further hampered by the loss of defensive midfielder Cheik Tioté (
21-0-1) and they suddenly look a little short on quality and belief</span>.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3545">
That
is all a bit jumbled as the notes were from three previews, but I am
short of time and you get the gist , I am sure. They lost very heavily
to Spurs, but after an 11 day break ( no FA Cup involvement) found a
late winner at home to Aston Villa courtesy of the returning Loic Remy.
They started very slowly as you might expect after such a poor run and
the crowd were equally nervous as United had not scored in four straight
home games. However, they played themselves into the game, exerted a
huge amount of pressure late on, were denied by the woodwork, but
eventually found the back of the net and the goal and points will have
done them a lot of good. With Remy they have a focus point for their
play, they also got Cheik Tioté back, giving them a more solid look in
midfield.<br /></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1393677600591_3546">
It is
all feast or famine for the hosts, City have failed to score in 5 from 9
in the league, but scored 13 goals in the other four.
They have a degree of safety in the league with a six point advantage
over the drop zone and a lot of teams below them in the table, that is a
long way from safety, but it would not be natural if their attention
didn't switch slightly to next week and a home FA Cup tie with
Sunderland, a team they have already beaten twice this season, do so
again and they will travel to Wembley for their first semi final since
1930 and that will be a very big deal for both club and the city of
Hull.<br /></div>
I
see further motivation for United with big rivals Sunderland playing a
Cup final of their own tomorrow and they will be looking for at least a
share of local headlines.Just four starts in February for them, two less
than City and fresh and with their top striker back, I favour the
visitors with the handicap start. <span style="color: red;"><b>1.5 units Newcastle United +0.25 ball 1.97 asian line/Ibramarket.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Good Luck. </span><b><br /></b></span>The Naturalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08994301242217027985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25128372.post-67549559090919811712014-03-01T13:36:00.001+00:002014-03-01T13:36:10.756+00:00Saturday March 1st....Over the next 31 days I will be posing on here in similar fashion to the "good" old days, instead of 8% of clubgowi output being released as free to view content, there will be far more, maybe as much as 30%, possibly more, split between here (mainly) , the <a href="http://www.clubgowi.com/content/clubgowi-sports-betting-results">clubgowi website</a> and free newsletter . <br />
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